if the 7 feasts are only for jews why does God require gentiles to keep the feast of tabernacles?

Question

Zechariah 14:16 Then the survivors from all the nations that
have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year
to worship the King, the LORD Almighty, and to
celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. 17 If any of
the peoples of the earth do not go up to
Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD
Almighty, they will have no rain. 18 If the
Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they
will have no rain. The LORD will bring on them
the plague he inflicts on the nations that do not
go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. 19
This will be the punishment of Egypt and the
punishment of all the nations that do not go up to
celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

Answer 1

Actually, all of the seven kinds of feasts in three times must be kept by God's people forever. Every feast isn't only a memorial but also a prophecy.



As Daniel 7 states the abomination/Anti-Christ/Little Horn will change the laws times and dates. In fulfilment of this prophecy the Roman Catholic Church abolished Sabbath in 321 and replaced with Mithraic Sunday Worship and abolished the 7 Feasts in 325 slowly replacing with Pagan Feasts such as Christmas Easter Halloween and the like and added Eucharist in replace of New Covenant Passover regulations so as to hide the abolition of Christ's Flesh and Blood



Here is a list of Every Origin of the Seven Feasts and their Prophetic Fulfilment all that remains to be Fulfilled is the Feast of Tabernacles.





Passover

Jews sacrificed lambs to escape land of slavery egypt

Jesus is Gave his Flesh and Blood establishing the New Covenant



Feast of Unleavened Bread

Jews suffered on the way to the Red Sea escaping Egypt.

Christ suffered on the way to the Cross and was eventually Crucified and hung on the Cross for 6 hours.



First Fruits (Resurrection Day in NC)

When the Jews hit land crossing the red sea from Egypt

When Jesus resurrected after 3 days in the tomb



Feast of Weeks(Pentecost)

Moses brings the first set of stone tablets containing the ten commandments.

On the day of pentecost after Christ’s ascension the Holy Spirit of the former rain is poured out onto the apostles.



Nonfeast prophecy but important Moses sees the Israelites turn from God to idolatry and breaks the stone tablets.

Fulfilled Christianity turns to pagan customs and idolatries resulting in the withdrawal of the Holy Spirit



Feast of trumpets

Ancient Israelites held ten days of prayer repenting to God for forgiveness after moses broke the tablets

Ten year millerism movement to prepare for Christ’s return on 22 october 1844, that year's day of atonement. Didn’t happen because he figured out something would happen on that date but assumed the wrong thing.



Atonement Day

God forgives the Israelites and gives a second set of stone tablets.

God starts to give out Holy Spirit once More to the world partially restoring biblical truths like Sabbath and baptism. This Occured on for-mentioned 22 October 1844



Feast of Tabernacles

God has the ancient Israelites give free will offerings to build the earthly sanctuary

Will be fulfilled by last saints gathering God’s elect (Heavenly material) to build up the Heavenly Sanctuary

Answer 2

Religous groups including Jews and Christians are so fractured it's difficult to offer a one-size-fits-all answer, but here goes... Most practicing Jews celebrate Sukkot. Very few Christians celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. Then there are a diverse number of small hybrid groups who celebrate these festivals in some form or fashion. They interpret Sukkot and the Feast of Tabernacles to be part of the same festivals described in Leviticus 23. These groups are outside of mainstream Judaism & mainstream Christianity but are connected to both.

Answer 3

To make a long story short, Zechariah's prophecy doesn't involove present times nations of the world, but the nations of the world after the coming of the Messiah son of David, when all the earth will know of the Lord's sovereignty. By the way, the text you quote is in the future tense, which means that we gentiles don't have to keep that feast before th coming of the Messiah.

Answer 4

These feasts are supposed to be kept by all people on Earth, but, as usual, human beings tend not to obey God.



Today primarily small congregations of God's true church and the Jews keep the original 7 Feasts as well as the original Sabbath.

Answer 5

You are forgetting the required Holy Days God commands all his people to keep...all and not just the jews....Leviticus 23



Pentecost

Feast of Unleavened Bread

Passover

Feast of Trumpets

Last Great Day

Day of Atonement (Yom-kippur to the jews)

Feast of Tabernacles

Answer 6

that happens during the 1000 year reign of jesus

he will institute it then



all nations who attacked israel are required to do it



that is only one feast that is required by god during that time not 7 of them





god told christians what of the law they were to keep





KJV: Acts 15:28. For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;









KJV: Colossians 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:

Answer 7

Why would anyone not want to celebrate the Jewish feasts and holidays? No it's not a requirement. If you don't want rain.. hahaha.

Answer 8

Oh no, clearly my lack of attendance to the feast of Tabernacles was responsible for the drought.

Answer 9

because the tabernacles are tasty snacks and go well with jews

Answer 10

Amen! Where does it say that these are "Feasts of the Jews"?



Lev 23:1-44 GNB The LORD gave Moses (2) the following regulations for the religious festivals, when the people of Israel are to gather for worship. (3) You have six days in which to do your work, but remember that the seventh day, the Sabbath, is a day of rest. On that day do not work, but gather for worship. *********The Sabbath belongs to the LORD, no matter where you live.******** (4) Proclaim the following festivals at the appointed times. (5) The Passover, celebrated to honor the LORD, begins at sunset on the fourteenth day of the first month. (6) On the fifteenth day the Festival of Unleavened Bread begins, and for seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast. (7) On the first of these days you shall gather for worship and do none of your daily work. (8) Offer your food offerings to the LORD for seven days. On the seventh day you shall again gather for worship, but you shall do none of your daily work. (9) When you come into the land that the LORD is giving you and you harvest your grain, take the first sheaf to the priest. (10) (SEE 23:9) (11) He shall present it as a special offering to the LORD, so that you may be accepted. The priest shall present it the day after the Sabbath. (12) On the day you present the offering of grain, also sacrifice as a burnt offering a one-year-old male lamb that has no defects. (13) With it you shall present four pounds of flour mixed with olive oil as a food offering. The odor of this offering is pleasing to the LORD. You shall also present with it an offering of one quart of wine. (14) Do not eat any of the new grain, whether raw, roasted, or baked into bread, until you have brought this offering to God. This regulation is to be observed by all your descendants for all time to come. (15) Count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath on which you bring your sheaf of grain to present to the LORD. (16) On the fiftieth day, the day after the seventh Sabbath, present to the LORD another new offering of grain. (17) Each family is to bring two loaves of bread and present them to the LORD as a special gift. Each loaf shall be made of four pounds of flour baked with yeast and shall be presented to the LORD as an offering of the first grain to be harvested. (18) And with the bread the community is to present seven one-year-old lambs, one bull, and two rams, none of which may have any defects. They shall be offered as a burnt offering to the LORD, along with a grain offering and a wine offering. The odor of this offering is pleasing to the LORD. (19) Also offer one male goat as a sin offering and two one-year-old male lambs as a fellowship offering. (20) The priest shall present the bread with the two lambs as a special gift to the LORD for the priests. These offerings are holy. (21) On that day do none of your daily work, but gather for worship. Your descendants are to observe this regulation for all time to come, no matter where they live.

(22) When you harvest your fields, do not cut the grain at the edges of the fields, and do not go back to cut the heads of grain that were left; leave them for poor people and foreigners. The LORD is your God. (23) On the first day of the seventh month observe a special day of rest, and come together for worship when the trumpets sound. (24) (SEE 23:23) (25) Present a food offering to the LORD and do none of your daily work. (26) The tenth day of the seventh month is the day when the annual ritual is to be performed to take away the sins of the people. On that day do not eat anything at all; come together for worship, and present a food offering to the LORD. (27) (SEE 23:26) (28) Do no work on that day, because it is the day for performing the ritual to take away sin. (29) Any who eat anything on that day will no longer be considered God's people. (30) And if any do any work on that day, the LORD himself will put them to death. (31) This regulation applies to all your descendants, no matter where they live. (32) From sunset on the ninth day of the month to sunset on the tenth observe this day as a special day of rest, during which nothing may be eaten. (33) The Festival of Shelters begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh month and continues for seven days. (34) (SEE 23:33) (35) On the first of these days come together for worship and do none of your daily work. (36) Each day for seven days you shall present a food offering. On the eighth day come together again for worship and present a food offering. It is a day for worship, and you shall do no work. (37) (These are the religious festivals on which you honor the LORD by gathering together for worship and presenting food offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, sacrifices, and wine offerings, as required day by day. (38) These festivals are in addition to the regular Sabbaths, and these offerings are in addition to your regular gifts, your offerings as fulfillment of vows, and your freewill offerings that you give to the LORD.) (39) When you have harvested your fields, celebrate this festival for seven days, beginning on the fifteenth day of the seventh month. The first day shall be a special day of rest. (40) On that day take some of the best fruit from your trees, take palm branches and limbs from leafy trees, and begin a religious festival to honor the LORD your God. (41) Celebrate it for seven days. This regulation is to be kept by your descendants for all time to come. (42) All the people of Israel shall live in shelters for seven days, (43) so that your descendants may know that the LORD made the people of Israel live in simple shelters when he led them out of Egypt. He is the LORD your God. (44) So in this way Moses gave the people of Israel the regulations for observing the religious festivals to honor the LORD.



Paul even taught the gentile converts to observe these Feasts!



Col 2:16-17 ESV Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. (17) These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.



The only reason for a gentile Church to know anything about "new moons" is so that they could determine for themselves WHEN to celebrate the Feasts! Note further that in v:17 Paul says that these things have a future meaning, in other words, the things that they foreshadow have NOT been fulfilled yet!



Wow, a thumbs down and I am not even done yet....and that person does NOT read their Bible.



Paul taught the Corinthian Church to celebrate Passover and the Days of Unleavened Bread!



1Co 5:7-8 ESV Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. (8) Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.



http://www.coghomeschool.org/site/cog_archives/booklets/Pagan%20Holidays%20Or%20Gods%20Holy%20Days%20Which.htm



Those who refuse to celebrate these God-ordained Holy Days are calling their Messiah a liar:



Mat 5:17-19 GNB "Do not think that I have come to do away with the Law of Moses and the teachings of the prophets. I have not come to do away with them, but to make their teachings come true. (18) Remember that as long as heaven and earth last, not the least point nor the smallest detail of the Law will be done away with---not until the end of all things. (19) So then, whoever disobeys even the least important of the commandments and teaches others to do the same, will be least in the Kingdom of heaven. On the other hand, whoever obeys the Law and teaches others to do the same, will be great in the Kingdom of heaven.



They are calling Paul a liar:



Rom 2:11-15 GNB For God judges everyone by the same standard. (12) The Gentiles do not have the Law of Moses; they sin and are lost apart from the Law. The Jews have the Law; they sin and are judged by the Law. (13) For it is not by hearing the Law that people are put right with God, but by doing what the Law commands. (14) The Gentiles do not have the Law; but whenever they do by instinct what the Law commands, they are their own law, even though they do not have the Law. (15) Their conduct shows that what the Law commands is written in their hearts. Their consciences also show that this is true, since their thoughts sometimes accuse them and sometimes defend them.



But God is calling THEM liars:



1Jn 2:1-4 GNB I am writing this to you, my children, so that you will not sin; but if anyone does sin, we have someone who pleads with the Father on our behalf---Jesus Christ, the righteous one. (2) And Christ himself is the means by which our sins are forgiven, and not our sins only, but also the sins of everyone. (3) If we obey God's commands, then we are sure that we know him. (4) If we say that we know him, but do not obey his commands, we are liars and there is no truth in us.



What is sin?



1Jn 3:4-8 GNB Whoever sins is guilty of breaking God's law, because sin is a breaking of the law. (5) You know that Christ appeared in order to take away sins, and that there is no sin in him. (6) So everyone who lives in union with Christ does not continue to sin; but whoever continues to sin has never seen him or known him. (7) Let no one deceive you, my children! Whoever does what is right is righteous, just as Christ is righteous. (8) Whoever continues to sin belongs to the Devil, because the Devil has sinned from the very beginning. The Son of God appeared for this very reason, to destroy what the Devil had done.