What a great video! My heart is so happy that many Christians are waking up and going the more traditional route! It will be my first year celebrating Hanukkah and I'm very excited! I'm starting a new tradition in my family, leaving the paganistic Christmas behind! God bless, and thank you for the vid.
Thank you for sharing about Hanukkah. I am a Gentile and have had the scales removed from my eyes. The Lord has awoken my spirit and caused me to embrace my Jewish roots . I’ve stopped worshiping the Lord on Sunday and now I am keeping His command to worship Him on the Sabbath. I’m in love with the Jewish people, especially the Messianic Jews. Im interested in learning all that I can about the appointed feasts, holidays. I didn’t understand about Hanukkah and have been researching- I haven’t celebrated Christmas in several years as my eyes have been opened. Thank you for educating me regarding this holiday. Im a new subscriber. Yay!!! God bless you and family!
The light of Jesus, the Master, He gives light to all those who follow after Him. I am a Christian that celebrates Hanukkah since ceasing from celebrating christmas, I keep it simple and as you say a time of refection and re dedication. Much nicer and more meaningful than the pagan festivals.
New to torah observants. Trying to understand it all. I've never seen anything make fellow believers so mad as even considering keeping the feast... I celebrated passover this year and was delivered in a big way from tobacco so I know there is power In it! Apart from that I have a shabbat meal every fri night with my 4 kids but I haven't gotten the nerve to put my foot down at work on not working sat yet but will see but me and the kids have gotten closer with the shabbat meal. (Singal dad) ) Some days I'm sure the lords feast are the right way and other times the other side is convincing. I'm solo.maybe I can find a fellowship in North Central fl.basicly just learning from UA-cam. Thanks for your teaching!
Half Hebrew and Christian here. Thank you for this video! This year I will be celebrating Chanukah for the first time since childhood, and on my own. I’m an artist, so am making my menorah by hand. 🙏🏼 🕎
Thank you! This is a wonderful teaching! What specifically edified me is using Hanukkah to remind us that we must stand strong in the difficult days now and to come. We cannot let the world influence our Temple but be set apart. Thank you!
I love Jesus and I love the Jewish people of God. Thank you, Brother David, for sharing the meaning of a wonderful and festive celebration. Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas. Jesus is the reason for the season! P.S. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and for all people in our very broken world.
Shabbat Shalom! This was breath taking! We are zealous for Yahua's Torah and Feast days!! Saved by grace through Yahusha Hamashiach but because of or love and respect we will honor the Elohim's ways:) Shalom!
Thank you for this viewpoint, David. Hanukkah is one of the many things that has been confusing to me, and I have gone back and forth about whether or not I should observe it. Last night, I did decide to take out my Hanukkiah and light it, reflecting on the faith and courage of the Maccabees. I pray that if the time comes where I must stand in the face of persecution and death, I will not deny Yeshua or compromise His commandments. That is one of my reasons for remembering this time, as an inward check, such as you mentioned. Shalom!
It is very important to remember to NOT allow tradition to become command. So while these games and such are tradition, they are certainly not a requirement as this is not a moedim. Also also to remember that the miracle of oil is not based on fact.
Correct. Nobody says we're commanded to celebrate Hanukkah, just like nobody says Americans are commanded to celebrate Independence Day. However, Hanukkah a memorial of a significant event in the lives of God's people that is worth remembering and celebrating, just like Independence Day is worth remembering and celebrating for Americans.
@@DavidWilberBlog yes! I hope I didn't come off as saying that was what you were implying. Just sharing my thoughts. We celebrated our first Hanukkah last year and the children are looking forward to celebrating again this year.
@@DavidWilberBlog I can agree to your sentiment, however if I decide not to celebrate it, it will not and won’t affect my walk with Elohim. Whatever is not commanded to celebrate by Him is not on the menu of my life. I do not subscribe to a belief it is important to celebrate it because it’s a part of history. Sorry I disagree with you on that belief. Shalom!
Thank you for this educational video. My family and I are reading from the Bible and a Christian Hanukkah devotional this year. God bless you and your family.
Hi David, great video! going to try and celebrate this year appreciate the info! I just want to know I often see people say that in Maccabees they offer the sacrifices to Zeus but I don’t see that anywhere in 1st or 2nd Maccabees. I see in 2nd Mac ch.6:2 they call the sanctuary by the name of Jupiter Olympius. Is that a reference to Zeus?
Thank you so very much David. I understand a lot more about how we can follow and celebrate YAHUSHA. Instead of following Christmas and Ishtar. -El🍄🕎✡️🍷🕊🍇
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected. 1Timothy 4:4 O Lord, how can I be more amazed than by seeing you use everything for your good? At the times, when I think things are not going right or when others trouble me with their problems, still you are involved, moving my life toward the goal you have set before me. Help me, I pray, to be more trusting. Amen. Faith offers a new way of life, where everything can be used for good. Like a tilting Kaleidoscope, our days are arranged with different priorities. It's amazing how little the dusty table top matters when close friends come to call. Personal note: Can you pray for my sister Vicki, Covid hurt her badly. And she is in the hospital.
Hey David , I have a question on this one. Deos the Gospel say Yeschua celebrated it or was just there as the traditional feast Happend to be ? I mean you can be around the village or the city while Otters celebrate christmas , that still doesn‘t mean that you affirm to that celebration Right ? Schalom Brother
This holiday isn't one written by Moses. Instead it was an oral law. As a Messianic Believer in Yeshua Ha'Mashiach, I do not live by oral tradition laws. If Moses didn't write it. It doesn't belong as a holiday
John 10;22-23 Not for nothing just because Yahushua walked through this colonnade does not mean He was celebrating Hanukkah , that would be like saying because I walked through the parking lot of a church having a Halloween tailgate /trunk trick or treat party, that I was celebrating it ! Which is NOT the case! Yahushua said all matters are established by two or three witnesses , do you have a second or third witness of scripture ? Matthew:18:16 . The Colonnade was a thoroughfare which people walked through and gathered, outside the temple. Solomon's Porch, Portico or Colonnade (στοα του Σολομωντος; John 10:23; Acts 3:11; 5:12), was a colonnade, or cloister, located on the eastern side of the Temple's Outer Court (Women's Court) in Jerusalem, named after Solomon, King of Israel. Hunukkah is a civil holiday and not a CommandedFeast of Yahuah and lets replace the g-d with His Name and stop breaking the the third commandment. If one wishes to celebrate it that is fine but lets not make it out to be something its not. Shalom
I'm not Jewish myself, but my faith practice is very similar to what is called Messianic Judaism today. The original Christian movement was essentially a sect of Judaism, and non-Jews were joining that sect without having to become Jews themselves. As Gentiles, they were fully part of community of Messiah followers, kept the Sabbath and festivals, abstained from unclean animals, etc.
@DavidWilberBlog Thank you for answering on such short notice! I'm planning on attending a service at the local Messianic Synagogue to discover my faith's Jewish roots.
I just see it this way, no temple, no Feast of Dedication. We are not sure how Jesus observed it. The Nativity of Christ is what we should focus on. This idea of the 7 lights lasting 8 nights is a Jewish myth that came after the destruction of the second temple. The Feast of Dedication was originally 8 days of sacrifices to God in honor of the original 8 days of sacrifice to rededicate the temple. I am not saying you should be rude to those that do observe Hunnakuh, but as an Orthodox Christian, I will focus on Christmas.
We aren't supposed to celebrate it. 1 Kings 13:33-34 Even after this, Jeroboam did not change his evil ways, but once more appointed priests for the high places from all sorts of people. Anyone who wanted to become a priest he consecrated for the high places. 34 This was the sin of the house of Jeroboam that led to its downfall and to its destruction from the face of the earth. Anyone know any Maccabees? Almost like they appointed themselves wrongfully to the high priesthood and the oil running out from Ezra was a sign of pending annihilation...sounds about right for these idiots to miss the point and celebrate something they should mourn.
The church im going too just began December 1st to celebrate advent with the wreath and candles and im going to be celebrating Hanukkah after that ist a very holy month its like having 2 Hanukkahas 🕎✝️🕊️🫒 shaloam brother
Shalom, Salam, Peace. H A P P Y C H A N U K A H ! H A P P Y X M A S ! Long Live Israel & Long Live Palestine, Want To Be Good Neighbours With Eternal Peace & Love. Some Extremists From Both Sides, Want To Destroy Each Other, With No Peace Insight.
For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. If we all stopped watching because we didn't want to be called sinners then none would come to know his forgiveness. He calls us all to repentance.
John 10:22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, AND IT WAS WINTER. WE CELEBRATE JESUS BIRTHDAY IN WINTER WHEN JESUS WAS born in spring, Gods word says the shepherds were attending their sheep on hillside when they saw the star, only time that they are out with their sheep is they are giving birth, this happens in spring time, Jesus was crucified in the winter time, Gods words says it was WINTER
I'm not saying its wrong or right but Many believe Yeshsua did not celebrate this holiday like Nick Vanderlaan who makes a convincing arguement in his video, , Jesus did NOT celebrate Hanukkah, 2nd Temple Dedication, & Wedding Feast at Cana, But RL Solberg uses this to teach there's nothing wrong with celebrating non biblical holidays because Yeshsua celebrated this, But that doesn't make any sense after He said. Mark 7:13 “Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.” Then celebrate a tradition of the Jews.
What a great video! My heart is so happy that many Christians are waking up and going the more traditional route! It will be my first year celebrating Hanukkah and I'm very excited! I'm starting a new tradition in my family, leaving the paganistic Christmas behind! God bless, and thank you for the vid.
Just this year, going to be our first Hanukkah! I carved out a cardboard box - silhouette of a hanukiah with white and blue lights inside.
Oh wow, nice. I wish I could see your master piece. Happy Chanukah
Thank you for sharing about Hanukkah. I am a Gentile and have had the scales removed from my eyes. The Lord has awoken my spirit and caused me to embrace my Jewish roots . I’ve stopped worshiping the Lord on Sunday and now I am keeping His command to worship Him on the Sabbath. I’m in love with the Jewish people, especially the Messianic Jews. Im interested in learning all that I can about the appointed feasts, holidays. I didn’t understand about Hanukkah and have been researching- I haven’t celebrated Christmas in several years as my eyes have been opened. Thank you for educating me regarding this holiday. Im a new subscriber. Yay!!! God bless you and family!
Beautiful! Thank you so much!
Thank you David.
The light of Jesus, the Master, He gives light to all those who follow after Him. I am a Christian that celebrates Hanukkah since ceasing from celebrating christmas, I keep it simple and as you say a time of refection and re dedication. Much nicer and more meaningful than the pagan festivals.
New to torah observants. Trying to understand it all. I've never seen anything make fellow believers so mad as even considering keeping the feast...
I celebrated passover this year and was delivered in a big way from tobacco so I know there is power In it! Apart from that I have a shabbat meal every fri night with my 4 kids but I haven't gotten the nerve to put my foot down at work on not working sat yet but will see but me and the kids have gotten closer with the shabbat meal. (Singal dad) )
Some days I'm sure the lords feast are the right way and other times the other side is convincing. I'm solo.maybe I can find a fellowship in North Central fl.basicly just learning from UA-cam. Thanks for your teaching!
@Josephine what was the name of book. I'm new to this, but been feeling called this year to celebrate.
Try doing communion too. God bless
@@josephine5418what is the book you are talking about
Thanks for the ideas. As Christians, we celebrated Hanukkah last year, but were not sure exactly what we were doing. This gives us more ideas.
Half Hebrew and Christian here. Thank you for this video! This year I will be celebrating Chanukah for the first time since childhood, and on my own. I’m an artist, so am making my menorah by hand. 🙏🏼 🕎
That's awesome!
Beautiful
Thank you! This is a wonderful teaching! What specifically edified me is using Hanukkah to remind us that we must stand strong in the difficult days now and to come. We cannot let the world influence our Temple but be set apart. Thank you!
Wow I love this.
I love Jesus and I love the Jewish people of God. Thank you, Brother David, for sharing the meaning of a wonderful and festive celebration. Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas. Jesus is the reason for the season! P.S. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and for all people in our very broken world.
Great video!! Thank you so much for sharing this with the world!!🌎 Much brotherly love in Messiah Yeshua all the way from Florida, USA!!🇺🇸
Shabbat Shalom! This was breath taking! We are zealous for Yahua's Torah and Feast days!! Saved by grace through Yahusha Hamashiach but because of or love and respect we will honor the Elohim's ways:) Shalom!
Thank you for this viewpoint, David. Hanukkah is one of the many things that has been confusing to me, and I have gone back and forth about whether or not I should observe it. Last night, I did decide to take out my Hanukkiah and light it, reflecting on the faith and courage of the Maccabees. I pray that if the time comes where I must stand in the face of persecution and death, I will not deny Yeshua or compromise His commandments. That is one of my reasons for remembering this time, as an inward check, such as you mentioned. Shalom!
Amen! Excited to honor the LORD with Hannukah this year!
Thanks so much for this video.
cannot wait to celebrate this!!!
It is very important to remember to NOT allow tradition to become command. So while these games and such are tradition, they are certainly not a requirement as this is not a moedim. Also also to remember that the miracle of oil is not based on fact.
Correct. Nobody says we're commanded to celebrate Hanukkah, just like nobody says Americans are commanded to celebrate Independence Day. However, Hanukkah a memorial of a significant event in the lives of God's people that is worth remembering and celebrating, just like Independence Day is worth remembering and celebrating for Americans.
@@DavidWilberBlog yes! I hope I didn't come off as saying that was what you were implying. Just sharing my thoughts. We celebrated our first Hanukkah last year and the children are looking forward to celebrating again this year.
No worries. Hope you have a wonderful celebration! :)
@@DavidWilberBlog Thanks! You too! Be a light!
@@DavidWilberBlog I can agree to your sentiment, however if I decide not to celebrate it, it will not and won’t affect my walk with Elohim. Whatever is not commanded to celebrate by Him is not on the menu of my life. I do not subscribe to a belief it is important to celebrate it because it’s a part of history. Sorry I disagree with you on that belief. Shalom!
Thank you for this educational video. My family and I are reading from the Bible and a Christian Hanukkah devotional this year. God bless you and your family.
You're welcome. Glad it blessed you!
Please share your Christian Hanukkah devotional. We would love to have a resource ❤
Woohoo!!! Can’t wait for Hanukkah. 🕎
Thanks for sharing some fun ways to celebrate. Shalom, brother.
Shalom! Hope you have a great Hanukkah. :)
@@DavidWilberBlog Same to you!
Another wonderful teaching! Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Thank you for teaching this
Very nice as this was my virtual lighting of the Hanukkah candles and celebrating the holiday.
Awesome!
Great Lesson and Blessings of Yeshua over you and your family my brother🙏🙏✡️✡️🕎🕎
Thanks for sharing the story of Hanukkah.
so happy to celebrate the Festival of Lights.
Happy Hanukkah!!
It's not festival 9f lights it's the reduction of the temple. Festival of lights is a more "modern" Jewish celebration.
Happy Hanukkah from Papua New Guinea ALLIYA hills ministry
Hi David, great video! going to try and celebrate this year appreciate the info! I just want to know I often see people say that in Maccabees they offer the sacrifices to Zeus but I don’t see that anywhere in 1st or 2nd Maccabees. I see in 2nd Mac ch.6:2 they call the sanctuary by the name of Jupiter Olympius. Is that a reference to Zeus?
We're you able to find the answer
Yup, it is one of the Greek Gods.
🎉thank you 🎉 very beautiful ❤️
Chag Hannukah sameach 🇮🇱
Thank you so very much David. I understand a lot more about how we can follow and celebrate YAHUSHA. Instead of following Christmas and Ishtar. -El🍄🕎✡️🍷🕊🍇
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected.
1Timothy 4:4
O Lord, how can I be more amazed than by seeing you use everything for your good? At the times, when I think things are not going right or when others trouble me with their problems, still you are involved, moving my life toward the goal you have set before me. Help me, I pray, to be more trusting. Amen.
Faith offers a new way of life, where everything can be used for good. Like a tilting Kaleidoscope, our days are arranged with different priorities. It's amazing how little the dusty table top matters when close friends come to call.
Personal note: Can you pray for my sister Vicki, Covid hurt her badly. And she is in the hospital.
Praying for Vicki now.
This Antiochus sounds like a fun guy 😮🎉
I don’t have a hanakia, can I still celebrate hannuka if I don’t have one?
Happy Hanukkah bro
Amen
So do you celebrate 2 holidays this time of year? Both Hannukah and Christmas? Do you decorate for both? How does that work?
My parents are one from each faith. So when my brother and I were kids, our family celebrated both holidays. It’s all good, Wings of Freedom! ❤️🙏🏼
Hey David , I have a question on this one. Deos the Gospel say Yeschua celebrated it or was just there as the traditional feast Happend to be ? I mean you can be around the village or the city while Otters celebrate christmas , that still doesn‘t mean that you affirm to that celebration Right ? Schalom Brother
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This holiday isn't one written by Moses. Instead it was an oral law. As a Messianic Believer in Yeshua Ha'Mashiach, I do not live by oral tradition laws. If Moses didn't write it. It doesn't belong as a holiday
As a Christian why we won't celebrate a Hanukkah
So do I cook fried foods for an entire week? Do we give out gifts every single day?
Here is a Ruac teaching,...... Ten is true for the complete sanctification of salvation of a man's soul.
He who has ears let him hear.
7:40
John 10;22-23 Not for nothing just because Yahushua walked through this colonnade does not mean He was celebrating Hanukkah , that would be like saying because I walked through the parking lot of a church having a Halloween tailgate /trunk trick or treat party, that I was celebrating it ! Which is NOT the case! Yahushua said all matters are established by two or three witnesses , do you have a second or third witness of scripture ? Matthew:18:16 . The Colonnade was a thoroughfare which people walked through and gathered, outside the temple. Solomon's Porch, Portico or Colonnade (στοα του Σολομωντος; John 10:23; Acts 3:11; 5:12), was a colonnade, or cloister, located on the eastern side of the Temple's Outer Court (Women's Court) in Jerusalem, named after Solomon, King of Israel. Hunukkah is a civil holiday and not a CommandedFeast of Yahuah and lets replace the g-d with His Name and stop breaking the the third commandment. If one wishes to celebrate it that is fine but lets not make it out to be something its not. Shalom
He rebuked those he spoke to in the same passage...said they were not his.🤷♀️
Are you a Messianic Jew? I've been looking into that sect, and it appears to be as close to biblical teachings as a denomination could get.
I'm not Jewish myself, but my faith practice is very similar to what is called Messianic Judaism today. The original Christian movement was essentially a sect of Judaism, and non-Jews were joining that sect without having to become Jews themselves. As Gentiles, they were fully part of community of Messiah followers, kept the Sabbath and festivals, abstained from unclean animals, etc.
@DavidWilberBlog Thank you for answering on such short notice! I'm planning on attending a service at the local Messianic Synagogue to discover my faith's Jewish roots.
I just see it this way, no temple, no Feast of Dedication. We are not sure how Jesus observed it. The Nativity of Christ is what we should focus on. This idea of the 7 lights lasting 8 nights is a Jewish myth that came after the destruction of the second temple. The Feast of Dedication was originally 8 days of sacrifices to God in honor of the original 8 days of sacrifice to rededicate the temple. I am not saying you should be rude to those that do observe Hunnakuh, but as an Orthodox Christian, I will focus on Christmas.
We aren't supposed to celebrate it. 1 Kings 13:33-34 Even after this, Jeroboam did not change his evil ways, but once more appointed priests for the high places from all sorts of people. Anyone who wanted to become a priest he consecrated for the high places. 34 This was the sin of the house of Jeroboam that led to its downfall and to its destruction from the face of the earth.
Anyone know any Maccabees? Almost like they appointed themselves wrongfully to the high priesthood and the oil running out from Ezra was a sign of pending annihilation...sounds about right for these idiots to miss the point and celebrate something they should mourn.
The church im going too just began December 1st to celebrate advent with the wreath and candles and im going to be celebrating Hanukkah after that ist a very holy month its like having 2 Hanukkahas 🕎✝️🕊️🫒 shaloam brother
Shalom, Salam, Peace. H A P P Y C H A N U K A H ! H A P P Y X M A S !
Long Live Israel & Long Live Palestine, Want To Be Good Neighbours With Eternal Peace & Love.
Some Extremists From Both Sides, Want To Destroy Each Other, With No Peace Insight.
Came here to learn and be respectful, but left when the blatant disrespect for the LGBT community came out.
boohoo
For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. If we all stopped watching because we didn't want to be called sinners then none would come to know his forgiveness. He calls us all to repentance.
We do not. It’s not a moadim of YAH.
Suit yourself. But if celebrating Hanukkah was good enough for the Messiah, then it's good enough for me! :)
@@DavidWilberBlog ,my feeling exactly!
John 10:22 And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, AND IT WAS WINTER. WE CELEBRATE JESUS BIRTHDAY IN WINTER WHEN JESUS WAS born in spring, Gods word says the shepherds were attending their sheep on hillside when they saw the star, only time that they are out with their sheep is they are giving birth, this happens in spring time, Jesus was crucified in the winter time, Gods words says it was WINTER
Gods word says Jesus was crucified around Passover. John 13. Passover is close to Easter time.
I'm not saying its wrong or right but Many believe Yeshsua did not celebrate this holiday like Nick Vanderlaan who makes a convincing arguement in his video, , Jesus did NOT celebrate Hanukkah, 2nd Temple Dedication, & Wedding Feast at Cana, But RL Solberg uses this to teach there's nothing wrong with celebrating non biblical holidays because Yeshsua celebrated this, But that doesn't make any sense after He said. Mark 7:13 “Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.” Then celebrate a tradition of the Jews.
How to celebrate Hanukkah as a Christian easy stop being a Christian and become a Messianic Gentile then follow all the holy days minor and major bam
Why would you? 😂😂😂
why wouldnt you?..