I am wondering if the first 7
days of Hanukkah might correspond to the creation week in
Genesis 1, with the 8th day paralleling of Tabernacles where
there was a great assembly before God in Jerusalem, and the
8th day of a circumcision and naming ceremony, especially if
Jesus was born on the first day of Tabernacles.
A reason I am thinking that
the creation account might specifically apply to us as new
creations is because I believe the account is actually a
re-creation or restoration of the original creation.
Genesis 1:1 points to the original creation and verse 2 shows
something had happened that devastated something in the
original creation. See this from Isaiah 45:
18For this is what the LORD says, He who
created the heavens (He
is the God who formed the
earth and made it,
He established it and did
not create it [s]as
a waste place, but formed it
to be inhabited):
From
Genesis 1:2 God is
recreating or restoring that
devastation. In my
mind this "recreation"
points to us as new
creations in Christ Jesus.
Recreation
starts with God saying "Let
there be light." This
points to us receiving a
revelation of Jesus by the
Holy Spirit. This is
expressed in II Cor 4:6:
"For
God, who said, “Light shall
shine out of darkness,” is
the One who has shone in our
hearts to give the Light of
the knowledge of the glory
of God in the face of
Christ."
What
happened on Day 4 of the
re-creation week?
"17God placed them in the [z]expanse of the
heavens to give light on
the earth, 18and to
govern the day and the
night, and to separate the
light from the darkness;
and God saw that
it was good. 19And
there was evening and
there was morning, a
fourth day."
Light
was separated from
darkness. Might
this be when we, who
are the light of the
world by being in
union with the true
Light of the world, be
separated from the
darkness of this world
system?
That 4th day is the middle of
the first 7 days of Hanukkah if the thinking of Hanukkah
paralleling the re-creation week is valid. That will be
around Dec 13 this year if the sighting of the new moon is
referenced.
The Father points us to the
middle of a week as being a time of possible revealing of
Jesus to a select number of people. Think in terms of
John 7:
14But when it was now the middle of the feast,
Jesus went up into
the temple area, and began
to teach. 15The
Jews then were astonished,
saying, “How has
this man become learned, not having been
educated?” 16So Jesus answered them
and said,
“My teaching is
not My own,
but His who
sent Me.
Also,
if Jesus was
conceived on
Day one of
Hanukkah
(another way
of
understanding
God saying on
day one of
re-creation,
Let there be
light.), then
from that day
the scriptures
show in Luke 1
that Mary went
to see
Elizabeth:
39Now at
this time Mary set out and
went in
a hurry to
the hill country,
to a city of
Judah, 40and
she entered the
house of
Zechariah and
greeted Elizabeth. 41When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting,
the baby leaped in
her womb,
The
Spirit of
Jesus in Mary
was revealed
to Elizabeth
and John the
Baptist within
her.
Mary was
in Nazareth
and she
traveled to
the hill
country in
Judea. I
am speculating
that it would
have taken a
few
days. I
am thinking it
possible this
was the middle
of Hanukkah.
Lastly,
over these
many years of
watching for
Jesus, I have
been struck by
how each of
the Feast
seasons offer
pictures of us
going
home. I
have struggled
to think in
terms of which
one might
finally point
us to the
timing of us
going home.
And,
as I also
become aware
of what it
means for each
of us to be in
union with the
Holy Spirit
and the
extreme of our
identity being
truly only
Jesus Himself:
20I
have been
crucified with
Christ;
and it is no longer I
who live,
but Christ lives in
me; and [t]the life which I
now live in
the flesh I
live by
faith in
the Son of
God,
who loved me
and gave Himself up for
me.
I
am beginning
to see that
Jesus is the
fulfillment of
all feast
types and
shadows.
For example,
of the Feast
of Passover
and of
Unleavened
Bread in I Cor
5:7:
Clean
out the old
leaven so that
you may be a
new lump, just
as you
are in
fact unleavened.
For Christ our
Passover also
has been
sacrificed.
And
also of the
Jubilee, as
another
example seen
in Galatians
5:1:
1It
was for
freedom that
Christ set us
free;
therefore keep
standing firm and
do not be subject again to
a yoke of
slavery.
So,
I am beginning
to think that
because
Hanukkah also
includes all
of the feasts
as we think of
the
development of
a child within
its mother:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=P3ZTycF4an1v-v4x&v=NFITmt3rF-o&feature=youtu.be
that
Hanukkah is the highest watch time for us who are in
union with Jesus and are about to be "birthed" out of this
world system when Jesus calls out to the true Lazarus
(Lazarus being a Greek pronunciation of the Hebrew name
Eliezar, which means "helper", a name given by Jesus to
describe the Holy Spirit) from the place of death and the
rags of our mortal clothing is removed and we are freed in
Jesus' sight. Note in the account of Lazarus being
raised that John puts emphasis on four days. Might
this be a hint of four days into the Hanukkah week?
For
what it is
worth.
God
bless you.
Douglas
Henney
dougsspare@yahoo.com