Chanukah - Day 5

Borrowed from Matthew 24:15-20 (with a few explanations)
. MT 24:15 "So when you see standing in the holy place `the abomination that causes desolation,' spoken of through the prophet Daniel (9:27; 11:31; 12:11) --let the reader understand-- then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains (Ge 19:17). Let no one on the roof of his house go down to take anything out of the house. Let no one in the field go back to get his cloak. How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers (they were killed in caves by the soldiers of Antiochus)! Pray that your flight will not take place in winter (Chanukah is in the winter) or on the Sabbath (Antiquities 12.6.2). For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now--and never to be equaled again. If those days had not been cut short (Antiochus was killed shortly after this), no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened. At that time if anyone says to you, `Look, here is the Christ!' or, `There he is!' do not believe it. For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect--if that were possible. See, I have told you ahead of time.