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

[AnOrangeCat]

1 minute ago, Hinds Feet said:

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.

Quite a bit of Jewish food is quite tasty, too. The OT restrictions on what to eat and what not to eat and how to prepare aren't just for decoration, either. It's generally got an eye on keeping it healthy. I think what you've mentioned here meshes with two specific things in the Bible. The first and most obvious is something Jesus said during the Last Supper. He instructed the disciples to do this in remembrance of Him. When our thoughts are on Him I find that it imposes a certain hurdle that needs to be crossed to to perform deliberate sin. Thus it's a good thing to have reminders of Him and His presence in our lives.

The second is Philippians 4:8: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."

Things of that nature also turn our thoughts toward God. I've often thought it's a good measuring stick for secular entertainment and activities, but it can certainly be applied to other areas like special days.

[Orion]

2 hours 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?

We are being conformed to the image of Christ, and when Jesus returns we will be like Him, and we will be with Him, and because we are His body we will be following His lead.  Did His apostles celebrate with Him during His earthly ministry? So, too, will we (all that are His) celebrate with Him and enjoy Him forever. 

[other one]

1 hour ago, Hinds Feet said:

I hear you.  And this isn't a judgment, but more so an encouragement. 

I'm not Jewish as far as I know, and I'm not under the Mosaic covenant, so I'm not inclined to follow it's mandates.

[Orion]

19 minutes ago, other one said:

I'm not Jewish as far as I know, and I'm not under the Mosaic covenant, so I'm not inclined to follow it's mandates.

It can also be true that as far as you know, you might have some ancestors that were descended from the bloodline of Jacob. 

 

We read that even Mary the mother of Jesus had a Gentile ancestral bloodline.  Which means Jesus (through Mary), though born of the tribe of Judah and decended from King David, was born not of a pure Israeli bloodline.  

 

What does this mean?  Our bloodline is not what God looks upon.  Rather, God looks upon our hearts, our faith.  There is now neither Jew nor Gentile, but one new man in Christ. (Galatians 3:18).

[Indentured Servant]

4 hours 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?

"Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD Almighty, and to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles."

-Zechariah 14:16

[NConly]

4 hours 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 may be putting the cart before the ox, I am seeing it this way before the wrath Of God Israel will accept Jesus as Savior and will be in /under the new covenant with Gentiles and any Jews that already accepted Him as savior. Then it will be like this

Gal 3

28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

[Hinds Feet]

Paul writes this in 1 Corinthians 5:7-8....

"Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.  Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.

 

Now, we know the Corinthian church was primarily of Gentile believers.  Yet Paul is saying to them when they celebrate the Passover, to keep these things in mind.  This shows us foreign believers were celebrating God's festivals back then.  It wasn't seen as an exclusive thing for Jewish people, but for all God's people.  And we can also see from this, Paul saw the feasts as good for spiritual discipline.  We lack these types of things in the Church today.  Instead we have made our own traditions, such as Lent and Christmas.  Easter is the most related celebration we have to God's festivals, but historically speaking it is on the wrong date.  Again, these festivals are meant for all God's people.  I encourage everyone to look into it.

[NConly]

Acts 15

10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

[Hinds Feet]

14 hours ago, NConly said:

Acts 15

10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

The only yoke we have is the yoke of Jesus.  I challenge us, how much of Jesus do we want to experience?  Why should anything dealing with Jesus be seen as a heavy burden?  Jesus said His yoke is easy and His burden is light.  So I ultimately challenge how we see God's festivals.  If I said let's celebrate Thanksgiving, they would be no objections whatsoever.  God's festivals are way better than Thanksgiving, and yet most would resist it.

Edited April 13 by Hinds Feet

[NConly]

37 minutes ago, Hinds Feet said:

The only yoke we have is the yoke of Jesus.  I challenge us, how much of Jesus do we want to experience?  Why should anything dealing with Jesus be seen as a heavy burden?  Jesus said His yoke is easy and His burden is light.  So I ultimately challenge how we see God's festivals.  If I said let's celebrate Thanksgiving, they would be no objections whatsoever.  God's festivals are way better than Thanksgiving, and yet most would resist it.

Jesus set aside old law and old covenant and brought a better law and better covenant in the new covenant He preached and taught. I see no reason to revert back to the old. Jesus is going to bring Israel and Judah into the NC before the wrath of God occurs.