Wow, Hanukkah and Christmas are really creeping up on me. The month has been flying by so fast. At the same time, it seems like such a long time since Thanksgiving. Yet, here we are five days away from Hanukkah and nine days away from Christmas. I decided that each year I am going to do a different series for Hanukkah. I already have the next few topics picked out. ^__^ This year I have chosen Sotierology.Why Soteriology? Hanukkah is a celebration of Light over Darkness! Also, as I have stated in my previous post on the subject, it commemorates the rededication of the Temple after desecration. The temple was shadow of our own bodies, and i'm paralleling rededication to salvation. The temple was already God's, as we were from eternity, but then sin desecrated our standing. Then God redeemed us. That just happened the one time and no rededication of our lives is necessary. It's an ongoing sanctification and faith. Just as the Jews don't rededicate the Temple every Hanukkah (that i know of), we can commemorate the atonement. I figure the most natural way to do this in a blog for Hanukkah would be to go the route of the Ordo Salutis and post one component each day.
So check back on Sunday evening for my post on election & predestination. Don't be confused if you thought that the first day of Hanukkah is the 22nd, because it is. By the Hebrew calendar, the days are from sundown to sundown. So Hanukkah starts at sundown on the 21st (making the first day the 22nd) and ends at sundown on the 29th. The first day is always 25th Kislev, but the Hebrew calendar doesn't align with the Gregorian (ours) exactly so that's why it's seemingly jumping around from year to year. Speaking of years, it's 5769 according to the Hebrew calendar. Didn't your history teacher teach you about all that Y5K hype going on in Israel in 1238?
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