There is no mention of a temple in Danel 9:27.
Well, let's see.
And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Verse 26 speaks about the city and the sanctuary. Verse 27 says that the sacrifice and the oblation will cease. Now, as a student of the Bible, what city, and what sanctuary, would fit the bill for the sacrifice and oblation verse 27 refers to?
Just in case we need help, Jesus himself spells it out:
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand)
The holy place is the sanctuary, spoken of by Daniel the prophet. Can you really build an argument that Daniel 9:27 doesn't mention a temple?
Now, you may ignore this common sense interpretation and insist that all this took place already, but if we continue reading the words of Jesus in Matthew 24, we come to this verse, where Jesus speaks of what will take place immediately after the abomination of desolation he told us to read about in Daniel:
For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
Great persecution will come on the Jews -- a persecution unlike any they had endured, or ever would. If this was the persecution that followed the destruction of the second temple and the sacking of Jerusalem shortly after the time of Jesus, and
that was the greatest tribulation of all time, according to the Bible, then where do you put the Holocaust?
I'm the kind of guy who enjoys things that make sense. In your interpretation of the Bible, there is a lot that doesn't make sense. Daniel wrote of a coming holocaust. Jesus Christ affirmed Daniel's words. Zechariah prophesied the same holocaust -- a time when two-thirds of the world's Jews would die. John wrote in Revelation of an end time war against the Jews, when they would flee to the desert and be shielded by God's hand. Isaiah, Jeremiah, Paul, Zechariah, Jesus and others all preached and wrote a consistent message about what will become of the Jews. They all tell parts of the same story.
None of what they say makes sense, though, unless you take the Bible literally and seriously when it predicts the following: In the latter days of this earth, God's people, Israel, will be regathered and judged. Most of them will die. The remnant that is left will accept Jesus Christ as the Messiah, and only then the children of Israel will be fully justified and complete in God's eyes (as Paul speaks of Romans, in the same passages fools use to try and prove that Christians are actually Jews). The prophecies of this gathering and refining of God's chosen people, the physical descendants of God's servant and friend Abraham, are woven throughout the Bible.
I know you have the pieces to this, but you need to put them together in the right way. People like
@phipps have a farther way to go, because their interpretation is heresy stacked on heresy -- if they change their position on a single thing, everything collapses. But you are closer, I think. When I finally accepted the Bible as it's plainly written, it was like an audible click in my head. Things I had studied my whole life were illuminated, like when a light shines behind a picture and you see detail clearly. It's not that I had it so wrong, it's just that there's so much more detail. God's prophecy is amazingly rich. I only want people to appreciate the glory of God's word as fully as they can while on this earth. Rightly dividing the Bible's prophecy enriches every part of our Bible study.
