FEAST OF DEDICATION

The Feast of Dedication or “Hanukkah” (Hanukkah = “Dedication”) as it is known in the Hebrew is an eight-day feast in remembrance of the re-dedication of our temple. To understand this feast one must begin by understanding the rise of the Greek empire, the abomination of desolation and the courageous acts of our forefathers in defiant resistance to Greek oppression and Hellenization. The events leading up to this feast were foretold in the book of Daniel.

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Daniel 8:8, 21

"8 Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.

21 And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king."