"And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken

away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be
a thousand two hundred and ninety days." Dan. 12:11.
The Hebrew word translated "daily" is tamid.

508 AD
The Taking Away of
the Daily~
and
the Setting Up of the
Abomination of Desolation

"As to the meaning of tamid in this passage three main views

have been held:
"1. That the 'daily' refers exclusively to the sacrifices offered
in the Temple in Jerusalem. Some expositors holding to this view
apply the taking away of the 'daily' to the interruption of the Temple
service by Antiochus Epiphanes ... Others apply it to the desolation
of the Temple by the Romans in A.D. 70.
"2. That the 'daily' stands for 'paganism,' in contrast with 'the
abomination that maketh desolate' ... papal Rome, replacing pagan
Rome.
"3. That the term 'daily' - 'continual' refers to the continual
priestly ministry of Christ in the heavenly sanctuary ... and to the
true worship of Christ in the gospel age; that the taking away of the
'daily' represents the substitution by the papacy of compulsory
unity in a visible church in place of the voluntary unity of all
believers in Christ, ... and most particularly, of the confessional and
the sacrifice of the mass in place of the mediatorial work of
Christ as our great high priest in the courts of heaven, and that
this system quite completely diverted men's attention from Christ
and thus deprived them of the benefits of His ministry. Both the
second and the third interpretations have been held by various able
expositors within the Advent Movement. ... Perhaps this is one of the
passages of Scripture on which we must wait until a better day for a
final answer." - S.D.A. Bible Commentary, Vol. 4, pp. 842,843.
It is our position that the third view is the correct one. The reason why we
say this is because of the following statements that support this view.

"I believe the Sanctuary to be cleansed at the end of the 2300

days, is the New Jerusalem temple of which Christ is a minister.
The Lord shew me in vision, more than one year ago that Brother
Crozier had the true light, on the cleansing of the Sanctuary." Ellen
White, Word to the Little Flock, p. 12.
This is the light that Br. Crozier had on the subject -

"'And the place of his sanctuary shall be cast down;' Dan.

8:11. This casting down was in the days and by the means of the
Roman power; therefore, the Sanctuary of this text was not the earth,
nor Palestine, because the former was cast down at the fall, more than
4,000 years, and the latter at the captivity, more than 700 years
previous to the event of this passage, and neither by Roman agency.
"The Sanctuary
cast down is His against whom Rome
magnified himself, which was the Prince of the host, Jesus Christ;
and Paul teaches that His Sanctuary is in heaven. Again, Dan.
11:30,31 , 'For the ships of Chittim shall come against him: therefore
he shall be grieved, and return, and have indignation (the staff to
chastise) against the holy covenant (Christianity): so shall he do; he
shall even return, and have intelligence with them (priests and
bishops) that forsake the holy covenant.
"'And arms (civil and religious) shall stand on his part, and
they (Rome and those that forsake the holy covenant) shall pollute
the Sanctuary of strength.'
"What was this that Rome and the apostates of Christianity
should jointly pollute? This combination was formed against the 'holy
covenant,' [Mat. 26:28; Mark 14:24; Luke 22:20; 1 Cor. 10: 16] and it
was the Sanctuary
of that covenant they polluted; which they
could do as well as to pollute the name of God; Jer. 34: 16; Eze. 20;
Mal. I :7. This was the same as profaning or blaspheming His name.
In this sense this 'politico-religious'
beast polluted the Sanctuary,
(Rev. 13:6), and cast it down from its place in heaven, (Psa.
102:19; Jer. 17:12; Heb. 8:1,2) when they called Rome the holy city,
(Rev. 21 :2) and installed the pope there with the titles, 'Lord God the
Pope,' 'Holy Father,' 'Head of the Church,' etc, and there, in the
counterfeit, 'temple of God,' he professes to do what Jesus actually
does in His Sanctuary; 2 The. 2: 1-8. The Sanctuary has been trodden
under foot (Dan. 8: 13), the same as the Son of God has. (Heb.
10:29)." The Sanctuary, Crozier, p. 3,4.
If the "place of his sanctuary was cast down" by the combined power of
Rome and apostate Christianity, then "the daily" must have been "taken away" by
them also. And, as the sanctuary that was "cast down" was the New Covenant, the
New Jerusalem heavenly sanctuary (that is the knowledge of it was "cast down"),
then it must also have been the New Covenant "daily" that was "taken away."
While Adventists have long understood that the Papacy claims to have
changed the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday and used their civil power to enforce
that presumption, especially so after 538 AD when they gained the temporal power

they exercised until 1798 AD, little has been said about them using their authority
to enforce compulsory attendance at the Mass - the performance of which is the
main function of their priesthood and confessionals.
Some have taken the position that the Sabbath was the "daily" that was taken
away because it concerns a "day." But, as we have seen, the word "daily" (tamid)
has reference to something that was to be continual (day by day), not week by
week. Moreover, the Sabbath, though a fundamental part of God's law, is a separate
issue from Christ's ministry in the heavenly sanctuary. Of all of the institutions of
the Catholic Church, the Mass is the main one that has the characteristic of being
day by day (continual) as most Catholic churches have a daily Mass. Also, it is the
Mass, more so than the Sabbath, that supplanted the knowledge of Christ's daily
work in the heavenly sanctuary.
Concerning the Mass, we have been told,
"The Scriptural Ordinance of The Lord's Supper had been
supplanted by the idolatrous sacrifice of the mass." The Story of
Redemption, p. 334.
"The mass is a bad thing; God is opposed to it; it ought to
be abolished; and I would that throughout the whole world it were
replaced by the supper of the gospel." Martin Luther quoted in The
Great Controversy, p. 189.
"The incense that is offered now by men, the masses that are
said for the deliverance of souls from purgatory,
are not of the
least avail with God. All the altars and sacrifices, the traditions
and inventions whereby men hope to earn salvation are fallacies.
No sacrifices are to be offered without; for the great High Priest is
performing His work in the holy place. No prince or monarch dare
venture within the holy enclosure.
"In His intercession as our Advocate Christ needs no man's
virtue, no man's intercession. Christ is the only sin bearer, the only
sin-offering. Prayer and confession are to be offered only to Him who
has entered once for all into the holy place. Christ has declared, "If
any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the
righteous." He will save to the uttermost all who come to Him in
faith. He ever liveth to make intercession for us. This makes of no
avail the offering of mass, one of the falsehoods of Romanism."
Seventh Day Adventist Bible Commentary, vol. 7, p. 913.

With these things in mind, we will look at how the compulsory enforcement
of attendance at the Mass relates to the date 508 AD - the date that "the daily" was
taken away, and the "abomination that maketh desolate set up."
The following is from the study, Time Prophecies in Daniel 12, from the
Biblical Research Institute. It was written by Gerhard Pfandt, and published in
2005.
"In Daniel 8: 11 'the daily' refers to Christ's intercessory
ministry which was usurped by the work of the priests through
the mass and the confessional. By sacrificing Christ anew in every
mass, the papacy has removed Christ's heavenly ministry in the
thinking of the people. How long has this been going on?
"In May 1998, Pope John Paul II issued his pastoral letter Dies
Domini in which he challenged Christians "to ensure that civil
legislation respects their duty to keep Sunday holy."
"In the same letter he speaks about the attendance at Sunday
mass. Early in the history of the Christianity, he says, people had to
be reminded to attend mass. Sometimes the Church had to resort to
specific canonical precepts: 'This was the case in a number of local
Councils from the fourth century onwards (as at the Council of
Elvira of 300, which speaks not of an obligation but of penalties after
three absences) and most especially from the sixth century onwards
(as at the Council of Agde in 506). These decrees of local Councils
led to a universal practice, the obligatory character of which was
taken as something quite normal.'
"Here the pope says that particularly from the beginning of
the sixth century on -there were universal statutes which made it
obligatory for people to attend mass. As Seventh-day Adventists
we say that in the sixth century the daily was taken away and the
abomination of desolation was established. We begin the 1290
years with 508. Why? Primarily, because deducting 1290 from 1798,
which is understood to be the end of the 1260 and 1290 years, brings
us to 508.
"What happened in 508? In 496, Clovis, king of the Franks,
became a Roman Catholic. All the other Germanic tribes who had
dismantled the Roman Empire were Arians and therefore in
opposition to the pope in Rome. Clovis defeated the Visigoths and
became the first civil power to join up with the rising Church of
Rome. France, therefore, is called the oldest daughter of the Roman
Catholic Church.

"After his great victory over the Goths in 507 ... together with
his Burgundian allies, Clovis came to Tours, probably in the middle
of 508, to hold a victory celebration. There he met Byzantine envoys
who presented to him the decree naming him an honorary consul [of
Rome]. The joining of the civil and the religious powers (Franks
and papacy) at that time was an important step in 'setting up the
abomination of desolation,' which refers to the unscriptural
teachings of the papacy and their enforcement through the union
of church and state. It is one of the ironies of history that France, the
power that helped the papacy at the beginning of the 1290 years, was
the power that brought about its demise at the end of this time period,
when Napoleon in 1798 had Pope Pius VI taken prisoner." Time
Prophecies in Daniel 12, by Gerhard Pfandt.
As the Catholic Church was making their local decrees enjoimng
compulsory attendance of the Mass universal in 506 and onwards, and as they were
gaining the political power to enforce those decrees on society at large in 507 and
508, then we have the historical evidence that the taking away of "the "Daily" in
508 had to do with the Papacy supplanting the Lord's Supper with the "idolatrous
sacrifice of the mass" ("the abomination that maketh desolate") which succeeded in
casting down the knowledge of Christ continuing intercession in the heavenly
sanctuary.
Note: For more on the supplanting of the Lord's Supper with the Mass,
and how that is relative to the taking away of "the Daily," please see our four-part
series, The Lord's Supper, From the Table to the Altar, and Back, and The Daily,
parts 1-3.
What is of particular note in this is the fact that since "the daily" refers to
"Christ's intercessory ministry which was usurped by the work of the priests
through the Mass and the confessional," and that it was the Lord's Supper that
was supplanted by the Mass, then the Lord's Supper, in its true nature and
practice, must have something to do with the knowledge of Christ's "daily"
(continual) ministry in the heavenly sanctuary, or else there would have been no
purpose in supplanting it with the Mass.
"Our Savior instituted the Lord's Supper, to be often
celebrated, to keep fresh in the memory of His followers the
solemn scenes of His betrayal and crucifixion for the sins of the
world. He would have His followers realize their continual [day by
day] dependence upon His blood for salvation....

..The salvation of men depends on a continual [day by day]

application to their hearts of the cleansing blood of Christ. therefore,
the Lord's Supper was not to be observed only occasionally
[every few months) or yearly, but more frequently
than the
annual Passover." Spiritual Gifts, Vol. 3, pgs. 227-228. [brackets
added]
As the purpose of the Lord's Supper is to "keep fresh" in our minds
Christ's betrayal and crucifixion, which includes the reality of His work of our High
Priest in the heavenly sanctuary, and the purpose of the Mass is for the officiating
priests to make a "fresh atonement," then it is easy to see how the latter supplanted
the former when the eyes of men were turned from the heavenly sanctuary and the
work being done therein to the presumptuous work of men on earth.
"Duties are laid down in God's Word, the performance
of
which will keep the people of God humble and separate from the
world, and from backsliding,
like the nominal churches. The
washing of feet and partaking of the Lord's Supper should be
more frequently practiced." Early Writings, p. 116.
As
participants
how Christ
supplanted
priest who
confessing,

the washing of feet involves confession of sin to God and to the

(as needed - The Desire of Ages, p. 650-61.), then it also easy to see
admonition for us to wash one another's feet (John 13: 14-17) was also
by the use of the confessional wherein someone confesses sins to a
is presumed not to be in need of having his own feet washed by the one
and is presumed to have the authority to forgive sins.

of Jesus, and then will flow forth afresh the life-giving blood,
symbolized
by the flowing of the living water for Israel." Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 411.
Note that in Early Writings, p. 116, quoted above, the Spirit does not say that
the "more frequently practiced" "washing of feet and partaking of the Lord's
Supper" will merely heal our backslidings (confession of sin at any time or in any
true manner does this), but rather that they "will keep" us from backsliding by
keeping us "humble and separate from the world."
Those who allow the Holy Spirit to present them with the reality of Christ's
"fresh atonement" that is ongoing in the heavenly sanctuary, and take hold of that
golden cord that binds heaven with earth, will experience the sanctification that the
early church knew before certain men brought in things that cumulated in the
establishment of the Mass.
That is really good news for those who are weary of the effects of repeated
cycles of sinning and repenting, and who want to truly experience what Jude, the
servant of Christ, so joyfully proclaimed:
"Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to
present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding
joy, To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty,
dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen." Jude 1:24,25.

The reason why we are saying that the Mass is the "the
abomination that maketh desolate" is because it is purported to be a "fresh
atonement," and it supplanted the true "fresh atonement" Doug Mitchell
"The cleansing, both in the typical and in the real service,
must be accomplished with blood: in the former, with the blood of
animals; in the latter, with the blood of Christ. ... And what was
done in type in the ministration of the earthly sanctuary is done in
reality in the ministration of the heavenly sanctuary." The Great
Controversy, pp. 417, 418, 420.
"Our Saviour was not to be sacrificed a second time; and it is
only necessary for those who seek the blessings of his grace to ask in
the name of Jesus, pouring forth the heart's desire in penitential
prayer. Such prayer will bring before the Lord of hosts the wounds

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