Why are the Jewish Feasts important?
• The Jewish Feasts were ordained by God at the giving of the Law (Leviticus 23). • The Feasts serve as a picture of the ministry of Jesus in both advents – the Spring Feasts for the first advent and the the Fall Feasts for the second. • Yeshua Ha’ Mashiach (Jesus the Messiah) is not only recorded in the New Testament as having observed many of these Feasts, but He often infused them with additional meaning (cf. John 7:2, John 10:22). • The Feasts of Israel hold tremendous prophetic import that can bolster your faith and enlarge your understanding of God’s work amongst man and His divine plan. • Last but not least, when believers enrich their understanding of the Jewish feasts with a genuine and humble spirit they show “respect to the root” (Romans 11:16 ff) and may also provoke their unbelieving Jewish friends and neighbors to pursue a relationship with the God of their fathers (Romans 11:11, 11:19).
