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Hanukkah: Feast of Dedication Or Festival of Lights
Hanukkah or Chanukkah (Hebrew meaning Dedication) is an annual Jewish holiday. It is celebrated over eight consecutive days (in 2024, it occurs beginning on the evening of December 25 through January 2). It celebrates the rededication of the Temple in … Continue reading
Posted in History, holiday, Jesus
Tagged 1 Maccabees 4:36-59, 164 B.C., 2 Maccabees 10:5-8, antiochus epiphanes, antiochus IV, chanukkah, cleansing temple, dedication of temple, feast of dedication, feast of lights, festival of lights, hanukkah, history, holiday, intertestiment period, John 10:22-38, John 8:12, josephus, Josephus Antiquities 12.7.7, judaism, light, light of world, maccabees, menorah, period of prophetic silence, rededication of temple, reformjudaism.org
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Prophecy: A Ram, A Goat, And A Little Horn
Daniel 8 records a vision of Daniel. This vision is said to have occurred in the third year of the reign of Belshazzar (Daniel 8:1). Belshazzar was co-regent with his father Nabonidus (cf. Daniel 5:7, 29). He was the last … Continue reading
Posted in God's Providence, God's Sovereignty, History, Prophecy, Suffering, Textual study
Tagged 1 maccabees, 2 Maccabees, alexander the great, antiochus epiphanes, antiochus IV, astyage, battle of gaugamela, belshazzar, cambyses, circumcision, cyrus, Daniel 8, don simpson, evel merodach, four divisons of greece, glorious land, goat, greece, josephus, judas maccabeus, kings of babylon, labashi marduk, little horn, medo persia, nabonidus, nabopolassar, nebuchadnezzar, neriglissar, onius III, persecution, persia, Prophecy, prophecy series, ram, rex turner sr
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