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What Are the Biblical Holidays?
Yeshua (Jesus) wasn’t born on December 25th. He wasn’t resurrected on Easter. He didn’t celebrate Halloween or Valentines Day. In the pagan world, December 25th was a day to worship the “rebirth of the sun,” the second Sunday after the Spring Equinox was the orgy to honor a Babylonian fertility goddess, February 14th was a day of wife swapping by lots, and October 31st was a day that disembodied souls roamed the earth.
Since Yeshua (Jesus) was Jewish, he celebrated the holidays given to the children of Israel during their trip from Egypt to the Promised Land. These holidays are to remind the children of Israel of the great things the Lord has done for them. They are listed in Leviticus chapter 23, along with the requirements for Temple worship and appropriate conduct for those holidays. They do not glorify sex and death, but rather blessings and spiritual uplifting.
Why celebrate them if you’re not Jewish? Because the Almighty commands it and His commands are eternal. These holidays were given in the Torah, to help us on our path to living a righteous life and pleasing the Almighty. You may have been taught that “the Law is done away with” and “we have grace now”. We do have grace, it came in the form of Yeshua’s death and resurrection. But in Matthew 5: 17 – 20, Yeshua says that He did not come to abolish the Law or the Prophets, but to give them full meaning for us. He also says that until heaven and earth pass away not the smallest letter of the Torah will pass away.
Look down. Are you standing on Earth? Look up. Can you see the sky? Then the physical plane is still here. The physical plane can’t exist without the heavenly realm. If both of these are still in existence, then the Torah is still in effect as the guide to righteous living. We are to have no other gods, or worship the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in pagan ways, so the holidays for Torah observant believers are the biblical holidays.