Hanukkah: INTRODUCTION Isaiah 9: 6-7
Soon, the world will celebrate two different but linked holidays – Christmas and Hanukkah. The first candle of Hanukkah is lit at sundown on December 28th.
December 15, 2022
Soon, the world will celebrate two different but linked holidays – Christmas and Hanukkah. The first candle of Hanukkah is lit at sundown on December 28th.
Although there continues to be debate regarding the actual day of His crucifixion and burial, almost every other detail was prophesied in the Hebrew Bible.
Today we turn our attention to the events surrounding Yeshua’s death. He was rejected, abandoned and betrayed by His followers:
Many people say that Jesus never claimed to be God, and yet when asked, Jesus pointed to the miracles He performed, miracles that only God can do. To those who were willing to hear, He proclaimed quite clearly that He was God, that He and the Father were one.
Throughout the Bible God takes care of His people as a shepherd cares for his sheep.
God the Son and God the Father are the same in mission and ministry.
If the Messiah had to be God and God is triune in nature, then there need be no question if Messiah Yeshua (Jesus the Christ) is God.
To worship another God would be the intolerable sin of idolatry. But Jesus not only accepted He commanded it. (Luke 19:40) So did the Father require it of Jesus (Psalm 2: 12)
Atonement was necessary to reconcile sinners to God. God is holy and required a perfect sacrifice to effect atonement. At first the people sacrificed animals, but the blood of bulls and goats could not cleanse, it could only cover sin. Thus God promised that He would provide an acceptable atonement.
The birth of Jesus was prophesied in detail thousands of years before His birth.
The prophets speak of God’s “Servant.” In many ways this servant sounds like Israel. In fact many Jewish scholars interpret these passage that way, but to apply those passages totally to Israel is illogical and impossible. The ultimate Servant is Jesus – the ultimate Jew.
In December the world celebrated two different but linked holidays- Christmas and Hanukkah.
The traditional date of Christmas, based on the solar Gregorian calendar, is always December 25. But since the feasts of the Lord are according to the lunar calendar, the date of Hanukkah always changes.
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