Messiah in Chanukkah Chapter 17
- All the nations exist under the absolute authority of God
- The Spirit of the Holy One liberates us from the lies that bind us
- The need for an organized resistance
All the nations exist under the absolute authority of God:
Followers of the true Messiah are concerned when society projects itself upon the human populace as if it was a substitute for the truth of the Holy One. Society is not truth. The Word of God is truth. All governments are servants of God and therefore are subject to His authority. All the nations of the world exist under the authority of God. And God has made our Messiah the King of Israel and Melekh HaGoyim—the King of all Nations.
Pronouncement #1. It was the Messiah sent by God who admonished believers to beware of the leaven of the Prushim.
Pronouncement #2. It was the the Messiah who chided the religious and political leaders of his day with, Shabbat was made for man and not man for the Shabbat.
Pronouncement #3. It was the Messiah who warned his Israeli students against following the traditions of men and not the written will of the heavenly Father.
Oppression, therefore, always inevitably results when institutions of all sorts both private and public grant themselves truth-conferring powers; and then begin to oppress people by forcing them to blindly believe in their contrived traditions of men; instead of believing in the will of our heavenly Father.
The Spirit of the Holy One liberates us from the lies that bind us:
True Liberation requires consciousness raising and spiritual illumination.
When people exercise their God-given ability to think critically they can with the help of the Spirit of Truth begin to break free from the oppressive assumptions and beliefs that bind them.
The liberating desire of the Holy Spirit is to free people from the bondage of their unsatisfying, impoverished, oppressive, meaningless, dead-ended life-stories. Like the Chanukkah narrative this requires an “organized resistance.” False oppressive beliefs must first be aggressively opposed by the true liberating doctrine of HaDavar HaShem, the Word of GOD. This can only be accomplished through the convicting ministry of the Holy Spirit. Only then can oppressed persons prevail against Satan’s assaults on the high value that God places on every person. For it is written:
.כי כוה אהב אלוהים את העולם עד כי נתן את בנו יחידו למען לא יאבד כל המאמין בו, אלא ינחל חיי עולם
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
The need for an organized resistance:
Ed HaEmet v’haTzedek (עד האמת והצדק) has said that those who were students in his Word would know the truth and the truth would set them at liberty. HaPalat has also said he has come to set at liberty those who are oppressed.
Moshia HaOlam (מושיע העולם) did not come to load on humanity burdens that are “grievous to bear.” Therefore, the students of Or Ha’Olam, the Light of the World, observe a Chanukkah that spiritually liberates people; not just physically.
Like the Chanukkah story spiritual liberation occurs only after the oppressive governance of sin and idolatry are aggressively overthrown in each individual person’s life. This overthrow of the wolrd’s oppressive nature requires that genuine repentance and faith be exercised in the Messiah as our one true Rabbi, Master, Teacher. Faith in the rule of Messiah is God’s only effective means of permanently overthrowing the reign of the world’s idols.