Download The Books of I & II Maccabees: Where the Story of Hanukkah Is Found AudioBook Free
This is actually the full, uninterrupted audiobook of the storyline of I & II Maccabees - read with the passion this masterpiece deserves by number-one best-selling tone talent Steve Cook. Hanukkah or Chanukah is an annual Jewish celebration in the late fall season/early winter that goes back to circa 164 BC (or the intertestamental period - between your Old and New Testaments) and was generally known as "Celebration of Lights" or "Feast of the Devotion" or "Feast of the Maccabees". Oddly enough, most people may well not know where to find the profile of the impressive Hanukah story. It really is within the Apocrypha (so this means "hidden things") in I & II Second Maccabees (1 Macc 4:36-59; 2 Macc 10:1-8). This e book was created to offer the listener just I & II Maccabees out of the Apocrypha as it is worth such focused separation and study. Although this isn't one of the seven required feasts of the Mosaic regulation spelled out in Leviticus 23, this 8-day holiday break celebrates the triumph of the Maccabean war against Syria. This triumph was considered a magic because the Jews were out-numbered and out-provisioned in the natural, but God supernaturally helped bring them victory. The Syrian (or Seleucid) king, Antiochus Ephiphanes, was a prototypical antichrist who shared a radical anti-Semitism and hatred of the Jews with famous brands Hitler (in charge of the fatality of six million Jews, WWII Era) and Titus (Roman Basic in charge of the death of 1 million Jews, Advertising 70). Antiochus executed horror, torture, and slaughter up against the Jewish priests and market leaders, then unleashed wrath on non-clergy. He then set himself up in the temple as a higher priest and sacrificed a pig to the god Zeus as a precursor from what the antichrist will do referenced in Daniel 9:27 and Daniel 11:30,31. Jesus speaks from it again in Mark 13:14 as a foreshadowing of not only the antichrist, but also of Titus' setting up an idol on the site of the demolished and charred remains of the temple in Advertising 70. Oddly enough, after Jesus warned relating to this, the Roman Emperor Caligula was also planning on setting up his own idol in the temple, but died before he could do this blasphemous thing!
