Is Jesus Christ Coming Back to Earth in MMXXIII (2023)?

There are four stumbling blocks that have kept mankind and scholars from fully understanding the book of Revelation and the date of the 1st and 2nd Coming of the Messiah.

1.    Believers and Biblical scholars spend their time interpreting and reinterpreting the scriptures to convince themselves they either (a) get the blessings promised to Israel or (b) will be raptured right before the tribulation.
2.    The year of the 2nd Coming could not be verified until the latter half of the twentieth century.
3.    Christians incorrectly believe Mark 13, is a commandment by God that “no one is allowed to know something that “even the angels in heaven don’t know.”  God told Daniel the year, not the day or the hour.
4.    An “error” made over 1400 years ago.

An error made in the seventh century BC concerns an event that ranks as one of the most important in the history of the Jews, Christians and Muslims: “The abomination of the desolation”.

And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the daily sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination that maketh desolate Dan 11:31

James Hastings, M.A., D.D. in the seventh century published a dictionary of the Bible that analyzes the different interpretations of Daniel 11:31. He concludes the verse refers to “The setting up by Antiochus Epiphanies of a small idol/altar on the altar of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem in 167 BC” and the Maccabean revolution. 

Jesus contradicts this interpretation in the gospels,

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). Mathew 24:15
But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand). Mark 13:14

The two verses refer to a conversation between Jesus, Peter, James and Andrew on the Mount of Olives.  Before he mentions the abomination Jesus says the following to his disciples admiring the grandeur of the temple.

"Seest thou these great buildings? There shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down Mark 13:2"

Here Jesus is prophesying an event that is to take place within the lifetime of the disciples.  August 29th in 70 A.D. (the exact same day the Babylonians burned down Solomon's temple 657 years earlier) the Roman army razed Herod's Temple to the ground.

As Jesus places the event of the abomination after the destruction of the temple in 70 A.D. and uses the words “when ye shall see” (Mark 13:14), he places the event in the future. 

It is impossible the abomination spoken of by Jesus could have taken place prior to 70 AD and therefore any exegesis that identifies the abomination, as 167 B.C. is the “error” made over 1400 years ago.

Jesus predicts the location of the abomination will be somewhere that is not only a “holy place”, but also a place that under normal circumstances would be forbidden.

Within the Jewish faith the biblical term “holy place” can only mean The Holy Temple in Jerusalem. After its destruction in 70 A.D. leaving only the Western or Wailing Wall, the Holy Temple was never rebuilt. The ground where the Temple stood, the Temple Mount, and the Wailing Wall is to the Jews “the most holy place” in Jerusalem.

Construction begins on the Abomination of desolation in 688 A.D.
On the death of Abu Bakr, Omar ibn al Khattab, advisor to Mohammed became the second caliph and ordered that a magnificent golden domed mosque, Islam’s third holiest shrine, be built… directly over  “the most holy place” in Jerusalem.

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