His Glorious Appearing Author:James White Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Thus far in this discourse Jesus has passed over the entire Christian dispensation. Beginning with a warning against the deceptions that were to succeed his own ... more »times, he next describes wars and disasters, persecutions, apostasy, the perils of the last days, and closes with a distinct sign of the end. WHEN SHALL THESE THINGS BE? Verses 15-20: "When ye, therefore, shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place (whoso readeth, let him understand); then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains ; let him which is on the housetop not come down to take anything out of his house ; neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes. And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days ! But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day." Our Lord having in verses 5-14, passed over the important events in the Christian age down to the end, goes back and introduces in verse 15 the destruction of Jerusalem, in answer to the inquiry, " When shall these things be?" Luke's version of this language is, "When ye shall see Jerusalem encompassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh." Luke 21: 20. By this we know that the term "abomination of desolation " refers to the Eoman army. This desolating power is spoken of by Daniel as follows : — "And the people of the p:ince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolation? are determined. . . . And for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall bo poured upon the desolate." Margin, "desolator." Dan. 9:26, 27. Here is a clear...« less