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Episode: “Festival of Lights”

Myles and Katharine present Hanukkah. This Jewish Feast harks back to when an anti-Semitic dictator threatened to wipe out the Hebrews. But the Lord’s Deliverer arose, lit the lamp of hope, and saved Israel. From generation to generation, Jews have lit lamps in their homes to commemorate the victory and retell the story of the Feast of Lights.

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Caption transcript for “Festival of Lights”

00:02 (♪ Soft Music ♪)
00:43 Myles: SHALOM AND WELCOME TO
00:44 ZOLA LEVITT PRESENTS.
00:45 I'M MYLES WEISS.
00:46 Katharine: AND I'M
00:47 KATHARINE WEISS.
00:48 Myles: AND WE HAVE A GREAT NEW
00:49 PROGRAM THIS WEEK, DON'T WE?
00:50 Katharine: IT'S A REMIX OF
00:51 ZOLA'S, ONE OF HIS CLASSICS,
00:53 IT'S HANUKKAH.
00:54 Myles: YES.
00:55 Katharine: AND YOU KNOW
00:56 JESUS KEPT THIS FESTIVAL.
00:57 Myles: HE DID.
00:58 IN JOHN 10:22 WE FIND JESUS
00:59 IN THE FEAST OF DEDICATION,
01:01 HANUKKAH, IN SOLOMON'S PORCH
01:03 IN THE WINTER.
01:04 AND SO IT NOT ONLY WAS
01:05 A BEAUTIFUL PICTURE OF JESUS
01:06 AS ONE WHO KEPT THE FEAST.
01:08 THIS IS AN EXTRA-BIBLICAL FEAST.
01:10 IT'S BETWEEN THE TESTAMENTS,
01:11 BUT HE KEPT THIS ONE,
01:13 AND IT'S A REAL PICTURE FOR US
01:15 OF THE REVELATION THAT WE CAN
01:17 GET OUT OF KEEPING THIS BECAUSE
01:18 HE IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
01:20 AND SO THIS IS A FESTIVAL THAT
01:22 IS ABOUT THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
01:24 IT'S A FESTIVAL OF THE
01:25 PRESERVATION OF THE JEWISH LINE
01:28 THROUGHOUT HISTORY IN ORDER THAT
01:29 JESUS COULD COME.
01:31 IT'S FULL OF REVELATION ABOUT
01:32 GOD'S COVENANT-KEEPING POWER.
01:34 SO LET'S GO RIGHT AWAY TO ZOLA
01:37 ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES.
01:40 Zola: WELL, HERE WE ARE
01:41 AT THE CENTER OF THE EARTH.
01:43 BEHIND ME,
01:44 THE TEMPLE MOUNT OF JERUSALEM
01:45 WITH THE DOME OF THE ROCK
01:47 AND THE AL-AQSA MOSQUE
01:48 AND BEHIND IT THE OLD CITY
01:50 OF JERUSALEM AND BEHIND THAT
01:51 THE WESTERN SIDE, THE NEW CITY.
01:54 THIS IS THE PLACE
01:56 OF THE FUTURE TEMPLES,
01:58 IT WAS THE PLATFORM
02:00 ON WHICH STOOD SOLOMON'S
02:01 AND HEROD'S TEMPLE,
02:03 THE OLD TEMPLES AND THAT BRINGS
02:06 A GREAT DEAL OF HISTORY
02:08 TO THIS PLACE.
02:09 THE HISTORY WE'RE INTERESTED IN
02:10 FOR OUR PURPOSES
02:11 TO LOOK AT HANUKKAH,
02:13 TOOK PLACE IN THE 160s B.C.
02:16 WHEN A GRECO-SYRIAN COMMANDER
02:18 ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES WENT INTO
02:20 THE TEMPLE MOUNT AND ON PURPOSE
02:23 SACRIFICED A PIG ON THE ALTAR.
02:26 HE HAD ANOTHER ONE
02:28 OF THOSE "FINAL SOLUTIONS"
02:29 TO THE JEWISH PROBLEM
02:31 AND SO HE OFFENDED
02:34 THE CHOSEN PEOPLE IN THIS WAY;
02:36 DESECRATED THE TEMPLE,
02:37 RAIDED THE PLACE AND OCCUPIED IT
02:39 TRUTH BE TOLD, AND THE JEWS
02:41 HAD A REVOLT AGAINST HIM.
02:43 THE MACCABEE FAMILY,
02:45 "MACCABEE" MEANS "HAMMER";
02:47 THEY LED A REVOLT
02:48 AND THREW HIM OUT, BUT WHEN
02:50 THEY RECOVERED THE TEMPLE,
02:52 THEY HAD A REAL PROBLEM.
02:54 IT SEEMED THAT
02:55 BY THE CANDLESTICK,
02:57 THERE WAS JUST A ONE DAY'S OIL.
02:59 THEY HAD TO HAVE IT LIT
03:02 ALL THE TIME.
03:03 THE LAW IS VERY CLEAR
03:05 IN EXODUS 27:20, GOD SAYS THIS
03:09 ABOUT THE TABERNACLE,
03:10 THE FORERUNNER OF THE TEMPLE:
03:22 SO IT TOOK A SPECIAL PROCEDURE.
03:24 THEY BEAT OLIVE TREES
03:25 WITH STICKS FOR THE OLIVES
03:26 TO COME DOWN.
03:27 THEY LEAVE THE OLIVE OIL
03:30 THAT THEY FINALLY PRESS
03:32 FOR A PERIOD OF TIME
03:34 WHILE ALL THE SEDIMENT
03:35 FALLS TO THE BOTTOM
03:37 AND IT'S CLEAR LIKE WATER.
03:39 AND THAT IS THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN
03:40 USE THE OIL CONSECRATED PROPERLY
03:43 FOR THE LAMP.
03:45 BUT WHAT WERE THEY TO DO?
03:47 THERE WAS JUST ONE DAY'S SUPPLY
03:49 OF THAT AND TO START BEATING
03:50 TREES AND LETTING OIL SIT
03:53 AND SO FORTH WOULD TAKE
03:55 SEVEN MORE DAYS.
03:57 BUT THE MIRACLE WAS THAT
03:58 THAT ONE DAY'S OIL LASTED
04:00 THE ENTIRE TIME.
04:03 THEY LIT IT.
04:04 THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE TO DO
04:05 BUT POUR INTO THE CANDELABRA
04:07 AND THEN IT WOULD BURN UP
04:11 IN A DAY THEY THOUGHT, BUT THEY
04:12 PRAYED OVER IT, AND SO ON,
04:14 AND IT DID LAST.
04:15 IT BURNED ON AND ON.
04:16 IT BURNED EIGHT DAYS
04:18 AND THE NEW OIL WAS READY THEN.
04:19 THEY FILLED THE LAMP
04:20 AND IT NEVER DID GO OUT.
04:22 THE MIRACLE IS REMINISCENT OF,
04:24 SAY, THE WIDOW WITH THE OIL
04:26 AND THE BIT OF FLOUR THAT ELIJAH
04:29 CAME AND CAUSED TO LAST
04:32 ON AND ON AND ON
04:33 AND FED THE THREE OF THEM.
04:35 THAT WAS ONLY ONE MEAL'S WORTH.
04:36 SHE SAID SHE WAS GOING TO
04:38 PREPARE IT FOR HER AND HER SON
04:39 AND THEN THEY WERE SIMPLY GOING
04:40 TO SIT DOWN AND DIE.
04:41 THERE WAS TERRIBLE FAMINE.
04:42 THEY HAD NOTHING ELSE.
04:44 AND THEN THE LOAVES
04:46 AND THE FISHES OF JESUS
04:47 WHERE ONE LITTLE BOY'S LUNCH,
04:49 FIVE LOAVES AND TWO FISHES;
04:51 WE EAT THOSE AT BREAKFAST HERE,
04:54 SMALL LOAVES
04:55 AND TWO BITS OF FISH.
04:57 AND HE TOOK OUT OF THAT BASKET
05:00 ENOUGH TO FEED THE 5,000 PEOPLE
05:02 AND THERE WERE BASKETS,
05:04 12 BASKETS OF LEFTOVERS.
05:06 GOD CAN MAKE THINGS LAST
05:08 ON EARTH AS HE CHOOSES AND THIS
05:11 WAS ANOTHER INSTANCE OF THAT,
05:13 THAT OIL, AND IT CAUSED
05:15 THE CREATION OF A NEW MENORAH.
05:17 NOW MENORAH IS A CANDLESTICK.
05:19 THIS IS ONE.
05:20 THIS IS A HANUKKAH MENORAH.
05:22 THIS ONE BACK HERE
05:23 IS THE ORIGINAL TEMPLE MENORAH,
05:25 THAT IS,
05:26 THE ONE IN THE TABERNACLE.
05:28 IT HAS SEVEN BRANCHES
05:29 AS YOU CAN SEE;
05:30 A MIDDLE ONE HERE
05:31 AND THESE OTHERS AROUND IT.
05:33 ONE LIGHTS THOSE
05:35 WITH THE MIDDLE CANDLE.
05:36 IN THE MENORAH THERE IS A CENTER
05:39 CANDLE WITH FOUR ON EITHER SIDE.
05:41 IT LOOKS LIKE NINE.
05:42 IT'S REALLY EIGHT BUT THIS ONE
05:44 IS CALLED "THE SHAMUS CANDLE."
05:46 YOU LIGHT ALL THE OTHERS
05:47 WITH THIS ONE.
05:48 THE FIRST NIGHT YOU LIGHT
05:49 THE FIRST, THE SECOND NIGHT
05:50 THE FIRST AND SECOND;
05:51 THE THIRD NIGHT THE FIRST THREE
05:53 AND SO FORTH.
05:54 OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS THE MESSIAH.
05:57 HOW THE JEWS COULD MISS IT
05:58 IS A MYSTERY.
06:00 OF COURSE HE'S THE ONE.
06:01 HIS FLAME IGNITES
06:03 ALL THE OTHER BELIEVERS IN TURN
06:05 AND THAT BECOMES
06:08 A TYPE OF THE MESSIAH,
06:09 A REAL SYMBOL OF HIM.
06:11 THERE'S A JAR TO FILL
06:13 THE OLD CANDLESTICK WITH OIL
06:16 AT THE BOTTOM.
06:17 THE NEW MENORAH, OF COURSE,
06:18 HAS CANDLES IN IT OR
06:20 IT'S REPRESENTED BY A BEAUTIFUL
06:23 MODERN ISRAELI CREATION BASED ON
06:26 THE OLD OIL LAMPS AND THERE'S
06:28 THE JAR, THE "SHAMUS,"
06:29 THE "SERVANT."
06:31 ALSO THERE'S A DREIDEL
06:33 THIS IS A LITTLE TOP.
06:35 YOU CAN SEE THERE,
06:36 LETTERS ON IT.
06:37 THE LETTERS ARE
06:38 NUN, GIMEL, HEI, PEI.
06:40 THEY MAKE AN ACRONYM THAT SAYS
06:45 "A GREAT MIRACLE OCCURRED HERE."
06:47 WHEN I WAS A LITTLE KID,
06:48 WE PLAYED WITH THESE DREIDELS.
06:50 THERE'S GAMES YOU PLAY.
06:51 YOU SPIN THE TOP AND IT LANDS
06:53 ON A CERTAIN LETTER.
06:54 WE SANG A SONG, IT WENT,
06:56 ♪ DREIDEL, DREIDEL, DREIDEL, ♪
06:58 ♪ I MADE IT OUT OF CLAY, ♪
07:00 ♪ DA DA, DADA, DA DA, DA DA DA ♪
07:02 ♪ DA DEE ♪♪ AND SO ON.
07:04 THIS IS A HAPPY HOLIDAY,
07:06 A TRIUMPHANT HOLIDAY
07:07 AND NO WONDER.
07:09 WHEN THE MESSIAH RETURNS,
07:11 THIS IS THE HOLIDAY ON WHICH
07:12 HE'S GOING TO EVIDENTLY REBUILD
07:15 THE MILLENNIAL TEMPLE
07:17 AND START THE KINGDOM,
07:19 THE FEAST OF DEDICATION.
07:21 DANIEL 8 GIVES THE WHOLE STORY
07:23 OF THE HISTORY OF ANTIOCHUS.
07:26 IT TELLS THE STORY OF THE EMPIRE
07:28 BEING DIVIDED IN FOUR PARTS
07:30 AND ONE OF THEM THE LITTLE HORN,
07:32 WHICH IS ANTIOCHUS, COMES
07:34 AND RAIDS THE BEAUTIFUL PLACE,
07:35 THE TEMPLE SITE AND SO ON,
07:37 AND IN FIGURE
07:38 HE GIVES THE STORY.
07:39 IT'S REALLY A PREDICTION SINCE
07:41 DANIEL LIVED CENTURIES BEFORE
07:42 THAT MIRACLE AND IT'S A PROPHECY
07:44 AND IT WAS FULFILLED
07:46 BY ANTIOCHUS.
07:47 BY THE WAY, DANIEL DIGRESSES
07:49 WHILE TALKING ABOUT
07:50 THIS STORY OF THE LITTLE HORN,
07:52 TO TALK ABOUT THE ANTICHRIST
07:54 OF THE END-TIMES.
07:55 DANIEL 8:25:
07:57 "BY PEACE SHALL
07:58 HE DESTROY MANY," DANIEL SAYS.
08:02 AND IT'S A HINT THAT
08:03 THE ANTICHRIST IS PERHAPS
08:04 GRECO-SYRIAN IN BACKGROUND.
08:07 HE COMES OUT OF ROME, BUT HE
08:09 PERHAPS HAS THAT BACKGROUND.
08:11 BECAUSE IT'S AS IF DANIEL SAID,
08:13 WHILE I'M TALKING ABOUT THIS
08:14 GRECO-SYRIAN TYRANT, LET ME ALSO
08:16 SPEAK OF THE DARK PRINCE
08:17 WHO IS TO COME,
08:19 A VERY TELLING PASSAGE
08:22 IN DANIEL'S END-TIMES PROPHECY.
08:24 NOW JESUS ALSO CELEBRATED
08:26 THIS FESTIVAL.
08:28 IT WAS A NATIONAL FESTIVAL,
08:29 NOT LISTED IN LEVITICUS 23 WITH
08:31 PASSOVER AND UNLEAVENED BREAD
08:33 AND SO ON.
08:34 BUT IT'S LISTED IN PROPHECY
08:38 IN DANIEL 8 AND THEN THE LORD
08:39 COMMEMORATED IT HIMSELF.
08:41 JOHN 10:22 SAYS THIS:
08:54 YES, IT'S IN DECEMBER.
08:55 AND JESUS CAME ALL THIS WAY.
08:59 YOU KNOW, IT WAS A FIVE-DAY
09:01 JOURNEY SLEEPING UNDER THE STARS
09:02 TO COME HERE FROM CAPERNAUM
09:04 IN GALILEE AND YET HE CAME
09:05 FOR THIS FESTIVAL.
09:06 SO THAT GIVES IT CREDENCE.
09:08 AND THEN IN DANIEL 12, THERE'S
09:10 A COMPLEX SERIES OF NUMBERS:
09:12 1290 DAYS, 1335 DAYS.
09:15 IF YOU GET OUR BOOK
09:16 ON THE SEVEN FEASTS, YOU'LL SEE
09:17 THE CALCULATION THAT SHOWS THAT
09:20 THESE NUMBERS ADD UP TO THE FACT
09:22 THAT THE LORD WILL PROBABLY
09:24 DEDICATE THE NEW TEMPLE,
09:26 THE MILLENNIAL TEMPLE ON
09:28 HANUKKAH IN THE KINGDOM TO COME.
09:31 IT IS THE 25th DAY OF KISLEV.
09:33 IT OCCURS AT EXACTLY THE RIGHT
09:34 TIME AFTER THE SECOND COMING.
09:37 AND SO IN THAT MILLENNIAL TEMPLE
09:40 WHERE WE WILL WORSHIP
09:42 WITH THE LORD, THAT, TOO,
09:44 WILL BE ESTABLISHED
09:45 ON A FEAST OF DEDICATION.
09:49 ♪ ♪
09:56 Announcer: THE BIBLE LANDS,
09:59 YOU'VE READ ABOUT THEM,
10:00 NOW ENCOUNTER THEM
10:02 FOR YOURSELF.
10:03 WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF JESUS
10:05 AT THE JORDAN,
10:06 GALILEE, JERUSALEM.
10:09 JOURNEY IN THE SHADOW OF PAUL
10:10 TO ATHENS, CORINTH, EPHESUS.
10:14 JOIN MYLES AND KATHARINE WEISS
10:16 ON A TOUR OF THE BIBLE LANDS
10:18 AND WITNESS THE WORD
10:20 COME TO LIFE AS NEVER BEFORE.
10:23 CALL:
10:29 Katharine: THE FEAST
10:31 OF DEDICATION, THE FEAST OF
10:32 LIGHTS AND IT'S ALSO HANUKKAH.
10:35 WE HAVE AN AMAZING RESOURCE
10:37 THAT WE WANT TO OFFER YOU.
10:39 IT'S A 3-PART SERIES.
10:40 JEFF AND SANDRA ARE ON
10:42 THIS TEACHING, BUT MOST OF ALL,
10:44 THE JEWISH PEOPLE COMMEMORATE
10:46 GOD'S VICTORY OVER EVIL MAN,
10:48 RIGHT?
10:49 Myles: IT DOES.
10:50 Katharine: THEY LIGHT
10:51 THE CANDLES
10:52 AND THEY RETELL THE STORY
10:53 FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION,
10:55 THEIR CHILDREN, THAT GOD IS
10:57 A GOD WHO COMES THROUGH FOR US.
11:00 Myles: YES, HE DOES
11:01 THE SHAMUS CANDLE,
11:02 I LOVE HEARING THAT STORY AND
11:04 THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE SERVANT
11:05 WHO COMES AND LIGHTS
11:06 THE REST OF THE CANDLES.
11:07 AND REALLY THAT'S THE STORY
11:08 OF THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
11:10 IS GOING TO COME.
11:11 IN FACT, IT LOOKS FORWARD TO
11:12 THIS INCREDIBLE STORY THAT JESUS
11:16 COMES AS THE OVERCOMING MESSIAH
11:18 AND IT'S BECAUSE GOD SAYS
11:20 WHO HE IS AND HE MEANS IT.
11:22 IN PSALM 121:4, HE SAYS,
11:25 "HE WHO KEEPS ISRAEL
11:26 WILL NEITHER SLUMBER NOR SLEEP,"
11:28 AND THAT'S TRUE TODAY,
11:29 EVEN AS WE SEE THESE NATIONS
11:31 SURROUNDING ISRAEL.
11:33 WE SEE THE NATIONS
11:34 SURROUNDING AND THREATENING.
11:35 GOD PROMISES
11:36 THAT HE WILL KEEP ISRAEL.
11:38 LISTEN TO THIS, THAT IT
11:39 DIDN'T HELP HAMAN, HEROD, HITLER
11:42 AND IT WON'T HELP HAMAS,
11:43 BECAUSE ALL OF THOSE
11:44 ARE EXPRESSIONS OF "HA'SATAN,"
11:46 THE ADVERSARY, SATAN.
11:48 AND HE CANNOT PUT OUT THE LIGHT
11:50 BECAUSE THE LIGHT
11:51 OVERCOMES THE DARKNESS.
11:52 AND THE LIGHT OF MESSIAH
11:53 IS SHINING TODAY
11:55 AND WILL KEEP SHINING
11:56 UNTIL THE RETURN OF THE LORD.
11:57 Katharine: HA'SHEM.
11:58 Myles: HA'SHEM.
11:59 HE WILL JUST KEEP SHINING UNTIL
12:01 THE RETURN OF JESUS CHRIST,
12:03 YESHUA HA'MASHIACH,
12:04 THE MESSIAH OF THE JEWS
12:06 AND THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD.
12:08 NOW THE STORY CONTINUES WITH
12:10 JOSEPH AND MARY IN BETHLEHEM.
12:12 THEY COME UP TO BETHLEHEM
12:14 FOR THE CENSUS BECAUSE
12:15 THEY'RE OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID,
12:16 THEY'RE OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH
12:18 AND THERE WAS SPECIFIC REASONS
12:19 WHY IT HAD TO BE SO.
12:21 SO NOW LET'S GO TO A DRAMA TO
12:23 TELL A LITTLE BIT ABOUT JOSEPH
12:24 AND MARY AT THE BIRTH OF JESUS.
12:31 Narrator: "AND IT CAME TO PASS
12:32 IN THOSE DAYS,
12:33 THAT THERE WENT OUT A DECREE
12:35 FROM CAESAR AUGUSTUS THAT
12:36 ALL THE WORLD SHOULD BE TAXED.
12:40 AND JOSEPH WENT UP FROM GALILEE
12:42 OUT OF THE CITY OF NAZARETH
12:43 INTO JUDEA,
12:44 UNTO THE CITY OF DAVID,
12:46 WHICH IS CALLED BETHLEHEM,
12:48 TO BE TAXED WITH MARY,
12:49 HIS ESPOUSED WIFE,
12:51 BEING GREAT WITH CHILD.
12:53 AND SO IT WAS,
12:54 THAT, WHILE THEY WERE THERE,
12:55 THE DAYS WERE ACCOMPLISHED
12:56 THAT SHE SHOULD BE DELIVERED.
12:59 AND SHE BROUGHT FORTH HER
13:00 FIRSTBORN SON, AND WRAPPED HIM
13:02 IN SWADDLING CLOTHES,
13:04 AND LAID HIM IN A MANGER;
13:05 BECAUSE THERE WAS NO ROOM
13:06 FOR THEM IN THE INN.
13:11 ( Sheep Bleating )
13:14 AND THERE WERE
13:15 IN THE SAME COUNTRY SHEPHERDS
13:16 ABIDING IN THE FIELD, KEEPING
13:17 WATCH OVER THEIR FLOCK BY NIGHT
13:21 AND, LO, THE ANGEL OF THE LORD
13:22 CAME UPON THEM AND THE GLORY
13:24 OF THE LORD SHOWN ROUND THEM
13:26 AND THEY WERE SORE AFRAID.
13:32 AND THE ANGEL SAID UNTO THEM,
13:34 'FEAR NOT:
13:35 FOR BEHOLD, I BRING YOU
13:37 GOOD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY
13:39 WHICH SHALL BE TO ALL PEOPLE.
13:41 FOR UNTO YOU IS BORN THIS DAY
13:43 IN THE CITY OF DAVID
13:45 A SAVIOR,
13:46 WHICH IS CHRIST THE LORD.
13:49 AND THIS SHALL BE A SIGN
13:50 UNTO YOU;
13:54 YE SHALL FIND THE BABE
13:56 WRAPPED IN SWADDLING CLOTHES
13:57 LYING IN A MANGER.'"
14:05 Myles: LISTEN TO THE WORD
14:06 OF THE LORD.
14:31 WHAT A STORY.
14:32 THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD AND
14:34 IT'S BECAUSE THE SHAMUS CANDLE
14:36 OF HANUKKAH IS NOW COMING INTO
14:39 THE WORLD, BORN OF A WOMAN,
14:41 BORN OF THIS EARTH
14:43 IN ORDER TO IDENTIFY WITH US.
14:45 AND HE LEFT HEAVEN,
14:47 ACCORDING TO PHILIPPIANS 2
14:48 VERSE 5 AND FOLLOWING,
14:50 HE LEFT HIS FIRST ESTATE.
14:51 HE LEFT
14:52 WHAT WAS RIGHTFUL FOR HIM
14:53 AND CAME HERE ON OUR BEHALF.
14:55 AND IT IS THE STORY
14:56 OF THE JEWISH MESSIAH.
14:58 IT'S SO AMAZING TO ME.
15:00 CHRISTMAS IS A JEWISH STORY.
15:01 I DIDN'T KNOW.
15:02 MY RABBI DIDN'T TELL ME.
15:03 I WISH HE HAD TOLD ME,
15:04 BUT HE DIDN'T.
15:05 AND ONE OF THE THINGS
15:06 THAT HAPPENS TO JEWISH PEOPLE
15:07 WHEN WE COME INTO THE FAITH,
15:09 IS WE REALIZE THAT THIS STORY IS
15:11 ABOUT THESE OVER 300 PROPHESIES
15:14 OF THE MESSIAH BEING FULFILLED
15:16 BY THIS ONE PERSON
15:18 AND THERE'S NO OTHER WAY
15:19 AND NO OTHER PERSON WHO
15:20 COULD HAVE OR DID FULFILL THIS
15:22 OTHER THAN YESHUA HA'MASHIACH.
15:24 AND THAT'S HIS NAME, YESHUA.
15:26 HE'S HEBREW.
15:27 HE'S BORN IN BETHLEHEM.
15:29 HE GROWS UP IN NAZARETH, BUT
15:31 WHEN THEY COME UP TO BETHLEHEM
15:32 FOR THE CENSUS BEFORE THE BIRTH,
15:34 IT'S BECAUSE GOD
15:36 DESIGNED BETHLEHEM
15:38 TO BE THE PLACE OF THE BIRTH,
15:40 "BEIT LECHEM,"
15:42 "THE HOUSE OF BREAD."
15:44 THE BREAD OF HEAVEN
15:45 COMES TO EARTH, IS BORN OF MAN,
15:48 GOES TO THE CROSS,
15:49 GOES INTO THE GROUND,
15:50 COMES OUT OF THE GROUND,
15:52 GOES BACK TO HEAVEN
15:53 AND IS PREPARING A PLACE FOR YOU
15:55 AND ME, AN AMAZING, INCREDIBLE
15:56 STORY, AN AWESOME STORY.
15:59 THAT'S WHY WE CELEBRATE
16:01 THIS HOLIDAY.
16:02 Katharine: AND IT'S
16:03 A VICTORY OVER DEATH.
16:04 IT'S A VICTORY
16:05 FOR THE JEWISH PEOPLE
16:06 TO REMEMBER HANUKKAH
16:08 AND THEN THE BIRTH OF JESUS,
16:10 TO REMEMBER THAT GOD,
16:11 HE'S THE VICTOR,
16:12 HE'S THE VICTOR.
16:13 ALSO, MYLES, TELL A LITTLE BIT
16:15 ABOUT HOW OIL IS MADE.
16:18 IT'S SUCH A PROCESS FROM
16:20 THE OLIVE OIL TREE
16:22 AND IT'S ALMOST LIKE THE LORD
16:24 BEING CRUSHED AND BEATEN
16:27 AND EVERYTHING THAT
16:29 HE WENT THROUGH SO THAT
16:30 THAT LIGHT COULD CONTINUE
16:31 TO SHINE.
16:32 Myles: THE VERY PROCESS
16:34 OF MAKING THE FINE OIL,
16:35 THE ANOINTING OIL,
16:37 THE TEMPLE OIL IS THE CRUSHING
16:39 AND BEATING AND PRESSING,
16:40 THAT WAS PART OF
16:41 JESUS' SACRIFICE FOR YOU AND ME.
16:44 AND SPEAKING OF HIS BIRTH,
16:46 WHY BETHLEHEM?
16:47 BECAUSE MICAH 5:2 TELLS US:
17:00 A MESSIANIC PROPHECY
17:02 AND SO HE FULFILLS THAT
17:03 BY BEING BORN IN BETHLEHEM
17:05 AS THE BREAD OF LIFE
17:07 AND JOSEPH AND MARY COME UP
17:08 TO BETHLEHEM TO BE TAXED THERE.
17:10 NOW WHEN THEY CAME INTO TOWN,
17:11 IT WAS A VERY SMALL PLACE.
17:13 THERE WAS ABOUT 400 FAMILIES
17:14 THERE, VERY SMALL AREA.
17:16 THEY CAME FROM NAZARETH TO
17:18 A SMALLER PLACE IN BETHLEHEM
17:20 AND IF HE HAD BEEN BORN
17:21 IN JERUSALEM, IT WOULD HAVE
17:22 BEEN ONE OF MANY, MANY BIRTHS.
17:23 IT WOULD HAVE BEEN UNNOTICED.
17:24 BUT IN BETHLEHEM,
17:25 THIS WAS A BIG DEAL.
17:26 SO THEY'RE ON THEIR WAY
17:27 INTO TOWN
17:29 AND SHE'S ABOUT TO DELIVER.
17:31 THE SHEPHERDS ON THE OUTSKIRTS
17:32 OF TOWN, THEY KNOW THAT THERE'S
17:33 NO ROOM AT THE INN,
17:35 SO TO SPEAK; THEY KNOW
17:36 THAT THERE IS NO PLACE,
17:37 NO HOTELS ARE AVAILABLE.
17:39 THERE'S NO PLACE FOR THEM
17:40 TO HAVE THIS BABY.
17:41 THEY CAN SEE SHE'S ABOUT TO BE
17:42 DELIVERED AND SO THEY OFFER HER
17:44 A PLACE IN THE OUTSKIRTS OF TOWN
17:48 NEAR THE FIELD.
17:49 NOW WE'VE BEEN TO THOSE FIELDS
17:50 WHERE WE TAUGHT ABOUT RUTH.
17:51 Katharine: RIGHT,
17:52 NOT VERY COMFORTABLE
17:53 Myles: NO, WE TAUGHT
17:54 ABOUT RUTH AND BOAZ.
17:55 AND THAT'S A FASCINATING PART
17:56 OF THE STORY, TOO, BECAUSE GOD
17:58 IN HIS SOVEREIGNTY KNIT RUTH,
18:01 A MOABITESS,
18:03 INTO THE LINEAGE OF JESUS SO
18:05 THAT THERE COULD BE NO PREJUDICE
18:07 ABOUT JEW AND GENTILE.
18:09 THERE WOULD ALWAYS BE
18:10 AN UNDERSTANDING
18:11 THAT THE LINEAGE OF DAVID,
18:12 THEREFORE THE LINEAGE OF JESUS,
18:14 INCLUDED THE GENTILES.
18:16 AND NOT ONLY THE GENTILES BUT
18:17 THE MOABITES WHO WERE ACCURSED
18:19 OF GOD, BUT YET GOD OVERRODE
18:22 THAT BY HIS GRACE, AND BROUGHT
18:24 RUTH INTO THE LINEAGE OF JESUS,
18:27 SO THAT HIS FORBEARER
18:29 WAS RUTH THE MOABITESS.
18:31 I LOVE THAT PART OF THE STORY.
18:32 AND WHEN WE TEACH RUTH AND
18:34 BOAZ, YOU MAY HAVE SEEN US
18:35 TEACH THAT, IT'S REALLY ABOUT
18:37 JEW AND GENTILE COMING TOGETHER.
18:39 "YOUR PEOPLE
18:40 SHALL BE MY PEOPLE".
18:41 Katharine: AND WHERE SHE HAD HER
18:42 CHILD WAS NOT A LITTLE MANGER
18:45 MADE OF WOOD
18:46 OR THIS STERILE ENVIRONMENT.
18:49 IT WAS REALLY WITH THE ANIMALS,
18:51 SO THE LORD HIMSELF WOULD SAY
18:53 TO US, HE KNOWS EXACTLY,
18:55 HE'S BEEN EVERYWHERE.
18:57 Myles: EXACTLY.
18:58 Katharine: HE'S BEEN ABLE TO
19:00 FELLOWSHIP WITH OUR SUFFERINGS.
19:01 Myles: EXACTLY, HE IDENTIFIES
19:02 WITH THE LOWLY THINGS
19:03 OF THE EARTH, EVEN THOUGH
19:04 HE'S THE KING OF HEAVEN.
19:05 HE IDENTIFIES WITH
19:06 THE LOWLY THINGS OF THE EARTH.
19:07 IN FACT,
19:08 IF YOU COME WITH US TO ISRAEL
19:10 YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE VERY FEW
19:11 WOODEN BUILDINGS.
19:12 THERE'S NO TREES.
19:13 THERE ARE OLIVE TREES AND
19:14 THERE ARE TREES THAT ARE USED
19:15 FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
19:16 OLIVE TREES FOR FOOD, FOR OIL,
19:18 FOR LIGHT AND FOR TEACHING.
19:21 BUT THERE'S NOT ANY LUMBER
19:22 FOR BUILDING BUILDINGS.
19:24 EVERYTHING'S MADE OF STONE, SO
19:26 THE LIKELIHOOD IS THAT THIS WAS
19:27 NOT SOME HALLMARK CARD PICTURE
19:30 OF A BARN OUT IN
19:31 WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SOMEWHERE.
19:33 THIS WAS PROBABLY A CAVE OR SOME
19:35 VERY, VERY ROUGH STONE STRUCTURE
19:39 WHERE THE ANIMALS WERE KEPT.
19:40 IT WAS NOT PRETTY.
19:41 IT WAS NOT STERILE.
19:43 IT WAS PRETTY ROUGH.
19:44 AND THERE'S PURPOSE IN THAT
19:46 AS WELL BECAUSE HE IDENTIFIES
19:48 WITH THE EARLY, LOWLY THINGS
19:49 OF THE WORLD.
19:50 Katharine: YES, AND YET GOD
19:51 BROUGHT KINGS TO HONOR
19:52 HIS BIRTH.
19:53 Myles: EXACTLY,
19:54 THE MAGI COME TO WORSHIP.
19:56 THEY COME TO SAY "YES"
19:58 TO THE KING.
19:59 AND THAT'S WHY THE STORY OF
20:00 HEROD TRYING TO GET RID OF ALL
20:02 THE CHILDREN UNDER TWO YEARS OLD
20:04 IS SO FASCINATING,
20:05 AND IS A REPEAT OF THE STORY
20:07 THAT HAPPENED TO MOSES.
20:09 IT WAS A TYPE OF THE LORD,
20:10 BECAUSE GOD'S ALWAYS TRYING TO
20:13 AND ALWAYS WILL
20:14 BRING FORTH HIS PURPOSES
20:15 BUT THERE'S ALWAYS OPPOSITION.
20:17 AND THERE'S OPPOSITION TO JESUS
20:18 AS WELL.
20:19 Katharine: SO WE CAN'T FAINT
20:20 OR FALL AFRAID
20:23 WHEN OPPOSITION HAPPENS
20:24 BUT WE FACE IT
20:26 WITH FAITH IN THE LORD.
20:27 Myles: EXACTLY,
20:28 AND THAT'S ONE OF THE TIE-INS
20:30 ALSO TO THE HANUKKAH
20:32 AND THE EIGHT CANDLES,
20:33 THE NEW BEGINNINGS,
20:34 THE NUMBER 8 IS NEW BEGINNINGS.
20:36 THERE'S 8 CANDLES THAT ARE LIT
20:38 AND IT'S A PICTURE FOR US
20:39 OF THE NEW BEGINNING
20:41 THAT GOD WANTS TO BRING;
20:42 A REDEDICATION OF SELF
20:43 TO THE PURPOSES OF GOD,
20:45 JUST AS THE COMING OF MESSIAH
20:47 IS A NEW BEGINNING
20:48 FOR THE WHOLE EARTH.
20:50 IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY
20:51 FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD
20:53 TO TURN TO THE KING OF ISRAEL.
20:55 AND THAT'S WHAT THE BIRTH
20:56 OF JESUS IS ABOUT.
20:58 IN JOHN 8:12 JESUS SAYS THAT
21:01 HE IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
21:03 IN JOHN 1:4 WE HEAR THAT
21:05 THE LIGHT OF LIFE COMES
21:07 TO LIGHT MAN.
21:09 AND MATTHEW 5:14 SPEAKS
21:10 BECAUSE OF THAT LIGHT,
21:12 BECAUSE OF THE LIGHT COMING,
21:13 BECAUSE OF HIM
21:14 BEING THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD,
21:16 WE ARE TO BRING THIS LIGHT
21:18 TO THOSE AROUND US.
21:19 THAT'S WHY I LOVE DOING
21:20 THESE PROGRAMS BECAUSE WE GET AN
21:21 OPPORTUNITY TO BRING THE LIGHT
21:24 OF LIFE TO THE WORLD AT LARGE.
21:26 Katharine: AND THIS PROGRAM
21:27 BRINGS THE CONNECTION
21:29 BETWEEN THE JEWISH HERITAGE
21:31 AND THE LIVING BRANCHES
21:33 THAT WE ARE AS GENTILES
21:35 GRAFTED-IN TO THE ROOT.
21:36 Myles: EXACTLY, THAT'S WHY
21:37 IN OUR HOME CONGREGATION
21:39 WE CALL THIS MESSAGE:
21:40 "HANUKKAH, CHRISTMAS AND YOU"
21:42 BECAUSE IT REALLY DOES CONNECT
21:43 THE SEAMLESSNESS OF HANUKKAH
21:46 AND GOD'S PRESERVING POWER,
21:49 IN ORDER TO BRING CHRISTMAS,
21:50 THE BIRTH OF JESUS,
21:51 AND BECAUSE OF THAT,
21:53 SALVATION FOR YOU AND FOR ME.
21:55 YOU KNOW, WHY DECEMBER 25th?
21:58 WE DON'T REALLY KNOW
21:59 WHEN JESUS WAS BORN.
22:00 THERE'S CONTROVERSY.
22:01 ZOLA BELIEVED IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
22:03 IN SPRING BUT HE'S OPENLY SAID,
22:04 MAYBE NOT, WE'RE NOT SURE.
22:06 SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE JESUS
22:07 WAS CONCEIVED AS THE LIGHT
22:09 OF THE WORLD AT HANUKKAH
22:10 AND BORN AT TABERNACLES
22:12 AS "GOD WITH US,"
22:13 "IMMANUEL."
22:15 HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN BORN
22:16 IN THE SPRING WHEN THE SHEPHERDS
22:17 ARE OUT IN THEIR FIELDS.
22:18 IT'S VERY POSSIBLE
22:19 THAT IT WAS IN SPRINGTIME.
22:20 Katharine: BUT HE GIVES US DATES
22:21 AND THEY'RE VERY CONCURRENT
22:23 IN HIS WORD.
22:24 Myles: WELL, WHEN IT COMES
22:25 TO THE FEASTS OF THE LORD,
22:26 THE DATES ARE KNOWN.
22:28 WHEN IT COMES TO
22:29 EXTRA-BIBLICAL INFORMATION,
22:30 LIKE WHEN THE BIRTH WAS,
22:31 WE CAN'T BE EXACTLY SURE.
22:33 BUT WHY DID THEY PICK
22:34 DECEMBER 25th?
22:36 IT PROBABLY RELATES TO KISLEV 25
22:39 WHICH IS THE WINTER HOLIDAY
22:41 SEASON AND SO THEY PROBABLY TOOK
22:44 THAT DATE AND MADE IT THE BIRTH
22:46 OF JESUS FOR CONVENIENCE AND IT
22:48 REALLY TIES IT INTO SATURNALIA
22:51 AND THE EXISTING FESTIVALS THAT
22:53 WERE TAKING PLACE AT THE TIME.
22:55 BUT THAT'S NOT SO IMPORTANT.
22:56 WHAT IS IMPORTANT
22:58 IS THAT HE CAME FOR YOU
23:00 AND HE CAME FOR ME.
23:02 Katharine: RIGHT.
23:03 Myles: AND BECAUSE
23:04 OF GOD'S COVENANT-KEEPING POWER
23:05 HE PRESERVES THE LINE
23:07 OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE,
23:08 SO THAT THE JEWISH MESSIAH
23:10 COULD COME TO EARTH, SO THAT
23:11 YOU COULD SAY "YES" TO HIM.
23:16 AND SO TODAY WE'RE HOPING
23:18 THAT, AS YOU HEAR THIS MESSAGE,
23:19 THAT YOU WILL SAY, "YES,
23:21 I SEE THAT HE IS
23:23 THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
23:25 AND I SAY, 'YES TO YOU, YESHUA,
23:28 COME INTO MY LIFE,
23:29 COME INTO MY HEART,
23:30 I WANT TO RECEIVE YOU
23:31 AS MY MESSIAH, AS MY SAVIOR,
23:33 FORGIVE ME OF MY SINS,
23:35 TAKE ME INTO YOUR LIFE,
23:36 GIVE ME YOUR ETERNAL LIFE
23:38 SO THAT I CAN BE WITH YOU
23:39 FOREVER.'"
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26:14 Myles: OUR PRAYER FOR YOU
26:15 IS THAT THIS SEASON OF HANUKKAH
26:17 AND CHRISTMAS WILL BE A TIME
26:18 OF REAL SPIRITUAL ADVANCE,
26:20 THAT YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
26:21 WOULD BE BLESSED
26:22 BECAUSE OF THE PRESENCE
26:23 OF YESHUA HA'MASHIACH,
26:24 JESUS CHRIST.
26:25 Katharine: YEAH,
26:26 JESUS OUR MESSIAH.
26:27 WE WANT TO OFFER YOU THIS
26:28 RESOURCE, "THE FEAST OF LIGHTS."
26:31 IT IS A 3-PART SERIES TEACHING
26:33 ABOUT HANUKKAH AND ALSO TEACHING
26:36 ABOUT THE PROPHETIC FULFILLMENT
26:37 THAT HANUKKAH PLAYS
26:38 IN THIS END TIME
26:39 AND POINTS US TO THE LORD
26:42 AND ALSO SHARES A LITTLE BIT
26:43 ABOUT HOW YOU CAN KEEP HANUKKAH
26:44 IN YOUR HOME.
26:45 SO WE WANT TO MAKE THAT
26:46 AVAILABLE.
26:47 Myles: AMEN.
26:48 Katharine: YES.
26:49 Myles: REMEMBER,
26:51 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM.
26:53 Katharine: PRAY FOR THE PEACE
26:54 OF JERUSALEM.
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27:11 THIS HOLY OCCASION, OBSERVED BY OUR LORD,
27:13 IS A REMEMBRANCE OF THE ETERNAL LIGHT IN THE TEMPLE
27:16 AND THE MIRACLE OF THE OIL
27:19 THAT ENABLED THE MENORAH LAMPS TO CONTINUE BURNING
27:21 DESPITE THE ONSLAUGHT OF EVIL FORCES.
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