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Covaan_Meshuga -> RE: Are the Jewish Feasts still relevant? (7/24/2008 2:55:31 AM)
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I observe the feasts. I find them to be relevant and a blessing in my life. Many of the people where I attend observe them in their rightful times as best we can without having the Temple.
Some things that many people do not consider:
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I know that the OT is a shadow of what was to come There cannot be a shadow without substance making that shadow. Have you ever seen a shadow of nothing? No. Has there ever been a shadow produced previous to the substance existing or arriving? No.
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none of these feasts lead to salvation Right, but they do lead to a better understanding of G-d, of the Bible, and of the life to come; they lead to family togetherness; they lead to grounding the children in the L-rd.
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should they be dormant today other than with the Jewish people? Many Jews would say so, but a growing number of Gentiles are taking the Book back into their lives, and some Jews recognize that their zeal for the L-rd is right and good.
The Scriptures were entrusted to Israel, and G-d's command was that they were to teach the nations. Unfortunately, during the times immediately following the apostles, and in fact during the latter part of some of their lives, the Gentiles tried to take the Scriptures from the Jews, yet as they did that, they treated the Scriptures with unashamed contempt. When the Jews were being murdered and over-taxed by the government in the 70s, for the destruction the government itself caused, Gentile believers ran the other way, refusing to stand up with believing Jews. It is no wonder, then, that the Jews took the Book and fled, hiding it and themselves from the betrayers with whom they had once worshiped and learned in the synagogues and on the hillsides.
It is no wonder that when Jews were persecuted, murdered, starved, kidnapped, raped, and baptized in Christian fonts by force in the third century, they went further into hiding. They may have been entrusted with the Scriptures, but why give it to the people who wanted to destroy them?
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Are the Jewish Feasts still relevant today G-d calls them His feasts [Leviticus 23:2].
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can we observe any of them whether we are Jewish or not We can practice them, but in order to observe them fully, most require the Temple. However, there is great blessing for all people in doing what we can to observe the feasts, even without the Temple or being in Israel or Jerusalem. They will teach the one who does this more than can be explained on paper. And it must be remembered that it was not just the Jews who observed the feasts in the Bible; it was all who fully believed in our L-rd, Jew or Gentile.
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