Chanukah, Christmas, and the Power of Light | Asher Intrater

so this year we

have Christmas and kanuka the same time

so how are we not going to talk about a

little bit we'll talk about a little bit

the light of God coming into the world

which is the common theme of both of

them maybe give a little bit of

background both to uh Christmas and

kanuka so let's start how not in

um Genesis chapter

1 vers 1-4

says in the beginning God created the

heavens and the Earth and the Earth was

formless and void and darkness was over

the face of the deep notice

immediately in the first couple of

verses of the Bible of Genesis that

there's a a conflict between Darkness

and Light it's amazing skip out to the

next verse coming

and God said let there be light and

there was light and God saw that the

light was good and God separated between

the light and the Darkness so we've got

four times it says light and three times

it says Darkness says the light is good

and the Darkness is bad so you see right

at the beginning at the very beginning

of the Bible there's a conflict between

and or contrast contrast I would say

physically between light light and

darkness and a conflict between good and

bad the the spiritual part of light is

in a conflict with the spiritual part of

darkness in the natural physical world

there's just a uh a contrast between the

two um it's amazing to think that um

that this is how that God created the

world by using the power of

light um I we don't know what people

thought for most of the past

6,000 years until Einstein came and he

and he said that that energy is equal to

mass times the speed of light I mean it

it's it's that what we think is physical

is actually you can convert between mass

and light I mean it's who would have

thought of that you think energy being

the power of the Holy Spirit the dunamis

of the Holy Spirit Light being light and

mass is being everything that was

created I mean Einstein said that all

goes together I don't know what people

thought I mean until this time you read

those vers said well I believe but now

it's it's physically totally obvious now

it what it means is also that what we

what looks to be physical is not as

physical as you think it is because mass

is really just converted energy if if as

I understand the physics and I don't

understand it that all the physical

world is actually very tiny tiny

particles that are moving very very

quickly and so it gives sort of an

illusion that it's Mass but it's not

really it's tiny little articles

particles that are moving so quickly

that it it uh but really there's so much

space between them it's kind of like if

you look at the solar system if you

would look at the solar system far away

it would look like one Mass but when you

get up close there's there's light years

of distance between the planets and

everything as I understand if you were

to take all the matter in the world and

collapse it down so that there would be

no space between it at all just matter

matter matter you could put all the

matter in the universe basically in your

hands now it would weigh you know trilli

beyond what we could imagine that it

could but really the mass you mean the

Bible says that God held the mass of the

universe in his hand before he created

it now think of this and then he and

then it he multiplied it by light so

what we think of is just mass is not

really mass is convertible into light

and back and forth incredible I was

thinking that the example of of a

hologram not not what we have as a

hologram but if you had a super hologram

that was actually really

three-dimensional where you could see a

figure that was made of light particles

and you you could make a picture out of

light almost like a you know 3D printing

but if you could see that you could

actually see a figure there would there

would be a figure made out of light it

would be real you could actually walk

right through

it it doesn't mean it wouldn't be there

but that's what the world is the world

is kind of God's light hologram amazing

and if you understood it like Yeshua you

could walk right through the wall just

like you could walk through a hologram

we don't understand it you know by the

way I know this don't get offended all

of us we all talk about supernatural

that world's not in the Bible not one

time that I'm aware of what I think that

we what our understanding of the world

is subnatural what you think of as

Miracles is just being natural it's not

Supernatural That's just being natural

the the to think the natural world is is

something not under our control is

subnatural know what I'm saying so if we

were to understand how things work so

the whole world is like that so it's

kind of a a hologram now if you were to

make a hologram light particles forming

a being that you could walk through and

walk out now if you would look at that

say I'm looking at a hologram here and

uh then I'd have to ask the question

where did that hologram come from if

there's hologram here there must be

somebody sitting somewhere else this

hologram didn't get here by itself

there's somebody somewhere else that

designed the Hologram and is shooting

the picture of this hologram into here

so when we look at the universe it's

it's a hologram according to Genesis 1

and Einstein physics and you look at

this well it didn't couldn't get there

by itself who where's the guy or where's

the thing that made that got that put

this hologram into place and if you

realize that's what matter is it can

matter can convert back and forth into

energy and the energy is light come on

that's in the Bible it's the first verse

of the Bible so it says the light comes

in and out and um and when you realize

it all matters that way so maybe you

could walk through a hologram now let's

think of the air around us I mean

there's this is not Hollow front of us

there's air right there's particles in

the air around us but you can walk

through it because it doesn't mean

there's not particles there there's

particles there it's created and it's

got light in it there's light and what

else is in the air around us one of the

things is is water there water now you

could have in the air right now if it's

a dry day 10% humidity you go wet day

you got 90% humidity you can have more

or less water in the air but you can

still walk through it you know what I'm

saying now if it gets more than that you

could actually have a cloud and if you

got more than that you have water and

then the water could come come down I

mean it's it's but it's all just

different forms of light and energy and

so just as if you understood it I mean

how can you even walk on Solid Ground I

mean if you could see what was there you

would be terrified I don't know how we

all sit on a plane you know I was

thinking the last time I flew on a plane

I was sitting there and it was kind of

windy outside we're up in the there the

plane is kind of shaking I'm thinking

between me and being 30,000 you know

feet above the ground is this thin tin

can that I could probably punch through

it if I hit it or not I said why am I

trusting that I could sit here because

cuz really but if if IID understand

Yeshua could have just walked right

through the plane and just kept walking

you could understand the physics of

what's going on so if you walk on hard

land it's just it's just particles

spinning around and you walk on water

it's particles spinning around a little

faster a little wider and then you could

walk on air and a cloud and think about

Yeshua he could walk through a wall he

could walk on top of the water he could

rise up in a cloud and and he looked at

him and said you guys don't even

understand this I'm like this is ABC why

aren't you all doing this you're going

what because we don't understand if we

could see what was really what nature

was made up it's it's amazing so um so

this is the world we live in and we look

at this world and a lot of the world is

a play on light and darkness and there

must have been somebody that made this

light now a lot of Bible commentaries

both Jewish and Christian have noticed

the fact that the sun wasn't created

till the fourth day and light created

the universe on the first day which

means the light of the first day wasn't

just the light of the sun it was before

the sun it was and you can look at that

in two ways mystically both in Mystic

Christianity and Mystic Judaism it's

kind of like Zohar it's kind of seen as

this Divine Light spiritual light um but

even just in the plain sense of the text

it's the it's the original Power that

just of the big bang that blasted the

energy out into the world so you could

see in all that levels now so

after a while the prophets were

obviously thinking about that and that

one of the great prophets of course is

Isaiah and that was going to bounce us

all the way up into the Christmas story

I hadn't forgot about it and Hanukkah so

let's go up to uh Isaiah chapter

9 and this is um it's verse one in the

Hebrew and two in the English it's a

little different right and Isaiah is

thinking about this and he's realizing

that the light of

creation was

something

spiritual and something moral good and

bad so he says this

the it says the people that were living

in darkness they saw a great light and

the people living in the land of the

shadow of death that's Shadow is

darkness that a great a light shown upon

them so he's saying that light that

contrast of good and bad light and dark

that's way the in the back in in in in

the beginning he's saying first of all

there's something spiritual and he said

at some point that's going to appear to

Mankind in a different way that we

haven't understood he said that what

we've you can read Genesis 1 I mean this

was before Einstein when but he said

sometime this light is we we as a human

beings we are living in darkness all of

us as human beings we are living living

in spiritual darkness and at some point

this spiritual light is going to come in

and shine upon

us what an amazing thing and then he

says I think now what is this

light what is that light was from

Genesis but not just the light of the

Sun but a spiritual light that comes

with it that represents it between good

and bad what is

it and he's praying when he gets a

vision he understands it's not a what

it's not a what it's a

who it's not a what it's a who the light

is coming from the guy that made the

light and would you ask that you're

thinking of what because we're still

thinking of neutral energy this there is

no such thing as neutral energy it's all

personal and God he said that light when

it comes to us is not going to be like

just the sun shining it's going to be

born into us like a baby come on whoever

had that thought I think Isaiah was the

first person to have that thought pretty

deep thought huh that's what is verse um

what is it it's it's five in Hebrew six

in English and says

this for now let's just make the

connection he said the people living in

darkness are going to see a light what

is the light no who is the light they're

going to see a light

because a child will be given will be

born he says for a child will be born to

us and a son will be given to us and on

and uh the government will be on his

shoulders and he and his name will be

called a wonderful counselor Mighty God

Everlasting father the Prince of Peace

amazing so the light is going to come

into this world in a

baby and you think why didn't God just

bring the light only like a um like the

pillar of fire in the wilderness that's

what the people weren't ready to see the

real light they had get was halfway you

know he was like well I wish I could

have seen that pillar no no no no this

is better the B well why did he bring it

as a baby why didn't he just come down

from heaven riding on a right

horse well that's a stupid question God

likes

babies God likes babies

but why does he want to have his light

come into the world coming down as an

adult he wants to see a baby God likes

babies that's his idea not yours you

know we could bring a Le oror because

God likes babies why does he so he's

going to bring his eternal light that

created the world he's going to bring it

into this world in the form of a baby

now come on only God could think of that

one huh that's pretty astounding so he's

going to bring the light now this light

because uh we're still influenced as

much much as we are believers we're

still influenced by kind of naturalism

materialism and we think that energy is

neutral there's got no no qualities to

it but power in the Bible is personal

the light has the character qualities of

that child in

it the child has the character quality

of of God in it it's it's not just its

energy but it's energy with love

and its energy with generosity and its

energy with Holiness and with humility

and with all the all the wonderful

qualities of God are in that light power

that's in it it's not neutral physical

light or even neutral spiritual light it

is personal of the light the character

the qu the character qual qualities of

an all powerful and loving God I mean

all the young people want to have

positive energy this is the most

positive energy you get you could get

it's so positive that it's pure it's so

pure that it's holy and it's loving and

it's generous and it's patient and it's

humble and it's confit in a baby I mean

this is this is God's light his light it

has energy in it I mean it's amazing

think the energy that created the whole

universe is in that baby and from God's

point of view think about the big bang

with all the materialist out there how

much energy to create that how to be out

there energy time mass times speed of

light squar I mean that's enormous

amount of energy enormous amount of

energy but to God that's smaller than

the characteristic of love that's in the

child I mean that to God that's stronger

I mean all that power he's all

powerful but what's impressing him is

the love the love that's in that baby

wow now we

because our people have been turned away

from the Lord we want

we get sensitive about this word Ben the

Son of God well here it is a child is

born to us a son is

given who who is this child this isn't

any child it's it's the child who's also

called The Mighty God and the

Everlasting father and wonderful and

counselor and Prince of Peace and Men

this is the child so we don't have

anything to be afraid about saying the

word the Son of God here it is among

many places in Isaiah 9 a child is given

to us a son is Born To Us

and the government of the king that's

the that's the Messiah the government

will be upon him now we'll come back to

that in a moment uh let's jump back and

do a little bit of background

to kanuka and Christmas here uh don't

get offended I'm going to but what I say

here just but kanuka is taken there's

actually two totally different stories

in hanuka one is the story of the makabe

conquest and the other one is the story

of the the Min the kanuk in the temple

and they're to totally two different

stories the story about the mabes is

historically in the book of mccabes

which is between what we call the law

and the prophets and the New Covenant

between the Old Testament and the New

Testament uh Catholics actually see that

as part of the Bible uh we Jews and

Protestants don't see that as it's an

inner testamental book um and it's a

historical book we'll come that to

minute then there's another part this

thing about the lighting of the lamp in

the eight days that's all the way in the

gar that wasn't that wasn't written till

400 years after the time of the New

Covenant and it's only in one place in

other words the the the textual support

that that even happened is pretty weak

now that doesn't have to bother us uh

because it's talking about lighting the

manora in the temple and that's got

hundreds of references to the whole

Bible so we we believe in the

restoration we believe in the meaning of

the in the

temple whether the kanuk the Min is the

Seven Candle the kukia is the eight and

the

nine candled one and that the reason why

there's eight days to kanuka is because

it's sukot huh did you know that kanuka

was sukot kanuka was got when the temple

was in the and the Tabernacle was

dedicated was an 8-day ceremony from the

eight days that's according to the8 days

of of sukot that's when it was dedicated

now when they when they conquered

according the story when they conquered

the temple it was already past the time

so they took another 8 days in Kev to to

uh to cleanse the temple and to and and

so they had to take another eight days

um and Define it and it wasn't they

didn't have oil they didn't have oil

that was sealed by the priest it wasn't

there wasn't any oil in the city they

didn't have they didn't have oil with

Aim so it wasn't it wasn't pure from

from the from the temple Viewpoint so

anyway that story did it really happen I

could see yes or no it could be a later

invention to kind of compete with

Christmas I don't know whatever it is it

but in any case it doesn't matter why do

I say it doesn't matter because we we

believe in the spiritual meaning of the

of the manur that this baby is the light

and then he comes to light the manur and

we see that in Revelation chap 1 big

surprise it says it's clear no mystery

it says clear the manora is the Ecclesia

the manora in the temple is a symbol of

the Ecclesia this the branches are the

different people groups and it's being

lit by the high priest the high priest

is the is is Yeshua he lights a

different people in congregations and

people of Faith all around the world he

brings the light into the world and then

he lights us up so that we become

together Jews and people from all the

nations that believe in him we become a

living minora of the light of God

hallelujah so that's what we're we're

here to do now the

mccabes and let's go back to that story

macbes was basically

uh um a group of ultra Orthodox Jews who

conquered uh the Greeks the Greek Empire

at that time and reconquered the Temple

Mount Hallelujah let's eat donuts you

know to celebrate but

um listen the political implications of

this holiday in our generation

are pretty crazy I mean do we believe in

that do we believe do we want a group of

ultra Orthodox Jews going now and taking

an army and burning down the eloa mosque

and and and taking a building up a

temple and doing that well at some point

that's going to happen but I don't know

that that's what we're going to say well

we want that to happen right now I mean

that could that could cause a lot of

problems I'm saying that's basically

what they did so but then after they set

that up they like they became a corrupt

priesthood in the government themselves

and they had to be destroyed but what I

realized and that's why it the in the

new in the New Covenant it recognizes in

John 10 recognizes that this was a

holiday it doesn't it doesn't criticize

it but doesn't really bless it it's just

this is something that happened there in

other words I interpret that to mean

were good things and bad things that

happened in that 200-year period of the

mcabe story now here's something else

now this is my interpretation of it that

had to happen the story of the mccabes

had to happen before you get to the

birth of Yeshua why the mabes were a

Messianic movement not not in the sense

that we mean Messianic Messianic in the

in the terms of ultra Orthodox militant

conquer kill the Romans kill the kill

the kill the Greeks up the temple have a

halic state you know and and that had to

happen because God is preparing the

people for the coming of the Messiah

Yeshua so intuitively to every person

there's an expectation of the Messiah

coming now because because we understand

that the Messiah had to come first as a

baby and to suffer the the the

expectations of the coming of the

Messiah was correct the expectation that

he would be a conqueror and set up the

Kingdom by driving out the Greeks and

Romans at that time was wrong but it had

to happen because the people wouldn't

have been ready for the king to come so

it built the faith of the expectation of

the Messiah am I going too fast you're

with it built the expectations of the

coming of the Messiah in a good way but

it also let to led to a conflict that

the people were were such a high level

of expecting a

militant uh Messiah at that time that

Yeshua coming on dying on the cross was

a scandal to them so they but so it had

to happen yet it was also doomed to half

of a failure half success and half

failure I was thinking about

that I think

that kind of a makabe generation has to

happen again in the generation before

Yeshua coming the second time because

the ex the the expectations of the

coming of the Messianic Kingdom have to

be built up both in Israel and around

the world again in other words this

holiday is having a meaning not just uh

of 2,200 years ago but now it's starting

to have meaning now in our country

because for and it's going to cause a

problem it's good and bad but it's

unavoidable there has to be a movement

of building up expectations in our

country and in the rest of the nations

of the world for Yeshua to be able to

come back he comes back to a Messianic

apocalyptic expectations now the funny

thing is this time he's not coming back

to disappoint he is coming back to

conquer he's not coming as a baby he's

coming back as a conquering King from

the heaven it's almost like what the

macbes were sort of wishing that would

happen the lion of the tribe of Judah is

going to come and that's what they

wanted to happen 2,000 years ago and it

didn't happen and they were freaked out

was this a baby you know is that a

crucified baby come on what this isn't

what we were expecting but now

he's going to come back and it will be a

conquering King now here there's of

course also for our people there's going

to be a

huge disappointment frustration surprise

because when he comes it's going to be

issue I mean what what what who was

expecting that to happen but the Bible

says when he come it says that the that

the tribe of Judah will be fighting for

Jerusalem fighting for God being heroic

amazing and then and then when he's

going to come and he's say what you're

the one we pierced and there's going to

be this incredible contrast and this

time fighting with Yeshua and then

surpris that it is Yeshua amazing story

so we're doing a kind of makabe 2.0 you

know it's coming in so there'll be

tremendous um positive buildup but then

also a total surprise when Yeshua comes

back now it's going to be a surprise

also for the Christian world who are

still stuck back there 2,000 years ago

with that little baby in the m you know

that's not going to happen it's not

going to happen he's not going to come

back that way so everybody's going to

surprised we're all going to be wrong

you know but but but God is moving us

toward this event for the Messianic

Kingdom to

come and now what's

happened over this past 14 months since

since October 7th last year you know we

went through that one week of horrible

really one day of horribly being

slaughtered by by Kamas but really after

that day our army has been unbelievable

I mean just victory after Victory after

Victory after Victory after Victory

after all this time we get to it 15

months later you know a week before

kanuka and a week before

Christmas

and everybody's gone Hamas is gone kbal

is gone Assad is gone Iran has been

destroyed the H well they get on the two

days they'll get wiped out but they I

mean it's oh like Hey we're standing on

our feet and the rest of the world is

capping Israel has become in this one

year the single superpower of the Middle

East this is shocking fact our people

haven't even gotten it yet we're like

wait a minute what's happening you know

what what's what's going on here we

don't we we don't we don't even know how

to deal with it yet we don't know how to

deal with the fact that we are the

superpower of the Middle

East you know I mean we're getting the

point that the United States wants to

attack somebody here they got to come

and ask us how to do it I'm not being

sarcastic about that but I'm saying is

that it's something Supernatural

biblical because God was saying in the

end times I'm going to make Israel so

strong that all the rest of the world is

going to look at him and say well this

must be God this must be God it's going

on and God is doing that now another

thing that happened during this is

that the

ideology of a of classic secular Zionist

loving you know kutnik people their

motivation has been going down and

what's been happening is little by

little the the

Umi the nationalistic religious are

becoming more into the front line of the

army along with another group of people

who are the messianics the messianics

and the because we have an ideology to

to have faith to be able to to keep

fighting and to and and to win this

thing and this is and what's happening

now is this group has risen up now the

blessing on the messianics has been that

not only they fighting in the front line

almost nobody's gotten killed we've had

one or two instances and one or two in

of people but the the numbers the the

It's Supernatural God's protection on

our children has been amazing totally

Supernatural and among the ultra and

among the the

nationalistic uh

religious the number of people that have

been killed and injured is

proportionally percentage wise you know

I don't know five six seven times the

rest of the population because they're

the one fighting there the only one

fighting now at really the highest level

of motivation because it's too difficult

now you need some kind of spiritual

Faith to stand against all the evil and

so it and this is coming forward so the

messianics are in that and but people

don't know about us but then the the

National Religious it's kind of like the

makabe story is arising and so the

people people that believe in this type

of makabe story are saying yeah it's

happening we're and we are we are the

new mcabe the whole the whole of course

I'm oversimplifying but but it's much

more complex than that but basically

speaking the Nationalist the Dau me the

National Religious see themselves as the

they are the new mabes we're coming

forward and the people that used to see

them the mabes themselves as the mabes

up until 2 3 years ago which was the the

basically the secular leftwing Army who

have incredible bravery they're they're

feeling disenfranchised from that I me

even at the point of saying we're

wondering maybe we shouldn't even

celebrate Kano this is they're seeing

the political implications of it it's

incredible so here we have this now just

want to make uh we'll get to a moment

when we say walking through the darkness

let's look at that and all right now

this uh child is born to us God brings

his light into the world and this child

is the center of

everything he is the he's from even he's

he was the center of God speaking and

saying let there be light now if you

follow this story particularly in the

book of Isaiah it's so beautiful well

we're not going to study the whole thing

but let me just give you kind of a

snapshot of it so this

baby carries the light and he is the one

who will be the Messianic King with the

government on

him all right right what kind of

government well it says in Isaiah 2 it

says that all the nations there will be

peace and prosperity in all the nations

Jerusalem will be the capital city all

the nations will have ambassadors coming

up to Jerusalem and will come up to

worship and there'll be one one

beautiful K Kingdom of world peace on

the whole world and there will be the

king over that in

Jerusalem that's this child the king

that's in Isaiah 2 ruling the world is

also the child that was born here

in Isaiah

9 now it's pretty a supernatural Kingdom

how's there going to be peace over the

whole earth well the Bible shows us

there in chapter six that this King when

he grows up is going to be filled with

light he's going to be super proun he's

been resurrected from the dead he's

going to be shining with light how is

there going to be a king that's going to

rule over the whole world if he isn't

filled with the power and glory of God

so Isaiah 2 says there will be a kingdom

of peace all over the world with the

king in Jerusalem Isaiah 6 says he's

going to be resurrected from the dead

and glorified and and and Isaiah 9 here

says that he would be born as a

child into the world well none of this

is a child of course but two chapters

before that Isaiah 7 says he's going to

be born of a

virgin now our people want to say that

it's not true listen all the Orthodox

Jews you ever notice no that all of our

what what's it what's the word for

matriarchs all of our matriarch Sarah

Rifka Rachel were all

Baron as well as who else was Baron Kan

the mother of of of S Shimon and then

you have uh Elizabeth the mother of the

mother of John all six people well now I

didn't say this the rabbis say this now

they actually exaggerate this they said

well why are why were why were all the

mothers a a kot why were they Barren and

why did that the way because God wanted

their the birth to be Supernatural they

say that not me they say all the

forefathers were born supernaturally it

was a miracle that they that the

children were born there in fact they

even say that really it was born that

way because the children Abraham Isaac

and Jacob and Joseph and Judah were

really born without the effects of the

fall of Adam and Eve because it was a

supernatural event now I don't think

that's true because you'd have to be a

total virgin to not have that effect but

that's the exact s that's the correct

thinking why were all these people in

because God has and I would I would

correct it to say this it's not that

they overcame the power original sin but

they were born out of a promise they

were born miraculously of a promise and

that Covenant promise then led the way

for the full virgin Miriam to be born

and and this is a hope and we've talked

about this of seeing uh Miriam we talked

about that last week of Miriam as being

the ultimate Ultra Orthodox

girl I mean because what you know why

are all these Orthodox girls having so

many kids because they're

thinking maybe my child maybe my child

maybe my child will be the Messiah so if

I can have 200 kids then I have greater

odds of it being the Messiah I'm but but

the point is they are they are looking

to keep themselves pure and holy and

bear children because they're believing

that the Messiah will come out of this

generation and and Miriam was the

ultimate Orthodox Jewish girl holding

herself pure believing for the Messiah

to come now of course it was way above

what she was expecting but still look at

this is I mean Christmas the birth of

the Messiah should be the most Jewish

holiday in the world I mean is if you

talk about Jewish Jewish Jewish the

Jewish King the son of David was born

into this world by an Orthodox Jewish

girl who M maintained herself pure to

give birth to Messiah so that God could

bring a savior to all the rest of the

Nations I mean this is come on this to

is almost

racist anyway so then it goes on of

course and then he says uh that when

this kingdom is about to come that all

the the Nations will attack it to stop

the kingdom but they will miss it that's

the story of Isaiah 29 and what's called

the Ariel they will come and attack and

it'll be like a dream and they will miss

it and not only that when they come to

attack the Messiah will come as the

angel of the Lord and kill all the

armies that come that's Isaiah 37 and

then he will come to set up his kingdom

on it's all there in Isaiah amazing

except for one thing which our people

want to skip over to bring this Kingdom

he's not only got to be pure himself

he's got to make the M the rest of the

people in the world pure and we're not

pure we're sinful and we deserve death

and judgment and so the only way this

person this child who has the light of

God can be the king to rule over the

world is do something to get us out of

sin and death how is he going to have an

eternal Kingdom when we're all dying

hello how's he going to have a pure

Kingdom when we're all in sin he's got

to figure out a way to make us pure and

there's only one way to do that is to

take our sin upon himself Isaiah 53 so

that then he could purify us to do that

and that way he does he does several

things he he takes our sin upon us to

set us free he demonstrates to us what

is the light of God which is sacrificial

love to love other people and he proves

that he is the one worthy to be the

king Yeshua was crucified and said this

is the king of the Jews and said well I

don't know but then he rose from the

dead proof maybe you didn't believe that

sign over his head when he was crucified

that this is the king of the Jews but

when he rose from the dead it's kind of

hard to say I don't know what else you

got to do you know look it the the the

the C the crucifixion was the

Declaration of Yeshua being the king and

him changing getting us out of sin so we

could be in his kingdom and the

resurrection was the proof that this is

the guy hey maybe it's somebody else

except to be somebody else you got to

die and be raised from the dead to see

that happen I haven't seen that happen

yet with anybody

else all right so that's the story in

Isaiah let's look at the last point in

Isaiah uh and that

is uh which has been our theme verse for

this year really is Isaiah 60 veres 1

through3 we'll end with

this watch the word watch the play on

Darkness and Light again here it's

amazing from is one created light

Darkness the light overcomes the

darkness arise and shine it really says

shine with light

there your light has

come and for the glory of the Lord has

sh shown upon

you behold the

darkness has covered the

Earth and and fog the

Nations but upon you the glory of the

Lord will shine and uh the light will

shine and His glory will be seen upon

you there and you skip over a little

bit and it says and Kings will come to

your light uh Nations will come to your

KN light and Kings to your shining Glory

now here we see that that all these

themes come come together the light in

the Darkness Darkness covering the whole

Earth but then there will be a people

who have the light of God in them

against Great odds numerically then the

darkness is bigger but the light is

stronger so we have to rise and shine

with light we become the manora we

become the kukia we become the extension

of the Child of Light it's both

Christmas and kanuka coming together

into the end times apocalyptic version

of the merging of Christmas and kanuka

coming to this is a rise and shine he's

saying here is that in the end times the

the the great majority will be huge

darkness and fog but in that midst will

be a people in every nation that need to

arise and shine they will be the living

manora and their light will then come

and push back the darkness As we sing in

uh

in we have come to as the light to drive

out the darkness just I mean I so wish

the Christians could see this part of

the driving out the darkness and the

Jews could see the part of it theu is

where the light comes fromo they're I'll

get it pretty soon Hallelujah and then

we'll have that Victory um so we're

walking in this I see the darkness as

being evil and the and the cloud as

being confusion I interpret that you

know if there but the the the darkness I

think is the the the violent spirit in

in Islam and communist dictatorships and

the confusion is the the modern academic

news fake you know lies that's causing

confusion so you got darkness which is

evil and violence you got fog which is

confusion but our light has to shine

within us to push back both the evil and

the confusion so this world can shine

and we and that's what we want to

believe for this year couple comments

and we'll close one is that for each of

us individually it's great to read this

in the Bible but we have to all walk

this out in our individual lives as a

nation as all the eclesia but each one

of us individually you got to walk this

out oh what a beautiful

verse oh it sounds so nice no you're

talking about living in a world of evil

and darkness and you got to stand up by

faith and let your light shine in the

dark I mean this is terrifyingly

demanding Faith to stand up and do that

but we but we have to do that and what

you know it's like psalm 23 it

says even if I have to walk through the

valley of the shadow of death will fear

no evil and what I say to a lot of

people listen it doesn't say when you

get stuck in the Valley of the shadow of

death it says when you walk through it

and I've learned this year no matter

what happens just put the next foot in

front of your foot and then put the next

foot just keep going when you feel

Darkness all over you and depression and

fear and

oosh with a Despair and it just like and

you can't go on just take one more step

just keep going just don't stop in if

you stop in the middle of the valley of

death and sit down you're going to

you're going to succumb to Darkness just

keep going keep going and all of a

sudden you'll end up in Green Pastures

and pure Waters and it'll happen faster

than you think but this just the way God

does it the the the pathways of

righteousness always go through the Val

the shadow of death but just keep

walking so I'm telling you folks

whatever you're going through right now

just take another step and then another

step after that and don't worry about

that just take another step God will

take care of you and he'll let the light

shine so we come out of this two more

quick comments one is that we work we

have to walk through the valley of

shadow of death we're coming out at the

end of this year that just seem to be

disaster disaster and disaster we come

to the end of the year the only

superpower in the Middle East what

happened this was God this was God

giving a miraculous sign to all of the

Nations the world now the Nations ruling

may not like

it but they can't help seeing it you

know you can't help seeing it you can be

angry you can be jealous but you canot

see that it's not here you know and the

second thing is is for all the problems

in the world

folks United States is still the

strongest nation in the world today

and in another two weeks the majority of

the cabinet

members in the United States are going

to be born again Christian this has

never happened in history before guys be

encouraged be encouraged you know

something has happened and we have to

pray the other thing we have to pray for

is there are people that are being

persecuted around the world first of all

any Christian within the greater Muslim

world is really under

attack and they don't have the Israeli

Army to help them you know so we really

need to pray for them the Christians in

in Iran and in Lebanon and in Egypt and

in me Iraq and Syria and everywhere and

Jordan we need to pray for them you know

and there's also places in those other

Beast Nations we've got Russia attacking

Ukraine we have to pray for Ukraine we

have to have Hong Kong China is

attacking Hong Kong you got to pray for

Hong Kong you have North Korea attacking

South Korea to track C for South Korea

there are nations that are standing on

the front lines of the Beast powers and

then like I said for for Europe we

prayed early and we'll end with it we

just is having this think about this

terrorist attack it was on this

Christmas

Market packed full of people I don't

know if you saw the pictures of in in

Eastern Eastern Germany I talked to some

friends there they said look it wasn't

like there was a gospel story going on

in this market you know it was it was

European Christian culture you know cook

and songs and and you know selling stuff

and it was a commercial event but it was

still Christian it was still Christian

culture it was not a coincidence that's

that where that attack went the attack

was against Christian symbolism because

they're saying we are going to destroy

Europe in Europe we have to pray fast

and hard because Europe is one step away

from bending its knee to to Islamic

jihadism and and and they have to wake

up to it but I want to believe that that

this attack is is it's going to cause

people to wake up you know sometimes bad

events are wakeup calls okay it talked

for a long time but there was a lot of

material to get out father we just thank

you for um this amazing period that

we're in

WoW everything connected with the light

coming into the world Christmas Hanukah

the end times Israel the Nations it's

it's all happening right in front of us

Lord we it's like the Bible on the

newspaper seems to be everything's

happening and Lord I just pray for all

of us to be strong to rise and stand and

don't let depression and confusion and

despair and fear and don't let that take

us down but you just keep walking stand

up and shine Stand Up Walk shine walk in

the light along with Yeshua the light

that created the world is in that baby

and he's in our hearts and all of us

together Hallelujah we've come to drive

out of the darkness all of us are just a

little light but together we're a big

strong light in yeshua's name amen