Bible Question: Asis ... Where does the Bible say "Christians who are from the Gentiles are not directed to follow the commands given to the Jews in the Tanahk" |
Bible Answer: The post referenced was in reply to why don't present day believers follow the feasts of the the Jews. Take the answer in context please. These are just a few of the commands given to the children of Israel By God Almighty. Numbers 9:2 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season. [KJV] Numbers 29:12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days: [KJV] Deut. 4:2 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. [KJV] Deut. 4:6 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. [KJV] Deut. 5:1 And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them. [KJV] Deut. 7:8-9 But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. [9] Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations; [KJV] Deut. 7:11-12 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them. [12] Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers: [KJV] Deut. 16:1 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the Lord thy God: for in the month of Abib the Lord thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. [KJV] Deut. 16:10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the Lord thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the Lord thy God, according as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee: [KJV] Deut. 16:15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose: because the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice. [KJV] Deut. 17:19 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and these statutes, to do them: [KJV] They are a part of the Law, the Old Testament. To observe the feasts of the OLD TESTAMENT is for the Jew, Not the NEW TESTAMENT believer. If this were not so then ALL beleivers of Jesus must be circumcised and follow the Law as stated in the Old Testament. Messianic Jews are still called to celebrate the feasts of the Old Testament. They are Jews. Was Paul wrong to write letters to the churches warning against the judeizers? Are you a judeizer? God won't stop you from observing all the Jewish Holidays but you don't have to to be saved. |