We have talked in the past about all the evidence that Yeshua was born around the time frame of Sukkot.  It was recently even discussed how the birth of the man-child happens in the Sukkot time frame and how Revelation 12 might suggest this symbolism.
 
Backtrack 9 months from Sukkot, and you get into what could be Hanukah time.  Now the leap -month issue has to work out just right for it to happen that way, but it can happen that way.
 
Stop and think of how fitting these two holidays are.........
 
On Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) God commanded Israel to leave their nice homes and go live in a shack for 8 days.
Yeshua left His heavenly home and came to live on earth.  So Sukkot is a very fitting time frame to celebrate His birth!!!!!!  It parallels the sacrfice He made for us by just coming to earth so perfectly!!!!!
 
And concieved at Hanukah!!!  Again....so poetically perfect.  For Hanukah is all about the dedication of the temple, and Miriam (Mary) dedicated the temple of her flesh when she told the angel, "Behold, the handmaiden of the L-RD.  May it be done to me according to your word" (Luke 1:38)  She did here what Hanukah was about...she dedicated the temple of her body to the service of God's work.  She knew most of the world around her would not believe her story - "a child without a man????  Ah....you're lieing.  We all know that doesn't happen."  But she agreed to take the shame of those misunderstandings to dedicate her body to God's service.
 
How poetically perfectly is the way God times things!
 
So while Dec 25th may have been originally chosen to coincide with the annual celebration of the re-birth of hte sun-god, the Church may have struck home a little closer than they realized, since the 25th of Kislev , which is about the same time, may have been when He was actually concieved!
 
Shalom,
 
Yoseph Viel
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