During Jesus' Millennial Reign, if He celebrates Passover, would you celebrate with Him or not?

[Hinds Feet]

I know most Christians don't celebrate the LORD's festivals.  With probably the main reason being we see them as meant for Jewish people.  However, we see these feasts speak on things relevant to all God's people.  Jesus dying on Passover, Him rising again on First Fruits, and the birth of the Church happening on Shavuot/Pentecost.  Knowing this then, I have a question.  When Jesus comes back and is ruling the world, should He decide to celebrate Passover and the other feasts, would you celebrate with Him?

[NConly]

the old is passed away He will go back to OT ways

[other one]

21 minutes ago, Hinds Feet said:

I know most Christians don't celebrate the LORD's festivals.  With probably the main reason being we see them as meant for Jewish people.  However, we see these feasts speak on things relevant to all God's people.  Jesus dying on Passover, Him rising again on First Fruits, and the birth of the Church happening on Shavuot/Pentecost.  Knowing this then, I have a question.  When Jesus comes back and is ruling the world, should He decide to celebrate Passover and the other feasts, would you celebrate with Him?

"IF"   that's a pretty big two letter word.   I believe I was being serious when I confessed Jesus as my Lord, so, of course, I would celebrate with him.  I might be a bit shocked about it, but as the song says, wherever he leads I will go (or something like that)

 

[Hinds Feet]

13 minutes ago, NConly said:

the old is passed away He will go back to OT ways

At the very least, the Fall Feasts are yet to be fulfilled. (As I mentioned concerning Jesus dying on Passover, rising again on First Fruits, birth of the Church on Pentecost)  So I would say the Feasts remain as important as they did in the OT.  And just like with any celebration or holiday, they commemorate past events.

 

9 minutes ago, other one said:

"IF"   that's a pretty big two letter word.   I believe I was being serious when I confessed Jesus as my Lord, so, of course, I would celebrate with him.  I might be a bit shocked about it, but as the song says, wherever he leads I will go (or something like that)

 

I hear you.  Because Jesus is Jewish, it is highly likely He will celebrate these feasts.  It is strange to us culturally, but they are relevant to all God's people.  In truth, they are our inheritance.  I would argue with this, why wait until God's kingdom physically manifests itself on the earth?  We are now citizens of God's kingdom.  Let's embrace our true culture and heritage!

Edited April 12 by Hinds Feet

[other one]

4 minutes ago, Hinds Feet said:

At the very least, the Fall Feasts are yet to be fulfilled. (As I mentioned concerning Jesus dying on Passover, rising again on First Fruits, birth of the Church on Pentecost)  So I would say the Feasts remain as important as they did in the OT.  And just like with any celebration or holiday, they commemorate past events.

 

I hear you.  Because Jesus is Jewish, it is highly likely He will celebrate these feasts.  It is strange to us culturally, but they are relevant to all God's people.  In truth, they are our inheritance.  I would argue with this, why wait until God's kingdom physically manifests itself on the earth?  We are now citizens of God's kingdom.  Let's embrace our true culture and heritage!

You are making an assumption and bypassing that word...  "IF"  Where did Jesus tell us to keep any or all of these festivals.

[Hinds Feet]

3 minutes ago, other one said:

You are making an assumption and bypassing that word...  "IF"  Where did Jesus tell us to keep any or all of these festivals.

Well, perhaps it's not a requirement.  However, if we see Him doing it, why wouldn't we want to do it as well?  Another way of looking at it is, we don't have to celebrate American holidays.  We don't have to celebrate Thanksgiving, 4th of July, or even our own birthdays.  However, if we chose to not celebrate them, we would feel off somehow. (Might even feel depressed about it)  The idea being if all was well, we would no doubt celebrate every major American holiday.  Go out to eat with friends and family, etc.  Now if we feel that way about men's holidays, why do we off-put God's holidays?  Why do we feel like His holidays are burdensome?

And it remains, if we see Jesus in the millennial celebrating them, would we feel burdensome then to join in with Him?

[Ray12614]

Christians should be 'Christ-like'. So whatever Jesus did, is how we should be, and whatever Jesus does now and in the future is what we should want to do.

I suspect that this is not the answer you are looking for, or the intent of your OP,  but, I believe the IF in the OP is mandatory for an free and open conversation about this topic. 

Frankly . . . I don't care as long as I am with Jesus . . . whatever/wherever He is is what and where I want to do and be with.

[other one]

57 minutes ago, Hinds Feet said:

Well, perhaps it's not a requirement.  However, if we see Him doing it, why wouldn't we want to do it as well?  Another way of looking at it is, we don't have to celebrate American holidays.  We don't have to celebrate Thanksgiving, 4th of July, or even our own birthdays.  However, if we chose to not celebrate them, we would feel off somehow. (Might even feel depressed about it)  The idea being if all was well, we would no doubt celebrate every major American holiday.  Go out to eat with friends and family, etc.  Now if we feel that way about men's holidays, why do we off-put God's holidays?  Why do we feel like His holidays are burdensome?

And it remains, if we see Jesus in the millennial celebrating them, would we feel burdensome then to join in with Him?

IF we see Jesus doing so I can't imagine we would not follow.  However, it is not mandatory to do so now.   Once we are resurrected or transformed into what we will be, it seems we will be more like the angels and if they do have holidays I would think we might do those. However, I think I remember reading in the word it is OK to do the festivals, but we are not to judge those who do not.

[Hinds Feet]

11 minutes ago, other one said:

IF we see Jesus doing so I can't imagine we would not follow.  However, it is not mandatory to do so now.   Once we are resurrected or transformed into what we will be, it seems we will be more like the angels and if they do have holidays I would think we might do those. However, I think I remember reading in the word it is OK to do the festivals, but we are not to judge those who do not.

I hear you.  And this isn't a judgment, but more so an encouragement.  Otherwise, would any of us ever feel like these feasts are our feasts to celebrate?  It isn't just for Jewish people alone.  And we don't have to celebrate it in the same fashion as Jewish people celebrate it traditionally.  All we need is unleavened bread and bitter herbs.  We don't need Seder plates or the other traditions, even though I'm sure they are fun to do.  We can celebrate it and embrace it from our own ethnic background as God's people.  So, I'm encouraging my brothers and sisters to embrace their inheritance in God.

The other benefit of course is spiritual development.  We know leaven represents sin.  So the act of removing leaven from our household, and eating unleavened bread for a week teaches us to remove the things from our lives that cause us to stumble.  And to live in the holiness that Jesus gave us.  Stuff like this feeds our spirit, causing us to have good fruit.

Edited April 12 by Hinds Feet

[AnOrangeCat]

8 minutes ago, other one said:

However, I think I remember reading in the word it is OK to do the festivals, but we are not to judge those who do not.

You're correct in this. In Romans 14 in general acknowledges that there are and would be differences in customs and observances between believers and tells us not to quarrel over them and other "debatable matters". Verses 5-6 specifically address the matter of regarding specific days more highly than others.