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Mashiach and the Menorah

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 [...]