Christian Widener has written two books that give new insight into how most Christians view the Tribulation in Bible prophecy. They are: The Temple Revealed: The True Location of the Jewish Temple Hidden in Plain Sight and Witnessing the End: Daniel's Seventy Sevens and the Final Decree Everyone Missed. Because he is interested that people know this information, he has made both available on his website (https://endtimesberean.com) as free downloadable PDFs. His occupation as an engineer gives him a mindset that considers the possibilities when compared with the specifications in the Bible text and not according to the script of a Bible prophecy slideshow. The Abomination of Desolation is a vital event mentioned in both testaments that serves as a case in point.
“He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.' In the middle of the ‘seven' he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him.
Matthew 24:15-17
“So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand— then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let no one on the housetop go down to take anything out of the house. Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak.
In the Daniel verse, ‘He’ is the AntiChrist and the word ‘seven’ refers to seven years. The phrase ‘he will put an end to sacrifice and offering’ is where Widener brings a different approach. Many people have assumed that, to put an end to sacrifices, the sacrifices must already be going on. However, before a priest can do anything related to a sacrifice, he must be cleansed first by sprinkling with the ashes of a red heifer. This obscure ceremony is explained in the Torah in Numbers 19:3-9. Finding a perfect red heifer was difficult until a Jew from Israel and a farmer from Texas learned of each other. The Covid pandemic provided an excellent situation because these cows were not stapled with a tag in their ears, as is usually done, which would have made them unacceptable. A recent article in CBS News explains some of this:
“Instrumental in bringing the heifers to the Holy Land was Yitshak Mamo, of Uvne Jerusalem, a group committed to seeing a new temple built in Jerusalem's Old City…
"Any hair that isn't red would disqualify the cows from fulfilling their prophesied role. Finding the red heifers took years. The quest led Mamo not to Jewish breeders but to Christian ranchers thousands of miles away.
"After a long search, we found them in Texas," he said. "Texas red angus."
“A massive white altar awaits, where they are to be burned on a plot of land overlooking the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. Mamo said the ceremony must be performed looking directly into where the ancient Second Temple stood, [looking through the Eastern/Golden Gate] until it was destroyed by the Romans in the year 70.”
This Jewish Rabbinic website explains why the Mount of Olives is acceptable for sacrificing:
“As long as the Temple Mount is in eyeshot, the red heifer can be sacrificed anywhere on the Mount of Olives. The Mount of Olives is also called Har HaMishkah (the Mount of Anointing) and is considered “outside Jerusalem” (Mishna Middos 1:3)."
The horrific attack that occurred on October 7, 2023 was an attempt by the Muslims to prevent the sacrifice of the red heifer. It worked in that it stopped that from happening. According to Christian Widener, the events of October 7, fit the Abomination of Desolation prophecy perfectly: “then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let no one on the housetop go down to take anything out of the house. Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak.”
Widener says that we, the readers, should understand this current event in light of what happened, and not by our pre-conceived ideas. If he’s right, and I think he is, then that means we are in the Tribulation! Which brings me to Daniel’s Seventy Weeks, which has long been an interest of mine. Widener’s book Daniel's Seventy Sevens and the Final Decree Everyone Missed, is talking about a stone plaque written in Jerusalem by Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent commemorating the finishing of a plaza and moat. It has the intriguing date of 1537, which is 483 years before 2020! And we all know what happened then. He is relating the Corona virus to the crown on the rider of the white horse of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse! He’s right in that everyone missed that! He is essentially saying that there are TWO seventy-sevens. One for the first coming and one for the second coming. To learn more, read his books and check out the many interviews he’s done on YouTube, with folks like Janie Duvall.
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