563 Dedication

 

B’resheet 18:1-2

 

SYNOPSIS: PAY now or PAY later. The choice is yours. WWIII is on the doorstep.

 

SECTION 1: WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF MY ALTAR? What does this Gen 18:2  He raised his eyes and looked, and there in front of him stood three men. On seeing them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, prostrated himself on the ground,…this Joh 14:23…we will come to him and make our home with him…. This Joh 14:26…is, he will remind you of everything I have said to you….This Ecc 12:7  the dust returns to earth, as it was, and the spirit returns to God, who gave it! This…1Co 3:16  Don't you know that you people are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? Have to do with Chanukah?

SECTION 2: UNDERSTANDING THE DEDICATED ALTAR. This object makes the temple His home. Without an altar that is dedicated properly it is just another building. It may be pretty but without HIM partaking of the meal it is just that a building. #1 Altar of Salvation & Thanksgiving, #2 Altar of Promises and Separation. #3 Altar of Inheritance and Trust. #4 Altar of Victory over God’s enemies. #5 The Altar that overcomes death the altar of eternity

SECTION 3:THE HOUSE GET DEDICATED.  The second time we see the word dedicated it is referring to the house of Yehovah. The house had to be rededicated. Why does something have to be re-dedicated if it had already been dedicated? Section three will draw a deep parallel between what Ezra said and Father I sinned against heaven and against you.

SECTION 4: THE DEDICATED WALLS OF SEPARATION. There has to be a difference between those who follow Yehovah and those who don’t. If we look at many church people and sadly many Messianic’s we will not really see the difference in most people’s lives. If the spirit is going to return shouldn’t it be different? In Section 4 of dedication we will complete our understanding in how Yehovah wants this wall of separation. 

 

 

B’resheet 18:1-2 The three that are called Yehovah and that Avraham bows down to

Gen 18:1  Adonai appeared to Avraham by the oaks of Mamre as he sat at the entrance to the tent during the heat of the day.

Gen 18:2  He raised his eyes and looked, and there in front of him stood three men. On seeing them, he ran from the tent door to meet them, prostrated himself on the ground,

 

Yochanan 14:23-26 we will come to remind you

Joh 14:23  Yeshua answered him, "If someone loves me, he will keep my word; and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

 

Joh 14:26  But the Counselor, the Ruach HaKodesh, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything; that is, he will remind you of everything I have said to you.

 

The greek word is G3875 παράκλητος paraklētos Thayer Definition: 1) summoned, called to one’s side, especially called to one’s aid 2) one who pleads another’s cause before a judge, a pleader, counsel for defense, legal assistant, an advocate

 

Jewish history during those four centuries between the Testaments runs in six periods: 

Medo-Persian 536 - 333 B.Y with Cyrus Babylon,

Greek 333 - 323 B.Y Alexander the Great

Egyptian 323 - 204 B.Y under alexander,

Syrian 204 - 165 B.Y. When Ptolemy Philopater (fourth Ptolemy) died, his successor, Ptolemy Epiphanes, Antiochus Epiphanes (175-164 B.Y.) a "reign of terror" fell upon the Jews
Maccabean 165-63 B.Y.

Roman 63 B.Y. onward the true Hellenistic period

 

Hellenism -devotion to or imitation of ancient Greek thought, customs, or styles, :  a body of humanistic and classical ideals associated with ancient Greece and including reason, the pursuit of knowledge and the arts, moderation, civic responsibility, and bodily development

 

Joh 14:26

 

Ecc 12:7  the dust returns to earth, as it was, and the spirit returns to God, who gave it!

 

1 Cor. 3:16-17 You are the defiled temple now fix it

1Co 3:16  Don't you know that you people are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? 1Co 3:17  So if anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him. For God's temple is holy, and you yourselves are that temple.

 

1 Maccabees:1:20-24 (Persecution of the Jews)

20 After subduing Egypt, Antiochus returned in the one hundred forty-third year. He went up against Israel and came to Jerusalem with a strong force. 21 He arrogantly entered the sanctuary and took the golden altar, the lampstand for the light, and all its utensils. 22 He took also the table for the bread of the Presence, the cups for drink offerings, the bowls, the golden censers, the curtain, the crowns, and the gold decoration on the front of the temple; he stripped it all off. 23 He took the silver and the gold, and the costly vessels; he took also the hidden treasures that he found. 24 Taking them all, he went into his own land. He shed much blood, and spoke with great arrogance

 

1 Maccabees:1:54

54 Now on the fifteenth day of Chislev, in the one hundred forty-fifth year, they erected a desolating sacrilege on the altar of burnt offering.

1 Cor. 3:16-17

 

1 Maccabees:1:54

 

SECTION 2: UNDERSTANDING THE DEDICATED ALTAR.

 

2 Chronicles 7:1-9 The house is not consecrated until the dedication of the altar

Key V

2Ch 7:9  On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, having observed the dedication of the altar for seven days and the festival for seven days.

 

HOLD PLACE

 

Mattiyahu 23:27-28

Mat 23:27  "Woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers and P'rushim! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look fine on the outside but inside are full of dead people's bones and all kinds of rottenness.

Mat 23:28  Likewise, you appear to people from the outside to be good and honest, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and far from Torah.

 

2Ch 7:1  When Shlomo had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of Adonai filled the house,

 

HOLD PLACE

 

B’resheet 18:4-8

Key V;Gen 18:8  Then he took curds, milk and the calf which he had prepared, and set it all before the men; and he stood by them under the tree as they ate.

 

2Ch 7:1  When Shlomo had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of Adonai filled the house,

 

B’resheet 8:18-21 The Altar of Salvation

Key V; Gen 8:20  Noach built an altar to Adonai. Then he took from every clean animal and every clean bird, and he offered burnt offerings on the altar.

 

B’resheet 12:1-7  The Altar of Promises & Separation

Key V Gen 12:7  Adonai appeared to Avram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." So he built an altar there to Adonai, who had appeared to him.

 

Gen 12:1

 

B’resheet 22:1-14 The Altar of Inheritance & Trust

Key V: Gen 22:9  They came to the place God had told him about; and Avraham built the altar there, set the wood in order, bound Yitz'chak his son and laid him on the altar, on the wood.

 

Gen 22:1-2

Gen 22:3 

Gen 22:12 

 

Sh’mot 17:10-16 The Altar that is Yehovah Nissi The Banner over us is His victory

Key V: Exo 17:15  Moshe built an altar, called it Adonai Nissi [Adonai is my banner/miracle], Exo 17:16  and said, "Because their hand was against the throne of Yah, Adonai will fight `Amalek generation after generation.

 

Mattiyahu 27:42-50 The Altar that overcomes death the altar of eternity

Key V: Mat 27:42  "He saved others, but he can't save himself!" "So he's King of Isra'el, is he? Let him come down now from the stake! Then we'll believe him!"

 

Dedication Chanukah is about the Altar of

#1 Altar of Salvation & Thanksgiving

#2 Altar of Promises and Separation

#3 Altar of Inheritance and Trust

#4 Altar of Victory over God’s enemies

#5 The Altar that overcomes death the altar of eternity

 

SECTION 3:THE HOUSE GET DEDICATED.  

 

Ezra 6:1-22 Coming Home a dedicating the house back to our King

This is the second reference of dedication

Ezr 6:16  The people of Isra'el, the cohanim, the L'vi'im and the other people from the exile joyfully dedicated this house of God.

 

This is the key v: Ezr 6:21  The people of Isra'el who had returned from the exile and all those who had renounced the filthy practices of the nations living in the land in order to seek Adonai the God of Isra'el, ate [the Pesach lamb]

 

Ezr 6:21 

Ezr 6:3 

Ezr 6:8-10

 

Luke 15:10-32 The prodigal son comes back not for just food but for Chanukah

Luk 15:12  The younger of them said to his father, 'Father, give me the share of the estate that will be mine.' So the father divided the property between them.

Luk 15:13  As soon as he could convert his share into cash, the younger son left home and went off to a distant country, where he squandered his money in reckless living.

Luk 15:14 

Luk 15:17-18

Luk 15:10 

 

SECTION 4: THE DEDICATED WALLS OF SEPARATION.

 

Nehemiah 12:24-27 The wall that separates the worshippers from the pagans, the wall of dedication

Key v: Neh 12:27  At the dedication of the wall of Yerushalayim, they sought out the L'vi'im from wherever they had settled to bring them to Yerushalayim and celebrate the dedication with hymns of thanksgiving and with songs accompanied by cymbals, lutes and lyres.

 

1 Cor. 3:16-17

 

Personal Altar

#1 Altar of Salvation & Thanksgiving

#2 Altar of Promises and Separation

#3 Altar of Inheritance and Trust

#4 Altar of Victory over God’s enemies

#5 The Altar that overcomes death the altar of eternity

 

Personal House

#1 rededicate the home that was over run by the pagan

#2 realize that you can come home if you Teshuvah

#3 you are the house of Elohim

 

Personal Walls

#1 you have the walls of separation up

#2 sing His praises in spirit and truth

 

Amein & Amein!!!

 

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