The Cleansing of the Temple as anti-Zealot polemic

[Giuseppe]

If it is an anti-Zealot attack, then "Mark" (author) would agree with the Roman decision to destroy the Temple. The "cleansing" became a fact in 70 CE.

Remember that the Zealots of John of Gischala infested the Temple. Jesus is cleansing the temple against them.

[Giuseppe]

Hence this puts the pro-Roman Mark directly against the Book of Revelation, anti-Roman and pro-Zealot work.

[Giuseppe]

In Mark the "abomination of desolation" is therefore just Bar-Kokhba, i.e. the Jew who was only a step from the reconstruction of the Temple.

2 Thessalonians 2:3-7:

Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction. 4 He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

5 Don’t you remember that when I was with you I used to tell you these things? 6 And now you know what is holding him back, so that he may be revealed at the proper time. 7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way.

"The one who now holds Bar-Kokhba back" is the Roman Emperor.

[Giuseppe]

When Mark was writing, he feared still that the new Zealots would have reconstructed the Temple. Hence Mark wrote before the news of the defeat of Bar-Kokhba but after the news about the risk of a new insurrection in Judea.

Hence: some time around 120-130 CE.

[Charles Wilson]

In Mark the "abomination of desolation" is therefore just Bar-Kokhba

Josephus, Antiquities, 13, 14, 1 - 2 (in part):

SO Demetrius came with an army, and took those that invited him, and pitched his camp near the city Shechem; upon which Alexander, with his six thousand two hundred mercenaries, and about twenty thousand Jews, who were of his party, went against Demetrius, who had three thousand horsemen, and forty thousand footmen. Now there were great endeavors used on both sides, - Demetrius trying to bring off the mercenaries that were with Alexander, because they were Greeks, and Alexander trying to bring off the Jews that were with Demetrius. However, when neither of them could persuade them so to do, they came to a battle, and Demetrius was the conqueror; in which all Alexander's mercenaries were killed, when they had given demonstration of their fidelity and courage. A great number of Demetrius's soldiers were slain also.
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Now as Alexander fled to the mountains, six thousand of the Jews hereupon came together [from Demetrius] to him out of pity at the change of his fortune; upon which Demetrius was afraid, and retired out of the country; after which the Jews fought against Alexander, and being beaten, were slain in great numbers in the several battles which they had..."

Giuseppe --

I'm certain someone could come up a Consistent Story centered around Bar Kochba. IMHO, however, the elephant in the room is the matter of Josephus telling Lies about the particulars of the Battle around Shechem between Demetrius Eucerus and Jannaeus.

Josephus should know (I'm being kind here) that SHECHEM IS NEAR THE TEMPLE AT GERIZIM. To paraphrase De Gaulle, the time to pay homage to your enemy is when he is hanging from a rope. The idea that the Jewish Mercs took pity on Jannaeus is laughable. That it would force Demetrius to leave the country is beyond ridiculous. The minimum Explanation here is that the GREEK General Demetrius Eucerus committed the Abomination of Desolation, an echo of Daniel, and the sacrifice at Gerizim was so abhorrent to the Jewish Mercs that they went over to Jannaeus. The rest of the History sets up in Sequence and Type, through the Reign of Salome, including Revelation (See also: Luke 2: 36 - 38, "Hannah" <=> "Salome")

The Great Tribulation is shown to be from History, most probably Hasmonean History. The Story has been Transvalued.