The so-called “Christian” holidays, Christmas and Easter, were not observed by the Apostles or the Christian assemblies they founded until centuries after the Apostolic age. These holidays were devised by Rome in order to separate Christianity from its Jewish-Israelite foundation, and to attract the worshippers of the pagan gods. Certain points of the Christian Faith were blended with specific pagan holidays, trappings, and rituals. Yet God says to His people in the last days regarding Rome (Mystery Babylon), “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities” (Revelation 18:4-5 NKJ).
However, the sacred memorials of Christianity, which have been so polluted with pagan trappings, ought to be remembered and acknowledged by faithful Christians, including the birth, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. These important truths, along with others which relate to Jesus’ first and second comings and the Kingdom Hope, were all prefigured in “the Feasts of the Lord” which God instituted in Leviticus 23 – 25. Jesus honored all of them with His disciples. Paul stated that the Law of Moses was given as a tutor to lead Israel to Jesus Christ. This is precisely what the Feasts were intended to do, illustrate the Gospel and the true Christian Hope using allegories and symbols. Most of the Feasts (all but the Day of Atonement) will also be celebrated in the coming Kingdom. Why then do most Christians discard God’s Feasts and instead participate in the cheap and polluted substitutes provided by “Mystery Babylon, the Mother of Harlots”?
The so-called “Christian” holidays, Christmas and Easter, were not observed by the Apostles or the Christian assemblies they founded until centuries after the Apostolic age. These holidays were devised by Rome in order to separate Christianity from its Jewish-Israelite foundation, and to attract the worshippers of the pagan gods. Certain points of the Christian Faith were blended with specific pagan holidays, trappings, and rituals. Yet God says to His people in the last days regarding Rome (Mystery Babylon), “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities” (Rev. 18:4-5 NKJ).
We are not under the jurisdiction of the Law of Moses, but the Law of Christ, the New Covenant. This Covenant does not specifically compel us to observe all the Feasts, only Passover (1 Corinthians 5:6-8). Yet, since all of the Feasts point backward to God’s mighty acts in history, and look forward to Christ, His mission, and the Christian Hope, functioning as a “tutor,” we should not ignore them or replace them.
Rome’s cheap and commercialized counterfeit holidays, during which the ungodly celebrate with drunkenness, revelry, fornication, and sports (just as the pagans did on those holidays long ago), have nothing of value towards godliness, or remaining focused on “the Hope set before us, our anchor of the soul” (Heb. 6:19). Paul wrote that “Every Scripture is God-breathed and useful for teaching, for admonishment, for correction, for instruction in justice, so that the man of God may be complete, fully equipped for every good endeavor” (2 Timothy 3:16-17 LGV). This is certainly true of the “Feasts of the Lord” which strengthen our faith, give us an annual reminder of God’s entire redemptive plan, and provide hope and endurance for the coming storm.
Living as a Christian in this World 