Is the Watchtower claim true that the abomination spoken of in Daniel chapter 11 verse 31 is the United Nations?

Answer 1

Yes. Whether something is considered "true" or not is, in religious matters, based on personal opinion, but I one was to ask "Is it true that the Watchtower claims that the abomination spoken of in Daniel 11 is the United Nations" then the answer is indeed yes. Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Daniel's words were prophetic in meaning and had a double fulfillment; firstly when the Roman armies came up against the 'holy city' in 70 CE but in a greater sense with in the 20th Century.

Answer:

The answer above is certainly correct, and I'd like to add to the above answer as Jehovah Witnesses do NOT solely base reasoning on one scripture alone:

In Revelations an angel explains to John: "And the wild beast that was but is not, it is also itself an eighth king, but springs from the seven, and it goes off into destruction." (Revelation 17:11)

The symbolic scarlet-colored wild beast "springs from" the seven heads; that is, it is born from, or owes its existence to, those heads of the original "wild beast . . . out of the sea," of which the scarlet-colored wild beast is an image.

The wild beast has 7 heads, each symbolizing a world power as the angel describes this immediately beforehand ""Here is where the intelligence that has wisdom comes in: The seven heads mean seven mountains, where the woman sits on top. And there are seven kings: five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet arrived, but when he does arrive he must remain a short while."

In Revelations, mountains symbolize governments. These are EGYPT, ASSYRIA, BABYLON, MEDO-PERSIA, Greece (which have fallen), ROME ("one is"), ANGLO-AMERICA, and the United Nations which "springs from the seven...it is also itself an eighth king"

I have no doubt that the UN does play a role in prophecy. It may even be an abomination but not THE abomination. The problem is that JWs are totally unaware of the prophecies foretelling of the final antichrist, for The Bible often changes the name of this character/symbol and JWs do not understand how symbol names change to elude detection by God's enemies.

They also do not know that 2nd and 3rd century Christians were in big expectation of this antichrist, due to what had been past down by the the Apostles. They also do not perceive 2 Thess 2 for what it really means. This speaks of this particular antichrist which will be the big sign of the end nearly arrived.