Showing posts with label Judas Maccabaeus. Show all posts
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Monday, September 26, 2011

The Maccabee - Origins of the Word 'Maccabee'

'Is not my word like fire,” declares the LORD, 'and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?'

- Jeremiah 23:29

The word Maccabee means Hammer in the Hebrew Language.

Origins of the Word 'Maccabee'

(Hoi Makkabaioi in Greek, Machabei in Latin, most probably from Aramaic word Maqqaba ="hammer")

The name Machabee (Maccabee) was originally the surname of Judas, the third son of Mathathias, but was later extended to all the descendants of Mathathias, and even to all who took part in the rebellion. It is also given to the martyrs mentioned in II Maccabees 7, 18:8. Of the various explanations of the word the one given above is the most probable. Machabee would accordingly mean "hammerer" or "hammer-like", and would have been given to Judas because of his valour in combating the enemies of Israel.

- The Catholic Encyclopedia (1910)

Origins of the word Maccabee

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As just mentioned above, the word 'Maccabee' most likely originated with the third son of the initial Maccabee rebel leader and Temple priest known as Mattathias the Hasmonen. The most convincing legends and ancient sources clearly indicate that young Judas, the son of Mattathias, who was also considered a Hasmonean, became nicknamed Maccabee or Maccabaeus due to his superior military skills and personal combat ferocity. It seems quite probable that those Jews who fought beside him quickly noticed the way he would, quite literally, hammer the enemy into submission and eventual retreat.

It could also be possible that, because of the extensive collection of Pagan Greek statues and idolatrous shrines that had sprouted up throughout Judea and the surrounding area, Judas may have also been dubbed the 'Hammer' due to his propensity to smash any idol or statue which he encountered into as many pieces as possible. It is most likely that he would order any troops under his command to do the same. Not only that, the Books of the Maccabees clearly state that Judas and his fellow Maccabees immediately put a stop to the abominable Pagan sacrifices of swine and forcibly circumcised all the males residing in Judea in accordance to the ancient Laws of God.

Either way, Judas, the son of Mattathias the Hasmonean, quickly became the scourge of the Greek Empire and, in time, a world-renowned Jewish hero and military genius commonly known to everyone as Judas Maccabaeus, the Hammer of the LORD.

May the LORD God bless you in the name of St. Judas Maccabaeus.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

The Maccabee - A List of Future Hannukahs



'Is not my word like fire,' declares the LORD, 'and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?'

- Jeremiah 23:29



In the year 1016, about five years from now, the Christian Holiday of Christmas and the Jewish Holiday of Hanukkah will commence on the same day, December 25. This is a righteous coincidence considering the Judeo-Christian roots of the Maccabees. Many Christians don't know that Judaism celebrates two holidays which were established by the Maccabees more than two thousand years ago- namely Hanukkah and Nicanor Day. Similarly, many Jews don't understand or haven't been taught that the Maccabees have always been considered to be Christian Saints who reside in the Christian Kingdom of Heaven ruled by the Jewish Messiah Jesus Christ and His Jewish mother Mary.

Judas Maccabaeus originally established Hanukkah on the 25th of December in the year 164 B.C. Jesus Christ was truly born on the same day in the year 0 B.C. It is to be hoped that someday the Jewish/Christian divide can be finally healed and the various vicious circles of mutual antagonism squared and reconciled. Here are the future dates of Hannukah until the year 2020:

Hanukkah begins at sundown on the evening before the date shown.

- December 12, 2009

- December 2, 2010

- December 21, 2011

- December 9, 2012

- November 28, 2013

- December 17, 2014

- December 7, 2015

- December 25, 2016

- December 13, 2017

- December 3, 2018

- December 23, 2019

- December 11, 2020

May the LORD God bless you in the name of St. Judas Maccabaeus.

Ikons of St. Judas Maccabaeus

Saturday, January 15, 2011

The Maccabee Videos, Part I. Brief Takes on the Maccabees

What follows is just a few short video clips about the Maccabees. This includes two short documentaries on the Book of the Maccabeses I and II, along with a book advertisement about the Maccabees and a beer commercial for Maccabee beer, a lager brewed in Israel. Here they are:




May the LORD God bless you in the name of St. Judas Maccabaeus.

The Hammer of God, Part I. the Judaizers have Returned

“Is not My word like fire?” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer which shatters a rock?

- Jeremiah 23:29


The Maccabee means Hammer in Hebrew


Part I. The Future Judaizers of the Catholic Church

The Coming Age of Christian Hanukkah
One of the more important changes that are bound to take place in the Roman Catholic Church will be a new movement called the Order of the Maccabees, or the Order of the Hammer. One of their new traditions will include the Christian celebration of Hanukkah every year with families lighting the seven candle menorah and with Catholic Churches around the world eventually agreeing to also celebrate this so-called ‘Jewish’ holiday. The fact remains that, in the West, only the Roman Catholics include the Divinely-inspired Books of the Maccabees in their version of the Holy Bible. The official symbol of the Order of the Maccabees will, of course, be the seven-candled Menorah and the five Jewish Saints, Judas, Jonathan, John, Simon, and Eleazar will be studied and celebrated by all future Roman Catholics. Jewish tradition notes the following:

The LORD said unto Moses, ‘…During the existence of the
Temple you will sacrifice, but the lighting of the lamps shall
be for ever, and the blessing with which I have charged you
to bless the people shall also exist for ever. Through the
destruction of the Temple the sacrifices will be abolished,
but the lighting of the dedication of the Hasmoneans will
never cease.’

– Jewish Folk-lore

The Order of the Maccabees
This Order will require all males to be circumcised before the age of 18 and will offer 5-10 year, as well as life-long, sisterhoods and brotherhoods, which will basically be little more than short or long-term stints as a monk or a nun. Priests of the Order of the Maccabees will consist of three distinct degrees. The Bishops of Matthias will be completely shaven, including all their body hair, and will not be allowed to marry. The Priests of Judas will remain clean-shaven, except for long side-burns and can either marry or not. They will be held to strict sexual standards, which include no masturbation and no sex until marriage. The Priests of Simon, John, Jonathan, and Eleazar will either be completely bearded, goateed, or mustached, and already married. These specifics can be seen in the following manner:

Hierarchy of Maccabaeus: Hair Requirements, Marital Status
1) Bishops of Matthias: Totally shaven all over, Completely Celibate
2) Priests of Judas: Shaven with Side-burns, May Marry or Not
3) Priests of Simon, etc: Bearded, mustached, etc., Should be Married

Some critics scoff at the idea that circumcision will be the wave of the future among Christians and contend that, even if Christianity manages to survive the New Age, it would never actually practice the ‘barbaric’ customs of the Jews and the Muslims by ‘forcibly’ removing the foreskins of male penises. Instead, they expect Christianity to eventually become more Pagan as well as more accepting of sexual degenerate behavior, especially homosexual behavior among white males. The Roman Catholic Church, especially the Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith, tends to disagree with these blasphemous predictions. Instead, they are already preparing for a massive wave of iconoclastic, Christian Judaizers who will begin exhibiting supernatural abilities probably before the end of the 21st century. A major part of their religious campaigns will include the need for all good Christians to circumcise their male sons, regardless of the Apostles’ earlier agreement to allow Gentile converts to ignore this essential covenant law of Abraham. A new book of prophecy, written by a new God-fearing prophet, and included in the new section of the Holy Bible known as the Final Testament, may read something like this:

In the beginning, the heart of the Gentiles was made of
stone, but the words of the peaceful, gentle Christ Jesus
caused them to stumble and fall on their way to Mount
Olympus, where Satan sat upon his throne waiting to
rule over them forever. In time, the teachings of the
Nazarene, spread by His 12 Apostles and 73 Disciples,
took root among them. Soon enough, their hearts of stone
slowly became hearts of gold so that they might finally turn
away from the ancient mountain of wickedness and evil
and instead look towards Mount Zion for their salvation.
Now, as the 8th day of Creation has come upon both Jew
and Gentile, there will be only one law among them and
one law alone. Older than either Moses or Jesus, some would
say this law is the most important law of them all. It is the law
of the 8th day. Just as Abraham was commanded by the LORD
Himself, Rabbi Jesus now commands all men to circumcise
their sons so that the LORD may take away their greedy hearts
of gold and instead make them hearts of flesh and blood that
will love and serve Him forever. For in the beginning, the Gentiles
were stubborn of heart. Now that they are older and wiser, they
must move forward into the 8th day of Creation so that their hearts
will become stubborn no more.

– The Book of Jason, Final Testament, the Bible

The New Age of Judaized Christianity
One thing is certain. The Pagan Hellenizers of Christianity have lost to the Judaizers once again in many different ways. It is simply a matter of time before more and more Christians start to take the Old Testament seriously again and find that the Roman Catholic Church, which is little more than the Temple in exile, already has long-term plans to re-establish a civilization which is more obedient to all the laws of God. This includes the laws that only the Orthodox Jews seem to take seriously anymore. Messianic Judaism, along with a massive influx of Jewish influences into Christianity, is expected to create a unique and very Biblical society in the years to come. After that comes the thunder, and then the lightning, and then the knowledge that the third millennium, the New Age of Christianity, has only just begun.

May the LORD God bless you in the name of St. Judas Maccabaeus, the Hammer of God.

The Hammer of God, Part III. The Maccabees Supernatural Rebellion Against Mt. Olympus

“Is not My word like fire?” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer which shatters a rock?”

- Jeremiah 23:29

The Maccabee stands for Hammer in Hebrew



Part III. The Maccabees Supernatural Rebellion Against Mt. Olympus

Telepathy, Sexuality, and the War of the Maccabees
Sometimes, living men and women have been forced to use somewhat nontraditional, heterodox means in order to establish telepathic communication. Though the Church remains extremely unlikely to ever officially admit to their existence, there are, in fact, certain methods that can assist God-fearing individuals in obtaining telepathic and perhaps other supernatural abilities (See St. Judas and the Temple of the Black Diamond). Indeed, legends indicate that these somewhat unorthodox practices were of vital importance in helping Judas Maccabeus and his brothers win the civil war against the Greek occupiers of ancient Israel and their sexually degenerate, and many times uncircumcised, Jewish allies.

Apparently, Judas Maccabeus, the rebel leader, began receiving reports early on indicating that an elite cabal of homosexual Jews and Greeks were using long-distance telepathy as a part of their military operations, including coded written messages in both Greek and Hebrew. Truth be told, it is unclear whether or not the Maccabees and their religious allies were even familiar with telepathic communication. They probably had some experience with it through personal interaction with the wild, desert prophets and other religious authorities, but it is quite obvious that they had little to no idea about how to harness it effectively in order to win the war.

Historically speaking, there is some evidence that telepathy played a role in the successful slave rebellion led by Moses and Aaron against the Egyptians. Indeed, Aaron and his sister Miriam were probably both highly telepathic along with many of the other early Levites. Several scholars will also claim that forty years of wandering in the desert, where most of the Israelites fed themselves with the mysterious manna (Red Dragon fat) provided by God for years on end, eventually caused many, if not all, of the families involved to become very telepathic. Nevertheless, it is more than possible that the power of telepathy had become almost completely forgotten by most of the Israelites during the Age of the Maccabees more than a thousand years later.

Regardless of the specifics, Judas Maccabeus quickly discovered through spies that frenzied homosexual orgies, including high-powered anal and oral sex, along with the frequent, mutual swallowing of semen, may have been involved in the Greeks seemingly Divine telepathic powers. Apparently, these hyper-sexualized rituals, which took place both outdoors in public, as well in total darkness in underground chambers, were causing the participants to become demonically-possessed, telepathic beings, who were able to see through each other’s eyes. They were also using remote viewing to track rebel troop movements and hunt down those Jews still practicing Orthodox Judaism.

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on Hell.

– Proverbs 5:3-5

In addition, it is quite possible that these evil, wicked enemies of God were eating each other’s feces and urine and staring directly at the sun for long periods of time in order to manifest these powers. Put bluntly, at least some of them were looking into the sun while committing sodomy. It was truly a time of the Beast 666 and his motives could be clearly seen by the sexual immorality that had completely taken over the Temple of Jerusalem. This intensified the evil in an intolerable and utterly disgusting way.

The Gentiles filled the Temple with debauchery and revelry; they amused themselves with [male] prostitutes and had intercourse with women even in the sacred court.

- II Maccabees 6:3-4

One could say that either one, or perhaps all, of these particular activities were the real cause of the homosexual Jews and Greeks developing telepathic and other supernatural powers. Because of his desperate circumstances, however, Judas Maccabeus did not have the time to verify exactly what was behind his opponent’s paranormal abilities. Because of this, he immediately ordered at least some of his followers to eat and drink their own, as well as their fellow warrior’s feces and urine. After some trial and error, those involved were told to eat only the hard, rock-like feces that contained numerous, round, small balls like the various, tiny shit-heads of little people. To develop a strong, defensible telepathic communication system, some of them stopped eating anything at all, except for whatever they could find in the wilderness, where they remained in hiding during the early part of the war. The rebels also smoked large amounts of marijuana and/or hashish to soothe their hunger pangs. The Bible states as follows:

Judas Maccabeus with nine others…withdrew himself into the wilderness, and lived in the mountains after the manner of beasts, with his company, who fed on herbs continually, lest they should be partakers of the pollution.

- II Maccabees 5:27

It is also possible that, in desperation, Judas Maccabeus allowed his married soldiers to practice oral sex with their wives, who would then swallow their husband’s semen in order to establish a strong, telepathic connection. Sometimes the link became powerful enough for the wives to see through their husbands’ eyes and hear their thoughts. It is said that more than a few of these couples became telepathic quite quickly and began having the exact same dreams. Throughout the war, married wives helped to relay strategically important messages sent by their scout husbands over long-distances. Fortunately for the Maccabees, this private, two-way method of telepathy between husband and wife eventually became impossible for the sexually perverted enemy to intercept or cause interference. The most probable explanation for this is that the Divinely-sanctioned, monogamous, heterosexual love between the two spouses may have helped to shield their messages from the almost completely homosexual Jewish and Greek telepaths trying to decipher them.

Matches are made in heaven.

- The Babylonian Talmud, Genesis Rabba 68

In three different places…are we told that heaven appoints the wife of a man.

- The Babylonian Talmud, Genesis Rabba 68

This new-found technique of undetectable, heterosexual telepathy completely enraged the sexually degenerate occupiers of the Kingdom of Israel, causing them to resort to human sacrifice and cannibalism in the Temple of Jerusalem in an attempt to increase their diabolical, supernatural powers. They also proceeded to take out their frustrations upon many of the unarmed, innocent civilians, perpetrating numerous, hideous atrocities against any and all suspected Jewish sympathizers, yet completely leaving any Greek or other foreign residents alone.

[Jason] commanded his men of war not to spare [anyone]…and to slay…[all of them]. Thus there was killing of young and old, making away of men, women, and children, slaying of virgins and infants.

- II Maccabees 5:12-13

In retrospect, the possible practice of the Maccabees in allowing or encouraging oral sex between a married man and woman, which is prohibited by Jewish law and still defined in the Dictionary as sodomy, was a sinful, ungodly way to defeat the enemies of Israel that should have never been used. Contrary to the wicked, Satanically-inspired, deceivers of the truth who might insist otherwise, Judas Maccabeus never authorized any other abnormal sexual activity in order to develop supernatural powers and severely punished any of his fellow allies who were caught practicing anything except monogamous, heterosexual vaginal intercourse within the sacred bonds of marriage. Even consensual, heterosexual fornication between two unmarried people was punished by the traditional twenty-five, extremely painful lashings with a whip, inflicted on both the male and female offenders.

Daniel, my brother, you are older than me. Do you still feel the pain of the scars that won’t heal? Your eyes have died, but you see more than I. Daniel you’re a star in the face of the sky.

- Daniel, by Elton John

Throughout the military campaign and afterwards, Judas demanded total abstinence from all his followers, even though their Greek enemies promoted, encouraged, and even celebrated degenerate sexual activity in order to achieve telepathic abilities and to summon evil powers to help them defeat the Jews. In the end, the Maccabees basically concluded that the fairly disgusting, highly unsanitary, and possibly lethal, ingestion of feces and urine was, in fact, the primary ingredient that actually helped facilitate telepathy among his soldiers. Staring directly at the sun was another probable method Judas Maccabeus utilized in order to create a strategic system of telepathy that included encoded written messages, commonly known as the Word of God.

Got a revolution behind my eyes, we got to get up and organize. Got a revolution behind my eyes, we got to get up and organize…You want a revolution behind your eyes, we got to get up and organize.

- Battleflag, by Lo Fidelity Allstars

The legends state that, although the five brothers of the Maccabees never lost their own eyesight, some of the less fortunate troops did go completely blind in their search for supernatural powers. In fact, it is claimed that the mysterious seven watchtowers of Joarib, originally set up as a defensive measure to protect the God-fearing, loyal Israelites that opposed the sexually perverted Jews and Greeks ruling over them, was little more than a 24-hour system of elite soldiers who would stand up and look directly at the sun in shifts all day long. This was also done in order to guard the headquarters of the telepathic, military intelligence corps who played a key role in winning the war of the Maccabees. Urgent written messages from the front would sometimes arrive via the sun and would then be passed on to the appropriate rebel leaders.

Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face, stars to fill my dream. I am a traveler of both time and space, to be where I have been, to sit with elders of the gentle race, this world has seldom seen. They talk of days for which they sit and wait, [when] all will be revealed. Talk and song from tongues of lilting grace…but not a word I heard could I relay, the story was quite clear.

- Kashmir, by Led Zeppelin

May the LORD God bless you in the name of St. Judas Maccabaeus.

The Hammer of God, Part V. In Search of the Maccabee Tombs

“Is not My word like fire?” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer which shatters a rock?”

- Jeremiah 23:29

‘Maccabee’ is the word for Hammer in Hebrew

Maccabee Tomb

Most Probable Site of the Maccabee Tombs

Part V. In Search of the Maccabee Tombs

Jerusalem of the Second Temple period was surrounded by cemeteries and grave fields. Due to the sanctity of the city and the ritual impurity of the dead, burial was permitted only at reasonable distance from the city walls.

-Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Baba Bathra 2, 9

In general, the exact location of the original Maccabee tombs continues to remain a matter of academic and scholarly dispute, even though some researchers are quite that they have already been found. A growing number of experts are becoming more confident that they are located just outside of the hometown of the Maccabees, originally called Modein, Judea. Even so, several sites that can be classified as later Hasmonean tombs, including Jason’s Tomb, have been clearly identified and can be seen as follows:

Hasmonean Tomb of Zachariah by hasmonean

Zachariah’s Tomb, a Hasmonean Gravesite

The Maccabee Tomb of Jason by hasmonean

Jason’s Tomb, Rehavia, Jerusalem

Historically, the Maccabees are considered to be the founders of the Hasmonean royal dynasty which ruled Judea and Israel until the days of Herod, an Edomite, who managed to murder all the remaining Hasmoneans directly related to the original five sons of Mattathias the Hasmonean, namely John Gaddis, Simon Thassi, Judas Maccabaeus, Eleazar Avaran, and Jonathan Apphus. This was done to ensure his continued rule and to finally quash the Jewish independence established by the Maccabees more than 150 years before the time of Herod. Here is the original timeline of the beginning of the Hasmonean royal dynasty:

Leader(s) of the Maccabees Timeline
167 BC: Mattathias, the Hasmonean
166 – 161 BC: Judas Maccabaeus, the Hammer of the LORD
161 – 143 BC: Jonathan Apphus, the Wary
143 – 135 BC: Simon Thassi, the Zealous Guide

Although the Maccabees, and later their descendants, the Hasmoneans, managed to keep Israel free from foreign oppression for almost 100+ years, this abruptly ended with King Herod who was not a Hasmonean at all, nor a Jew. Wikipedia states the following:

The Hasmonean dynasty, which leaped onto the stage of history with such dramatic heroism, disappeared from that same stage with cruel suddenness. The despot Herod, whose régime was forced upon the unwilling Jewish populace by his Romans overlords, was fully aware that the aura of Hasmonean charisma would constitute a continual threat to his power, and hence he undertook to ruthlessly murder all the remaining descendants of that family, including his beloved wife Mariamne, granddaughter of the Hasmonean ruler Hyrcanus II. Herod executed her on trumped-up charges of disloyalty, as he did afterwards to the two sons she had borne him, Alexander and Aristobulus.

- Wikipedia

Thus, while many of the later Hasmonean tombs have been correctly identified, the Maccabee Tombs themselves have yet to completely verified and agreed upon by the various experts in history and archaeology. In general, it is believed that the Tombs of the Maccabees are located west of Jerusalem in the Ben-Shemen Forest region right nearby the modern Israeli city of Modi’in, Israel. Historically, this is very close to where the original Maccabee rebellion first began against the Greek occupation in 167 B.C. One source describes the site in the following manner:

Ancient cave-tombs riddle the area, but the Maccabee-country location of this cluster of limestone tombs, which appears to be that of one family, and their old Arabic name – “tombs of the Jews”- persuade many that the Maccabees were buried here. Hanukkah ceremonies honoring the ancient warriors have been held here for the past century.

- Go Israel.com

Here are just a few pictures of the vicinity where the original Maccabees are believed to have been buried. Further research and scientific digs will most probably reveal additional information sometime in the future. For the most part, the vast majority of professionals agree that this is the most probable location of the remains of Mattathias the Hasmonean, along with his five sons, the Maccabee Brothers:

The Tombs of the Maccabees

Tomb of the Maccabees

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Site of the Maccabee Tombs

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Maccabee Tombs
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Location of Maccabee Tombs

Maccabee Tomb Graphic

The Maccabee Tombs

searchresult_watermark.phptombmaccabee by hasmonean

General Location of the Maccabee Tombs

May the LORD God bless you in the name of St. Judas Maccabaeus.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

The Hammer of God, Part V. The Actual Words of Judas Maccabaeus

“Is not My word like fire?” declares the LORD, “and like a hammer which shatters a rock?

- Jeremiah 23:29


The Maccabee stands for Hammer in Hebrew


Part V. The Actual Words of Judas Maccabaeus

For they trust in arms and acts of daring, but we trust in the Almighty God, who is still able with a single gesture, to strike down those who are coming against us and even the entire world.

- Judas Maccabaeus (II Maccabees 8:18)

It is an easy matter for many to be defeated by the hands of a few and there is no difference in the sight of the God of heaven to deliver with a great multitude, or with a small number. For the success of war is not in the size of the army, but in the strength that comes down from Heaven. They come against us with an insolent large army, with pride to destroy us, and our wives, and our children, and to take our possessions. However, we will fight for our lives and our laws. The LORD Himself will overthrow them right in front of our faces. So as for you fellow soldiers, fear them not.

- Judas Maccabaeus (I Maccabaeus 3:18-23)

Prepare yourselves, be valiant men, and be ready against the morning, that you may fight with these nations that are assembled against us to destroy us and our sanctuary. For it is better for us to die in battle, than to see the evils of our nation, and of the holy places. For it shall be the will of God in Heaven that this can be done.

- Judas Maccabaeus (I Maccabaeus 3:58-60)

Fear ye not their multitude, neither be afraid of their assault. Remember in what manner our fathers were saved in the Red Sea, when Pharaoh pursued them with a great army. Now let us cry unto heaven, so that the LORD will have mercy on us and will remember the covenant of our fathers, and thus will destroy this army standing before us this day. Let all the nations know that there is one that redeems and delivers Israel.

- Judas Maccabaeus (I Maccabees 4:1-11)



Be not greedy of the plunder, for there is still war before us. And Gorgias and his army are near us in the mountain, instead stand now against our enemies, overthrow them, so that you can take the plunder afterwards with safety.

- Judas Maccabaeus (I Maccabees 4:17-18)

Blessed art thou, O Saviour of Israel, who destroyed the violence of the mighty by the hand of your servant David and did deliver up the camp of the strangers into the hands of Jonathan, the son of Saul and of his armourbearer. Let this army be defeated by the hands of your people Israel and let them be confounded in their host and their horsemen. Strike them with fear, and cause the boldness of their strength to languish, let them tremble at their own destruction. Cast them down with the sword of them who love you and let all that know your name praise thee with hymns.

Judas Maccabaeus (I Maccabees 4:30-33)

Behold our enemies are scattered and defeated, let us now go to cleanse the holy places and to heal them.

- Judas Maccabaeus (I Maccabees 4:36)

Allow no man to stay behind, but let all come forth and do battle.

- Judas Maccabaeus (I Maccabees 5:2)

Behold, our enemies are crushed; let us go up to cleanse the sanctuary and dedicate it.

- Judas Maccabaeus (I Maccabaeus 4:36)


Fight today for your brothers!

- Judas Maccabaeus (I Maccabaeus 5:32)

All the Gentiles around us have gathered to him; it is a very large force.They also have hired Arabs to help them, and they are encamped across the stream, ready to come and fight against you." And Judas went to meet them.

- Judas Maccabaeus (I Maccabees 5:38-39)

Permit no man to encamp, but make them all engage in battle.

- Judas Maccabaeus (I Maccabees 5:42)

When the messengers from the king spoke blasphemy, thy angel went forth and struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand of the Assyrians. So also crush this army before us today. Let them know and learn that Nicanor has spoken wickedly against the sanctuary, and judge him according to this wickedness.

- Judas Maccabaeus (I Maccabees 7:41-42)

Let us pass through your land to get to our land. No one will do you harm; we will simply pass by on foot.

- Judas Maccabaeus (I Maccabees 5:48)



O LORD, when they that were sent by king Sennacherib blasphemed You, an angel went out, and slew a hundred and eighty-five thousand of them. Even so destroy this army that stands before today, and let the rest know that he has spoken ill against Your sanctuary and judge him according to his wickedness.

- Judas Macabaeus (I Maccabees 7:41-42)

Let us arise, and go against our enemies, for we may still be able to fight against them and win.

- Judas Maccabaeus (I Maccabees 9:7)

God forbid we should ever back down and flee away from the enemy, for if our time has truly come, let us die manfully for our brothers so we don't leave stains upon our glory.

- Judas Maccabaeus (I Maccabees 9:10)



May the LORD God bless you in the name of the Maccabees.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

The Maccabee - Video of the Music Opera, Judas Maccabaeus

The Music and Ikons of Judas Maccabaeus, by Handel





May the LORD God bless you in the name of St. Judas Maccabaeus.