The Real Spring Celebrations

"Christianity" is preparing for its Easter celebration next month. You will not find any commandment in the Scriptures to celebrate Easter. However, there is a celebration commanded in Shemoth (Exodus) that is an everlasting law. Shemoth 12:14-15 says: "And this day shall become to you a remembrance. And you shall celebrate it as a festival to YHWH throughout your generations--celebrate it as a festival, an everlasting law. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. Indeed on the first day you cause leaven to cease from your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that being shall be cut off from Yisra'el." Verse 24 says: "And you shall guard this word as a law for you and your sons, forever." A fair reading of these verses reveal that this celebration is not an option. There are five "shalls" in the verses indicating that YHWH is giving commands, not options. Yet, how many churches will even discuss Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread? Please don't fall into the anti-Semitic trap that says that Jesus did away with the eternal everlasting commands of His Father. He never would have been disobedient to a command of the Father. He only did what He saw the Father doing. The Father would not have said that the festival was everlasting and to be celebrated forever if He did not intend it to be so.

Another argument against the keeping of the festivals is that they were "Old Testament" and we are "New Testament" believers. You will not find that designation in the Scriptures. I find it interesting that the same preachers that will disregard the "Old Testament" will quickly quote verses in Malachi about tithing. They will use Numbers 13 to teach faith. This approach is like some food menus. You take one from column A and one from column B for your meal. You can't treat YHWH's Word in that manner. An honest reading of the Scriptures concerning Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread will lead you to the conclusion that they are permanent commands. Whatever Yeshua taught the disciples during the forty days, it did not include eliminating the festivals. How do we know? We know because the early church continued the celebrations. Sha'ul testified, "Truly, then, all the Yehudim (Jews) know my way of life from youth, which I led from the beginning among my own nation at Yerushalayim (Jerusalem), since they have known me from the first, if they wish to witness, that I lived as a Pharisee according to the strictest sect of our observance." Ma'asei (Acts) 26:4-5 Pharisees kept the festivals. Sha'ul was a Pharisee. Therefore, Sha'ul kept the festivals.

If you want to be a disciple of Yeshua (Jesus), then you need to do what He did when He walked the earth. In fact, we are instructed to walk as He walked. That walk included Passover and keeping the Biblical feasts. So, who are you following?