Sacrificing animals is the Abomination that causes desolation.
Sacrificing animals is the Abomination that causes desolation.
Daniel 11:31 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily s a c r i f i c e, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate.
It is only the “daily”. The word sacrifice is in italics in the KJV because it is an addition in the translation and not included in the original Hebrew of Daniel 11:31.
The “sanctuary of strength” is the Temple Mount which in reality is the Roman Fortress Antonia
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/630900/jewish/Atonement-In-the-Absence-of-Sacrifices.htm
is a webpage that is answering a question about atonement. It shows their view that the “daily” is the daily prayers which is their current atonement for sins and that it is all they have without the Temple and animal sacrifice which they believe atones for sin. They want to return to animal sacrifice.
There will come a time when they will say “we will sacrifice bullocks in place of the prayers of our lips. This is what Daniel 11:31 is about.
Read Peter’s words below and you can see that sacrificing animals is what causes the Temple to be destroyed every time. Sacrificing animals is the Abomination that causes desolation.
Recognitions_of_Clement:
Chap. xxxvi.—Allowance of sacrifice for a time.
"When meantime Moses, that faithful and wise steward, perceived that the vice of sacrificing to idols had been deeply ingrained into the people from their association with the Egyptians, and that the root of this evil could not be extracted from them, he allowed them indeed to sacrifice, but permitted it to be done only to God, that by any means he might cut off one half of the deeply ingrained evil, leaving the other half to be corrected by another, and at a future time; by Him, namely, concerning whom he said himself, 'A prophet shall the Lord your God raise unto you, whom ye shall hear even as myself, according to all things which He shall say to you. Whosoever shall not hear that prophet, his soul shall be cut off from his people.'14
Chap. xxxvii.—The holy place.
"In addition to these things, he also appointed a place in which alone it should be lawful to them to sacrifice to God.15 And all this was arranged with this view, that when the fitting time should come, and they should learn by means of the Prophet that God desires mercy and not sacrifice,16 they might see Him who should teach them that the place chosen of God, in which it was suitable that victims should be offered to God, is his Wisdom; and that on the other hand they might hear that this place, which seemed chosen for a time, often harassed as it had been by hostile invasions and plunderings, was at last to be wholly destroyed.17 And in order to impress this upon them, even before the coming of the true Prophet, who was to reject at once the sacrifices and the place, it was often plundered by enemies and burnt with fire, and the people carried into captivity among foreign nations, and then brought back when they betook themselves to the mercy of God; that by these things they might be taught that a people who offer sacrifices are driven away and delivered up into the hands of the enemy, but they who do mercy and righteousness are without sacrifices freed from captivity, and restored to their native land. But it fell out that very few understood this; for the greater number, though they could perceive and observe these things, yet were held by the irrational opinion of the vulgar: for right opinion with liberty is the prerogative of a few.
Daniel and his friends did not eat meat and did not drink alcohol.
Dan 1:8 But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the wine which he drank: therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself.
Daniel prayed “daily” - three times a day. They tried to stop him praying to YHWH and wanted to force him to worship other elohim.
Dan 6:10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his Elohim, as he did aforetime.
Didache 8:2
Pray like this: Our Father in heaven, hallowed is Your name, Your kingdom come and Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us our daily bread for today and forgive our debts as we forgive those who owe us. Please do not lead us into a test, but deliver us from the evil one. For You have the power and the glory forever.
Pray like this three times a day.
