Three Times Thou Shalt Keep...

[whirlwind]

Exodus 23:14-16 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty. And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.

Three specific dates for us to observe. The birth of Christ when He came to dwell in His tabernacle, Sukkot. The crucifixion of Christ, Passover. The return of Christ, Shavuot, when He comes to dwell in His elect.

1. Passover is the feast of unleavened bread that has been corrupted into easter. The dates are close but they are not the same. Christ, the Lamb, was sacrificed on Passover...not easter.


2. Shavuot is the feast of harvest, the firstfruits....Pentecost, also called the "festival of weeks," "festival of reaping," occuring fifty days after Passover in the Hebrew month of Sivon (late May or early June. It marks the anniversary of the day God gave the Torah to Moses at Mt. Sinai.


3. Sukkot is the feast of ingathering, also known as Sukkos, Feast of Booths, Feast of Tabernacles, celebrated on the 15th day of the month of Tishrei, (late September to late October). This feast, as was Passover, has been corrupted to be Christmas.​

 

[mjrhealth]

Unless you are a Jew / israelite, they where never meant for you, the law, feasts where given to the israelites, not to the gentiles, it was all done away with at our Lords resurection. You can choose to keep them if it makes you feel good, but it wont make God aprove of you or love you any more then He already does, all that came about through our Lords sacrifice, and you cannot add to it.

In His Love

 

[whirlwind]

Unless you are a Jew / israelite, they where never meant for you, the law, feasts where given to the israelites, not to the gentiles, it was all done away with at our Lords resurection. You can choose to keep them if it makes you feel good, but it wont make God aprove of you or love you any more then He already does, all that came about through our Lords sacrifice, and you cannot add to it.

In His Love

The words are written for all followers. If we are not genetically of Israel then we are of Israel through adoption by belief. They are written for us.

 

[Christina]

Unless you are a Jew / israelite, they where never meant for you, the law, feasts where given to the israelites, not to the gentiles, it was all done away with at our Lords resurection. You can choose to keep them if it makes you feel good, but it wont make God aprove of you or love you any more then He already does, all that came about through our Lords sacrifice, and you cannot add to it.

In His Love

These are God holidays not just Jewish holidays thats why they were brought into Christiany at all even though the church mixed them with pagon holidays and renamed them. They were given to us by God

thanks for this post Whirlwind

 

[Nomad]

Not everything in Scripture applies directly to us today. As the Apostle Paul clearly points out, the festivals given to Israel were types and shadows fulfilled in Christ and meant to lead to Christ who is the very substance of them. The Mosaic covenant and all that it entailed, such as the festivals in question, was meant to pass away once fulfilled in Christ. It now behooves us to embrace Christ's New Covenant institutions and leave the types and shadows behind.

Col 2:16 Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath.
Col 2:17 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.

Heb 8:13 In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

 

[whirlwind]

These are God holidays not just Jewish holidays thats why they were brought into Christiany at all even though the church mixed them with pagon holidays and renamed them. They were given to us by God

thanks for this post Whirlwind

You're very welcome. :)

Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

2:14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;

2:15-17 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.​

I used to understand that as not allowing others to tell us we can't eat pork, or worship on Sunday, or celebrate easter, etc. but....THAT IS NOT WHAT IS BEING SAID. Quite the opposite. He nailed blood ordinances to the cross....as He, the sacrificial Lamb, fulfilled them. They have nothing to do with the days we are to observe.

Man can "spoil" us :unsure: with their traditions... their chosen days to worship and celebrate, which are different than those of the Father. So where it is written to "let no man judge us" means we are to follow the edicts of our Father...not man. Don't allow them to judge the days we follow. We are the "body of Christ," and the days chosen are a shadow telling us of His times....birth, death and return.

For instance....the day He nailed the ordinanes wasn't easter...it was Passover.