Hanukkah or Chanukkah-the message is JeremiYah 33:1-26 all. Here is the message to YAHUDA and Yisrael, of repentance, redemption, triumph and deliverance from the enemy haSatan; we are released from bondage and captivity all by the mighty power of YaHVaH and His only begotten Son, the Messiah of Yisrael.

REDEDICATION: “EgkainiYah” Greek #1456

John 10:22 Then came Hanukkah it was Winter in Jerusalem.

Messiah was walking in the Temple around Solomon's colonnade. TLV adds a footnote c. REdedication. Web Note: As the priests cleansed the Temple, we ask YaHOSHA Messiah to cleanse and rededicate our physical-spiritual Temple's unto Him.

Although historians debate the causes and outcomes of the war in which Judah Maccabee and his followers defeated the Syrian armies of Antiochus, there is no doubt that Hanukkah evokes stirring images of Jewish valor against overwhelming odds. Other themes of the feast include the refusal to submit to the religious demands of an empire practicing idolatry, the struggle against total assimilation into Greek culture and loss of (Jewish or Spiritual) identity, and the fight for Jewish political autonomy and self-determination.

FROM www.reformJudaism.org/hanukkah-history

The early dates for this Feast is 12/9 to 12/16/23 Roman calendar.

Hanukkah is a Feast kept by Messiah, The Feast of Lights. Although it is an optional Feast, we feel it is part of the New Testament Kingdom. The World’s Churches change dates for various reasons, and this one is not Commanded in the Torah. Keep reading.

Psalm/Tehillim/Mizmor

Psalm 97:1 YaHVaH reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof.

Psa 97:2 Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.

Psa 97:3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.

Psa 97:4 His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.

Psa 97:5 The hills melted like wax at the presence of YaHVaH, at the presence of YaHVaH of the whole earth.

Psa 97:6 The heavens declare his righteousness...

97:10 Ye that love YaHVaH, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.

11 Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

12 Rejoice in YAHVAH, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his pureness/(Hebrew) qodosh.

98:1 O sing unto YaHVaH a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his pure arm, hath gotten him the victory.

Victory

2 Samuel 23:10

He (David) arose, and smote the Philistines until his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword: and YaHVaH wrought a great victory that day; and the people returned after him only to spoil.

Mark 11:23 (Get rid of devils and spiritual barriers): Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away. And Messiah answering saith unto them, Have faith in YaH. For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. 24Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

(YeshaYahu) Isaiyah 25:8

He will swallow up death in victory; and YaHVaH, YAH will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for YAHVAH hath spoken it.

YeshaYahu/IsaiYah 26:1 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will YaH appoint for walls and bulwarks. 2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in. (continue reading in your Scripture.) Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in Yah YEHOVAH (YaHVAH) is everlasting strength:

TRIUMPH

Psalm 18:4-6 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungoodly men made me afraid.5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.

6 In my distress I called upon YaHVaH, and cried unto my YaHH: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.

Psalm 18:12 At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire. [Then:]

26 With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt show thyself froward.

27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people; but wilt bring down high looks.

28 For thou wilt light my candle: YAHVAH my YaH will enlighten my darkness.

29 For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my YaHH have I leaped over a wall.

30 As for YaHH, his way is perfect: the word of YaHVaH is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.

31 For who is YaHH save YAHVAH? or who is a rock save our YaHH?

Deliverance

1 Cor 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of YaH; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

1Co 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

1Co 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

1Co 15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

1Co 15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?

1Co 15:56 The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.

1Co 15:57 But thanks be to Elohim, which giveth us the victory through Master YaHOSHA Messiah.

Song #386 in Songbook “Messiah Arose” The Strife is O’er, the Battle Done. The VICTORY of life is won. The song of Triumph has begun. Hallel YaHVaH!

IsaiYah 57 "The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

He shall enter into peace: they shall rest in their beds, each..."

Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. 10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our Elohim, and the power of his Messiah: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our Elohim day and night. 11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. ..of her seed, which keep the commandments of Elohim, and have the testimony of Messiah.

In 175 BCE, Antiochus IV Epiphanies gained control of Judea,

He outlawed the Hebrew religion, and 167 BCE he went so far as to desecrate the qadosh/pure Temple by having an altar to Zeus placed there and ordering pigs to be sacrificed which is an abomination to YHVH. They began to openly persecute the Jews/Hebrews and prohibited the study of the Torah and tried to force them to assimilate.

These outrages incited rebellion by the Maccabees which was led by Mattityahu and

his five sons, one of whom, Judah Maccabee, who took over the rebellion after his

father died. This family was called the Maccabees.

Just ten years later in 165 BCE, by the power of YaHVaH, they managed to defeat their oppressors and to rededicate the Pure Temple to YaHVaH. Even though they were small in number they won a great victory over the enemy and were able to reclaim the temple. It was during the celebration of Lights/Hanukkah that Yeshua/YaHOSHA announced " I am the light of the world". He is the light that comes out of the darkness! Thanks to YaHVaH and His Ruach ha Kadosh. (Pure Spirit)

LAMPS:

Lev 24:1 Then YaHVaH spoke to Moses saying:

Lev 24:2 “Order Bnei-Yisrael to bring to you pure olive oil, beaten for the light, to keep a lamp burning continually.

Lev 24:3 Outside of the curtain of the Testimony, in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron is to keep it in order from evening to morning before YaHVaH continually. It is to be a statute forever throughout your generations.

Lev 24:4 He is to keep the lamps in order on the pure gold menorah before YaHVaH continually.

Although the story of the Hannikah candle cannot be confirmed, there is the principle that Messiah is the Light represented by the lamp in Leviticus 24.

John_5:35 He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.

8:12 Then spake YaHosha Messiah again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.