The Miracle of the Hekal (Temple) Menorah: One of the most important miracles that happen in the Beit HaMikdash after Yeshua left this earth was the Menorah in the Beit HaMikdash went out, and would not shine. Every night for 40 years (over 12,500 nights in a row) the main lamp of the Hekal menorah went out of its own accord, no matter what attempts and precautions the priests took to safeguard against this event!

Earnest Martin states:’In fact, we are told in the Talmud that at dusk the lamps that were unlit in the daytime (the middle four lamps remained unlit, while the two eastern lamps normally stayed lit during the day) were to be re-lit from the flames of the western lamp (which was a lamp that was supposed to stay lit all the time it was like the ‘eternal’ flame that we see today in some national monuments or ontop of the Aron HaKodesh where we store our Torah Scrolls).

‘This ‘western Menorah’ was to be kept lit at all times. For that reason, the priests kept extra reservoirs of olive oil and other implements in ready supply to make sure that the ‘western Menorah’ (under all circumstances) would stay lit. But what happened in the forty years from the very year Messiah said the physical Temple would be destroyed? Every night for forty years the western lamp went out, and this in spite of the priests each evening preparing in a special way the western lamp so that it would remain constantly burning all night! (The Significance of the Year CE 30, Ernest Martin, Research Update, April 1994, p.4).

Do you think there is any other explanation?