Numbers 29 – Should we even be celebrating the Feast Days? 2023

Num 29:1
'Now in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall also have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work. It will be to you a day for blowing trumpets.

This is the Feast of the Trumpets. It is the first of the fall feasts and it falls on the first day of the seventh month (Lev. 23:24-25). It starts on the first day of the month of Tishri, which may begin any time from September 6 to October 5 on our calendar. The Jewish name of the Feast is "Rosh Hashana" and it is the first day of the Civil New Year according to Judaism and the seventh month of the year according to Scripture. It was declared the first day of the Jewish New Year because the Temple built by Solomon was dedicated on this day and this day was also the day the altar was rebuilt and sacrifices were re-established after the Babylonian captivity (See Nehemiah 7-8). This day is to be celebrated by having a holy convocation (a set-apart gathering specifically for this Feast Day), by observing a special Sabbath, and by blowing trumpets or shofars. Elohim has not designated a place for us to give sacrifices, therefore to do so would be sin (Deut. 12:13-14). So we cannot perform the sacrificial requirements of this feast.

Num 29:2
'And you shall offer a burnt offering as a soothing aroma to the LORD: one bull, one ram, and seven male lambs one year old without defect;

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also their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the ram,

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and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs.

Num 29:5
'And offer one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you,

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besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and its grain offering, and the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their libations, according to their ordinance, for a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the LORD.

Should we even be celebrating the Feast Days? The modern "Church" has said "absolutely not!" But on what grounds? The Church claims the Feast Days are only "shadows of Christ" (Col. 2:16-17) and therefore should not be honored. Why should something that Scripturally points to Messiah not be honored when we are commanded to do so? Yeshua honored the Feast Days (Matt. 26:17-20, Luke 2:41-42, 22:15, John 2:13, 23, 5:1, 7:10, 10:22). Paul also honored the Feast Days and participated in Temple services and sacrifices Acts 18:21, 20:6,16, 24:11-13, 17-19). Paul told us to celebrate the Feast of Passover and Unleavened Bread in particular, and this could apply to the Feast days in general (1 Cor. 5:7-8). The Psalms tell us to celebrate the Feast of Trumpets (Psalm 81:1-4). Scripture tells us to celebrate the feasts and there is no Scriptural declaration otherwise.