Should We Still Keep the Feasts

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Should We keep The Feasts


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Bookends

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You know that Jesus is never recorded as telling anyone to keep the feasts but it is evident that He kept them. We should however do as He did.

John 7:2 and 14 Now the Jews' feast of tabernacles was at hand. Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.

Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
He kept them because He was a Jew before the New Convent was implemented and His earthly ministry wasn't over. Jesus is the fulfillment of all these things. If was so important to keep the feast, Jesus would have made it sure by telling us after His resurrection. Jesus wouldn't have been silent if was such an important thing.
 

KohenMatt

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Oh, you mean the commands to Israel?
Some people make the distinction between Israel and Gentiles. I do not. Both are God's people, and the commands to one apply to the other equally.
 
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This entire thing sounds like a big family meeting with Dad (the Lord) saying we should have certain holidays and giving when and how and the rebellious kids pulling everything Dad ever said apart so they can excuse having holidays as they prefer them, being rebellious. I like the ones telling Dad that he told the older siblings (Israelites) about it, not us. Or how Dad wasn't explicit enough when he told them so there were loop holes in the words he used.
 

KohenMatt

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God didn't command us to keep the feasts, only the OT Israelites before Christ's death and resurrection.
Some people make the distinction between Israel and Gentiles. I do not. Both are God's people, and the commands to one apply to the other equally.
 
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Mitcheeboy

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For all you people that do not like the Jewish Feasts go to eternal rhythm flow.com no spaces or erfministries. The Rapture will happen because of Feasts of Trumpets. A Christian Jew can tell you what day things will happen, they just don't know the year. Most Christians I think do not read the OT should we forget about it, God forbid.
 
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JesusIsAll

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Some people make the distinction between Israel and Gentiles. I do not. Both are God's people, and the commands to one apply to the other equally.
So then what other nation(s) or people(s) did God ever put under the Mosaic laws of the Old Testament? For that matter, when was the Mosaic law even delivered to the likes of China or Tahiti?
 

Bookends

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Where does He tell us not to?

1Pe 2:21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

We should follow in His steps. (But not do what He did?)

What did He do?

Luk 4:16 And he came into the Nazareth, where he was having been brought up; and entered, according to the custom to him in the day of the sabbaths, into the synagogue; and stood up to read.

What did Christ say about the Sabbath?

Mar 2:27 And he said to them: The sabbath because of the man was made, not the man because of the sabbath.
Mar 2:28 So that a lord is the son of the man even of the sabbath.

He didn't say "Oops, I made a mistake back there during creation week." now did He?
the example of Paul was to keep the Sabbath...

Act 17:2 And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures,

And the writer of Hebrews plainly tells us to keep it...

Heb 4:9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

And we know what the word for rest here is, it is Sabbatismos...

The Diaglott translates this...

Heb 4:9 Therefore remains a keeping of a sabbath for the people of the God.

My Oxford Bible has "keeping of a Sabbath" in the margin here.

Now show me all the scriptures that say "don't keep the Sabbath, rather keep Sunday".
At the counsel of Jerusalem recorded in Acts for one. And in Colossians 2:16-17

Let No One Disqualify You
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. 17 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.

Can't get much more clearer then that!
 

john832

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He kept them because He was a Jew before the New Convent was implemented and His earthly ministry wasn't over. Jesus is the fulfillment of all these things. If was so important to keep the feast, Jesus would have made it sure by telling us after His resurrection. Jesus wouldn't have been silent if was such an important thing.
Really? So it is a case of do as I say, not as I do?

Well, let me just ask then, where are your commands to keep xmas and Ishtar? and what about the "Lord's Supper", gotta command for that?
 

john832

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At the counsel of Jerusalem recorded in Acts for one. And in Colossians 2:16-17

Let No One Disqualify You
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. 17 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.

Can't get much more clearer then that!
Yep, it is pretty clear, don't let anyone judge you for KEEPING the Sabbath and the Holydays.
 

Bookends

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Some people make the distinction between Israel and Gentiles. I do not. Both are God's people, and the commands to one apply to the other equally.
Colossians 2:16-17 says otherwise. Being a natural Israelite doesn't make a member in God's family, the bible makes that clear!
 

john832

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Isn't it interesting, God calls them HIS Feast days so most professing Christians get apoplectic when someone mentions keeping them.
 

crossnote

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Lev 23:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Lev 23:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.
Lev 23:3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
Lev 23:4 These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.

Either you don't really read the O.T. or yours has a misprint.
no misprint. That's to Israel not the Church.
 

crossnote

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Ah, you mean this one?

Isa 66:23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.

If yours says "Jewish flesh" then it has misprints, if not, then it confirms that you don't really read the O.T., you take what other people say about it for granted.
Now you are talking of the Millennium..still not the Church age.
 

john832

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no misprint. That's to Israel not the Church.
And the church today is not the Israel of God?

Rom 2:28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
Rom 2:29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.

Gal 6:15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
Gal 6:16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
 

john832

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Now you are talking of the Millennium..still not the Church age.
So the Sabbath was God's Feast day, will be God's Feast day but isn't today? Can't make up0 His mind?

Kinda squirming aren't we?