The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-01-15
THE PROPHETIC TIMES.
For the Athens Post.

nesSee B0pttSt OF the 2lst November
last, under the name of p. 8. g.. WAT.
SON, upon the Sign of the Second Com
ing of Christ and the End of the World.
y understand him to mean that the
abomination Of desolation spoken of by
Daniel the prophet, was the sign of the
second coming Of Christ and conse-
quently has never yet been set up. En-
tertaining different views upon this SUBJ
ject, as set forth In my treaties upon
the Prophetic Times, 1 desire to offer a
few thoughts through your excellent
paper, hoping they may reach that wide-
spread and popular sheet, the Tennessee
Baptist.
Il l first cite to the 23d and oath chap
ters of Matthew. After Christ had pro-
nounced his woes upon the Scribes and
Pharasees, calling them generation of
i vipeIs, and had warned the children of
Jerusalem that he would leave their
house unto them desolate, and they
should not see him henceforth until they
: should say, blessed is he that cometh i'm
the name of the Lord; and i'm reference
to the city and temple, Verify there
4 shall not be left here one stone upon
another that shall not be thrown down.
In view of these sayings his disciples
came to him privately while he sat upon
the Mpunt of Olives, saying, tell us when
shall these things be, and what shall be
the sign of thy coming and of the end of
the world? Christ then goes on with a
general answer, until the gospel is to be
preached in all the world for witness,
and says then shall the end come. He
then goes back, as in the 18th verse, and
begins again by saying: When We,
: therefore, shall see the abomination of
) desolation spoken of by Daniel, the pro-
phet, stand in the holy place, (where
Mark says it ought not) then let them
which be in Judea flee into the noun.
tains, NC. He then speaks of the tribu-
: lation, and shortening of those days for
the elects sake. Now, there can be no
doubt but the days here mentioned are
the l26O, 1890, 1885 and 23OO, which cover
the entire period unto the cleansing of
, the sanctuary and the second coming of
Christ. Those days, we see, are short
ened by the prophetic year, or by four
: days i'll the year. Then he says, in the
18th verse: Immediately after the tribu-
lation of those days shall the sun be
; darkened and the moon shall not give her
! light, and the stars shall fall from hen.
fveil and the powers of heaven shall be
shaken, and then shall appear the sign
of the Son of Man in Heaven, who is to
J, come with power and great glory. Paul
$ says-4th chapter, LIST Thessalonians
For the Lord shall descend from Hea-
! ven with shout, with the voice of the
archangel and the trump Of God; and
: the dead in Christ shallrise first. Then we
which are alive and remain shall be
caught up together with them in the
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air.
!, Now. it is to be remembered that the
: abomination of desolation was to stand
| in the holy place--in the temple, which
was the place of the sanctuary. This,
then, could not be the sign of the second
coming, which must appear in heaven
: after the sun and moon shall be darken-
{ ed, and the stars shall fall, and the pow
: ers of heaven be shaken.
now turn to the 9Th chapter of Dan-
iel. Here, in speaking OF the little horn,
. (Which make to be Cesar, or the Cesar
| dynasty) llth verse, he says: Yea, he
magnitied himself to tho prince OF the
host, and by him the daily sacrifice was
taken away, and the place of his sanctu-
: ary was cast down, and host was given
him against the daily sacrifice by reason
of transgression, &c. Here we see these
three things were to be done by this per.
sonified or magnified parsonage, and all
by reason of transgression. And right at
this part of Daniels vision the question
was asked, how long shall be the vision
concerning the daily sacrifice and the
, transgression of desolation, SC. Here
we see that this transgression, by reason
of which the host was given, was the
transgression of desolation or, il, other
/ words, was the true cause of the de-
struction or desolation of the temple,
, and hence it was called the abomination
of desolation. 1t will be remembered
this vision of Daniel was during the
seventy years Babylonish captivity,
, while the holy city was yet under foot.
, After Daniels prayer in his 10Th chap
ter, for the desolatiOns of his people and
holy city, in the 25th verse we see it was
built up again. In the 26th and 9th
verses we see that the people of the
! prince that should come after tho Mes
, siah was cut of, was to destroy the city
|, and sanctuary, and to cause the sacrifice
un0 tiiC OOANuOh w CChcC, \tuc
, city, to be desolate. Hero again we see
that the overspreading of denominations
was the true cause, or the transgression
of desolation. This abominatiOn, then,
stood i'm the holy place, while the city
: and temple were yet stan ding, and ia
| connected with the destruction of the
temple in every place mentioned. Dam
iel, in his llth chapter, covers the entire
ground from the overthrow of Persia
to the fall of Maximilian, the seventh
. Catholic head through the Caesar line OF
descent. Here, in the 3lst verse, when
he comes to the Caesars, or to the little
horn, he says: And armies shall stand
: upon 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 desc.
late, NC. Here Daniel himself regards
!. this abomination rs the cause of desola.
ton, and places It with the taking away
the daily sacrifice, and the desolation Of
the temple by the C@sars, which tool
d place under Titus Cesar, A. d., TO-
q Seeing, as we do, from Josephus and
other profane historians, that the daily
= sacrifice was taken away and the abomi
7 nation of desolation set up seventy -fou
o years after the beginning Of the spirit
lual reign of-Christ which fell in th'