ما هو رجاسة الخراب؟ وما معناه في الكتاب المقدس؟

The abomination of desolation is an idolatrous thing set up in God’s temple, a sacrilege that leaves the holy place desolate. Daniel foretold it, 1 Maccabees records King Antiochus IV setting up “the abominable idol of desolation” on the altar in 167 BC, and Jesus named it as the sign for his followers to flee Judea (Matthew 24:15). Where Matthew records Jesus’ words about it, the Gospel pauses in the middle of a sentence to speak to us, its readers:…