3454 — Daily Sacrifice and Abomination. Dan. 12:11
By Editor
Will you please explain through the question corner Dan. 12:11; Matt. 24:15? What is meant by the daily sacrifice, and the abomination that maketh desolate? What is the daily sacrifice that shall be taken away, and what is the abomination that will be set up? "Sacrifice" is a supplied word. The word "daily" evidently refers, according to its use in the scriptures, to the continual or "perpetual service" of God, in which God was present, and which He acknowledged. It was Christ in His church. This perpetual, living service was replaced by "the abomination that maketh desolate." The same thing is told in Dan. 8:11. The abomination centers in the little horn power; the perpetual or continual, in the Prince of the host, our Lord. Christ regnant in the affairs of the church could be said to have been taken away in 508, when man assumed the place of Christ, and this false assumption continued for 1,290 years, or till 1798; but the last step in the restoration began at the close of the 2,300 days in 1844. Dan. 8:13, 14. What was seen in the closing days of Jewish apostasy and desolation was a faint foreshadowing of the great papal apostasy of the Dark Ages. This, very briefly, is, we believe, the general meaning of these terms.