I think so. Notice the Lord attended the Festivals, the New Moons, and the Sabbaths after His rule began, and He said, "follow me". The festivals are a blessed gift to God's people. They outline His plan for the world and identify His people as separate from the Gentiles. The times and seasons described in Genesis are fixed on the heavens where God framed the festival times. The sun marks the day, the moon marks the month, and the stars always mark the sign of His coming.
Genesis 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:" Exodus 12:14 "And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever." The original Hebrew word for seasons here in Genesis, Mydewm, mow-ah-dim, literally means appointed times or festivals.
These times and seasons are festivals that are a foreshadowing and rehearsal of God's plan. Some of them foreshadowed the coming of Christ and some are for things still to come. Col 2:16, "Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ." To be judged for respecting a holyday or a new moon and the sabbath days is to be judged for following God's commandments. It has always been understood that these things are a shadow or foreshadowing and a rehearsal of God's plan both past and future.
For example, Shavuot commemorates the giving of the law to the world at mount Sinai, which was the first Pentecost. It was then the word went out to all the people in the world and settled on those at the mountain in a visible form asking each person if they accepted it. It is also the Ketuba or marriage contract between God and His people, and the event was the first half of the Jewish marriage ceremony called kiddushin or betrothal. The second half is called nisuin , traditionally, a year later when the groom took his bride to the house he had prepared for her. So, many years later, when God ended His espousal with the Hebrews it was necessary to have another betrothal, hence Pentecost. The second half of God's wedding, nisuin, will be when He returns and takes His bride to His heddar in heaven at the beginning of the tribulation. As He pointed out, we will not see Him until then and we say blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord and the nisuin begins. It has always been the custom in Jewish weddings when the groom enters the room, everyone stands and says "blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord". It is part of the ways of His people given by God, and in the blessedness of pure honesty, followed by Him.
Another example is when Christ was standing in the Courtyard of the Women in the Temple during the feast of Sukkoth, and there were sixteen great lights burning (during that event the Temple was called The Light of The World) it was then He said, "I am the light of the world." So, the fashion of those lights and that event was to foreshadow who He is that we might understand Him better. It is also where the statements originated that we associate with His birth like; Luke 2:13 "And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, 14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men" which is a part of the Sukkot liturgy they had rehearsed for hundreds of years. And briefly, the Passover sacrifice process was followed explicitly in the crucifixion of Christ including the place of His birth, the time of day, the preparation, the inspection, and it was called the Crown Sacrifice. The New Years Day or Judgment Day called, Rosh Hashanah, is a picture of the last days including the tribulation with the Day of Atonement 10 days later representing the final end of the world. There is a place for the whole family in the festivals of God leaving no room for fables, fairy tales and home made holydays. The things given to we Jews are to help us understand God's plan and keep our feet on the right path. When we understand these things, the Bible resembles a symphony written across time with unlimited scope and filled with meaning, and we should be taking part in it.
Another covenant between God and His people is the Sabbath. There are wonderful blessings associated with keeping this covenant that we are missing. It is not an optional holyday. Before grace came people were killed for not keeping it. The Sabbath has nothing to do with forgiveness of sins and redemption. Separate from all of that and very briefly, it foreshadows the millennium when we will join God in His rest, as He rested after creation.
The Bible is written like a family history because the Kingdom is a family affair. What is more, God is somebody. He has feelings like us and can become angry and joyful. An analogy to His commanded festivals would be like our birthday parties. Is it really necessary to have a birthday party if we have the birthday spirit in our hearts? Next time your child has a birthday tell them that you don't believe in a lot of ritual business and you're going to stop having parties with friends and cake and presents. Tell them you have freed yourself from that tradition and observance on the outside and will now be observing the birthday spirit in your own way, in your heart. See how they respond.
Jewish things are as things will be in heaven. For example, the coming Judgment Day is going to be a day of harvest. This is the Last Trump, on this day The Bride of Christ, known as the Zadakim or Saints - living and dead, from the Book of Life, will be taken to His heddar in heaven - leaving behind on earth those who have not yet decided who to follow. Isaiah 26:2 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in." "Open the gates" is an expression that always refers to Rosh Hashanah, the Judgement Day, and here it is used to point to the new Bride, the righteous nation, going into the Heddar just before the tribulation. A few very troublesome years later, He will return to earth with the Zadakim and there will be another gathering, The Great Trumpet, a Jewish wedding feast, and a slaughter. So everyone will go to a feast, either as the Bride of Christ, or as the main course at the feast of Leviathan, where all those who are sealed for Gehenna will be killed and the birds will eat them at the Tophet in the Hinnon valley near Jerusalem; Matthew 24:28 "For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together." But in the Old Days only the Jews knew all this. Ironically, today with the new definition of who is a Jew, it is still only the Jews who understand.

Ron Cash
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It is clear that Paul kept the feasts many years after the lord arose. Yeshua kept the feasts and said "do as I do..." There is no evidence the rules changed when God changed brides. It seems clear the new bride is to be called by the same name as the old and follow the rules the same. The Lord said He did not come to do away with the rules and the feasts are part of His commandments. Finally, it seems clear to me we will either spend our time on earth keeping His commandments to the degree we love Him, or imposing on His grace until the judgement day. It is a blessed thing to joy in His Jewishness.

Ron Cash

Since Leviticus tell us that the feasts and Sabbaths are the Lords feasts it does not matter whether you are jew or gentile they still belong to God and as such all believers in the Bible should incorporate them into their life. Since the new testament was not written until decades after the death of Jesus ALL the new christian converts were taught from the Torah. We can not as believers in Christ keep any of the pagan feasts. We can not mix the Lords table with the table of demons. We need to stop compromising to keep peace and start to making a stand for the true God of the Bible. No compromise with the devil.

It would be lovely for me to be able to keep the proper Biblical Feasts, however I live with a family who always celebrate the "church" events such as Easter, Christmas etc and it would be very hurtful to them if I suddenly dropped out of family celebrations. So I try to commemorate the biblical feasts, whilst at the same time joining in with the other stuff.

It isn't easy, but it would be very hurtful to not celebrate with my lovely family.

The LORD said to the "religous" of His time that in preferring the traditions of men they had made God's word of none effect (Mark 7:13). It will always be better for Gentile believers to adhere to God's prescribed times and seasons than for them to invent their own at the cost of God's timing! Sadly, as the majority of Christendom knows very little of the wealth of blessing to be found in all the Feasts of The LORD (Lev. 23), which belong to no one else but the LORD and are for the blessing of all who profess to know Him, love Him and keep His Word, the LORD's finger would squarely point towards Christendom today with the same accusation over a religous church calendar that has rejected His Biblical calendar. As the Bride prepares herself for the trumpet sound of her coming Beloved, she really should top up with biblical oil and get her act together!