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This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897.

While it is true that there are many abominations listed in the Old Testament, the one crowning abomination which was explicitly linked to the desolation of Jerusalem was the persistant Jewish failure to keep holy the Sabbath day. In Matthew 24, Jesus himself pointed to the Abomination of Desolation spoken of by "Daniel the prophet". Daniel records his comment about the Abomination which makes desolate and points back to the writings of Jeramiah. In Jeramiah 17, he is told that if the Jews only would keep the Sabbath holy, Jerusalem would never fall, but if they persistantly failed to keep it, they could not prevent its fall. In Christs day, they were painfully aware of this failure and it had led to countless man-made laws to protect the Sabbath. These man-made commands were not in harmony with Christ's teaching however and he went out of His way to demonstrate this, while at the same time He Himself kept the Sabbath perfectly. Later at the time of the siege of Jerusalem by Titus, no Christian was killed. The reason was they saw the Roman standards set up honoring the Sun God mithra. They knew that worship on the Sunday, was a tribute to mithra. When Titus soldiers pulled back, the Christians left. Today we face a similar dilema. Much of the world has abandoned the keeping of the Sabbath, in favor of the Sunday. The last question to be faced by the modern world will be who to obey, God, or Man.