Light The Menorah, And A Candle For Earth Day
December 4th, 2007 by David DanskerNothing is sacred to Greens, except their own religion of environmentalism. Every year they become bolder in their attacks on any expression relating to the God of the Bible. This year they’ve set their sights on Hanukkah with a campaign which promotes striking the eighth candle from the menorah. The Greens hope to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, and influence the next generation, by replacing the candle with a global warming infomercial delivered by the parents who are to explain that the candle is being sacrificed to save the earth from global warming.
Hanukkah means “dedication” in Hebrew, and it celebrates the purifying of the temple after it was defiled by Antiochus Epiphanes about 161 BC. Antiochus, angered after hearing that the Jews celebrated after hearing reports of his death, captured Jerusalem and slew over forty thousand people. Then he sacrificed swine on the altar in the temple.
The Maccabees rebelled, and three years later recaptured the temple and rededicated it. In the purification process there was found only enough olive oil to light the menorah for one night. Miraculously, the oil burned the eight days necessary for new oil to be pressed, and the feast of the dedication celebrates this miracle. The story is recorded in the Apocrypha in Maccabees I and II, and is also mentioned in the Bible:
And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter. And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon’s porch. (Joh 10:22-23)
A confrontation ensued between Jesus and the religious leaders at the feast, just as there is confrontation today between the religious leaders of environmentalism and those who would acknowledge the God Heaven and Earth. One wonders how the Greens would respond to being asked to light a candle for Earth Day.
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