Messiah in Chanukkah Chapter 19
- Messiah ben Ha-Elohim who does the miraculous works of God the Father
- The Light of the World was conceived at Chanukkah
- The Road to Wisdom
- Messiah is the Tree of Life
Messiah ben Ha-Elohim who does the miraculous works of God the Father:
From this context the reader is drawn into the central meaning of Chanukkah when the Messiah our Righteous One declares that he is the Son of God. This is readily apparent because he does the miraculous works of God the Father. Here we learn that HaMoshia l’chol Adam and the heavenly Father are eternally one. The Father sets His own Seal upon His Son. Due to the sinless nature of the Messiah this Seal is unbreakable. Those who are believers in ben Elohim Chayim possess the unbreakable seal of the true High Priest, the Messiah.
We are saved by God’s grace through placing our trust in His Messiah.
Thereafter our sins are removed (cleansed) from within us and are replaced with the righteousness of the Messiah when we receive the gift of the indwelling Presence of the Spirit of the Holy One.
The Light of the World was conceived at Chanukkah:
The arrival to earth of the Spirit of God cloaked in human form was a conception event.
Announced by Gabriel the Messiah arrived in the *womb of the Jewess Miryam. Like many important life events this incredible conception event was at first largely unnoticed. Throughout Miryam’s pregnancy only a few other persons were aware of the Divine visitation. Ordinary life is like that. Great events occur in peoples’ lives yet they fail to consciously grasp the significance of these Divinely appointed events. The reality is God indwells the temple of every believer. Yet most of Messiah’s followers are unaware of the magnitude of what has been gifted to them.
*Inside the temple.
The Road to Wisdom:
Therefore those who believe in the Messiah Yeshua have received the true light, “which gives light to every person coming into the world;” in him is life and this life is the “light of humankind.”
God deserves our constant full attention. The road to maturity and wisdom requires a high degree of individual determination and effort that comes only by being continuously attentive to the awesome work of grace that lies within us. It is the Messiah who individualizes our sanctification response when he says: “Keep asking, and it will be given you; keep seeking and you will find; keep knocking and [the door] will be open to you.” As the Wisdom of God he has also said: “No man shall lead you, but the Spirit of the Holy One will lead you and guide you into all truth.”
Messiah is the Tree of Life:
True wisdom does not dwell in a process, technique, or methodology; nor is wisdom a commodity that can be acquired through exceptional human experience or intelligence: Wisdom is a person. Messiah is the power of God and the wisdom of God. The golden lamp stand in the temple is prophesied about in Isaiah 11:1-3. Isaiah’s vision of the golden lamp stand describes the temple menorah as being a Living Person. Isaiah describes the Messiah as possessing seven very special characteristics:
ויצא חוטר מגזע ישי ונצר מישרשיו יפרה׃ ונחה עליו רוח ה’ רוח חכמה ובינה רוח עצה וגבורה רוח דעת ויראת ה’׃ והריחו ביראת ה’ ולא־למראה עיניו ישפוט ולא־למשמע׃
“Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, and a branch from his roots will bear fruit. And the Spirit of Adonai will rest on him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and strength, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of Adonai. And he will delight in the fear of Adonai, and he will not judge by what his eyes see, nor make a decision by what his ears hear.”