<P> Most modern scholars have concluded that Matthew 24: 15 and Mark 13: 14 are prophecies after the event about the siege of Jerusalem in AD 70 by the Roman general Titus, after the First Jewish Revolt, and subsequent destruction of the Jewish Temple . </P> <P> Some scholars, including Hermann Detering, see these verses as a vaticinium ex eventu about Emperor Hadrian's attempt to install the statue of Jupiter Capitolinus on the site of the ruined Jewish Temple in Jerusalem leading to the Bar Kokhba revolt of 132 - 135 AD . </P> <P> Preterists believe that Jesus quoted this prophecy in Mark 13: 14 as referring to an event in his 1st century disciples' immediate future, such as the siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD . </P> <P> One commentator relates the prophecy to the actions of Caligula c. 40 AD when he ordered that a golden statue depicting himself as Zeus incarnate be set up in the Temple in Jerusalem . This prospect however, never came to fruition since he was assassinated in 41 AD along with his wife and daughter . </P>

The abomination of desolation in the book of daniel