Transcript Slide 1

"21st Century Apostles,
Israel, and Latter Rain
Revelation“
Part 1
The Lord’s Kingdom will Endure Forever
1. Origen... It is evident that every form of
worship will be destroyed except the
religion of Christ, which will alone prevail.
And indeed it will one day try them, as it
principles take possession of the minds of
men more and more every day.
2. John Wesley... All unprejudiced persons may
see with their eyes, that he God is already
renewing the face of the earth; and we have
strong reason to hope that the work he has
begun he will carry on into the day of the Lord
Jesus: that he will never increment this blessed
work of his spirit until he has fulfilled all his
promises, until he hath put an end to sin and
misery, and infirmity, and death; and
reestablished universal holiness and happiness,
and cause all inhabitants of the earth to sing
together "hallelujah"
The Disciples Asked Three Questions
Matthew 24:1-3—Jesus came out from the temple and
was going away when His disciples came up to point out
the temple buildings to Him. 2And He said to them, "Do
you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, not one
stone here will be left upon another, which will not be
torn down." 3 As He was sitting on the Mount of Olives,
the disciples came to Him privately, saying, "Tell us, when
will these things happen, and what will be the sign of
Your coming, and of the end of the age?"
1. When Will These Things Happen
2. What Will Be the Sign of Your Coming
3. And of the End of the Age
A. Eusebius concurred that the Lord's
prophecy was fulfilled in 70 A.D. saying, "all
this occurred in this manner in the second
year of the reign of Vespasian (A.D. 70),
according to the predictions of our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ.
Those Who Survived
1. Clementine Recognitions (I, 36 and 39) is
sometimes thought to be the oldest reference to the
flight from Jerusalem by Christians at the time of the
first century war with Rome. I:39 says, "Everyone
who, believing in the Prophet who had been foretold
by Moses, is baptized in His name, shall be kept
unhurt from the destruction of war which impends
over the unbelieving and the place itself." The
problems with this identification are (1) the uncertain
date of the Recognitions and the sources which
underlie them and (2) whether or not these words do
in fact refer to an exodus by Jerusalem Christians.
2. John Wesley recorded, "this was most
punctually fulfilled; for after the Temple was
burned, Titus, the Roman general, ordered the
very foundation of it to be dug up; after which
the ground on which it stood was plowed... This
generation of men now living shall not pass till
all these things be done... Expression implies
that a great part of that generation would be
passed away, but not the whole. Just so it was;
for the city and Temple were destroyed 39 of 40
years after that."
3. Eusebius, one of the early church fathers wrote:
"The whole body, however, of the church of
Jerusalem, having been commanded by a divine
revelation, given to men of approved piety there
before the war, removed from the city, and dwelt at a
certain town beyond the Jordan, called Pella. Here
those that believed in Christ, having removed from
Jerusalem, as if holy men had entirely abandoned the
royal city itself, and the whole land of Judea; the
divine justice, for their crimes against Christ and His
apostles finally overtook them, totally destroying the
whole generation of these evildoers from the
earth." Ecclesiastical History, 3:5:3
False Christs
1.Eusebius recorded, "after the Lord was taken up into heaven
the demons put forth a number of men who claimed to be
gods."
2. Cited in Thomas Aquinas Golden chain... For many came
forward when destruction was hanging over Jerusalem, saying
that they were Christ's.
3. Charles Spurgeon said "a large number of impostors came
forward before the destruction of Jerusalem giving out that
they were the anointed of God.
4. Jerome recorded, "at the time of the Jewish captivity by
Rome, many Jewish elders claimed to be the Christ. There
were so many, in fact, that there were three distinct camps of
them when the Romans besieged Jerusalem."
That Generation Would not Pass Away
1. Since we have an event in 70 A.D. that perfectly fulfills the
prophecy then we are to take the fact literally that he was
speaking directly to that generation. Matthew 23:36 also
affirms this—Verily I say unto you, All these things shall
come upon this generation.
2. Matt 24:34—I tell you the truth, this generation will
certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.
3. Luke 23:28-29— But Jesus turning to them said,
"Daughters of Jerusalem, stop weeping for Me, but weep for
yourselves and for your children. 29 "For behold,
the days are coming when they will say, '
Blessed are the barren, and the wombs
that never bore, and the breasts that never
nursed.' 30 "Then they will begin TO SAY
TO THE MOUNTAINS, 'FALL ON US,' AND TO
THE HILLS, 'COVER US.' 31 "For if they do
these things when the tree is green, what
will happen when it is dry?"
4. The predictions of Matthew 24 are
directly related to Jerusalem and Judea.
Answering the question about the
destruction of the Temple. The description
of housetops etc. implies that specific
region of Judea.
5. Luke 21:5-20.—Things to Come
The Abomination of Desolation
1. John Chrysostom wrote, "The
abomination of desolation means the Army
by which the holy city of Jerusalem was
made desolate.” Corresponding with Daniel
9:26.
2. The destruction of Jerusalem was
focused on the city and the region. It was a
very intense tribulation affecting between
1.5-2 million people. It produced
cannibalism, a woman cooking and eating
her own son etc. the barbarism was
unparalleled. Jews would swallow
diamonds and other precious stones for
safekeeping. They would be caught and cut
open searching for anything of value.
3. 500 men were caught each day and
whipped, tortured and crucified. 97,000
were taken as slaves.. Not only that the
surrounding region continued the
mayhem. Josephus recorded, “there was
not any one Syrian city which did not slay
the Jewish inhabitants, and would not
more bitter enemies to us than were the
Romans themselves."
4. Titus pressed the siege of Jerusalem, which was
crowded with people because of the paschal festivities,
cutting off the water and food supply. The besieged were
terribly hard pressed by these tactics, as well as by the
insufferable heat. Those who tried to escape were
captured and crucified before the very walls as an
example to others. According to Josephus, such famine
that a mother actually ate the flesh of her own small son.
He tells of 2,500,000 assembled at the last Passover just
before the city was taken by Titus. 1,000,000 perished in
the siege, 347,000 perished in other places. Of the
remainder, 97,000 were carried into captivity and 11,000
starved through neglect or sullen refusal of food. On July
17th the daily sacrifices were interrupted.
5. After bitter fighting and frightful
massacres, in September of 70, after a
stubborn and desperate resistance, the city
fell and the national existence of the Jews
came to an end. The Holy City was taken
and burned, and the Tenth Legion
encamped in the ruined temple. The
temple was leveled to the ground and
utterly destroyed. Only the Roman garrison
was left.
6. Josephus states that the Romans,
having taken the city, brought their
standards into the court of the temple, and
placed them opposite the east gate, where
they offered sacrifices to them. Many who
survived were sold into slavery or taken to
Rome for the wild beasts. The sevenbranched candlestick, the golden table of
the shew-bread and the golden trumpets
were carried through the streets of Rome
in triumph.
The Emperor Hadrian dealt the final blow
in 132, as a result of another revolt led by a
so-called Messiah, Bar Cocheba (son of the
star), the Jews were again massacred
leaving another million victims. From then
on, the Jews scattered over the face of the
earth, became the wandering people,
without temple or sacrifice, as predicted by
the prophets
7. It was also marking the destruction of
the nation, their religious system, their
identity and the better part of that entire
generation.
Subsequent Persecutions
1. Other events have been horrific with
terrible persecutions including the
Holocaust. Over 60 million people were
killed, which was over 2.5% of the world
population in WW2. But none with the farreaching implications of this with
Jerusalem.
2. Australia 40,500; Austria 120,000;
Belgium 88,000; Burma 272,000; China
between 10 and 20 million; Germany 6.628
point 6 million; hungry 580,000; Italy
457,000;Japan 2.6 to 3.1 million; Korea
400,000. Poland 5.6 million; Romania
800,000; Soviet Union 23,400,000; United
Kingdom 450,000; United States 418,000.
Israel wasn't a recognized nation, but 6
million were brutally murdered.
3. Charles Spurgeon wrote, “the
destruction of Jerusalem was more terrible
than anything that the world has ever
witnessed, either before or since. Even
Titus seemed to see in his cruel work the
hand of an avenging God. Truly the blood
of the martyrs slain in Jerusalem was
amply avenged when the whole city
became a veritable field of blood.
4. After 70 A.D. the Jewish population was
decimated. Another revolt ensued around
A.D. 132-135 the Romans crushed the
rebellion killing another 580,000 Jews and
Israel no longer existed as a nation.
Subsequent Signs As Recorded By Josephus
1. "A meteor, resembling a sword, [7]
hung over Jerusalem during one whole
year." This could not be a comet, for it was
stationary, and was visible for twelve
successive months.
2. "On the eighth of the month Zanthicus,
(before the feast of unleavened bread) at
the ninth hour of the night, there shone
round about the altar, and the
circumjacent buildings of the temple, a
light equal to the brightness of the day,
which continued for the space of half an
hour."
3. "As the High Priest were leading a
heifer to the altar to be sacrificed, she
brought forth a lamb, in the midst of the
temple
4. "'About the sixth hour of the night, the
eastern gate of the temple was seen to open
without human assistance." When the guards
informed the Curator of this event, he sent men
to assist them in shutting it, who with great
difficulty succeeded. -- This gate, as hath been
observed already, 'Was of solid brass, and
required twenty men to close it every evening. It
could not have been opened by a "strong gust of
wind," or a slight earthquake;" for Josephus says,
it was secured by iron bolts And bars, which were
let down into a large threshold; consisting of one
entire stone."
5. "Soon after the feast of the Passover, in
various parts of the country, before the
setting of the sun, chariots and armed
men were seen in the air, passing round
about Jerusalem."
6. "At the subsequent feast of Pentecost,
while the priests were going, by night,
into the inner, temple to perform their
customary ministrations, they first felt, as
they said, a shaking, accompanied by an
indistinct murmuring, and afterwards
voices as of a multitude, saying, in a
distinct and earnest manner,
"LET US DEPART HENCE." "LET US DEPART
HENCE." And accordingly, before the
period for celebrating this feast returned,
the Jewish war had commenced, and in the
space of three years afterwards, Jerusalem
was surrounded by the Roman army, the
temple converted into a citadel, and its
sacred courts streaming with the blood of
human victims.
7. As the last and most fearful omen, Josephus
relates that one Jesus, the son of Ananus, a
rustic of the lower class, during the Feast of
Tabernacles, suddenly exclaimed in the
temple, "A voice from the east a voice from
the west -- a voice from the four winds- a voice
against Jerusalem and the temple -- a voice
against bridegrooms and brides -- a voice
against the whole people !" These words he
incessantly proclaimed aloud both day and
night, through all the
streets of Jerusalem, for seven years and
five months together, commencing at a
time (A. D. 62) when the city was in a state
of peace, and overflowing with prosperity,
and terminating amidst the horrors of the
siege. This disturber, having excited the
attention of the magistracy, was brought
before Albinus the Roman governor, who
commanded that he should be scourged.
But the severest stripes drew from him
neither tears nor supplications.
I Will Restore Saith the Lord
1. Joel 2:25-26—And I will restore or replace for
you the years that the locust has eaten — the
hopping locust, the stripping locust, and the
crawling locust, My great army which I sent
among you. And you shall eat in plenty and be
satisfied and praise the name of the Lord, your
God, Who has dealt wondrously with you. And
My people shall never be put to shame.
2. Zechariah 12.8—In that day the Lord
will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
and the one who is feeble among them in
that day will be like David, and the house
of David will be like God, like the angel of
the Lord before them. "And in that day I
will set about to destroy all the nations
that come against Jerusalem.
"I will pour out on the house of David and on
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace
and of supplication, so that they will look on Me
whom they have pierced; and they will mourn
for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and
they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter
weeping over a firstborn.
3. Ezekiel 36.24-37.
4. Zechariah 9.8-17
Part 2
Notes
The Fourfold Commissioning of Paul
1. Triumphant Eschatology
2. William Branham Prophecy
3. Moses & Elijah
4. Apostolic Hubs
Zechariah 4:10-14
For who has despised the day of small
things? But these seven will be glad
when they see the plumb line in the
hand of Zerubbabel— these are the
eyes of the Lord which range to and
fro throughout the earth.”
11. Then I said to him, “What are
these two olive trees on the right of
the lampstand and on its left?” 12.
And I answered the second time and
said to him, “What are the two olive
branches which are beside the two
golden pipes, which empty the golden
oil from themselves?”
13. So he answered me, saying, “
Do you not know what these are?”
And I said, “No, my lord.” 14. Then
he said, “These are the two
anointed ones who are standing by
the Lord of the whole earth.”
1. In 1867, Mark Twain – Samuel
Clemens, the famous author of
“Huckleberry Finn” and “Tom
Sawyer”, toured the Holy Land. This
is how he described the land:
“There is not a solitary village
throughout its whole extent; not for
thirty miles in either direction…
One may ride ten miles hereabouts
and not see ten human beings …
Nazareth is forlorn… Jericho lies a
mouldering ruin… Bethlehem and
Bethany, in their poverty and
humiliation… untenanted by any
living creature…
… A desolate country whose soil is rich
enough but is given over wholly to
weeds. A silent, mournful expanse. We
never saw a human being on the whole
route. There was hardly a tree or a
shrub anywhere. Even the olive and
the cactus, those fast friends of a
worthless soil, had almost deserted the
country.”[11]
In "A History of the Jews" Paul Johnson
writes on page 321: "Between 1827 and
1839, largely through British efforts, the
population of Jerusalem rose from 550 to
5,500 and in all Palestine it topped 10,000 the real beginning of the Jewish return to
the Promised Land. In 1838 Palmerston
appointed the first western vice-consul in
Jerusalem, W.T. Young, and told him 'to
afford protection to the Jews generally'."
Acts 20:27-29
For I did not shrink from declaring to you
the whole purpose of God. 28 Be on guard
for yourselves and for all the flock, among
which the Holy Spirit has made you
overseers, to shepherd the church of God
which He purchased with His own blood.
29 I know that after my departure savage
wolves will come in among you, not
sparing the flock;
Acts 22:14-16
and he said, ' The God of our fathers
has appointed you to know His will
and to see the Righteous One and to
hear an utterance from His mouth.
'For you will be a witness for Him to
all men of what you have seen and
heard. 'Now why do you delay? Get
up and be baptized, and wash away
your sins, calling on His name.'
A: The Mystery of His Will
1. Ephesians 1:9-10
He made known to us the mystery of
His will, according to His kind intention
which He purposed in Him with a view
to an administration suitable to the
fullness of the times, that is, the
summing up of all things in Christ,
things in the heavens and things on
the earth.
2. 1 Corinthians 2:9-10
but just as it is written, "THINGS
WHICH EYE HAS NOT SEEN AND EAR
HAS NOT HEARD, AND which HAVE
NOT ENTERED THE HEART OF MAN,
ALL THAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR
THOSE WHO LOVE HIM." For to us
God revealed them through the
Spirit; for the Spirit searches all
things, even the depths of God.
B: To See the Righteous One
1. Isaiah 60:5—Then you shall see and
be radiant, and your heart shall thrill
and tremble with joy [at the glorious
deliverance] and be enlarged; because
the abundant wealth of the Sea shall
be turned to you, unto you shall the
nations come with their treasures.
C : Hear Utterances From His Mouth
1. Galatians 1:12—For I neither
received it from man, nor was I
taught it, but I received it through
a revelation of Jesus Christ.
2. Acts 26:16—But get up and stand on your
feet; for this purpose I have appeared to you,
to appoint you a minister and a witness not
only to the things which you have seen, but
also to the things in which I will appear to you;
3. 1 Peter 1:12—It was revealed to them that
they were not serving themselves, but you, in
these things which now have been announced
to you through those who preached the gospel
to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven —
things into which angels long to look.
D : Testify of What’s Seen and Heard—Martus
1. Revelation 1:1-3—The Revelation of Jesus
Christ, which God gave Him to show to His
bond-servants, the things which must soon
take place; and He sent and communicated it
by His angel to His bond-servant John, who
testified to the word of God and to the
testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he
saw.
2. 1 John 1:3-4—What we have seen and heard
we proclaim to you also, so that you too may
have fellowship with us; and indeed our
fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son
Jesus Christ. These things we write, so that our
joy may be made complete.
3. John 3:32-34—What He has seen and heard,
of that He testifies; and no one receives His
testimony. "He who has received His
testimony has set his seal to this, that God is
true.
4. Malachi 2:5-8—True instruction was in
his mouth and unrighteousness was not
found on his lips; he walked with Me in
peace and uprightness, and he turned
many back from iniquity. "For the lips of a
priest should preserve knowledge, and
men should seek instruction from his
mouth; for he is the messenger of the
Lord of hosts.
E: No More Delay—Cooperating with Heaven
1. Revelation 10:5-7—Then the angel whom I saw
standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his
right hand to heaven, and swore by Him who lives
forever and ever, WHO CREATED HEAVEN AND THE
THINGS IN IT, AND THE EARTH AND THE THINGS IN
IT, AND THE SEA AND THE THINGS IN IT, that there
will be delay no longer, 7 but in the days of the voice
of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound,
then the mystery of God is finished, as He preached
to His servants the prophets.
F. Samuel is a Type of This Apostolic
Reformation
1. The Lord let None of His Words Fail.
1 Sam. 3:19-21—Thus Samuel grew and the
Lord was with him and let none of his words
fail.
All Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew
that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the
Lord. 21 And the Lord appeared again at
Shiloh, because the Lord revealed Himself to
Samuel at Shiloh by the word of the Lord.
2. He Did Not Use His Gift for Personal Gain
1 Samuel 12:2-5
Now, here is the king walking before you,
but I am old and gray, and behold my sons
are with you. And I have walked before
you from my youth even to this day.
"Here I am; bear witness against me
before the Lord and His anointed. Whose
ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I
taken, or whom have I defrauded? Whom
have I oppressed, or from whose hand
have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with
it? I will restore it to you." They said, "You
have not defrauded us or oppressed us or
taken anything from any man's hand." He
said to them, "The Lord is witness against
you, and His anointed is witness this day
that you have found nothing in my hand."
And they said, "He is witness."
True Apostolic Doctrine is the Revelation
of Jesus.
Real authority is relational and functional
not by some official document..
Part 3
A. There are Five Doctrines that must the restored
in their proper balance through the Apostolic Hubs:
1. Government and Authority.
A. Jeremiah 1:9-10—Then the Lord stretched out His
hand and touched my mouth, and the Lord said to
me, "Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.
“See, I have appointed you this day over the nations
and over the kingdoms, To pluck up and to break
down, To destroy and to overthrow, To build and to
plant."
B. Contrary to what some may
believe, government and
discipleship are two totally separate
doctrines. Discipleship is intended
to equip leaders.
C. Jeremiah 15:19-21—Therefore, thus says the
Lord, " If you return, then I will restore you — Before
Me you will stand; And if you extract the precious
from the worthless, You will become My spokesman.
They for their part may turn to you, But as for you,
you must not turn to them. "Then I will make you to
this people A fortified wall of bronze; And though
they fight against you, They will not prevail over you;
For I am with you to save you And deliver you,"
declares the Lord. "So I will deliver you from the
hand of the wicked, And I will redeem you from the
grasp of the violent."
2. Discipleship. Producing Instructed Ones in the
Ways of the Kingdom
Isaiah 50:4-5—[The Servant of God says] The
Lord God has given Me the tongue of a disciple
and of one who is taught, that I should know
how to speak a word in season to him who is
weary. He wakens Me morning by morning, He
wakens My ear to hear as a disciple [as one who
is taught]. The Lord God has opened My ear,
and I have not been rebellious or turned
backward.
3. Faith
Galatians 2:20—When the Messiah was
executed on the stake as a criminal, I was too;
so that my proud ego no longer lives. But the
Messiah lives in me, and the life I now live in my
body I live by the same trusting faithfulness that
the Son of God had, who loved me and gave
himself up for me.
4. Kingdom/Dominion Now—Light Vs
Darkness
Matthew 10:7-9—And as you go,
preach, saying, ' The kingdom of
heaven is at hand.' "Heal the sick, raise
the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out
demons. Freely you received, freely
give.
A. Teaches that a perfected, glorified
Bride/Church will usher in the kingdom
of God by exercising dominion while in
the world. To this end, the church must
be placed in order by coming under the
authority of present-day apostles and
prophets. A Spiritual Kingdom.
B. Revelation 5:9-10— And they sang a
new song, saying, " Worthy are You to
take the book and to break its seals; for
You were slain, and purchased for God
with Your blood men from every tribe
and tongue and people and nation. 10
"You have made them to be a kingdom
and priests to our God; and they will
reign upon the earth."
The Kingdom Defined—On Earth as in Heaven
1. Holman New Testament Commentary: God’s
kingdom means his sovereign rule in heaven
and on earth, most particularly in and through
the life of the individual believer. To seek his
kingdom is to seek to ensure that his
righteousness is done in heaven, on earth, and,
most particularly, in and through our lives.
2. Charles Finney: The simple idea of this kingdom is
that Christ himself reigns in the hearts of his people,
securing the perfect submission of the will, and the
consecration of every power to himself. Thus his
kingdom is within; it is invisible. It puts on no outward
glare. In the hearts of men he writes his laws by his
Spirit, and thus rules over them to deliver them from
Satan and sin, and translate them into his own
kingdom of peace and love…The subjects of this
Kingdom are shut up to no particular location. Each in
the sphere where providence has called him to reside
and to his master’s will, may there be truly a member
of this invisible kingdom.
Three Foundational Beliefs for Dominion
1. Satan usurped man's dominion over the earth
through the temptation of Adam and Eve;
2. The Church is God's instrument to take
dominion back from Satan;
3. Jesus cannot or will not return until the
Church has experiences restoration of all things.
Acts 3:21.
Hebrews 10:12-16—But this one, after he had
offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, sat
down at the right hand of God, 13 from then on to
wait until his enemies be made a footstool for his
feet. 14 For by a single offering he has brought to
the goal for all time those who are being set apart
for God and made holy. And the Ruach HaKodesh
too bears witness to us; for after saying, 16 “‘This is
the covenant which I will make with them after
those days,’ says Adonai: ‘I will put my Torah on
their hearts, and write it on their minds .
Five Criticisms of This Biblical Position
1. Neglect of the word.
2. Misuse of the Word.
3. Exaltation of man.
4. Lack of Accountability
5. Neglect of Christ. Placing the
phenomena of God over the Person.
Ephesians 1:22—And He put all
things in subjection under His feet,
and gave Him as head over all
things to the church, which is His
body, the fullness of Him who fills
all in all.
5. Manifestation of the sons of God
A. Romans 8:19-21—For [even the whole] creation (all
nature) waits expectantly and longs earnestly for God's
sons to be made known [waits for the revealing, the
disclosing of their sonship]. For the creation (nature)
was subjected to frailty (to futility, condemned to
frustration), not because of some intentional fault on its
part, but by the will of Him Who so subjected it — [yet]
with the hope That nature (creation) itself will be set
free from its bondage to decay and corruption [and gain
an entrance] into the glorious freedom of God's
children.
B. Matthew 13:37-40—And He said, "The
one who sows the good seed is the Son of
Man, and the field is the world; and as for
the good seed, these are the sons of the
kingdom; and the tares are the sons of the
evil one; 39 and the enemy who sowed
them is the devil, and the harvest is the
end of the age; and the reapers are angels.
B. Quote From Wade Taylor
To the church: whomsoever hears and believes.
To the kingdom; whomsoever overcomes.
To the church the goal is heaven.
To the kingdom the goal is the throne.
The desire of the church is: Jesus abiding within.
The desire of the kingdom is: Jesus taking his place
as the head of the body or government.
The testimony of the church is: I have Jesus.
The testimony of the kingdom is: Jesus has me.
The church operates through: grace.
The kingdom operates under: government.
To enter the church requires: a message of salvation.
To enter the kingdom requires: a message of preparation.
The church functions through: gifting and the fivefold
ministry.
The kingdom functions through: relationship and the
seven spirits of God.
C. We must celebrate the spiritual realities
associated with The Feast of Dedication.
The prophetic truths associated with this
feast must be made real in the church
through the cleansing of the Temple so
that God’s light can dwell with us fully.
John 10:22-24—At that time the Feast of the
Dedication took place at Jerusalem; 23 it was
winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple in
the portico of Solomon.
1. This feast is a post Mosaic festival to
celebrate the cleansing of the temple During
the days of the Maccabees. A statue of Jupiter
have been placed in the holy of holies and
swines blood was offered as sacrifices providing
the ultimate insult to God and the Jewish
nation.
2. Following their military victory there was
a "cleansing of the sanctuary" and the
lighting of the menorah.
1. Christ is the Temple cleanser. (Cleansing)
2. He is the illuminator of the Temple.
(Illumination)
3. It is the feast of dedication. (Dedication)
1 Corinthians 3:16-17—Do you not
know that you are a temple of God and
that the Spirit of God dwells in you? 17
If any man destroys the temple of God,
God will destroy him, for the temple of
God is holy, and that is what you are.
Ephesians 2:19-22—So then you are no longer
strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens
with the saints, and are of God's household, 20
having been built on the foundation of the
apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself
being the corner stone, 21 in whom the whole
building, being fitted together, is growing into a
holy temple in the Lord, 22 in whom you also
are being built together into a dwelling of God
in the Spirit.