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Is this where you wish to freeze His Church, and its religious observance? To the point before His sacrifice, before the Lamb of God? Freeze history here and there is no passion, sacrifice and resurrection of Christ and no future of the His Body.

If God's holy days were observed without the truth or understanding that the messiah has come and will return then I might agree with you.

The holy days actually shadow and portend significant events for Judaism and Christianity.

For example, Passover represents the death of Christ on the cross:

1Co 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

The Days of Unleavened Bread represents the life of a person after accepting Christ. The physical act of removing leavening represents and reminds us of the spiritual attitude of removing sin from our lives. Examining ourselves for sin (leavening) and removing it from our lives.

Another example: The Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah) represents the 2nd coming of Christ, at the last trump:

Rev 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded (his trumpet); and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

1Co 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

1Th 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

I hope that helps. For further reference, see God's Holy Day Plan.

Nice try, but I'm afraid it's quite a tortured attempt.

The holy days actually shadow and portend significant events…

No, they mark events that have already happened.

The jewish holy days commemorate major historical events in the history of the jews. Passover commemorates - Passover. The Exodus from Egypt.

This is what the jews of Jesus's time on earth observed. And what they observe now. That one. Ask any jew.

What is the jewish religious day celebrating the resurrection of the Messiah? None.

There was no celebration of this at the time of Jesus's human incarnation. Which is why celebrating only those events would either make us jews or freeze our religion and church before the time of the risen Christ. Our religious observances are different than the jews of Jesus's time. Because our history is different.

So, unlike the jews of Jesus's time or today, we celebrate the Passover Sacrifice of Christ, a different passover than jews celebrate. Christians celebrate the resurrection of the Messiah, Christ. Last night and today we celebrate it.

I wish you would join us, in the history and wonder or this Christian religious celebration.