Feast Day Issues

Col 2:14-16; Heb 9:9-10 (Nu 9:3) 1Co 5:7-8

Is 1 Ro 14
Is 66/Zech 14 Ga 4:9-10
Ac 18:21

PP 540 -- Well would it be for us to have a feast of tabernacles, a joyous

commemoration of the blessings of God to us as a people. As the children of Israel
celebrated the deliverance that God wrought for their fathers, and his miraculous
preservation of them during their journeyings from Egypt to the promised land, so
should the people of God at the present time gratefully call to mind the various
ways he has devised to bring them out from the world, out from the darkness of
error, into the precious light of truth. We should often bring to remembrance the
dependence upon God of those who first led out in this work. We should gratefully
regard the old way-marks, and refresh our souls with memories of the loving-
kindness of our gracious Benefactor. {RH, November 17, 1885 par. 14}

Joh 2:13 And the Jews‘ passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
Joh 5:1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
Joh 6:4 And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.
Joh 7:2 Now the Jews’ feast of tabernacles was at hand.
Joh 11:55 And the Jews‘ passover was nigh at hand:

Ac 20:6 And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and
came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days. . . . 16 For Paul
had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia:
for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.

1Co 16:8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.

Compare Ex 21:1-22:20 to 22:21-23:9; 23:14-19. Which are judgments? Which are

statutes? Which are ceremonies? What about 23:10-13?

Christ was standing at the point of transition between two economies and their
two great festivals. He, the spotless Lamb of God, was about to present Himself as a
sin offering, that He would thus bring to an end the system of types and ceremonies
that for four thousand years had pointed to His death. As He ate the Passover with
His disciples, He instituted in its place the service that was to be the memorial of
His great sacrifice. The national festival of the Jews was to pass away forever. The
service which Christ established was to be observed by His followers in all lands and
through all ages. {DA 652.2}
The Passover was ordained as a commemoration of the deliverance of Israel
from Egyptian bondage. God had directed that, year by year, as the children should
ask the meaning of this ordinance, the history should be repeated. Thus the
wonderful deliverance was to be kept fresh in the minds of all. The ordinance of the
Lord's Supper was given to commemorate the great deliverance wrought out as the
result of the death of Christ. Till He shall come the second time in power and glory,
this ordinance is to be celebrated. It is the means by which His great work for us is
to be kept fresh in our minds. {DA 652.3}
Bacchiocchi ; Other Sabbatarians; Church Discipline (Gal 1:7; 5:12)
“Perpetual” Ex 29:9; 30:8; Le 6:20; 24:9; 25:34, etc. What about Ex 31?