Sounds reasonable that one could posit that Daniel was referring to the Jєωιѕн Temple ritual as the "continual sacrifice," because it was, after all, a prefigurement of the real one. I think many Church Fathers assumed that Daniel was talking about that. I think they were wrong. I think the continual sacrifice in Daniel refers to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
No reason to think they're wrong. As I said, most Fathers and commentators read Dan 12 fully about Antichrist only, and e.g. Douay-Rheims has a chapter title "... things relating to Antichrist, and the end of the world." They read the 1290/1335 days as starting from the point when under Antichrist the mass goes and the abomination comes.
But nobody is able to explain why the additional 45 days, and why those enduring them are called blessed (Dan 12:12). Has Christ already returned when the 45 days begin, and killed Antichrist "with the spirit of his mouth" and destroyed him "with the brightness of his coming" (2 Thess 2:8)?
Given, that at the end a "time shall come such as never was from the time that nations began even until that time" (Dan 12:1), "great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, neither shall be" (Mt 24:21), the 45 days may well refer to exactly that time. Blessed those, who are not devoured by Antichrist, and make these 45 days.
And this works, if we add to the obvious two events: "taking away of the mass" and "second coming of Christ" a third event "taking away of the jooish continual sacrifice". And there is anothor supporting fact: In the last week of the 70 weeks of Dan 9, "he shall confirm the covenant with many, in one week: and in the half of the week the victim and the sacrifice shall fail" (Dan 9:27). The covenant obviously is the New Covenant, and what fails, is the sacrifice of the Old Covenant.
And I disagree that the Mass was "taken away" in 1962. In fact, prior to Bergoglio forbidding public Mass during Covid (an unprecedented event), I don't think it happened. Jury is still out in my mind as to whether that was it or not.
I'm not sure about that either. The Canon of the mass was changed though (and therefore stopped to be a canon. Can't change the unchangeable). There are some pros:
1.) 66 years time of Antichrist (Dan 3:1: statue sixty cubits high, and six broad)
2.) exactly 66 years, no fractional part
3.) a reasonable third event needed to somehow understand the 1290/1335 of Dan 12:11-12
On the other hand, if you choose A.D. 1969 or A.D. 1970 for the taking away of the mass 3.) is given anyway.
In my mind, the Great Grandmaster of taking away the mass, and setting up an abomination instead, is clearly Montini, the one wearing the Ephod. But maybe it was Roncalli on December 8, 1962, during the first session of the Council, destroying the Canon. Bergoglio is just the 6th modernist = heretical antipope. He's the last one on this list of Babylonian emperors:
1) Nebuchadnezzar (Nabuchodonosor),
2) Evilmerodach (Jer 52:31, 2 Sam 25:27)
3) Neriglissar (son of Evilmerodach)
4) Labosordach (son of Neriglissar, Labashi-Marduk)
5) Nabonidus
6) Belshazzar (son of Nabonidus, Balthasar)
1) Roncalli
2) Montini
3) Luciani
4) Wojtyla
5) Ratzinger
6) Bergoglio
Talk about the 70 years after party, and the "writing on the wall" (Dan 5).
These lists are not meant very serious. But since you are trying to make the kings of Jerusalem match our contemporary
shepherds wolves, I felt urged to mention, that to me they appear more like those Babylonians. The kings in Jerusalem might better match the heads of the indult crowd.
I take the "days" of Daniel as actual 24-hour days. The only people I have seen that take "days" for "years" are Protestants (mostly Seventh Day Adventists). The "forty-two months" and 1260 days of the Apocalypse are similar to the Daniel time frames: all around 3.5 years. I attribute the differences in length of time of those days to the context of the starting and ending events.
It is true that one rarely finds a Catholic commentator, not taking the 1260 days and 42 months literally, and the 3 1/2 times correspondingly as 3 1/2 years.
But what you have is: some interpret the two witnesses (Rev 11) as the time of preaching of the Church, the two witnesses symbolizing OT and NT. (While others refer this to Elias and Enoch, or Elias and Moses, or Elias and ..., in the time of Antichrist.) In the first case you have 1260 days (Rev 11:3) meaning ~2000 years.
Or the woman in the wilderness in Rev 12:6 and again in Rev 12:14. The first time 1260 days, the second time 42 months. Some don't read this a recapitulation of one and the same event, but rather as 1260 days Church (~2000 years) followed by 42 months remnant in the desert.
And another reason to not take the 1260 days (42 months, ... ) literally: In the Apocalypse you have always 1260 days, and never 1290 or 1335. But there has to be a correspondence.
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