Daniel 12:11

This one will kill the two witnesses and precursors of Christ who herald his glorious advent from heaven, as he says through the prophet, "And I will give power to my two witnesses and they shall prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days wearing sack cloth." [Revelation 11:3] Just as also he spoke to Daniel, "And he shall establish a covenant with many for one week and it will be that in the half of the week he shall take away my sacrifice and drink offering," [Daniel 9:27] so that the one week may be shown as divided into two, after the two witnesses will have preached for three and a half years, the Antichrist will wage war against the saints the remainder of the week and will desolate all the world so that what was spoken may be fulfilled, "And they will give the abomination of desolation one thousand two hundred ninety days. Blessed is he who endures to Christ and reaches the one thousand three hundred thirty-five days!" [Daniel 12:11-12]

And so Daniel has foretold two abominations, one of destruction, one of desolation. What is the one of destruction but what was set up there in the time of Antiochus? And what was the one of desolation but the universal abomination when the Antichrist is near? As Daniel says, "And he himself shall stand for the destruction of many and he shall divide the earth in gifts and he shall cast an embankment against her and the land of Egypt shall not be saved, and these shall be saved from his hand, Edom and Moab and the chief of the sons of Ammon." [Daniel 11:41] For these are partners with him on account of kinship who also first proclaimed him king. For Edom is the sons of Esau who dwell at Mount Seir. But Moab and Ammon are the sons of Lot, who were begotten from his two daughters. As also Isaiah says, "And they shall be dispersed in ships of foreigners, carrying them together to the sea and those from the East and the West and from the North shall give glory, but the sons of Ammon first shall obey." [Isaiah 11:14]

And no relief is so sovereign, of such general application, so easily accommodated to every case, and of such powerful efficacy, as those that are fetched from Christ and the future state; thence the comforts here are fetched. Jesus Christ shall appear his church's patron and protector: At that time, when the persecution is at the hottest, Michael shall stand up,

Go thy way, and record what thou hast seen and heard, for the benefit of posterity, and covet not to see and hear more at present." Note, Communion with God is not our continual feast in this world; we sometimes are taken to be witnesses of Christ's glory, and we say, It is good to be here; but we must go down from the mount, and have there no continuing city.

quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — odd-straight-quotes

And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away,....

Others date them from the corruption of the gospel-worship by the antichrist, whose reign is confined in the Apocalypse to 1260 days (that is, years), at the end of which he shall begin to fall; but thirty years after he shall be quite fallen, at the end of 1290 days; and whoever lives forty years longer, to 1335 days, will see glorious times indeed.

And from the time - Though the angel had said Dan 12:4, Dan 12:9 that his communication was closed, and that he imparted all that he was commissioned to communicate to Daniel, yet, as it would seem, in reply to the earnest request of Daniel, he volunteers an additional statement, in regard to certain important periods that were to occur in the future. The language, however, is very obscure; and it would appear, from Dan 12:13, that the angel scarcely expected that Daniel would understand it.

An interval elapses, during which their consciences are awakened to repentance and faith in Him. A second interval elapses in which Israel's outcasts are gathered, and then the united blessing takes place. These stages are marked by the 1260, 1290, and 1335 days.

From the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away - See the notes on Dan 11:25-27 (note). The abomination that maketh desolate set up - I believe, with Bp. Newton, that this is a proverbial phrase; and may be applied to any thing substituted in the place of, or set up in opposition to, the ordinances of God, his worship, his truth, etc. Adrian’s temple, built in the place of God’s temple at Jerusalem, the church of St. Sophia turned into a Mohammedan mosque, etc., etc., may be termed abominations that make desolate. Perhaps Mohammedanism may be the abomination; which sprang up a.d. 612. If we reckon one thousand two hundred and ninety years, Dan 11:11, from that time, it will bring us down to a.d. 1902, when we might presume from this calculation, that the religion of the False Prophet will cease to prevail in the world; which from the present year, 1825, is distant only seventy-seven years.