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• In the end, the Maccabees were that line of faithful priests who rose up against the imposing of Greek language and customs against the Jews. Once they had overcome the Greek armies, they gained the Temple again. History records that they found a small amount of oil which had not been desecrated and polluted by the Greeks, with which they were able to light the Candlestick in the Temple, to cleanse the Temple, and to restore the worship of God in Jerusalem.
• But that small amount of oil should only have lasted one day. As they were told in Daniel, “they shall be holpen [helped] by a little help.” God would make that oil last eight days - just long enough to obtain further clean supplies and continue the lighting of the Candlestick, as an everlasting memorial to the Word of God burning perpetually as a witness of light in that degenerate age.