Abomination of Desolation
Daniel 12:7,11 discusses how 3.5 years will be the period of time from when the daily sacrifices are stopped until the abomination of desolation. This aligns with the 42 months that the Beast is allowed to speak blasphemy.
Daniel 9:11 discusses what happens with Antiochus Epiphanes — 1 Macc 1:34-37, the setup of a statue to Zeus in the temple — but also prophesies what will ultimately happen in Revelation. This would be the second temple (Nehemiah/Ezra’s temple1) as Manasseh, at this point, had already desecrated the first temple (Solomon’s temple) by setting up an alter to a false god. The third temple is the one that is described to be desecrated in Revelation.
There they installed a sinful race, transgressors of the law, who fortified themselves inside it. They stored up weapons and provisions, depositing there the plunder they had collected from Jerusalem, and they became a great snare. The citadel became an ambush against the sanctuary, and a wicked adversary to Israel at all times. They shed innocent blood around the sanctuary; they defiled the sanctuary.
New Testament
Mat 24:15-21 ESV 15 “So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand), 16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17 Let the one who is on the housetop not go down to take what is in his house, 18 and let the one who is in the field not turn back to take his cloak. 19 And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days! 20 Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath. 21 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.
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Footnotes
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Note, Herod’s temple simply a renovation built upon the second temple. ↩