From: 	 heb_roots_chr@mail.geocities.com
Sent: 	 Wednesday, September 24, 1997 8:43 PM
To: 	 Hebraic Heritage Newsgroup
Subject: Keeing the Sabbath and New Moon during Eternity


> 
> From:          "Tim Brewer"
> To:            heb_roots_chr@mail.geocities.com
> Subject:       How to keep the feasts LITERALLY?
> >
> >From Eddie:
> >***************
> >
> >       The sabbath and Biblical Festivals have a SPIRITUAL
> >application and they are to be LITERALLY kept. However, they should
> >not be kept in a legalistic manner or attitude.
> >
> 
> This is not meant to be a belligerent question, i really am trying to
> understand.
> 
> How do we keep the feasts literally?
> 
> What I mean is, in the Old Testament it gives some directions on keeping
> the feasts ( I have kept Passover for the past few years, along with
> some other feasts here and there).  One of these directions is to "offer
> an offering made by fire unto the lord seven days" (Lev. 23:8)  Are we
> supposed to do this?  And what about killing a lamb for Passover?  And
> smearing the blood on the doorposts?
> 
> I am not trying to get bogged down in "the letter of the law" and I know
> this is not a salvation issue, but I am somewhat perplexed.  I don't
> want to follow traditions of men, I want to follow G-d's law.  I want to
> "rightly divide the word of G-d."  How do I say I have to keep the
> festivals, but don't have to make the sacrifices?
> 
> -Tim Brewer
> 
> >From Eddie:
> **************
> 
>          Tim,
> 
>     Performing sacrifices as an aspect of keeping the Festivals can
> only be done if there is a Temple. Many of the commandments in the
> Torah are based upon having a Temple and living in the land of
> Israel. If you don't live in the land of Israel and since there is
> not a Temple in the land of Israel, you are not Biblically obligated
> to keep something which is not possible to keep.
> 
>       The Feast of Tabernacles WILL be literally kept during the
> Messianic Age (Zech 14:16-17).  The sabbath and the new moon will be
> kept during the times of the "New Heaven and New Earth" (eternity) as
> told to us in (Isaiah 66:22-23).
> 
>      Ezekiel 40-48 describes how things will be during the Messianic
> Age when Messiah will teach the TORAH to ALL NATIONS (Isaiah 2:2-4)
> and when there will be a Temple in Jerusalem. In Ezekiel 45 and 46,
> it tells us that the Festivals will be observed during the Messianic
> Age.
> 
>      In the book of Lev 23, it tells us that the Biblical Festivals
> are to be "statutes to be kept forever" (Lev 23:14, 21, 31, 41).
> 
>       I have expressed my celebration of the Biblical Festivals in
> various ways over the years. I never hear Christians ask the question
> regarding how do you LITERALLY keep Christmas, Easter, Sunday
> worship but yet they do for the sabbath and the Biblical Festivals.
> To being with, purpose in your heart to begin to study and learn about
> the sabbath and the Biblical Festivals and understand why God gave
> them and how they were given to teach about God's eternal Kingdom,
> the coming of the Messiah and our personal relationship with God. I
> have written a book entitled, "The Seven Festivals of the Messiah" to
> help you in this effort. Next, allow the sabbath and the Biblical Festivals
> become a personal reality in your heart and in your life.
> Then, allow the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit) lead you in observing
> these things. Finally,  remember that the letter of the Torah kills but the
> Spirit of the Torah brings life.  (II Cor 3:6). Also remember that
> you are not obligated to keep the Festivals according to the manner
> and practices of Rabbinical Orthodox Judaism.
> 
>            Last year I celebrated Rosh HaShanah in Tulsa, Oklahoma at
> our Hebraic Roots conference. This year our home fellowship and the
> people in my Sunday church will be celebrating Rosh HaShanah at the
> church. In years past, we kept the holidays by offering teachings of
> the holidays to the general public complete with a dinner. What is
> most important is to begin to realize that the Sabbath and the
> Biblcal Festivals are God given and ETERNAL ordinances. They are to
> be kept today (but not to gain salvation), they will be kept during
> the Messianic Age and they will be kept following the Messianic Age
> for all eternity.  I hope that this answers your question.
> 
>                                                   Eddie Chumney
> 
> ***********************************************************************
>

From:          "Tim Brewer" 
To:            heb_roots_chr@mail.geocities.com
Subject:       Re: How to keep the feasts LITERALLY?

Your reponse on the festivals was great, it did answer my question and
clear up a couple of key questions in my mind.

I am still studying the Old Testament, because I was taught all my
life that the Law was not for today, and this list is helping a lot. 
The Holy Spirit is opening my eyes to the Life that fl