Meanwhile In Poland

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Altho to be honest the judaic muslim hordes at the time of the Hussars, had not entered yet the gates of the christian city.
They have now breached the gates and entered the nations of the west.
THE CLAIM THAT JESUS CELEBRATED HANUKKAH.
(Music, When the Winged Hussars arrived)

Many Neo-Judaizers attempt to justify Hanukkah observance by claiming that Jesus celebrated it. The argument usually rests on a brief reference in the Gospel of John to the Feast of Dedication. John notes that the feast took place in Jerusalem and that Jesus was present in the area. He does not say that Jesus observed the feast, participated in its rituals, or treated it as religiously binding.

Presence in the zip code is not participation. Jesus regularly entered synagogues filled with traditions He rebuked. He taught in the Temple while condemning its leadership. He associated with sinners without endorsing their sin. The Gospels repeatedly show Jesus using public religious spaces as arenas for confrontation, not as confirmations of legitimacy.
The theological problem with the claim is far more serious than many Christians realize. Hanukkah commemorates the rededication of the Temple and the continuation of the sacrificial system following its desecration, yet Jesus taught explicitly that He Himself was the true Temple to which the old structure pointed.

When He said, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up,” the Gospel explains that “He was speaking about the temple of his body” (John 2:19–21). Jesus also warned that the Jerusalem Temple was approaching judgment and dissolution, declaring that “not one stone here will be left upon another” (Matthew 24:2). A reading that turns Jesus into a celebrant of Temple restoration misunderstands the trajectory of His ministry, which consistently moves away from the perpetuation of the Temple system and toward its fulfillment and replacement in His own person (Hebrews 9:11–12). To put it plainly, believing the Jesus would celebrate the Temple’s dedication when He was the one who decreed its destruction, is nonsense.
Appeals to Paul fare no better.
He warns believers not to let anyone pass judgment “with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath,” explicitly grounding his argument in fulfillment theology by adding, “These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ” (Colossians 2:16–17). Paul repeatedly condemns Judaizing even when it involves commandments given by God, insisting that to return to ceremonial observance as spiritually binding is to abandon the Gospel itself (Galatians 4:9–11; Galatians 5:2–4). It is therefore incoherent to cite Paul as granting permission to honor non biblical traditions that arise within a religious system defined by its denial of the Messiah.

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