The Festival of Hanukkah 2022 (5783) - Day 1

Kind: captions Language: en [Music] years ago the devil had me down Shackled and changed to the dark side of town safe to sin and all of its form living in bondage unclean lips and the distance was my Damascus trip so I traveled through the desert sand be troubled in fate I grasped his hands the whole entire day in the twinkling of an eye is Darkness all the great light born again the Holy Spirit came salvation found through his face sun sets free I'm free indeed and Calvary foreign good morning John a new life began released from chains to my Promised Land he cleansed my life and closed all the doors delivered me from the evil stronghold the Key of David locked like the devil has no legal right the greater is he who lives in us than he attempts with worldly lost he's no match for the beloved Son to and fro he made it wrong if the sun sets free liberated at Calvary I am free thank you to write business is found in Jesus Christ Jesus name I'm free road to change all for me and I'm free no longer in captivity I'm free well hello everybody Shalom to everybody out there happy Hanukkah the Feast of dedication or the Festival of Lights as it's called as well so we want to wish everybody out there a happy Hanukkah thank you very much for spending uh this time with us as we discover the origin of Hanukkah the history of Hanukkah and the personal and prophetic Revelation that we all can receive from this beautiful Festival that uh happened in between the two testamental times it's really a phenomenal Festival if you this is your first time I ask for your patience ask for your heart to be open your spirit to be open uh to what the holy spirit says about this beautiful beautiful Festival that our savior Yeshua the Messiah celebrated as well of course he did as he was Jewish so we would like to thank everybody there are some things that we'd like to explain but first and for foremost we wanted to welcome everybody to this night as this is the first night of the eighth Eight Day Festival of Hanukkah which begins tonight which is the 18th through the 26th on the Gregorian calendar but on the Hebrew on God's calendar it is kislov 25 through to vet 2 on his calendar and when you look at his calendar if you're not familiar with it with his calendar this is the way it works you can see where his Hebrew months or his months is compared to where the Gregorian calendar dates are and you can see where Hanukkah is you know it falls right at the end of kislev and it goes into Tibet and then you can see it's in the month of December and sometimes it'll bleed into January depending on uh the way the calendars are aligned at that specific time but Hanukkah is like I said it's an eight-day celebration in the remembrance of the maccabean revolt and victory against the Syrian Army of Antiochus epiphanies IV which culminated with the rededication of the temple that's why it's called the Feast of rededication the Feast of dedication Etc the restoration of Torah was reinstituted in God's perfect ways his laws were implemented back to where they were restored back to their proper order it's also known known for Hanukkah is the eight-day miracle of the oil which we will discuss as well and it is also like I said called the Festival of Lights as we will discover as well in the Feast of rededication as Hanukkah means that's what Hanukkah means itself and although this Hanukkah is not a moadim or a Divine appointment that we find in Leviticus 23 by the end of our time together I hope everybody can see the importance of Hanukkah as it relates to Yeshua as it relates to the Everlasting covenants as it relates to the prophetic understanding of what is going to occur in the future with the with the Antichrist Etc and obviously to Proclaim observe and to understand all of these beautiful things but first and foremost I'd like for uh us to begin with the blessing that we will uh we'll recite the blessings there's three of those I'll go ahead and do this so that we can go ahead and begin the worship ceremony of it so to speak and then I will explain if you're not familiar with the hanakia is what it's called I'll explain the symbolism of it as we go down down the line but first and foremost we'd like to all Just Praise the Lord for this night we'll Begin by lighting of the candles and go from there when you look at the hanakia and this is the one hopefully you guys can see this if you're not familiar with it the middle candle is called the servant candle and I want to explain this more as we go into the understanding of all these beautiful things but it is called the servant candle the middle candle it's going to stand above the rest of the Campbells it's symbolic of Yeshua of Jesus okay so the first candle that you light on every night night of Hanukkah every all eight nights is the middle candle first it's called the shamash candle in Hebrew or the servant candle in English so you take the serving candle and then that servant candle you light all of the other candles so for not for tonight it's just night one so we'll take this shamash candle and we'll light the first candle and in Hebrew you light them uh from the newest one to the oldest one okay so tonight there's just one but tomorrow you'll like candle two and then candle one if that makes sense or you always go with the newest candle all right so that's kind of how um kind of how it's done so to speak like I said you light the middle candle the cervic candle the light of the world is what it stands for as we will see and you light the further the newest one so uh of the evening but you put them in from right uh to left uh I hope that makes sense to everybody but uh we'll go ahead and say the blessings of uh of Hanukkah for the night and we can all say those together I will do some of it in Hebrews some of it I will not uh do in Hebrew depending on uh where we are in it but let's just all go into worship together and then we will explain all of these things that we spoke about but blessed are you Lord Our God ruler of the universe who performed wondrous Deeds for our ancestors in those ancient days at this season of Hanukkah the Hebrew is Baruch Alam la avatino and then I can't pronounce the rest of it so I apologize but uh there we go with that blessing blessing number two we can read this as well blessed are you Adonai Our God ruler of the universe who perform wondrous Deeds for our ancestors in those ancient days of this season of Hanukkah foreign and then the third blessing which is only said for tonight only the first night it's only said about the shekiano uh that's it you only say it just this night and it says why do we say an additional prayer on the first night of Hanukkah the shekiano is a blessing of first we recite this particular blessing the first time we do something on God's calendar and to celebrate special occasions in this case we recite it the first night as we light the Hanukkah candles on the menorah so we'll say this together if you'd like is blessed are you Adonai Our God ruler of the universe who has kept us alive okay and that is the prayers that we normally will say those are just the traditional prayers obviously you can say your own prayers of course we do out of our own heart and things like that but those are just some of the traditional prayers if you will uh that the people say so thank you for uh joining us with that and I'll try to put this where we can see the light without uh Burning Down The House so to speak so all right very good so uh there we go everybody so we've said the prayers uh we've talked about the overall understanding of Hanukkah it's an eight-day celebration uh we're going to talk about the miracle but we're going to begin by what I believe is very important excuse me to understand before we get into uh all of these beautiful things about Hanukkah the origin of it the history of it the prophetic understanding of it the personal understanding of it let's go to where uh why would a Christian why would a gentile Christian who was born a gentile why would they celebrate Hanukkah you know that's a very valid question because most Christians believe that this is just a Jewish holiday which it certainly is so why would a Christian may ask why why Chad we know you're born Gentile why are you celebrating Hanukkah when you know you're a Christian you're a believer in Yeshua Messiah well my answer would be that he is Jewish 100 Jewish he is the seed of David the Seed of Abraham it says in the beginning of the New Testament in Matthew 1. so he's a hundred percent Jewish and he told all of us to pick up our cross and follow him and although like I said it's not a moadim it's not a Sabbath or anything like this he's going to show us in the scriptures how important it was to to celebrate Hanukkah and how important uh how much of an importance he put on it when he was on Earth as well we're going to find that in the scriptures so I get that all the all of the time and maybe you do as well as a gentile believer is why do you celebrate Hanukkah well it goes into a lot of things that we're going to get into with the Everlasting covenants with the pure Royal lineage seed and all of these things that we just really don't think about and thought we just we just declare it Jewish and we go on about it which personally doesn't make sense to me because like I said Yeshua is 100 Jewish so if he's 100 Jewish and we need to be understanding how he would have understood Hanukkah and the importance that he put on it as well which we are about to uh Discover right now uh in the scriptures uh this is in John 10 and if you're not familiar with John 10 this is totally amazing if you were with us over the fall feast days which were in the September October area we read John 7 and John 8 so if I can set this up a little bit before uh before we read John 10 John 7 through 10 is basically the Feast of Tabernacles until the Festival of Hanukkah it's in chronological order okay and what's so amazing and we've walked we all know the scriptures of he's the light of the world come to me I'll give you a Living Waters things like that that we found out that he said during the Feast of Tabernacles that's when he said that with the pulus alone when they poured out the living water on the altar at the last great day of the feast just like it says in John 7 in John 8 where he declares he's the light of the world so then when you get to John 10 it talks about Hanukkah so we have to ask ourselves in the those passages it does not say it doesn't tell us that he either trekked back to Galilee which is where mainly he stayed or he stayed in Jerusalem for two months or whatever how many days it is between Tabernacles and um Hanukkah about 75 days or somewhere in there either way it showed the importance he put on it because it's in the middle middle of winter so either he stayed an extra two months in Jerusalem around the Pharisees in the Sadducees which wanted to kill him okay that's why he went secretly down there during the Feast of Tabernacles in John 7 or 8 or he trekked back to Galilee and now that's not the easiest track as well as we will see you know when we look at the slots here so either way he put a tremendous emphasis on the Festival of Hanukkah that we're about to read and if you can see the distance between the Sea of Galilee and Jerusalem you know that's that's not an easy Journey you know it's like 70 miles okay and they didn't have Uber you know back then you know they didn't have you couldn't call Lyft you couldn't do any of those things you know so it was either by foot or by donkey or carriage or something like that so he put a magnificent understanding for all of us to understand the importance of Hanukkah whether he stayed in Jerusalem after the Feast of Tabernacles or he tracked to get the Galilee area the Nazareth Area and then Trek Back which is not an easy Journey during winter you know be of mine so he put a great impact on the Festival of Hanukkah and now let's read the scripture that he shows us and this is in John 10 verse 22 through 30 and it says this of dedication so again we have to understand what the Feast of dedication is when we read this passage where we won't understand what they're talking about uh what the writer's speaking of so John is telling us uh now it was at the Feast of dedication which uh a hundred percent of Bible scholars and prophecy teachers will tell you that is the Festival of Hanukkah because of what we're going to learn tonight so it was during the Feast of dedication in Jerusalem and it was Winter and Yeshua walked in the temple in Solomon's porch so again we're in the in in the Feast of dedication the Festival of Lights Hanukkah he's on Solomon's porch and he walks into the Holy Temple the temple that was rededicated okay remember you know they rededicated the temple The Maccabees did before Yeshua was on Earth I mean this is amazing so he put a great emphasis on the importance of Hanukkah his ancestors Judah Maccabee and the mecca being revolt and Army in this scripture if we read into it then the G and then look what he says during the Festival of Hanukkah this is pretty amazing as well then the Jewish people surrounded him and said to him how long do you keep us in doubt if you are the Christ tell us plainly Jesus answered and said I told you and you do not believe the words that I do are in my father's name they bear witness in me but you do not believe because you are not of my sheep as I said to you my sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me and I give them eternal life and they shall never perish neither shall anyone snatch them out of my hand my father who has given to me is greater than all and no one is able to snatch them out of my father's hand I and my father are one I mean this is totally amazing what Yeshua said at the festival of dedication okay at Hanukkah look at what he tells the people I mean this is fascinating to put ourselves in there but we have to understand God's calendar we've got to understand these festivals we've got to understand what the scriptures the New Testament I mean this is New Testament uh what it's telling us about the importance of Hanukkah and then look what Yeshua told the people I mean he really told them some very magnifying things I told you you do not believe that he is the Messiah he is God is what he's telling them that they just do not believe them that they didn't believe him so he put a great great magnitude a Supremacy on the Festival of Hanukkah for the reasons that we've spoken about and that's why we wanted to bring it to light for any uh Gentile Christian who might not believe who might not might not look at how important uh the Festival of Hanukkah is it's very important for a lot of different reasons and it's amazing that we don't celebrate this Festival because of the reasons that we're about to mention on included with what we just discussed as well when you look at the Everlasting covenants and that's this is where covenant theology is what it's called as well when you look at covenant thought theology in modern day Christianity this is where we've gotten off track which we've spoken about so many things and I say this in total love of course I do but once you get off of God's calendar once you get off of the festivals once you lose the jewishness if you will of the Bible or God's ways of the Bible then you're going to lose theology okay in a way and you're going to be replaced with replacement theology is going to take hold of it and that is the story of Hanukkah my friends when we see this think about this as we go forward about people getting rid of God's word that's what they want to do that's what Satan wants to do and that is the story in a nutshell of Hanukkah but before we explore all of these things I think it's important for all of us that were born Gentiles that are grafted into the Commonwealth of Israel to understand the importance of Hanukkah as a believer in Yeshua who loves who loves the Messiah and it's because of his Everlasting covenants if it wasn't for Hanukkah if it wasn't for Purim if it wasn't for some of these major events that most people just Proclaim to be Jewish then our Messiah would not would not have been born it would have been genocide they would have been eliminated so the importance of Purim the importance of Hanukkah is what we're celebrating right now is is supreme it's Paramount because our Messiah Yeshua was prophesied through God's word his holy word his holy Torah that he was going to come from the abrahamic davidic line he was coming from the pure Royal lineage of Abraham Isaac Jacob and David that's why Matthew called him the son of David the son of Abraham to revert us Gentiles and the Jewish people back to him being that seed of the abrahamic Covenant of the davidic Covenant the seed that's going to crush the Serpent's head in Genesis 3 15 and we have to understand these things because that's the importance of Hanukkah is the preservation of not only people being genocide basically but the preservation of the seed of the pure Royal Sea that's why Satan has come against them for Egypt Assyria Babylon Germany Rome you name it that's why Antiochus Epiphany is the fourth who we're talking about tonight with the Syrian Army always Satan has wanted to eliminate the seed line if he could do that he would win because the seed line is to Yeshua yeshua's got to fulfill that and he has but he's got to come back to fulfill it with his people okay and that's the story of Hanukkah and that's where in the prophetic understanding of it we're going to get into the prophetic understanding of Hanukkah because Hanukkah is going to happen again just like it did before and uh We've discovered all those things but my friends it's so important to understand as a child Believers or even Jewish people the mankind you know who loves the god of Israel okay whether you are a Jew or a gentile that this is what Hanukkah is about is the preservation of our messiah's seed line because Satan has always wanted to destroy it and that goes it back into the abrahamic the davidic and the New Covenant I'll summarize those really quick so we don't go too far off but I just believe that this is very important to speak about but the abrahamic Covenant promised a lot of things but for this conversation well we're going to summarize it to two major things the seed and the promised land well we all know that seed is Yeshua Jesus right and then it promised the promised land well the davidic Covenant just build it and extended upon that so in the abrahamic Covenant which you can read in Genesis 12 on Ford through Isaac and Jacob through Genesis 28 or whatever it may be you can read Ford on that the davidic covenants found in second Samuel 7 that God promised David a seed that will rule on his throne forever well that seeds the same seed as the Abraham seed okay that's why Matthew wrote seed of David and Seed of Abraham because he's the same it's the same seed Yeshua okay so that just build it and extended upon the abrahamic Covenant saying that Yeshua Jesus will sit on David's Everlasting Throne over the promised land of the abrahamic Covenant and over the people and as we all know he is the New Covenant of the davidic Covenant and the abrahamic Covenant so all those covenants work together and he's going to fulfill all of those at his Millennial Kingdom of course we're saved by the blood of the land we're saved under the New Covenant yes we are and we're going to get into that but we're not living in the New Covenant because the Jewish people as a nation has not declared Messiah Yeshua as their Messiah as their King which they will but it's so important my friends and this is where I'm going with it is all of the covenants the abrahamic the vidic and the New Covenant was made with the Jewish people that's bottom line there was Zero covenants made with gentiles of course Abraham was a gentile and he crossed over okay but he was Father Abraham that started the whole God's Plan of Salvation basically and that's what we're talking about we're talking about God's Plan of Salvation with the covenants and that's why it's important again how it relates into Hanukkah how it relates in the perm and things like this okay but this is so important for us to understand as Gentile Believers about the proper understanding of these things and I'm sorry I was a little behind I get so excited I forget these slides are there so I apologize uh to David mainly you know but uh we have to understand uh the abrahamic the davidic the New Covenant which we just did and now let's look at Ephesians 2 I speak about this scripture all of the time and the reason I'm saying this is for a reason obviously but let's look at what Paul says the Apostle to the Gentiles what he tells us he says therefore remember that you once Gentiles In the Flesh who are called uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision made in the hand made in the flesh by hands that at that time you were without Christ and listen at this being aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel so important to understand that and strangers from the covenants of Promise very important to understand that having no hope and without God in the world but now in Christ Jesus Yeshua you were once far off but have been brought nearby the blood of Christ and in verse 19 he clarifies it now therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners he's talking about Gentiles but fellow citizens of what the Commonwealth of Israel okay the Kingdom of Israel not modern-day Christianity not any of that it's the Commonwealth of Israel the Kingdom of Israel with the Saints and the members of the the household of God having been built on the foundation of the Apostles and the prophets Moses was a prophet okay that includes Torah Jesus Christ himself being the Chief Cornerstone in whom the whole building being fitted together grows into a holy Temple in the Lord think about Hanukkah and whom you are also being built together for a Dwelling Place of God in the spirit amen and amen so what is he telling us with this well he's telling us that we're all grafted in you know that's a concept we have to understand is oh yes we are believers yes we are quote unquote Christians however you want to call it but really when it gets down to it the problem that we're having with the division of the Jewish people in the in the Gentiles is terminology is the word certain terminologies that they associate with uh Rome with other things as well with the Crusades with things like that so when I say that we're in the Commonwealth of Israel that's just scriptural that's what we just read we're in the comment if you're a believer in Yeshua you're no longer a gentile you don't want to be a gentile I promise you when he returns okay or when you meet him you do not want to be a gentile you want to cross over into the again you don't want to be a stranger of the covenants you don't want to be an alien from the Commonwealth of Israel okay so where did Paul get this where did he where did he go with this okay there's always a backstory to the this and that's why I wanted to bring this out before we get into the story of Hanukkah he brought it out by going reverting us back to Exodus 12. and let's see if I've missed that okay Exodus 12. this is where Paul has I get so excited I start skipping screens and skipping Scrolls and and things like that but anyhow Paul is reverting us back the concept of Ephesians 2 goes back to Exodus 12 and you're going to see that right here okay so Exodus 12 is a Passover regulation chapter right when they were before they were leaving Egypt and they did leave Egypt during that chapter he makes it clear and in verse 43 he says this and the Lord said to Moses and Aaron this is the ordinance of the Passover no Foreigner think about what Paul just said shall eat it but every man's servant who is brought for money when you have circumcised him abrahamic Covenant then he may eat it a Sojourner or Gentile and a hard servant shall not eat it in one house it shall be eaten you shall not carry any of the flesh outside of the house nor shall you break one of its bones all the congregation of Israel shall eat it he didn't say all of the children of Israel he said all of the congregation of Israel shall keep it Paul tells you in first Corinthians 5 7 to keep the Feast of Passover okay I'm trying to make a point here stay with me but all the congregation of Israel going back to Ephesians 2 what did Paul tell you you're no longer a stranger Gentile if you accept Jesus as your savior Yeshua you're in the Commonwealth Commonwealth congregation let's not split hairs here that's the same word okay he's telling you the same way and then he keeps telling you and when a stranger dwells with you and wants to keep the Passover to the Lord let his males be circumcised and then let him come near and keep it and he shall be as a native as the land well what did Paul tell you in Ephesians 2 you're no longer strangers you're no longer aliens you're in the Commonwealth of Israel for no uncircumcised person shall eat it and then this is where it says that we all have to remember and this is what Paul is trying to tell us in Ephesians 2 one Torah one law shall be for the native born Jew and for the stranger Gentile who dwells among you but guess what what did Paul just tell us you're no longer strangers from the Covenant you know because you have the blood of Yeshua but that doesn't mean you can't you don't have to do those things that he wanted us to do so we have to understand my friends that we are Israel Jew and Gentile there's no separation between us okay and we've got to worship like Israel there's so much uh division between Jews and Gentiles Jews to the left Gentiles to the right and you're the only bait in town now that's just a song I don't know if who knows that song but anyhow anyhow back to the subject at hand um it's not juice to the left Gentiles to the right and we we worship different ways God wants us to worship one way he wants us to worship just like he says there's one Torah for my people basically for the citizen and the stranger there's only one way to worship and the Jews have their problems the Gentiles have their problems we've got to come together to reconcile through Yeshua the Torah and that is the story of Hanukkah my friends and I just wanted to bring this out as well when we look at other slides because I think I've kind of lost track with where I was going with some of this but I wanted to close with even more additional information so I would uh hopefully encourage you to read Exodus 12 and then also Ephesians 2 together and just look how they relate to each other and that's why Paul wrote them the way that he did okay now let's go a step further let's go to Galatians 3 26-29 for Gentiles to understand this concept of being grafted in into the Commonwealth of Israel to the Kingdom of Israel remember Messiah said in Acts 1 when the disciples asked him when will you restore the kingdom to Israel so the kingdom is going to be restored to Israel my friends and I know that we all want to be in that Kingdom as well but this is what the Apostle Paul says in Galatians 3 26 through 29 he says this for you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus for as many of you as we're baptized into Christ have put on Christ there's neither Jew nor Greek or Gentile there is neither slave nor freed there is neither male nor female okay don't get that confused with what's going on today with the conversation okay he's just making a point that we're all one for you are all one in Christ Jesus and look at what he says in verse 29 and if you are Christ then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise so my friends we have to understand what is the promise well the promise relates to Abraham he's talking to Gentiles here he said if you are a seed of Christ which we certainly are then we're a Seed of Abraham and we're heirs according to the promise The Inheritance the the abrahamic Covenant you know friends we have to understand this this is New Testament this is in the book of Galatians and Paul is clarifying covenant theology which is so important which is the reason why I wanted to mention this before we we went through Hanukkah is covenant theology my friends without covenant theology there's replacement theology you know that's just the bottom line if we don't have our theology corrected you know all of us you know and whatever it may be then replacement theology will creep in and that's what Satan wants and that's why we have the division that we have that's why when I tell someone I celebrate Hanukkah whether it's Jew or Gentile they look at me where I've got four heads okay okay and I said well I only have two but that's okay you're seeing double you know me now but anyhow but that's the problem is we've got so many labels out there and we've got so many misunderstandings between it and first and foremost that Jesus is a hundred percent Jewish 100 percent you know it's amazing that we even have to say that these days but that's some people just don't know that again the theology has gone out the window in the majority of modern day Christianity and that's just the fact and I don't mean that ugly I love everybody but the truth is the truth and it's going out the window and Jesus is a hundred percent uh Jewish he put a great great understanding of how important he placed on Hanukkah he either stayed in Jerusalem for two months and to be tested by the Pharisees and Sadducees and that wanted to kill him or he went back on the track 70 miles and then came back another 70 miles so either way in the middle of winter by the way okay so and again they didn't have buses they didn't have Ubers they didn't have any of that so he put a major understanding of it and if it's good for him then I think it's good for for all of us that's pretty much uh probably the best way to put it after uh 40 minutes on the air about this is that so um but anyhow now let's look at two now that we understand or what I personally believe uh the reasons to really celebrate the Festival of Hanukkah and really understand the thing of being grafted in is what you're seeing right now is we're grafted into the Commonwealth of Israel my friends Paul tells us that over and over Romans 11 Galatians 3 uh what we just read in Ephesians 2 we have to understand the concept so that we can come together as one new body and also one new man and not be separated because we think something is either Jewish or Gentile so to speak we've got to come together and we've got to all test it according to the word of God and what sticks is thick and what doesn't doesn't but therefore why is Hanukkah important for Christians to celebrate uh y'all heard it you know I've repeated it over and over the promise of the Everlasting covenants which is the abrahamic the davidic and the New Covenant without Hanukkah without Purim uh that those covenants could have been broken okay because the Jewish people would have been annihilated they would have been exterminated from the earth and God is a promised keeper he's not a promise breaker okay that's replacement theology is when they say he's going to break his covenants with Israel or with the Jewish people but Hanukkah preserved the pure Royal lineage uh seed to the Messiah and again as we're about to see Hanukkah points to Yeshua as Hanukkah will occur again all right so now let's go forward into understanding the origin and the history of Hanukkah most of you guys probably do understand the origin in the history but I think if it's prophetic which it certainly is which we will find out through the scriptures we have to understand the origin of it we have to understand the character where's the character from is he an antichrist uh prototype and if he is can we find that in the scriptures as well to confirm as a witness through the scriptures and all of those answers are very important to understand through Hanukkah because again as we will see uh Hanukkah will happen again if you were with us for the study of the Book of Revelation in Daniel some of this is going to flow into that as well with what we've learned with the ultimate and final Antichrist coming on board we'll see the prophetic understandings of that through the Festival of Hanukkah but the origins of Hanukkah occurred during the inter-testamental time between the old and the New Testament if you will between the Tanakh what most people call the Old Testament and the Brit hadasha which is the New Testament uh after Alexander the Great's premature death in 323 BC uh basically he uh for 12 years he basically conquered the world uh in that modern day world in 12 years but his premature death in 323 BC The Grecian Empire was eventually divided okay it took time to get to that point but it was eventually divided into four regions ruled by four of uh Alexander the Great's generals Ptolemy seleuces Cassandra and Las macas and that is the seleucid division uh where uh we keep speaking up prophetically because we're going to dive in prophetically personally historically uh the origins just like we said in the beginning of the of the video but the seleucid division is this division that we'll be speaking about tonight where Antiochus epiphanies IV uh was raised up out of uh so to speak so that is the uh seleucid division but down below in the South you see the Ptolemy and then in the north uh West you have Cassandra and you have license as well but the most important division to really look at when it comes to Hanukkah and also the prophetic understanding of it at the second coming events is the seleucid uh Empire just like we've gone through uh so many times that's where the Book of Daniel really comes to life Daniel 8 also Daniel 10 through 12. that's really where the region really speaks of and what most people would think that Antiochus epiphanes the fourth has fulfilled but as we know there's always a foreshadow before the eventual uh King uh final King so to speak and tick is epiphanies the fourth this was a war that occurred really when you read the book of Maccabees and also the historian Josephus this is a story that really a war that was going on way before even in tiercus epiphanes the fourth okay but he is the main character that concluded uh this uh long war between the Maccabees and also the Syrian Greek Empire of Antiochus but he is the fourth uh version of antigus that we will conclude with because that's where the war and that's where the miracle and that's where the victory came as with uh over Antiochus epiphanies IV but in 175 BC he was an evil King obviously who was a prophetic foreshadow to the Antichrist because again like I said most people look at Daniel 11 as he has fulfilled that but if you read it very carefully that that has not been fulfilled that is Antichrist scriptures that you're seeing in there but Antiochus epiphanes the fourth is a wonderful is a perfect fit for a prototype of him because of the area that he's coming out of and what the scriptures label uh the end Antichrist or the final Antichrist so to speak so he is a prototype of the Antichrist as we will see uh in Daniel 11 also Daniel 9 Daniel 8 he was from that seleucid division we can think of that as the Iraq Syria turkey Iran area Lebanon area basically north of Arabia and Israel in the Middle East but he was regarded as a tyrant ruler he was very erratic very violent very volatile he was up and down and thus the he incurred the name the Mad one which was a play a word play on his name a epiphanies but this guy was insane he was out of his mind basically and he hated the Jewish people you know and um he came against the Jewish people during his Reign when he sought to expand it uh so to speak so uh he aggressively dominated the cultures around him just like most of those guys did at that time he wanted to influence Jerusalem he wanted to influence the Jewish culture and basically he was in direct conflict with the traditionalists with the Jewish people who loved the Torah Who Loved God's ways God's word so to speak who sought to keep all of these pure traditions and also the pure levitical uh priesthood as well but he also uh when his attempt and what what occurred during that time is there was a it was called the hellenization of the Jewish people which basically wanted to replace Jewish culture or the Torah with Gentile ways with Pagan ways with man-made ways so to speak so it's really when you look at this from a prophetic and a personal standpoint of today it's really no different than what you're facing today you know you got the Believers who were Torah observant to God's word which when someone says the word of God first and foremost that means Torah you know when he says the word when John in John 1 when John said the word became flesh he's talking about the Torah he's talking about the Torah became flesh the New Testament I mean he was part of writing the New Testament so of course so when someone says the word of God first and foremost that means Torah and then obviously you know all of the uh books that we all agree to so we have to understand that that's what we're dealing with today is the same thing and I want to really bring that point out is today we have the purest the traditionalists that want to follow Torah follow God's laws follow God's Sabbath feast days dietary laws all these things and then we have the ones that do not want to follow the Torah you know that and that's what they were facing at that time and in his attempt in antiguous epiphanies uh the fourth in his attempt to hellenize the Jewish people he disposed of the Jewish high priest and installed his hellenized uh quote-unquote Jewish priest with all of their laws their Customs instead of the Torah to the high priesthood he also eliminated the Sabbath the new moon the dietary laws he eliminated circumcision which why would he want to do that because of the pure Royal lineage seed remember Yeshua was about to be born 150 years or something okay I mean Satan knew this okay and if you go back and look at his history and go back into extra biblical sources he came against Abraham you agree that in the Tom mood he came against Isaac with Ishmael came against Jacob with Esau came against David with Goliath and many others he comes against the Covenant people he came against Yeshua Herod killed all the two-year-olds and Below you know he's coming after the seed line because of what we mentioned before with the Everlasting covenants my friends it all goes back into if Satan can break the seed line and he can break God's promises he would win of course he's not going to win we all know that but that's the whole point we've got to understand the battle of the battle of Hanukkah the Battle of what we're facing now the battle what they've always faced is God's ways or man's ways and that was the fight between The Maccabees and also with the Syrian Army I mean it was a two-folded war it was a spiritual war but it was a physical War it was a physical war against Syria against Antigua biffany is the fourth in their armies there was a spiritual war against the Jewish people who turned their back on God's ways okay and that's no different than the Christians turning their back on God's ways it's the same thing so I'm not picking on anyone here or trying to be rude okay I love everybody but that's what was going on then is there was two separate Wars a physical War where what we're about to discover but also there was that spiritual aspect of it that uh Satan wanted Antiochus to influence the Jewish people to get them away from the Torah and things like that but uh the circumcision is huge because that is the pure Royal lineage so he wanted to eliminate that uh also anything that was holy you know anything that God called holy anticipanes IV wanted to call Unholy you know just like what we're kind of seeing today you know so to speak with um unfortunately modern day uh Christianity but after uh antiquis epiphanies IV after his unsuccessful attempt uh to conquer Egypt in 168 BC he became I mean a Madman he became even more insane actually and angry and he set out to destroy the Jewish people BC this is what occurred and we can all look at this together in 167 BC Antiochus attacked Jerusalem and killed approximately 40 000 Jewish people and sold another 40 000 into slavery he banned all the Jewish Traditions feast days dietary laws Customs study of Taurus circumcision anything else that was held Holy by the Jewish people upon the penalty of death he also set up a statue okay and think about this on the Antichrist in Matthew 24 Daniel 9 he also set up a statue of Zeus in the Holy Temple the first abomination of desolation and defiled the temple by sacrificing swine and other Pagan offerings on the altar again that's Daniel 9 through 12 and also you can find that in Matthew 24. I mean this is prophetically now let's look at it prophetically in this passage that's exactly what the Antichrist is going to do as well okay he's going to abominate the temple that's why Messiah wrote it in Matthew 24 go read Daniel the Prophet you know because it's going to be the same thing so what I'm trying to tell you is is yes Antiochus epiphanies IV was a prototype of the Antichrist of course he was I mean look at the Abominations that he did look at the killing of the Jewish people etc etc you know the blasphemies and the Abominations however that will happen again and with the Antichrist from the same area the seleucid division and also the abomination of desolation however they met that might look with Zeus or himself or the golden image of Babylon or however people want to call that it will be an Abomination no matter what with that but with all that being said all of these Abominations gave rise to one of the most I think you know Judah Maccabee or Judas Maccabee is a like a King David in his own right you know when you really read about him he was an unbelievable man he was really a holy righteous man and he would cut your head off for the word of God if he thought that you were blaspheming or abominating the temple or anything like that I mean it was totally phenomenal of the Zeal that he had and his family had for uh the Lord okay especially his father as well mati Yahoo he was very zealous for the Lord and then the main character that took over was Judas or Judah Maccabee they called him the hammer because he was the hammer okay so to speak so I would encourage everybody during this Hanukkah season to really read about Judah Judas Maccabee and the maccabean Revolt it's really really inspirational about their love for God their love for Torah and not the ways of mankind and it's really inspirational when you read about The Maccabees about mati Yahoo the priest and then also his sons and again the main character was Judas Maccabee uh the hammer so to speak but Maccabee what's so interesting about Maccabee is it's composed of four Hebrew letters and those Hebrew letters stand for who is like you o god well what's so amazing is the word Maccabees composed of the initial letters of a verse that the Jewish people sorry about my misspelling of the Jewish people but uh the verse the Jewish people sang after God split the sea and look it's the same verse who is like you among the Mighty O God Exodus 15 11. my friends we have to just understand that we're all weaved in together you know the Maccabees The Exodus story The Maccabee story The perm story our story we're all weaved in together with victory of one new body and one new man and we really have to understand that that's really what the story of Hanukkah is as well is to those who love God you know and love loves his ways and loves his holy Torah you know that's what it's about you know so that's really when you look into it we're fighting the same thing that they were fighting but during this at the end of the war so to speak there was a three-year Guerrilla war that followed after uh with Judah Maccabee and these traditionals Judah the hammer and his armies eventually defeated the armies of antigus IV I mean it's amazing when you look at the strength of Antiochus epistanis IV in his armies and the Book of Maccabees goes through that I mean they were outnumbered just like in the Holy Bible all of God's people sometimes are always outnumbered so that he can get the victory okay but it's amazing at the deficits you know at the basically all these different tens of thousands of men and they had like 800 men and they would come out uh Victorious you know it was just Judah the hammer was a bad man if I can say that online he was an awesome dude so to speak and he was he was really someone that I wish would gain more notoriety so to speak because of his zealous for the Lord and I don't mean that for himself I mean that for what the Lord did through him and his cell his zealous for God's ways and things like that's totally phenomenal but this resulted in the restoration after uh Judah Maccabee and the maccabean armies defeated antiquis epiphanes and and their armies it resulted in the restoration of the priesthood the levitical priesthood the Torah study the Jewish biblical traditions and eventually the Reclamation and the rededication of the temple in 164 BC thus the Festival of Hanukkah the Feast of rededication in the Festival of allights was instituted which commemorates the mecca being victory over Antiochus IV but remember my friends what is this really about of course it's a Jewish Festival and of course you know um uh it's about the Jewish people with this but again what have we discovered we're grafted in to the Commonwealth of Israel we're grafted into the Kingdom of Israel you know we're all one Jew and Gentile what we just read and if it wasn't for the Maccabees if it wasn't for the light Rising against the dark if it wasn't those brave men and women of The Maccabees and there all of those people you know who was to say you know it had to be because of God's Everlasting covenants of his Messiah Yeshua that was going to be the light of the world uh so to speak it's totally amazing when you look at it but again just like I've discussed before this was a war between uh the physical war was against antiguous epiphanies IV and his armies and the spiritual war was against the Hellenistic Jews uh against the Torah observers the ones that turned their back on Torah and the ones that were going to observe Torah basically to sum it up in today's terms it was the word of God versus paganism and look at where we are today uh with that and I'll let everybody Ponder on that themselves you know when you look at God's holy perfect law his holy perfect ways they're absolutely perfect but like I've always said when you get off of his calendar when you get off of his holy days when you get off of his new moons when you get off of all these beautiful things uh theology goes out the window you know we all worship the way we all worship you know we all have our sabbaths when we have our sabbaths that's not that's very very that's that's very dangerous you know God wants us to be a associated with him on his time frames and again Hanukkah is not a modem but it's very important for the reasons that we just mentioned for all of us to really congregate and to thank God for the amazing victory that he gave the Maccabees so that the seed line would continue for that his promises would continue forward and that we would have Yeshua Messiah so to me when I think of Hanukkah I think of Yeshua I think of the covenants I think of the Jewish people being saved I think of all these beautiful things I don't just think of it oh well that's a Jewish thing you know that's that's their Christmas you know so to speak or whatever people may want to categorize that as it's very important for us to come together and to worship together as one new body one new man and to really receive these beautiful victories that God has had for the Jewish people because of the Everlasting covenants it's really it's really that simple okay and now let's talk about the miracle of the oil this is what most people will be very fond of when you think about Hanukkah they they know that there was a miracle of the oil and now this tradition proclaims that after uh the recapturing of the temple in 164 BC by The Maccabees there was only enough holy oil to light the menorah or the hanakia for one day but due to a miracle uh from God the all burned for eight days which is totally amazing and it's totally prophetic in so many different ways and we're going to try to go through some of these things uh to tie this in but this is why the menorahs live for eight days uh in the remembrance of the successful Mecca being Rebellion during the reign of antiguous epistanis IV and the rededication of the Holy Temple so this is why they celebrate it or we celebrate it for eight days as the remembrance of the miracle of the oil of the victory over Antiochus epiphanies the restoration of Torah also the preservation of the Jewish seed to Yeshua the Messiah and all of these things is just so phenomenal so this is the reason that we celebrate all of these things and when you look at the light of the world when you look at during this time the light of the menorah and things like that isn't it amazing that uh the scriptures say that the Torah is light and this is what the Maccabees were fighting for was for light it says this Proverbs 6 23 for the Commandment is a lamp and the law is and the law I light reproofs of instruction are the way of life as King Solomon Psalm 119 105 your word the word of God Torah is a lamp to my feet in a light to my path wow a lamp to my feet and a lie to my path think about Hanukkah think about all these beautiful things we've discovered and then we know Yeshua said what he said because of Torah you sure is the way the truth and the light okay he is the light of the world which is totally amazing and whenever we look at it without the preservation of the Jewish people and always remember this without the preservation of the Jewish people God's promises would have been broken every time okay but he's a promise keeper and that's why covenant theology is so important my friends is he's a promised keeper because if he could break his Covenant to Israel then he could break it to you but guess what he's not going to do that he made a promise a sworn oath he was the stove the oven the torch that went through the body parts in the abrahamic Covenant as a unilateral an unconditional and an irrevocable Covenant only he went through it Abraham didn't go through it and he gave it to Isaac he gave it to Jacob and he gave it to David as well you know with the davidic Covenant through Yeshua the New Covenant they all work together that's the story of Hanukkah is the preservation of the seed line of the preservation of the Jewish people and also the deliverance and the victory that God gave them is totally amazing we've gone through this before on the feast days and we'll go through this really quick and then people can research it themselves but in my personal belief whenever we look at Luke 1 and we look at the birth of Messiah the birth of John the Baptist Zacharias is priesthood which is John's father when we read that in the chronological account that it is in you know and we understand again like the Feast of dedication is Hanukkah okay the hour of incense is Shabba oat we start to understand these not Mysteries but these hidden things in there about our Messiah and his birth and his conception so when we read again I've done videos on this before and you can find on my YouTube channel and I don't want to be too redundant and this is really about Hanukkah more than anything when you look at the chronological account in Luke 1 of messiah's birth of John's birth of zechariah's priesthood well Zachariah was in Jerusalem for the Feast of incense okay which is uh Shava oat the hour of incense well right after that he was sent home when you read the account and that's when Elizabeth got pregnant well then it says five months later or six months later I can't remember but when you read it in chronological order it puts Mary being encountered by the Holy Spirit on December with the angel Gabriel visiting her the angel Gabriel visiting uh on the account of Yeshua Etc she was conceived on Hanukkah is what most would believe when you look at the scriptures and but you have to understand these things you have to understand the calendar you've got to understand the hour of incense you've got to understand the division of abhija okay which is zachariah's priesthood the eighth Division and you do the math on it and it points to him being conceived on the Festival of Lights the light of the world the Feast of dedication and all of these things things and all we all know nine months later that's how much or how long a pregnancy is that puts you on the Feast of Tabernacles which we've discovered during the Feast of Tabernacles as well so we have to understand that of course God is going to have his son born conceived crucified you name it on these beautiful beautiful holidays whether they're muladim or whether they're not it's going to be on his calendar and it's going to have major symbolic meaning for that he's not going to be born on a gentile date okay I can guarantee that I promise you that there's nowhere in the Holy Bible that says that nowhere and all of the festivals by the way that we're supposed to celebrate God's people Jew Gentile are found in Leviticus 23. now yes they instituted Purim in the Book of Esther which is beautiful and also Hanukkah but I'm talking about the Divine appointments I'm talking about the ones where hey meet me here Sabbath Passover Etc so we have to understand these things it's beautiful to be a part of these things is one new body is one new man celebrating together but we've got to have a paradigm shift Jew and Gentile okay have to have a paradigm shift so that we can come together as one under Yeshua following the Torah it's really that simple when you come down to it but we make it all of us include myself we make it uh very very hard but uh as we move forward now let's look at some of this symbolism that I think is just really beautiful that we'll go through and I don't know if y'all can see my uh hanakia I think it's uh pretty much about going out now but uh let me super size this one and let's try to look at this nine Branch uh hanakia now there is the menorah that has seven branches but on Hanukkah they have one that's nine branches obviously because of the eight days that they celebrate for Hanukkah and then there's that middle candle called the shamash candle okay so we have to understand the difference that the menorah has seven and yes this is called a menorah but it's called a hanakia to separate it from the seven Branch Menorah to the nine uh Branch uh Menorah but the center point as you can see on the screen is higher than the rest and it holds like I said when we were lighting the candle the shamash or the servant candle that's what it's called now think about it this all points to Yeshua symbolically okay this is what it's about he is the serving candle right he's the servant Isaiah 53 Psalms 22 he came to give his life for every one of us so he's definitely that symbolism that we're seeing and of course he is the king of kings the Lord of lords he's the if you know Hebrew letters the lamid which we will learn if you're on this journey with us it's the tallest letter it's called the King of Kings lord of the Lords that's what the shemash is that's what the servant candle is and it is used to light all of the other lights all of the other eight uh all of the eight nights just like we said we like the shamash or the middle candle first and then you light the newest one so if you're on night four you like Knight four first and then night three then night two then night one okay so tonight we just had one candle so we like the far right one because Hebrew is from right to left right so we write we light the middle one and then we like the right one but the newest one of the right one if that makes any sense so hopefully I haven't confused everybody even more but uh that's how uh you do it and then of course you can recite a blessing your own blessing there's blessings online you can make it your own tradition whatever you want to do except as long as it aligns with the biblical commands obviously but each night of Hanukkah think about it so whenever you light it just like we did tonight each night it becomes brighter and brighter you know as the shamash or the servant lights more candles think about Yeshua lighting more candles as the shamash likes more candles it becomes brighter and brighter as Yeshua the Holy Spirit brightens more candles it becomes brighter and brighter and there's a great tie-in with that as the body of Believers and that's what Hanukkah is about my friends as well is coming together and then the eighth night when the entire hanakia is lit with the shamash standing taller than all of us still so as we're all still lit he's still the King of Kings he's still the Lord of lords he's the one who is greater than all it's really pretty amazing similar to the shamash candle the serving candle Yeshua the servant of God first came as the Messiah Ben Joseph or suffering servant Messiah again Isaiah 53 Psalm 22 by the way whenever Messiah said my God my God have you why have you forsaken me he's telling the people to go back and read Psalm 22 because that's the first line of Psalm 22 so back then whenever someone would want you to understand a reference point they would just quote the first line of a chapter and that's why Messiah said my God my God why have you forsaken me he didn't say it because God forsaken him he said it for the Jewish people to go read Psalms 22 and to realize that he is that he's their Messiah he's their suffering servant he's the one who's going to die for their sins he is that uh that atonement that sacrificial atonement so to speak so I just wanted to mention that as well but now we look at really when we look at Isaiah 49 this is what Messiah came to do and now the Lord says who formed me from the womb to be his servant to bring Jacob back to him so that Israel is gathered to him for I shall be glorious in the eyes of the Lord and my God shall be my strength indeed he says is it too small a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the preserved ones of Israel think about that the preserved ones I will also give you as a light the Hanukkah light to the Gentiles that you should be my salvation to the ends of the Earth and as we know in Hebrew Yeshua means salvation you can find that in Strong's 34 68 so to speak so during this time my friends this is when we look at the personal uh understanding of Hanukkah it's the time of rededicating ourselves you know so we've looked at the origin we've looked at the history we've looked at some of the prophetic understanding and we're going to go through a little bit more of that here in a minute but when we look at the personal uh aspect of it it's rededicating ourselves you know and that's what I love about God's calendar and his feast days and the minor fee stays like this even though it's not a MOA Dean it's a time of rededication yes we should be doing that every week every Shabbat or every new moon or of course we should but this is just another example of communicating with him being intimate with him because you better believe if you read the story of Hanukkah you will see the Lord all in it every bit every single bit of it you will see the Lord God Almighty the commander of the Lord's armies in their there I can promise you that I mean it's an amazing story you know so we have to kind of get the personal understanding of it's time for us to rededicate ourselves as well you know really of course every day of course every week but seriously during this season of Hanukkah where all these beautiful events happen and all this rededication did happen and guess what it's going to happen again so why not rededicate our own selves even more so even deeper even more so than we already are wherever you may be on your path to rededicate yourself even more that's the personal understanding of it and the covenants is the personal understanding of it and why we should all be worshiping in spirit and in truth and again even though it's not a moadim it still was a very very important transitional time for the Jewish people and for our messiah's uh sebine it was a super important time and if you can just look at it from that aspect only that's really what the story of Hanukkah is is the preservation of the Jewish seed line and the preservation of the Holy Torah you know God's laws in God's ways that's really what the entire uh story of Hanukkah was and God gave those guys great great favor uh with that uh praise the Lord because of their love and because of their zealousness before his law and for his ways and that's the reason they got favor as we all know Yeshua when you look at the hanakia you can always think of it even though he said this during the Feast of Tabernacles uh on shmini at Surat as we discussed in the Feast of Tabernacles the eighth day he says I am the light of the world anyone who follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life and I personally believe again like we've discovered he was conceived on Hanukkah and which is the can the candles and all of these things the light of the world and think about just nature right now and how it's getting darker you know earlier obviously than it was the darkest time of the year you know mainly and then we have Hanukkah the Festival of Lights that's why it's called that it all points back to Yeshua the Festival of Lights he's the light of the world this is his people this is his seed line his pure Royal lineage sea lion so it's so important and then he expects us my friends to take this Hanukkah season and us being the light of the world as well you are the light of the world every one of you every one of you online right now and the ones watching on the replay you are the light of the world a city situated on a hill cannot be hidden no one likes and this is what it says in the Hebrew a menorah hanakia and puts it under a basket it says Menorah okay not hanuki I'm just saying hanakia for Hanukkah puts it up under a basket but rather on a lamp stand and gives it light for all those who are in the house think about Hanukkah in the same way let your light shine before men so that they may see your good works and give glory to your father who is in heaven uh Luke 2 29-32 this is Simeon uh this is amazing I love this story of Simeon when he uh was carrying he circumcised Yeshua on the eighth day of the Feast of Tabernacles this is what uh Simeon said and think about the Eighth Day of the Feast of Tabernacles that we discovered uh in the Feast of Tabernacles that's when Yeshua was circumcised which is shmini atsaret which is New Beginnings think about the eighth day of Hanukkah think about the Eighth Day Millennium and when you think about all these things you start to your mind starts to be like what's going on you know because it's a lot of information but uh anyhow guys I'm being serious it's totally phenomenal uh what the Lord's doing but look at what Simeon has said here Lord now you are letting your servant depart in Shalom according to your word for my eyes have seen your salvation Yeshua which you have prepared before the face of All Peoples a light to bring Revelation to the Gentiles and the glory of your People Israel amen and amen to that that I wanted to read those and now let's look into uh what is really pretty cool is Will Hanukkah occur again at messiah's Second Coming are we going to see Hanukkah occur again according to not only the Prophecies of who Messiah comes to fight against but this interesting equation in Daniel and some will agree with this and some will not agree with this I'm just giving you my personal opinion about this but I thought it was very interesting but I think again we have to look at the uh understanding of what the Prophet Daniel said and when you read Daniel through Daniel 10 through 12 he is speaking about the Antichrist yes Antiochus epiphanes the fourth people will bleed him into that which is fine but let's see what the Prophet Daniel says about this equation and let's see how we can align it to the calendar into the understanding of the last seven years especially the last three and a half years and how it goes into the millennial Kingdom okay and uh Daniel 12 11-12 it says this and from the time that the daily sacrifice is taken away in the abomination of desolation is set up there shall be 1290 days blessed is he who Waits and comes to 1335 days okay so I'm going to give you my personal opinion on this and I know everybody there's some is going to agree with this some that will not okay but when we look at it he gives us a marker of when the daily sacrifice is taken away so that's where it begins from that time that the daily sacrifice is taken away well that's going to happen at the three and a half year mark okay that's when you read Daniel 8 when you read all these other scriptures the daily sacrifice will be taking away at the three and a half year mark of the seven year tribulation okay is what most people call it and then he adds to it from other other confirmation and the abomination of desolation is set up so that should confirm that to everybody that's what Messiah said in Matthew 24 that when you see the abomination of desolation spoken by Daniel the Prophet that he's telling you the three and a half year mark so we've got a confirmation there then he says there shall be one thousand two hundred and ninety days then blessed is he who waits to 1 335 days so we're just going to make this very easy okay so the last three and a half years is 1260 days I think we can all agree with that okay well if you add 75 days to that okay from that the Lord return it is going to put you on Hanukkah it's going to put you on kids live 25 the Feast of rededication the Festival of Lights and things like that do you understand so we have to understand the calendar to understand these things and some people will agree with this some people will not and that's okay but Hanukkah will happen again because the same figure when we look at it prophetically is coming from the same area and the scriptures say that just like we discovered in the Book of Revelation in Daniel on one of those long studies a couple weeks ago that every all of the prophets Point towards the seleucid division okay which is where Antiochus epiphanes the fourth Rose from so we have to understand that that that's uh it's going to happen again and he's a foreshadow the Antichrist is going to abominate the temple all of these things that we've discovered so I wanted to share that with you Hanukkah will happen again and in fact we are already facing Hanukkah our on Hanukkah between the traditionalist or the purist who want to follow God's Torah and the ones who do not that's always been the war the ones who wanted to keep God's word and the ones who wanted to do their own thing that's really been since the beginning of time okay and so we have to understand we're fighting this but we have to come together as one to understand what the word of God says on a consistent cohesive Manner and not you know this one does this this one does that and before you know it everybody's doing their own thing and they don't know which which way to turn uh every which way to turn but Loose or whatever I think there was a movie made like that or something with Clint Eastwood but anyhow we have to understand that my friends but we'd like to close with uh the new the glory of the New Jerusalem and this is a Hanukkah a Hanukkah story within itself as well is the glory of the New Jerusalem think about what we've just discovered through all of these things with the candlelights uh the light of the world all of these things now let's read Revelation 21 this is the eighth day and I'll go through that very quick uh think about the days of creation this is where we get it from the Lord Works six days he rested on the seventh day so he gave us a pattern of understanding to work six rest on the seventh you go to Leviticus 25 it says to work uh it says to work uh six years and rest on the seventh year so he's given us a pattern of understanding there's work for six resting on Seventh but if you go back to the days of creation uh for uh Peter in second Peter 3 8 and then also in Psalms 90 Moses of the two witnesses that we have to have they say a thousand years is a day a day is a thousand years we all know that scripture so what else could they be referring to except for the days of creation I mean what could they be referring to so when you look at it a day is a thousand years a thousand years is a day what I believe is what the Lord's telling us just like he works six days we will work six days but at six thousand years a day A Thousand Years A Thousand Years a day and then on the seventh day the seven thousandth year that's messiah's Millennial Kingdom for a thousand years and then the eighth day is the New Jerusalem and all of those things so I hope that makes sense that you've got these prophetic understanding of the calendar or of the days of creation of six thousand years this Earth will be and then Messiah will come on the seventh thousandth year or the seventh day and then he'll Reign for a thousand years Revelation 20 okay which is one day or one thousand years seven to eight and then the eighth day we step in uh to the New Jerusalem and now with the understanding of Hanukkah and the understanding of the eighth day now let's read Revelation 21 and get even more prophetic understanding of this eight number verse 23-27 it says the city had this talk about the New Jerusalem the city had no need of the Sun or the moon to shine in it it says no need now we will have a moon just like Isaiah 66 says it says you don't need it because the glory of God is the illumination of it the land is its light the light of the world Hanukkah what he said at the Feast of Tabernacles is which is when the transition will happen into the Eighth Day and the nations of those who are safe shall walk in its light and the kings of the earth bring their Glory and Honor into it its gate shall be shut At All by day but there shall be no night can you imagine that there will be no night it'll be Hanukkah all the time there'll be light of the world all the time right and there shall bring the glory and the honor of the Nations into it excuse me but there shall not be anything that enters it that defiles causes an Abomination or a lie but those who are written in the Lambs a book of life so on the hanakia we have eight candles all lit in turn one uh by the shamash servant candle here we see the time of dedication for the eighth New Millennium okay so when you look at the hanakia of this Hanukkah this Eighth Day think about the eighth Millennium again a day is a thousand years a thousand years is a day during this eight day journey of Hanukkah my friends let's think about that let's think about uh the uh Eighth Day Millennium uh if you will when we get to that point but here we see the time of dedication for the eighth New Millennium on the hanakia where the New Jerusalem will be eternally lit eternally lit by the Light of the Lamb of God and the true servant in light of the world Yeshua hamashiach uh it's totally amazing assuredly there was a miracle that occurred on Hanukkah and it was not just over a simple eight-day supply of oil God oh my Hashem in his Supreme and Sovereign power took a band of homeless and outnumbered and out-armored Warriors and gave them victory over one of the most powerful and tyrannical Empires the world has ever known God did not accomplish this for sacred oil temples or cities but to show his mighty faithfulness to his Everlasting covenants the abrahamic the davidic the New Covenant that he promised and to preserve the lineage the pure Royal lineage that he would bring forth the Messiah of the world without the miraculous victory of Judah the hammer Maccabee the birth of the Lion of the tribe of Judah Yeshua would not have occurred we praise and we give thanks to the god of Israel the god of Abraham Isaac and Jacob for this miraculous miraculous outstanding Victory uh with the Festival of Hanukkah so my friends I hope this has been helpful for you it's been an amazing a lot of information I know for sure but it is just a beautiful beautiful ceremony uh it is a beautiful Festival to be a part of for eight days you know you have it for eight days to really reflect on all of these things that we've discovered the origin of Hanukkah the history of Hanukkah the prophetic understanding of all these things that we've discovered and also the personal you know don't forget the personal out of it the rededicating whatever it may be that may be holding either any of us up you know uh with anything to get rid of of it to repent of it to cleanse it to sever it whatever it may be to rededicate ourselves remember uh some of you are joining us on the cross to the crown Journey which is a book that I wrote about a journey on God's calendar uh this year it's a free ebook that you can find on my website uh on my YouTube or on my website and or I can email it to you as well but we're going through this journey on God's calendar and his seasons are his Seasons you know that's the bottom line now the Holy Spirit can do anything he wants at any time of course he can but God's seasons are his seasons and Hanukkah is one of these Miracle miraculous Seasons the pray for miracles I mean If He Did It For The Maccabees he can do it for you he could do it for me he can do it for our families he can do it for our friends he can do it for our nation he can do it for our church you know so that's that's my prayer uh over this Hanukkah season these next eight days is for every one of us to encounter on a deep and intimate level of what Hanukkah really is about okay yes it is a Jewish thing of course it is but it's also for also Gentiles to understand as well uh the points that we've mentioned before and to really hone into it and get more intimate with our Messiah who was on Solomon's porch in the temple uh during Hanukkah that's recorded in John 10 so he gave us an example and he put a very important measurement on the Festival of Hanukkah because of what we discussed with the distance from Galilee to Jerusalem so my friends I hope you have a blessed blessed Hanukkah a great Festival of dedication rededication okay Festival of Lights you know and spread the light be the light of the world you know be the Great Commission and do all these beautiful things so with that being said uh you know we'll open it up for questions or comments or anything like that all right people let's see so let's see uh all right we didn't burn anything down that's a good that's always a good sign to begin Hanukkah uh yeah we had the Festival of Lights you know the whole house burned down you know pretty interesting all right uh let's see here um Shalom everybody you know all of you guys that's been with us you know uh video after video we really appreciate your support and I thank you very much for joining us and if anybody has any questions or concerns uh like I said uh it's open to conversation you know whatever it may be uh faith hope and love uh Shalom to you it says Luke says six month Gabriel came to Mary to announce the miracle birth through her do you think that following the Hebrew calendar the birth may be in the spring both times make sense yeah it goes back to what I was saying when you read uh the division of abhija you know it's in Chronicles you know David divided the divisions we had to understand uh first you got to understand Zacharias John's father where he was and go from that point forward you know and uh basically he was at Shava ode or Pentecost which is basically June and then he was released to go home and that's when Elizabeth got pregnant so then you know you do the math and that puts you around the December area so I hope that helps faith hope and love and again that's just my personal understanding of it you know we all have a different understanding so H2O2 that's pretty cool kind of like cp3o with uh I don't even know why I thought about that but anyhow um cool name by the way uh the light first came to the wound of America nine months to secote birth of Yeshua that's exactly right do you know what was the period of time that required men to go to Jerusalem to be counted do you know what was the period yes so um okay so in Deuteronomy 16 16 uh it tells you that three times a year they had to be in Jerusalem you know Passover which is included with unleavened bread those eight days Shava oat and then Tabernacles so those are the three times that they would have done a census so that's why Yeshua was born on one of those three times so then you just have to go from there of course he was born on a Divine opponent of the Lord of course so but then that would really narrow it down it wasn't on Yom Kippur it wasn't on the Feast of trumpets uh those those things it was either on Tabernacles Java oat or Passover and then yeah everybody can do what they want to with that but um in my personal opinion it makes sense that he was on Tabernacles because of what we just discovered and remember he was circumcised on the eighth day in that Eighth Day Of Tabernacles means eternal life it means shmini at Surat so in my opinion and it just makes the most common sense that uh in biblical sense that he was conceived on Hanukkah count nine months it couldn't have been on trumpets or Yom Kippur because the people weren't there uh that's why there was no room in the end if you will you know the the Josephus said there was like two million people there at messiah's Birth you know so and they were there because they had to be there you know according to Deuteronomy 16 16 I thought there was no room in the end and I believe he was circumcised on that Eighth Day uh symbolizing what he symbolizes eternal life so to me that totally makes sense I know some people put it on Passover but to me it doesn't hold the weight and the uh gravity that uh what we just spoke about you know if that makes sense yes yeah so yeah just do the math from uh Java oat from uh June you know July maybe I can do it July August September October November December yeah six months so yes so chavos are six months so again Shabbos usually in the beginning of June so he was sent home about middle to end of June and then six months puts you around this time you know that we're in now yeah I have no I have no idea how old was John but you know what that's the scene that I've really been focused on uh Grammy Anan Shalom to you by the way uh that's a scene that I've really been kind of thinking about lately meditating on uh was really when when John was baptizing people and all of a sudden he looked and said the Lamb of God that takes away I would have loved to have seen that scene or a lot of every scene in the Bible but you know what I mean out of love to have seen that scene so that's actually interesting that you mentioned that because I've been thinking about that one scene like if I could have just seen that how that was because you read the story of Luke 1 and you think that they knew each other but they did not know each other it says you know John and Jesus did not know each other the way that people think that they knew each other you know I think the scriptures even say that which kind of surprises me that they didn't because how close I guess Mary and Elizabeth seemed to be in a Luke one but anyhow yeah that's exactly yeah that's a great Point faith hope and love uh born of the seed of the woman yeah who who carried Yeshua down the volume down was the Holy Spirit remember what we learned with the vob right the the Holy Spirit you know came down and uh overshadowed uh Mary just like he overshadowed the Waters of the deep remember uh with that so yeah that's a beautiful Point yeah absolutely about 10 days lost when the calendar converted um I'm not sure about that to be honest with you Granny or not I do know that people do look at it like this it goes back into excuse me the days of Noah those 10 days of all is something that I've been really um I'm a man they're awesome of 10 days of Awesomeness right they're awesome to begin with but I've really been trying to understand how the Lord looks at those 10 days in more more in depth and I'm not really sure yet because of um some people would look at it as it's one big day you know um those 10 days but and I'm not saying I look at it like that or not it's really too soon for me to even speak about it but to answer your question I'm not really sure if there were 10 days lost I do know that they do not count The Exodus years with the current calendar like for right now it's 57.83 you can really add 210 or 15 a hundred years to that and that's I believe where we really are personally that's just my personal opinion so and that puts you around 5993 or something right so you almost at the end of the sixth day is uh what I personally believe but again that's just my personal opinion and I could be wrong that is a very interesting question yeah have wondered if Yeshua was baptized at the same spot where Joshua crossed the Jordan it wouldn't surprise me you know because remember what did Joshua do uh in the story of Joshua remember the Lord told him to put the 12 Stones right in the river you know and things like that so that would not surprise me because what I believe and maybe what you believe Sheree is God's ways are his ways they all repeat you know um I was reading something out of the Maccabees uh and I forgot to do that by the way uh to read something out of the Maccabees maybe we'll do it some other a night of Hanukkah and uh I get so sidetracked and get so excited I forget to read all this information but it's amazing but I wanted to bring some uh I just wanted to give some homage to Judas Maccabee and some of his quotes and things like that so we'll be doing some videos throughout Hanukkah this is not a dead season for my occupation but in a way kind of of dead you know so I'll have more time so I know I'll be doing at least one or two more videos uh on uh I think what's going to be called the spirit of lawlessness in the church which I think is kind of what Hanukkah is about uh in a way but I also want to read more about Judah Maccabee as well and I guess if we run out of questions and whoever wants to listen to it we'll read some of it tonight you know so um that's all okay I'll go through a few of these that uh aren't questions to see if we've missed anything but if you guys have anything you guys are kind of a quiet crowd tonight uh which is okay let's see uh Shalom Marsha it's good to see you Alicia shalom blessings happy won't be okay uh Sheila Shalom all of you guys the Grand cal Amy happy Hanukkah to you as well Dana it's good to see everybody the Great Commission uh Kelly it's always good to see you Loretta always good to see all you guys that have been on here happy Hanukkah to everybody um Dee French Cherie King pardoza I love the handle as well let's see Phelps fan for good Shalom happy Hanukkah to you peace and Light of Christ Beverly Shalom Mary all of you guys out there Kim Gloria yeah Hallelujah one second please I forgot how to do that okay I always lose my place on here every time okay here we go yes yep we're grafted in it's a great concept to understand if uh again go to Romans 11 Ephesians 2 Galatians 3 it kind of tells you Paul's explaining how the how the Gentiles are associated with the Commonwealth of Israel and the covenants or Kingdom of Israel yes Mary puts a good comment up that I think is really cool uh the division between Jews and Christianity Christians is terminology and I totally 100 believe that I really do if our terminology could be better to understand what each other coming from with anything this is Jew Gentile races if we could understand where someone else is coming from and listen to them I think we'd have a better uh world that's for sure but yeah I love the point that's it that's exactly right Ephesians 2 I mean when you receive Jesus you're no longer a stranger thank God you're not a gentile you're in the Kingdom or Commonwealth of Israel this is a blessing Amen to that Mary yeah yeah so yeah you're just people who believe like we all believe if we all believe the same we're stuck in the middle you know what's the song I'm not going to mention the song It's a Cheesy song anyhow so I think yeah that was interesting but um anyhow but yes you're stuck in the middle whenever you believe the way we believe with Yeshua and also with the Torah you know you're in the middle between Jews and Gentiles you know because you're gonna have conversations with both which is a blessing uh you're part of the breed you're part of the repair of the breach is what you are you know and that's in the scriptures is we've got to have the repairs of the breach because so many people are you know uh against the Jewish people against the Christians against the Muslims against everybody you know we've got to be the repairer of the breach because God wants Soul saved you not any other agenda that we might all have or when I say we all have what they may have the world has is what I should say well I want to thank David for this you know he's the one you guys know David he's the one who really has helped me tremendously with this stuff with my schedule and so that's you know I want to give him credit for that very nice slideshow really informative thanks a lot for the presentation and I thank David for that uh one second please there we go uh Grammy and I circumcise your heart instead you know and that's what the Lord has always wanted from the very beginning in Torah he wanted it to be a heart matter and that's why the New Covenant when you read the Hebrew it says the renewed Covenant you know because the only difference in the old Covenant the New Covenant is it's a heart matter you know and on the mind and in the heart is what um it says so in Jeremiah 31 so it's a hard matter and that's exactly right what Grammy and I we got to circumcise our hearts and this is a beautiful time to do it uh during uh the Feast of dedication or rededication Amy writes no compromise praying for all of us to have the hearts of The Maccabees yes I mean it's you know the last over the weekend you know uh or since last week sometime I've really been reading a lot of the Maccabee story again and really like I'm sure most of you guys have and it's just phenomenal at the zealous that they have for the Lord you know and they were willing of course to give up their lives and just the favor and the anointing that Judas Maccabee had you know kind of like Kingdom like I said kind of like King David when you look at it it's really amazing uh at the journey that those guys have and they just uh they overcame you know because they had God on their side and he gave them the victory because of their love for him and the love for his ways and this was again in 164 BC okay this was right before Christ came you know so there's always been an attack on the seed line and also on the word of God you know so when we have to be the repairs of the breach you know all of us just like Amy says we got to have the heart of The Maccabees you know that's a beautiful prayer yep and uh fellas fan always been a spiritual war beside the physical War yes so they were fighting two different Wars you know like I said the physical war was against antica's epiphanes the fourth in his armies and the spiritual war was for God's Torah for the word of God I mean it was a it was really an amazing time you know a lot of people think that between the Old Testament and the New Testament or the Tanakh and the Brit hadasha that nothing happened well this was a major event that preserved the Jewish the lineage like I said before I mean this was a huge event biblically you know I mean when you think about it with all of the things that we've discovered this was a huge event uh that um that occurred back then comment with uh with Amy my heart has been grieved all week thinking of all the families and people that lost their lives to preserve the word for us yes and that's what it takes I mean that's what it's going to take until the end you know and um when you read obviously Amy you know this everybody knows this who reads the scriptures that you know it's only going to get worse and we have to prepare ourselves for that and that's where they uh where the rubber meets the road as they say is are we willing to be like The Maccabees are we you know do we have that in us you know and I hope so I know we all hope we pray we do you know but that's where I try to put my mindset and that's um going back to you know some of my beliefs which again I don't want to get into a debate or anything like that that's not what I'm trying to do is like the Rapture conversation is you know whether someone believes in what they believe or not that's fine but if you're wrong then I'd rather be more on the caution side wrong than on the side that is just hope hoping for whatever it may be so that's just my personal uh things we have to understand is we we never know what position we're going to be in we have to lay our life down you know for the Lord or for another believer or for whatever it may be so um you know that's just my personal thoughts that um when Amy writes that you know I start thinking about you know myself as well that uh I hope I had I would have the courage that The Maccabees uh that Esther that Mordecai that these Great Men in women who God had to raise to preserve his Covenant to preserve the Everlasting Covenants so this Grammy and on puts John the Baptist was born March 25th 7 BC in accordance with the promise that Gabriel made Elizabeth in June of the previous year I believe that was a Passover uh correct me if I'm wrong but was it wasn't he born on Passover um grahamian and please correct me if I'm wrong on that Shalom to you my friend Ben Israel Tov happy Hanukkah my friend how old was John when Jesus was born I mean they were you know what six months apart you know basically is that correct yeah if uh pregnant with John in June and then she got pregnant in December so they're about six months apart um I'm not sure if you could clarify that that means we're going to beat the B regime I'm not sure if that's for me uh grab me or not or not but um if you could clarify I'll try to answer it Rose good to see you from Tennessee I used to live in Nashville Tennessee beautiful area up there that's another good term to use Bridge Builders that's another good term of reaching out Building Bridges connecting people yeah John was born a Passover Jesus yep totally agree with that Laurie do you let each candle burn out daily yeah oh I do you know I'm not trying to say anybody everybody can do what they want to do with it but yes um I let all of them burn out every single day all right you heard yeah um yeah that's that's not accurate um with Jesus being born on January 8th he was going to be born on a Divine appointment of the Lord you know so that was going to be and the options you really have is those three that we mentioned before so yeah that's what you know we all hear all these different things when we're younger or whatever it may be but uh yeah he he was going to be born on one of those feast days that's something for everybody the Messianic Study Bible is supposedly much more true in Translation so anybody that wants to uh get that you can find that probably on Amazon or something I'm sure this is an interesting comment uh Cherie the fifth day of Hanukkah is the anniversary of God revealing the rainbow Covenant with Noah so there you go everybody and I agree with that actually I didn't know exactly which day it was but thank you for clarifying it and I think that makes total sense to me because it means Grace right the number five so thank you for sharing that Cherie yeah thank you very much uh for um yes um very interesting isn't it yes uh there's a great correlation going on in the world the whole world's going through a Hanukkah story in a way so I'll say it like that all right let's see Nashville Nashville is a great town I used to live in Nashville for like 10 years I believe yeah 10 years is someone there something like that see I'm sorry I didn't see that one oh Tennessee no place I think that's all yeah that is all right well yeah if anybody doesn't have anything else I guess we'll adjourn uh a little bit early tonight uh I hope everybody's gotten everything a lot of information out of it a lot of things to pray about think about meditate on and if you guys have any uh Revelation uh at all but I do want to do one thing because I feel uh I feel bad that I did I wasn't able to say this but uh there's just like a couple of Judah Maccabee quotes I think there's like two that I'll read real quick but just the just listening what he says about his Zeal for the Lord and things like that but this was what he wrote to his fellow soldiers all my fellow soldiers no other Town remains more opportune than the present for courage and contempt of dangers for if you now fight manfully you may recover your Liberty which as it is a thing of itself agreeable to all men so it proves to be uh to us much more desirable by its affording us the liberty of worshiping God since therefore you are in such circumstances as the present you must either recover that Liberty and so we're gaining happy and blessed way of living which is that according to our laws and the customs of our country or to submit to the most uh egregious sufferings nor with any seed of your nation will remain think about that the seed will not remain but we're talking about the pure Royal lineage if you are defeated in this battle it will not remain fight therefore manfully and suppose that you must die though you do not though you do not fight but believe that besides such glorious rewards as those of the liberty of your country of your laws of your religion you shall then obtain Everlasting Glory this is amazing prepare yourselves therefore put yourselves into such an agreeable posture think about that he says put yours go ahead and think like that because we're going to get this done that you may be ready to fight with the Enemy as soon as it is day tomorrow morning I mean that is a leader my friends that is a leader and there's so much more you know that uh that I'll read you one more and this is where uh this is where Judah Maccabee this is where he passed away this is where he he got killed uh in his in the fight and I'll set this up that basically uh it says this right here and this is in the uh Josephus I'm reading this out of uh the historian flavius Josephus the complete works and this is what it says and this is when Judah Judas Maccabee passed away now Judas had no more soldiers than one thousand when these saw when the one thousand men saw the multitude of the armies they were afraid and they left their camp and they fled all away accepting except 800 men so every all of them fled about 800 from him because they were cowards okay now when Judas was deserted by his own soldiers and the enemy pressed upon him and gave him no time to gather his army together he was disposed to fight with them though he had but 800 men with him think about the number eight this is when he died okay the number eight so he exhort he exhorted these mints to undergo the danger courageously and encourage them to attack the enemy and when they said that they were not a body sufficient to fight so great an army and advise that they should retire now and save themselves and that that when he had gathered his own men together then he fall upon the enemy afterwards his answer was this when they said this and think about the situation he only had 800 men and against uh tens of thousands let not the son this is what he said to him let not the son ever see such a thing that I should show my back to the enemy and although this be the time that will bring me to my end I mean he's prophesying he's going to die although this be the time that will bring me to my end I must die in this battle I will rather stand to it courageously and bear whatever comes upon me then by now running away bringing reproach upon my former great actions that's amazing bringing reproach if you flee you're going to bring reproach for your former great actions to tarnish their Glory this was the speech he made to those that remain with him and whereby he encouraged them to attack the enemy totally amazing man it's totally amazing if we could have that heart that desire that Zeal that Judah had not only for the Lord not only for the Torah but for his people as well you know he wanted to he was courageous and that's what we all want to be is courageous for the Lord and that's what we are we are courageous in the Lord so this season of Hanukkah I hope you really pray into all of these things you know really to the festival and thank God Almighty that he raised Judas maccabeat and the maccabeans mati Yahoo to save and preserve the the Jewish lineage the seed of the Messiah okay or the Holy Bible would not be valid if not because God's a promised keeper he had to do it so Purim Hanukkah these are very important festivals for not only the Jewish people but also for the Believers in Yeshua who love him you know because that's where his seed preservation came from was from Purim from Hanukkah from all of these other uh things my friend and then we get into all these beautiful tie-ins of the love of Torah that Judah Maccabee had the maccabeens God's laws his festivals his feast days the purification of the temple that's the journey that we're on right now if you've been with us from the cross to the crown we're on a Hanukkah Journey we're on a green dedication Journey we're on a cleansing Journey included cleansing purification refinement you know and things like that so friends I hope this has been very informative I really appreciate everybody staying with us during this time I hope everybody has a blessed Hanukkah we will be back online not tomorrow but probably Tuesday uh I'm believing it's going to be Tuesday or Wednesday with the spirit of lawlessness that's in the church that again this is what we're facing right here the lawlessness or Torah or lawlessness so stay with us for that and if everybody if no one else has anything uh to say then we can all uh adjourn and enjoy this beautiful Sunday evening together and again I want to thank yes I want to thank everybody for joining us uh stay with us again Tuesday night and then I believe Thursday night's the new moon it's the 24th so it's not this Thursday night or is it or some I can't remember but anyhow the new moon will be back on with you for the new moon but during these eight days of Hanukkah uh we'll I'll probably do two or three more videos during the eight days and then we have the new moon so I hope you guys join us for that and as always may God bless you may he keep you may his face shine upon you and give you his grace May lift up his countenance upon you and your family and give you guys as ever Everlasting Shalom forevermore happy Hanukkah to you and you guys have a very very great night and stay blessed my friends Lord thank you for saving saving lost or found move me along the flood waters Higher Ground Lord got me in your arms safe and sound oh forever I'll rest in your own safe and sound