Celebrating Holidays In Truth

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Do you know, by the way, that the ‘miracle’ of the one cruze of oil that lasted for 8 days is just a tradition that was made up? (like some traditions in other Jewish and Christian holidays, that detract from the main thing). The reason for the eight-day celebration was because the Maccabees said that the Jewish people had all missed Succot (Feast of Booths/Tabernacles) that year a couple of months earlier — which is an 8-day celebration — because of the war against the Hellenists and Hellenizers, and the people were in a desperate state at the time. The victory brought joy of re-dedicating (thus, Hanukkah) the altar to the true God, and they made a proclamation that this victory should be celebrated yearly by the people for 8 days. You can read this from the original historical primary source in the Apocrapha in 2Maccabees 10:5-8.

When I first read it some years ago, I was at first shocked, but then realized that Judaism has its own myths that we have taken at face-value. What we as believers in Yeshua/Jesus need to do is not to “throw the baby out with the bath-water”, but to discard those things which do not honor our God and Savior, and to keep that which is holy in the holidays which either YHVH has specifically given, or those which His people have established to remember His great acts in history on our behalf for His great Name.

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