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Dr. Erez Soref: When Light Conquered Darkness - Why Israel? | One For Israel

May 16, 2026 | S1E5 | 27:24

Dr. Erez Soref: When Light Conquered Darkness - Why Israel? | One For Israel
What if the story of Hanukkah isn’t just about a miracle of light—but about a people who refused to let truth be extinguished? Join Dr. Erez Soref in this special episode as he uncovers the deeper story behind Hanukkah—from courage and resistance to restoration and hope—revealing how this festival points to Yeshua, the true light who overcomes the darkness.
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  • They called themselves maccabees,
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  • Or the hammer against evil.
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  • It led to a century of complete
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  • Jewish independent sovereignty over the holy land,
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  • The maccabean period.
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  • The maccabees were not trying to conquer.
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  • They were trying to stay faithful to god.
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  • Hanukkah, i'll start with the bomb, okay?
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  • It's tabernacle phase two.
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  • I am dr. erez soref.
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  • I was born and raised in the heart of israel,
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  • But i never heard the gospel message
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  • Until on a journey abroad,
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  • My eyes were opened to the jewish messiah.
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  • From that point,
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  • My life has been dedicated
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  • To bringing this gospel back to my people israel,
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  • Equipping them to reach israel
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  • And the world.
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  • Together, as jews and gentiles,
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  • We are one in messiah, one for israel.
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  • The manger, the shepherds,
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  • The angels, and the star.
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  • This is the nativity scene
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  • We all picture,
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  • But there's more depth
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  • Than the figures on the table
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  • Or the image on the postcard.
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  • The world our savior was born into
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  • Was a time of upheaval
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  • That began hundreds of years earlier.
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  • Nearly two centuries before the magi
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  • Arrived from the east,
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  • A different group of foreigners
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  • Had come from the west, the greeks.
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  • Unlike the magi, they did not come to worship,
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  • But to destroy everything sacred
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  • To the jewish people,
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  • To snuff out the light of god's truth.
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  • What happened in those dark days
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  • Would shape the world yeshua entered.
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  • It's a story of courage against impossible odds,
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  • Of a small flame that refused to die,
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  • Of faithful jews who said enough
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  • When others bowed.
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  • Today, as jewish people around the world
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  • Light hanukkah candles,
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  • We remember how god
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  • Preserved his people and his promises,
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  • How darkness tried to swallow the light and failed.
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  • This is the story of hanukkah,
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  • And it's more connected to the christmas story
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  • Than you might think.
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  • 600 years before yeshua,
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  • The prophet daniel was a captive in babylon.
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  • God showed him visions of kingdoms
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  • That would rise and fall.
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  • Babylon would fall to persia.
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  • Persia would fall to greece under alexander the great.
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  • And after alexander's death,
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  • His empire would split four ways.
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  • Daniel saw that out of one of those four splits
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  • Would arise a wicked ruler.
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  • He writes:
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  • "out of one of them came
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  • "a little horn, which grew
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  • "exceedingly great...
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  • "it grew great,
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  • "even to the host of heaven."
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  • Daniel had predicted
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  • That this future king
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  • Would take away the regular burnt offering
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  • And overthrow the sanctuary.
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  • He would set up something daniel called
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  • The abomination that makes desolate.
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  • Every word daniel spoke came true
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  • To the finest detail.
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  • Out of a divided greek empire
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  • Arose an evil king, antiochus the epiphanes.
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  • He chose the title epiphanes for himself,
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  • Meaning god made manifest,
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  • A proclamation that echoes the language
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  • That the future antichrist will use,
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  • That he was the visible manifestation of god.
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  • Antiochus would become israel's nightmare.
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  • Throughout history,
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  • Many conquerors have been satisfied to rule,
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  • Collect taxes, and maintain order.
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  • When cyrus of persia conquered,
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  • He even allowed the rebuilding of our temple.
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  • He respected our ways and let us keep our customs.
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  • But antiochus was different.
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  • He wanted to remake the world in his image.
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  • And the jewish people, with our ancient laws,
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  • Our devotion to one invisible god,
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  • This was an embarrassment to his vision.
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  • At first, antiochus came to power through flattery,
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  • Just as daniel had predicted.
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  • He encouraged jewish elites to embrace greek culture,
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  • Greek ways, modernize, and you will have peace.
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  • Many went along with it.
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  • They started calling themselves by greek names.
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  • Some have even tried to reverse their circumcision
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  • To fit in.
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  • We call this hellenization.
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  • And slowly, many jews were forgetting
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  • Who they were.
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  • It was a place of compromise.
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  • We see this today when believers try to fit in
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  • With the world around us in order to make life easier.
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  • But scripture tells us that friendship with the world
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  • Is enmity against god.
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  • We don't have to be intentionally obnoxious
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  • To those around us,
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  • But we also should not compromise
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  • In our values or way of living.
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  • The hellenized jews thought that by giving in a little,
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  • They could survive in the greek world.
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  • But then antiochus showed his true face.
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  • Antiochus suddenly issued decrees
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  • That shook the jewish world.
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  • Torah study - punishable by death.
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  • Circumcision, keeping shabbat - death.
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  • If they found you with a torah scroll,
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  • They would burn it and burn you with it.
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  • But even worse,
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  • Antiochus marched into the holy temple,
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  • The place where god's presence dwelt
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  • Among his people.
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  • He extinguished the light of the menorah,
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  • Raised an altar to zeus,
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  • And sacrificed a pig on god's altar.
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  • A pig, the most unclean animal in jewish law.
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  • It's blood defiling the holy place.
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  • For many jews, this seemed like the end.
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  • How could god allow this?
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  • Where was he when his temple was defiled?
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  • When his people were dying for keeping his laws?
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  • I'll tell you something.
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  • There are moments in history
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  • When it looks like evil has won.
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  • When darkness seems total.
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  • We have seen those moments
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  • Over the past few years
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  • Here in israel.
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  • We have faced insurmountable evil,
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  • And sometimes it feels like the whole world
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  • Is against us.
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  • Some in our nation feel like
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  • God has abandoned us.
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  • You may have felt times like these
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  • In your life,
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  • But it's in those moments
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  • That god often does his greatest work.
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  • In the small town of modiin,
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  • Lived an old priest named matityahu
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  • With his five sons.
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  • They weren't warriors,
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  • Just priests trying to survive.
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  • One day, officers arrived under the command of antiochus.
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  • They set up an altar and commanded everyone
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  • To sacrifice to greek gods.
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  • They approached matityahu promising favor
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  • If he would lead by example and just bow.
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  • But something rose up in that old priest.
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  • The bible calls it zeal.
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  • It was the same fire that burned in elijah
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  • When he faced the prophets of baal.
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  • The same zeal that burned in a little shepherd boy, david,
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  • When goliath defied the armies of israel.
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  • The zeal that yeshua would later display
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  • Flipping tables that defiled his father's house.
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  • In his zeal for god's law,
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  • Matityahu struck down a man who would step forward
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  • And sacrifice to the greek idol.
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  • Then he turned to the greek officer
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  • And killed him too.
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  • He declared war.
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  • "whoever is zealous for the torah
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  • "and maintains the covenant, follow me!"
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  • No matter what it took,
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  • He and his house would serve the lord.
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  • Whether he lived or died,
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  • His family would never again bow to idols.
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  • Matityahu and his sons fled to the mountains
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  • And word spread.
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  • Jews who refused to bow began gathering to him.
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  • They called themselves maccabees
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  • Or the hammer against evil.
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  • And the hebrew letters that spell maccabee
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  • Are also an acronym for their war cry:
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  • "mi kamocha ba'elim adonai".
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  • Who is like the lord god?
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  • Now the greeks were the superpower.
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  • Professional soldiers with advanced weapons
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  • That had conquered nations.
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  • The maccabees?
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  • Farmers and priests.
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  • No armor and no training.
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  • They were fighting for god, for their children,
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  • For the survival of truth itself.
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  • They were not trying to conquer.
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  • They were trying to stay faithful to god.
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  • Judah maccabee,
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  • The heroic son of the priest matityahu,
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  • Led a team of a few thousand against the massive greek army
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  • Sent to wipe them out.
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  • And that first battle was like the old tales
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  • Of joshua or gideon.
  • 00:09:11.707 --> 00:09:13.409
  • The maccabees miraculously won a decisive victory
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  • Over the greeks,
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  • With only a smaller,
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  • Untrained group of the faithful.
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  • So the maccabees kept fighting.
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  • Victory after victory followed.
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  • Each one impossible.
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  • Each one a miracle.
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  • Until finally, three years after
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  • That first act of defiance,
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  • The maccabees took back jerusalem.
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  • The biblical and jewish holidays
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  • Give us a powerful look
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  • Into god's eternal plans.
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  • They are not just tradition.
  • 00:09:43.572 --> 00:09:45.408
  • They are windows to help us
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  • See yeshua more clearly.
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  • Get your copy to go even deeper.
  • 00:09:50.312 --> 00:09:58.996
  • Get your copy to go even deeper.
  • 00:09:58.996 --> 00:10:04.629
  • The maccabees had fought for three miraculous years
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  • Against the greeks and won victory
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  • Over their enemies.
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  • But when they finally entered jerusalem
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  • To take back the temple, they wept.
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  • The altar was defiled.
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  • Pagan statues everywhere.
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  • The fire of the golden menorah was cold.
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  • The light was put out.
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  • So on the 25th of kislev in the hebrew calendar,
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  • Exactly three years after it was desecrated,
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  • The maccabee priests restored and rededicated the temple.
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  • And this is why we celebrate hanukkah,
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  • A word that means rededication.
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  • It's remembering that miracle,
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  • When god's light shone in great darkness
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  • And granted us victory.
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  • But it's not just a celebration
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  • Of our freedom from the greeks.
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  • It's a celebration of coming back
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  • To the temple of god.
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  • Coming back to the place of worship.
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  • Why do we celebrate for eight nights?
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  • Tradition says the priests found
  • 00:11:05.423 --> 00:11:07.358
  • Only a single day supply of holy oil
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  • For the temple's menorah.
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  • Yet the oil miraculously lasted eight days.
  • 00:11:12.163 --> 00:11:16.334
  • While this story is popular
  • 00:11:16.334 --> 00:11:17.902
  • And may be true,
  • 00:11:17.902 --> 00:11:19.203
  • It appears in later rabbinic writings
  • 00:11:19.203 --> 00:11:21.773
  • Rather than the earliest historical sources.
  • 00:11:21.773 --> 00:11:24.909
  • The real reason for the eight days
  • 00:11:24.909 --> 00:11:26.844
  • Is found in the earlier writings
  • 00:11:26.844 --> 00:11:28.746
  • Of maccabees and josephus.
  • 00:11:28.746 --> 00:11:31.516
  • After the temple was rededicated,
  • 00:11:32.183 --> 00:11:34.485
  • The priests longed to celebrate the feast of tabernacles.
  • 00:11:34.485 --> 00:11:38.156
  • They had missed this festival during the war.
  • 00:11:38.156 --> 00:11:40.758
  • So instead of waiting another year,
  • 00:11:40.758 --> 00:11:43.127
  • They celebrated as soon as the temple was rededicated.
  • 00:11:43.127 --> 00:11:46.697
  • Seven days plus one.
  • 00:11:46.697 --> 00:11:48.966
  • So the annual tradition of hanukkah was born.
  • 00:11:48.966 --> 00:11:52.270
  • To get some insight,
  • 00:11:52.737 --> 00:11:54.005
  • We are talking today with archaeologist
  • 00:11:54.005 --> 00:11:56.007
  • Danny "the digger" herman.
  • 00:11:56.007 --> 00:11:59.277
  • For more than 20 years now,
  • 00:11:59.877 --> 00:12:01.579
  • I'm a proud resident of this
  • 00:12:01.579 --> 00:12:03.347
  • Modern city called modiin
  • 00:12:03.347 --> 00:12:05.116
  • In the back,
  • 00:12:05.116 --> 00:12:06.517
  • Which is indeed very modern.
  • 00:12:06.517 --> 00:12:08.519
  • But the name modiin
  • 00:12:08.519 --> 00:12:10.087
  • Is very ancient.
  • 00:12:10.087 --> 00:12:11.689
  • And the name stems
  • 00:12:11.689 --> 00:12:13.124
  • From an ancient jewish town called modiin,
  • 00:12:13.124 --> 00:12:16.093
  • Which most scholars believe was right here, on this hill,
  • 00:12:16.093 --> 00:12:19.230
  • Called today the titora hill.
  • 00:12:19.230 --> 00:12:21.299
  • This is where the most successful jewish rebellion
  • 00:12:21.299 --> 00:12:24.669
  • In ancient history took place.
  • 00:12:24.669 --> 00:12:27.505
  • This is the place where the uprising
  • 00:12:27.505 --> 00:12:29.240
  • Of the maccabees against the greeks began.
  • 00:12:29.240 --> 00:12:32.410
  • And therefore, this is the very place
  • 00:12:32.410 --> 00:12:34.712
  • Where one of the most important jewish historical events
  • 00:12:34.712 --> 00:12:37.982
  • Took place.
  • 00:12:37.982 --> 00:12:39.083
  • The story that is remembered,
  • 00:12:39.083 --> 00:12:41.385
  • Commemorated to this day
  • 00:12:41.385 --> 00:12:43.354
  • By the holiday of hanukkah.
  • 00:12:43.354 --> 00:12:45.990
  • Welcome to ancient modiin.
  • 00:12:45.990 --> 00:12:48.159
  • Now, from that period, we have abundance of evidence
  • 00:12:49.193 --> 00:12:52.897
  • Where you go to battle sites
  • 00:12:52.897 --> 00:12:54.899
  • Of the jews, of the maccabees against the greeks,
  • 00:12:54.899 --> 00:12:57.668
  • You can find items like this.
  • 00:12:57.668 --> 00:12:59.937
  • A lead slingshot.
  • 00:12:59.937 --> 00:13:01.439
  • The camera doesn't show how heavy it is.
  • 00:13:01.439 --> 00:13:04.442
  • And look how aerodynamic it is,
  • 00:13:04.442 --> 00:13:06.344
  • Like the american football of today.
  • 00:13:06.344 --> 00:13:08.679
  • But it's very heavy.
  • 00:13:08.679 --> 00:13:09.780
  • And if it hits your forehead,
  • 00:13:09.780 --> 00:13:11.482
  • It's deadly.
  • 00:13:11.482 --> 00:13:12.850
  • And we also find in those battle sites
  • 00:13:12.850 --> 00:13:15.753
  • Arrowheads like this, with tails that can...
  • 00:13:15.753 --> 00:13:19.056
  • Once it gets in, you cannot pull it out.
  • 00:13:19.056 --> 00:13:21.893
  • And these items were used in those repeated battles.
  • 00:13:21.893 --> 00:13:25.630
  • We have a record of at least eight battles
  • 00:13:25.630 --> 00:13:28.132
  • Till the jews finally cleared this area
  • 00:13:28.132 --> 00:13:29.934
  • From the greeks
  • 00:13:29.934 --> 00:13:31.269
  • And became the sovereign independent power here
  • 00:13:31.269 --> 00:13:34.272
  • For 100 years.
  • 00:13:34.272 --> 00:13:36.040
  • And they also minted coins.
  • 00:13:36.040 --> 00:13:37.575
  • What's the best indication of complete independence?
  • 00:13:37.575 --> 00:13:40.478
  • When you can mint coins.
  • 00:13:40.478 --> 00:13:42.213
  • And the state of israel to this day
  • 00:13:42.213 --> 00:13:44.615
  • Relates to that event.
  • 00:13:44.615 --> 00:13:45.650
  • A two-shekel coin of modern times
  • 00:13:45.650 --> 00:13:47.551
  • Has on it the same symbol that appeared
  • 00:13:47.551 --> 00:13:49.787
  • On the maccabean coins from 2,200 years ago.
  • 00:13:49.787 --> 00:13:54.792
  • Why was the maccabean revolt so successful among others?
  • 00:13:55.927 --> 00:13:59.563
  • Because erupting here at modiin
  • 00:13:59.563 --> 00:14:02.533
  • Means that the rebellion began from a very strategical
  • 00:14:02.533 --> 00:14:06.871
  • Central location in the holy land.
  • 00:14:06.871 --> 00:14:09.373
  • The path that leads from the coastal plain
  • 00:14:09.373 --> 00:14:12.176
  • To jerusalem.
  • 00:14:12.176 --> 00:14:13.511
  • And to this day, there's an important highway
  • 00:14:13.511 --> 00:14:15.546
  • Passing right beneath us,
  • 00:14:15.546 --> 00:14:17.481
  • Parallel to road number one,
  • 00:14:17.481 --> 00:14:19.450
  • Both a highway today and in antiquity.
  • 00:14:19.450 --> 00:14:21.886
  • And whoever controls these roads in a way
  • 00:14:21.886 --> 00:14:24.655
  • Controls jerusalem.
  • 00:14:24.655 --> 00:14:26.691
  • And when the seleucid greeks realized
  • 00:14:26.691 --> 00:14:28.659
  • That the jews are rebelling, not paying their taxes,
  • 00:14:28.659 --> 00:14:30.895
  • Arguing for independence,
  • 00:14:30.895 --> 00:14:32.096
  • They first tried to seize jerusalem.
  • 00:14:32.096 --> 00:14:34.765
  • But in two pivotal battles,
  • 00:14:34.765 --> 00:14:37.768
  • When the greeks were trying to campaign both from road one
  • 00:14:37.768 --> 00:14:40.771
  • And this road,
  • 00:14:40.771 --> 00:14:42.039
  • The maccabees prepared an ambush.
  • 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:45.543
  • They attacked them as they were campaigning
  • 00:14:45.543 --> 00:14:47.411
  • Towards jerusalem and slaughtered them.
  • 00:14:47.411 --> 00:14:49.981
  • And these were two out of eight battles in total
  • 00:14:49.981 --> 00:14:52.850
  • Which eventually led
  • 00:14:52.850 --> 00:14:54.385
  • To complete jewish maccabean independence.
  • 00:14:54.385 --> 00:14:58.756
  • For me, one of the most exciting moments,
  • 00:14:58.756 --> 00:15:02.026
  • Just as i was moving into this town,
  • 00:15:02.026 --> 00:15:03.828
  • Is to hear that they have discovered,
  • 00:15:03.828 --> 00:15:06.430
  • Not too far from where i live, an ancient synagogue.
  • 00:15:06.430 --> 00:15:10.701
  • An ancient synagogue whose last phase dates
  • 00:15:10.701 --> 00:15:13.537
  • To the first century.
  • 00:15:13.537 --> 00:15:15.272
  • But there is possibly an earlier phase
  • 00:15:15.272 --> 00:15:17.408
  • That could be dated to the second century.
  • 00:15:17.408 --> 00:15:20.011
  • And that's the time of the maccabees.
  • 00:15:20.011 --> 00:15:22.580
  • Maybe that synagogue is where mattityahu
  • 00:15:22.580 --> 00:15:24.915
  • And his sons assembled all the men and decided,
  • 00:15:24.915 --> 00:15:28.452
  • Let us rebel, let us not succumb to the greeks,
  • 00:15:28.452 --> 00:15:31.222
  • Let us fight for our religious independence.
  • 00:15:31.222 --> 00:15:34.258
  • And it succeeded!
  • 00:15:34.258 --> 00:15:35.493
  • It led to a century of complete
  • 00:15:35.493 --> 00:15:37.728
  • Jewish independence sovereignty over the holy land.
  • 00:15:37.728 --> 00:15:41.065
  • The maccabean period.
  • 00:15:41.065 --> 00:15:43.834
  • The maccabees started as heroes of faith.
  • 00:15:44.735 --> 00:15:47.805
  • They were called the good shepherds of israel.
  • 00:15:47.805 --> 00:15:50.875
  • Like the ancient israelite judges,
  • 00:15:50.875 --> 00:15:53.411
  • As long as the maccabees lived,
  • 00:15:53.411 --> 00:15:55.413
  • Israel walked in the light.
  • 00:15:55.413 --> 00:15:57.348
  • But power corrupts.
  • 00:15:57.348 --> 00:15:59.316
  • The descendants of those brave priests
  • 00:15:59.316 --> 00:16:02.353
  • Eventually became corrupted kings.
  • 00:16:02.353 --> 00:16:05.423
  • The maccabee dynasty had sparked a revolution.
  • 00:16:05.423 --> 00:16:08.392
  • They freed israel from foreign oppression.
  • 00:16:08.392 --> 00:16:11.228
  • But because of the eventual corruption,
  • 00:16:11.228 --> 00:16:13.664
  • Compromise and infighting,
  • 00:16:13.664 --> 00:16:15.733
  • They also paved the way
  • 00:16:15.733 --> 00:16:17.368
  • To see another foreign oppressor
  • 00:16:17.368 --> 00:16:19.470
  • On david's throne.
  • 00:16:19.470 --> 00:16:21.005
  • The good shepherds became wolves.
  • 00:16:21.005 --> 00:16:27.004
  • The good shepherds became wolves.
  • 00:16:27.004 --> 00:16:31.818
  • When the maccabees defeated the greeks and their allies,
  • 00:16:32.952 --> 00:16:36.756
  • They were so successful
  • 00:16:36.756 --> 00:16:38.424
  • That they actually gained the territory
  • 00:16:38.424 --> 00:16:40.660
  • Belonging to the edomites,
  • 00:16:40.660 --> 00:16:42.595
  • The descendants of esau.
  • 00:16:42.595 --> 00:16:44.597
  • They forced these edomites to convert to judaism.
  • 00:16:44.597 --> 00:16:48.468
  • Converting by force rather than love
  • 00:16:48.468 --> 00:16:51.604
  • Can have negative consequences.
  • 00:16:51.604 --> 00:16:53.773
  • Many of these edomites may have followed
  • 00:16:53.773 --> 00:16:56.242
  • The god of israel outwardly,
  • 00:16:56.242 --> 00:16:58.344
  • But not in their hearts.
  • 00:16:58.344 --> 00:17:00.179
  • One of those converted edomites was named antipater.
  • 00:17:00.179 --> 00:17:04.417
  • His son would become herod the great.
  • 00:17:04.417 --> 00:17:08.588
  • The maccabees has stood for many years
  • 00:17:08.588 --> 00:17:10.890
  • As the good shepherds over israel.
  • 00:17:10.890 --> 00:17:13.292
  • But over time, their line became compromised,
  • 00:17:13.292 --> 00:17:16.362
  • Corrupted by politics, entangled with rome,
  • 00:17:16.362 --> 00:17:19.432
  • And drawn toward the hellenized ways
  • 00:17:19.432 --> 00:17:22.034
  • Of the greeks.
  • 00:17:22.034 --> 00:17:23.202
  • The last of the maccabees,
  • 00:17:23.202 --> 00:17:24.504
  • Antigonus ii, was different.
  • 00:17:24.504 --> 00:17:27.006
  • The jewish people longed for his rule.
  • 00:17:27.006 --> 00:17:29.542
  • They believed he would resist the rising roman
  • 00:17:29.542 --> 00:17:32.278
  • And edomite influence as another true maccabee.
  • 00:17:32.278 --> 00:17:37.250
  • At the same time, another empire in the east,
  • 00:17:38.217 --> 00:17:41.554
  • Parthia, invaded judea.
  • 00:17:41.554 --> 00:17:43.890
  • A mysterious class of the royal wise men,
  • 00:17:43.890 --> 00:17:46.926
  • A group called the magi, arrived to jerusalem.
  • 00:17:46.926 --> 00:17:50.763
  • They installed antigonus as king of the jews.
  • 00:17:50.763 --> 00:17:54.100
  • Sadly, this good king's reign was brief.
  • 00:17:54.100 --> 00:17:57.737
  • Herod the great, an edomite,
  • 00:17:57.737 --> 00:18:00.039
  • Soon seized the throne with the help of rome.
  • 00:18:00.039 --> 00:18:03.075
  • His rule was harsh and unyielding.
  • 00:18:03.075 --> 00:18:06.279
  • The maccabee shepherds had failed.
  • 00:18:06.279 --> 00:18:08.814
  • Their line ended, and the flock was scattered.
  • 00:18:08.814 --> 00:18:12.385
  • Israel longed for the coming of the true shepherd.
  • 00:18:12.385 --> 00:18:16.455
  • And this is the world that yeshua was born into.
  • 00:18:16.455 --> 00:18:22.428
  • Do you know on which occasion
  • 00:18:23.129 --> 00:18:24.864
  • Yeshua declared himself to be the good shepherd?
  • 00:18:24.864 --> 00:18:28.234
  • It was during hanukkah.
  • 00:18:28.234 --> 00:18:30.169
  • John chapter 10 tells us
  • 00:18:30.169 --> 00:18:32.138
  • Yeshua was walking in the temple
  • 00:18:32.138 --> 00:18:34.240
  • During the feast of dedication,
  • 00:18:34.240 --> 00:18:36.209
  • The eight-day hanukkah festival in jerusalem.
  • 00:18:36.209 --> 00:18:39.645
  • The people surrounded him.
  • 00:18:39.645 --> 00:18:41.180
  • They wanted another maccabee,
  • 00:18:41.180 --> 00:18:43.115
  • Another military leader to throw off roman oppression
  • 00:18:43.115 --> 00:18:46.352
  • Like their ancestors threw off the greeks.
  • 00:18:46.352 --> 00:18:51.057
  • Think about it.
  • 00:18:51.424 --> 00:18:52.692
  • This messiah had just fed 5,000
  • 00:18:52.692 --> 00:18:55.895
  • On the mountainside.
  • 00:18:55.895 --> 00:18:57.363
  • He had calmed storms
  • 00:18:57.363 --> 00:18:59.198
  • And healed what seemed impossible.
  • 00:18:59.198 --> 00:19:01.567
  • Who better to deliver our people from the romans?
  • 00:19:01.567 --> 00:19:04.537
  • How long will you keep us in suspense? they demanded.
  • 00:19:04.537 --> 00:19:07.773
  • If you are the messiah, tell us plainly.
  • 00:19:07.773 --> 00:19:10.409
  • But yeshua didn't come to be another maccabee.
  • 00:19:11.310 --> 00:19:14.380
  • The maccabees saved israel temporarily, externally.
  • 00:19:14.380 --> 00:19:18.217
  • But without a change of the heart,
  • 00:19:18.217 --> 00:19:20.586
  • All these reforms landed right back
  • 00:19:20.586 --> 00:19:23.222
  • Into corruption and oppression.
  • 00:19:23.222 --> 00:19:25.224
  • Yeshua came to save the world
  • 00:19:25.224 --> 00:19:27.026
  • From the inside out.
  • 00:19:27.026 --> 00:19:29.328
  • The maccabees restored a temple made with hands.
  • 00:19:29.328 --> 00:19:32.832
  • Yeshua came to make us into a temple
  • 00:19:32.832 --> 00:19:35.568
  • Of the holy spirit.
  • 00:19:35.568 --> 00:19:37.036
  • He told them:
  • 00:19:37.036 --> 00:19:38.170
  • "i am the good shepherd.
  • 00:19:38.170 --> 00:19:40.172
  • "the good shepherd lays down
  • 00:19:40.172 --> 00:19:41.841
  • "his life for the sheep."
  • 00:19:41.841 --> 00:19:44.176
  • The maccabees took lives to save israel.
  • 00:19:44.176 --> 00:19:47.246
  • Yeshua gave his life to save humanity.
  • 00:19:47.246 --> 00:19:50.549
  • When yeshua was born,
  • 00:19:50.549 --> 00:19:52.251
  • The oppressor, herod the great,
  • 00:19:52.251 --> 00:19:54.287
  • Had come to rule israel.
  • 00:19:54.287 --> 00:19:56.289
  • Not the son of david, but an edomite usurper.
  • 00:19:56.289 --> 00:19:59.992
  • When he was born,
  • 00:19:59.992 --> 00:20:01.260
  • The time of the maccabees had just ended.
  • 00:20:01.260 --> 00:20:03.929
  • And everyone was looking for someone like a maccabee
  • 00:20:03.929 --> 00:20:07.366
  • To fill that gap.
  • 00:20:07.366 --> 00:20:08.768
  • A priest and a warrior king.
  • 00:20:08.768 --> 00:20:11.504
  • Even the magi from the east,
  • 00:20:11.504 --> 00:20:13.372
  • When they came following that star
  • 00:20:13.372 --> 00:20:15.474
  • To see the young yeshua,
  • 00:20:15.474 --> 00:20:17.043
  • They expected to find a warrior prince in a palace.
  • 00:20:17.043 --> 00:20:21.881
  • Instead, they found a baby in bethlehem.
  • 00:20:21.881 --> 00:20:25.051
  • Not with a sword, but in swaddling clothes.
  • 00:20:25.051 --> 00:20:28.421
  • The light that would conquer darkness
  • 00:20:28.421 --> 00:20:30.723
  • Didn't come as lightning,
  • 00:20:30.723 --> 00:20:32.425
  • It came as a star,
  • 00:20:32.425 --> 00:20:34.060
  • Gentle, persistent,
  • 00:20:34.060 --> 00:20:35.828
  • Drawing the nations to worship.
  • 00:20:35.828 --> 00:20:39.465
  • Today i'm sitting down with my friend,
  • 00:20:40.299 --> 00:20:42.601
  • Dr. pastor meno kalischer,
  • 00:20:42.601 --> 00:20:45.071
  • And we're gonna discuss hanukkah,
  • 00:20:45.071 --> 00:20:47.873
  • Yeshua, and the legacy of light.
  • 00:20:47.873 --> 00:20:50.976
  • Shalom, meno.
  • 00:20:51.344 --> 00:20:52.144
  • Thank you so much
  • 00:20:52.144 --> 00:20:52.878
  • For coming to talk to me
  • 00:20:52.878 --> 00:20:54.480
  • And discuss the holiday of hanukkah.
  • 00:20:54.480 --> 00:20:57.850
  • Thank you. -in fact, we have in the new testament
  • 00:20:57.850 --> 00:21:00.286
  • One of the first references in history
  • 00:21:00.286 --> 00:21:02.988
  • Where jesus is walking in the temple during hanukkah.
  • 00:21:02.988 --> 00:21:06.158
  • Could or should christians commemorate hanukkah?
  • 00:21:06.158 --> 00:21:09.261
  • What do you think? -hanukkah,
  • 00:21:09.261 --> 00:21:10.730
  • I'll start with a bomb, okay?
  • 00:21:10.730 --> 00:21:12.732
  • It's tabernacle phase two.
  • 00:21:12.732 --> 00:21:14.867
  • Second phase of the feast of tabernacle.
  • 00:21:14.867 --> 00:21:16.469
  • Absolutely, you didn't, you missed the first one,
  • 00:21:16.469 --> 00:21:19.205
  • I'll give you another chance.
  • 00:21:19.205 --> 00:21:20.439
  • That's the idea behind it.
  • 00:21:20.439 --> 00:21:21.707
  • And what is the history?
  • 00:21:21.707 --> 00:21:23.309
  • When the maccabees rise up and militarily pushed him away.
  • 00:21:23.309 --> 00:21:27.646
  • Pushed the greeks away, yeah.
  • 00:21:27.646 --> 00:21:28.781
  • They came to the temple
  • 00:21:28.781 --> 00:21:30.116
  • And wanted to clean it
  • 00:21:30.116 --> 00:21:31.150
  • Because he defiled it.
  • 00:21:31.150 --> 00:21:32.251
  • He put pigs there and so on.
  • 00:21:32.251 --> 00:21:34.420
  • It took time
  • 00:21:34.420 --> 00:21:35.621
  • To clean the temple,
  • 00:21:35.621 --> 00:21:36.922
  • To bring it to the place
  • 00:21:36.922 --> 00:21:38.090
  • Where ceremonially
  • 00:21:38.090 --> 00:21:39.625
  • It can be used to work again.
  • 00:21:39.625 --> 00:21:42.027
  • Again. -and they finished all this cleaning
  • 00:21:42.027 --> 00:21:45.164
  • Two months after october.
  • 00:21:45.164 --> 00:21:47.633
  • That means in the 25th of december.
  • 00:21:47.633 --> 00:21:50.236
  • Now it's clean, but we miss
  • 00:21:50.236 --> 00:21:52.271
  • The feast of tabernacles
  • 00:21:52.271 --> 00:21:54.373
  • That was two months earlier.
  • 00:21:54.373 --> 00:21:56.075
  • So it's written in first and second maccabees,
  • 00:21:56.075 --> 00:21:58.411
  • Which are external books, apocrypha,
  • 00:21:58.411 --> 00:22:01.414
  • That that was the reason.
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  • Now we are going to celebrate sukkot,
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  • Tabernacle, for eight days.
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  • Seven days sukkot, one day of the gathering,
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  • Because we could not do that two months earlier.
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  • That was the issue.
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  • Traditionally you may hear
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  • About people who said
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  • About the miracle that they found
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  • Only a little portion of oil for the temple
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  • And now it lasted for eight days. -it lasted eight days,
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  • Right. -listen,
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  • I do believe god can perform miracles.
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  • I honestly believe so.
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  • But this miracle has no literature foundation.
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  • Yeah, no support. -no support whatsoever.
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  • The real support is what is written
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  • In first and second maccabees.
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  • Okay? so remember, hanukkah,
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  • The feast of dedication is second phase,
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  • Second option to celebrate tabernacle.
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  • Now we go to the gospel of john,
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  • Which is really nice.
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  • And in chapter 10,
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  • Jesus speak about himself being the good shepherd.
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  • He's the one.
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  • He's the psalm 23, "the lord is my shepherd."
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  • He's the reality, not the theory.
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  • Now after proving to them
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  • That he's the light of the world,
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  • He's the creator, he's the good shepherd,
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  • Now it's chapter 10, verse 22.
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  • It's the feast of hanukkah, dedication,
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  • And it's winter.
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  • And jesus enters into the temple.
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  • So the second tabernacle. -second tabernacle.
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  • Listen guys, about 200 years ago,
  • 00:23:28.834 --> 00:23:31.704
  • You had something similar.
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  • I'll give you another chance.
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  • And don't come and tell me, you invented a new idea.
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  • No, even in passover,
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  • If you could not celebrate passover on the right day,
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  • A month later you can do phase two.
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  • So it's established in the laws of moses as well.
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  • You know what?
  • 00:23:47.052 --> 00:23:48.254
  • You did not see me.
  • 00:23:48.721 --> 00:23:49.922
  • You were spiritually blind,
  • 00:23:49.922 --> 00:23:51.724
  • But now maybe you're spiritually see.
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  • Let's celebrate together. dedication.
  • 00:23:54.627 --> 00:23:57.963
  • So basically jesus did not establish
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  • A new appointed time in a sense.
  • 00:24:00.599 --> 00:24:04.603
  • But guys, if you miss the real tabernacle,
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  • The fellowship with god,
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  • Let's fix the house now and do it again.
  • 00:24:09.275 --> 00:24:12.011
  • We as a church celebrate the holidays.
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  • Absolutely yes.
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  • It's a joyful time of fellowship.
  • 00:24:16.615 --> 00:24:19.118
  • But what do we do?
  • 00:24:19.118 --> 00:24:20.319
  • We use it for evangelism.
  • 00:24:20.319 --> 00:24:22.121
  • You see, that was the shadow
  • 00:24:22.121 --> 00:24:24.757
  • And that's how jesus fulfilled it.
  • 00:24:24.757 --> 00:24:27.059
  • Now, there is another part... i'm excited.
  • 00:24:27.059 --> 00:24:30.296
  • Another part in daniel chapter 12,
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  • Verses 11 to 12.
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  • It's in the end of the book,
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  • And daniel just give two numbers.
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  • 1,290 and 1,335.
  • 00:24:42.474 --> 00:24:47.346
  • The 1,290 and the other one starts,
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  • The counting starts in the middle of the tribulation.
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  • He says, from the moment you take away the sacrifice
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  • Or the moment you,
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  • The abomination of desolation came down.
  • 00:24:57.756 --> 00:24:59.258
  • So from that moment which is the middle,
  • 00:24:59.258 --> 00:25:01.927
  • Count 1,290.
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  • If jesus truly comes, returned back
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  • And fulfilling the appointed times of the lord
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  • In his second coming,
  • 00:25:10.069 --> 00:25:11.604
  • So 30 days after jesus returned,
  • 00:25:11.604 --> 00:25:14.073
  • You finish all the last four holidays.
  • 00:25:14.073 --> 00:25:16.575
  • That's great.
  • 00:25:16.942 --> 00:25:18.010
  • That means all the enemies are out.
  • 00:25:18.010 --> 00:25:20.479
  • Only believers are there and jesus is going
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  • To establish his earthly kingdom.
  • 00:25:22.281 --> 00:25:24.850
  • But what is the other number, 1,335?
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  • According to the dates, you come to, guess what?
  • 00:25:28.821 --> 00:25:31.590
  • To the week of hanukkah. -interesting.
  • 00:25:31.590 --> 00:25:34.159
  • So the idea is that as if the establishment
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  • Of the millennial kingdom, that means
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  • All the administration is ready,
  • 00:25:39.665 --> 00:25:42.167
  • It looks like fits to hanukkah.
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  • Meno, thank you so much.
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  • This has been very, very, very interesting
  • 00:25:46.338 --> 00:25:48.107
  • And enlightening.
  • 00:25:48.107 --> 00:25:49.508
  • And for you, our viewers,
  • 00:25:49.508 --> 00:25:51.710
  • We are praying for you that you will experience
  • 00:25:51.710 --> 00:25:55.781
  • The light of christ,
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  • The light of the messiah in your life,
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  • That his light will shine on every aspect of your life
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  • And that you will experience great victory.
  • 00:26:03.889 --> 00:26:06.959
  • This hanukkah season,
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  • As jewish people around the world light candles,
  • 00:26:09.128 --> 00:26:12.097
  • Remember how god preserves his people,
  • 00:26:12.097 --> 00:26:14.900
  • That he keeps his promises,
  • 00:26:14.900 --> 00:26:17.369
  • That darkness never has the final word.
  • 00:26:17.369 --> 00:26:20.439
  • The darkness in the world seems great.
  • 00:26:20.439 --> 00:26:23.442
  • The darkness in israel today seems great.
  • 00:26:23.442 --> 00:26:26.645
  • But in the land of deep darkness,
  • 00:26:26.645 --> 00:26:28.947
  • A light has dawned.
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  • Two centuries after the maccabees
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  • Lit the menorah in the temple,
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  • Wise men would see a light in the sky
  • 00:26:34.987 --> 00:26:37.589
  • And step out in faith on a long journey.
  • 00:26:37.589 --> 00:26:40.492
  • They didn't know exactly where it would lead,
  • 00:26:40.492 --> 00:26:43.062
  • But they knew they had to follow.
  • 00:26:43.062 --> 00:26:45.831
  • Next time, we'll follow that star with them.
  • 00:26:45.831 --> 00:26:49.168
  • We'll discover how gentile magi
  • 00:26:49.168 --> 00:26:51.937
  • Recognized israel's king
  • 00:26:51.937 --> 00:26:54.373
  • When even herod, sitting on israel's throne,
  • 00:26:54.373 --> 00:26:57.609
  • Did not.
  • 00:26:57.609 --> 00:26:58.577
  • We'll see how the hope of hanukkah
  • 00:26:58.577 --> 00:27:00.646
  • Led to the miracle of christmas.
  • 00:27:00.646 --> 00:27:03.182
  • The light still shines in the darkness,
  • 00:27:03.182 --> 00:27:05.684
  • And the darkness
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  • Has not overcome it.
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  • Join us next time
  • 00:27:08.353 --> 00:27:09.722
  • As we explore the magi
  • 00:27:09.722 --> 00:27:12.024
  • And the star.
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  • "chag urim sameach".
  • 00:27:13.325 --> 00:27:15.060
  • Happy festival of lights
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  • And shalom.
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