No Hanukkah, No Christmas

^“At that time the Feast of the Dedication [Hanukkah] took place at Jerusalem; it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple in the portico of Solomon” (John 10:22–23).

Enhance your community’s appreciation for the incarnation of the Messiah by introducing your church to the historical account of Hanukkah. Throughout history, the Jewish people overcome by the hand of God when all odds were against them. Hanukkah is one such account. But if it were not for those events, when small group took a stand against an army and assured the preservation of the Jewish people and the coming of Israel’s Messiah, there would be no Christmas.