Holy Days not Holidays

Leviticus 23—This chapter lists all of God’s annual Holy Days.

Deuteronomy 12:30-31—Don’t worship God the way other nations worship their gods.

Jeremiah 10:2-11—Don’t learn the customs the pagans used to worship their gods.

Zechariah 14:16-19—In the millennium we will all keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

Matthew 26:17-29—Jesus kept the Passover and added new symbolism (bread and wine)  to it.

Matthew 15:9—We worship God in vain when we teach for doctrine the commandments of men.

Mark 7:7-13—We should not teach the commands of men over the commands of God.

John 2:13—Jesus kept the Passover.

John 7:2, 10, 14, 37-38—Jesus kept the Feast of Tabernacles.

John 13:1-17—Jesus also adds the symbolic act of foot washing to the Passover.

Acts 2—The Holy Spirit comes upon the church on the Day of Pentecost.

Acts 12:3—The writer mentions Unleavened Bread here because it was still important to the early Christian’s.

Acts 20:6—They sailed after Unleavened Bread because they probably kept the Feast with other Christian’s.

Acts 20:16—Paul wanted to hurry back to Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Pentecost.

Acts 27:9—They mention the fast of the Day of Atonement here.  They mention it because they were obviously still keeping the Holy Day.

I Corinthians 5:7-8—The early church kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

I Corinthians 16:8—He probably mentions Pentecost because he would keep the Feast before moving on.

Colossians 2:16—The Colossian church kept the Holy Days.

Revelation 11:15-19—The final trumpet blast signifies Christ’s second coming.  We believe the Feast of Trumpets symbolizes this.