Scriptures on Holy Days

usually early December What is it about? During the time of the Maccabees Antiochus and the Greeks had defiled the temple of the Most High and made it law that the children of Israel could no longer follow the commandments of the Most High. The Greeks also stole the vessels from the temple and beg

May What is it about? First Fruits (Pentecost / Feast of Weeks) is calculated by counting 7 Sabbaths from the day after the Passover. The children of Israel would offer a free will offering unto the Most High according to how much he had blessed their harvest with increase. This was celebrated by

What is it about? The children of Israel would blow the trumpets at the beginning of the month. Also, before going off to war they would sound or blow the trumpet and the Most High would remember them and save them from their enemies. How do we celebrate this Holy Day? We are to have a Holy Convo

Exodus 23:14-16 Purim February What is it about? During the reign of King Ahasuerus in the Medo-Persian captivity, Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite (the enemy of all the Jews from the seed of Amalek (Est.3)) due to his hatred towards Mordecia, devised a plan against the Jews to destroy t

in Sept What is it about? On this day Israel would make a sacrifice unto the Most High to atone for their sins. Israel would make offerings of rams and bullocks and lambs without blemish to be accepted before the Most High. How do we celebrate it? We are to have a Holy Convocation in which we do n

SPRING / Feast of Unleavened Bread Biblical Reference: Leviticus 23:5, Leviticus 23:9-14 What is it about? The Passover is a Holy Day Feast in which we remember how the Most High saved our forefathers from the hard bondage in Egypt under Pharaoh by sending great wonders and plagues, the last of

Fall What is it about? During this feast the children of Israel remember how they dwelt in tabernacles in the wilderness for forty years. They were to go and make booths and to dwell therein for seven days feasting and giving thanks to Most High for bringing them out of Egypt. The first and the ei