JETS 29:1 (March 1986) p. 26 The real reason why the Roman view came to the ascendancy in New Testament times is due to 2 facts: 1) Our Lord identified Himself as the Son of Man, the heavenly figure of Daniel 7, and connected the “abomination of desolation” with the future destruction of the Temple (e.g., Mt. 24); 2) Paul used the language of Daniel 7 to describe the Antichrist, and the book of Revelation employed the symbolism of Daniel 7 to refer to powers that were then existent and future.4