HANUKKAH IS THE OPPOSITE OF CHRIST-MASS

Genesis chapter 49




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




Isa 32:7

The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy H2254 the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.




destroy

Today we look to the word H2254 chabal--to destroy, spoil, deal corruptly, offend




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

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

Isa 13:5

They come from a far country, from the end of heaven, even the LORD, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy H2254 the whole land.

Isa 54:16

Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy. H2254





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

Pro 13:13

Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed: H2254 but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.




Melchizedek: a Priesthood of War

Because King Dawiyd (David) had shed much blood in war, The Most High would not allow him to build the Temple (1st Chronicles 22:8, 1st Chronicles 28:3). Instead, his son Solomon would be the one who would build the Temple for The Most High. David’s Tabernacle was a temporary structure like a tent akin to that of the Tabernacle of Mosheh (Moses). But why was David allowed to offer sacrifices if he was not a Levite? It is because David was a precursor to the Messiah and this is why we are told that when Messiah returns for his Millennial Kingdom, that he will “Rebuild the Tabernacle of David that is fallen down” (Amos 9:11, Acts 15:16).




This is the reason why our Messiah will come in Revelation 19 as a “warrior” shedding the blood of the wicked and he will then be our High Priest after the order of Melchizedek. You see, Melchizedek is more than just a priest, he is also a king, and all kings of Yisra’el come from Yahuwdah (Judah). Genesis 49:10 says “the scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come.” In other words, the authority to execute judgment and justice belongs to the tribe of Judah. The House of Judah are given permission to execute justice and judgment, whereas the Levites were only commanded to “make intercession” for Yisra’el.




The Apostle Sha’uwl (Paul) explained in Romans 2:26-29 that those who obey Torah (Mosaic Law) and whose hearts are circumcised inwardly are Yahuwdiy (Hebrews). Belonging to the Tribe of Yahuwdah (Judah), therefore is not limited to physical blood-line, but to the condition of one’s heart. When we are zealous for the Torah, we align ourselves with the Tribe of Yahuwdah who holds the scepter to administer the Torah to the other tribes.




That is why David was able to offer sacrifices in the Tabernacle, because he was from the Tribe of Judah, but he was also zealous for the Torah as he had displayed in his writings in Psalm 119:97, 113, 142, 163, 165. The prophecy in Genesis 49 that Jacob spoke over his son Judah says that he would “wash his garments in the blood of grapes.” This means that Judah is a man of war, yet he is still a priest. This is why Judah Maccabee was able to be a priest after his war against Antiochus. Judah Maccabee was a prophetic “type” of Melchizedek.




Even though the Maccabees were Levites, once the Levites are changed into immortality in the future resurrection, they will become part of the Melchizedek priesthood. This is precisely why in Genesis 14:18 and in Hebrews 7:1-4, we read that Abraham paid tithes out of his spoils of war to Melchizedek!




Initially, Elohiym had selected the entire nation of Yisra’el to be his priests, according to Exodus 19:5,6; however, after the nation proved to be inadequate as priests (Exodus 32:7-10), the Levites who supported Moses in Exodus chapters 26-28 were selected as Yah’s priests (Numbers 3:5-9).




King David was from the House of Yahuwdah (Judah) and yet he offered sacrifices in the Tabernacle when clearly, the role of the High Priest (Kohen Gadowl) was given over to the sons of Aharown (Aaron) after Yisra’el sinned with the molten calf on Mount Sinai. This was “The law that was added because of transgression” according to Galatians 3:19.




Nevertheless, prior to this transgression with the molten calf, the role of the High Priest in eternity always belonged to Melchizedek from the House of Yahuwdah (Judah). The sons of Aharown (Aaron) were only a temporary order until the “seed should come,” which was Messiah. According to 1st Chronicles 9:10; 24:7; and Nehemiah 11:10, the high-priestly line eventually passed over to the Hasmonaean family, the course of Yahuwyariyb (Jehoiarib), the Maccabees. It is also interesting to note that the name “Yahuwyariyb” literally means “The Most High will contend!” This means that Yah used the Maccabees to contend against the Abomination of Desolation set up by Antiochus Ephiphanies.




The Hasmoneans were from the priestly line of the “Zadok priesthood” (1st Chronicles 9:11) who served in David’s Tabernacle. The name “Zadok” comes from the Hebrew the following root words:




#6663. tsadaq tsaw-dak’ a primitive root; to be (causatively, make) right (in a moral or forensic sense):--cleanse, clear self, (be, do) justice, justify, righteous, righteousness.




#6662. tsaddiyq tsad-deek’ from 6663; just:--just, lawful, righteous (man).




#6664. tsedeq tseh’-dek from 6663; the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity: just, justice; righteous.




As you can see by the words above, the name Zadok is synonymous with righteousness, justice and cleansing. Now we can see why Judah Maccabee had the same “seed” in him of a righteous priesthood who executes justice and cleanses the temple from all defilement.




And that leads us to understand where the name Melchizedek comes from:




#4442. Malkiy-Tsedeq mal-kee-tseh’-dek from 4428 and 6664; king of right; Malki-Tsedek, an early king in Palestine:--Melchizedek.




The Zadok priesthood was a line of righteous priests who executed justice and they were uncompromising when it came to obedience to the Torah (Ezekiel 44:15-16).




There is no mixture in this priesthood:

Yechezqel (Ezekiel) 44: 17 “...they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister...”




Wool mixed with linen represents mixture of a little bit of Torah with a little bit of carnality and paganism.

The Zadok priesthood do not mix the holy with the profane:




Yechezqel (Ezekiel) 44:23 “And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.”




Even though Aaron’s line is indeed “forever” according to Exodus 29:9, when they put on immortality at the resurrection, they will then become the Melchizedek Priesthood. That is when they will receive the “double portion” (physical and spiritual). You see, the bride must marry into her husband’s tribe (Judah) just as Ruth married into the tribe of her husband Boaz.




So you see, Hanukkah goes beyond the Feast of Tabernacles, as it represents the 8th millennium when the Levitical laws and the Levitical priesthood will “pass away.” Judah “The Hammer” Maccabee was a Levite, but his name (Judah) tells us that he was a prophetic “type” of the Melchizedek Priesthood of Yahusha.




Hebrew author, Noam Zion comments in his article “An effort to legitimize the Hasmonean dynasty,” about the father of Judah Maccabee named Mattathias:




Mattathias’ action and his rallying call, “Let everyone who is zealous for the Law and who remains faithful to the Covenant, follow me” (1st Maccabees 2:27). He uses terms directly analogous to Moses and the Levi tribe at the Golden Calf and Pinchas the zealous priest. They both attacked public desecraters of Hebrew worship. In the Bible, both the tribe of Levi and Pinchas himself are rewarded for their zealous action by being granted a special status in the Temple worship. Pinchas is even promised what most commentators understand as the high priesthood. Similarly, in Mattathias’s case, zealous action in the face of desecration earns the volunteer the dynastic right to the priesthood for their children after them.




It is also interesting to note that the name “Maccabee” is a Hebrew word that means “hammer,” hence the nick-name given to Judah was the “Hebrew Hammer.” In Jeremiah 23:29 the word of The Most High is described as a hammer: “Is not my word like a fire? Says The Most High; and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?”




When the zeal against idolatry rises up in these last days in the corporate body of Two Witnesses, as seen in Revelation 11:5, the words that go forth out of their mouths will be like fire. The earth was first cleansed (baptized) by water in the days of Noah, but at the second coming of Messiah, it will be cleansed and purified (baptized) in fire:




2nd Keefa (Peter) 3:10 But the day of The Most High will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.




Hanukkah therefore is a representation of the New Temple, the new earth, the new heaven, the New Jerusalem and the eighth new millennium! At the end of the 7th millennium, all of these temporary things will be gone including the Feast of Tabernacles. The “eighth day” (the 8th millennium) will then be “initiated,” taking us into eternity. The old earthly and temporary things will be destroyed just as in the days of Judah Maccabees when the old altar was destroyed and re-dedicated on Hanukkah.




The laws surrounding the Levitical Priesthood and the earthly Temple will be gone after the 7th millennium and we will no longer have a need for the temporary structure of the “law which was added because of transgression.”




At the end of this 1,000-year reign of Messiah, Satan will be released out of the bottomless pit one last time to deceive the nations according to Revelation 20:7-10. Afterward there will be the war between Gog & Magog and Satan will finally be cast into the Lake of Fire. This will be when the “transgression is finished” and the final “end of sins” will be made (Daniel 9:24).




The 7,000-year “creation week” will then be completed which is what Daniel’s 70th Week prophecy is going to take us to. At the end of the 7th day Sabbath is when our Messiah resurrected, and so shall the same pattern be followed as the New Jerusalem will also be resurrected and brought down here to earth. The bride of Messiah must go through a double transformation. She will be changed into immortality at the 7th millennium, at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, but she will also be changed again into the New Jerusalem at the 8th millennium! See my other article entitled “The Sabbath Resurrection: ‘I Will Raise Him Up at the Last Day.’”