{"id":1956,"date":"2025-12-11T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbooker.com\/?p=1956"},"modified":"2025-03-20T10:47:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T16:47:04","slug":"christians-hanukkah-and-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/?p=1956","title":{"rendered":"CHRISTIANS, HANUKKAH AND JESUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>HAPPY HANUKKAH TO ALL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"428\" height=\"262\" src=\"http:\/\/rbooker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Happy-Hanukkah.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1957\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Happy-Hanukkah.png 428w, https:\/\/rbooker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Happy-Hanukkah-300x184.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Wishing everyone a happy Hanukkah<br>which begins Thursday evening December 10-18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Hanukkah is definitely a holiday for both Jews and Christians<br>that we should celebrate together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Christians may ask why should they be interested in Hanukkah? Let me give you five quick answers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Without Hanukkah there would most likely be no Jews and no Jesus\/Yeshua as they would have all been murdered or assimilated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Jesus\/Yeshua was may have been conceived by the Holy Spirit in Mary (Miriam) at Hanukkah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Jesus-Yeshua celebrated Hanukkah called the Feast of Dedication in John 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. Christians are grafted into the Jewish people and are part of the Commonwealth of Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. We often hear the phrase, \u201cWhat would Jesus do?\u201d He would celebrate Hanukkah. What do you think you should do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Hag Hanukkah Sameach \u2013 Happy Holiday,<br>Richard and Peggy Booker<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAPPY HANUKKAH TO ALL Wishing everyone a happy Hanukkahwhich begins Thursday evening December 10-18. Hanukkah is definitely a holiday for both Jews and Christiansthat we should celebrate together. Christians may ask why should they be interested in Hanukkah? Let me give you five quick answers. 1. Without Hanukkah there would most likely be no Jews &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/?p=1956\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CHRISTIANS, HANUKKAH AND JESUS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-comments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1958,"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions\/1958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbooker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}