HANUKKAH IS A BATTLEFIELD

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 peacefully gathering on a beautiful sunny beach, when suddenly, your friends and family are being fire upon, because they are celebrating a Biblical Feast – Hanukkah.

If you are part of the people of The Book (i.e., The Bible) – Jews and Christians – this attack was pointed at you too. Shut up about Biblical Feasts and hide, if you do celebrate them. Believe it or not, this also happened in the history of the first Feast of Dedication – Hanukkah – which puts an exclamation point to the Hanukkah battlefield that the world now faces with the Spirit of the Antichrist rising.

The Seleucid Greek King Antiochus Epiphanes IV is rightly portrayed as an Antichrist. Josephus tells us that he polluted God’s Altar with the blood sacrifice of a pig, put a statue (idol) of a Greek sun god in the Temple’s Sanctuary, and forced God’s people to bow before his demonic sun god image(s) under the penalty of death. So many innocent people were massacred, like at Bondi Beach. The survivors were heavily taxed (and we are not just speaking of finances). In keeping with Daniel 7:25, King Antiochus IV, who took the name “God manifest,” i.e., Epiphanes, took four deliberate steps between 169 to 167 BC to forcibly convert the people of The Book, which are also very important for the times we are living in today:

[1] First, the Antichrist removed the sitting High Priest whose name meant righteous peace and replaced him with a Jewish High Priest that would obey Antiochus’ orders. Today, this is equivalent to believers’ dethroning Messiah Yeshua from their heart to do man’s or society’s bidding.

[2] Second, the Antichrist tried to dissolve the Biblical Calendar, which correlates directly to Scripture where it says that the Antichrist “shall intend to change times and law” (Daniel 7:25). The Antichrist was obsessed with wiping out the Jewish practices of keeping their time holy. The Antichrist felt if he could destroy God’s people’s holy sense of time, he could annihilate their ability to practice their religion. Antiochus forbid the observance of the Seventh Day Sabbath that set their weeks, the New Moon celebrations that set their months, and the Biblical Feasts that set their years. To a Jew, these were all symbols of man’s obligation to instill holiness in time. Today, the LORD of All and His people are in the midst of restoring His Biblical Calendar, especially His Biblical Feasts.

[3] Third, the Antichrist forbade studying the Word of God – Torah – plus, keeping kosher, which is about respecting the sanctity of life. Torah scrolls were publicly burnt, as pigs were sacrificed over them to defile them. Antiochus even forced the High Priest to institute swine sacrifices in the Temple in Jerusalem as well as encouraging worship of various Greek gods (1 Maccabees 1:41-64). Today, God’s people are restoring the rightful place of God’s Word in our lives. It’s more like a marriage contract than a rigid set of rules. It’s a delightful honor to obey the beautiful and life-giving dictates of our King’s heart.

[4] Fourth, the Antichrist forbade circumcision, the physical sign of their Abrahamic covenant of faith with God, which demonstrated that the physical and spiritual are intertwined. Circumcision was the body’s mark of allegiance to God’s covenant that speaks of being a servant. To the Greeks, circumcision was seen as mutilation, because they worshiped the perfection of the human body and its sensuality. Today, believers in Messiah Yeshua circumcise their hearts through entering the rest by a better hope in which we draw nearer to God.

These same four steps are still being used today by the Antichrist Spirit and the Antichrist Himself. The Antichrist Spirit is even coming through our friends and family members who are in agreement with being against Christ. The demonic powers-that-be don’t want you celebrating any of God’s Biblical Feasts. The hottest flame seems to be the battle over Hanukkah. Did you know that for approximately the first 300 years of Christ’s Church, there was no Christmas celebration whatsoever? Believers celebrated Hanukkah, just like Yeshua did (John 10:22-23).

The story of Hanukkah begins in the Book of Daniel 300 years before the events take place. Yeshua also tells us: “Therefore when you see the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (whoever reads, let him understand)” (Matthew 24:15). He says this because He knew that the Abomination of Desolation spoken of in Daniel was prophetically fulfilled by Antiochus Epiphanes IV in 165-168 BC. Yet, Yeshua says this will also be the marker when the end shall be. When we see the Abomination of Desolation take place, it’s the beginning of the end when the entire world will experience the greatest tribulation that it has ever seen, and except those days be shortened, no flesh would be saved. (For more information, please refer to “Understanding the Order of Melchizedek: Complete Series,” p. 506-507)

Let us all walk like Messiah Yeshua walked in the winter!

Happy Hanukkah y’all!!!

Robin Main

www.sapphirethroneministries.com

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Written December 15, 2025 – Sapphire Throne Ministries – Robin Main. Copyrighted – If you are going to copy this, please copy it right by giving attribution to this source. Blessings!

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