Striving Zealously on Behalf of Judaism (2Macc. 2:21)

In the days of the Maccabees there was a great apostasy from Torah. Men arose who were “lawless” (Torah-less) (1Macc. 1:11, 15) and left their sons uncircumcised (1Macc. 1:48) Many forsook the Torah joined them (1Macc. 1:52).

These men were much like Christians today who teach that the Law had been abolished and teach against circumcision. This anti-Torah group even sought to ban the Torah:

“The books of the Torah which they found they tore to pieces and burned with fire. Where the Book of the Covenant was found in the possession of any one adhered to the Torah, the decree of the king commanded him to death.”
(1Macc. 1:56-57)

Likewise today a group of dispensationalists who teach that the Law is not for today, an ostensibly Christian group called “The Way International” is suing us “praying” that the Court grant a similar preliminary and permanent injunction against our Hebraic-Roots Version of the Scriptures (death sentence excepted) “restraining and enjoining" us from "manufacturing, printing, producing, distributing, importing, exporting, transporting, circulating, selling, offering for sale, or otherwise disposing of the HRV" and asking "That the court order the destruction of all copies of the HRV of all plates, matrices, masters, tapes, film negatives, or other articles by means of which copies may be reproduced, including but not limited to electronically stored copies."
(The Way International vs. James Trimm and the Society for the Advancement of Nazarene Judaism (SANJ) 4-09 CV-338-A 2009 Complaint pp. 20-22 ironically in a section titled “Prayer”)

Antiochus Epiphanies was opposed by the Maccabees of whom 2Maccabees says “those who strove zealously on behalf of Judaism” (2Macc. 2:21).

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