THE BIBLE & GREECE: THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. The Bible And Greece
a) The Old Testament, although completed before the time of the Greek empire, speaks of it predictably in prophecy.
b The New Testament, although written after the time of the Greek empire, is still influenced by it because Greek culture lived on strongly even after the empire fell. The Greek language was chosen by God as the tongue in which every book of the New Testament was written. The New Testament sometimes even calls all non-Jews "the Greeks" because in New Testament times a lot of the world spoke Greek and borrowed its culture.
2. The Abomination Of Desolation
The angel says that later an arrogant king would arise who would destroy God’s people (Daniel 8:8-14, 22-25). History tells us that, in the 153rd Olympiad (167 BC) Antiochus Epiphanes (the name means god manifest) persecuted the Jews. He robbed the temple treasures, set up idolatrous abominations in the temple, flogged and crucified thousands of Jews. The Jews dubbed him "Epimanes" (madman). No wonder the sons of Zion would be stirred! (Zechariah 9:13). This foreshadowed another (even worse) persecution and destruction which the Romans would perpetrate over 200 years later, in AD 70 (Daniel 9:26-27, Matthew 24:15-22).
The End ...
1. The Bible And Greecea) The Old Testament, although completed before the time of the Greek empire, speaks of it predictably in prophecy.
b The New Testament, although written after the time of the Greek empire, is still influenced by it because Greek culture lived on strongly even after the empire fell. The Greek language was chosen by God as the tongue in which every book of the New Testament was written. The New Testament sometimes even calls all non-Jews "the Greeks" because in New Testament times a lot of the world spoke Greek and borrowed its culture.
2. The Abomination Of Desolation
The angel says that later an arrogant king would arise who would destroy God’s people (Daniel 8:8-14, 22-25). History tells us that, in the 153rd Olympiad (167 BC) Antiochus Epiphanes (the name means god manifest) persecuted the Jews. He robbed the temple treasures, set up idolatrous abominations in the temple, flogged and crucified thousands of Jews. The Jews dubbed him "Epimanes" (madman). No wonder the sons of Zion would be stirred! (Zechariah 9:13). This foreshadowed another (even worse) persecution and destruction which the Romans would perpetrate over 200 years later, in AD 70 (Daniel 9:26-27, Matthew 24:15-22).
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