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said unto that certain saint which spake, How



             long  shall  be  the  vision  concerning  the  daily


             sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to


             give  both  the  sanctuary  and  the  host  to  be


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             trodden  under  foot?  And  he  said  unto  me,


             Unto  two  thousand  and  three  hundred  days;


             then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.”  Do you


             know what this passage is talking about?  Listen



             to me, church.  The context of this passage is


             referring to the earthly sanctuary in Jerusalem at


             this time and not the heavenly sanctuary. The



             2,300  days  are  days  and  not  years.   And  the


             sanctuary was desecrated by the activities of the


             little horn of verse 9, and the little horn of verse



             9  is  Antiochus  Epiphanes,  the  Assyrian  who


             outlawed Jewish religion and offered a pig on


             the altar outside the temple two centuries before


             Jesus Christ came.  The cleansing of the temple



             took place under Judas Maccabees in December





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