HANUKKAH IS THE OPPOSITE OF CHRIST-MASS

Daniel chapter 12




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




2 Chronicles 32:15




Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive H5377 you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?









DECEIVE






Today we look to the word-DECEIVE-H5377 nasha'-- to beguile, deceive to be beguiled









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




Genesis 3:13




And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, H5377 and I did eat.







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





Jeremiah 9:5




And they will deceive H5377 every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.






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





2 Kings 18:29




Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive H5377 you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:




When our Messiah returns there will be a war just like in the Maccabean Revolt where he will be like Judah Maccabees and his army. The armies that follow Yahusha at his return are “clothed in fine linen fine and clean” and this is his bride in her new resurrected body. The bride will fight alongside with him to take back the Temple of The Most High and to overthrow the false Messiah and his Abomination of Desolation. If you add 75 days to 1,260 days (which culminates on Yom Kippur), it lands on the 25th day of the 9th month of Kislev on the Hebrew Calendar---in other words Hanukkah!




Listen to what the angel said in Daniel 12:12 “Blessed is he that waits, and comes to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days” (1,335 days). The angel was essentially telling Daniel:




“Blessed is he who waits until Hanukkah when the Temple and the altar of Yahusha will be rebuilt and dedicated!”




It will take 75 days to destroy the old Temple where the Abomination of Desolation, was sitting and to also to rebuild the new one where our Messiah will rule and reign for 1,000 years! This dedication will take place on Hanukkah because it will be 75 days following Yom Kippur---in other words 1,335 days!




Two Trees in the Garden Representing Two Opposing Celebrations

Some people within the Hebraic Roots Community have falsely stated that Hanukkah is a pagan holiday just because there are some people who have tried to “paganize” it by adding man-made traditions to it.




But just because Satan has tried to add Talmudic man-made traditions to this remembrance in history, does not make the entire thing pagan.




The logic behind treating Christ-Mass & Hanukkah as the same thing is like saying that the two trees in the Garden of Eden are the same just because they look similar and they are both trees. Both trees were in the garden, and both were created by Yah. But we know that these two trees represent two completely opposing ideas. The “tree of life” is symbolized by the seven-branch menorah and it represents our Messiah as he is the middle branch (the 7th one) and his bride represents the other six branches who are attached to him (the vine). Conversely, the Christ-Mass tree is represented by “the tree of knowledge of good and evil.” It represents Satan & Nimrod who were both “cut down like a tree” (Isaiah 14:12, Luke 13:7).




Both trees were in the Garden of Eden were together. One was genuine, and the other counterfeit. Our Messiah is called “The Righteous Branch” in prophecy, but Lucifer who also manifested as Nimrod is called “The abominable branch” in Yeshayahuw (Isaiah) 14:19.




In Ezekiel 8:17, Yah showed Ezekiel these abominations that the people of Judah were doing in his Temple. They were “putting the branch to the nose” in honor of Nimrod. This was mistletoe, which is used at Christ-Mass time. Now just because one branch is evil and one branch is good, do we throw out all shadow pictures pertaining to the branch or the tree?




Since the children of Yisra’el worshiped the golden calf does this mean that we can no longer eat beef now? You see, we are commanded to worship the creator and not the created things (Romans 1:25). That is what this all boils down to. We must worship the Father by using the patterns of what he has set forth in his Torah (instructions). Alternatively, Satan has tricked people into worshiping him using the very same metaphors but he causes them to take their eyes off of Yahusha and instead fix their eyes on the created things of this world, i.e. Christ-Mass Trees, holly, mistletoe, etc.




Are You Celebrating a Wedding or A Divorce?

A man named Bill wrote to me and he asked me to share what the differences are between Hanukkah & Christ-Mass. He was under the false impression that they are the same thing, but here is what I said to him:




“Let me give you an example. Let’s say that March 10th for you represents the day that your wife left you for another man and began cheating on you. That date will always represent something painful to you----right? Now let’s just say that you continued to pray for your wife and almost one year later she broke up with the other guy and totally repented and came back to you. And let’s just say that on March 5th on the following year, that you both renewed your wedding vows and started all over again. Now even though both of these dates fall within the same week, March 10th represents the day your wife cheated, and March 5th represents the day that you renewed your vows and rededicated yourselves to one another. Now let’s say that your wife’s former lover’s name was Wally. So every year on March 10th she says to you, “Merry Wally’s Day, Honey!”




How are you going to feel knowing that was the day that she ripped your heart out? And not only is it bad enough that she wants to remember her former lover on this day, but she expects you to be merry about it! But if she suddenly realizes how much this hurts you and she repents, and she stops saying “Merry Wally’s Day” on March 10th each year, but instead she says to you on March 5th “Happy Rededication honey!” Now, she acknowledges the date of when you both took your marriage vows again and rededicated yourselves one to another. Do you see the difference? Do you see that Hanukkah & Christ-Mass represent two completely opposite things? And even though they fall around the same time of year, you still don’t want your wife celebrating March 10th as “Merry Wally’s Day,” but instead you want her to remember the day that she came back to you, and she rededicated herself to the marriage on March 5th.”




My explanation to this man named Bill is very similar to what the nation of Yisra’el did to their husband The Most High. They committed idolatry over and over again in the Tanakh (Old Testament), and that is why Yah divorced then in Jeremiah 3:8. But at this point in history, during the Maccabean Revolt, the House of Judah showed themselves to be faithful as a nation. Many of these faithful Yahuwdiym (Hebrews) obeyed the covenant and they refused to disobey the commandments, even at the expense of their own lives and the lives of their children.




They were martyrs for their faith in The Most High and his loving instructions. And so Hanukkah celebrates their dedication to the Heavenly Father, and their willingness to lay down their lives for him. Hanukkah celebrates their victory over idolatry and the rededication of the Temple back to the Father in Heaven.