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Pagan Holidaysor Gods HolyDaysWhich?

By HerBert W. Armstrong


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Does it make ay differece which days weobserveor whether we keep them? Does the

Bible establish whether we are to keep certai daysholy to God? Were these days give to aciet

Israel oly? Are they bidig today oly o theJewish people, while Christias are commaded

to keep holidays such as Christmas?


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Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE: Which Days Should We Keep? ....................... 1

CHAPTER TWO: What You Should KnowAbout Pentecost ............................................................. 22

CHAPTER THREE: Feast of Trumpetsand Day of Atonement .................................................. 33

CHAPTER FOUR: Feast of Tabernaclesand Last Great Day ....................................................... 43


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NIGHT DAY13 14 15 16 17

NISAN (ABIB)

PASSOVERANNUAL

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Pharaoh hears the people have fled

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1Passover lamb eaten.

2Israelites receive gold and jewelsof Egyptians (Exodus 12:35-36).

4After celebrating the feast they arrivedat Succoth (Exodus 12:37).

3Israel leaves Egypt by night (Deuteronomy 16:1).

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SEVEN DAYS OF UNLEAVENED BREAD

6 Israel leaves all civilization and entersEgyptian wilderness (Exodus 13:18, 20).

7 Pharaohs army overtakes Israel

encamped at Pi-hahiroth (Exodus 14:9).

8 God leads Israelites through Red Sea tosafety before daylight.

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This verse has troubled many. Yet it should not. Noticethat the word is in the King James Version is in italics. Itdoes not appear in the original. The original Greek saysonly, but, the body of Christ. What is the body of Christ?How does Paul use this expression in Colossians?

Turn to chapter 1. In verse 18 we find that Christ is thehead of the body, thechurch. See also Colossians 2:19.

The true Church of God is the body of Christ. Just

as the Spirit of God once dwelled in the earthly body ofJesus Christ so now the Holy Spirit dwells in each mem-ber of the Church and together the members constituteone body, doing the very work Christ did. The Church istherefore Christs body today! And Christ is the Head asthe husband is the head of the wife (Ephesians 5:23).

Paul is declaring in Colossians that no unauthorizedperson is to sit in judgment of a true Christians conduct.

Man does not determine how we should live. But it isthe responsibility of the Churchthe body of Christtodetermine these matters! The Church is to teach howto observe the festivalsto explain the meaning of self-control in eating and drinking, etc.

So these little-understood verses ought to be trans-lated clearly: Let no man therefore judge you but[rather let] the body of Christ [determine it]. Let Christs

body judge these Church matters. Greek scholars rec-ognize the last clause but [rather] the body of Christdemands that a verb be added, but have often not seenthat the missing verb should be supplied from the mostlogical and grammatically parallel clause so as to readproperly Let the body of Christ judge [these matters]!


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The AnnualFeast Daysof God

*obvd h pviu vi af u. F xapl, i 6 hPav wuld b bvd h vi f Apil .**Pc (a gk wd iifi f ifih) i cud f h da

which h wav haf wa ffd dui h Da f UlavdBad. I i alwa a suda dui siva, h hid h.

RomanYear

First Day ofSacred Year *Passover

Days ofUnleavenedBread **Pentecos

nia ( Abib) nia 4 nia - siva

6 mach 3 Apil Apil 3- Ju 4

mach Apil Apil 3- ma

8 Apil 6 Apil Apil -6 Ju 8

mach 6 Apil 8 Apil - ma 3

mach 6 mach ma. 3-Ap. ma 3

Apil Apil 8 Apil - Ju

mach 4 Apil 6 Apil -3 ma

3 mach mach ma. 6-Ap. ma


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Feast ofTrumpets

Day ofAtonement

Feast ofTabernacles

The LastGreat Day

tihi tihi tihi - tihi

spb 3 ocb ocb -3 ocb 4

spb 3 spb sp. -oc. 3 ocb 4

spb 3 ocb ocb 4- ocb

spb spb 8 ocb 3- ocb

spb spb 8 spb 3- spb 3

spb ocb 8 ocb 3- ocb

spb spb 6 ocb - ocb 8

spb spb 4 spb - spb 6


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