Holy Days for Christians
Holy Days Therefore purge out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For also Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast; not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (1 Corinthians 5: 7-8) The first few times I read this scripture it made absolutely no sense. “Therefore let us keep the feast” fell completely on deaf ears (eyes, whatever). What in the world can this mean? Apparently we weren’t supposed to stop observing God’s Holy Days. In fact, Jesus actually commanded His disciples to continue keeping the Passover. It is inescapable that Paul taught Gentile converts to keep at least the Passover and Days of Unleavened Bread feasts. The symbols of the Levitical Holy Days are absolutely relevant to Christians. I have even attended services in a church that would never keep one of these days, but still taught the relevance of these days to Christians in our time. Of course, there has to be a change to the observances since Jesus is our Mediator now. He put an end to animal sacrifices for the remission of sins and there is no Temple, Tent of Meeting, or Ark to congregate around. That said, these are Sabbaths so a Christian can refrain from work on these days and have a holy convocation, well if you know other people who observe these days. And if a stranger shall live among you, and prepares the Passover to the LORD, he shall do according to the ordinance of the Passover, and according to its ordinance. You shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger and for him that was born in the land. (Numbers 9:14)
