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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 ...
- 1 John 1:9 ESV / 23 helpful votes. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
- Proverbs 22:6 ESV / 23 helpful votes. Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
- John 3:16 ESV / 22 helpful votes. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
- John 10:22 ESV / 21 helpful votes. At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter,
- 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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The Festival of Lights would’ve reminded the people of the heroic leadership of Judas Maccabeus. Yet, in John 10, one greater than Judas stood among them. Jesus’s identity looms large in this passage and throughout John’s Gospel. John’s purpose statement, found in 20:31, reads, “But these [things] are written so that you may believe that Jesus is t...
While the people rejoiced and celebrated the cleansing and rededication of the temple, one greater than the temple stood in their midst (Matt. 12:6). The temple in which the Jewish people took such great pride would be destroyed by the Romans in AD 70. And from the point of view of Jesus’s first followers, the temple was replaced in AD 30, decades ...
The imagery of light plays an important role in Hanukkah because the light of the temple was extinguished during the Syrian desecration and then was restored by Judas Maccabeus. But John wants us to see that Jesus is the light who shines brighter than Hanukkah’s lights. In John 8:12, Jesus said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will...
My Jewish Learning is a not-for-profit and relies on your help. Donate. There is no mention either of the holiday of Hanukkah, nor of the historical events that led to its establishment, in the Bible. The most detailed account of the story of Hanukkah is contained in the First and Second Books of Maccabees. However, these books are not included ...
HANUKKAH hä’ nə kə ( חֲנֻכָּ֤ה, dedication, consecration ). Feast of dedication. A Jewish feast of eight days beginning on the twenty-fifth of Chislev in winter ( John 10:22 ). It commemorates the triumph of Judas the Maccabee over Seleucid forces in 164 b.c. and his cleansing and dedication of the defiled temple and altar ( 1 ...
Dec 1, 1998 · The miracle of Hanukkah is the miracle of God’s preserving power. In any case, it is still appropriate at Hanukkah to say, “Nes gadol haya sham—a great miracle happened there.” The miracle of Hanukkah is the miracle of God’s preserving power. Israel’s victory over Antiochus and his mighty army showed forth that miraculous power.