The following statement in a common encyclopedia should jar the conscience of every Bible-professing believer today: “Early believers celebrated the Yahudym feasts. The New Testament contains no reference to distinctively Christian festivals.” Funk and Wagnall’s Standard Reference Encyclopedia, 1966 ed., vol. 10, p. 3461.
The questions begging for answers are, why did the very early New Testament believers continue to keep the Old Testament holy days, and why aren’t today’s most popular observances like Easter, even in the Bible?
A common human obsession is to fiddle with what is already well and good. In Exodus 12, Leviticus 23, and Deuteronomy 16, Yahuah gave man seven yearly observances, beginning with the Passover. They were to be kept “forever, throughout your generations” as part of a covenant between us and our Creator.
But these observances were apparently not good enough for evolving, early New Testament believers. They wanted their own celebrations. They didn’t like or want those old appointed Set-Apart days even if they were commanded in the Old Testament AND observed in the New.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica reveals, “Unlike the cycle of feasts and fasts of the Yahudym Law, the Christian year has never been based upon a divine revelation. It is rather a tradition that is always subject to change by ecclesiastical law” vol. 4, p. 601.
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