The entire history of the Catholic Church is prefigured by the entire history of the Israelites in the Old Testament. The parallels are "event by event" and even in the same chronological order. These parallels take us past Vatican II and even to our present day. A special emphasis on the parallels between the books of the Machabees and the events surrounding Vatican Il, and how those parallels seem to unravel prophecies in the Book of Daniel about the "abomination of desolation."