QUESTION: Why do you say we must keep the Jewish Holy Days?

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.