April 8, 2026 (Gregorian calendar/4th month/Day 97)
Wednesday, 30 Megabit 2018 (Ethiopian calendar/7th month)
ˀAbīb (Abib) אבב 15 (Enochian calendar/1st month/Green ears of grain)
~ Unleavened Bread/High Sabbath/The EXODUS/Yeshua crucified/
Chag HaMatzot 1
14 April, 2026 (International Fixed calendar)
Planetary Moon 10, Alpha 5 (13 Moon calendar/Last Quarter moon)
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Month of the Flower Moon…Ka wa ni (Cherokee moon)
Alder Moon: March 18 – April 14 (Celtic 13 Month calendar/4th month)
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Baby Massage Day, Draw A Picture of a Bird Day
2 Maccabees 4:1-22
1 The Simon mentioned above as the informer about the funds against his own country slandered Onias as the one who incited Heliodorus and instigated the whole miserable affair.
2 He dared to brand as a schemer against the government the man who was the benefactor of the city, the protector of his compatriots, and a zealous defender of the laws.
3 When Simon’s hostility reached such a pitch that murders were being committed by one of his henchmen,
4 Onias saw that the opposition was serious and that Apollonius, son of Menestheus, the governor of Coelesyria and Phoenicia, was abetting Simon’s wickedness.
5 So he had recourse to the king, not as an accuser of his compatriots, but as one looking to the general and particular good of all the people.
6 He saw that without royal attention it would be impossible to have a peaceful government, and that Simon would not desist from his folly.
7 But Seleucus died, and when Antiochus surnamed Epiphanes succeeded him on the throne, Onias’ brother Jason obtained the high priesthood by corrupt means:
verse 7: Seleucus died: he was murdered by Heliodorus.
Antiochus Epiphanes was his younger brother.
Onias’ brother showed his enthusiasm for the Greek way of life
(v. 10)
by changing his Hebrew name Joshua,
or Jesus, to the Greek name Jason.
8 in an interview, he promised the king three hundred and sixty talents of silver, as well as eighty talents from another source of income.
9 Besides this he would undertake to pay a hundred and fifty more, if he was given authority to establish a gymnasium and a youth center for it and to enroll Jerusalemites as citizens of Antioch.
verse 9: Youth center: an educational institution
in which young men were trained both in Greek intellectual culture
and in physical fitness. Citizens of Antioch:
honorary citizens of Antioch, a Hellenistic city
of the Seleucid Kingdom that had a corporation
of such Antiochians, who enjoyed certain political
and commercial privileges.
10 When Jason received the king’s approval and came into office, he immediately initiated his compatriots into the Greek way of life.
11 He set aside the royal concessions granted to the Jews through the mediation of John, father of Eupolemus (that Eupolemus who would later go on an embassy to the Romans to establish friendship and alliance with them); he set aside the lawful practices and introduced customs contrary to the law.
verse 11: Eupolemus: one of the two envoys
sent to Rome by Judas Maccabeus (1 Mc 8:17)
1 Maccabees 8: 17
So Judas chose Eupolemus, son of John, son of Accos,
and Jason, son of Eleazar, and sent them to Rome
to establish friendship and alliance with them.
12 With perverse delight he established a gymnasium at the very foot of the citadel, where he induced the noblest young men to wear the Greek hat.
verse 12: Since the gymnasium, where the youth exercised naked
(Greek gymnos), lay in the Tyropoeon Valley to the east of the citadel,
it was directly next to the Temple on its eastern side.
The Greek hat: a wide-brimmed hat, traditional headgear of Hermes,
the patron god of athletic contests; it formed part
of the distinctive costume of the members of the “youth center.”
13 The craze for Hellenism and the adoption of foreign customs reached such a pitch, through the outrageous wickedness of Jason, the renegade and would-be high priest,
14 that the priests no longer cared about the service of the altar. Disdaining the temple and neglecting the sacrifices, they hastened, at the signal for the games, to take part in the unlawful exercises at the arena.
15 What their ancestors had regarded as honors they despised; what the Greeks esteemed as glory they prized highly.
16 For this reason they found themselves in serious trouble: the very people whose manner of life they emulated, and whom they desired to imitate in everything, became their enemies and oppressors.
17 It is no light matter to flout the laws of God, as subsequent events will show.
18 When the quinquennial games were held at Tyre in the presence of the king,
19 the vile Jason sent representatives of the Antiochians of Jerusalem, to bring three hundred silver drachmas for the sacrifice to Hercules. But the bearers themselves decided that the money should not be spent on a sacrifice, as that was not right, but should be used for some other purpose.
20 So the contribution meant for the sacrifice to Hercules by the sender, was in fact applied to the construction of triremes by those who brought it.
verse 20: Triremes: war vessels with three banks of oars.
21 When Apollonius, son of Menestheus, was sent to Egypt for the coronation of King Philometor, Antiochus learned from him that the king was opposed to his policies. He took measures for his own security; so after going to Joppa, he proceeded to Jerusalem.
verse 21: Philometor: Ptolemy VI, king of Egypt,
ca. 172 to ca. 145 B.C.
22 There he was received with great pomp by Jason and the people of the city, who escorted him with torchlights and acclamations; following this, he led his army into Phoenicia.
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