Messiah is speaking about what is yet to come yet he speaks of the same thing that happened during the times of Hanukkah why Hanukkah is a foreshadow of the End of the Age the events of Hanukkah took place in between the Bible they are recorded in the book of the books of mccabes first and second mccabes mccabes is not scripture but it’s historical and it records what God did the events of Hanukkah were prophesied in the Hebrew scriptures by the Prophet Daniel they are recorded and celebrated in the New Testament by Jesus himself Yeshua the
Messiah Gospel of John as we said dedication is Hanukkah we’re going to open up tonight the mysteries of Hanukkah which has to do with the end times for what has to do with the you as an end time believer in a nutshell it was the 2 Century BC the Syrian Greek king guy named Antiochus epiphanies epiphanies means god manifest that’s what he called himself issued a decree that all the peoples of his empire were to worship the gods of the Greeks and to follow the ways of God became illegal in Israel imagine living in a day when the to
follow God is illegal the the choice was either abandon God and live or follow him and be killed it is recorded in the book of mccabes remember this is not scripture but this is history the Fulfillment of scripture on the 15th day of the month of klv in the year 145 of the Greeks the king erected the horrible Abomination on the altar of offerings in the surrounding cities of Judah they built Pagan altars they burned incense and the Scrolls of the law that they found they tore up and they burned Antiochus sets up an idol in the
temple of God it’s called the Abomination that makes desolate it Des makes the temple desolate they turn the the temple of God into a pagan temple with Pagan sacrifices Jerusalem was in the hands of aliens and perverse men it says now Daniel foretold this when he says the sacrifice will be abolished for a time time and half a time what is that time is a year times is two years half a time is half a year three and a half years does that sound familiar three and a half years then Messiah said in Matthew 24:15 when you see standing in
