Dennis Edwards: A prophecy by the Old Testament prophet Daniel suggests that at the end of the present dispensation a world agreement will be made by the Antichrist. The agreement may involve allowing the Jewish people to have religious worship and sacrifice on the Temple Mount. Daniel 9:27 says, talking about the Antichrist, that "he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week." In the Hebrew it actually says, "for one seven." The word for seven is the same as the word for week. Hebrew Bible scholars have therefore concluded that the covenant will be confirmed for a seven year period.
The prophecy continues, "and in the midst of the week, (or at the 3 and 1/2 year mark), he (the Antichrist) shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation (prayer) to cease." If the Antichrist stops the Jewish sacrifice and prayer, then it could be that the holy covenant was an agreement to allow the Jewish people to begin sacrificial worship there on the Temple Mount.
The prophecy continues, "and for the overspreading of abominations, he (the Antichrist) shall make it desolate." If the Antichrist is going to make it, the sacrifice and oblation, desolate, that seems to indicate military action against the Jewish people in Jerusalem. The military action will stop the religious sacrifice and worshipping of the Jewish people at the 3 and 1/2 year mark.
Another prophecy in Daniel 11 seems to confirm what we have said so far. In verse 31 we see the Antichrist invading Israel, polluting the sanctuary, taking away the daily sacrifice, and placing the abomination that makes desolate, or causes ruin.
In Jesus' famous prophecy in Matthew 24 he said, referring to the prophecy in Daniel, "When you therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso reads, let him understand), ... For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be."
A prophecy by Apostle Paul was understood by the early Church Fathers to be talking about the same event. In 2 Thessalonians 2 Apostle Paul, while explaining about the second coming of Jesus and our gathering unto Him, said that before Jesus comes, the Antichrist shall sit in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. The sitting in the temple could be referring to the Antichrist's military campaign against Israel which ends with him and his forces taking control of the Temple Mount, stopping the sacrificial worship and placing the abomination that makes desolate, whatever that may be.
Therefore, the above YouTube produced by the Jacobine group could have the goal of gaining support for the Palestinian movement. The Jewish people desperately want to rebuild their Temple and start sacrificial worship once again. Maybe some sort of compromise between the Palestinians, the Jewish people, and the other Arab nations will be worked out in the holy covenant or agreement.
I mentioned that the YouTube was produced by the Jacobine group, because the Jacobins were the violent revolutionary force in the French Revolution which overthrew the King of France and the Cathokic Church. If the producer's of the video chose that name, it may be because their goal is to violently overthrow the present American/Israeli coalition and bring in a new world order with seemingly more justice for the oppressed.
We may see Bible Prophecy fulfilled before our eyes.
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