well as to pollute the name of God; Jeremiah 34:16; Ezekiel 20; Malachi 1:7.
This was the same as profaning or blaspheming His name.
In this sense this "politico-religious" beast polluted the Sanctuary, (Revelation 13:6), and cast it down from its place in heaven, (Psalm 102:19; Jeremiah 17:12; Hebrews 8:1,2) when they called Rome the holy city, (Revelation 21:2) and installed the Pope there with the titles, "Lord God the Pope", "Holy Father", "Head of the Church", etc., and there, in the counterfeit, "temple of God", he professes to do what Jesus actually does in His Sanctuary; 2Thessalonians 2:1-8.
The Sanctuary has been trodden under foot (Daniel 8:13), the same as the Son of God has. (Hebrews 10:29.) Daniel prayed "Cause Thy face to shine upon Thy Sanctuary that is desolate;" Daniel 9:17.
This was the typical Sanctuary built by Solomon. "Thou hast commanded me to build a temple upon Thy Holy Mount, and an altar in the city wherein Thou dwellest, a resemblance of Thy Holy tabernacle, which Thou hast prepared from the beginning;" Wisdom of Solomon 9:8; 1Chronicles 28:10-13.
It has shared in the seventy years desolation of Jerusalem; Daniel 9:2; 2Chronicles 36:14-21.
It was rebuilt after the captivity; Nehemiah 10:39.
Moses received the patterns of the Sanctuary, built at Sinai when he was with the Lord forty days in the cloud on the Mount; and David received the patterns of that built by Solomon, which superseded Moses' with its chambers, porches, courts, the courses of the priests and Levites, and all the vessels of service, etc., "by the Spirit ;" 1Chronicles 28:10-13.
It is manifest that both Moses and David had prophetic visions of the New Jerusalem with its Sanctuary and Christ, the officiating Priest.
When that built by Moses was superseded by Solomon's, the Ark was borne from the former to the latter; 2Chronicles 5:2-8.
The Sanctuary comprehended not only the Tabernacle, but also all the vessels of the ministry, enclosed by the court in which the tabernacle stood; Numbers 3:29-31; 10:17,21.
So the court in which the Temple stood was properly called the Sanctuary - Prideaux .
We learn the same from 2Chronicles 29:18,21. "We have cleansed all the house of the Lord, and the altar of burnt-offering,