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The book of Daniel is both familiar and unfamiliar to many Christians. The stories of the fiery furnace and Daniel in the lion’s den are the staples of children’s Bible story books and Sunday school classes. Yet the latter chapters of Daniel’s vision are more unfamiliar and daunting to most believers, who may have been exposed to a variety of end-times speculations constructed from an amalgam of...

Jerusalem and its rebuilt temple. On this approach, “the covenant” in verse 27 is a political agreement that the antichrist will make in those last days with some of the Jews, and he is the one who puts an end to the renewed sacrifices and offerings in these last days by destroying the Jerusalem temple, which will have been rebuilt by then. On the other hand, amillennial and postmillennial Christians believe that the covenant mentioned here is God’s new covenant with his people, inaugurated by the
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