Happy Hanukkah – Light Prevails over Darkness
Hanukkah – The Festival of Lights - While Hanukkah is not one of the official Feasts of the Lord – It does commemorate a Miracle, a supernatural act of God to re-dedicate, restore and cleanse His temple. I share it here because it can reveal God’s power over the ‘spirit of the age’ for the times we are living in. By looking back at this supernatural intervention of God to keep the lights burning in the Holy Temple, He confronted and overcame a wicked ‘Madman’ who was determined to destroy God’s people and desecrate the dwelling place of the Living God. Think of this, today there is no earthly temple in Jerusalem, Scripture says, your body is his temple. So if He was to restore the temple today that illumination and restoration would take place within you. We can find a parallel to Hanukkah the Festival of the Lamps in Matthew 24 - Jesus tells a story about 10 virgins, the one thing that separates the foolish virgins from the wise was having enough oil to keep the lamps to stay b