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Below is one way it could happen. The following narrative is based on scripture with
some imagination filling in the holes!
The "Abomination of Desolation"
by Bill Perkins
In the middle of the 7 year Tribulation period, a chain of events takes place
that the entire world will watch—ending with the desecration of the newly rebuilt
Jewish Temple.
The Rapture had stunned the world. And out of the chaos that
followed that ear splitting event, one man’s voice rose above all others
as he outlined immediate solutions to save the planet. In the post-
Rapture vacuum, the world was on the brink of total collapse and he
was the only person making any sense. (1 Cor 15:51,52, 1 Thess 4:14-17.)
Using deft reasoning, uncanny negotiating skills and a polished tongue,
the “man-out-of-nowhere” did something no previous world leader had
been able to achieve—he brought the Arabs and the Jews together in a
peace agreement, even if it was only for a seven-year time period. (Dan 8:23; 9:27.)
Thus began the 3 1/2 year rise in power of a New World Leader that
was spectacularly stunning, to say the least. Beginning with a
lightening-speed negotiation for the seven-year/ten-nation peace treaty
—stopping Israel from annihilating her Arab neighbors—the world
governments gave him more and more authority until he was able to
implement his ideas and programs without opposition. (Dan 9:27; 7:24; Zech 12:6.)
His brash oratory, genius military tact and brilliant economic policies
had the world following his every command in lock-step. In just a few
years he had mesmerized humanity as he garnered complete control of
almost every facet of human life on earth. (Dan 7:8; 8:23-25; Dan 11:21, 23, 24.)
Most of the people on earth were believing/hoping this man could bring
the world back from the catastrophic effects of the Rapture and
subsequent nuclear wars. Almost everything he did worked like a
charm. (Zech 12:6.)
But there was one problem he could not seem to solve . . . the
problematic effects of the “Two Witnesses” who showed up in Israel the
same day the seven-year peace treaty was signed. (Rev 11:3.)
These two weirdly dressed guys (they looked like they were wearing
burlap bags sewn together) seemed to have dropped in from outer space,
causing a great sensation within Israel. (Rev 11:3.)
Claiming to be Elijah from the Old Testament and John from the New
Testament, they self-proclaimed themselves to be the prophetic “Two
Witnesses” described in Revelation 11.
These Two Witnesses backed up their claims with supernatural powers
and the fact nothing could harm them in any way. But it wasn't until
they showed Temple Mount excavators the location of the long lost Ark
of the Covenant that they began to be considered truly authentic.
(Rev 11:3; Mal 4:5; John 21:21-23; Rev 10:11; Rev 11:5,6.)
In the post-rapture world, void of the indwelling presence of the Holy
Spirit, these Two Witnesses claiming to be sent from God were anything
but accepted to those living outside of Israel. Not all that many Jews
wanted to have anything to do with the State of Israel, much less return
to the Jewish homeland. But using their extraordinary powers, they seemed
unstoppable in their openly brazen mission to get every living Jew back to
the land of Israel. (Rev 11.)
Basically, the entire world loathed Israel. She had discovered the
largest oil reservoir in the world beneath her borders. She was
completely independent, prosperous and militarily monstrous. (Ezek 37:10)
But despite all that success, not many Jews around the world were enticed
to move to Israel. Rather, all but a few preferred to remain in their
known environments and not travel to the newly peace-treaty-protected
State of Israel. (Zech 12:3; Ezek 37:10; Ezek 38:12.)
Eventually every living breathing Jew in the world would be back in
Israel. This is because the Two Witnesses had the power to stop the
rain in any area where Jews were refusing to leave, and that they did.
Of course, this caused even more dissension between the world and the
Jews. (Rev 11:6, Is 11:11.)
To make matters worse, if the droughts didn’t work, the two witnesses
contaminated the lakes and rivers of the area. And if even that didn’t
work, they pronounced plagues on the area that would arrive in short
order, infuriating the local population of the targeted areas. (Rev 11:6.)
Not surprisingly, it wasn’t long before the world was hunting down and
air-freighting every Jew they could find to Israel. It was the only way to
stop the plagues. But the hatred of the Jews was cemented, and after
over three years of dealing with these two characters, the world, and
especially the New World Leader, was universally driven to eliminate
them.
Several attempts were made by individuals to kill the Two Witnesses,
but in what could only be described as “fire shooting from their
mouths,” they literally scorched all attackers to death.
"And if anyone desires to harm them, fire proceeds out
of their mouth and devours their enemies" Rev. 11:5
So as time wore on and patience wore thin, the New World Leader
couldn’t delay any longer ridding the world of these two menaces.
Between the plagues, droughts and poisoning of the water sources, they
were a royal pain to all. He had to act or lose face. (Rev 11:10.)
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Using his unlimited resources and intelligence, the New World Leader
plotted to kill the two witnesses. A cleverly disguised meeting was
arranged with the New World Leader and the two witnesses in
Jerusalem. (Rev 11:7.)
The New World Leader had negotiated to allow 100,000 of his troops to
be in Jerusalem, purportedly to be the buffer for the still-seething Arab
population. And the tension between the Two Witnesses and him,
operating out of the same town, was acrid. Regardless, he asked for and
received a meeting with the Two Witnesses.
The plan was simple. The New World Leader would meet them at the highly
secure King David Hotel near the Old City, purportedly to discuss how he
could help them find the few remaining Jews hiding around the world. But
then he would abruptly step outside the meeting room so a bomb could be
exploded, ending the Two Witnesses’ lives. (Rev 11:7.)
But, as had happened with each of the others in the past who tried to
harm or kill the Two Witnesses, instead it was the New World Leader
who was killed. As he approached the Two Witnesses in the lobby, before
he could even open his mouth to even greet them, molten lava-like fire shot
out of their mouths, consuming his head and upper body as well as killing
several people in his entourage. There was no reviving the New World
Leader. (Rev 11:5.)
This bizarre event brought grief to the entire world as they mourned
the loss of the man in whom so much hope had rested. Israel, not
wanting to be blamed for or connected to the acts of the Two Witnesses,
arranged to secure the body and prepare to send it back to Syria, his
home country. (Mic 5:5,6)
But he didn’t stay dead.
Three days later, the world was still in complete agony trying to grasp
the fact their great leader had died. In Jerusalem, with billions of eyes
watching on television, Israeli personnel began moving the body from
the hospital to the airport in order to fly it back to Syria. (Mic 5:5,6.)
News cameras were showing live coverage as the coffin came into view,
exiting the hospital and being carefully rolled to the waiting hearse only
a few feet away. Then, with all eyes on the coffin, the unthinkable
happened. The thought-to-be-dead leader pushed open the closed casket
and his body emerged . . . slowly rising upward. The whole world
watched . . . he was alive! (Rev 11:7.)
Trying to grasp the obvious, everyone was stunned as the man
struggled to climb out of his casket using only one arm, the other
withered and useless. Then a woman’s scream pierced the quietness as
his hugely disfigured and blackened face became visible. Only one eye
was visible—in fact, the entire right side of his face was unrecognizable.
(Zech 11:17, Rev 13:3.)
The entire world watched this incredible event on television, transfixed
on his every movement, trying to understand what they were seeing.
Several men scurried to his side, holding him upright. Then, looking
straight into the network cameras beaming to the world, with a clear
and booming voice, he declared:
“You have heard that the Messiah would be dead for three
days and rise again . . . I am the Messiah!”
Within moments, he was directing his dumbfounded but quickly
reassembling staff to take him to the Old City of Jerusalem where the
Two Witnesses were living. Entering through the Dung gate with news
cameras following, he met the Two Witnesses coming out of the Western
Wall area.
With his good arm raised and a single verbal command, the Two
Witnesses, who had tormented the earth for years, were struck down in
what looked and sounded like a great flash of lightning, even though
the skies were clear. (Rev 11:7.)
The newly risen-from-the-dead New World Leader did what no other
human could do—he finally killed the torturous witnesses. Television
coverage of them lying dead in the streets of Jerusalem sent the world
into celebration! (Rev 11:10.)
The bodies of the dead witnesses were left in the Wailing Wall Plaza for
the world to see and appreciate what the New World leader was able to
accomplish. It was proof he had his own supernatural strength. He also
had a sign put in front of the crumpled bodies: “Here are the dead
JEWISH witnesses.” (Rev 11:9.)
Throngs of people surrounded the bodies, singing, chanting and joyously
celebrating their deaths. Israel decided she had better wait for the
emotion to subside before she gathered up the bodies for burial. (Rev 11:9.)
The New World Leader spent the next couple of days reassembling his
staff—talking and meeting with world leaders, again solidifying his
iron-grip control. All countries except Israel. Israeli leaders seemed to
have every scheduled meeting with him cancelled at the last moment
without warning.
The peace agreement was only half-way through the seven-year deal,
and some Israeli leaders even warned that it seemed the dearly loved
peace was in jeopardy. But to a country willing to do almost anything to
keep peace, those voices of concern were ignored. (Dan 9:27.)
After three days the huge crowds did eventually begin to subside a bit,
and Israel used that opportunity to announce she would now remove
the bodies of the Two Witnesses. The major television networks, seeing
a ratings opportunity, were able to get the New World Leader to come
to the Plaza area for an interview.
With national television cameras rolling, the networks beamed video of
the victorious New World Leader smugly discussing why the world
would now be a better place because he had killed the Two Witnesses.
Just over his left shoulder behind him, you could still see them lying in
the street.
"And after the three and a half days the breath of life
from God came into them, and they stood on their feet;
and great fear fell upon those who were beholding them."
Rev. 11:11
And as if on cue, without the New World Leader realizing what was
happening, the Two Witnesses’ lifeless bodies began to stir, straighten,
then roll to their knees and stand up! (Rev 11:11.)
Cameras quickly cut away and zoomed in on the Two Witnesses
standing in the Plaza. They seemed to be perfectly normal as their faces
peered hauntingly at anyone making eye contact.
To say a great fear fell on the people would be an understatement. It
was wholesale panic and mass exodus as the terror-stricken crowd fled
from the Plaza. Within seconds, the Two Witnesses began rising up
slowly into the air while the world watched live on television! When
they were five to six hundred feet up, it was obvious to all that they
were heading to the sky above and weren’t coming back. (Rev 11:11,12.)
When the New World Leader realized the Two Witnesses were alive and
being taken up into the sky, he immediately began moving his growing
entourage up the western entrance to the Temple Mount where in the
newly rebuilt Jewish Temple stood and daily animal sacrifices were being made.
The new Jewish Temple was located just north of the Muslim Dome of the
Rock, which was north of the newly built “World Church.” The daily
animal sacrifices were permitted under the seven-year treaty. (Dan 9:27.)
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No one knew where the New World Leader was going or what he was
going to do. Walking to the east of the World Church and the Dome of
the Rock with the Mount of Olives on his right across the Kidron Valley,
he seemed to gain strength and speed with every step.
As this New World Leader moved, a strange sense of extraordinary
power exuded in the air around him. No one stood in his way, everyone
moved aside. Coming to the entrance of the Jewish Temple, without
hesitating he walked boldly inside.
Inside the Temple compound walls he moved through the Women’s
Court, up the 15 steps to the Court of Israel where animal sacrifices
were taking place. In a stunning violation of the seven year treaty, he
barked orders for the sacrifices to cease and for all Jews on the Temple
Mount to be arrested. (Dan 9:27, 11:31.)
He walked briskly past the altar and toward the actual Temple
building. Without hesitation, he went inside the Temple, live cameras
still following his every move. No one knew what was going to happen,
but everyone sensed SOMETHING big was about to go down.
Walking through the front entrance of the Temple building, he moved
quickly past the table of incense, golden table of showbread and the
gold, six-foot-high menorah, whose flames gave light to the room. He
stopped briefly at the massive curtain in the back of the room behind
which was the Holy of Holies, the most sacred spot in the world to the
Jews. (2Chron 5:7.)
". . . who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called
god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the
temple of God, displaying himself as being God." 2 Th 2:3-4
Getting a little help from some of his staff, he pulled back the six-inch-
thick curtain and entered the Holy of Holies— standing directly in front
of the Ark of the Covenant. With the world glued to his every move on
their televisions, he turned, lifted his good arm and declared
emphatically,
“I am God. I am your salvation. Worship me and have life!” (Matt 24:15.)
A nervousness filled the room, as people wondered just exactly what
that statement meant. He then ordered his staff to set up a working
office in the Temple. It appeared he wanted a throne-like look to all who
entered the room, and it was obvious he wanted to manage the world
from this temple location. (2Thes 2:3-4.)
He was the risen New World Leader, but he was not the same man.
Something was hugely different. His voice was different . . . lower and
raspy, assumedly due to the scorching he received. And he seemed to
care less about being politically correct and instead was demanding out-
and-out worship! (Dan 11:36,37; Rev 13: 2,4)
As the Temple was being readied to handle his operation, he invited
reporters inside to see the progress. Sitting on the makeshift “throne”
he dropped the biggest bombshell yet, declaring:
“All of our problems are due to the Jews. When we kill the Jews, we can get the
world back like it used to be. I killed the two witnesses, now everyone hearing
my voice will be blessed for each Jew killed. Find and kill them all now!”
Then all hell broke loose. It was the worst day in the history of the
Jews. (Matt 24:21.)
". . . flee to the mountains . . ." Luke 21:21
When the images of the New World Leader sitting in the Temple
flashed on the television screen in Israel, millions of Jews dropped
everything they were doing and ran for their lives. (Matt 24:15; Mark 13:14.)
Because the Jews in Israel had been publicly debating and discussing
the New Testament for the last 3 1/2 years, due to both the Two
Witnesses pointing to Jesus and 144,000 other Jews who had been
marked by God, they nervously watched for any signs for the prophetic
fulfillment of the “Abomination of Desolation.” (Dan 12:3, Rev 11:3; Rev 7:1-4; 14:1.)
“Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation . . . standing in the
holy place . . . then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains; let him who is
on the housetop not go down to get the things out that are in his house; and let him
who is in the field not turn back to get his cloak. . . . for then there will be a great
tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor
ever shall.” Matt. 24:15-21
For 3 1/2 years, the efforts of the Two Witnesses had caused virtually
all the 15 million Jews in the world to be in Israel. Israelis were
crammed to overflowing, into every available lodging space. (Rev 11:3.)
Tent cities were created just north of Tiberias and south of Tel Aviv, to
temporarily house almost a million people as they waited for housing to
be built. The 50% increase in population caused literal grid-lock each
day in Jerusalem.
To make matters worse, only a few seconds after the image of the New
World Leader standing in the Temple flashed across television screens,
a huge earthquake jolted everyone off their feet. Emanating from
directly under the Old City, the 9.8 quake shook the ground so hard it
leveled 10% of the buildings and cut off all electricity. Chaos ensued.
(Rev 11:13.)
So, even though the Abomination prophecy was on the forefront of most
Jew’s minds, the swiftness by which it was fulfilled and the inability to
travel except by foot caught almost all Jews by deadly surprise.
It was the most horrible blood-bath imaginable. Having given up their
guns in the peace treaty, it was easy pickings for the New World
Leader’s forces. 10 million Jews were massacred in one day in Israel.
(Matt 24:21; Zech 13:8.)
A hundred thousand of the New World Leader’s forces hunted down
every breathing Jew. Only 1/3 of the Jewish population, five million,
escaped out of the New World Leader’s hand—with just the clothes on
their backs. (Zech 13:8.)
Those who fled west, north and east were all killed. Only those who fled
south had any chance to escape, and then only if they made it into the
rugged mountains southeast of Jerusalem.
Gathering in the area known as ancient Edom, near Bozrah, the fleeing
Jews holed up in what is today known as Petra, thus ending the first 3
1/2 years of Tribulation. Cut off from their homeland and stripped of
every material possession, five million people could only cower and wait
in the wilderness. (Is 63:1; Rev 12:6,14, Is 2:10, 19, 21.)
Bill Perkins is the founder and Executive Director of Compass International, Inc. He recently
recorded a DVD entitled "Seven Years of Hell on Earth," covering the entire seven year
Tribulation period. You can order this DVD for a donation of any amount. Click Here
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