The Kings of the South and the North
Daniel 11:31 "And arms shall stand on 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 desolate."
take away the... This is not the same as cutting off the daily sacrifices and setting up the abomination of desolation by the future Antichrist (Dan. 8:9-14; 9:27; 12:7; Mat. 24:15; Rev. 13:1-18). There have already been over 2,100 years since Antiochus caused this abomination of desolation (1Macc. 1:44-50).
This was an attempt to stop the worship of God. They would immediately stop the daily sacrificing and worshipping of the One True God. Antiochus had forbidden daily sacrifices.
They, probably, erected an altar of Jupiter in the place, where the daily sacrifices had previously been made.
In seeking to exterminate Judaism and to Hellenize the Jews, he forbade the Jews to follow their religious practices (including their festivals and circumcision), and commanded that copies of the Law be burned. Then he set up the abomination that causes desolation. In this culminating act he erected on December 16, 167 b.c. an altar to Zeus on the altar of burnt offering outside the temple, and had a pig offered on the altar. The Jews were compelled to offer a pig on the 25th of each month to celebrate Antiochus Epiphanes’ birthday.
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