I DIDN’T OBSERVE EASTER BUT I WILL BE OBSERVING THE FEAST OF

PENTECOST.

The Feasts of the Lord are to be observed by Christians. When Jesus was here He clearly commissioned His disciples to go into the entire world and preach the gospel, to Baptize those who repented and believed and then to ‘teach them all things that I have commanded you’. Nowhere in scripture did Christ command the disciples to keep Easter (originating from the worship and observance of the feast of Ishtar) nor did He instruct them in the Mass. The Mass is something that has been very cleverly drawn from the Old Testament and re-interpreted to suit where Rome is today, or has been since the 12^th century.

Question: Why start with a prophecy from + - 400 years BC? In other words why go back to Malachi 1: 10-11 in particular---see any Catholic Biblical Encyclopedia.

Why not start with what Jesus actually introduced to the disciples, and what the Apostle Paul followed and himself taught, instead of manufacturing a new scenario. The modern day Mass developed over a period of centuries.

First proposed in the 9^th Century and after much debate finalized in 1215 AD. Then more argument covering the next 200 years, after which the decision was made that the laity (ordinary people, not priests) could no longer actually drink the wine. From then onwards the Mass has existed of only the wafer “transubstantiated---or changed” into the actual body and blood of Christ. So for over 1100 years it was Ok for all to do as Christ and the Apostles did; to do as Paul instructed the Corinthian church to do; and what was that? Take both bread and wine as the symbols of the sacrifice of Christ.

So back to the main point at the start: Jesus said teach them to observe what I have taught you to observe. That’s pretty clear. The first Feast of the Lord following the Passover and days of unleavened bread was the Feast of Pentecost. This feast represents the feast of first-fruits, or the first people to be resurrected into the family/kingdom of God. Christ was the very first one ‘born from the dead’.

Christ told His disciples to wait in Jerusalem until the day of Pentecost and then they would receive the ‘gift of the Holy Spirit’.

So this wonderful feast day---celebrated on Sunday, June 4^{th this year}---represents the giving of the Holy Spirit as a gift from the Father to all those whom He is calling.

Why not celebrate such an enormously meaningful event?

The Holy Spirit is called the ‘earnest of the spirit’, like a down payment on a house. It holds the house in your name and similarly the Father places some of His spirit into our repentant minds and says, this is a deposit on this my future son, who has the potential to be an heir with Christ.

Do you want to know more? Then read on line or write for our booklet on the Holy Days of God…they paint an exciting and meaningful picture of God’s personal plan of salvation for all mankind.