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Jan 4, 2022 · Answer. Chanukkah (or Hanukkah) is the Jewish Festival/Feast of Dedication, also known as the "Festival of Lights.”. It is an eight-day festival beginning on the 25th day of the Jewish month of Kislev, which typically falls in November or December on our calendar. Although this Jewish festival in not mentioned in the Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible ...
- Isaiah 52:10-11. Looking at this in its context, we see that it is speaking first of the exodus of the Jews from their captivity in Babylon, but it is also a prophecy, speaking of a future exodus from a future captivity—from the Babylon that is now forming in this present age.
- Haggai 2:10-23. The Bible contains the record of one extended family of people and its checkered history with God. The book of Genesis reveals the beginning of Israel through the fathers, and Exodus shows their first faltering steps.
- Haggai 2:10. Within the pages of the Bible, relatively few dates are mentioned. Because of this, and because God works in similar patterns and many of the prophecies have a dual fulfillment, when prophetic dates are mentioned, they take on a special significance.
- John 10:22-23. This festival was a Jewish national festival and is not one of God's commanded festivals—under any covenant! Even in this, He set us a perfect example by showing us that it is not wrong to observe national holidays that do not do service to paganism.
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Before I believed Yeshua (Jesus) to be the Messiah, I didn’t understand that anything about Hanukkah could be prophetic. Every winter when I was a child, as Christmas trees and manger scenes filled the world around me, I confess: I dreaded Hanukkah. Growing up in a non-Jewish part of town, as a Jewish child in a world where ethnic diversity definit...
After the close of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament), many in Israel (Judea) fell away from faith. Compromise with the world sadly overtook them until the majority of God’s people embraced the Hellenistic culture of their age. Before long even the priesthood grew corrupt. The chosen people abandoned a biblical lifestyle for pagan hedonism. The ...
Yeshua refers to prophecies about Antiochus Epiphanes in the book of Daniel when speaking to His disciples of the future (Matthew 24). A second Hanukkah-like fulfillment would occur not long after His death and resurrection. In A.D. 70, the Temple would again be desecrated, even destroyed, and Israel would be overrun. But another, consummate fulfil...
Some Christians have stumbled over these prophesies, trying to squeeze them into one and only one fulfillment (usually, A.D. 70). Most traditional Jewish teachers, however, find multiple fulfillments or manifestations at varying levels through history. These fulfillments all reflect the same principle: The worship and reign of Yawheh is devilishly ...
The Maccabees were a tiny band of priests, seemingly insignificant. Though vastly outnumbered, they clung passionately to God’s Word and rallied others to Him. They repented on behalf of Israel and embraced a lifestyle of prayer and fasting. The family of priests learned how to battle militarily. Courageously enduring heinous tortures, they loved n...
According to legend, when the Jews regained control of the temple, they found in it just one cruse of oil. The oil was sufficient to keep the seven branched temple lamp stand (menorah) burning only one day. Miraculously however, the oil burned for eight days. Not coincidentally, according to Scriptures, it takes a week to ritually purify oil. But m...
In the Hanukkah story, the anti-Jewish/anti-Christ spirit animating Antiochus Epiphanes sought to annihilate the Jews. Had he succeeded, the Messiah of humankind could not have been born. But in a divinely ironic twist of events, the Scriptures indicate Yeshua was likely conceived during Hanukkah. If that is true, the Light of the World was appropr...
Dec 18, 2022 · Hanukkah is known as the Feast of Dedication (John 10:22) or the Festival of Lights. Hanukkah isn’t mentioned in the Old Testament. Its origin is in the intertestamental period, during one of the most courageous episodes in Israel’s history (167–164 BC; see 1 Macc. 3–4; 2 Macc. 8:1–10:18). Antiochus Epiphanes, meaning “god manifest ...
During The Festival of Hanukkah, Jesus Says He And The Father Are One - Then the Festival-of-Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter. And Jesus was walking in the temple, in the portico of Solomon. Then the Jews surrounded Him. And they were saying to Him, “How long are You keeping us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us with plainness”. Jesus answered them, “I told you ...
Nov 17, 2009 · This year, 2022, our Jewish friends will commence celebrating Hanukkah at sundown on the evening of Sunday, Dec. 18, and end on the evening of Monday, Dec. 26. Families will gather together to exchange presents and also to light a new candle each night on their nine-branch candelabra. The Origin of Hanukkah.
Dec 19, 2022 · Hanukkah is the Hebrew word for dedication, and therefore Hanukkah is also called the Feast of Dedication. It celebrates the rededication of the temple by the Maccabees, but also the rededication of hearts to love and worship God. Another name for Hannukah is the Festival of Lights, in celebration of the holy oil that burned for eight days.
