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Do a study on Levitical defilement. If a man entered a heathen house and was thereby defiled in the morning, he would be defiled for the rest of the day. However, he could take a ritual bath at sunset, and with the beginning of the new day his defilement would end. So think about it. All meals...

Again, that's not correct. New Testament observance of Passover according to Josephus and according to the Talmudic Tractate Pesachim, were sacrificed on the afternoon of Nisan 14 between the hours of 2:00 and 5:00 and the Passover was eaten that night, the beginning of Nisan 15. Contemporary...

I wouldn't judge observing Mosaic feasts to be dishonoring Christ, but rather I think it is a weak and immature way to honor Christ. That depends. If it is done as a religious duty without sincere faith, or as a fix to gain salvation without living a life trusting in and depending on the...

The Mosaic feasts were not "remembrances" of Christ. They were remembrances of things God had done in the past, during Old Testament times. The Lord's Supper is the "remembrance" of Christ, and the things God has done during New Testament times. The Lord's Supper is the only remembrance of...

The Old Covenant was the promise, the betrothal. The New Covenant is the promise fulfilled, the marriage. So I would have to disagree, being married means the old relationship of being betrothed ended. I don't agree. What exactly do you think the whole point of the feasts were? They were days...

Ah, I think this is really the crux of the matter. I don’t know which came first, the legalism or the anti-Christianism, or perhaps they worked together, but that must be what has drawn you away from the simplicity of the Gospel and prevented you from maturing in the faith. You left out the...

It's more than that. The Lord's Supper is the New Covenant celebration of ALL the feasts, and ALL the sacrifices. It is rather mind-blowing that all those myriads of Old Covenant commandments and ordinances concerning all those feast days and the manifold accompanying sacrifices and offerings...

"They are valuable illustrations of spiritual realities." So are the sacrifices. That same argument could be used to justify sacrificing and eating a lamb at Passover, "all the while knowing it's an illustration of ..." I understand your point but I think there is more to it than what you...

That is not possible. The Passover lambs were slain on the afternoon of Nisan 14 and eaten at the Seder that night, the beginning of Nisan 15 and the first of seven feasts when the people ate unleavened bread. According to Matthew, Mark, and Luke, the disciples prepared the passover (which would...

I assume others are also interested in these issues. No? In Christ, Pilgrimer

I referenced Exodus 12:16 which states that on the festival sabbaths certain work was allowed to be done, so the festival sabbath commandments were less strict. On weekly sabbaths however, no work at all could be done, not even on a feast day to prepare the feast, thus the weekly sabbath...

While I understand your intent, I don't think I would go that far. I think the feasts of the Law are every bit as applicable to Christians as are the sacrifices and offerings of the Law. Not in the sense that we practice the Mosaic festivals any more than we practice Mosaic sacrifices. We don't...

The law allowed the Jews to do that work which was necessary to observe the feast even on the first and seventh days of the feast when other work was not allowed. Because there were so many pilgrims in Jerusalem for the feasts, particularly for the Passover, shops would be open to allow the...

It might not be a good idea to get doctrine from Yahoo. The sabbath that John was referring to being a high day was the weekly sabbath which commandments superseded the festival commandments. Festival sabbaths were considered lower or lesser sabbaths because on those sabbaths the law allowed...

"Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; but they were...

I think your difficulty may be arising from trying to understand these things based on your interpretation of the phrase "in the heart of the earth" and assuming it means how long Jesus would be in the tomb. I think that is a problem because on numerous occasions Jesus specifically told the...

Because in New Testament times the night was divided into four watches for military purposes. The Temple also kept watches throughout the night, a contingent of priests making regular rounds of the Temple precincts to ensure nothing unclean had managed to steal into the courts, polluting the...

Actually, that's a mis-translation. The Hebrew does not say "in the evening at sunset," it says "in the evening, at the going down of the sun." This refers to the period when the sun has passed the zenith and begins to descend or go down in the sky toward the horizon, or 12:00 p.m. Thus the...

No, twilight in both Hebrew and English refers to the period just after sunset while there is still light, whatever hour on the clock that might occur, and it changes throughout the year, earlier in winter, and later in summer as far as the clock goes. It is the period also called dusk, and an...

Technically, every day ( as well as the beginning of months) began when the observers in Jerusalem were able to discern the first evening star in the eastern sky. This information would then be telegraphed throughout the country via signal fires. When the Jews saw the light of the fire, they...