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One For Israel - When Light Conquered Darkness

December 13, 2025 | 28:58

One For Israel - When Light Conquered Darkness
Join Dr. Erez Soref in Why Israel?—a powerful eight-part journey through the greatest love story ever told: God’s covenant relationship with Israel and His invitation to the nations. This profound love still transforms lives today.
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| One For Israel - When Light Conquered Darkness | December 13, 2025
  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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
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  • Only a single day supply of holy oil
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  • For the temple's menorah.
  • 00:11:10.561 --> 00:11:12.163
  • Yet the oil miraculously lasted eight days.
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  • While this story is popular
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  • And may be true,
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  • 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.
  • 00:22:01.414 --> 00:22:03.149
  • Now we are going to celebrate sukkot,
  • 00:22:03.149 --> 00:22:05.951
  • 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,
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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
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  • And that's how jesus fulfilled it.
  • 00:24:24.757 --> 00:24:27.059
  • Now, there is another part... i'm excited.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • So from that moment which is the middle,
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  • 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.
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  • That's great.
  • 00:25:16.942 --> 00:25:18.010
  • That means all the enemies are out.
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  • 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?
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  • 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,
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  • 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.
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  • And for you, our viewers,
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  • We are praying for you that you will experience
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  • 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.
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  • This hanukkah season,
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  • As jewish people around the world light candles,
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  • Remember how god preserves his people,
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  • That he keeps his promises,
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  • That darkness never has the final word.
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  • 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.
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  • 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,
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  • Did not.
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  • We'll see how the hope of hanukkah
  • 00:26:58.577 --> 00:27:00.646
  • Led to the miracle of christmas.
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  • 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
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  • As we explore the magi
  • 00:27:09.722 --> 00:27:12.024
  • And the star.
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  • "chag urim sameach".
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  • Happy festival of lights
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  • And shalom.
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