For many Millennial Christians, we were inundated in public schools with multicultural propaganda, and one area where this is clear is during the Christmas season, where (fake) holidays celebrated by less than 2% of the population, respectively, are given equal footing to Christmas. But this was always unnatural and superimposed.
Outside of the White House, a grotesque menorah was erected to celebrate a foreign and pagan holiday. This is eerily similar, although more temporary, to giant Hindu monkey statues and Islamic prayer calls. After all, these erections are statements against America’s Christian heritage.
It is being asserted by Judaizers that Hanukkah is a Christian holiday also because Jesus celebrated it. Did He, though?
At that time the Feast of the Dedication took place at Jerusalem; it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple in the portico of Solomon. The Jews then gathered around Him, and were saying to Him, “How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.” Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father’s name, these testify of Me. But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep. My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.”
The Jews picked up stones again to stone Him. Jesus answered them, “I showed you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you stoning Me?” The Jews answered Him, “For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself out to be God.” Jesus answered them, “Has it not been written in your Law, ‘I said, you are gods’? If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), do you say of Him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father.” Therefore they were seeking again to seize Him, and He eluded their grasp.
John 10:22-39
Judaizers will rebut that Jesus celebrated Hanukkah. However, the Bible tells a different story. Jesus is not seen celebrating here. Instead, He is being a bit of a provocateur. It reads far more like Christ is infiltrating. He asserts His deity, and the Hanukkah celebraters want to stone him for it.
So, what does this tell us? It tells us Christ was not with His sheep during Hanukkah. It shows us Christ skirmishing with His enemies. Compare John 10 to the triumphal entry in John 12, where Christ has a welcoming entourage rather than a rabbinical mob, to celebrate the Passover, a holiday He and the other faithful did celebrate. It’s a completely different crowd, one that the Sanhedrin could not come against Jesus publicly, so they conspired to do it at night.
To use John 10 as a prooftext for Christians to celebrate Hanukkah ignores the hostile environment Christ ventured into.
Moreover, the purpose of Hanukkah has been aborated from its original intent as their is no temple to celebrate the rededication. As JD Hall points out, the oil miracle shows up centuries later in the Babylonian Talmud (Shabbat 21b), compiled roughly 600 to 700 years after the events, as the first reference.
The temple was destroyed, in an event Christ prophesied and providentially orchestrated. Therefore, it is not only nonsensical for Christians to celebrate, it is also rudderless for Jews to celebrate. So the Talmud made up new lore to beef up a celebration to be more than a Jewish Cinco De Mayo.
So what business have Christians with nonexistent oil miracles? None, whatsoever. But nevertheless, a crop of false teachers have arose to Judaize the church, and many of them overtly deny Christ’s divinity. A few prominent examples include Brandon Tatum and Bryson Gray. Thus, Christians best be aware of the threat of the modern Judaizer, and where it ultimately leads.
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