Name: Spreading the Feast Gathering
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August 8, 2009 at 7:00 pm
kurtjenvb
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Hi there,
I am looking for any suggestions for studying the Biblical feasts with my children this year. I have looked through various resources online which all have mixed reviews. Some look really good, but then there are a few reviews that claim they have incorporated “pagan” influences into their study of the jewish customs, etc. I really want a good, solid, biblical guide to the feasts, incorporating their messianic details, but I don’t have the knowledge to discern which of these products are truly “on target” or not. Any suggestions?
August 8, 2009 at 7:09 pm
caroline4kids
Member
I really like the Biblical Holidays books from http://www.biblicalholidays.com . We have used the “big purple book” a lot over the years. I have also read a lot about the pagan influences and have found that Robin Sampson, the author, addresses those things as you go along.
August 8, 2009 at 7:42 pm
caroline4kids
Member
Can you tell me more about the resources you have looked at? If you find one better I’d love to hear about it.
August 8, 2009 at 8:44 pm
baileymom
Member
We also have Robin Sampson’s book and like it.
We celebrated the feasts last year with school (MFW’s Creation to the Greeks) and used the book Celebrating Biblical Feasts, it seemed a little more condensed and simpler than “the big purple book”.
It was neat. I’d almost like to do them again this year. And next year. And the next.
Kathi
August 9, 2009 at 12:12 am
Rachel White
Participant
We are a Messianic family and I recommend that you go to
http://www.messianicjewish.net/store/products.php?catid=29&hits=0
My husband and children are Jewish (but, Believers in Messiah Yeshua), I am not Jewish, so I had to study to know how to teach my children something I wasn’t raised with! The following books assisted me in this endeavor. Barney Kasden, is a Messianic Rabbi; his books are “G-d’s Apppointed Times” and “G-d’s Appointed Customs” . There is a difference in the approach of different books. Some teach them from a Christian perspective, teaching Hebraic roots and some from the Messianic Jewish perspective.
Personally, I believe the Messianic Jewish perspective will be the most complete in connecting the Messiah where he has been disconnected over the centuries and revealing G-d’s Blueprint for Redemption and way of worshiping Him through His Appointments that He has designed for us. they are His Feasts. The difference being coming from a ‘Greek’ mindset or a ‘Hebraic’ mindset. We know our Messiah came from a Hebraic mindset.
However, I know several people who have used Robin Sampson’s successfully and been Blessed by it; we never have so I can’t speak to it. I’m not clear what ‘pagan influences’ you’re referring to. Could you be more specific? There are some differences between what Scripture mandates that you do on His Appointed Times (those found specifically layed out in Leviticus 23) and what Rabbi’s have developed orally in extra Biblical tradition; some traditions (and holidays) support Scripture, or are supported by it and some that aren’t. Then there’s the two main Historical Festivals, Purim and Hannukah, both found in Scripture, remembering G-d’s Hand in Israel’s victories over Her enemies.
Kathi,
Why not do them every year? G-d Created them and you’re ‘grafted in’ to Israel, the Olive Root tree, as the wild olive shoot (Romans 11), so they are for you, too. “…and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap of the olive root,” (Romans 11:17). The Appointed Times/Festivals are indeed nourishing!
I hope you are thoroughly Blessed in delving deep into G-d’s Biblical Feasts!
Shalom,
Rachel

August 9, 2009 at 12:50 am
caroline4kids
Member
Thank you Rachel for that information. I am slightly jealous of you. Somehow, celebrating the biblical holidays is accepted more when you have a direct connection to the Hebrew heritage. I believe I am grafted into Israel, but my Danish relatives just can’t get where I am coming from. I particularly like the bible version “The Scriptures” which restores names and things and takes a distinctly Hebraic outlook.
I have had a great burden on my heart to shovel off all of the tradition that has been laid on top of the 1st century church and would like to worship in the way that Paul and the Apostles did back then. They did not shun the holidays and feasts because there was nothing else! I got into HEAPS of trouble with my husband’s family and their church. No matter how patiently I explained things I still was doing something wrong in their estimation.
Fortunately, we are living far away and do our own thing, but I have been a bit gun shy since the uproar.