Who Were the Maccabees? (And what did they mean for Jesus?) 

The Jews were actually expecting two messiahs, a Messiah ben Joseph and Messiah ben David. They thought Yeshua would be the Messiah ben David (the conquering king) but he came as the suffering servant (Messiah ben Joseph). When Yochanan (John the Baptist) asks if Jesus is the one or should they be looking for someone else, he isn't having doubt and asking if he is the Messiah, he's asking what role he came to fulfill and Yeshua's responds by remezing with scriptures that allude to both Messiahs, saying that he will fulfill both!

🔥Glory be to you Precious Father. Glory, Glory, Glory, be to you.🔥

Great video

Great video. Especially since I'm reading the book

Great video! Very informative without being condescending or boring.

Pretty good summary but you missed 2 huge and related points directly to your subject: 1) You did mention the one non-Levitical high priest being appointed but you completely missed the Maccabees - of the tribe of Levi and the Houses of Aaron and Zadok - grabbing not only the high priesthood for the Hasmoneans but also usurping the throne of David to which they had zero Biblical right. Descending from Zadok or Saddok, they became the Sadducees. 2) This spawned the two major political parties of Judea AND their doctrinal positions that are a constant background noise in the Gospels. To make this usurption seem legitimate, the sadducees HAD to de-legitimize the books of the prophets that spoke repeatedly of a Messiah from the House of David and the tribe of Judah, hence they only acknowledged the 5 Books of Moses where the tribe of Levi was in charge. To rebut this, the Pharisees party, largely of the tribe of Judah, was born. They invented the synagogue to take religious instruction away from the Temple. They invented the position and office of rabbi to lead that instruction or indoctrination. Those rabbis were seldon Levites and were Judeans often of the House of David like Hillel and Gamaliel. Neither is mentioned in the Old Testament. They emphasized the prophets and also invented "the oral Torah" That eventually became the Talmud which BOTH Jesus and the Sadducees roundly rejected. If you do not see that, you miss a lot of what is going on in the Gospels. Jesus, a Judean of the House of David, is claiming to be BOTH Messiah King, heir of David AND the High Priest of Israel offering himself as sacrifice, as well as being Yahweh himself. At the same time he roundly rejects the Judean Pharisees for putting words in God's mouth and trying to seize the priesthood themselves. He is basically telling the Sadducees, who were still heading the Roman puppet government to get off his throne. They both hated him for very obvious reasons once you know who they really were.

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Judah Macabees & sons would have openly accepted Christ as the Messiah ,

This video was very informative! Thanks.

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Very helpful video! Thank you!

Well done brother.Keep the good work.

I loved this, keep it up

Well done thank you for sharing

That was a really good video, thank you

alexander the great empire divided into four 4 kingdoms not 3: the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, the Seleucid Empire in the east, the Kingdom of Pergamon in Asia Minor, and Macedon.

Very good!, filled in some gaps in my knowledge. Present day Israel, has got lots of problems to deal with, but is not part of any empire! Can't be bad!

I thought a roman ambassidor from Cyprus ordered Antiochus to leave Egypt or be at war with Rome

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Just small correction, the Antigonids ruled what the Seleucids did in 272 bc. Ptolemaios I even helped Seleukos to get rid of the Antigonids. The Antigonids with Demetrius Polyokertes ultimately made Macedonia their homeland after they killed Kassandros, avenging the murders of the ones who killed Alexander s’wife and heir by poisoning. I know its not a video on the Diadokhi but just wanted to explain better this part of history that has lot of action and betrayal

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Interesting video. But I was hoping you were going to talk about the death of the high priest onias and the death of the false high priest menelaus. Maybe you did in a different video. I'll have to check.

Thanks for your research. None of it mentioned YAHUSHA?

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Nice video, But I thought the revolt started over the fact that the Seleucids sacrificed a pig in the Holy of Holies.

🌹✝️ Interesting my son, is named Phillip Alexander. And this Jewish born gal's name Martine means Makabi (Maccabees) in Hebrew. And MAR Mary Magdalene TINE The Nailed One Jesus in France, And God of Mars, more generally. With thankfully my Jewish mother and grandmother, beeing only 1.5% of Hungarian Jews, that survived Hitler's Slaughter. Because my German grandfather brought them to Nice France, for safe keeping 🙏

Mysterious ways 😉

God inspired many Bible prophets to provide details about the birth, the ministry, and the death of this promised Deliverer. All these Bible prophecies were fulfilled in Jesus Christ. They are amazingly accurate and detailed. consider a few prophecies that foretold events related to the Messiah’s birth and childhood. The prophet Isaiah foretold that the Messiah would be a descendant of King David. (Isaiah 9:7) Jesus was indeed born in David’s line. -Matthew 1:1, 6-17. Micah, another prophet of God, foretold that this child would eventually become a ruler and that he would be born in “Bethlehem Ephrathah.” (Micah 5:2) At the time of Jesus’ birth, there were two towns in Israel that were named Bethlehem. One was situated near Nazareth in the northern region of the country, and the other, near Jerusalem in Judah. Bethlehem near Jerusalem was formerly called Ephrathah. Jesus was born in that town, exactly as the prophecy foretold! -Matthew 2:1. Another Bible prophecy foretold that the Son of God would be called “out of Egypt.” The child Jesus was taken into Egypt. He was brought back after the death of Herod, thus fulfilling the prophecy. -Hosea 11:1; Matthew 2:15. Prophecies While you examine these scriptures, keep in mind that those of a prophetic nature were written down hundreds of years before Jesus’ birth. Jesus stated: “All the things written about me in the Law of Moses and in the Prophets and Psalms must be fulfilled.” (Luke 24:44) As you can verify in your own copy of the Bible, fulfilled they were -in every detail!

U still havn't explain who where the macabees

Why did you call the place Palestine?

...like 🤔 The Zealots ?? Jesus friend Simon,, oh and 2 were called "Sons of Thunder" ,, there might be some stuff we kinda don't know correctly..

Wonderful narrative, explains the situation very well and historically accurate, however I believe that there are many that would see it differently , regardless of what history teaches. Some people's books are holier than ? Well whatever, I think you're right 👍 & Thx.. Hallelujah 🙏 Shalom and praise Allah 🙏

Great Video... But why do you think of God as a him... God is Everything not a specific gender.

Perhaps we could have avoided disaster of Christianity if the Maccabees were defeated

Sir I always told one of the many reasons they reject Jesus as the Savior that they expecting King David reborn again. These guys are like Mafia to me really killing a guy cause he making a sacrifice to a different Gods really.

Tbh that dude JC is not real at all. He's a made up messiah that has the power to do absolutely..... NOTHING😂😂😂 His image doesn't fit the Bible's depiction of the true messiah. Smfh but everybody understands the Bible tho.

08:40 Roman intervention went rll well

01:29 Republic

02:15 Kind of How Adeptus Administratum Leave planetary govenors to govern for themselfs as long as they pay taxes xD

09:18 wasn't Jesus welcomed when he entered City on Donkey

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