Introduction to the Maccabean Revolt (with Jeff Cavins) - The Bible in a Year (with Fr Mike Schmitz)

[@cathumorofficial]

at first I was like, "Oh, it's too long. Another 30min video". After a few minutes, "I can listen on this all day!". Amazing!

[@RallyTheTally]

Prostant here, pretty intrested in going further.

[@SuperRuthJ]

Thank you Jeff Cavins and Fr. Mike. God bless you both!

[@wreloise1]

Wow!!! Don’t give up…epiphany moment…understanding ..Mary!!! “..Mary the new Ark of the Covenant..out of the womb comes the Word of God…. Thank you 🙏🏾❤️🙏🏾

[@josephzammit8483]

Well said! I’m publishing a weekly KZbin video on episodes from the life of Don Bosco, entitled ST JOHN BOSCO by JOE ZAMMIT. In this series I’m narrating events and miracles from the splendid life of Don Bosco. St John Bosco used to perform a miracle almost every day, through the intercession of Mary Help of Christians. From the lives of saints we can learn how to love God more and draw closer to him. Thank you

[@EruIluvatar5]

​@@joseseserda good thing no one worships Mary then, huh!

[@lorrainewilson6278]

I love your mnemonic of EAT A BIG PUPLE GRAPE: Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia and Greece. Love it. Thanks.

[@WashingtonDC99]

Tuesday October 8th, 2024 The Maccabean Revolt. The Bible in a year podcast with Father Mike Schmitz and Ascension Press / presents. God does work in mysterious ways, Deo gratias. Praise the Lord o my soul. My Lord and my God.

[@juliekaszubowski7523]

This is hopeful and the take-away for me is, since Jesus came no man(or woman) can claim the title of peacemaker. Jesus is The Only One. The One and Only. And He Alone Is Prince of Peace. "God has a plan."❤

[@uteme]

Praying for Jen, Julie, Fr. Mike & for all who prepare & participate in BIAY. 🤲🏼🕊Jesus, goodness is at the core of Your heart; may we seek this to reside in us. Help us, Lord God, to repent of sins; to choose Your unwordly path; to receive the Spirit as the Gift You intend. Humble us to live with eternal gratitude. ♡

[@cy7025]

WOW! I absolutely love all the checkpoint videos. I'm so grateful to Jeff Cavins, Fr. Mike, and the entire Ascension team. I am overwhelmed at how much I have learned from all of the checkpoints as well as BIY. "Man oh man, what a gift!" 🙏

[@marilynSnedden-fb2ic]

Jeff, here we are in October of 2024 and our election is less a month away. Our country is at a very difficult period. It is easy to be discouraged especially if our country loses our freedom, faith and morals. Thank you for reminding us not to give up and that God will prevail. In this trying time let us turn to God and trust in him.

[@doglover7675]

I am here Sunday before the election. Actually, Day 309 tomorrow for me, but I came back to listen to this again and more fully understand what we have been discussing.

[@gingerphelan5728]

I appreciate “Do not lose hope” great reminder

[@joannebywaters4154]

Leanings much, so grateful!! From Septugint,Hanukkah, 7 Jewish Maryrs/Jesus/Mary😲, & God doesn't want us to suffer but He does want us to be faithful!!❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏

[@thomism1016]

Your right Jeff. God wins. We’re in His camp and so we win too 🙏🏾

[@thomism1016]

Jeff, with the greatest respect, you know more than most that between the 390’s AD and 1517, a period of 1,200 years the entire Christian body read from one canon of scripture before Martin Luther, on his own authority decided to go with the Jewish canon because aspects of the deutero-canon did not suit his novel brand of theology.

[@yvobalcer]

Your statements are true, Luther did not believe in Purgatory, which points to that in Maccabees.

[@Liberty2357]

And if you want to get technical about it there never was a Jewish canon besides the pentateuch because there was never any one who had the authority to decide. Some Jews thought those were the only holy books and some included the Deuterocanonical books, even today Ethiopian Jews has the Deuterocanonical books as a part of their holy scripture.

[@thomism1016]

@@Liberty2357 Precisely! Which Jewish sect? Pharisaical Judaism, Sadducees, the Yassins etc. Who adjudicates?

[@thomism1016]

@@yvobalcer Prayers for our departed brethren, which is clearly evidenced in 2 Macc. 12 was cited by a debate opponent and right there and then, he flatly rejected and repudiated its authority off hand. The arrogance of the man!!! 😡

[@jmm91910]

Yes, I’m not a Bible expert but it sounded wishy washy to me, we still don’t learn that people is attracted to the truth not to accommodations. 😟

[@kathyfranzoni274]

Thank you Father Mike thank you Jeff cavins it was beautiful explained a lot I've never heard all that before please keep praying for us especially Florida please keep Florida in your prayers it has been devastated down here by the hurricane and Jesus name we pray and I pray for all of you I'm grateful for all of you I'm grateful for father Mike Jeff good night all sweet dreams

[@adelaidawallaert287]

Thank you so much Fr Mike Schmitz for all you do. Thank you so much Mr Jeff Cavins for your message “do not lose hope “ It’s uplifting and promising amidst this chaotic world we live in at present.God bless you both 🙏♥️

[@carolhannah4635]

Thank you again gentlemen for the 'illumination' and for reminding us that God does indeed have a plan so let's not worry or be downcast... He's got our backs...... God bless you both. 🙏 🙏

[@glolagunzad4984]

Thank you Father Mike and Jeff Cavins for sharing your valuable insights. May God bless and keep you both always.

[@cindyb5065]

Worth every second and every word. God bless you Fr Mike and Jeff Cavins for your guidance and wisdom.

[@WashingtonDC99]

Thank you so much for your input / insight. God bless you. This Bible in a year podcast is an amazing gift from Father Mike, Mr. Jeff and Ascension presents. God is always good. God never, never, ever abandoned us. We are the ones who abandoned God. 🙏

[@prolifevoter7356]

The best yet! Thank you Fr Mike n Mr Jeff Cavins. God bless you both. Praying for you both.

[@claudiaorabone9157]

Thank you..These introductions with Jeff r helpful...

[@CK-wc8ow]

Wow, what an interesting insight into the next phase. Thank you Rev Fr Mike and Jeff. This captured my attention completely.

[@janinelinh]

Thank you both. God bless you 🙏✝️💐🕊💕

[@cristero3616]

Wow words cannot describe how eye opening this was. Powerful, thank you.

[@woahdaniel]

Loved this! Jesus reigns forever and ever.

[@dileakadias4727]

Rev Father and Jeff master thank you God bless

[@solomonaster]

Amen Amen Amen. Thank you Jeff and Fr. Mike.

[@jeannemoomaw-ez1xc]

Some time ago I read Maccabees 1 and at that time I just scratched my head and wondered what it was all about. I have watched your podcast the introduction of Maccabees 1 & 2. Now I am very excited to learn what Maccabees has in store for me!

[@lawrencegatti8283]

I know several church goers who are very discouraged about the division and hippocracy that has resulted from politics in our own country. Teading the prophets in BIAY gave me encouragement as I heard God's message in these old writings speak to our times.

[@collinskanazache8682]

Love from Zimbabwe 🇿🇼

[@sheilaforde836]

Wow! Thank you Jeff Cavins and Fr Mike. It's amazing what one learns every day. God bless you all.

[@marianmilne6009]

Thank you both so much for this. It has helped me greatly and is so enlightening. Praying for you and everyone here. God bless 🙏 ❤️ 🙏

[@alexandrabright8350]

Amen. Thank you so much both of you. Although I've already read "The Macchabees" in french, it will be different and with a better understanding that I will follow Father's Mike Bible reading. Thanks again to Jeff with his explanations; I'm looking forward for to-morrow to listen with more interest the following books of the Bible in a year. God bless you all.

[@jeanetteghioto78]

I cannot say how much I love love love this….

[@kathypayne8766]

I needed these words today. God bless you.

[@oh_no_its_a_dekusimp8161]

Very good 😊🙏❤️God bless you all!!❤️❤️

[@peli_candude554]

We WIN!

[@wreloise1]

“Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”” ‭‭John‬ ‭8:12‬

[@MrDarshD]

Such a great discussion about the Roman history and politics, also how God had plans for all of us. * 66 books in the Protestant Canon and 73 books in the Catholic canon- nobody added or removed books. The Septuagint- Greek Old Testament was used until the Reformation and the reformers decided to not go with the Greek but Jewish old testament canon. We must indeed be open to these books and understand that they are part of the history that we must study. *_ Even if Jews don't find Maccabbees as inspired word of God, Hanukkah- that happened in Maccabbees is important for Jews. 25th day of Kislev - 8 nights and days. *_ Old pithy to remember Old Israel enemies- eat a big purple grape- eat = Egypt, a = Assyria, big= Babylon, purple = Persia, and grape = Greece. Then Rome. *_ Alexander the Great - Hellenized the world (Adoption of the Greek culture and Gods). Conquered the world except India! Left the Kingdom to two generals- Ptolemais (tolerant like Alexander) and Seleucids (Antiochus Epiphanes= evil like Ahab and Jezebel). Seleucids going to Modine and forcing Jews to eat pork and desecrated the temple so Jews resisted and revolted against Greeks- Hanukkah- re-dedication of the temple. Feast of Lights as Jesus celebrated it. *_ Maccabbees 2:7 - Martyred Jewish mother with 7 sons for not compromising on God's law about pig meat. Mother saw her sons getting killed - similar to Mother Mary seeing the crucifixion of Jesus. *_ Dr. Scott Hahn and Kimberly's son Jeremiah. Don't let my son suffer as a priest. Well, suffering is a part of how we serve God! *_ Maccabbees 2:12- Sacrifice for the people before us. Alive through Christ in spirit *_ Maccabbees 2: 4 to 7- People hid the Ark in a cave them waited till God gathers His people ( birth of Jesus). Mary is the new Ark of the Covenant *_ The First Triumvirate was formed in 60 B.C.E. by Julius Caesar, Gnaeus Magnus Pompey, and Marcus Licinius Crassus in response to laws being passed by the Senate to try and restrain them and limit their power. *_ Julius Ceasar "proclaiming himself as God" adopted a son called Octavian, who became a part of the The Second Triumvirate was an extraordinary commission and magistracy created at the end of the Roman republic for Mark Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian. Defeating Mark Antony and Lepidus, Octavian became the sole Emperor- as Ceasar Augustus- the prince of peace, son of "god a.k.a. Julius Caesar," and ushered euangelion (good news for the world). - All of this is foreshadowing Jesus! *_ Jeff Cavins is right. We must not lose hope even if we do not see the fruits of our faith. Catechism paragraph 1- God has a plan for us. Politics and social issues are not in the right direction but God will make things right. Thank you for your analysis Fr. Mike, Jeff Cavins and Team Ascension. God bless you and the fellow listeners

[@josephreagan9545]

In my physical Bible there's a footnote that mentions that one of the reasons Maccabees is not in the Jewish Canon is because it portrayed the Romans in a positive light. This is a time period before the Romans were oppressing the Jews hence why they are presented in a positive light in the book of Maccabees. But as the Romans would later oppress the Jews the Jews did not like anything that made the Romans look good, so they no longer recognize the book of Maccabees.

[@stephensjj]

One other aspect of Jews not wanting Maccabees to be in the Masoretic text was the idea that Rome would not look kindly on a story about Jews rising up against foreign oppressors. The history of the various Jewish uprisings in the first century provides a lot of context. “Why Catholic Bibles are Bigger” by Gary Michuta is one of the best books out there on the topic.

[@giarose6493]

Blessings ❤

[@ColdWarPrepper]

One would think that if an empire conquered a land and went to far as to demand that they violate their faith and commandments of that faith, that they would demand that anything be written in their language. It makes perfect sense to me that Jews would write scripture in Greek (during that occupation) in order to have widest dissemination of those scriptures.

[@ochem123]

2 Macchabees Chapter 7 reminds me of ‘Our Lady of Sorrows’

[@wreloise1]

Fellowship with a non-demonstration ministry ..really didn’t question what was going on in the ‘absence of the 400 years’

[@e.danielritter193]

The Early Church is the Orthdox Church. It’s still around today, and has not changed or innovated. Thank you for the explanation in the video!

[@JohnSoh]

I'm way behind but had to skip them just to hear this...these books are personally special. *The intro was informative as well.

[@lawrencegatti8283]

🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@gloriaruiz2332]

Wow 👏🏻❤️

[@wms72]

The ancient books combined Jeremiah and Lamentations, so Catholic Bibles had 72 books, and Protestants threw away 6 and kept 66! JESUS used and quoted from the Septuagint, because the Rabbis at Jamnia didn't throw away the Maccabees,etc, until the 2ndcentury A.D.... The Feast of the Maccabee Martyrs is August 1.

[@patmendell381]

Could someone please name the 7 books in our Catholic Bible that are not in the Protestant Bible. I think I figured out Maccabees 1 and 2, Wisdom and Sirach, but what are the other 3?

[@davekwiecinski]

The other three books are Tobit, Judith, and Baruch. Also, Daniel and Esther are longer.

[@jmjaquinas7298]

Not to be difficult, but accepting the Jewish canon, as utilized by the Jews following the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD, is actually removing books from the Christian canon which is the canon of the Catholic Church

[@dashriprock5720]

I don't understand the years/dates mentioned in 1 Maccabees. were they edited later? What years were they counting? they could not have counting down before the time of Christ

[@Manyanababy]

🙏🏽

[@shamariyah9968]

I came across your channel when I was looking for a audio for 3rd and 4th Maccabees. I thought it was interesting. Do you know Black people are the ancestors of the Israelites in the Bible. We fit the people in Debarim (Dueteronomy) 28 talks about. No other people have been brought to America in ships.

[@shamariyah9968]

Did you know there is also 3rd and 4th Maccabees??

[@krisk6834]

With the limitations of ancient culture including the lack of literacy, difficulties of transportation, cost of bookmaking, etc., I wonder if the reason the Septuagint was used was because it was what they had on hand and easiest to disseminate because it was in Greek (lots of Greek speakers around, easy to find a scribe to copy, etc). I assume textual criticism didn’t exist yet, and early Christians might have been grateful to have any text in any language at all. I imagine it would have been rare indeed to have two copies of the same text in the same place at once to be able to compare them. So I wonder if early versions of the Bible were more likely to be accepted uncritically by Christians, most of whom could not possibly verify them for accuracy. I wonder if the Septuagint came into existence in part just for practical purposes. Verification of texts would have fallen to literate scholars and leaders to determine as they saw the need arise over time. The ancient world was so different from ours.

[@nabilapaules-kiami2978]

The Jewish lady is St shmooni and her sons, in the middle east people celebrate her feast n August... She is very famous

[@diegoallcore]

Interesting to see the rising numbers of priest that are publicly preaching prophetic near future events based on the old testament prophetic echoes. Nice talk!

[@albertaowusu3536]

🙏✝️💕

[@lizcopple]

I have a question. Is there anywhere in the Bible where it says we are supposed to or even allowed to pray to Mary or any other besidesGod, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit? I don’t understand teaching something that isn’t Biblical that I have seen?

[@sunrhyze]

I'm new to this, but from what I understand, you "hail" Mary or another saint in order to get their attention and praise them, basically, and then ask them to pray to God on your behalf. So you're not actually praying "to" the saint.

[@hotwings3]

That’s correct! You ask Our Mother Mary and saints for prayers as you would ask a friend to pray for you. I was raised Baptist and converted 13 years ago and Mary has had a very big part of leading me to her son.

[@haronsmith8974]

Theres plenty of examples of people in scripture asking people from heaven to help them. From the Rich man asking Abraham for assitance, to Judas Maccabees getting a sword from Jeremiah. The Angel says "Hail Mary full of grace" which is the basis for the hail mary.

[@Finnegan708]

Roma caput mundi ! 🇻🇦

[@classicalteacher]

I'm a little disappointed with the "neither" statement. Protestants did take out those books. I was a self-righteous Prot and believed that Catholics added books to the Bible. I converted about 16 years ago and while in RCIA, I went to one of Cavins' talks in the basement of a local Church with about 20 other people! Please don't do this ecumenical "neither" argument. The Catholic Church is the true Church. Prots hate Catholics. I used to teach at a "Christian" University and I was fired after converting. Prots are wrong. Only speak the truth. Never dumb down heretical beliefs in an effort to win them over.

[@nikolabrnada1256]

Even though I agree, we still need people to stay with us and understand the wholesome truth of our faith.

[@classicalteacher]

@@nikolabrnada1256 I'm a fan of St. Athanasius. He stomped on heritics. We have enough problems within the current Catholic Church. We must uphold orthodoxy. We must first convert and catechise our own heretical clergy, fallen away Catholics and nominal Catholics. We have enough on our plate without dumbing down the truth. I converted because of history and hard-line theological facts of Catholicism.

[@nikolabrnada1256]

​@@classicalteacher I wholeheartedly agree my friend. We just cant lose our hearts in the process. Our faith has to be able to reach and teach even the most stubborn and lost sheep. We are all sinners learning the truth on his time, we pray for those who run out of it as well as those looking for it currently. Keep up the good fight brother! God bless

[@run4cmt]

I am Lutheran and I do not hate Catholics. My mom was raised Catholic. I do not agree with all your doctrines, but I love my Catholic brothers and sisters. I do agree that Luther removed these books. I do not think it can be seen any other way. I think Luther was very solid on most of his teachings. But I have an open mind on these books.

[@stephenspain9167]

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[@johncastaldo8635]

why not discuss the fact that orthodox christians have 81 books compared with 73 in the catholic bible

[@KimHmrs]

There are 79 books in the Greek Orthodox Bible, including all the books in the Catholic Bible and appendix, plus Psalm 151 and 3 Maccabees.The Greek Bible also includes 4 Maccabees in an appendix. The Ethiopian Orthodox Bible includes 86 books, including all the books in the Catholic and Greek Orthodox Bibles, plus Jubilees, Enoch, Synodicon, Diddascalia Apostolorum, Testament of the Lord, Qalementus, and 4 Baruch.

[@johncastaldo8635]

@@KimHmrs you should distinguish between Eastern and Oriental Orthodox though.

[@arryserrano4373]

👏👏👏♥️♥️♥️✌️🦋

[@oonwing]

👍

[@rc3088]

There is only one Canon and that is the Catholic Canon

[@dwnwind]

If you can't defend Islam attack the Bible.

[@tigerblood6823]

No where in scriptures does it ever refence Mary as the new tabernacle. This is man's teaching, and it’s not Biblical teaching. Nor does the Bible ever teach to pray or worship Mary because she was chosen to give birth to our Lord and Savior. Not one reference to Mary is made by the Apostles after the gospels Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in the NT.

[@lawrencegatti8283]

The symbolism is inherent in the text.