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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.

So you see no signifcane in the fact that Paul calls Jesus Christ our Passover? You also don't see any connection between the Passover lamb and Jesus Christ? Those with the blood of the lamb were spared death in Egypt and those with the blood of the lamb now are spared death?

You don't see any significange in the fact that God poured out his holy spirit on Pentecost...a "Jewish" festival?

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.

That would be because Jews don't believe that Jesus Christ was the Messiah. In addition, the Jewish religion doesn't own God's holy days.

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.

That's all well and good, but it's not what Jesus Christ did.

Luk 22:15 And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:

Jesus Christ thought that the Passover was so important that it was one of the things he wished to celebrate before his passion.

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

If that history did not make the word of God of no effect then I wouldn't have a problem observing it. But for now I'm going to do what God said to do and what Jesus Christ did.

Mar 7:13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

Of course I see the connections between the Passover lamb and Christ. For Christians Jesus is the Lamb of God and the passover sacrifice. But not for jews.

If I grant you that Passover "portends" the sacrifice of Christ, if you celebrate it in this manner you are denying it has already happened. Jews don't celebrate the portending of the Exodus from Egypt. Christians don't celebrate the portending of the risen Christ.

And, of course Christianity grew from judaism. You are missing the "grew" part.Your passover celebration, if you follow the jewish one, does not celebrate the risen Christ - only the portending.

I'm going to do what God said to do and what Jesus Christ did.

Then you would drink your last wine on a cross and say, "It is finished." This is a facetious argument. Jesus's death and resurrection is what we celebrate. Of course, Jesus did not participate in a religious celebration during his life that celebrates events after His life.

Once again your church freezes history before the most important event in Christianity. Your church is but a new one - not an old one.