The Western Wall bit that we see today wasn't even part of the Temple, but the outside wall around the whole complex. Guess the Romans were running out of places to throw stones. Between them and the later Muslims, who also filled in and built over the ruins of Jerusalem, they certainly created desolation. The Western Wall continues underground a long way under the "new" constructions. It took winning the 6 Days War for excavations under Jerusalem to be done, to figure out a lot of these changes and find lost sites like the Pool of Siloam and a surprising number of cisterns that apparently were for Temple use. Plenty of candidates for what exactly was the "abomination." To me it seems like it would be the destruction of the Temple and all that went with it, but maybe it was more metaphysical, like the way of violence.
Well if you've read the Left Behind series, "the abomination" was when the AntiChrist marched into the newly rebuilt temple and declared himself to be God.
There are a lot of people who believe none of what has already happened fulfilled these prophecies. There are others who believe all this was fulfilled already, and still other who say prophecies have more than one meaning, and all of this was fulfilled, but will still happen again. Given the antiquity of the documents recording the prophecies it is difficult to judge who's right.
Altho Jesus did say "this generation shall not pass" before all was fulfilled, so it seems like events prior to the 2nd century AD are good candidates
There is a lot of speculation that the paving over of the temple mount marked the "abomination that makes desolation" prophesied in Revelations
The Western Wall bit that we see today wasn't even part of the Temple, but the outside wall around the whole complex. Guess the Romans were running out of places to throw stones. Between them and the later Muslims, who also filled in and built over the ruins of Jerusalem, they certainly created desolation. The Western Wall continues underground a long way under the "new" constructions. It took winning the 6 Days War for excavations under Jerusalem to be done, to figure out a lot of these changes and find lost sites like the Pool of Siloam and a surprising number of cisterns that apparently were for Temple use. Plenty of candidates for what exactly was the "abomination." To me it seems like it would be the destruction of the Temple and all that went with it, but maybe it was more metaphysical, like the way of violence.
Well if you've read the Left Behind series, "the abomination" was when the AntiChrist marched into the newly rebuilt temple and declared himself to be God. There are a lot of people who believe none of what has already happened fulfilled these prophecies. There are others who believe all this was fulfilled already, and still other who say prophecies have more than one meaning, and all of this was fulfilled, but will still happen again. Given the antiquity of the documents recording the prophecies it is difficult to judge who's right. Altho Jesus did say "this generation shall not pass" before all was fulfilled, so it seems like events prior to the 2nd century AD are good candidates
Most prophecies are only recognized in hindsight. Plenty of candidates for the AntiChrist too. Bible datefagging is pretty hopeless.