Are you an observer of the Holy Feast Days?  Are we still under the Feast Day Laws today?  Can we be under the Feast Day Laws as well as accepting the sacrifice of Jesus Christ as the true Sacrificial Lamb at the same time?  According to the Holy Scriptures you cannot be partakers of the Feast Days ordinances, the ordinance of the law, and still accept the atonement of the blood of Jesus Christ.  You will see the sacrificing of animals, going through a high priest, and having to go to Jerusalem three times a year for the feast days has come to an end.

Observing the Feasts Days has become quite a controversy among Christendom in today’s society.  There is no record of the Church of God 7th Day ever keeping the Feast Days.  All those that profess to keep the Feasts today of any church or denomination you wish to name have started to observe them in this century, and most of them in the last 50 years.  The World Wide Church of God was the first Church that started the act of observing the annual feasts, and other churches and organizations followed them, but it has no part in the plan of Salvation.

The feast days are a question that seems to make some people wonder and become confused concerning God’s plan for eternal life.  It is my intention to prove without a doubt, that we as Christians are not required to observe the Holy Days, that was part of the Old Covenant, and they would become obsolete if and when that covenant was abolished.

There were three feasts during the year that had to be kept at Jerusalem by all males, Exodus 34:23.  “Three times a year then, every male among you shall appear before the Lord, your God, in a place which He chooses,” (Deuteronomy 16:16).  Where?  At Jerusalem, men that live in other countries had to travel to Jerusalem to keep those feast days.

There were three feasts that were required to be kept at Jerusalem by all males and they were: the Passover and Unleavened Bread, Feast of Weeks or Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles.  Hence, these feasts came into existence with the Levitical Priesthood and ended with the Priesthood, He, (Christ), canceled the bond that stood against us with all its claims, snatching it up and nailing it to the cross, (Colossians 2:14).  They mark three extended periods in Israel's past history.

First, at Passover in the spring, in the month of Abib, (April), the first green ears of barley were cut, and was a favorite food, prepared as parched corn, but first of all a handful of green ears of corn were presented to the Lord, The First Fruits of Harvest plus an animal sacrifice for a sin offering.  According to Exodus 12:12-14 the Passover came into existence as well as the Feast of the Unleavened Bread

The Passover commemorated the deliverance out of Egypt when the death angel passed over Israel, protecting them from the destroying angel and so achieving for them the first step of independent national life as God’s covenant people.  The Passover was the first in pointing or time of the entire annual feast, and historically and religiously it was the most important of all.  It was called both the Feast of Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the two really forming a double festival.  It was celebrated on the first month of the religious New Year, on the 14th day of Nisan, (April), and commemorated the deliverance of the Jews from Egypt and the establishment of Israel as a nation by God’s redemptive act.