What’s the Hanukkah story? #shorts

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[dmchott]

This is so rich a teaching and I often watch Chosen People teachings on replay! Praise Yah! 📯🪽⚔️📜🐍🌎🐑🕎✝️🍇💒🎼🇮🇱

[timeno]

And in the Gospel of John, we have record that Yeshua attended the Feast of Dedication of the Temple which the Macabees had cleansed after thier victory over Antiochus.

[mariaschwartz]

The 25 day of Kislev . What a coincidence 😊

[GavinFinley]

Eternal Light, the Feast of Dedication, Hanukkah, the Festival of the Eternal Light.

We can point to many of shortcomings in this Christmas season. We see the commercializing of Christmas. With all these extra seasonal accoutrements have we forgotten the true meaning of Christmas?

And what if Jesus was not born in winter but rather born in the Fall? What might be the reason for this Winter feast?

Do we not see all the lights in homes and out in front yards throughout Western Christendom in the Winter season? What might that winter light show actually be celebrating?

Hanukah is the 25th of the 9th month.
That would be, the “Feast of Dedication”, AKA the “Festival of Lights”. Could this be the date for the conception of Messiah?

Here is a possible biblical pointer to this Hanukkah date being the day of the conception of Messiah.

James 1:17 (KJV)
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the FATHER of LIGHTS, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”

We also have this anointed song
by a Franciscan monk, John Michael Talbot.


Is it possible that Christians are unwittingly joining the Jewish house of Judah? With the light show they put on during the winter season are they unknowingly beginning to celebrate Hanukkah?

Hanukkah is the Feast of Dedication, the Festival of the “Eternal Light”, celebrated on 25th of the 9th month, the month of Kislev.

So, what can we say about Hanukkah? Did not Jesus Himself come to the Temple on that day, the date set apart to celebrate this Festival of Dedication? So then, even in Western Christendom in early Winter are we seeing this festival unwittingly on display with all the lights we see in houses and in front yards?

Then there is this matter of the conception of Jesus/Yeshua. If we consider the possibility that this occurred on Hanukkah, on the 25th day of the ninth month, the month of Kislev or Chislev and we go forward the established obstetric time period of gestation, that being 40 weeks, or 280 days from the LMP, where do we end up?

The mean synodic month is 29.53 days. So ten moons from the 25th day of the 9th month of Chislev takes us forward 295 days. That date, less 15 days brings us our 280 days.

And what date might that be? It is the tenth day of the 7th month of Tishri, or Yom Kippur!

This is the Day of Atonement, the Day of Reconciliation, the Last Day, Judgment Day. This is rehearsed by our Jewish friends, especially on the Neilah service late on Yom Kippur. Would not this auspicious day fit the occasion for the conception of Christ, who was and is Emmanuel, “God with us”?

This “Day of the Lord”, Day of Yehovah God is spoken of throughout the Bible. In the Pauline epistles that day is also spoken of as the “Last Day”, or the “Day of Christ”. So, might this be an auspicious date for the birth of Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamashiach?

Hanukkah, the “Festival of Lights”.

Let us review our history and go back to 165 B.C., and to the rededication of the Temple after the Maccabean Revolt. Did not the Jewish House experience that miraculous lighting event at the rededication of the Temple?

For three years the Temple had lain desolate. This rededication came three years after the Greek Seleucid ruler Antiochus came in and blasphemed God in the first manifestation of the beast demon of the Abyss. He tried to Hellenize the royal Jewish House, the only tribe left in any significant numbers in the land of Israel. He defiled the Holy Place, and even slaughtered a pig on the altar.

Peter Paul and Mary have a song about that terrible desecration.


So there they were, about to rededicate the Temple, and the Holy Place. There was only oil sufficient to light the menorah for one day. But it lasted the eight days.

So then, is this “Festival of Lights” / “Festival of Rededication” not also a wonderful message of encouragement, even in a time of cold winter darkness? And does it not cause us to remember and celebrate that occasion when the oil did not run out, and the lights shone forth, even in that celebrated winter season? Is Hanukkah set to become an 8th festival of new beginnings, a feast still partly hidden from both Christian and Jewish awareness?

Could it be that Hanukkah, the Festival of Light, finds its ultimate fulfillment at the end of the Millennium, when all that belongs fo Messiah, from this age and the age to come, is delivered up to God the Father, the Father of Lights?

I Corinthians 15

24 Then the end will come, when He hands over the kingdom to God the Father after He has destroyed all dominion, authority, and power.
25 For He must reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet.
26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death.