{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Mormon Maccabees Podcast","title":"The Story and Spirit of the Maccabees: Lessons for the Last Days","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3929,"description":"Welcome to the Mormon Maccabees Podcast! In Episode 1, host Nathanael Maccabee introduces the purpose and values of the show and tells the story behind its name: the Maccabean revolt and the origin of Hanukkah (the Feast of Dedication).\nThe story of the Maccabees, found in 1st and 2nd Maccabees in the Apocrypha, is the story of a covenant people facing a tyrannical empire, a corrupted priesthood, and a great division between those who stayed faithful to Jehovah and those who embraced Hellenism. This episode explores why it carries so many parallels for Latter-day Saints, Book of Mormon readers, and truth-seekers today.\n\nIn this episode:\nThe intentions, focus, and core values of the podcast: seeking truth, protecting freedom and agency, sanctifying ourselves, and rallying around the Book of Mormon\nAntiochus IV “Epiphanes” and the buying and selling of the high priesthood (Jason and Menelaus)\nD&C 121 and Mosiah 11: why authority comes from righteousness, not office\nThe persecution under Antiochus, including the desecration of the temple and the martyrdom of Eleazar and the seven brothers and their mother (2 Maccabees 6–7)\nThe idea of expiatory martyrdom and hope in the resurrection\nCovenant theology: why God permits covenant curses, how the law of justice works (Alma 42, D&C 88), and what it means that God is a “jealous” God (Hebrew qanna’)\nMattathias, the flight into the wilderness, and the rise of Judah Maccabee (“the Hammer”)\nJudah’s faith-filled leadership at Emmaus: 3,000 men against a vastly larger army\nThe cleansing and rededication of the temple, and the origin of Hanukkah\nConnections to our day: apostate leadership, propaganda, persecution, the wheat and the tares, the gathering, and the transition from chaos and division to unity and power\nThe spectrum of “awakening” among Latter-day Saints, and why everyone who is seeking truth is welcome here\nReflective questions: What would you do if Mattathias were alive today?","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/k35mZCNLpBpbvN3d_Rf4h8GkEU8F8sX0IIZtnxfdVZ0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85YWEy/ZWJkNGU0OGFlZmE3/ZGFhZWE1NTNjZjcy/ZGE4Yy5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}