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will coincide with the year A.D. 2431 in the Christian (Gregorian) calendar. 

(The Islamic calendar year is shorter than the Christian calendar year.) 

    The book of Daniel also places the reign of Antichrist in the 25th century. 

The  seventy weeks of years  spoken of by Daniel (Dan 9:24) is a period of 

490 years (a week of years is 7 years). The seventy weeks of years began in 

1948 with the rebuilding of Jerusalem, that is, with the rebuilding of the 

state of Israel (Dan 9:25). The seventy weeks of years ends with one week of 

years (about 7 years) during which Antichrist reigns over the world (Dan 

9:27). That week of years will begin  in  A.D. 2431 and end  in  A.D. 2437. 

The first year of the 490 years was 1948 and the last year will be 2437, which 

is 490 years counting inclusively. (After the reign of Antichrist is ended, 

there will be a series of punishments from God upon the unrepentant, about 

the years 2438 to 2439.) 

    Notice that the year for the start of Antichrist's reign based on this passage 

from the book of Daniel matches exactly the year given by the Virgin Mary 

at La Salette (once that year is converted from the Islamic to the Christian 

calendar date). This confirms that A.D. 2431 is the correct year for the start 

of the reign of Antichrist. 

The Abomination 

    The abomination is a perverse replacement for the Holy Eucharist which 

will be devised by false Christians. This heresy, this idolatry, this blasphemy 

against God and Jesus Christ, is not the invention of Antichrist. It is a 

grievous sacrilege by those who are Christian in name only. These false 

Christians, who are lost but claim to be found, who are children of evil 

masquerading as children of God, do something worse than all of the past 

idolatries of the ancient Israelites. They replace the Holy Eucharist with an 

evil and perverse substitute, the abomination. 

    The abomination will be set up in some holy places, in chapels and 

convents (and monasteries) and in the tabernacles of churches, in place of 

the True Holy Eucharist. Those who receive the abomination, the false 

Eucharist, will be giving themselves over to the power of evil. Just as the 

true Holy Eucharist strengthens faithful Christians to do good, so will the 

false Eucharist strengthen these false Christians (who have abandoned the 

teachings and the true Sacraments of the Church) to do evil. 

    Those who eat the abomination are condemned by God (Isaiah 66:17). It 

is through the abomination that the devil will attempt to make himself as the 

king of hearts. Jesus the true Christ is meant to be the King of all hearts, 

especially through His presence in the Holy Eucharist.