The Abomination of Desolation

The abomination of desolation is first mentioned in the Book of Daniel and then Jesus uses this terminology in the Book of Mathew. In Daniel, the Archangel Gabriel comes to him and tries to clarify what the Son of Man has been trying to explain to him about the Second Coming, the wars, the Second Temple and so forth. Gabriel first mentions two major aspects of what will happen when the abomination of desolation is unleashed upon the world. There will be “a flood and even unto the end shall there be war.” Jesus talks about the floods and wars that are supposed to come at the “time of the end” in Mathew with a reference to the Flood of Noah and state of affairs where nation is against nation.

Gabriel continues by telling Daniel that before the “desolation,” “He shall make a firm covenant with many for one week.” “He” is most times believed to be the “Anointed One” but recent visionaries say that it is the Father who will convey a “Day of Grace” upon the world. When this day comes it will “cause the sacrifice and the oblation (death and suffering) to cease.” After this, “On the wing of an abomination shall come one who shall make them desolate.”

On the “wing of an abomination” seems to describe a great bird of some kind what would be seen in the sky. The legends of the earliest Native American Indian tribes tell of a giant vulture or a huge bat that changed the land with the flap of its wings. One of these stories holds that the Appalachian Mountains were formed when a giant vulture flapped its wings too hard as he landed on the coast of what is now Virginia. Regardless of how it is described the “desolation” will be manifested by something that will appear in the sky.

One thing appears to be certain from Gabriel’s explanation; Daniel’s vision of the abomination of desolation does not comply with the idea of a pagan statue being set up in the Third Temple of Israel—as it is stated in Luke. It is a global cataclysm unleashed by a celestial object striking the Earth. “And even unto the full end, as it has been determined, shall wrath be poured out upon the desolate.” There will be complete and utter destruction over the whole Earth.

Jesus probably refers to the story of Noah in relation to the abomination of desolation for two reasons; first, because there will be a great flood as all the coastlines around the world are inundated by mile high waves of water and second, because it is the only place in the Bible where it clearly states that a global destruction is associated with the passing of an age. In Noah’s day, there was a race of giants as well as a group of Neanderthal type people. There were ferocious carnivores and perhaps the remnants of other prehistoric creatures. God was not pleased with these primitive life forms. Noah, his family and a group of animals were selected to be preserved at the end of that age. All the Biblical inferences about the end of this age relate to this kind of cleansing happening once again.

Michael is only mentioned in the Books of Daniel, Jude, Revelations and the narratives of Jesus in Mathew. Daniel was the first to introduce him to the scriptures. According to Daniel’s visions, Michael is the one who unleashes the abomination of desolation. If so, then he must be one of the most powerful beings on Earth. What Moses called the pillar of fire; the Son of Man has given a name, “At that time Michael will stand up.”

Most interpretations of these passages consider Michael as an Archangel and the abomination of desolation as something he creates. In some verses it appears as though the abomination is an act of transgression which causes the desolation to be unleashed. However, a fire ball rising up from the Earth on a pillar of smoke, looking like a huge rose blossoming in the sky, could also be considered as the physical representation of Michael.

I think that it is worth adding here that the Mother Mary does not prefer to use the term abomination of desolation to describe what is to come. In Her vernacular it is a Chastisement, or as She put it to me “there are those in the world who need a good spanking.”