Chanukah - Feast of Dedication/Lights

Hanukah or Chanukah means “dedication”,and refers to the rededication of the Temple after a great Jewish military victory in 165 BCE This feast is not a feast that was given to Moses or a feast of the Lord's. In fact it is not mandated in the Bible. The details are found in the books of First and Second Macabees in the Apocrypha, the books written in the 400 years between the Tenach (Old Testament) and B’rit Chadashah (New Testament). If you read the books of the Macabees you will see that God was not silent in these years. He was still very much at work fulfilling His promises and preserving His people. You will also see that there are good Biblical reasons to celebrate this feast. In John's Gospel 10:22-23 we will see that Yeshua observed this holiday:
“Then came the Feast of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter and Yeshua was in the Temple area walking in Solomon’s colonnade.” 

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