HANUKKAH IS THE OPPOSITE OF CHRIST-MASS

Hebrews chapter 7




Today we are walking in: Hanukkah Is The Opposite Of Christ-Mass




Genesis 23:11




Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the sons of my people H5971 give I it thee: bury thy dead.










MY PEOPLE





Today we look to the word-MY PEOPLE- H5971 'am--nation, people persons, members of one's people, compatriots, country-men kinsman, kindred











The Torah testifies...............




Exodus 3:10




Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people H5971 the children of Israel out of Egypt.











The prophets proclaim..................




2 Samuel 7:10




Moreover I will appoint a place for my people H5971 Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,











The writings bear witness...........................



Ruth 1:16




And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people H5971 shall be my people, H5971 and thy God my God:




In Hebrews 7:12 it says that the “priesthood was changed,” during the earthly ministry of Yahushua Messiah. After he was baptized by John, the office of the Kohen ha’Gadowl (High Priest) after the sons of Aharown (Aaron) was now coming to an end. John was the High Priest that year in the eyes of Yah, and now he was transferring his role of the High Priest back to the order of Melchizedek when he immersed Yahushua in the Jordan River. Forty days later, after his fasting in the wilderness, he emerged and went to the Synagogue on Yom Kippur where he read the Isaiah 61 scroll declaring “The Acceptable Year of The Most High” (Luke 4:19).




This language that he used pertains to the Kohen ha’Gadowl (High Priest) who once per year would “cast lots” to determine if the nation was either “accepted” or they were “not accepted” (Leviticus 16:8).




Yahushua was now fulfilling the role of the Kohen ha’Gadowl after the order of Melchizedek. The temporary office of the High Priest after the sons of Aharown (Aaron) was now about to end with the death of Yahuwchanon (John) the Immerser.




The Feast of Tabernacles is a seven-day long feast because it is a miniature representation of the 7,000-year plan of salvation for mankind. This began at creation and it will culminate at the 7th millennium when our Messiah returns to set up his kingdom here on earth for 1,000 years. The 1,000-year reign of Messiah will be a larger scale of the Feast of Tabernacles where we will experience 1,000 years of resting on this temporary earth. And then on the 8th day of the Feast of Tabernacles, it is a representation of the end of the millennium (the end of the 7th day going into the 8th day) when the “new heaven & earth” will come down taking us into eternity or the 8,000th year from creation.




The Feast of Tabernacles is also a feast where we are commanded to build temporary shelters outside (called a sukkah) and live in them. These temporary shelters are deliberately meant to be “flimsy,” because it represents the fact that this earth that we are now living in is going to burn up because it is temporary. It also means that this mortal body that we live in is also temporary, for we will receive a “new” incorruptible body when Messiah resurrects his bride.




Thus, the Feast of Tabernacles points to the temporary priesthood of the sons of Aaron. The role of the High Priest belonging to the “sons of Aharown” (Aaron) was “The law that was added because of transgression” spoken of by Paul in Galatians 3:19. You see, after Yisra’el had transgressed the marriage covenant with the molten calf on Mount Sinai, Mosheh (Moses) had to institute a temporary priesthood from his brother Aaron and his sons. This was because Aaron was the one who caused Yisra’el to sin in the first place with the molten calf and therefore, the only way that Aaron and his sons could live is if they offered their lives as a ransom year-by-year on Yom Kippur for the nation.




There was always the possibility that the Kohen Gadowl (High Priest) could die behind the veil in the “Holy of Holies” if he had not sufficiently atoned for his own sins. That is why the sons of Aaron were “temporary,” because they were mortals who died. But once our Messiah was baptized by John, he was illustrating that year the transfer was taking place from John (who was a Levite) back to the priesthood of Melchizedek who never dies but has an “endless life” (Hebrews 7:16).




All throughout the millennial reign of Messiah, the entire Torah (Mosaic Law) will be implemented, because the body of Messiah is still in transgression. Even though Messiah paid the price, they have not fully received his price yet. And so during the Millennium, he will fully implement the entire Torah, to include animal sacrifices (see Ezekiel 40-48). Now, his once-and-for-all sacrifice was already done in eternity because he is “the lamb slain from the foundations of the world” (Revelation 13:8).

However, he will perform animal sacrifices in the Millennium NOT for atonement, but for illustration purposes in order to teach us through visual pictures what his sacrifice on the tree was all about. He will not be doing these animal sacrifices to atone for sins, as he has already done this by his “once-and-for-all” Passover sacrifice. But he will do them as a “MEMORIAL” of himself to remind us and to teach us.




Now, once the Millennium is over, it says in Revelation 21:1 that there will be a “new heaven and a new earth” that will come down out of heaven, and the “first heaven and the first earth will pass away.” This is when the Temple ordinances after the sons of Aaron will also pass away. This now gives new meaning to our Messiah’s words in Matthew 5:17-19, when he said “until heaven and earth passes away, one jot or tittle shall in no wise pass from the Torah until all be fulfilled.”




Well, not all is fulfilled yet. He fulfilled the “laws for blood atonement” but there is much more for him to fulfill during the Millennium. In order for him to “finish the transgression, make an end of sins, make reconciliation for iniquity, bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up the vision and the prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy,” (Daniel 9:24) he must “flesh it out” in the Millennium.




The priesthood of Melchizedek will serve “side-by-side” with the priesthood of Lewiytes (Levites) all during the Millennium just like in the Tabernacle of David. This means that both the “Tzadiq” (Zadok) and the Levites will serve together. In other words, the heavenly & the earthly will come together, until the end of the Millennium, when the earthly will go away. At that point the “Lamb and The Most High Almighty shall be the Temple.”




Until then, the Levites have not vanished away. They have been temporarily set aside because the Temple is no longer standing in Jerusalem. But that Temple will be rebuilt and Yahushua will be the High Priest there after the order of Melchizedek. He will be the Prince that shall offer sacrifices as seen in Ezekiel 40-48. The Levites have not vanished away yet until AFTER the Millennium. They are “ready to vanish away” (Hebrews 8:13), but they have not vanished away yet!




When our Messiah returns to set up his kingdom, he will again rebuild the Tabernacle of Dawiyd (David) which is fallen down (Acts 15:16) and both priesthoods will serve together side-by-side (Levites & Melchi-zedek). All seven of the annual feasts found in Leviticus 23 will be celebrated during the Messiah’s Kingdom. The nations that refuse to come to Jerusalem for these feasts during the Millennium will experience drought and famine according to Zechariah 14:16-17. But once our Messiah’s 1,000-year reign is over, he himself will become the “Temple” in the New Jerusalem in the 8th millennium!