The daily sacrifices must be re-instituted before Christ returns, and then the Antichrist will take them away. Daniel 11:31 says forces will defile the sanctuary fortress, take away the daily sacrifices, and set up the abomination of desolation. Antiochus Epiphanes, who defiled the altar with pigs, was a type or forerunner of the Antichrist, and the 2300 evening-and-morning sacrifices of Daniel 8:14 (1150 days) were fulfilled in him. The final fulfillment comes in Daniel 12:11, which says that from the time the daily sacrifice is taken away and the abomination of desolation is set up, there will be 1290 days, a little over three and a half years, the time of the Tribulation. The sacrifices will likely be restored for a period during which men cry "peace, peace" when there is no peace (Jeremiah 8:11), and their removal will then mark the start of the Tribulation. Whether a temple is required is uncertain, since Daniel 11:31 mentions none while II Thessalonians 2:4 speaks of the man of sin sitting in the temple of God. The sacrifices may need only to be reinstated, not performed perfectly. Jews in Israel have now built a portable four-and-a-half-ton altar and are seriously working to restart the sacrifices, though Jewish authorities resist. God tells His people to watch (Mark 13:32-33, Romans 13:11-12) so that, as prophecy unfolds, they will prepare spiritually, draw close to Him, and become more Christ-like.

The little horn of Daniel 8 exalts himself against the Prince of princes, and by him the daily sacrifices are taken away and the sanctuary is cast down. Two popular interpretations are wrong. One makes the sanctuary and daily sacrifice heavenly, referring to Christ's priestly work, with the 2,300 days running as years from 457 BC to AD 1844. But no mortal, not even Satan, can stop Christ's work or cast down God's throne. The little horn cannot appear before the division of Alexander's empire in 301 BC. Earthly daily sacrifices continued almost without interruption from Ezra and Nehemiah until AD 70. The Hebrew reads "evening-mornings," meaning the twice-daily offerings. So 2,300 sacrifices equal 1,150 days, after which the sanctuary is cleansed or declared right. Antiochus Epiphanes fulfilled this in 167-164 BC by prohibiting the sacrifice, defiling the Temple with an idol and swine's blood, and burning the scrolls of the law. But he is only a forerunner, an anti-type, and the prophecy is dual. The final fulfillment belongs to the latter days. Daniel 11 places those days from verse 40 onward, and Daniel 12:11 gives 1,290 days from the removal of the daily sacrifice and the setting up of the abomination of desolation. A coming world dictator will arise speaking blasphemy and persecuting God's people, suspending public worship of God and trampling the sanctuary, until he is broken without human means at Christ's return.

Daniel 12:11 says that from the time the daily sacrifice is taken away and the abomination of desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days. This points to the Jews in the modern nation of Israel possibly restoring the twice-daily sacrifice (Exodus 29:38-39) for a short time. It does not necessarily mean a Temple will be built in Jerusalem, since the sacrifices could legitimately be offered with only an altar. The verse was fulfilled in type when Antiochus Epiphanes desecrated the Temple in 167-164 BC (Daniel 8:9-14, 23-26). Because the sacrifice is said to be taken away, the armies of the Beast of Revelation 17 will likely ban the ritual upon entering Jerusalem. On that reading, about 1,290 days, a little over three and a half years, would remain until the Messiah appears. The 1,290 days end at Christ's return, as does the 1,335-day period. Some have suggested that the restarting of the daily sacrifices might begin the 1,335 days, but the Bible is unclear about what event starts that period.