FAQs

ANSWER:  John 3:13 “And no one has ascended into heaven except He who came down from heaven, even the son of man, who is in heaven.”  This tells us that no one goes to heaven.  And in Acts 2:34 it says, that David, a man after God’s own heart didn’t go to heaven either.  Verse 34 “For David has not ascended into the heaven, but he himself said. ‘The Lord said to my Lord, sit at my right hand.’”

In Revelation 21 it plainly says that God Himself will dwell among men, not men going to Him.  Let’s read Revelation 21:2 “And I John saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” (3) “And I heard a great voice from heaven say, behold the tabernacle of God is with men and He shall dwell with them, and they shall be His people; and God Himself shall be with them and be their God.”  In fact, I Corinthians 15, known as the resurrection chapter, tells us that we are asleep, awaiting the resurrection.  Read the whole chapter.

ANSWER:  The one big mistake in understanding the Holy Days is the fact that they are not Jewish.  Let’s turn to Leviticus 23:1—“the Lord spoke to Moses saying, speak to the people of Israel and say to them, these are the appointed feasts of the Lord that you shall proclaim as holy convocations; they are my appointed feasts.”  Did you notice it says the feasts of the Lord, and my appointed feasts?  And note that the first Holy Day is the Sabbath.

There are no scriptures in the New Testament telling us not to keep these Holy Days, or that we should keep the pagan holidays such as Easter or Christmas.

Acts 2:1, on the Day of Pentecost, one of the Holy Days, is when the Holy Spirit was given to the apostles.  Paul the apostle to the Gentiles kept the Holy Days.  Acts 18:21 “But took leave of them, saying I must by all means keep the Feast that is coming to Jerusalem.”  In Acts 20:16 it says, “For Paul had decided to sail by Ephesus because he did not want to spend time in Asia, for he hastened in order to be in Jerusalem on the Day of Pentecost if possible.”

In Zechariah 14:16 it says that in the millennial reign of Christ (16) “and it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came up against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.”

Isaiah 66:23 tells us that the Sabbath one of the Holy Days will be kept by everyone in the new earth.  (23)”and it shall come to pass, that from one month to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before Me, says the Lord.”

I Corinthians 5:7-8, tells us that Paul says to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

(7) “Therefore, purge out the old leaven so that you may become a new lump, even as you are unleavened.  For Christ our Passover was sacrificed for us.”  (8) “For this reason, let us keep the Feast not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”

For the Christian the Holy Days are truly important for it shows us clearly the plan of salvation, as we keep them year by year.

ANSWER:  Jesus Christ Himself says in Matthew 5:17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.” (18) “For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not one iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.”  Now it’s safe to say, heaven or earth hasn’t passed away.

But, here is more proof from the Bible.  I John 2:3 “And by this we know that we have come to know Him, if we keep His commandments.”  (4) “Whoever says, ‘I know Him but does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps His word is his truly the love of God is perfected.’”

I John 4:2 “By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey His commandments, and His commandments are not burdensome.”

ANSWER:  In Leviticus 23:32—In Leviticus 23:32—concerning the Day of Atonement it says:

(32) “It shall be to you a Sabbath of rest and you shall afflict yourselves.  In the ninth day of the month at sunset from sunset to sunset you shall keep your Sabbath.”    This is the clearest verse showing when God says when the day begins and ends.  In fact, we can see from the first page of your Bible God says evening and morning one day, etc.  The day begins at sunset, evening time, not midnight as has been the practice since Roman times.

ANSWER:  In Genesis 2:1-3 (1) “Thus the Heaven and the earth were finished and all the host of them.  (2) And by the beginning of the seventh day God finished His work which He had made and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.  (3) And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because on it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.”  God Himself in the beginning set aside the seventh day, note your own calendar and what day that is.  By the way, Sunday is the 1st day of the week.  Now Exodus 20:8-11 reads.  (8)  Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy.  (9)  Six days you shall labor and do all your work.  (10)  But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God.  In it you shall not do any work, you nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your livestock nor the stranger within your gates.  (11)  For in six days the Lord made the heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day.  Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it.  Only the seventh day, Saturday, has a name.  The other days had numbers.  We must remember that mankind calls the Hebrew canon of the Bible the Old Testament and the Greek Christian section called the New Testament.  But the Bible is a whole.  God doesn’t see that division in His Word.  The Sabbath day was never changed.  There is not one verse in the New Testament section that says it was changed.  In fact, we have Paul the apostle to the Gentiles, not Jesus, saying this in Acts 17:2 “And as was the custom with Paul, he went in to them and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the scriptures.”  Many people say in error that Sunday is the Lord’s Day.  But, the Bible says something altogether different.  Mark 2:27-28 says:  (27) And He said to them the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath  (28) Therefore, the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath.  Do you want to worship God on His day?  Then you must worship on the seventh day.  QUESTION:  Why do you say the day begins at sunset instead of 12:00 a.m. midnight?  ANSWER:  In Leviticus 23:32—In Leviticus 23:32—concerning the Day of Atonement it says:  (32) “It shall be to you a Sabbath of rest and you shall afflict yourselves.  In the ninth day of the month at sunset from sunset to sunset you shall keep your Sabbath.”    This is the clearest verse showing when God says when the day begins and ends.  In fact, we can see from the first page of your Bible God says evening and morning one day, etc.  The day begins at sunset, evening time, not midnight as has been the practice since Roman times.