Sabbath worship and circumcision were rejected and pagan sacrifice was incorporated into worship.ĭo you understand how important those two aspects of God’s laws are and why Satan chose to wipe them out? Circumcision is the physical sign of covenant for the Jewish man with God. They rejected the very laws God sent down to reveal His ways to the world. To that end they chose to remove anything that separated the Jews from others. Hellenistic Jews wanted to preserve only the aspects of Judaism that fit with the Greek ideals. Many Jews embraced that philosophy to gain political and economic stature. Antiochus wanted to impose the Hellenistic culture on the inhabitants of his Kingdom. He also engaged the pride of the Jews themselves to eliminate God’s ways in the lifestyle of the Jewish people. Violence was not the only method satan employed. 168 he sent another 20,000 troops into Jerusalem, erected an Idol of Zeus, offered swine blood on the altar and turned the chambers into brothels for his soldiers. If a parent was found to have circumcised their son the baby was killed and the mother crucified with the son hanging around their neck. He destroyed copies of the Law and prohibited all Jewish religion, making it a capital offence to have a copy of the Law or to circumcise a child. He destroyed the temple, stole the articles of worship and sacrificed to his foreign gods at the altar. 170 the Syrian-Greek ruler Antiochus Epiphanies attacked Jerusalem and killed 80,000 Jews, selling many more into slavery. History records the following but there is so much in play in the spiritual realm. 5 and one of the elders *said to me, “Stop weeping behold, the Lion that is from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome so as to open the book and its seven seals.” And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.” Gen.12: Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go forth from your country, And from your relatives And from your father’s house, To the land which I will show you And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great And so you shall be a blessing And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse.
Gen: 3: And I will put enmity between you ( Satan) and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.”.All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Here we find that out about the final chapter of God’s victory story when out of the tribe of Judah comes the Lion (Yeshua) and He brings to pass the fullness of God’s plan. Further we find prophesied in the book of Revelation the end of the story of this earth as we know it. The plan which began before the foundation of the earth was pronounced to satan in the garden and declared in covenant language to Abraham. God in His mercy provided a plan for mankind. It becomes clear how much effort satan puts into trying to portray God as a liar and stop His eternal plan.įrom the day there was war in heaven satan’s goal has been to establish his own kingdom and be worshiped as the supreme god. When you grasp that the Jews as people were created to reveal God’s heart His ways and His Son to this planet, you can appreciate how great the war is between satan and God. However the more I study their history I gain insight to the heart of God and the vastness of His plan for all mankind. Most see Hanukkah as simply the story of a time in history for the Jewish people. Hanukkah has many names: “The Festival of the Dedication of the Altar, “The Memorial of the Purification of the Temple” and “The Festival of the Lights.” Each name has historical and spiritual implications in our life today.
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