The Abomination of Desolation's true form when its shell is shattered.
| “ | The Abomination is a physical manifestation of everything that the holy types see as filthy. The biggest one of them is Paganism. And just like how Paganism is viewed in the eyes of Christians, the Abomination is gonna do nothin' but devour and destroy anythin' in its bloody wake. | „ |
| ~ John Constantine |
| “ | …when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place… then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let the one who is on the housetop not go down to take what is in his house, and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak. And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath. For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be. | „ |
| ~ Mark 13:14 |
The Abomination of Desolation is both an event as well as an entity or individual that appears in the Book of Daniel and the New Testament respectively. According to John Constantine, the Abomination is said to be the living incarnation of how paganism is viewed in the eyes of Christians.
Description[]
The Abomination takes physical shape when Paganism is practiced within Churches, where sacrificial rituals involving a human and animal takes place beneath its grounds, tainting and corrupting the faith one has towards God. Once complete, the Abomination assumes a "falsified" form that has the appearance of a large golden statue in the shape of a strong man resembling the Greek god Zeus with several cracks along its form. However, once the shell is broken, it is in fact a metamorphic mass of writhing and festering worms that can corrupt and dissolve anything in its path. This form of the Abomination is a representation of hatred, rage, and disgust one has towards a religion that is not their own.
Overview[]
From what John Constantine claims, the Abomination of Desolation originated when Antiochus IV, the king of the Greek Seleucid dynasty which then ruled Palestine, put an end to the daily sacrifice of a lamb on the altar of God 167 BCE. Antiochus Epiphanies set up an altar to Zeus over the altar of burnt offerings in the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. He also sacrificed a pig on the altar in the Temple in Jerusalem. He further reveals that with each sacrifice, "worms of blood and ruin" would emerge from the carcass and infect the practitioners until it became so desecrated that the people of Judea marked it as a demonic temple and fled to the mountains.
Immanuel intervened by eradicating the temple and all that was within it though the worms were able to escape by seeking refuge inside the statue of Zeus. The statue was unearthed by expeditionists and brought over to the Vatican museums in Rome but this only served to further the goals of the Illuminati who had agents in Rome begin the heinous ritual to awaken the Abomination of Desolation inside the statue, and awaken it they did. The Abomination rampaged within the underbellies of Rome, consuming devout Christians and Papists but fled upon being overwhelmed by the Vatican's Special Forces.
Biblical Accounts[]
The Book of Daniel describes the Abomination as an event that occurred where pagan rituals were performed within a temple of Jerusalem and in the New Testament is described by Jesus to be an entity that takes shape by the Antichrist for performing the same pagan ritual.
The New Testament shows Jesus foretelling a similar event that will occur by the hands of the Antichrist. It begins with Jesus in the temple informing his disciples that "not one stone here will be left on another, all will be thrown down;" the disciples ask when this will happen, and in Mark 13:14 Jesus tells them: "When you see the abomination of desolation standing where he ought not to be, then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains..." Mark's terminology is drawn from Daniel, but he places the fulfillment of the prophecy in his own day, underlining this in Mark 13:30 by stating that "this generation will not pass away before all these things take place." While Daniel's "abomination" was probably a pagan altar or sacrifice, the grammar in Mark uses a masculine participle for "standing", indicating a concrete historical person: several candidates have been suggested, but the most likely is Titus.
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