Last updated: 24-5-2007

JEWISH HOLY DAYS


Why should a Christian observe the Jewish holy days, is that not the law and out of date? Far from it! The holy days are all about Yeshua. Tabernacles will be enforced on all peoples by Messiah Yeshua during His millennial reign,
Zech14:16-19
16 And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 17 And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, on them there will be no rain. 18 If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which Jehovah strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

This passage makes it very plain that Tabernacles is not limited to something of the past, nor is it limited to the Jews. Tabernacles is something with a future of 1000 years. What does concern me though is groups that are celebrating this in a big way as if we are already in the millennium. I find need to question where they are going. We are in the dispensation of preaching the Gospel and reaching the lost not the dispensation of celebration and party. That time will come. Psalm 118:25 tells us that prosperity comes after Armageddon. Right now many people are dying out there without Yeshua and we need to do a lot more to reach them. We need to train many people. I sincerely believe the Almighty gave us His holy days to learn about Him and His ways. I truly believe that if more people were not ignorant concerning the holy days there would be a lot less false doctrine floating around. When the holy days are correctly understood, they all fit together like a very neat puzzle and many issues are cleared up.

The Catholic Church replaced the Jewish holy days with her pagan festivals. Refer to The Two Babylons by Rev. Alexander Hislop, ISBN 0-7136-0470-0, for details. Emperor Constantine combined all pagan religions into a universal church for the security of the Roman Empire and had anyone killed who would not submit. “Catholic” means universal. However a Christian or Jew at that time still understood very well that he could not bow down to an idol and chose rather to be a martyr. Some historians estimate as many as 40 million Jews and Christians were martyred at the hands of the Catholic church, historical fact. Today there are Christians who desire to observe the Jewish Passover correctly in order to understand Yeshua and His Gospel better. However many Christians are not being taught by learned Jews and are learning error all over again. My desire is to supply some information here that will assist the sincere person.

For infomation on individual holy days just click on these links:

Passover – 20 April 2008 פסח
Unleavened bread – 21 April 2008
First fruits –
Shavuot – 23 May 2007
Trumpets (rams horns) – 13 Sept. 2007
Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) – 22 Sept. 2007
Succot (Tabernacles) – 27 Sept. 2007
Chanukah (Dedication) – 5 Dec. 2007 - 12 Dec. 2007
Purim – 21,22 March 2008

Additional observed Israeli days are:

Holocaust Remembrance Day - 1 May 2008
Israel Memorial Day - 7 May 2008
Day of Independance for Israel – 8 May 2008
Yom Yerushalayim – 2 June 2008