The Abomination of Desolation
The Abomination of Desolation—An act that desecrates the temple. The temple had to be ritually clean to worship God in the temple properly. This is a technical term for what happened historically when Antiochus Epiphanes (Epiphanes meaning the glorious one; a self-designation, a comparison to the deity) sacrificed an unclean animal—a pig—on the altar he […]
Who is the Second Beast?
Who is the Second Beast? False Prophet—He is the third member of the Satanic trinity, operational in the tribulation years. Satan is the first member, the Beast (Antichrist) (link) is the second, and the False Prophet (a.k.a., the Second Beast) is the third member. He causes the entire world to worship the Beast and take […]