The Abomination of Desolation – 1290

Days Identified
The Feast of Dedication – 1335 Days
Identified

Jean Cooke

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 1260 and 1290 Days of Daniel 12 Identified – The
Abomination of Desolation
1335 Days of Daniel 12:12 Identified – The Feast of
Dedication

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 1290 Days of Daniel 12:11 - The Abomination of
Desolation

1. This article will show that New Testament writers sourced information from
the Old Testament. The abomination of desolation is certainly an unresolved
mystery with many self-opinionated interpretations having been presented.
The original form must be retrieved to clearly illustrate what the
abomination of desolation heralds. Run-of-the-mill explanations merely
point back to Antiochus Epiphanes being the abomination, as he plundered
the Jewish temple.

2. Announcing the clue to solving this puzzle is found in Dan. 12:11 and reads
as follows. “And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away
and the abomination that maketh desolate set up there shall be a thousand
two hundred and ninety days.”

3. Understanding how the daily sacrifice was taken away in original O.T. type
is essential, as a base. Those who only literalise falsely claim that Antiochus
Epiphanes is biblically documented as the primary transgressor. But is this
true?

4. The perennial question as to what expositors have written reams about is,
“What is the daily sacrifice, and how/when was it “taken away?” O. T.
prophetic writers borrowed recollections of the Bible temple-history
including ceremonies as foundational models, as that is exactly what they
were. The “tabernacle/temple” in Jerusalem was only a pattern of the
Heavenly. Later prophetic writers projected these visions as spiritually ever-
present circumstances in application, hence the compounding down the eras.

5. The O.T. daily sacrifice was the daily burnt offering. See Numbers 28:3,4. It
was an evening and morning oblation, a continual burnt offering, Exd.
29:42. Yes, it was continual, it was a verb, part of action in Israel’s
ceremonial token. This was demonstrating that each person had every right
to determine individual sacrifice. They were given a choice. The burnt
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 offering was a total sacrifice. It taught all that a complete individual sacrifice
was of necessity if innate conscience were to be redeemed after a period of
prohibition. The daily sacrifice offering, was part of the entirety of service to
be calculated over a seven-year period. Seven Sabbaths of years, see
Leviticus 25:8.

6. The Jewish sacred year consisted of twelve months of 30 days = 360 days a
year. Every few years an intercalary month was added to align with the
seasons. This month was not considered in reckoning times of feasts and
sanctuary ceremonial over a seven-year period.

7. The sacred feasts commenced on 15/1 Abib with Passover and eating
unleavened bread. Pentecost (new meat offering) was 50 days after Passover
in third month Sivan. Day of Atonement 10/7 Tishri was followed by the
great celebration of atonement, Feast of Tabernacles, commencing 15/7 and
lasting 7 days. The ceremonial time of the year lasted 6 months from 15/1 to
15/7. Seven half-years is 180 x 7 = 1260 days. Atonement meant the
children of Israel were cleansed of wrongdoing (missing the mark). To add
to this service or take away would be the most highest sacrilege.

8. Remember the O.T. writers were writing to the children of Israel. They
condemned their habitual regression into idolatry – turning away from the
spiritual, time and time again. How can this idolatry be detected? Could such
idolatry be the abomination of desolation? Did God’s people, the peculiar
people, go wrong? Tut, tut, it is always the enemy who is in error, by
following the Devil, not God’s elect, no. Is idolatry a desolation or
stultifying of the mind? Now to see in detail the O.T. example of idolatry
that describes the abomination of desolation.

9. Following Solomon’s reign the twelve tribe - kingdom was split into two.
Israel of 10 tribes became the kingdom of Israel in the north whilst 2 tribes
Judah and Benjamin became kingdom of Judah in the south. Jeroboam did
not want the people of the north returning to the house of David and
Rehoboam king of Judah. He thought they might kill him. So Jeroboam, “the
king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them (his
people), It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O
Israel, which brought thee up out of Egypt. He set one calf in Bethel, and the
other put he in Dan…And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eight month, on
the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah…” See 1
Kings 12:25-33.
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 10. By making two objects of golden calves as gods of worship Jeroboam “took
away” the daily sacrifice, the continual, ever-present burnt offering. He took
away an individual’s innate right. Furthermore adding to this apostasy he
ordained a feast 30 days after the Feast of Tabernacles, that great celebration
of atonement or pardon. By Jeroboam ordaining a feast on 15/8 thirty days
after the Feast of Tabernacles add 30 days to 1260 = 1290 days. “From the
time the daily (1260 days) shall be taken away (by Jeroboam) and the
abomination (idolatry) that maketh desolate (the mind) set up, there shall be
1290 days.” This was Israel’s literal idol-worship condemned unceasingly
by their God of creation - Jehovah in the O.T. The children of Israel had
literised and de-spiritualised a redeeming concept.

11. In the Book of Daniel, Antiochus Epiphanes, the little horn which came
forth out of one of the four horns when the Grecian Empire divided, (see
Dan. 8:1-12), “and an host given” him against the daily,” (The host was
apostate Jews, see 1 Maccabees 1: 10-15 was a later fulfillment of this
prophecy, as they plundered the temple. Certainly this was a type but it was
not the foundational stone of plundering. The abomination is beginning to
compound now.

12. Contemporary expositors point to Antiochus Epiphanes but they omit the
apostate Jews. Their aim is to show it is “others” and not “us” that bring
about notional ideas. But regression takes place within. When literalism
abounds, spirituality is lost. Yes, Spirituality is a verb, not a noun. Action,
create. This ability is the possession of the liberated.

Now Apply the New Testament

13. The abomination of desolation is mentioned in Matt. 24:15 and Mark 13:14.
It is time to examine the declaration in Matthew.

14. Jesus, having been shown the buildings of the temple said to his disciples,
“There shall not be left one stone upon another that shall not be thrown
down.” Remember the disciple’s world was Judaism. The stones of the
temple represent the tenets of Judaism. The temple was a “pattern” of the
original soul-Temple. The disciples, gripped by legalism wanted to know,
“when shall these things be?”

15. Jesus speaks of many events such as false prophets rising, wars, famines,
earthquakes etc. Then he announces, “This gospel of the kingdom (the
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 gospel of peace - Rom. 10:15) shall be preached in all the world
(OIKOUMENE = a place, cohabited, Roman Empire) then shall the end
come.” The harvest is the end of the world. Matt. 13:39. This word “world”
is from AION meaning (Jewish) a Messianic period (present or future)
eternal. Here in Matthew it was the end of the world the disciples knew.
Being a foretelling, the prediction would compound in substance as it
compacts with the passage of time.

16. However, the preaching of the gospel of peace was/is the trigger to incite a
momentous apocalypse. It is the end of the world of superstition.

17. Jesus says, “When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation,
spoken by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place (whosoever readeth let
him understand). Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains.”
Matt. 24:15,16.

18. The abomination of desolation would stand in the holy place in the Roman-
day setting. Matt. 24:15. Mark 13:14 writes, stand “where it ought not.”
Where is the holy place, the HAGIOS? This is where the abomination (idol-
worship) should not stand. The holy place is a consecrated place, a sacred
place, the most holy place. The law of love, the law of liberty, is represented
as placed in the ark in the tabernacle. Firstly it was written and placed in the
original Temple, the soul-Temple. When the body is reunited with an innate
soul the Creator’s law of consciousness, James 1:25, will be written in our
hearts and in our minds. See Heb. 10:16. This is the holy place where no one
must trespass.

19. The abomination did stand in the holy place in the Roman-day report as it
demanded the quelling of the Messianic Spirit. The Pharisees and Sadducees
were responsible for deceiving the populace. The Sadducean high priest had
whipped the citizens of Jerusalem into mass hysteria, as the story goes. The
life of benevolence, compassion, healing and teaching of the protagonist,
Jesus, was silenced. This was a spiritual application – the great archetype.
As the messianic message was rejected the teachings of Judaism crumbled,
having no lasting meaning. Disregarding the true Temple-life destroyed in
the temple in Jerusalem and its service. It had lost its value. It was time for
harvest. A new age would emerge.

20. Don’t express your opinion if it is contrary to institutionalism’s status quo,

for then you must be condemned. Today, applying to the Jew of the heart
and mind, idolatry is the worship of the idols of doctrine and the dogma of
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 literalism. Should this ever be challenged, what then?

21. To reiterate, this paper shows our spirituality has been taken away and
replaced by the literal teachings of symbolic writings.

1335 Days of Daniel 12:12 – Feast of Dedication

Question from the paper “Abomination of Desolation”:

According to this interpretation of the 1290 days, what would be the significance
of the 45 days after when the 1335 days are accomplished and those who have
waited are blessed?

Answer:

“Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five
days.” Dan. 12:12

This period of 1335 days gives an overall picture of the Hebrews’ struggle to
obtain a peaceful happy land. Spiritually, it is a pattern for all generations.
The story starts in Egypt whilst in bondage. Preparing for the Exodus the
congregation of Israel were to select the paschal lamb on 10/1 Abib, and keep it
until 14/1 then kill it in the evening, now 15/1. See Exd. 12:1-7. This was the
beginning of Passover, and eating of unleavened bread, and was introduced into
the sanctuary service. The sacred year continued for 6 months ending on 15/7
Tishri, Feast of Tabernacles. 180 days each year for 7 years = 1260 days.
When starting to total a lengthy period of struggle with the ups and downs, and
many graphic illustrations, the five days of keeping the paschal lamb is added, thus
1260 + 5 = 1265 days.

However, there is more, for this did not bring the desired freedom and happiness in
pre-exilic days. Not until Judas Maccabeus’ victory over Antiochus Epiphanes in
post-exilic days did this eventuate. The temple was then restored and the
ceremonial services renewed. This celebration is called the Feast of Dedication on
25/9 Casleu. 2 Macc. 10:5 – an additional 70 days. The Kingdom of the Jews had
the contented, liberated life they had sought for many years. See Macc. 14:8-13.
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These days add up 1335:
1. 10/1 – 15/1 - choosing the Paschal lamb until it was killed = 5 days
2. 15/1 to 15/7 - 180 days X 7 half-years (over a seven year period = 1260 days
3. 15/7 to 25/9 = 70 days

As mentioned in the paper, “Abomination of Desolation”, Jeroboam’s celebration

of idolatry was 30 days after the Feast of Tabernacles then it was 40 days to the
Feast of Dedication.

John 10:22 refers to the Feast of Dedication, “And it was at Jerusalem the feast of
dedication, and it was winter.”