Tag: Haggai

Haggai and Chanukah: How Messiah fills God’s House with greater glory

Post author By Jeff
Post date December 28, 2019
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Heaven calls us to be “ambassadors” of the Messiah (Christ) and “temple(s) of God” (1Cor. 3:16; 6:19), and Yeshua (Jesus) called His body a temple (John 2:19–22).

The prophet Haggai’s message was that the House of God is not a building, but it does reflect the heart condition of the people. Haggai proclaimed that the glory of God and foretold a time when God will fill His house with a greater glory than He did when Solomon commissioned the first Temple (Hag. 2:9). That greater glory arrived when Yeshua stepped foot into the Temple during the Festival of the Dedication (Chanukah, John 10:22-39) in fulfillment of what that prophet foretold would be a crucial work of the Mashiakh (Christ).

Tags 1st Maccabees, Chanukah, cultural appropriation, exile, Haggai, Haggai 01, Hellenism, Maccabee, Multiculturalism, restoration, restoration of Israel, second temple

Appointments With God Chanukah Tabernacles

Chanukah — the True Light brings freedom to a world in darkness

Post author By Jeff
Post date December 19, 2009

Reading John 1:1-14 and chapters 9-10 shows a connection in Messiah Yeshua between the imagery of light and God dwelling among mankind and the festivals of Tabernacles (Sukkot) and Dedication (Chanukah, a.k.a. Lights).

Tags blindness, darkness, dedication, Haggai, light, messianic prophecy, second temple, Zerubabbel

Appointments With God Chanukah

Chanukah: History and Messianic significance

Post author By Daniel
Post date December 12, 2009

Judas Maccabeus Before the Army of Nicanor drawing by Gustave Dore — Gustave Dore. "Judas Maccabeus Before the Army of Nicanor. The Holy Scriptures, Old and New Testaments. Drawing. Stuttgart, Germany, 1885.

The story of Chanukah or Hannukah began before Judas Maccabee killed his first Greek, and the culmination didn’t end with him. The events were no surprise to God either. He told the prophet Haggai something spectacular would happen in His temple during the time we now call Chanukah. Today’s talk starts all the way to the days of Darius the Mede and touches us in the 21st century.