This year is distinctive and unusual and rare for Hanukkah on The Torah Calendar (Creation Calendar) since it begins on a Shabbat and ends as Shabbat ends. This is an 8 day period. In the Days of Noah there was an 8 day warning for the Noah 8, from Month 2 day 10 to day 17. The Scriptural Shabbat, Sabbath Day of Rest on Day 7, was commanded at Creation. For whom? The first people with bodies,minds, spirits, and souls meant to eternally live. For Adam and Eve. Gentiles. The Shabbat is one of the Ten Commandments written onto stone tablets by Divine Hand. A commandment, an Absolute, Instruction to be done every week. Forever. It is the first of the 7 Feasts of the Lord, read Leviticus. When the wedding vows were given at Mt. Sinai, it was one of the Ten Commandments. For whom? The 12 Tribes people and "the mixed multitude" Gentiles who had left Egypt with them.
  The Messiah has stated "I am master of the Shabbat."  Forever He shall be. He has never broken any of the Ten Commandments. Why would He lead any to break them, to disobey Torah, to be a "worker of iniquity" in any way? The Messiah will use these Ten Commandments, the Absolutes, to render perfect assessment and justice for all who live past the age of accountability. What age? Probably the age of 12 or 13 .Abba Father and His ever living son will use each of these ten, as their criteria. The redeemed for eternity, Jew and Gentile, are to REPENT and OBEY! Find their names written in The Lamb's Book (Scroll) of Life.
  What did Paul mean when he wrote that believers n the Messiah are "not under the law" many times in his letters (epistles)? The Law of Ordinances. The Messiah took this law to His place of execution and left it there. This law concerns the sin debt, the penalty, the wrath which each sinner deserves for not perfectly obeying the Ten Commandments, the heart of the Torah, the Instructions. The Law of Ordinances condemns.This law could not condemn the Messiah, because He never broke any of the Ten Commandments! Paul never meant the Ten Commandments were destroyed. The Messiah will use each of these to perfectly judge each person! Who are the damned? Who are "the workers of iniquity" according to the Messiah? They are those who refuse to REPENT AND OBEY! These are the people who are unrepentant and keep on breaking one or more of the Ten Commandments.
   Look to Isaiah Chapter 66. The future during the 1000 Year Reign of the Messiah will have worship absolutes, monthly and weekly. Every month and every week for 1000 years. The monthly will be the renewing of the moon from darkness to light called The Rosh Chodesh. The weekly will be the Shabbat, the Day 7 of the Scriptural Week, Feast of the Lord #1. Isaiah knew that the Shabbat, the Day 7 Sabbath, is only from Friday at sundown to Saturday at sundown, where someone lives on earth. The Messiah, as the High Priest according to the Order of Melchizedic will lead each and all in His Kingdom in worship. Every 12 Tribes person and EVERY GENTILE! Monthly, weekly, daily.
   Let us look to the time between 321 AD with the Edicts of Constantine and the Council of Laodicea until The Millennial Reign of the Messiah. What did the pagan son god worshiper Roman Emperor Constantine the Great do? He created a clever and very successful RELIGION bait and switch. He realized the danger to his authority and power with the sheer number of converts to faith in Christ. Too many to persecute and kill. What to do? Trick them into joining Constantine's religion. Call your selves Christians, but only under my radically revised terms. The commandments of Constantine, his edicts. Worship the pagan Roman way. Worship sol invictus, with me on his sun god day, the sunday, or die. Deception and trickery. Many unaware of his games and tricks since then. For 1700 years.
   HE DID with Roman pagan religion what Antiochus Epiphanes IV of Syria tried to do from 163 to 160 BCE with Greek religion, bullying the 12 Tribes people of Israel. Worship the pagan Greek sun god apollo or die. Hanukkah stories! Please read my next article " Hanukkah and Tel Aviv: Hanukkah Days from 11-22 to 30, 2019"

With Love and Shalom,
Jean