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Hello, my friends. It is so good to be with you just a few days before Christmas. Are you in the mood? I kind of am. Kind of not. But what I am in the mood for is some good teaching by Jonathan Kahn. He is a messianic Jew, which means at one time he was Jewish. He saw that Jesus was the Messiah, and now he's a messianic Jew. And I have a teaching from him today, Hanukkah in the end times. Sometimes, friends, we just need to hear some profound teaching to understand that our destiny and our purpose is so far rooted back in history. We get caught up in some of the day-to-day little things, but the big picture is this that God has chosen you for this time in this world. For this time, God has a plan for you, and Jonathan is going to share with why so many people, God's people, are going through trials because Satan is trying to preempt your purpose, your destiny. So let's take a listen to my friend Jonathan Kahn as he talks about Hanukkah and the end times.

Jonathan Cahn: 1:36

Hanukkah began when they when they came to the Temple Mount and rededicated the Temple on the Temple Mount. So even here, what happened October 7th is linked to the Temple Mount. Hanukkah is linked to also the Temple Mount and a struggle over the Temple Mount. It says of Messiah, it says he's the servant of the Messiah is the servant of God. And it says, coming into the world, he lights up the light of man. He lights us up the light of the world. And the blessing. Blessed are you, Lord God, King of the universe, who performed great wonders, miracles for our ancestors in that place at this time. Blessed are you, Lord God, King of the universe, who sanctifies us in faith in Yeshua, the Messiah, light of the world, and in your word, and you commanded us to light the lights of dedication. Where is Hanukkah celebrated in the Bible? Where is it? There's only one place. It's in the New Testament, and it's in the Gospel of John. And here it is: John 10. It was the feast of dedication. It was winter time in Jerusalem and Yeshua. Jesus was walking in the temple of Solomon's porch. And the Jewish people came around him and said to him, How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Mashiach, the Messiah, the anointed one, tell us clearly. And he answered them and said, I have told you. My sheep hear my voice. I know them, they follow me, and I give them everlasting life. I and my father are one. Where is Hanukkah? It says, The feast of dedication. Now you read that and you don't realize what it is, most believers. And Jewish people, if you tell them, look, it's right here, feast of dedication, they won't know what that is either. Most people, Israelis will. Notice it's winter time. Messiah is walking in the temple. Most likely it's lit up by the lights all over of Hanukkah. And the thing is, I said this before, but you know, we don't know if Jesus celebrated Christmas. That's his that would be his birthday. We don't know. We know he didn't celebrate Santa Claus, Frosty, or anything like that. But we don't know that he celebrated it. We know he celebrated Hanukkah. It's right here. And the thing is, Hanukkah brought you Christmas. Without Hanukkah, you could not have Christmas. Without Hanukkah, you would not be saved today. So there is a mystery to this because it's about the rededication of the temple. And you ask why Jewish people are celebrating, they'll say, Well, it's a rededication of the temple. Where's the temple? We don't know. There's no temple. And yet we're celebrating the rededication of the temple. Maybe it's prophetic because there will be a temple again. But the Bible says, Do you not know? You are the temple of God. If you're born again, it says you're actually the temple of God because God has come into you. God is in you. Your life, you are the vessel that contains God. And so when you think about it, when you got saved, that was Hanukkah. That was your Hanukkah. Because he came into this temple that was dark and he cleansed you. He took out what shouldn't have been there, took out the idols, took out the unclean things, and then he lit up the light in your heart. He lit up your life inside out. So even when it's the darkest time, you still get a light shining. And in the center of your being, he in the temple he dwelt in the center, the center, the Holy of Holies. That's your heart. And so he's got a reign from the heart. He's got to be the center of your life in order for the temple to be lit up. And the thing is, that's what he did, but you know, it's still easy, all of us, to let other things get in and get a little darker, let idols get in, substitutes, distractions, and let the fire of God, your zeal, your flame, burn a little lower. And that's why it's always good to have Hanukkah, to renew, rededicate. You are the temple of God. And when you're totally given to God, you light up, you're radiant. That's what God wants. Is there a connection between what happened on October 7th and the holiday of Hanukkah? Well, do you know why Hanukkah is celebrated for eight days? You may have heard it's the miracle of the oil that was supposed to last only one day when they came back to the temple to cleanse it, but it lasted for eight days. Well, it's all nice, but it most likely never happened. There's no ancient account. It's only years, centuries later, that they came up with that one. But the thing is, the actual account mentions nothing about that at all. But it does mention why it's eight days. And the reason is that most people don't, most Jewish people don't know, most Christians don't know. It was because of the persecution in those days. You could not go to Jerusalem to worship God like God commanded. You couldn't do it. What was the last holy day that they could not do that they missed before Hanukkah? Well, we know it because it's the one, the last one that we celebrated. What was the last holiday we celebrated? The Feast of Tabernacles, Sukkot, which is the last feast of the Jewish year, the sacred Jewish year. They couldn't do it. Now, now, tabernacles is if you count the last day, it's eight days. So what they did is they rededicated the temple by celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles. And so that's why Hanukkah is eight days, because the Feast of Tabernacles is eight days, and this is what Hanukkah was. And it makes sense because when Solomon dedicated the first temple, you know what day he did it on it? You know what? It was the Feast of Tabernacles. That was the dedication of the first temple. So they probably took it from the Lord to do it. So it was eight. So that's why Hanukkah is eight days. Now, that means Hanukkah is linked to the Feast of Tabernacles a few months ago. The last day of tabernacles is the eighth day. That's why they're eight days. Eighth day. It's called Shemini Atseret. It's also called Simchop Torah. It's a day when it's the very end of the Hebrew year. It's the very last day. Well, this year, on that holy day, the last day of all the Hebrew feasts, last day of tabernacles and everything, that was Saturday, October 7th, the day when Hamas did what it did. They did it on that day. Now, whether they did it because of it, I don't know. But it was supposed to be linked to joy. So they did it. So that already links what happened then. Now there's war in Israel, but that all began on that last day of tabernacles. And now this is the next holy day of Israel. They are all joined together again. But they're also, but also at the same time, you know, there's more. You see, what they did on that day is they it was a desecration. They desecrated something holy. First of all, it's a day appointed by God, sacred holy day. Now they appointed it for evil. They desecrated it. And everything they did to people was a desecration of the image of God. Hanukkah is also about desecration of enemies of the land who desecrate God's work. And then Hanukkah is the consecration of the desecration. Consecrate, making sacred again. And so there's another connection. But there's also Hanukkah is about a war between those who wanted to wipe out Israel as God's nation and those who fought against that. That's Hanukkah. It's happening again. Here's an ancient thing, and it's happening in 2023. The events of Hanukkah, but here's another one. The events of Hanukkah, more than any place, focus on one site, the Temple Mount. Now you probably didn't know it because the media probably didn't make much mention of it. But what Hamas did was part of a carefully orchestrated plan and operation. They were planning it for a long time. And they gave it a name. You probably never heard it, but it had a name. Hamas called it Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. What is Al-Aqsa? Al-Aqsa is the Islamic mosque that sits on the Temple Mount. What does that have to do with the Gaza Strip? Have to do with the Temple Mount very far away. But think in Hanukkah, the war was ultimately about the Temple Mount, where they had desecrated the temple, made it pagan. The Maccabees, it all the the Hanukkah began when they when they came to the Temple Mount and rededicated the temple on the Temple Mount. So even here, what happened October 7th is linked to the Temple Mount. Hanukkah is linked to also the Temple Mount and a struggle over the Temple Mount. Why? To uncover the answer, and this is what we're going to open up this morning. We need to look at the bigger picture. The war against Israel was fought in the name of Palestine, the Palestinians. On the day after the attack, I spoke of what was behind it. That was Sunday morning. I want to give you a little bit more on that. You may come across Bibles that have maps or biblical maps that say Palestine in the time of Jesus. Well, that's an error. Biblically and historically. Biblically, because God gave the land to Israel. It was called the land of Israel by God. And historically, Jesus would have never called the Holy Land Palestine. But for most of why is it called Palestine? For most of 2,000 years, the world has called that land Palestine. Why? It goes back not to the Jewish people, it goes back to the enemies of the Jewish people and people outside Israel. In 70 AD, the armies of Rome set Jerusalem on fire, took its people captive, sent the Jewish people into the nations, just as Messiah had prophesied. In the year 132 A.D., came a last revolt. Many people don't know about it. It was one last revolt of the Jewish people against Rome, of those who were still in the land called the Barkohpah Revolt. The Romans came in under Emperor Hadrian, they crushed it, and they sought to erase the memory of the land of Israel from the planet. So they officially named it a new name, and they called it Palestina to erase Israel. That's how it became the name. The name Palestina, where'd they get it from? They got it from the Greeks. There's a Greek word Palestine, which is first used by the Greek historian Herodotus. So where did that name come from? Where did he get it from? It comes from a region in the Bible, a small region on the southwest of Israel, on the Mediterranean coast, bordering Egypt or the Sioux or the Sonapeninsula. It was called Pilashtim. Try it. From Pilashtim, you get Palestine. Pilashtim means the Philistines. So therefore, so they were the ones who were the enemies of Israel. They continually raided Israel. They warred against the people of Israel. They're first mentioned in the book of Exodus. When God leads the Jewish people out of Egypt, he says, Avoid, he took up to avoid the Philistines, because they would be, they were warlike, they would be discouraged. You find them in Israel for centuries. They are continuously the Philistines, Philistines. In the time of Joshua, Philistines, time of judges, Philistines. Philistines are the ones that Samson warred against, whom Delilah, when she said, Hey, Samson, the Philistines are upon you. The Philistines are the ones who took Samson into captivity, blind him, taunt him. They're destroyed when he brings down the temple of Dagon. The Philistines are the ones who warred against King Saul. In doing so, they led to his death. They in fact, in fact, killed him. He fell on his sword, but on Mount Kilboa, and the death of Jonathan and his other sons. The Philistines warred against King David. Perhaps the most famous Philistine, you know him, is called Goliath. They were the enemies in ancient times of Israel. They occupied a small region there, again, on the coast. The strip of land was called Pilashtim, which literally means the land of the Philistines or the land of the Philistines. In English, in many of your Bibles, it's it occurs in the Bible, it is translated as Philistia. Oh Philistia, the land of the Philistines. But the Hebrew is Pilashtim, from which you get Palestine. In Isaiah 14, Isaiah says, In the year that King Ahaz died, this pronouncement came. All of you, or Palestine, some of your Bibles might even say Palestine. It's talking about the little strip there. Because the rod that struck you is broken, for from the serpent's root a viper will come out, its fruit will be a winged servant. Wail you gate, cry you city, melt away, Philistia, all of you. Joel 3. Moreover, what are you to me, Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Palestine? Are you repaying me with retribution? If you are, I will return that on your head, says the Lord. Philistia, Palestina, Palestine. Soon after the Romans destroyed the land of Israel, Jewish people gone. It was now Palestina. That's why most of the world for 2,000 years said, Oh, it's the land of Palestine. Never was. The whole land was never called that. They just took it from the enemies of God's people. Now God loves all people, and we are to love and pray for all people, and we are to pray for the people of Gaza. At the same time, we also must stand against evil and for God's purposes. We have to do both. The people who war against Israel are ultimately pawns in this game. Just as Hamas, behind Hamas is Iran. Behind Iran and all of this is the enemy. Which brings us to the word Palestinian. That in effect means Philistine. The flag of Palestine means the flag of the Philistines by by the very name, by the very word. The Palestine Authority could be translated as the Philistine Authority. The pro-Palestine demonstrations could be translated as the pro-Philistine. And when they say they chant Palestine, Palestine is to be free from the river to the sea, they are saying that they that Israel is to be replaced by the land of the Philistines. So what happened this October was linked to Palestine, of course, we know that. Which was linked to the ancient Philistines. But what about the Temple Mount? They named it the Temple Mount Operation. Well, just as the name Palestina comes for the whole land of Israel, comes from the Romans af at the Bar Kokhba revolt to wipe it all away at the same time. The Emperor Hadrian didn't just rename the land, he renamed Jerusalem. And now Jerusalem was renamed. It shall not be Jerusalem anymore. He called it Elia Kapotolina. Kapitolina means the temple of Zeus, the temple of Jupiter. So now the city of God is named after Zeus. And the city of the temple of God is named after the temple of Zeus. Which is amazing because Hanukkah, when they went up to that temple, this is hundreds of years before, when the Greeks went up to the temple and they desecrated the temple, they did it in the name of Zeus. And they set up an idol. It was an idol of Zeus. So now the Romans are doing the same thing. It's an ancient war. Now it's Zeus again. You know, I wrote The Return of the Gods, these things don't stay dead. You have Zeus, who's now called Jupiter. And now it's now he's renamed the whole city after him. The war is ancient, and it has not stopped to this day. And so Jerusalem. So you have the land named after the enemies of Israel, the land of Israel. You have the city of Jerusalem, the holy city of Israel, named after Zeus, the God of their enemies of Israel, at the same time. So what and that includes the Temple Mount. The Temple Mount, they were even it said they believed that they were even planning to build a temple of Zeus on the Temple Mount. So what does October 7th have to do with this? Well, how to do with the whole land? They want to wipe out Hamas has in their charter, we're going to wipe out Israel. That's their aim. More than anything else, we have to destroy, kill every Jew you can. And Jerusalem, they say that's ours. And the Temple Mount. Why? Well, for that, Revelation 12. A great sign appeared in heaven, Revelation 12. A woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet and her head, a crown of twelve stars, and she was pregnant. She cried out, she was in labor and gave birth in great pain. Then another sign appeared in the heaven, behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns on his head, seven crowns, and his tail swept away a third of the stars of heaven and hurled them to earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, that when she gave birth he might devour her child. The woman is Israel. Twelve stars. The dragon is Satan. The dragon makes war against Israel. You want to understand history? There it is. Jewish history, there it is. 4,000 years. What happened? We don't understand what just happened in college campuses and all around the world. That is this. That's Revelation 12. That is the hatred. That is not natural but supernatural. The woman gives birth to a child. Who's the child? Messiah, who will rule the world, it says. Messiah. Notice the dragon is there before she gives birth, waiting for her to give birth to devour the child. Think about it. When Jesus was born, what happened? King Herod tried to kill the child. This is this is all the enemy. See, and this reveals something. The enemy's strategy, more than anything, is to preempt what God is going. To do to stop the purposes of God before they begin. Look at it. Garden of Eden. When does he attack, man? Right then. And that messed up everything from the beginning. Moses, baby. The enemy's trying to kill all the Hebrew babies because he knows Moses is one of them. Messiah, baby. At his birth, they tried to kill him. And just before Messiah's ministry, he's about to minister, what happens? Enemy gets there to tempt him away, have him jump off a cliff or jump off a high place and kill himself. He tries to circumvent it, he tries to preempt his ministry just before it happens. And then it happens right after that. Even before Messiah's ministry or his birth, you have Hanukkah. Hanukkah is linked to Messiah. Because the enemy knew what was coming. He may not know all things, but he knew that Messiah is coming. And he was going to come after the Old Testament. So what does he do? Before he comes, he tries to wipe Israel off the map, convert it into a pagan nation. Why? If you do that, you have no Messiah. Because then you have no Joseph, no Mary, you have no belly, you have none of that happening because he would have destroyed them. So notice he tried to do that. That's Hanukkah, not only leads to Christmas, it was because of Christmas or the birth of Messiah. Now the enemy knows Israel is back. And he knows Messiah is coming back. If Israel's back, Messiah's coming back. And so he must know Messiah is going to come back, not to New Jersey, not to not to Las Vegas. He's going to come back, not to Rome. He's going to come back to Israel, Jerusalem. That's why all hell has been trying to wipe out the Jewish people. Not just because the enemy hates them, yes. Not just because he's mad about them for what he did. The enemy was furious at the woman who gave birth to the child. But he knows that the kingdom is coming through them. What happened in October was all part of this war that was fought on this Hanukkah over 2,000 years ago. Even as the enemy's fury has erupted all over the world in rage against Israel, even that is part of it. It plays into his hand. They want to destroy Israel. Because in the end, but in the end, it's going to be prophecy because God said, All nations will come to destroy Israel. But on that day, Messiah is coming. What we have seen in this mystery, and the media will never tell you. World leaders have no idea, most of them or all of them. Intelligence agencies cannot tell you this because only we can see it as the children of God. It's in the spiritual realm, it's behind what's happening in the physical. And it's not just the mystery behind what's happening in the world, but what's also the enemy tries to do in your life. You see, it reveals the strategy because the enemy is a preempter. God has a call for your life, He's got a purpose for your life, He's got a perfect plan for your life, and the enemy will do everything he can to stop that from coming to pass. He will attack the purposes of God in your life. So if you're in the will of God and you're being attacked, but you're in the will of God, don't be discouraged. Get encouraged. It's a great sign. It means the enemy is attacking what God is gonna do, the blessings of God. That means that God has a plan and has good things. The enemy would not be wasting his time if God didn't have that. He only attacks God's plan. So if he's attacking you, that's a good sign.

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Amen.

Jonathan Cahn: 23:42

You want the enemy to be your enemy. You don't want him to be a friend. You know, you want God to be your friend. You know, someone said, you know, we want to be in God's perfect will. You know, you know, you want to be in the opposite of the enemy's plan. You want to be in the the opposite. He doesn't waste his weapons. So the more you're being attacked, praise God, the greater God, what he has for your life. What else does it reveal? The enemy is a preemptor. That means he attacks specifically what God is going to do and has not yet done. So the timing of the attack is a giveaway. With Israel, the most intense time. Look, look, I told you what just what happened just before Israel was born again. All hell broke loose on the Jewish people with Hitler. Just before God is gonna fulfill all the prophecies that he promised. So in your life, you know, the enemy, when he attacks you, it's a sign, if you're in God's will and he's going crazy, he's going, it's a sign of the timing. God is gonna do something great. At virtually every point in my life, when there was a great attack, the enemy came in like a flood, it was just before God was gonna do a great thing.

Ron Meyers: 24:57

I just love that teaching. Jonathan Kahn is one of the most incredible teachers. I'm sure it's because of his Jewish background. I would highly recommend to do some research on him through YouTube, Jonathan Kahn, and his books. Wow. But friends, I've been saying for seven years on this show that God has an incredible plan and a purpose. But sometimes we get so wrapped up in the little day-to-day things, the Sunday morning meetings, the little duties that we put in front of ourselves. But when we really grasp the big picture, that in of all the people in this world, you have been chosen for something very special with God. And the enemy wants to keep you so busy, busy doing a lot of religious duties to make you feel good, but it also stops you from really discovering what is this beautiful plan Jesus has for my life. That's what it's all about. And the year 2026 is coming right around the corner, and I want you to tune in to this program, Get the Hell Out of Your Life, available on all your podcast platforms. Because I'm get dedicated in 2026 to help you discover everything that God needs you to discover, to have a life of peace, purpose, and destiny.

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