should Christians celebrate the Feasts?
08-01-2007, 10:04 AM
The Hebrew word for Feast is "chag" meaning festivial or pilgrim festival with other nuances as well. It's root word is chagag meaning to hold a feast or make pilgramage, and to celebrate and dance even stagger. Thus in Deut. 14 where Torah states that we can use the tithe of the first and second years for whatever our heart desires, EVEN strong drink!
A fast, such as Yom Kippur, is a feast. We should not look at it as a time sulking, as even Yeshua told us to not fast as the Pharisees fast, drawing attention to themselves.
The rest, Purim, Hanukkah, and other various Fast days are addons or minor feasts. We see Purim very plainly in Esther, yet not a solid command to observe it in Torah.
The Feasts of YHVH are referred to as ha (the) moedim (appointed times). It can be traced back even into Abraham's life when he fed the Angel of YHVH. I believe, as Yah keeps an impeccable timetable, it was the day previous to Passover and the beginning of Unleavened Bread. Sarah makes enough bread for an army. Then the two angels go down to Lot's and see who they might passover prior to destruction. Notice that Lot feeds them unleavened bread..... A beautiful foreshadow of the Passover out of Egypt.
Alas, atonement is still realized in Yom Kippur and will be even more so in the millinial reign to come, as we will see the Shadow of then, and they saw the Foreshadow of before us. You could look at the time of Messiah as high noon, no shadow, but the real thing happening.
A fast, such as Yom Kippur, is a feast. We should not look at it as a time sulking, as even Yeshua told us to not fast as the Pharisees fast, drawing attention to themselves.
The rest, Purim, Hanukkah, and other various Fast days are addons or minor feasts. We see Purim very plainly in Esther, yet not a solid command to observe it in Torah.
The Feasts of YHVH are referred to as ha (the) moedim (appointed times). It can be traced back even into Abraham's life when he fed the Angel of YHVH. I believe, as Yah keeps an impeccable timetable, it was the day previous to Passover and the beginning of Unleavened Bread. Sarah makes enough bread for an army. Then the two angels go down to Lot's and see who they might passover prior to destruction. Notice that Lot feeds them unleavened bread..... A beautiful foreshadow of the Passover out of Egypt.
Alas, atonement is still realized in Yom Kippur and will be even more so in the millinial reign to come, as we will see the Shadow of then, and they saw the Foreshadow of before us. You could look at the time of Messiah as high noon, no shadow, but the real thing happening.
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