Like Daniel, they refused to defile themselves Daniel 1 , and they often faced death or severe punishment for not conforming Daniel 3 , Daniel 6. The Jewish people have a history of global superpowers overtaking their nations and trying to force them to assimilate to practices that went against their culture and religion.
The family of the Maccabees won two decisive battles against the Syrians Antiochus Epiphanes IV which led the Syrians to pull out of the holy land. Often this holiday tends to symbolize the Jews overcoming miraculous odds against a great and powerful enemy. After the Syrians evacuated, the Maccabees took hold of the temple, cleansed it, and rededicated it. For a more comprehensive history of the holiday, check out this article here. The above section comes from a Christianity.
Check it out here for more details on the origins of the holiday. We may wonder what a Jewish revolt in years before Christ stepped onto the scene has to do with our everyday lives.
Like the Maccabees, Christians will face great persecution for their beliefs in a culture that wants us to conform. Although, yes, Daniel 8 and 12 talk about Antiochus IV, theologians have also equated the figure in both narratives to Nero and to the antichrist.
We will face a figure quite like Antiochus. Like the Maccabees and Daniel, we will have to stand strong in our beliefs. Many Jews succumbed to the Hellenistic culture. And, to be frank, also succumbed to Babylonian pressures as well. That means hundreds if not thousands of Jews yielded their convictions.
As Christians, many believers will fall away in the End Times. We have to be prepared to stand firm in our faith. Hope Bolinger is a literary agent at C. More than of her works have been featured in various publications ranging from Writer's Digest to Keys for Kids. He will be the last of a line of Maccabees to serve as both a ruler and High Priest. The Roman Senate, in 40 B. It will take Herod three years, however, to conquer Judea and Jerusalem. In 37 B. Antigonus II is executed.
From this time forward, the office of the High Priest is by appointment and not necessarily heredity as was commanded by God Exodus , The entire period of the influence of the Maccabees , on Judea and the Jews, lasts roughly years to 37 B. Ask a Question! Who are the Maccabees? When did they live? What momentous impact did they have in the history of Judea and the Jews?
Map of Israel under Herod the Great. When did Jesus keep Hanukkah? Maccabean Rule over Israel Map! First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.
This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.
Therefore we ourselves boast about you in the churches of God for your steadfastness and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions that you are enduring.
This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering— We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God, which he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy Scriptures, concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations, If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be broken—.
Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment. And in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side.
And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction.
The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.
I tell you, many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven,. Behold, three more kings shall arise in Persia, and a fourth shall be far richer than all of them. And when he has become strong through his riches, he shall stir up all against the kingdom of Greece. Then a mighty king shall arise, who shall rule with great dominion and do as he wills.
And as soon as he has arisen, his kingdom shall be broken and divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, nor according to the authority with which he ruled, for his kingdom shall be plucked up and go to others besides these. It became great, even as great as the Prince of the host.
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