Daniel 12:11

Now the divine messenger conceded to Daniel’s request and provided a little more information. However, as these things were unclear to Daniel, many of them still are for most interpreters today, including myself.

The Lord measured the time between the end, presumably the end of the Tribulation, and the time that the Antichrist will terminate Jewish sacrifices and desecrate the temple (cf. Matthew 24:15). It will be 1,290 days. This is 30 days longer than the three and one-half years previously mentioned (Daniel 12:7; cf. Daniel 7:25; Revelation 11:2; Revelation 12:6; Revelation 12:14; Revelation 13:5). Consequently, the extra month must involve time before the three and one-half years, after it, or both.

Perhaps Antichrist will terminate the sacrifices and desecrate the temple 30 days before the middle of the seventieth "week." This interpretation, which I prefer, views the explanation in this verse as more specific and the one in Daniel 9:27 as a general description. [Note: Cf. Archer, "Daniel," p. 156.] A similar view is that the Antichrist may announce the termination of sacrifices and the setting up of the abomination 30 days before he carries out those acts. [Note: Pentecost, "Daniel," p. 1374.] Another option is that there will be a 30-day period between the time when Antichrist abolishes the regular sacrifice and the time when he sets up the abomination of desolation. A fourth possibility is that the 30 days will extend beyond the last three and one-half years. [Note: Walvoord, Daniel . . ., p. 295; Showers, pp. 57-58; Feinberg, pp. 186-87; Whitcomb, p. 168; Campbell, p. 142; Ironside, pp. 235-36; Dyer, in The Old . . ., p. 720; and Culver, "Daniel," p. 799.] It will include the cleansing of the temple and possibly the judgments of Israel and the nations that Christ will execute when He returns (Ezekiel 20:34-38; Matthew 25:31-46).