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Title: THE BOOKS OF MACCABEES

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THE BOOKS OF MACCABEES
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DEUTEROCANONICAL BOOKS

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The Books of Maccabees

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Daniels Vision

Predicted by the prophet Daniel 232-33
This images head was of fine gold, its chest and
arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze,
its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and
partly of clay.
Babylonian rule
Persian rule
Greek rule
Roman rule(Christ is born)

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Perisa/Greece

1st Verse
Now it came to pass, after that Alexander the son
of Philip the Macedonian, who first reigned in
Greece, coming out of the land of Cethim, had
overthrown Darius king of the Persians and Medes

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Maccabees I and II

1 and 2 Maccabees are historical narratives and
tell the inspiring story of the Jewish people
fighting for the right to worship God.

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1 Maccabees

First Maccabees was originally written in Hebrew
about 100 B.C.
It begins with the the reign of Antiochus IV
in 175 B.C, the rebellion of Mattathias in 167
B.C. and ends with the murder of Simon in 135
B.C. and the reign of his son, John Hyrcanus I in
134 B.C..

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Antiochus IV Epiphanes

Syrian king, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, decided to
force the Jews to give up their religion and
start worshipping Greek gods.

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Antiochus IV Epiphanes

He killed 40,000 Jews, enslaved 40,000 others
He desecrates the Temple by setting up an
"abomination of desolation" (an idol).
Antiochus forbids both circumcision and
possession of Jewish scripture.
Turned the Jerusalem Temple into a temple for the
Greek god Zeus, and ordered Jews to offer
sacrifices to the Greek deities.
He also forbids observance of the sabbath and the
offering of sacrifices at the Temple.

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Antichrist

Antiochus IV Epiphanes is a central figure in the
Book of Daniel as the type of the Antichrist
Antiochus died in 163 B.C., so his ruling over
Israel lasted 3.5 years, the same period of time
the Antichrist will reign
Before the Maccabees the resistance to the
Antichrist was passive, with prayers and patience
afterwards it was active, with prayers and
fighting... always with the trust in the Lord.

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Maccabee

One Jewish man, Mattathias, his five sons, mainly
(Judah, Jonothan, Simon) and grandchildren, who
were nicknamed the Maccabee (meaning "the
hammerers"), overthrew the Syrians
Mattathias calls forth the people to holy war
against the invaders. and his three sons begin a
military campaign against them.
There is one complete loss of a thousand Jews
(men, women and children) to Antiochus when the
Jewish defenders refuse to fight on the Sabbath.

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1 Maccabee

In 165 B.C. the Temple is freed and
reconsecrated, so that ritual sacrifices may
begin again.
The festival of Hanukkah ,the Feast of Lights in
December, is instituted by Judas Maccabeus and
his brothers to celebrate this event. It is only
described in the Bible in the Books of Maccabees.
Overthrew the Syrians, restored the Temple, and
ruled Israel themselves until the Romans and
Herod took over in 37 B.C

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2 Maccabees

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2 Maccabees

It gives also important information on the Ark
of the Covenant Where it is now, hidden by
prophet Jeremiah, and his impressive specific
prophesy about the end of times, of the Great
Miracle to come! (chapter 2).

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2 Maccabees

Martyrdom of Eleazar (2Mac.6)... Martyrdom of
Christians 2Mac.Part 1 Martyrdom of the
Mother and her 7 Children (2Mac.7)... Martyrdom
of Christians 2Mac.Part 1
The suffering by Jewish martyrs helps the Jewish
cause and helps humanity in general (2Mac.6-7).
2Mac.Part 1
Resurrection of the just on the last day -
the King of the universe will raise us up to an
everlasting renewal of life (2Mac.79...711,14,23
, 1243, 1446).

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2 Maccabees

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Martyrs

To came to pass also, that seven brethren,
together with their mother, were apprehended, and
compelled by the king to eat swine's flesh
against the law, for which end they were
tormented with whips and scourges.
But one of them, who was the eldest, said thus
What wouldst thou ask, or learn of us? we are
ready to die rather than to transgress the laws
of God, received from our fathers.
He commanded to cut out the tongue of him that
had spoken first and the skin of his head being
drawn off, to chop off also the extremities of
his hands and feet, the rest of his brethren, and
his mother, looking on.
And when he was now maimed in all parts, he
commanded him, being yet alive, to be brought to
the Are, and to be fried in the frying pan and
while he was suffering therein long torments, the
rest, together with the mother.

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Martyrs

So when the first was dead after this manner,
they brought the next to make him a, mocking
stock and when they had pulled off the skin of
his head with the hair, they asked him if he
would eat, before he were punished throughout the
whole body in every limb.
Now the mother was to be ad above measure, and
worthy to be remembered by good men, who beheld
seven sons slain in the space of one day, and
bore it with a good courage, for the hope that
she had in God
And she bravely exhorted every o of them in her
own language, being filled with wisdom and
joining a man's heart to a woman's thought,
She said to them I know not how you were formed
in my womb for I neither gave you breath, nor
soul, nor life, neither did I frame the limbs of
every one of you.
But the Creator of the world, that formed the
nativity of man, and that found out the origin of
all, he will re- store to you again in his mercy,
both breath and life, as now you despise your-
selves for the sake of his laws