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John 10:22 to I Maccabees 4:59
1
Maccabees 4:59
“Judas and his brothers and the entire congregation of
Israel decreed that
the days of the dedication of the altar should be observed with joy and gladness on the anniversary every
year for
eight days,
from the 25 day of the month Chislev.”
John 10:22
“The
feast of the Dedication
was then taking place in Jerusalem. It was winter.”
Jesus celebrates this feast mentioned in John’s Gospel. It
was instituted by Judas Maccabees in 164 BC. It falls in
November/December and is called Hanukkah today.
2
Maccabees 5:19
“Nevertheless God did not choose the people for the place’s
sake, but the place far the people’s sake. KJVA
Mark 2:27
“And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not
man for the sabbath: KJV
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Hebrews 11:35 referencing
2 Maccabees 7:7 ***
2
Maccabees 7: 1- 7, 20-23
“It happened also that
seven brothers and their mother were arrested
and were being compelled by the king, under
torture ... [20] The
mother was especially admirable
and worthy of honorable memory. Though she saw her
seven sons perish within a single day, she bore it with good
courage because of her hope in the Lord.
She encouraged each of them …
Therefore the
Creator of the world,
who shaped the beginning of man and devised the origin of
all things,
will in his mercy give life and breath back to you again, since you now forget yourselves for the sake of
his laws.” See
longer quotation.
Hebrews 11:35
“Women received their dead by resurrection.
Some were
tortured,
refusing to accept release, that they might
rise again to a better life.”
2
Maccabees 7:28
“I beseech you, my child, to look at the heaven and the earth
and see everything that is in them, and recognize that
God did not make them out of things that
existed.
John 1:3
“… all things were made through him, and without him was not
anything made that was made.
2
Maccabees 13:4
“But the
King of kings
aroused the anger of Antiochus against the scoundrel.”
Revelation 17:14
“ … and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords
and
King of kings,
and those with him are called and chosen and faithful.”
Also see Revelation 19:16
(Ezra 7:12, Ezekiel 26:7, and Daniel 2:37 use this title,
King of Kings, for the enemies of Israel, but only in the Deuterocanonicals is it used for
God.)
Baruch 4:30-35
“Fear not, Jerusalem! …
31 Fearful are those who harmed you …
32
Fearful are the cities where your children were enslaved …
35 For fire shall come upon her
from the Eternal God, for a long time,
and demons shall dwell in her from that time on.”
Revelation
18:2
“And he called out with a mighty voice,
‘Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!
It has become a dwelling place of demons,
a haunt of every foul spirit,
a haunt of every foul and hateful bird’ ”
Sirach 2:1
“My son, if you come forward to serve the Lord,
prepare yourself for temptation.
2 Timothy 3:12
“Indeed all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus
will be persecuted…
Sirach 2:15
“Those who fear the Lord will not disobey his words, and
those who love him will keep his ways.
John 14:23
“Jesus answered him,
"If a man loves me, he will keep my word…
Sirach
5:8
“Do not depend on dishonest wealth,
for it will not benefit you in the day of calamity.”
Luke 16:9-13
“I tell you, make friends for yourselves with dishonest
wealth, so that when it fails, you will be welcomed into
eternal dwellings.
Sirach 5:11
“Be swift to hear; and let thy life be sincere; and with
patience give answer. KJVA (see verse 13 in NAB)
James 1:19
“Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man
be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
KJV
Sirach 9:8
“Avert your eyes from a comely woman;
gaze not upon the beauty of another’s wife—
Through woman’s beauty many perish
for lust for it burns like fire.”
Matthew 5:28
“But I say to you,
everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already
committed adultery with her in his heart.”
Sirach 11:19
“… when he says, "I have found rest, and now I shall enjoy my
goods!"
he does not know how much time will pass until he leaves
them to others and dies.
Luke 12:16-21
“And he told them a parable, saying, "The land of a rich man
brought forth plentifully….19 And I will say to my soul,
Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years;
take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.’ But God said to him,
‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you; and the
things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich
toward God."
Sirach 15:11-12
“Do not say, "Because of the Lord I left the right way"; for
he will not do what he hates. Do not say, "It was he who
led me astray"; for he had no need of a sinful man.
James 1:13
“Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God";
for God cannot be tempted with evil and he himself tempts no
one;
Sirach 23:1-5
“O
Lord, Father and Ruler of my life,
do not abandon me to their counsel,
and let me not fall because of them!...
O
Lord, Father and God of my life,
do not give me haughty eyes, and
remove from me evil desire.”
Matthew 6:9
“This is how you are to pray:
Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name ... ”
Sirach 27:6
“The fruit discloses the cultivation of a tree; so the
expression of a thought discloses the cultivation of a man’s
mind.
Matthew 7:16
“By their fruits you will know them.
NAB
Sirach 28:2
“Forgive your neighbor the wrong he has done, and then your
sins will be pardoned when you pray.
Matthew 6:9,12
“Pray
then like this:
… And
forgive us our debts,
As we also have forgiven our debtors”
Sirach 29:10-12
“Lose your silver for the sake of a brother or a friend,
and do not let it
rust
under a stone and be lost.
11
Lay up
your
treasure
according to the commandments of the Most High,
and it will profit you more than gold.12 Store up almsgiving
in your treasury,
and it will rescue you from all affliction”
Matthew 6:20
“but
lay up
for yourselves
treasures
in heaven, where neither moth nor
rust
consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal.”
Sirach 51:23-27
“Draw near to me,
you who are untaught,
and lodge in my school. ...
26
Put your neck under the yoke,
and
let your souls receive instruction;
it is to be found close by.
27 See with your eyes that I have labored little
and found myself much rest.”
Matthew 11:28-30
“Come
to me,
all you who labor and are burdened, and
I will give you rest.
29
Take my yoke upon you
and
learn from me,
for I am meek and humble of heart;
and you will find rest for your selves.
30 For
my yoke is easy, and my burden light.”
Wisdom of Solomon 3:5-6
“Having been
disciplined a little, they will receive great good,
because
God tested them and found them worthy of himself; 6 like
gold in the furnace he tried them,
and like a sacrificial burnt offering he accepted them.”
1 Peter 1: 6-7
“In this you
rejoice, though now for a little while you may have to
suffer various trials,
7 so that
the genuineness of your faith, more precious than gold which
though perishable is tested by fire,
may redound to praise and glory and honor at the revelation
of Jesus Christ.”
Wisdom of Solomon 9:1
“O God of my fathers and Lord of mercy, who hast made
all things
by thy
word…
John 1:1-3
“In the beginning was the
Word, and …
all things
were made through him, and without him was not anything made
that was made.
Wisdom of Solomon 9:16
“We can hardly guess at what is on earth, and what is at hand
we find with labor;
but who has traced out what is in the heavens?
John 3:12
“If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe,
how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?
Wisdom of Solomon 9:17
“Who has learned thy counsel, unless thou hast given wisdom
and sent thy holy Spirit from on high?
John 14:26
“But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will
send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring to
your remembrance all that I have said to you.
Wisdom of Solomon 13:1
“For all men were by nature foolish who were in ignorance of
God,
and who from the good things seen did not succeed in knowing
him
who is,
and from studying the works did not discern the
artisan”
Hebrews 11:10
“ … for he was looking forward to the city with foundations,
whose
architect
and maker
is God.”
In the Greek both passages above describe God as “tecnithV.”
Wisdom of Solomon 13:1-19 and 14:1-31
“For all men who were ignorant of God were
foolish by nature;
and they were unable from the good things that are seen to
know him who exists,
nor did they recognize the craftsman while paying heed to
his works; 2
but they supposed that either fire or wind or swift air,
or the circle of the stars, or turbulent water, or the
luminaries
of heaven were the gods that rule the world. …
9 for if they had the power to know so much
that
they could investigate the world,
how did they fail to find sooner the Lord of these things?
10 But miserable, with their hopes set on dead things, are
the men
who give the name “gods” to the works of men’s hands,
gold and silver fashioned with skill,and likenesses of
animals …
for life he prays to a thing that is dead …
Wisdom of Solomon 14:1-31
“12
For the idea of making idols was the beginning
of fornication,
and the invention of them was the corruption of life,
…
24
they no longer keep either their lives or their marriages
pure,
... by adultery ...
sex perversion, disorder in
marriage, adultery, and debauchery.
27
For the worship of idols not to be named is the beginning
and cause and end of every evil..
Romans
1:19-32
“… So they are without excuse ...
they became futile in their thinking and their senseless
minds were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became
fools, 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for
images resembling mortal man or birds or animals or
reptiles.
24
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to
impurity,
to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves ...
worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator
...
26 For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable
passions. …
and the men likewise gave up natural relations
with women and were consumed with passion for one another,
men committing shameless acts with men
and receiving in
their own persons the due penalty for their error.
28
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave
them up to a base mind and to improper conduct. 29 They were
filled with all manner of
wickedness”
See
longer quotation .
Wisdom of Solomon 15:3
“For to know thee is complete righteousness,
and to know thy power is the root of immortality.”
John 17:3
“Now this is eternal life, that they should know you, the
only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ.”
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Romans 9:21 referencing Wisdom 15:7
Wisdom of Solomon 15:7
“For when a
potter
kneads the soft earth and laboriously molds each vessel for
our service, he fashions out of the same clay both the
vessels that serve clean uses and those for
contrary uses,
making all in like manner;
but which shall be the use of each of these the worker in
clay decides.
Romans 9:21
“Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the
same lump one vessel for beauty and another for menial use?
Tobit 2:2
“Upon seeing the abundance of food I said to my son, "Go
and bring whatever poor man of our brethren you may find who
is mindful of the Lord,
and I will wait for you."
Luke 14:13-14
“But
when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the
lame, the blind, and you will be blessed
…
Tobit 3:8
“For she had been married to
seven husbands,
but the wicked demon Asmodeus killed them off
before they could have intercourse with her
…”
Mark 12:19-22
“Teacher, Moses wrote for us, ‘If someone’s brother dies,
leaving a wife but no child, his brother must take the wife
and raise up descendants for his brother.’
Now there were
seven brothers.
The first married a woman and
died, leaving no descendants.
So the second married her and died, leaving no descendants,
and the third likewise.
And
the seven left no descendants
…”
Tobit 4:9
“you will be storing up a goodly treasure for yourself
against the day of adversity.”
1
Timothy 6:19
“
thus accumulating as treasure a good foundation for the
future, so as to win the life that is true life.”
Tobit 4:10
“For
charity delivers from death
and keeps you from
entering the darkness”
James
2:13
“ … yet
mercy triumphs over judgment.”
1
John 4:16
“ …
God is love”
1 John 1:5-7
“ …
God is light and in him is no darkness
at all.
If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in
darkness, we lie
and do not live according to the truth;7 but
if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have
fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son
cleanses us from all sin.”
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Luke 6:31 referencing Tobit 4:15
Tobit 4:15
“And what you hate, do not do to any one…
Luke 6:31
“And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.”
Matthew 7:12
“So whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to
them; for this is the law and the prophets.
Tobit 4:19
“At all times bless the Lord God …
If the Lord chooses, he raises a man up; but if he should
decide otherwise, he casts him down to the deepest recesses
of the nether world.”
Romans 9:18
“Consequently, he has mercy upon whom he wills, and he
hardens whom he wills.”
Tobit 12:8
“Prayer is good when accompanied by fasting, almsgiving, and
righteousness.
Matthew 6:2,5,16
“2 When you give alms …
5 “When you pray …
16 “When you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites …
they have received their reward. NAB
Tobit 12:8
“Prayer and fasting are good, but better than either is
almsgiving accompanied by righteousness. A little with
righteousness is better than abundance with wickedness. NAB
Luke 11:39-42
“And the Lord said to him, "Now you
Pharisees cleanse the outside
of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of
extortion and wickedness …
But give for alms those things which are within; and behold,
everything is clean for you.
“But woe to you Pharisees! for you tithe mint and rue and
every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God; these
you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
Tobit 12:9
“For almsgiving delivers from death, and it will purge away
every sin. Those who perform deeds of charity and of
righteousness will have fullness of life;
1 Peter 4:8-10
“Above all, let your love for one another be intense, because
love covers a multitude of sins …
As each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another
as good stewards of God’s varied grace. NAB
Tobit 12:12-15
“And so, when you and your daughter-in-law Sarah prayed,
I brought a reminder of your prayer before the Holy One; and when you buried the dead, I was likewise present with
you. When you did not hesitate to rise and leave your
dinner in order to go and lay out the dead, your good deed
was not hidden from me, but I was with you...
I am Raphael, one of the seven holy angels who present the
prayers of the saints and enter into the presence of the
glory of the Holy One."
Revelation 8:2-4
“Then I saw
the seven angels who stand before God,
and seven trumpets were given to them… and the smoke of the incense
rose with
the prayers of the saints from the hand of the angel before God.
Judith 13:18
“… said to her: “Blessed are you, daughter, by the Most High
God, above all the women on earth; and blessed be the Lord
God, the creator of heaven and earth …”
Luke 1:42
“ … and said, “Most blessed are you among women, and blessed
is the fruit of your womb [baby Jesus].”
PROPHETIC
Book of
Wisdom is Truly Prophetic..
The writers of Sacred Scripture could not include everything
that Jesus said and did, Cf. John 21:25. They had to chose
what to include and what to leave out. I suggest that the
Holy Spirit inspired them to include the following New
Testament quotations because they are examples of fulfilled
prophecy in the Old Testament.
These particular prophecies
are only found in the Deuterocanonical Books.
Wisdom of Solomon 1:5
“For the holy spirit of discipline flees deceit and
withdraws from senseless counsels and when injustice occurs
it is rebuked.”
Mark 3:6
“The Pharisees went out and immediately took counsel with
the Herodians against him [Jesus] to put him to death.”
[The Pharisees are rebuked in Matthew 23. See below.]
Wisdom of Solomon 2:1, 12
1.
“they [evil ones] who said among themselves,
thinking not aright ...
12.
Let us lie in wait for the righteous man ...”
Luke 6:7
“The scribes and the Pharisees watched him [Jesus]
closely to see if he would cure on the sabbath so
that they might discover a reason to accuse him.”
Wisdom of Solomon 2: 12
“ ...
because he [the righteous one]
is inconvenient to us and opposes our
actions ... ”
Matthew 23:27-28
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for
you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly
appear beautiful, but within they are full of dead
men’s bones and all uncleanness. So you also
outwardly appear righteous to men, but within you
are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.”
Wisdom of Solomon 2: 12
“ ...
he [the righteous one]
reproaches us for sins against the law, and
accuses us of sins against our training.”
John 5:45-46
“Do not think that I shall accuse you to the
Father; it is Moses who accuses you, on whom you
set your hope. If you believed Moses, you would
believe me, for he wrote of me.”
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