As a jew I feel qualified to answer this and here goes:
When gentiles who are in the hebrew roots movement claim to be keeping the jewish feasts sabbaths and holy days, very rarely do they know what is involved in 'keeping' these. Its not merely not working on a specific day, a lot of the feasts include animal sacrifices and other type of sacrifices.
Now we all know these hebrew roots guys do not do those things, why is that? Because they realize Jesus was the one and only sacrifice so they know animal sacrifices are no longer required, so what they are actually doing is they are ~25% keeping the feasts and holy days and sabbaths.
And thats not how it works, you go 100% or 0%.
Yet another thing this movement overlooks is that the majority of christians today and in the early church were gentiles which means that to require someone to keep jewish feasts etc is a major burden upon them because they dont know how to observe them. Not to mention, many of them are uncircumcised which means they are automatically 'cut off' from the covenant they claim to still be under.
All this to say that if you love the jewish feasts and sabbaths, half-way keep em all you like, I personally still 'keep' the sabbath out of habit, but dont go around asking or demanding others to keep them, certainly dont go as far as the SDA and claim sunday worship is the mark of the beast, thats pure hogwash.
Colossians 2:16 comes to mind as well, and lets not forget Jesus said if ye love me keep MY commandments and He never told anyone to keep the sabbath or holy days. Neither was it asked of Noah or anyone preceding the Mosaic law.
When gentiles who are in the hebrew roots movement claim to be keeping the jewish feasts sabbaths and holy days, very rarely do they know what is involved in 'keeping' these. Its not merely not working on a specific day, a lot of the feasts include animal sacrifices and other type of sacrifices.
Now we all know these hebrew roots guys do not do those things, why is that? Because they realize Jesus was the one and only sacrifice so they know animal sacrifices are no longer required, so what they are actually doing is they are ~25% keeping the feasts and holy days and sabbaths.
And thats not how it works, you go 100% or 0%.
Yet another thing this movement overlooks is that the majority of christians today and in the early church were gentiles which means that to require someone to keep jewish feasts etc is a major burden upon them because they dont know how to observe them. Not to mention, many of them are uncircumcised which means they are automatically 'cut off' from the covenant they claim to still be under.
All this to say that if you love the jewish feasts and sabbaths, half-way keep em all you like, I personally still 'keep' the sabbath out of habit, but dont go around asking or demanding others to keep them, certainly dont go as far as the SDA and claim sunday worship is the mark of the beast, thats pure hogwash.
Colossians 2:16 comes to mind as well, and lets not forget Jesus said if ye love me keep MY commandments and He never told anyone to keep the sabbath or holy days. Neither was it asked of Noah or anyone preceding the Mosaic law.
