Why Don't Christians Celebrate Jewish Feasts? | Hard Questions

The HARD QUESTIONS panel looks back into history at the significance of the Jewish feasts, and asks why modern Christians do not place more (if any) emphasis on these historically important dates.

[linda]

They are Gods Holy days, not the "Jewish Feasts" Let's call them what God calls them, HIS Holy Days.

[dutchman]

You guys always forget the front of the book and how the feasts are prophetic. They are Yahwehs feasts not the Jews.

[peacelove]

I think it's unhealthy how people say "we dont need to do this". I love God and i want to honor God for all the works.

[ellenjones]

Also, YHVH said that they were everlasting Feast days and Sabbaths.

[Pinkangelinmenard]

wouldn't that be awesome if we could build a church, a body of people, who celebrated all of Gods holidays and the true Sabbath????

[EdDoss]

I am encouraged to see the Christian world embrace the feasts.

[ej]

I am amazed. I have been studying the Feast and the Sanctuary and realized that the more you understand these feasts in relation to the sanctuary you will understand the plan of salvation and return of Christ.

[sunflower]

These are not only Jewish traditions. These are commanded for ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. All His Set-apart children. ALL 12 tribes. Not only for the Jews.

[FaithandActiondotnet]

More & more Christians are awakening to the symbolism of God & his Spirit & the living connection between the original Covenant & the re-newed Covenant. My reading of Scripture led me to keep the 4th Commandment proper, & that, plus further objective reading of Scripture, compelled me to keep the Feasts. And the very night I committed to the Feasts, God gave me a physical healing. And I have only grown in conviction about God's Holy Days being His will for His people to keep in sincerity & truth (1 Cor. 5:8), & the deeper my relationship with the Father has been & continues in. Praise the Lord for leading us into all Truth!!

[jeanjo]

Title are not Feasts of the Jews.
Reread Leviticus 23. They are the Feasts of YHVH, for all who follow the one true God and for all generations. And to follow Y'shua would be to keep the Feasts as He did.

[ellenjones]

The Feasts are ELOHIM'S, not the Jewish Feasts.

[siccs]

Paul said KEEP THE FEAST!! And put down these blasphemous pagan helladays.

[karikari]

I’ve been born again Christian since 1988 I have never heard about any of this stuff about feasts at all.... Then a few months ago I had a dream about the ceiling fans all over my house I thought it was a bit odd and so I looked up the word “fan “ in the Bible. I started to realize that it was related to the harvest and the fanning and winnowing of wheat. I then found a passage in the book of Isaiah which says I will winnow them and carry them away. I believe that God is speaking to me about the end time harvest and the rapture I had no idea about these fees and that is how I know this was from God and that those feasts pertain to us today.

[mosesfraser]

I think mostly is due to ignorance and also not willing to re-study the Bible. In Leviticus, God specifically talks the feast not being, only for the Jews, but they are the feast of the LORD. Any Christian seeking to manifest the full glory of God, will go back to the root of our faith.Christians should stop celebrating pagan festivals that have infiltrated into the church like christmas, easter . These are not God's feast. I will encourage ministers to let go some of the teaching we had in Bible colleges and just be open minded to study the scriptures in the context of the Jewish tradition and we will appreciate the significance of the feast in our lives today.

[ToOpenseven]

What is more important than celebrating these feast days is making sure you are truly born again and a genuine child of God! I find many people who keeps these feasts don’t even truly know God through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

[bridgetteowen]

We must keep the Lord’s feast days. Chuck as the brother beside you said, they are not just Jewish holidays, they are God’s feast days (Lev: 23:1 ) and yes we should go back and do them. This is what Jeremiah says, “stand at the ancient path : where is the good way then walk in it...” let us go back to the ancient paths and OBEY God... it will change your life.. let’s not discuss them and only see symbolism...let’s obey.

[swenett]

Yes we ought to keep the Feasts. They are prophetic and each time we observe them we are invoking the presence of God in our lives. It's not about reading only but applying them.

[CosmicComedyLab]

Sunday and Babylonian days are not to be kept... The apostles kept the Feasts many years after the resurrection... Not Judaism but Tora

[Zazquatch]

Stop calling it "Jewish festivals/feasts". Those are YHWH's feasts = Holy Convocations (Leviticus 23:1-2). Stick to scripture.

[jaydejones]

I wish my church celebrated these... I wish to study each of them carefully before trying them out though. But from what I've read so far, these sound really cool!