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There are nine branches to a Hanukkah Menorah – Hanukkiah – while the Temple Menorah has seven branches. What’s the difference when it comes to the  Shamash  candle – the Servant flame?   A Hanukkiah has a separate Servant Flame that is usually higher and/or set apart from the other eight lights.   The difference for the Temple Menorah is that there is not just one flaming Shamash . All seven flames represent God’s Servant the Branch – Messiah Yeshua – and those completely on

(Hanukkah and the Earliest Church – The Way)   We need to quit using the term “Jewish Feasts,” because God Himself says: “These are My feasts” (Lev. 23:2) . If you worship the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, then the feasts articulated in the Bible are for you too! Allow me to reiterate: God’s Biblical Feasts are for everyone who have a personal relationship with the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, which includes accepting Messiah Yeshua (Jesus Christ) as your Lord and Sa

As I was focused on what the Heavenly Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit wanted me to write yesterday to open Hanukkah 2025 – “Hanukkah is a Worship Battle!” – 16 people were killed in a Hanukkah Massacre at Sydney Australia’s Bondi Beach by a Pakistani father and son duo. A 10-year-old girl was murdered, a holocaust survivor murdered, and others, including the fanatic 50-year-old shooter while his demented 24-year-old son is in critical condition in the hospital. Imagine p

As I sought the LORD about how He wanted to open Hanukkah 2025, I was given the contrast of Messiah Yeshua’s Feast of Dedication celebration – Hanukkah – verses what the Antichrist celebrates. Yeshua going up to Jerusalem in the winter for the Feast of Dedication is very momentous (John 10:22-23), because the Messiah Himself was making a statement against the same pagan sun god worship that the Maccabees overthrew. Hanukkah is essentially a worship battle. The heroes of the f

Yeshua tells us that the first “abomination of desolation” who sat in the Temple is a prophetic foreshadow of an even greater abomination...

Even though Judah Maccabee and his father Mattisyahu are the most famous figures in the Hanukkah story, another Hanukkah heroine appears...

Q: Anyone know the meaning of each candle?   A:  People have assigned meanings, but as far as I know God has not. As you know, the first...

It’s so interesting that the Hebrews did not historically preserve the record of the first Hanukkah. It was the Gentiles (the nations)...

Did you know that the story of Hanukkah begins in the Book of Daniel 300 years before the event took place? In fact, we did not have the...

Do you know what Yeshua (Jesus) was celebrating when He celebrated Hanukkah? It could not have been the miracle of the Temple Menorah’s...