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00:00What's going on, what's going on, Zionist Nation?
00:02So we're doing our own Bible study here of 2 Maccabees 8.
00:06Meanwhile, Judas, who was called Maccabeus, and his companions secretly entered the villages
00:10and summoned their kindred and enlisted those who had continued in the Jewish faith,
00:15and they gathered about 6,000.
00:17They implored the Lord to look upon the people who were oppressed by evil
00:21and to have pity on the temple that had been profaned by the godless,
00:25to have mercy on the city that was being destroyed
00:28and about to be leveled to the ground,
00:30to hearken to the blood that cried out to him,
00:33to remember also the lawless destruction of the innocent babies
00:36and the blasphemies committed against his name,
00:38and to show his hatred of evil.
00:40Yeah, I like that.
00:42To show his hatred of evil.
00:47For what it's worth, I like that.
00:48Yeah, I like that.
00:57Oh, they implored the Lord to do all those things
01:02and for the Lord to show his hatred of evil.
01:06As soon as Maccabeus got his army organized,
01:09the Gentiles could not withstand him,
01:11for the wrath of the Lord had turned to mercy.
01:17Coming without warning,
01:19he would set fire to towns and villages.
01:21He captured strategic positions
01:23and put to flight not a few of the enemy.
01:25He found the knights most advantageous for such attacks,
01:29and talk of his valor spread everywhere.
01:32He attacked at night, huh?
01:33When Philip saw that the man was gaining ground little by little,
01:38and that he was pushing ahead with more frequent successes,
01:41he wrote to Pultemi,
01:42the governor of Coel, Syria and Phoenicia,
01:47to come to the aid of the king's government.
01:50Then Pultemi promptly appointed Nicanor,
01:53son of Patroclus,
01:57one of the king's chief friends,
01:59and sent him in command of no fewer than 20,000 Gentiles
02:02of all nations to wipe out the whole race of Judea.
02:05He associated with him,
02:07Gorgias,
02:08a general in demand of experience in military service.
02:11Nicanor determined to make up for the king
02:13the tribute due to Romans,
02:152,000 talents,
02:16by selling the captured Jews into slavery.
02:18So he immediately sent to the towns on the seacoast,
02:21inviting them to buy Jewish slaves,
02:23and promising to hand over 90 slaves for a talent,
02:27not expecting the judgment from the almighty
02:29that was about to overtake him.
02:33Word preparation for battle.
02:40What's that?
02:41So what do we have to say so far?
02:46So what did he do?
02:57So Nicanor captured Jews and sold them into slavery.
03:11Word came to Judas concerning Nicanor's invasion,
03:14and when he told his companions of the arrival of the army,
03:17those who were cowardly and distrustful of God's justice
03:21ran off and got away.
03:23Others sold all their remaining property,
03:25and at the same time implored the Lord to rescue those
03:28who had been sold by the ungodly Nicanor
03:30before he ever met them,
03:32if not for their own sake,
03:33then for the sake of the covenants made with their ancestors,
03:36and because he had called them by his holy and glorious name.
03:39But Maccabeus gathered his forces together
03:42to the number 6,000,
03:45and exhorted them not to be frightened by the enemy,
03:48and not to fear the great multitudes of Gentiles
03:50who were wickedly coming against them,
03:52but to fight nobly,
03:53keeping before their eyes the lawless outrage
03:55the Gentiles had committed against
03:57the holy place,
03:59and the torture of the derided city,
04:01and besides,
04:02the overthrow of their ancestral way of life.
04:04For they trust to arms and acts of daring,
04:07he said,
04:08but we trust in the Almighty God,
04:10who is able with a single nod
04:12to strike down those who are coming against us,
04:14and even if necessary,
04:16the whole world.
04:18Moreover,
04:18he told them of the occasions
04:20when help came to their ancestors,
04:21how in the time of Sennacherib,
04:27when 185,000 perished,
04:29in the time of the battle against the Galatians
04:31that took place in Babylonia,
04:33when 8,000 Jews fought along with 4,000 Macedonians,
04:37yet when the Macedonians were hard-pressed,
04:39the 8,000,
04:40by the help that came to them from heaven,
04:42destroyed 120,000 Galatians,
04:45and took a great amount of booty.
04:47Judas defeats Nicanor.
04:49With these words,
04:50he filled them with courage
04:51and made them ready to die for their laws
04:53and their country.
04:54Then he divided his army into four parts.
04:57He appointed his brothers also,
04:58Simon and Joseph and Jonathan,
05:00each to command a division,
05:01putting 1,500 men under each.
05:04Besides,
05:04he appointed Eleazar
05:05to read aloud from the Holy Book
05:07and gave the watchword,
05:09the help of God.
05:11Then,
05:11leading the first division himself,
05:13he joined battle with Nicanor.
05:15With the Almighty as their ally,
05:17they killed more than 9,000 of the enemy
05:19and wounded and disabled most of Nicanor's army
05:22and forced them all to flee.
05:24They captured the money of those
05:25who had come to buy them as slaves.
05:27After pursuing them for some distance,
05:29they were obliged to return
05:30because the hour was late.
05:32It was the day before the Sabbath,
05:34and for that reason
05:35they did not continue their pursuit.
05:36When they had collected the arms of the enemy
05:38and stripped them of their spoils,
05:41they kept the Sabbath,
05:42giving great praise and thanks to the Lord,
05:44who had preserved them for that day
05:46and allotted it to them
05:47as the beginning of mercy.
05:49After the Sabbath,
05:50they gave some of the spoils
05:52to those who had been tortured
05:53and to the widows and orphans
05:54and distributed the rest
05:56among themselves and their children.
05:58When they had done this,
05:59they made common supplication
06:00and implored the merciful Lord
06:02to be wholly reconciled with his servants.
06:04Judas defeats Timothy and Bacchides.
06:08In encounters with the forces
06:10of Timothy and Bacchides,
06:11they killed more than 20,000 of them
06:13and got possession of some
06:15exceedingly high strongholds,
06:17and they divided a large amount
06:19of plunder,
06:20giving to those who had been tortured
06:21into the orphans and widows
06:22and also to the aged
06:24shares equal to their own.
06:26They collected the arms of the enemy
06:27and carefully stored all of them
06:29in strategic places.
06:31The rest of the spoils
06:32they carried to Jerusalem.
06:33They killed the commander
06:34of Timothy's forces,
06:36a most wicked man,
06:37and one who had greatly
06:38troubled the Jews.
06:39While they were celebrating
06:41the victory in the city
06:41of their ancestors,
06:43they burned those who had set fire
06:44to the sacred gates,
06:47Calisthenes, and some others,
06:48who had fled into one little house.
06:50So they received the proper reward
06:52for their impiety.
06:54The thrice accursed Nicanor,
06:56who had brought up
06:56the thousand merchants
06:57to buy the Jews,
06:59having been humbled
06:59with the help of the Lord
07:00by opponents whom he regarded
07:02as of the least account,
07:04took off his splendid uniform
07:05and made his way alone
07:07like a runaway slave
07:08across the country
07:09until he reached Antioch,
07:11having succeeded chiefly
07:12in the destruction
07:13of his own army.
07:14So he who had undertaken
07:16to secure tribute
07:17for the Romans
07:18by the capture
07:19of the people of Jerusalem
07:20proclaimed that the Jews
07:21had a defender
07:22and that therefore
07:23the Jews were invulnerable
07:24because they followed
07:26the laws ordained by him.
07:30So that is
07:35Maccabees 2.8.
07:36Yeah.