The Abomination of Desolation

1. Jeremiah 44:22 (Whole Chapter)
   So the LORD could no longer bear it, because of the evil of your doings and because of the abominations which ye have committed. Therefore your land is a desolation, and an astonishment and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.

Here Jeremiah says that it's an act that is an abomination, and this act of abomination will cause your land to become a desolation.

1. Matthew 24:15 (Whole Chapter)
   "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),

Here Jesus says that when we see the abomination of desolation {spoken of by Daniel the prophet} standing in the Holy place.

And in Daniel;12-11, "And from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days.

What is the abomination, spoken of by the prophet Daniel? All this says is when the abomination is set up, but it doen't say what it is. So what is it ? I have ask ths question to many Bible thumpers and I have gotten many different answers. So I ask God to explain this to me, and this is what I saw.

   ¹Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
   
   ²Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem, that the king and his princes, his wives, and his concubines might drink therein.
   
   ³Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his princes, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.
   
   ⁴They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
   
   ⁵In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote opposite the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
   
   ⁶Then the king's countenance was changed and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed and his knees smote one against another.
   
   ⁷The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon, "Whosoever shall read this writing and show me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom."
   
   ⁸Then came in all the king's wise men; but they could not read the writing, nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof.
   
   ⁹Then was King Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance was changed in him, and his lords were dismayed.
   
   ¹⁰Now the queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house. And the queen spoke and said, "O king, live for ever! Let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed.

Here is one form of abomination, which left Belshazzar in great desolation, and this is what happened to him, that did the Abominable.
   
   ¹⁸O thou king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom, and majesty and glory and honor.
   
   ¹⁹And for the majesty that He gave him, all people, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whomever he would he slew; and whomever he would he kept alive; and whomever he would he set up; and whomever he would he put down.
   
   ²⁰But when his heart was lifted up and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him.
   
   ²¹And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses. They fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he knew that the Most High God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that He appointeth over it whomsoever He will.
   
   ²²And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart though thou knewest all this,
   
   ²³but hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven. And they have brought the vessels of His house before thee, and thou and thy lords, thy wives, and thy concubines have drunk wine from them; and thou hast praised the gods of silver and gold, of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not nor hear nor know. And the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified.
   
   ²⁴"Then was the part of the hand sent from Him, and this writing was written.
   
   ²⁵And this is the writing that was written: Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin.
   
   ²⁶This is the interpretation of the thing. Mene: God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
   
   ²⁷Tekel: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
   
   ²⁸Peres: Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians."
   
   ²⁹Then commanded Belshazzar, and they clothed Daniel with scarlet and put a chain of gold about his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
   
   ³⁰In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain.
   
   ³¹And Darius the Mede took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.
   
Johhny Cash sang an old song about this, some of this song went like this.

You've been wieghed in the balance and found wanting, your kingdom is divided can not stand, You've been wieghed in the balance and found wanting, your houses were built upon the sand.

MENE,MENE,TEKEL,UPHARSIN.
MENE,;God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it.
MENE;;God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it.
TEKEL;You have been weighed in the balances and found wanting;
UPHERSIN;[Peres, means divided]; Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the Meads and Persians.

Daniel;5-30,That very night Belshazzar,king of the Chaldians, was slain.
31, And Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about sixty-two years old.

Chapter 5 is the only chapter in which Belshazzar is mentioned. The book of Daniel went from Nebuchadnezzar to Belshazzar to Darius, and only Belshazzar did the thing that God hated most. Which was taking His vessels of gold and toasting to other god's with them.

This is the abomination that Daniel spoke of, and it will happen again, and when we see it, we should know that the end is near. But what will be, or who shall do the abomination? I don't know. Just maybe it'll be when Iran and Israel make the peace tready they are working on right now, with Condalezza Rice and others. And they'll set down in Jerusalem and have their great feast.

Jesus said -For when they say peace and safety, then shall come sudden destruction.
This is what happened to Belshazzar, will it happen again? Only time will tell.