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Jason Sobel & Samuel Rodriguez: Hanukkah (Part 2) | God's Appointed Times

January 12, 2026 | S3 E2 | 26:42

Jason Sobel & Samuel Rodriguez: Hanukkah (Part 2) | God's Appointed Times
God’s Appointed Times is an eight-week journey that explores seven of the most sacred times of the year. The series is led by renowned author and teacher Rabbi Jason Sobel. Raised in a traditional Jewish home, Rabbi Jason has seen the beauty of the biblical Jewish holidays from the perspective of Judaism. After a tangible encounter with Jesus, Rabbi Jason dedicated his life to Messiah. Rabbi now helps believers across the world reconnect to the Jewish roots of their faith.
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God's Appointed Times with Rabbi Jason Sobel | Jason Sobel & Samuel Rodriguez: Hanukkah (Part 2) | God's Appointed Times | January 12, 2026
  • - hanukkah, the festival of lights.
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  • Right now, we're continuing to explore this iconic celebration.
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  • We're starting by breaking down the significance of the menorah,
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  • The candelabra that we light during the holiday.
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  • Why does it have nine branches?
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  • And how does it reveal details about the person, work,
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  • And character of the yeshua jesus?
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  • Next, we're unpacking the details of the dreidel.
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  • This is so much more than a spinning toy.
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  • It's a powerful symbol of faith and perseverance.
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  • I'm rabbi jason sobel, and this is “god's appointed times”.
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  • [music]
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  • - in part one, we saw how the maccabees,
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  • A group of jewish freedom fighters,
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  • Took back the temple in jerusalem.
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  • They rededicated it to god after it had been desecrated by
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  • An evil ruler.
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  • To do this, they lit the menorah in the temple,
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  • And god supernaturally allowed one small flask of oil to keep
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  • The flame lit for eight days.
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  • This is the hanukkah miracle.
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  • Now, i want us to focus on the menorah that was in the temple
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  • Itself.
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  • The traditional menorah in the temple had only seven branches.
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  • Why seven?
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  • In jewish thought, seven is the number of creation.
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  • It symbolizes life.
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  • How did god bring creation into being?
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  • He spoke the words, "yehi,” or let there be light.
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  • So, the seven branches of the menorah point to the seven days
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  • Of creation, and the seven hebrew words that make up
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  • Genesis 1:1, and the light of god.
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  • Now, with the hanukkiah, the hanukkah menorah,
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  • There are actually nine branches.
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  • But why nine branches?
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  • Because it is one candle to remember each day that the
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  • Menorah in the temple stayed lit and one candle to light the
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  • Rest.
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  • It's a visual reminder of god's faithfulness,
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  • Not only to the maccabees then, but to his people today as well.
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  • And messiah is at the center.
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  • The hanukkah miracle has two distinct aspects,
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  • Lighting and fighting.
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  • When the maccabees went up against the armies of antiochus,
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  • There was no chance that any military expert could have
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  • Looked at the two sides and predicted that the maccabees
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  • Would win.
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  • They were undertrained and outnumbered,
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  • But they took action anyway, and god led them to victory.
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  • The hanukkah menorah points us to the truth.
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  • We need to take action in our faith.
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  • When the maccabees stood there in the temple and saw there was
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  • Only one cruse of oil, it seemed totally insane to light the
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  • Menorah.
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  • In the world's eyes, it was pointless,
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  • But god saw otherwise.
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  • In both the lighting and the fighting,
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  • The maccabees weren't making decisions with just their heads,
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  • They were being guided by their hearts, filled with faith,
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  • Emunah in hebrew, and trust, betachon.
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  • Faith is about belief.
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  • It's knowing that god can do something.
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  • Trust takes it a step further.
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  • It's about taking action with your faith and knowing god will
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  • Be there.
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  • So, in a sense, trust is faith in action.
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  • Through this faith and trust, they lit the menorah,
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  • And that's why we celebrate it to this very day.
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  • A radical faith in who god is and a trust to take
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  • Revolutionary actions.
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  • As james tells us, "faith without works is dead.”
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  • As james tells us, "faith without works is dead.”
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  • [music]
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  • - i'm so excited to continue to jump in with you about hanukkah.
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  • One of the things, as we've talked about,
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  • Is hanukkah is about fighting and lighting.
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  • The reality is that whenever there is going to be light,
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  • There is going to be a fight against that light.
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  • That's part of the deeper story and the deeper message of
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  • Hanukkah.
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  • At the heart, the enemy was trying to extinguish the light
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  • Of truth, the light of god's word, the light of god's people.
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  • And really, what it was was a culture war.
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  • So, think about it for a moment.
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  • It was the greco-roman worldview,
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  • Which is still the dominant worldview today in the west,
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  • Versus the biblical, hebraic, jewish worldview.
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  • The question is, which is more important,
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  • The body or the spirit and the soul?
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  • The physical or the spiritual?
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  • Which has primary place?
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  • The greeks idolized an elevated philosophy.
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  • And from a biblical perspective,
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  • It's divine revelation.
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  • Is it human reason or is it wisdom and revelation that comes
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  • From god?
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  • Which is more important, the physical body?
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  • You see all these amazing statutes that come out of the
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  • Greco-roman world, or is it the spirit?
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  • Is it the inner or the outer?
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  • Is it the academy of learning and philosophy,
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  • Or is it the house of prayer, the house of study,
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  • The house of worship?
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  • And that was really what was going on.
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  • It was a battle to supplant the spirit, the word, the truth,
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  • The physical over the spiritual.
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  • And i feel like that is the exact same battle,
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  • Thousands of years later, that we still experience
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  • In our culture.
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  • I know you know a lot about the culture war.
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  • - but your wording is so specific and so apropos,
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  • The fight for the light.
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  • It's actually a fight to be light, to share the light.
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  • You are making all of us aware.
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  • Now we are cognizant of the fact that the fight that took
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  • Place, that we celebrate, commemorate in hanukkah,
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  • It's actually a fight that's still going on.
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  • - and it's not against flesh and blood.
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  • That's the thing we have to remember, too.
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  • It's not against a person.
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  • We can attack an ideology or go against an ideology,
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  • But not a person or a party.
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  • And i think that's really important, too, because again,
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  • Hanukkah means the feast of dedication.
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  • And where is our dedication to the lord?
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  • And the reality is we have to get lit.
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  • - oh.
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  • - right?
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  • We have to--
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  • You know, we either burn up or we burn out.
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  • And so, do we have the oil in our lamps where there's that
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  • Passion, where there's that love,
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  • Where there is that zeal with humility to fight the good fight
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  • For him and for the kingdom.
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  • And again, that's the interesting thing, too,
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  • Is that when you look at hanukkah,
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  • The feast of dedication, and it happens on the 25th day of the
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  • Hebrew month of kislev, numbers are important.
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  • Why does it happen on the 25th?
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  • Well, in the name hanukkah itself,
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  • Hanu comes from the word chanu, which can mean to rest.
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  • And the second part of hanukkah,
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  • The letters add up to 25.
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  • Hanukkah can be read, "they rested on the 25th.”
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  • And i think it reminds us that our battle can't be from a place
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  • Of striving.
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  • We win from a place of rest, resting in the lord that
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  • Ultimately, the battle belongs to the lord.
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  • So, the original menorah that the maccabees lit in the temple
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  • Would have been the seven branches.
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  • And one of the reasons why there's seven branches is there
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  • Are seven days of creation.
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  • Three right and left reminds us of the six days of the week.
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  • The center reminds us of the sabbath.
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  • So, it reminds us that the center of everything is rest.
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  • And it's also interesting that this middle candle represents
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  • Jesus, who is the lord of the sabbath, because in him,
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  • We find rest.
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  • Now, what's interesting about that rest and in this battle as
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  • Well is that seven branches of the menorah reminds us
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  • Connection to hanukkah, connection to the modern state
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  • Of israel, whose emblem is the seven branch menorah flanked by
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  • Two olive branches.
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  • Zechariah, the famous verse, "'not by might,
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  • - nor by power,
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  • - but
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  • - by my spirit,' saith the lord."
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  • - in the hebrew, it has seven words in it,
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  • Reflecting of the seven branches of the candelabra and of the
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  • Miracle that god performed for our ancestors with the seven
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  • Candle branched menorah that reminds us that ultimately,
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  • The battle was not won because the maccabees had the most
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  • Military might, technologies, numbers.
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  • They were outgunned.
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  • They were outnumbered.
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  • They were a ragtag bunch.
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  • But how did they win?
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  • That's the theme of hanukkah.
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  • Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit.
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  • And they learned to rest in god and lean into the holy spirit.
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  • And the victory was supernatural.
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  • Again, when you think about the number seven,
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  • When you think about resting in god,
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  • When you think about the victory,
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  • You can go back further.
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  • I love taking people to israel.
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  • One of the places we'd like to go is jericho.
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  • How many times is that march around the city?
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  • Seven times.
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  • And that's part of the miracle.
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  • They rested in the lord.
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  • They worshiped, they prayed, they obeyed god,
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  • They followed the leading of the presence of god,
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  • And god brought the walls supernaturally down.
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  • And that's what we need as well today.
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  • - victory is on the other side of resting in the lord,
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  • On the other side of resting, on utter dependency, right?
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  • The audacity of resting in the most precarious of
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  • Circumstances.
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  • The end result, the outcome is what?
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  • Victory.
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  • Undeniable victory.
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  • On the other side of resting, there is victory.
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  • Amazing.
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  • - the battle belongs to the lord.
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  • Some might trust in horses, some might trust in chariots,
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  • But we trust in the name of the lord.
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  • But again, this connects back to hanukkah because hanukkah is
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  • About dedication.
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  • And one of the greatest signs of our dedication to the lord is
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  • Having the faith to rest and to trust him.
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  • - so, i'm demonstrating to god that i'm dedicating my life,
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  • My family, my now, and my next by resting?
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  • - by resting in the lord, by resting in his promises,
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  • By resting in the finished work of what he's done for us
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  • On the cross.
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  • Because when we learn to rest, what we're saying is, "god,
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  • We trust you.
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  • We have faith in you.”
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  • What it's saying is that it's not my work that's going
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  • To make it happen.
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  • Yes, i have to put in the effort,
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  • But part of that faith is god says, rest,
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  • Take time to worship, take time to spend with him,
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  • Take time to focus on the spiritual,
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  • Both on a daily basis and our devotionals with him,
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  • But also take a sabbath and dedicate a day to god with time.
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  • Family, which is something we talked about in the past,
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  • The sabbath, you and i.
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  • - we have.
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  • - on the second season of this tv show.
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  • - and we've talked about the fact that on the other side of
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  • Rest, there's great creativity.
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  • - yeah.
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  • - innovation, ingenuity, new ideas.
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  • - refreshment, renewal.
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  • - absolutely.
  • 00:12:27.412 --> 00:12:28.614
  • It requires one to be intentional in resting in the
  • 00:12:28.614 --> 00:12:32.317
  • Finished work of christ, and everything you referenced in the
  • 00:12:32.317 --> 00:12:34.653
  • Promises of god in the working of the holy spirit
  • 00:12:34.653 --> 00:12:36.822
  • Is trusting god.
  • 00:12:36.822 --> 00:12:43.762
  • - sammy, i'm so excited to be able to talk with you about the
  • 00:12:45.063 --> 00:12:49.101
  • Meaning and spiritual significance of the
  • 00:12:49.101 --> 00:12:51.937
  • Hanukkah menorah.
  • 00:12:51.937 --> 00:12:54.206
  • Everyone thinks about hanukkah.
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  • We think about the lighting of the candles,
  • 00:12:55.374 --> 00:12:58.010
  • Known as the festival of lights.
  • 00:12:58.010 --> 00:13:01.046
  • But there's so much spiritual meaning in the menorah.
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  • One of the things it actually points to and symbolizes
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  • Is unity.
  • 00:13:09.354 --> 00:13:11.356
  • When the first menorah was made by moses,
  • 00:13:11.356 --> 00:13:13.859
  • God told them to take one solid piece of gold and to make the
  • 00:13:13.859 --> 00:13:18.730
  • Menorah out of it.
  • 00:13:18.730 --> 00:13:19.865
  • And god had to literally show him.
  • 00:13:19.865 --> 00:13:21.066
  • How do you make this out of one piece of gold?
  • 00:13:21.066 --> 00:13:25.037
  • And part of the reason for that,
  • 00:13:25.037 --> 00:13:27.005
  • You have the right center and left side,
  • 00:13:27.005 --> 00:13:29.775
  • Is that it's meant to show the importance of unity.
  • 00:13:29.875 --> 00:13:33.111
  • Our light shines when we are one in messiah.
  • 00:13:33.212 --> 00:13:37.916
  • - you said right, center, and left?
  • 00:13:38.016 --> 00:13:39.351
  • - yeah.
  • 00:13:39.351 --> 00:13:39.918
  • - i'm sorry.
  • 00:13:39.918 --> 00:13:41.053
  • It's not that i'm myopic.
  • 00:13:41.053 --> 00:13:43.188
  • We have a political cultural lens.
  • 00:13:43.188 --> 00:13:45.157
  • - right.
  • 00:13:45.157 --> 00:13:46.325
  • - but we live in an era of like, over fragmentation.
  • 00:13:46.325 --> 00:13:48.126
  • - yeah.
  • 00:13:48.126 --> 00:13:48.760
  • - and that's brilliant.
  • 00:13:48.760 --> 00:13:49.595
  • Unity.
  • 00:13:49.595 --> 00:13:50.529
  • The lord's prayer.
  • 00:13:50.529 --> 00:13:51.563
  • - yeah.
  • 00:13:51.563 --> 00:13:52.197
  • - john 17:21.
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  • The messiah, right?
  • 00:13:53.165 --> 00:13:54.233
  • - yeah.
  • 00:13:54.233 --> 00:13:55.667
  • - my prayers, they become one, as you and i are one.
  • 00:13:55.667 --> 00:13:58.337
  • But like this message, which i've never heard of before,
  • 00:13:58.337 --> 00:14:00.873
  • By the way, the unity factor, how critical is that?
  • 00:14:00.873 --> 00:14:03.575
  • - yeah, i mean, absolutely.
  • 00:14:03.575 --> 00:14:06.044
  • And i think this is, i think, part of the, again,
  • 00:14:06.044 --> 00:14:09.281
  • Significance of the menorah and the wisdom that's in it because
  • 00:14:09.381 --> 00:14:12.684
  • I think part of the problem is there is no political candidate
  • 00:14:12.684 --> 00:14:16.488
  • That is ultimately going to save us or no political party that is
  • 00:14:16.488 --> 00:14:20.692
  • Going to save us.
  • 00:14:20.692 --> 00:14:21.894
  • What's interesting is that the menorah in the temple,
  • 00:14:21.894 --> 00:14:24.296
  • All of the wicks would ultimately lean towards the
  • 00:14:24.396 --> 00:14:29.167
  • Center when they were lit.
  • 00:14:29.167 --> 00:14:31.370
  • And the center represents the lord.
  • 00:14:31.470 --> 00:14:33.805
  • It represents yeshua.
  • 00:14:33.805 --> 00:14:35.908
  • Everything is meant to point to him.
  • 00:14:36.008 --> 00:14:38.677
  • So, if we get focused on the right or focused on the left,
  • 00:14:38.777 --> 00:14:42.748
  • Thinking that is the source of the light,
  • 00:14:42.848 --> 00:14:44.650
  • We miss the whole point because everything is meant to point
  • 00:14:44.650 --> 00:14:47.619
  • To the one.
  • 00:14:47.619 --> 00:14:49.488
  • It's meant to point to the center because yeshua, jesus,
  • 00:14:49.488 --> 00:14:52.991
  • The lord, is meant to be the center of it all.
  • 00:14:52.991 --> 00:14:55.494
  • And when we forget that, that's when we diminish our light.
  • 00:14:55.594 --> 00:14:58.997
  • - this is transformative.
  • 00:14:59.097 --> 00:15:00.032
  • It really is.
  • 00:15:00.032 --> 00:15:00.866
  • That truth.
  • 00:15:00.866 --> 00:15:01.967
  • And i've never heard the element of unity embedded
  • 00:15:01.967 --> 00:15:04.870
  • In the menorah.
  • 00:15:04.870 --> 00:15:05.871
  • But the center, right?
  • 00:15:05.871 --> 00:15:07.239
  • And again, not that way where it's just focused exclusively on
  • 00:15:07.239 --> 00:15:10.309
  • Politics and culture.
  • 00:15:10.309 --> 00:15:11.610
  • But this obsession with the fight being between the donkey
  • 00:15:11.610 --> 00:15:14.746
  • And the elephant, the real fight's between the serpent
  • 00:15:14.746 --> 00:15:16.615
  • And the lamb.
  • 00:15:16.615 --> 00:15:17.316
  • - absolutely.
  • 00:15:17.316 --> 00:15:18.050
  • - that's the real fight.
  • 00:15:18.050 --> 00:15:19.151
  • And the lamb defeated the serpent on the cross.
  • 00:15:19.151 --> 00:15:21.586
  • - that's right.
  • 00:15:21.586 --> 00:15:22.688
  • - everything points towards the center.
  • 00:15:22.688 --> 00:15:23.989
  • Everything.
  • 00:15:24.389 --> 00:15:25.524
  • Everything points to the messiah, to jesus.
  • 00:15:25.524 --> 00:15:26.825
  • - and we have a loss of the center.
  • 00:15:26.925 --> 00:15:28.460
  • And part of returning to the center,
  • 00:15:28.460 --> 00:15:30.929
  • Whether it's extreme right, or extreme left,
  • 00:15:31.029 --> 00:15:34.032
  • Or the loss of the middle class, everything needs to go back to
  • 00:15:34.032 --> 00:15:36.501
  • The center, meaning it needs to go back with the focus on the
  • 00:15:36.501 --> 00:15:39.404
  • Main thing, which is the lord.
  • 00:15:39.404 --> 00:15:41.073
  • And actually, this menorah points to the messiah
  • 00:15:41.073 --> 00:15:44.843
  • And the godhead itself.
  • 00:15:44.843 --> 00:15:46.578
  • Because think about it.
  • 00:15:46.578 --> 00:15:47.546
  • There are three parts to the menorah.
  • 00:15:47.546 --> 00:15:50.148
  • The three parts points to father, son, and holy spirit,
  • 00:15:50.148 --> 00:15:54.186
  • The three that are yet one.
  • 00:15:54.853 --> 00:15:57.155
  • And that's ultimately what it is all about and what the main
  • 00:15:57.255 --> 00:16:00.792
  • Focus needs to be.
  • 00:16:00.792 --> 00:16:01.994
  • So, you have the menorah here, which is so significant.
  • 00:16:01.994 --> 00:16:06.198
  • And what's interesting too is that the numerical value of lamp
  • 00:16:06.198 --> 00:16:11.570
  • Or candle, the hebrew word is ner,
  • 00:16:11.570 --> 00:16:14.206
  • Has a numerical value of 250.
  • 00:16:14.206 --> 00:16:16.408
  • So, candle equals 250, or lamp, light equals 250,
  • 00:16:16.508 --> 00:16:22.347
  • But also prepare the way, 250.
  • 00:16:23.048 --> 00:16:27.452
  • Like a voice crying out in the wilderness,
  • 00:16:27.452 --> 00:16:30.122
  • "prepare the way of the lord.”
  • 00:16:30.122 --> 00:16:31.723
  • So, if we are going to be a lamp that is ultimately a light
  • 00:16:31.723 --> 00:16:35.527
  • To the world, we have to be willing to be that voice crying
  • 00:16:35.527 --> 00:16:38.997
  • Out in the wilderness, 250, "prepare the way of the lord."
  • 00:16:38.997 --> 00:16:43.101
  • - the light of the world, of course,
  • 00:16:43.101 --> 00:16:44.703
  • The declaration of jesus in john 8, "i am the light of the world,”
  • 00:16:44.703 --> 00:16:48.173
  • And reminding me that every single time light stands next to
  • 00:16:48.173 --> 00:16:52.978
  • Darkness, light always wins.
  • 00:16:52.978 --> 00:16:54.112
  • - absolutely.
  • 00:16:54.212 --> 00:16:55.347
  • - how do we get there?
  • 00:16:55.347 --> 00:16:56.448
  • How do i get back to--
  • 00:16:56.448 --> 00:16:57.816
  • I love the wicks aiming towards the center and the centrality of
  • 00:16:57.816 --> 00:17:01.286
  • The messiah being the all, being the answer.
  • 00:17:01.286 --> 00:17:04.656
  • How do we get there?
  • 00:17:04.656 --> 00:17:05.957
  • - well, i think one of the really important things is that
  • 00:17:05.957 --> 00:17:08.427
  • This reminds of the miracle of hanukkah.
  • 00:17:08.427 --> 00:17:11.797
  • And according to jewish law, jewish halacha,
  • 00:17:11.897 --> 00:17:15.333
  • When you light this, you're actually supposed to take it and
  • 00:17:15.434 --> 00:17:19.037
  • Put it in the window of your home or put it outside the door
  • 00:17:19.037 --> 00:17:23.809
  • Because this is meant to publicize the miracle.
  • 00:17:23.909 --> 00:17:26.478
  • So, it's not meant to be hidden in one's house.
  • 00:17:26.478 --> 00:17:29.714
  • It's not meant to be concealed.
  • 00:17:29.714 --> 00:17:31.917
  • It's let your light shine before men.
  • 00:17:31.917 --> 00:17:34.653
  • It's you don't take a lamp and put it under a bushel.
  • 00:17:34.753 --> 00:17:38.824
  • - come on.
  • 00:17:38.824 --> 00:17:39.925
  • - you don't hide it.
  • 00:17:39.925 --> 00:17:41.059
  • One of the things we need to do,
  • 00:17:41.059 --> 00:17:42.360
  • Besides making yeshua center, is making sure our faith is on
  • 00:17:42.360 --> 00:17:46.131
  • Display for the world to see.
  • 00:17:46.131 --> 00:17:47.632
  • - you're telling me there is no such animal as private
  • 00:17:47.632 --> 00:17:49.634
  • Christianity?
  • 00:17:49.634 --> 00:17:50.368
  • - no such thing.
  • 00:17:50.368 --> 00:17:51.503
  • - there's no such thing as private christianity?
  • 00:17:51.503 --> 00:17:53.171
  • - no.
  • 00:17:53.171 --> 00:17:54.206
  • - but rabbi, we're living in a day and age.
  • 00:17:54.206 --> 00:17:55.407
  • There's so much as it pertains to ideas and plurality of
  • 00:17:55.407 --> 00:17:59.478
  • Thought and so forth.
  • 00:17:59.478 --> 00:18:00.612
  • Should i just keep my faith private?
  • 00:18:00.712 --> 00:18:02.214
  • It's super private.
  • 00:18:02.747 --> 00:18:04.349
  • It should be reserved at home.
  • 00:18:04.349 --> 00:18:05.617
  • You're telling me i should put this out in front of a window
  • 00:18:05.717 --> 00:18:08.920
  • Or outside.
  • 00:18:08.920 --> 00:18:09.788
  • It's matthew 5, right?
  • 00:18:09.788 --> 00:18:11.456
  • - that's right.
  • 00:18:11.456 --> 00:18:12.357
  • - "you are the light of the world.
  • 00:18:12.357 --> 00:18:13.325
  • A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.”
  • 00:18:13.325 --> 00:18:13.992
  • And how do i do that?
  • 00:18:13.992 --> 00:18:15.994
  • How can i be intentional to go public with my faith?
  • 00:18:15.994 --> 00:18:18.897
  • - "let your light so shine before men,
  • 00:18:18.897 --> 00:18:21.166
  • That they may see your good works and glorify your
  • 00:18:21.166 --> 00:18:24.169
  • Father in heaven.”
  • 00:18:24.169 --> 00:18:25.003
  • I think it's interesting.
  • 00:18:25.003 --> 00:18:26.338
  • I think it connects to another passage in the old testament.
  • 00:18:26.338 --> 00:18:29.708
  • God talks to moses, and moses asked god, "lord,
  • 00:18:29.808 --> 00:18:35.413
  • Show me your glory.”
  • 00:18:35.413 --> 00:18:36.848
  • And god says not that, "i will cause
  • 00:18:36.948 --> 00:18:38.783
  • My glory to pass before you,”
  • 00:18:38.783 --> 00:18:40.118
  • He says, "i will cause my goodness to pass before you.”
  • 00:18:40.118 --> 00:18:44.456
  • So, moses asked to see the glory.
  • 00:18:44.456 --> 00:18:46.491
  • God says, "i will show you my goodness.”
  • 00:18:46.591 --> 00:18:49.528
  • And oftentimes people will never see the glory of god or
  • 00:18:49.628 --> 00:18:53.198
  • Experience the glorious presence of god until they experience the
  • 00:18:53.198 --> 00:18:56.535
  • Goodness of god.
  • 00:18:56.535 --> 00:18:57.903
  • We have to model that kindness, that compassion, helping people,
  • 00:18:57.903 --> 00:19:02.774
  • Praying for people, encouraging people.
  • 00:19:02.874 --> 00:19:04.442
  • And when we help those in need and wear that light by
  • 00:19:04.442 --> 00:19:09.648
  • Displaying the goodness of god, only then will people
  • 00:19:09.648 --> 00:19:11.650
  • See the glory.
  • 00:19:11.650 --> 00:19:12.417
  • That's where it has to begin.
  • 00:19:12.417 --> 00:19:13.618
  • - the personal and personal prophetic implication and
  • 00:19:13.618 --> 00:19:17.155
  • Application of this is so powerful.
  • 00:19:17.155 --> 00:19:18.490
  • And again, that's why i love you,
  • 00:19:18.490 --> 00:19:19.991
  • Because you reveal stuff i've never, ever, ever heard before.
  • 00:19:19.991 --> 00:19:23.495
  • You can only do it in spanish, by the way.
  • 00:19:23.495 --> 00:19:26.431
  • But ephesians 5:8, "you were once children of darkness.
  • 00:19:26.531 --> 00:19:31.670
  • Now, you are children of the light.
  • 00:19:31.770 --> 00:19:33.405
  • Live as children of the light”"
  • 00:19:33.405 --> 00:19:35.874
  • There was a time in my life where i was super
  • 00:19:35.974 --> 00:19:37.776
  • Focused on darkness.
  • 00:19:37.776 --> 00:19:39.277
  • Let me explain.
  • 00:19:39.277 --> 00:19:40.312
  • I was in a dark occult.
  • 00:19:40.312 --> 00:19:42.514
  • But i was writing for certain periodicals in dc that you would
  • 00:19:42.514 --> 00:19:45.717
  • Recognize, secular magazines and newspapers.
  • 00:19:45.717 --> 00:19:49.054
  • And my assignment, i was focusing on everything negative.
  • 00:19:49.154 --> 00:19:52.591
  • And i had an encounter with god where the holy spirit convicted
  • 00:19:52.691 --> 00:19:55.393
  • Me of, "sammy, you're focusing exclusively on darkness.”
  • 00:19:55.393 --> 00:19:57.829
  • So, i had this epiphany.
  • 00:19:58.396 --> 00:20:00.432
  • When things are dark, you walk into a room and just go in there
  • 00:20:00.532 --> 00:20:03.535
  • And pray about the darkness, fast about the darkness,
  • 00:20:03.535 --> 00:20:05.737
  • Rebuke the darkness.
  • 00:20:05.837 --> 00:20:07.038
  • Why not find the light switch and turn on the light?
  • 00:20:07.038 --> 00:20:11.343
  • At that moment, i pivoted from focusing on darkness
  • 00:20:11.443 --> 00:20:14.212
  • To being light.
  • 00:20:14.212 --> 00:20:15.947
  • And that's what your message and what this message conveys to
  • 00:20:15.947 --> 00:20:18.383
  • Me, focus on being light.
  • 00:20:18.383 --> 00:20:20.452
  • Don't be obsessed with darkness.
  • 00:20:20.552 --> 00:20:22.220
  • Without negating the darkness, focus on being light.
  • 00:20:22.220 --> 00:20:25.624
  • - no, it's so true.
  • 00:20:26.157 --> 00:20:27.292
  • I think there's--
  • 00:20:27.292 --> 00:20:28.493
  • Reminds me of a story, "we're in a political season”
  • 00:20:28.493 --> 00:20:30.729
  • That was told by--
  • 00:20:30.729 --> 00:20:32.664
  • I believe it was by philip yancey in "christianity today",
  • 00:20:32.664 --> 00:20:35.233
  • Coming after the prayer breakfast where mother teresa
  • 00:20:35.233 --> 00:20:38.970
  • Spoke.
  • 00:20:38.970 --> 00:20:40.305
  • And there's a quote that says that when bill clinton was asked
  • 00:20:40.305 --> 00:20:44.142
  • About her speech on abortion, he said,
  • 00:20:44.142 --> 00:20:45.977
  • "i don't like her politics, but you can't argue with a life that
  • 00:20:45.977 --> 00:20:49.648
  • Is so well lived.”
  • 00:20:49.648 --> 00:20:50.982
  • When you live your life well, even those who disagree with you
  • 00:20:50.982 --> 00:20:56.454
  • Will acknowledge that you carry something,
  • 00:20:56.454 --> 00:20:59.891
  • Even if they can't agree with it,
  • 00:20:59.991 --> 00:21:02.127
  • Even if they've got issues with it.
  • 00:21:02.127 --> 00:21:03.495
  • A life well lived, a life that is the light that allows the
  • 00:21:03.495 --> 00:21:07.732
  • Light of yeshua jesus to shine through them,
  • 00:21:07.732 --> 00:21:10.535
  • You can't argue against that.
  • 00:21:11.236 --> 00:21:13.505
  • But i want to tie it to something else because another
  • 00:21:13.605 --> 00:21:16.107
  • Key tradition of hanukkah is the dreidel,
  • 00:21:16.107 --> 00:21:19.844
  • This four sided top that we spin and we actually gamble for
  • 00:21:19.944 --> 00:21:25.750
  • Chocolate coins.
  • 00:21:25.750 --> 00:21:26.851
  • - chocolate coins.
  • 00:21:26.851 --> 00:21:28.787
  • - chocolate coins, right?
  • 00:21:28.787 --> 00:21:29.754
  • We're not-- we're big gamblers.
  • 00:21:29.754 --> 00:21:30.789
  • [laughs]
  • 00:21:30.789 --> 00:21:31.956
  • But what's so interesting, tying into what you said,
  • 00:21:31.956 --> 00:21:34.059
  • Is that people think of this as a fun game that kids play,
  • 00:21:34.059 --> 00:21:38.430
  • But there's such a deep spiritual meaning here.
  • 00:21:38.530 --> 00:21:42.167
  • There's several things.
  • 00:21:42.767 --> 00:21:44.135
  • One is that the four letters of this dreidel remind us in the
  • 00:21:44.135 --> 00:21:46.971
  • Book of daniel that there were going to be four kingdoms of the
  • 00:21:46.971 --> 00:21:49.674
  • World that were going to exile god's people,
  • 00:21:49.674 --> 00:21:52.210
  • And who thought they were in control,
  • 00:21:52.210 --> 00:21:54.446
  • And that they were the ones running the world.
  • 00:21:54.446 --> 00:21:56.815
  • The four sides represent those four kingdoms.
  • 00:21:56.915 --> 00:21:59.951
  • - powerful.
  • 00:21:59.951 --> 00:22:01.086
  • - but then, you have the central axis,
  • 00:22:01.086 --> 00:22:03.521
  • Which actually is what actually the world revolves around,
  • 00:22:03.621 --> 00:22:07.292
  • And that reminds us of the lord and of yeshua.
  • 00:22:07.292 --> 00:22:10.628
  • All the kingdoms of the world think that they're the ones
  • 00:22:10.729 --> 00:22:13.565
  • Spinning the world and they are in control.
  • 00:22:13.565 --> 00:22:16.134
  • But ultimately, it's god's hand who spins all of history.
  • 00:22:16.234 --> 00:22:20.205
  • And one day, all the kingdoms of this world are going to fall,
  • 00:22:20.205 --> 00:22:24.342
  • And god ultimately is going to rule and reign.
  • 00:22:24.342 --> 00:22:27.379
  • And this is connected to a number, the number 358,
  • 00:22:27.479 --> 00:22:31.916
  • All four letters on this dreidel that represents the four
  • 00:22:32.016 --> 00:22:35.019
  • Kingdoms of the world.
  • 00:22:35.019 --> 00:22:36.454
  • The fourth kingdom is rome, which is the roman exile,
  • 00:22:36.554 --> 00:22:39.157
  • Which we're in now, the western influence in the world.
  • 00:22:39.157 --> 00:22:41.826
  • 358 equals those four kingdoms.
  • 00:22:41.926 --> 00:22:44.496
  • 358 is the numerical value of messiah.
  • 00:22:44.596 --> 00:22:47.132
  • - wow.
  • 00:22:47.432 --> 00:22:48.633
  • - so, all those kingdoms thought they were in control,
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  • But ultimately, it was messiah that was in control.
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  • The four kingdoms, 358, is also the numerical value of serpent
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  • In hebrew, nahash.
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  • So, the serpent 358, through those four kingdoms 358,
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  • Think that they are in control and try to battle the lord and
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  • God's people.
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  • But ultimately, messiah is the one in control.
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  • And if you don't know that, you're the one who's being taken
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  • For a spin.
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  • [laughs]
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  • [laughs]
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  • - there's so much depth to the dreidel.
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  • It's an important piece of the hanukkah celebration.
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  • This might seem like just a small toy,
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  • But it actually has a rich spiritual history.
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  • Even during the time when the evil king antiochus ruled over
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  • The jewish people, he wanted to squash all of judaism.
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  • This included forcing the jewish people to do sacrilegious
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  • Things and killing anyone who decided they didn't want to
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  • Convert to greek paganism.
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  • Even practicing the commandments of god,
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  • Called the mitzvot, was illegal, but it was still incredibly
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  • Important to the jewish people to be able to pass along their
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  • Knowledge to their children, to the next generation.
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  • They still needed to study and learn the commandments of god.
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  • But as the jewish people had to meet and learn in secret,
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  • They had to risk life and limb.
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  • They would carry a spinning top like this called a dreidel.
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  • And whenever one of the authorities spotted a group of
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  • Jewish people gathered, they would pretend to be gambling.
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  • This allowed them to study the torah without raising alarm.
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  • When we spin the dreidel, it reminds us how fortunate we are
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  • To live in a place where expressing our faith is allowed
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  • And studying the word of god is something we can do freely.
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  • It reminds us of generations that didn't have that privilege.
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  • Taking a closer look at the dreidel,
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  • I can see a mystery i'd like to reveal to you.
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  • On each side of the dreidel, there is a hebrew letter.
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  • You have the letter gimel.
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  • You have the letter nun.
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  • You have the letter shin and hey.
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  • And it points to an acronym, nes gadol haya sham,
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  • A great miracle happened there.
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  • This is referring to the hanukkah miracle,
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  • The miracle of the maccabees defeating antiochus and
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  • Reclaiming the temple, god's house in jerusalem.
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  • Even a small toy that remembers the miracle of the maccabees
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  • Connects the past and present and shows how
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  • Intentional god is.
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  • He weaves the details of history and prophecy together.
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  • The great miracle that the acronym of the dreidel describes
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  • Is both the hanukkah miracle and the greatest miracle of all,
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  • The messiah, our savior, yeshua.
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  • Thank you for joining me as we explored hanukkah.
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  • I pray you found this eye-opening.
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  • I'm rabbi jason sobel, and this is "god's appointed times".
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