Only in the dispensational system. Jesus made it clear what the "abomination" really entailed. That is what you are having a hard time dealing with, the words of Scripture. What does Luke 21:20 say? How does it relate to Matthew 24:15? My do you deny the plain import of the words?
And what part of the word stood in the Temple do you not understand?
It is you that is denying what the scripture plainly is referring to by attempting to twist the clear meaning of words.
That passage is referring to an idol, that has yet to stand in the Temple.
Now as for Luke, it is referring the 70 AD destruction, but Matthew isn't.
Now in Lk.21:20 I see the word 'desolation' but I do not see the phrase 'Abomination of desolation'.
They are two different things.
The Abomination of desolation is something that stands in the Temple and brings on desolation.
That did not happen in 70AD.
Lk.21:20 tells of armies compassing the city, Matthew 24:15 tells of an idol standing in the holy place
They are two different things for two different times.
Wonderful Biblical clarity clearly stated.
Thanks for the TRUTH OF SCRIPTURE at your hand.
Luke 21: 20 “When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near. Then LET THOSE WHO ARE IN JUDEA FLEE TO THE MOUNTAINS, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country not enter the city.
Matthew 24:15-16: “So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’ spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand— then LET THOSE WHO ARE IN JUDEA FLEE TO THE MOUNTAINS.
Clearly, these are not separate events:
“But the abomination of which Daniel writes is that the Emperor Cajus, as history tells, had put his image in the temple at Jerusalem as an idol, for the people to worship, after everything there had been destroyed.”
—Martin Luther, (”Sermon for the Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Trinity; Matthew 24:15-28”
from his Church Postil, first published in 1525)