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Remembering Antiochus Epiphanes and looking forward to Hanukkah 2015

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by Tom Brennan,

Hannukah in Jerusalem – Photo by Ouria Tadmor

The recent announcement of the excavation of the Acra fortress in Jerusalem reminds us that the events recorded in Scripture and those in the Commentaries are real. The repeat denials by many that the Temple Mount never held a Temple, and that Jews and Christians believe in fairy tales are constantly confronted by truth from the soil. For years the Temple Sifting Project has excavated the mounds of dirt bulldozed from the area which the Waqf supervises and constantly finds objects fully described in the furnishings of the Temple and clothing of the priests. Pomegranate finials for scepters and rods of authority, golden bells, and seals with the names of persons cited in the Scripture now are on view and published for all to see. The stones and dirt shout “we are here, it’s all true!”

After the division of Alexander’s Empire the area of Syria fell under the jurisdiction of the egotistic and arrogant Seleucids. While Egypt’s Ptolemy Dynasty successfully ruled by assimilating the ancient culture with the Greek, the Seleucids in Jerusalem tried to deliberately force the Jews to turn away from the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to the pantheon of Greek deities. Brutal ways to forcing their culture drew fierce resistance and a revolt by the sons of Maccabee resulted in the liberation and rededication of the Temple and the celebration of Hanukkah.

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Today persons of faith see increasing pressure to abandon their ways and accept a forced secularization of life. In Israel daily terror attacks make life even more difficult and dangerous. Yet the recent discovery of the ruins of a failed leader, a failed culture, and a solid wall of a Temple built to honor the God which the dictator sought to deny all point to a reason to celebrate and rejoice in God’s protection of those He chooses and who choose to be protected by Him.

Hanukkah is coming. Let’s look at the physical record of artifacts, stone walls, writings of Josephus and other ancient historians and tell the world our God is real, he protects us and bids us rejoice in times of threat and danger. Hanukkah is coming; I hear it in the stones.

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    • Anonymous

      “The repeat denials by many that the Temple Mount never held a Temple, and that Jews and Christians believe in fairy tales are constantly confronted by truth from the soil.”

      It’s like they deny even recent history, the German holocaust of Jews. You have to realize this is all rooted in Satanic hatred that so inflames the anti-Semite that he resorts to utter stupidity, denial of history, denial of very reality. Somebody with intellect so far gone, with a mentality so out of control that it needs to resort to such petty meanness, should only be thought of in light of, “Consider the source.” They’re all just nasty idiots, bottom line, such things only indicative of, “This is the best they can come up with?” You hear a lot from the mouths of Muslims and their ilk that only prove them Neanderthals, even proving that there is a such thing as those unworthy to breath. Look at ISIS. It’s clear what they really are.

      John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

      • BEEF SUPREME

        “Somebody with intellect so far gone, with a mentality so out of control that it needs to resort to such petty meanness…”

        Spoken like someone who has failed to examine the facts. Facts are stubborn things. And they do not agree with the Zionist’s lies about the events surrounding the German internment camps of World War II.

        One does not have to be a slave to Satan to DENY the lie. There was no ‘holocaust’ (burnt offering) of six million Jews in the 20th century. It never happened. Their own term for it is the Shoah. And amongst themselves, in their corrupt and vile communications to one another, they have a saying: There is no business like Shoah business. Enemies.

        The camps were real. The atrocities were real too. But there was NEVER a systematic plan by Germany to exterminate Jews via gas chambers. It is doubtful that even a single Jew died as a result of cyanide poisoning.

        You argue against the evidence in this case. You argue from a position of emotion. You have been placed into that position of error and weakness by your sworn enemy. You have only yourself to blame for that fact because you have not been diligent in your own personal studies. I say this to you as a Bible believer and a seeker after the Way of Life.

        Those who say they are Jews and are not, are NOT to be trusted. They are liars, just like their father.

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