[Peace-discuss] a Christmas message

[E. Wayne Johnson]

I Maccabees and II Maccabees (apocryphal books to some but included in 
the original King James)
place the feast of dedication (called the festival of lights by Josephus 
Flavius) at 25 Kislev.
which is 14 December 164 BC. 

Hanukkah is mobile relative to the Gregorian calendar.
December 5, 2007
December 22, 2008
December 12, 2009
December 2, 2010
December 21, 2011
December 9, 2012
November 28, 2013
December 17, 2014
December 7, 2015
December 25, 2016
December 13, 2017
December 3, 2018
December 23, 2019

The birth of John the Baptist can be established to have occurred at 
Passover,
which makes sense considering his message which he preached:
"Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world" - John 
1.29, and
"a certain Jew named Apollos, born at Alexandria, an eloquent man, and 
mighty in the scriptures"...
 "spoke and taught accurately enough about Jesus, even though he knew 
only the baptism of John"
-Acts 18.24-28




E. Wayne Johnson wrote:
> Many of those who have studied the Bible at some length begin to 
> understand
> after some time that Jesus was surely not born in December.
>
> All indications are that the birth of Jesus was in September, at the
> feast of tabernacles or Sukkot. (Sukkot also means a cattle shed.)
>
> But what of December 25th? The 25th of Kislev (the winter month) was the
> feast of dedication, the traditional date at which the tabernacle in 
> the wilderness was
> completed in 1312 BC, the traditional date at which Nehemiah dedicated 
> the temple after the
> captivity, the date of the dedication of the new altar in Jerusalem 
> after the Maccabean Revolt,
> a date associated with fire and light, & the most likely date of the 
> Conception. Jesus was born
> in September after a normal gestation length of about 280 days, in a 
> cattle shed, or sukkot.
>
> John 10:22, fol.:
> And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.
>
> And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch. Then came the Jews
> round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt?
> If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.
>
> Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I 
> do in my Father’s name, they bear
> witness of me. But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I
> said unto you. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow
> me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish,
> neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave
> them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my
> Father’s hand. I and my Father are one. Then the Jews took up stones
> again to stone him. Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed
> you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
>
> The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for
> blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. Jesus
> answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If he
> called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture
> cannot be broken; Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and
> sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of
> God? If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do,
> though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and
> believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
>
> Psalm 82
> God stands in the assembly of gods; and in the midst of them will judge
> gods. How long will ye judge unrighteously, and accept the persons of 
> sinners?
> Pause.
> Justify the orphan and poor: do justice to the low and needy. Rescue the
> needy, and deliver the poor out of the hand of the sinner. They know 
> not, nor
> understand;  they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the 
> earth shall be shaken.
>
> I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you children of the Most High. But
> ye die as men, and fall as one of the princes. Arise, O God, judge the 
> earth: for thou
> shalt inherit all nations.
>
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