I want to talk to talk to you about a lesson in the Word of God I feel is very important for our day.  I want to talk to you about the 8th, 10th, 11th, and 12 chapters of Daniel; and the 24th chapter of Matthew.

Take the 12th chapter of Daniel, verse 4:  "But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end."  This book of Daniel consists of 12 chapters in our Bible, and incidentally, there were no chapters in the original book of Daniel.  There was no punctuation, no periods, no commas, no paragraphs, no chapters in the Hebrew.  It was just one scroll that had been written.  But it was a book -- a scroll.  And the Lord told Daniel "to shut up the words and seal the book, even until the time of the end.

Now, concerning this sealing, this is God telling Daniel that this book is to be sealed -- and there are areas of this book that could not be understood until the seals were loosened.  Remember in the 5th chapter of Revelation when John began to weep because no one in heaven, or earth, or under the earth was worthy to take the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne and loose the seals thereof?  John began to cry because he understood that there was something that he needed.  There was an understanding there that he needed, and he began to weep because that was the Word of God, the will of God that he needed.  That was the revelation of God.  And the angel told him, "Weep not."  Do not cry!  "Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open t he book, and to loose the seven seals thereof."  Rev. 5:5.  Then the Lord Jesus Christ began to open those seals, and as fast as He opened them, John just kept writing until the book of Revelation began to unfold as one seal after another was broken and explained.  Well, these "seals" just mean that the scriptures are not to be understood until the Lord loosens the seal, until He uncaps it, until He breaks the code and gives to an individual revelation on that particular scripture.

So, this book was to be sealed until the time of the end.  And in "the time of the end, many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased."  Dan. 12:4.  The Amplified Bible gives us a very beautiful rendering of the 4th verse of the 12th chapter.  In essence it says, "But in the time of the end many shall run to and fro and these seals will be loosed and knowledge will be increased." In other words, there is to be an increase of the knowledge of God's Word with the loosening of the seals.  When the book is no longer sealed, then knowledge will be increased.  This is not talking about atomic energy, knowledge of science, knowledge of physics, knowledge of chemistry, or knowledge of medicine.  No!  This is not talking about that at all.  It is talking about God's people and their understanding of the events that will close this age.

You have heard me tell you that the church is coming to an end.  The church is to be phased out and it is to be replaced with the kingdom of God on the earth.  But the church is not going to fizz out.  It is going to come to an end in a blaze of glory, and then the Lord will return to establish the kingdom.

So, many shall run to and fro and knowledge of the last things of God, knowledge of the finality of God, knowledge of these truths that have been sealed -- when the seals are loosed, knowledge shall be increased.  And this opening of the seals is to take place here at the time of the end.

Daniel looked, and of course he did not understand.  In verses 5 and 6 Daniel was watching the angels which stood on opposite sides of the river, and one man said to another man -- one angel said to another angel -- "How long shall it be to the end (conclusion) of (all) these wonders (things)?"  Daniel heard one angel speak to another angel, and ask, "How long shall it be to the end of these wonders; how long will it be to the conclusion of these wonders, these great mysteries that are sealed here in the book of Daniel?"  The angel said, "How long will it be until these events take place?  And the other angel answered back, "he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth forever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished" -- (this is sentence structure peculiar to the King James translation) -- "and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished."  This means when the indignation of God upon Israel for their transgressions has come to an end, then God shall have accomplished to scatter the power of His holy people.  This is accomplished when dispersions of the Jewish nation under divine judgment shall reach their termination .  See, when God is through judging Israel for her apostasy, for her crucifixion of Christ, and the martyrdom of the apostles, then all these things shall be finished.  In other words, when God begins to lift His hand of judgment off of the Jewish nation, and this is happening now -- then these things that are sealed are to come into fulfillment.

This is when this knowledge shall be increased which has been sealed and hidden; these tremendous events of the last days; these power-packed events of the last days of Gentile time.  These powerful events that are to transpire in the final days of the church will come out into open revelation and the children of God will be made aware of what God is doing right at the finality of this age.  The return of Christ!  The resurrection of the dead!  The establishment of the Kingdom!  All these events are to be clearly understood by the wise among God's children.

Daniel said, "And I heard, but I understood not."  He said, "Then I spoke up."  He said, "Then I got into the act."  He said, "I heard one angel speak, then another angel spoke, then I said something."  Daniel said, "And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?"  He said, "When will I understand what you have told me?  He said, "What shall be the end of these things, what shall be the conclusion, what does all this mean that you have told me?  How will the end of the age be concluded?  What will be the concluding acts?  What will be the final drama of the age?  What does all this mean that you have told me?  And the angel said, "Well, you go your way, Daniel, for the words are closed up.  I cannot tell you.  It is not for you.  You do not need to know anyway."  -- "Go thy way, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end."  Now we are in the time of the end, and the seals are being loosed and the Lord is going to make His children aware of events that are to transpire from here on out until the conclusion of this age and the return of Jesus Christ.

There is a scripture in the 24th chapter of Matthew, and then there is another scripture in the 13th chapter of Mark that one must consider.  But first, here in Matthew 24, a question is asked in the 3rd verse as Jesus sat upon the Mount of Olives.  In Matthew 24:3 the disciples came to Jesus privately saying, "Tell us when shall these things be?"  In other words, the Lord talked about the destruction of Jerusalem.  And they said, "When shall these things be?  What shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?  Now these are not three questions.  Because in Jewish thinking, the sign of thy coming -- the coming of the Lord -- and the end of the world -- were simultaneous events.  This was one question.  The coming of the Lord and the end of the world are concurrent events!  In Jewish thinking and in Jewish knowledge of the plan of God, they knew that when the Messiah came, this old world order was at an end.  They knew that when this system of things came to an end, it was because the Messiah had returned to establish the kingdom, a new order.  So they wanted to know when all this would take place.  And of course, in a limited way you can refer to this being fulfilled in A.D. 70, but only in a limited way.

Hosea 11:1 shows that a scripture can have more than one meaning.  You cannot take a scripture and apply one meaning to it and stand there and fight dogmatically. when all the time God may mean for that scripture to be used by His saints in three or four dispensations, in three or four different periods of time, and have altogether different meanings.  We cannot fathom the unlimited ability of Omniscience!  The Bible is from Omniscience itself.  You can never completely fathom the Word of God.  You can never bring it to a finality.  It came from the very bosom of the Father.  God inhabits eternity, and the Bible is eternal.  You can never put a rope around it and tie it up and say, "There it is."  Somebody a thousand years from now will be getting things out of those scriptures that you and I never did see as that Jewish ministry begins to prepare the saints for the final resurrection.  Praise God!  Here in Matthew 2:15 Matthew is talking about Jesus.  Jesus had been carried away into Egypt by Joseph and Mary, because Joseph had been warned in a dream to take the young child into Egypt, because they were seeking the young child's life.  Then Matthew said, "that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son."  I always wondered how Matthew could use the scripture this way, because Matthew said, "thus fulfilling the scripture."  So I said to myself, "Now where is the scripture that said that Joseph was going to bring Jesus out of Egypt.  I looked over at Hosea 11:1, the scripture Matthew was referring to, and it goes this way:  "When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt."  He is referring to Exodus 4:22, when the Lord is telling Moses to tell Pharaoh, "Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my firstborn.  And I say unto thee, Let my son go."  Really, Hosea 11:1 did not apply to Jesus at all.  I kept praying about this, and finally I understood, it is the proposition of a double interpretation,.  A duality of the Word of God.

So when you get over to Matthew 24, do not take all those scriptures and say, "bless God, that is A.D. 70."  Because if you do that, you are going to miss the move of God in these last days!  You are going to hold dogmatically to a certain time element on a scripture that can be put right down here at the close of this age, and God will honor that, because that is the way it is going to be fulfilled!

"What shall be the sign of thy coming and of the end of the world?"  Then the Lord talks about the activity of false prophets.  Many, many false prophets at the close of this age.  The Lord talks about these false prophets in verses 11 and 12:  "Many false prophets shall rise and shall deceive many."  He said, "And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold."  These are to be signs of the end!  More and more separation among God's people!  More and more division!  More and more divisiveness!  False prophets rising up all the time and deceiving many of the saints of God until the saints won't really understand where the ark of God is.  Where the true move of God is.  "And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold."  One backslidden saint after another leaving God.  "But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.  And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come.  Verses 13-14.

In Matthew the 6th chapter Jesus gave His disciples a sample prayer.  "Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.  Thy kingdom come....":  We are to pray for the coming kingdom.  "Thy kingdom come.  Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven."  I can remember as a child my mother telling me that the words "in earth" means in this earth (our physical bodies) right here.  To a degree that is true.  I will never be in the coming kingdom if God's will is not wrought in my heart and in my life. But that is not really what Jesus is saying.  there are other scriptures that deal with our willingness to let Christ work in us.  "For it is God that worketh in you, both to will...."  Phil. 2:13.  There are other scriptures that tell us that Christ is working in us, but yet He is working in us that we might be a part of the coming kingdom.  Our prayer is, "Thy will be done on this earth."  We want to see God's will done on this earth.  We want to see the curse lifted!  We want to see man's government come to an end!  We want to see the kingdom of God established on this earth!  e want to see the increase of His government and peace of which there shall be no end!  We want to see, finally, the peace of God!  "He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth.  Ps. 46:9.  We want to finally see the finality of God when this earth is transformed into the Garden of Eden, and even greater than the Garden of Eden ever was.  The Garden of Eden only covered a small spot on the face of this earth.  So "Thy will be done in earth" is a peculiar King James rendering.  I Peter 1:18 reads, "We were eyewitnesses of his majesty when we were with him in the holy mount."  Were they "in" the mountain?  No, they were "on" the mountain.  

Here in Matthew 24:14, the Lord talked about the gospel of the kingdom.  Now, there is a gospel to be preached.  There is a proclamation to be heralded out to all the world before the establishment of that kingdom.  The Lord wants someone to begin to proclaim and herald forth the message of the soon to be established kingdom of God.

Matthew 24:21:  "For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no nor ever shall be."  That is not AD 70!  Oh no, that is not AD 70!  The Jews are headed for a greater tribulation than AD 70 ever was.  Far worse!  The estimated six million Jews that Hitler cremated was a far worse tribulation than AD 70.  When those poor Jews walked in under the showers and the Nazis turned on the spigots, water did not come out, but deadly gas came out, and six million Jews were exterminated.  They were murdered and cremated.  Brother, that was a longer and far worse persecution than they ever went through in AD 70.

But there is more trouble out here ahead of us!  Jerusalem is still to come under attack.  Half of the city is to go into captivity, the houses are to be rifled, and the women ravished.  Zech. 14:2.  Then the Lord thy God shall come!  Zech. 14:5.  Jesus is coming, and He is going to fight on behalf of His people!  But because of the trouble that we are entering into from here on to the end, "if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not."  Matt. 24:23.  What God is telling Israel here is, "Look, don't let any false deceiver deceive you.  Don't let anyone tell you this is the last tribulation that you will be going through before I return.  All these false deceivers are going to rise up to try to save Israel,.  The Lord is telling Israel, "Don't be that gullible.  Don't let anybody tell you that they are your Messiah."  He said, "I am coming back to you.  There is going to be a horrible time of tribulation when I come, but if any man says 'I am your deliverer,' or 'He is here,' or 'He is there,' don't believe him."  "For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect."  Verse 24.  Not only among God's children in the church, but the Jews that are to be saved and spared and go through the tribulation and wait for Christ when He returns.  The elect constitutes both of these groups.

"Behold, I have told you before.  Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert, go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not."  Verses 25 and 26.  I do not care who tells you that Christ is here -- I do not care how hungry you become during the tribulatory period -- I do not care how much suffering you are enduring on a craggy mountain peak somewhere to get away from the marauding, murderous bands of humanity: do not let anyone tell you that Christ has returned.  he is not coming, this time, in a secret way!  He is not going to be hiding over there in the desert.  He is not going to be taking care of is people over there in a valley somewhere.  Do not worry about that.  Here is the way that it is going to be.  "For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."  Verse 27.  He said, "When I return I am coming down from the skies and every eye shall see me."  Rev. 1:7.

Matthew 24:14, "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come."  Now they asked the question in verse 3, "What shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?"  The Lord goes on and tells them it is not wars, and it is not rumors of wars.  "And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars .... famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places."  Verses 6 and 7.  But He said, "You want to know what the sign of my coming and the end of the world will be?"  Jesus said, "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 Judaea flee into the mountains."  Verses 15-16.  Now here is the sign!  We are not to set a date for the return of the Lord!  The Lord has given us a foolproof sign!  When will the Lord return?  When will be the end of the world?  He has given us a foolproof sign!  "When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place."  "Whoso readeth let him understand."  What is the abomination?  Here is where we need a revelation from God.  "Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains."  Verse 16.  Trouble is coming!  Christ is coming in troublous times.  The end of the world is at a troublous time.  The return of Christ has something to do with the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place.  "Whoso readeth, let him understand."

It is recorded again for us in the 13th chapter of Mark.  The Lord covers the very same subject, and Mark gives it to us a little differently, in that he remembered a little more that Jesus said.  They ask the same question in Mark 13:4:  "Tell us, when shall these things be?  What shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled?"  What is the sign?  Verse 14.  "When ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, STANDING WHERE IT OUGHT NOT, (let him that readeth understand), then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains.

The remainder of my message today is to acquaint you with the sign that will let you know that Christ is returning, and the end of this age has come.  Then a new world order is to be established.  Dan. 7:27.  We are not to set a date for the return of Christ!  Christ has given us a foolproof sign that will let us know.  We do not have to be shook or upset by the present war in the Mideast.  We do not have to be upset by what any preacher may say.  We do not have to be upset by what anybody else says.  We can have peace in our hearts from here on to the end.  God has given us a sign to watch for.

Back to the 8th chapter of Daniel.  The 9th chapter of Daniel is an insertion between the 8th, 10th, 11th and 12th chapters.  The 9th chapter of Daniel pertains to the first advent.  The 8th, 10th, 11th, and 12th chapters of Daniel pertain to the second advent, and they are all saying the same thing.  The 9th chapter speaks of the first advent.  It has already been fulfilled.  The 8th, 10th, 11th and 12th chapters all say the same thing pertaining to the signs of the end of this age and the return of Christ at the second advent.

The 8th chapter of Daniel opens, and we will not take time to deal with every scripture.  Daniel sees a vision in verse 2.  He lifts up his eyes in verse 3, and he sees a ram with two horns.  These two horns were high.  One horn came up higher than the other.  Daniel is seeing here in this vision the Media-Persian empire.  One horn coming up higher is Cyrus, who became the most outstanding leader of the Media-Persian empire.  He sees this Media-Persian empire in verse 4 spreading itself around and going out and taking in more and more territory.

In verse 5, "And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth....and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes."  The Lord is showing Daniel that after the Media-Persian empire comes to a conclusion, the Grecian empire rises up on the face of the world scene, and this horn is Alexander the Great.  In other words, after the Media-Persian empire comes to a conclusion, it is replaced by the Grecian empire.  Alexander the Great is this "notable horn."  He came to the ram that had two horns -- verse 6.  It was 334 BC when Alexander crossed the Hellespont and entered into Asia and defe3ated the Media-Persian empire.  Verse 7.  As the scene keeps moving on , you will notice in verse 8, "the he goat waxed very great."  This was the Grecian Empire.  But, "when he was strong, his great horn was broken."  Alexander died, "and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven."  In other words, the disintegration of the Grecian empire began as it was parted into four divisions.  Greece was scattered.  It was divided into four divisions at the death of Alexander.  Out of them, one of these divisions, "came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land (Israel)"  Verse 9.  This little horn that came out of one of these divisions of Greece was Mohammed.  Now, we can no longer afford to overlook the development and growth of Islam, the Mohammedan influence that has permeated the Middle East and ruled and governed the land of Israel for 1, 335 years.  We can no longer overlook this!  The Mohammedan power was raised up as the rod of God to judge Israel for her apostasy in her rejection of her Messiah and her persecution of the early church.  This little horn was Mohammed!

If you will look at verse 20, "The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia,."  This is proving what I have already said.  Verse 21, "And the rough goat is the king of Grecia; and the horn that is between his eyes is his first king."  That was Alexander.

Turn to the 10th chapter of Daniel.  Daniel was having a hard time getting this understanding because the evil prince of the power of Persia did not want Daniel to get this understanding in order that he might write it in a book.  The whole 10th chapter is dedicated to the battle in the principalities, those invisible, created worlds above our heads, where Gabriel was being hindered from coming to Daniel and giving him the rest of this vision!  But finally, Michael, one of the chief princes, came and helped him, and Gabriel comes and says in verse 14, "Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days."  Then he goes on and completes the vision  But the vision is for many days.  "What I am saying to you will not be fulfilled for many days."  That is, it will be fulfilled in the last days -- in the time of the end.

Then the 11th chapter opens and you will notice in verse 2 it talks about Greece.  It talks about Darius of the Medes in the 1st verse.  There is the Media-Persian Empire again, just like we were reading in the 8th chapter.  Then it goes on into Greece, and in verse 3, "And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion , and do according to his will."  That was Alexander, the king of the Grecian empire.  Verse 4, "And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven."  What we are talking about in chapter 8 is so vitally important that the angel starts over in chapter 11, going all the way back and starting at the media-Persian empire again, then on to Greece and the four divisions of the Grecian empire.

Notice here in verse 21 of the 8th chapter of Daniel, the rough goat is the king of Greece.  Then verse 22, "Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it.  Four kingdoms shall stand out of the nation of Greece, but "not in his power."  it will be a different power.  "And in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance, and understanding dark sentences, shall stand up."  Verse 23.  Out of one of these four divisions of the Grecian empire, in the latter time, in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressions of the Jews are come to the full, when the transgressions of the children of Abraham have come to the place where God can judge them and pour out His wrath upon them for their unbelief and crucifixion of their Messiah .... then the Lord raises up a "little horn."  He raises up another ruler out of one of these four divisions of the Grecian empire as a scourge or chastening rod on an apostate nation.  God raises up a king of "fierce countenance."  This is Mohammed!  We cannot ignore this any longer.  Because when we get an understanding of all this, it leads us to the "abomination of desolation."

Let us back up a little here, and look at verse 9 in Daniel 8.  Out of these four divisions of the Grecian empire came forth a "little horn," and this was Mohammed and his followers, which "waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land."  The pleasant land is Palestine.  The pleasant land is Israel.  It is the land that God has chosen for Himself.  Ezek. 38:16.  It is a land that is to flow with milk and honey.  it is the pleasant land.  "And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast  down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them."  Verse 10.  You will notice this again in verse 13, the last sentence of verse 13, "to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot."  Then verse 24, "And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people."  Now God sent Mohammedanism as a scourge on the holy people, the nation of Israel, the seed of Abraham!  Islam was to "prosper."  They were to destroy the host of Abraham's seed.  The holy people were to be brought under the rule of Mohammedanism.  The city of Jerusalem was to be under Mohammedan control.  This was the judgment of God upon the seed of Abraham and the seed of David.

Verse 13 - Mohammed, "Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host."  The prince of the host is Christ.  Mohammed thought he was as great as Jesus.  Mohammed said Jesus was a prophet.  That is all he acknowledged Jesus to be.  Mohammed said, "There is no God but God, and Mohammed is His prophet."  Mohammed exalted himself above Christ!  You go to the Mideast right now.  You go into all those northern African nations. Go into the Fertile Crescent, Islam is the religion of every one of the Moslems.  It is the religion of the Egyptians.  It is the religion of the Algerians.  It is the religion of the Saudi-Arabians.  It is the religion of the Turks.  It is the religion of all of those nations surrounding Israel.  Just think, for 1335 years Israel was dominated by that false religious system.  Mohammed exalted himself even above Christ!  So, "an host was given unto him against the daily sacrifice."  Verse 12.  "Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down."  This scripture pertains to a holy spot of ground - verse 11.

There is a spot of ground over there in Israel that belongs to God.  That spot of ground was where Abraham was about to offer Isaac as a sacrifice!  That spot of ground is where Solomon built the Temple!  That spot of ground was where Jesus walked and talked!  That spot of ground is where the early church was inaugurated!  There will be millions of Jews in the first resurrection because they made a pilgrimage to that spot of ground over there, and the blood of a sacrifice flowed from a bleating animal, and as that blood flowed down on the ground, God accepted the forgiveness of that Jew's sins, and that Jew will stand in the first resurrection.  That is holy ground over there!

"And the place of his sanctuary was cast down."  Verse 11.  This word "place" does not refer to a building, but it refers to a spot of land, a piece of ground.  The place where God's sanctuary, on earth, one time stood,.  "The place of his sanctuary was cast down."  God had a sanctuary on this earth for many, many years.  That sanctuary was the Temple.  It was Solomon's Temple.  it was later rebuilt by Ezra and Nehemiah.  it was later rebuilt and added to in the days of Herod.  It was finally destroyed in AD 70.

Now, Antiochus Epiphanes profaned this place in 167 BC.  But this "little horn" is not Antiochus Epiphanes, because this "little horn" is to be great.  He is to wax great.  This little horn was to be greater than Cyrus or Alexander.  Cyrus was "great."  Verse 4.  Alexander was "very great."  Verse 8.  But Mohammed was "exceeding great."  Verse 9.  Antiochus Epiphanes was not as great as Alexander.  Antiochus Epiphanes is not the little horn that we are talking about here, but this little horn was Mohammed.  "And the place of his sanctuary was cast down."  Rome destroyed Jerusalem in AD 70, then later in the seventh century, Israel was invaded by the Mohammedan power, and in 637 AD Israel fell to Mohammedan enslavement.  On this holy spot of ground, the place where at one time Solomon's Temple had stood, they built the Mosque of Omar.  Later this little wooden mosque was torn down and replaced with the present Dome of the Rock in the year 688 AD.  The Abomination of Desolation.

The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem is the most holy spot to the Moslem.  It is holier to them than Mecca or Medina.  When they built that Moslem house of worship, this was an abominable, detestable thing that happened to the seed of Abraham, because God had left them, and their country became desolate.  Where once stood the Temple, the ground was now defiled -- cast down -- by the presence of the abominable, pagan Dome of the Rock!  Their people became desolate.  The building of the Dome of the Rock is the sign of God's indignation upon a desolate people!  The Dome of the Rock, that building over there in Jerusalem,. has stood for over 12 centuries.  There was an earthquake in Jerusalem in the 11th century, and that earthquake did not destroy that building.  It went right down by the side of that building and left a big crack right there in the rock, the pavement, but that building stood right there.  One time a fanatic tried to burn that building down, but the authorities caught it in time and it did not burn.  How many wars have been fought in Israel since 1948?  How many times has Jerusalem been under attack since 1948?  Yet the Dome of the Rock stands firm.  Why?  Because what I am telling you, and I am not through yet, is that when the Dome of the Rock goes down, Christ will return.  That is the sign of Christ's coming and the end of the world.  That building has stood over there for over 1200 years.  But it is coming down!