The angle of Jesus’ vision changes, and the text looks ahead to the events leading up to AD 70. “The desolating (or appalling) sacrilege” (v. 14) is a famous phrase that goes back to Dan 9:27; 11:31; 12:11 and 1 Maccabees, where it speaks of an act of desecration that rendered the Jerusalem temple defiled. Specifically it was Antiochus’ trespass and sacrifice of a pig on Yahweh’s altar. It left the Jews horror-struck. We read on that after the Maccabean victory this defilement
Mark 13:14–23