The Holy Days: What would Jesus Do?

Ever wonder what happened to the Holy Days? Are Christians still obligated to keep them? Let's look at the Bible, at Jesus Christ, and at the Apostles to learn more.

The Holy Days: What would Jesus Do?

June 11, 2025
Ever wonder what happened to the Holy Days? Are Christians still obligated to keep them? Let's look at the Bible, at Jesus Christ, and at the Apostles to learn more.
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What ever happened to the Holy Days that Jesus Christ kept? What about the Holy Days that His apostles kept–the same Holy Days that they kept right after the death of Jesus Christ. Are the Holy Days that God created and commanded to be observed only meant for a small group of people?

If we open the Bible and go back to Abraham we see that he has a son named Isaac.  Then, Isaac has a son named Jacob. Jacob has 12 sons and only one is named Judah (that would be kind of weird to give a whole bunch of your sons the same name). Then, after the epic wrestling match, the one who later became Jesus Christ gives Jacob a new name–Israel. Israel's 12 sons would become the 12 tribes of Israel and, again, only one of those tribes would be Judah.  

When God first introduced the Ten Commandments as well as the other statutes and judgments, which included all of the Holy Days, God spoke to the entire nation of Israel. The entire nation of Israel! That includes all 12 tribes, not just the one tribe of Judah. The tribe of Judah was never taken aside in some private meeting with special rules to follow. All of the rules: the entire law, all of the statutes and judgments, were for the entire nation–all the people of Israel! 

God said that they were holy and that He commanded these feasts to be observed by, again, the entire nation and by all of their descendants throughout their generations. Then later He tells all of Israel, again all 12 tribes not just the tribe of Judah, He tells all of them that the Sabbath and those Holy Days are the sign of His people as a perpetual covenant and there's nowhere in the Bible when that agreement was broken or replaced by God.

This is why Jesus Christ Himself kept the Holy Days and this is why the apostles and all the disciples of Jesus Christ kept the Holy Days. Not because they were Jewish, which only some of them were, but because they were the people of God who had committed themselves to obey God and this is why we still keep these Holy Days today. 

Yes a bunch of us crazies out here still keep the Holy Days! In the spring we observe the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, then a couple months later we keep the Feast of Pentecost, and finally in the fall we keep the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles.

In the future, these same Holy Days will also be kept by every nation during the millennial reign of Jesus Christ on the earth. Those who don't, well,  they face serious consequences. Since God is the same yesterday, today, and forever He doesn't change–at all.

Maybe we shouldn't make changes to His Word. We don't add to it, we don't take anything away from it, we just keep doing the things that He did. Including those special days set aside for worship. Will you keep the feast this year? Give it a shot.

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