Hanukkah - the Feast of Dedication. Each winter, Israelites scattered around the globe celebrate the Feast of Dedication – in Hebrew: Hanukkah, the festive which we recall our deliverance from pagan sun-god worship.
It is also about the ruler of the Syrian kingdom, Antiochus Epiphanes IV, stepping up his campaign to quash Judaism. He marched into Jerusalem, vandalized the Temple, erected an idol on the altar, and desecrated its holiness with the blood of swine. Decreeing that studying Torah, observing the Sabbath, and circumcising Jewish boys were punishable by death, he sent Syrian overseers and soldiers to villages throughout Judea to enforce the edicts and force Jews to engage in idol worship.
It was the Maccabbee story in which people who seriously believed that it is not good to just sit and moan, sigh and cry about the atrocities of what is happening to the faith but willing to get up and do something about it. This rebellion lasted seven years from 167 - 160 BC.
It is about the re-dedication to the service of God. Hanukkah is one of the festivals that Yeshua attended, declaring He is the light of the feast. It is a festival that his followers cherish to this very day but its deeper meaning is sometimes lost in the traditions. While the man-made religious systems of the world attempt to force the believer to join in their self-sanctified rituals, Hanukkah reminds us that the Almighty fights for those who would keep themselves pure from the pollution of idolatry.
Yeshua tells us that the first abomination of desolation placed in the Jerusalem Temple was a prophetic shadow picture of an even greater abomination that would confront the believer in the last days. Yeshua’s prophetic warning is no longer in the distant future, but is reiterated in the context of the accomplished deception in which the world finds itself today.
Hanukkah. unfolds the prophetic realities of the abomination of desolation in relation to the final prophetic fulfillment. I would like this thread to be on the findings in the writings of the Book of Maccabbees.
It is also about the ruler of the Syrian kingdom, Antiochus Epiphanes IV, stepping up his campaign to quash Judaism. He marched into Jerusalem, vandalized the Temple, erected an idol on the altar, and desecrated its holiness with the blood of swine. Decreeing that studying Torah, observing the Sabbath, and circumcising Jewish boys were punishable by death, he sent Syrian overseers and soldiers to villages throughout Judea to enforce the edicts and force Jews to engage in idol worship.
It was the Maccabbee story in which people who seriously believed that it is not good to just sit and moan, sigh and cry about the atrocities of what is happening to the faith but willing to get up and do something about it. This rebellion lasted seven years from 167 - 160 BC.
It is about the re-dedication to the service of God. Hanukkah is one of the festivals that Yeshua attended, declaring He is the light of the feast. It is a festival that his followers cherish to this very day but its deeper meaning is sometimes lost in the traditions. While the man-made religious systems of the world attempt to force the believer to join in their self-sanctified rituals, Hanukkah reminds us that the Almighty fights for those who would keep themselves pure from the pollution of idolatry.
Yeshua tells us that the first abomination of desolation placed in the Jerusalem Temple was a prophetic shadow picture of an even greater abomination that would confront the believer in the last days. Yeshua’s prophetic warning is no longer in the distant future, but is reiterated in the context of the accomplished deception in which the world finds itself today.
Hanukkah. unfolds the prophetic realities of the abomination of desolation in relation to the final prophetic fulfillment. I would like this thread to be on the findings in the writings of the Book of Maccabbees.