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Tag Archives: light
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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The Light of the World
Long before President Ronald Reagan referred to America as a “shining city on a hill,” Jesus said to his disciples, “Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do … Continue reading
The Seven “I Am’s”: The Light of the World
It is helpful, to fully appreciate this metaphor, to understand the timing of Jesus’ words. The Feast of the Tabernacles had just occurred (John 7:2, 14, 37 cf. 8:2). Zondervan’s Pictorial Dictionary describes this feast saying, “It… historically commemorated the wanderings … Continue reading
Posted in Jesus, Seven I Ams, Textual study, Type/Antitype
Tagged feast of tabernacles, Jewish feasts, John 8, light, light of world, seven I ams, type/antitype
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