Did you know The Lord asked us to keep the Feasts Days?
Updated: Feb 11, 2023
Do you know that Christ and Paul observed the feasts laid out in Leviticus 23?
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We have been commanded to keep the feasts days for all of our generations Lev 23:14, 21, 31, 41. ...it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
for ever-H5769 olam- long duration, continuous existence, everlasting, indefinite, unending future.
We've been told that since the death and resurrection of Christ we no longer have to keep the laws of God nor the Holy Days. We've been mislead, lied to, lead astray. We are the apostate church IF we do not have the faith of Christ and are not keeping the laws of God and observing the Holy days of the Lord.
Preachers will take you to Colossians 2:14-17 as their justification to no longer keep the feasts or laws.
"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; 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."
Let's look at this set of verses.
1st this passage was written after Christ was already ascended into heaven, so why mention the part about not letting someone judge you for your meat, drink, in respect of an holy day, new moon, or sabbath days IF we were no longer to keep them? The way this reads is IF we come into persecution for keeping these things we are to push through and continue.
2nd what was blotted out? the ordinances which was against us. So what was against us? Sin and death was against us. The act of making sacrifices for sin was against us, and we both agree that Christ took the need to continue animal sacrifice away from us with his sacrifice, and Daniel 9:27 says that sacrifice and oblations will be ceased.
It goes on to say that He spoiled principalities and powers and triumphed over them, what does this mean? He won. He proved them wrong. He beat the hypocrites, the jews, the gentiles through his resurrection after 3 days and 3 nights.
And finally says let no MAN judge you in meat, drink, in respect of Holy Days, new moons or sabbath days, that we are to continue to observe these things regardless of what everyone else is doing or saying. why?
Because these are a shadow of things to come; meaning that these observances are a shadows of things to come. A shadow after the death and resurrection of Christ. A shadow of the future. We are to keep them as a memorial to honor our creator as instructed.
We've used this verse for far to long the wrong way.
Judge does not mean abolish, it simply means judge, allowing someone to hold it against you, to condemn you, to have an opinion of you.
A shadow of things yet to come, not a shadow of things that have already happened (Christ coming and ascension)
Jesus said in Luke 22
18 For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.
We've been taught that this means when he goes to heaven after crucifixion, but other scriptures clarify it means when he comes again, and sin is destroyed.
Matthew 5
17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. G4137 Pleroo-Fulfil means to accomplish, to carry out, to carry into effect, to bring to realization, to bring to pass, ratify, accomplish (None of these words means to complete and abolish)
18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
The heaven and earth must be destroyed before the law is fulfilled. That hasn't happened yet.
19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
21 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
Jesus participated in the feasts, just not the sacrifices, proven with the last supper which was Passover, traveling to Jerusalem for the feasts.
What about Acts 18:21 "But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus."
Why would Paul say he must keep this feast if we are not to keep them anymore?
1 Cor 5:8 " Therefore Let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth."
Why say again here to keep the feast if we are not supposed to anymore?
Let us keep the feast and remember what Jesus has done for us. This is special time spent with the Lord at the appointed times of the year. Or would you rather spend it with the lost and wicked honoring Halloween, Christmas/winter solstice, and Easter/Ishtar on Non appointed days like those and Sunday all established under Constantine and the Catholic anti christ Church?
Our belief is what is being fought for here, simply put.
Most of us have been taught that the new covenant came with new rules and the old are done away with, but if we review scriptures each new covenant kept the existing rules while adding new rules as God never changes, he has always wanted us to willingly love him and obey with a joyful heart. He has said in both testaments (Jer 31:31-34 and Heb 8:10) that he'd write his laws in our hearts, that he will give salvation, and that his spirit is with us. We make it seem that all these are new and the old testament characters had to live without. Yes we have the Comforter, the Spirit of Truth which Christ sent after he ascended that anyone can acquire (those who have the faith of Christ and keep the commandments) while in the old testament only a chosen few had the Spirit of God to lead and guide them.
Christ even said that the law will not be destroyed until heaven and earth passes away, but we can't seem to grasp that concept.
Why do we think that we can gain eternal life without keeping the commandments as the Bible says?
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