There has been a recent trend with members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church coming to the knowledge and acceptance of the biblical Feast days. Examples of these days include the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, a.k.a. Pentecost, and the Feast of Tabernacles.
Not only are many realizing that the Messiah and apostles observed these days in the New Testament (Mark 14:1; John 7:2, 37; Acts 2:1-4; 12:3; 20:6, 16; 1Cor. 5:8), but they also offer incredible insight into our Creator’s plan of salvation for mankind. For instance, not only did the Passover bring redemption to Israel through the death of the Passover lamb, but the Messiah through His death also brought salvation to mankind. A similar connection is found with the Feast of Weeks. This Feast represents the giving of the Law in the Old Testament and also the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament.
Even though the Seventh-day Adventist Church does not officially recognize these days, Ellen G. White, a predominant founder of this movement, spoke to the value of these days: “Anciently the Lord instructed His people to assemble three times a year for His worship. To these holy convocations the children of Israel came, bringing to the house of God their tithes, their sin offerings, and their offerings of gratitude. They met to recount God’s mercies, to make known His wonderful works, and to offer praise and thanksgiving to His name. And they were to unite in the sacrificial service which pointed to Christ as the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. Thus they were to be preserved from the corrupting power of worldliness and idolatry. Faith and love and gratitude were to be kept alive in their hearts, and through their association together in this sacred service they were to be bound closer to God and to one another.” Testimonies for the Church, vol. 6, p. 39)
While Ellen G. White never officially endorsed the keeping of the annual Feasts, she nonetheless saw the value of these days. Perhaps with more time and study she would have come to this understanding, as she correctly did with the seventh-day Sabbath.
While the Seventh-day Adventists offer many truths, there are more that they have yet to recognize, including the observance of the biblical Feasts, the use of Yahweh’s and Yahshua’s Names, and a correct understanding of who the Father and Son are as it pertains to the Trinity doctrine.
If you are a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and desire more truth, consider exploring these and many other insights that the Bible clearly teaches. Let us not be unprepared when our Savior returns by ignoring portions of His Word, but search out what He says with an open and unbiased mind. “But sanctify Yahweh Elohim in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear,” 1 Peter 3:15.
Learn more: The Amazing Biblical Feasts
There are any around here! There is also more truth in the Law of Moses than the yearly Sabbaths that people don’t want to hear about.
Remember the Law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, the statutes and judgments. Malachi 4:4
Do you mean that there aren’t any or there are many? I found Torah keepers online through Bible Explorations (started by SDAs) and 119 Ministries.
Where in North Western North Carolina, I need to find feast keepers that are also SDA
We are Located at Flat Rock NC. My email is wencesa1@hotmail.com
Sabbath is Saturday not Friday evening.
It is common knowledge that the Hebrew day as described in scripture starts at sundown the previous day.
Sabbath is sundown to see sundown. It starts fri night and ends saturday night. Genesis states and the evening and the morning where the day
No, sorry guest, I don’t know is the position of this websites owner, but no. Not Saturday, because the week we follow was not the same during the time of Yeshua.
Weekly calendar cycle is same today as it was in first century. This can be attested to by the traditional reverence given to Sunday by the Catholic church, the day following Shabbat, as early as the 3rd century. Shabbat begins at even, which we call Friday evening, because all days begin at even per Bereshit 1. Looking forward to the SDA outgrowing EGW and start embracing that which they used to discount. Just move camp meeting to the Fall and there is an easy start! SDA clearly refer to Isaiah 66 as evidence for Sabbath observance in the future, but… Read more »
Sandoval, the Shabbath starts at the evening of Friday and ends at the evening of Saturday.
Excellent I am so excited to hear this. I have been a Sabbath Keeper some 36 years and I love 7th Day humble services, but I would not be there on Feasts Days nor keep I communion with them. This is a blessing to hear. Is there a place in Chicago Area that keep the Yahweh’s Feast Days.
Look on the 119 Ministries map online. I found local feast keepers that way. We just got together for feasting on Thursday and Fri night for Sukkot!
I LOVE THIS!!! My first Feast was Sukkot/Feast of Tabernacles 2016! Things are really moving now and there were a lot of very significant political things that happened in 2015 and 2016 on Feast Days specifically! The Pope being invited to speak to Congress for the first time was one of them! Prophecy is being fulfilled and Yahweh is calling his people back to covenant and HIS way of worship!!
This is my view on the feasts days ,the ceremonial laws that pointed to the redeemer were done at the cross. To keep these means you are not excepting Jesus as the true sacrifice . Are we still looking for the true lamb of God?
That is simply not true. If the feast days are done away with, why are they prophesied about in the millennial kingdom?(Zech 14) Are the people in this prophecy rejecting Messiah as well? NO!
The truth is, the feast days are still very much in effect and keeping the feasts that Yahweh commanded us to is in no way denying the sacrifice of the Messiah. And the prophets made it clear that the feast days will be kept in the kingdom.
https://yrm.org/amazing-biblical-feasts/ This free booklet goes into much more depth. Blessings!
I guess that you have a right to think as you please,but if the feast days are still required,are you still offering up the unblemished lamb for a sacrifice. If the old covenant is still in effect,that would be a requirement,it seems to me.
Besides the fact that the Feasts are prophetic and will be observed in the millennial Kingdom by all nations (Zechariah 14:16), the Feasts were also observed in the New Testament by the Messiah and His disciples. Below are several examples: · Luke 2:41: “Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover.” · Luke 22:11 “…Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?” · 1Corinthians 5:7-8: “Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Messiah our passover is sacrificed… Read more »
Hallelujah! I always told people the SDA’s only know one thing: the Sabbath. So wonderful to find them waking up. To YRM I’m unclear: do you advocate animal sacrifices today? Each Holy Day has/had prophetic, fulfilled and memorial significance. The perfect lamb was sacrificed once and for all; no need for ceremonial/prophetic enactment. This is now a memorial. All these days will become memorials when all are completely fulfilled. We sit at the cusp of the fulfillment of Trumpets. Agreed?
We do not advocate animal sacrifice, Yahshua was our perfect sacrifice. As for the feasts being fulfilled, we believe that the feasts will be kept forever, even into the kingdom. Zech 14 shows us this. We also agree that Trumpets is next in line to be fulfilled.
I’m SDA, and sorry, even that one thing is wrong. Saturday, yes, it is the seventh day, but on a calendar that Jeshua (Jesus) did not recognize. In fact, Pope Gregory’s calendar only appeared aproximately 500 years after Yeshua. Although we were all along right about the importance of the Sabbath, the day it is to be commemorated must be revisited. When the gregorian calendar was designed, the designer did not intend to synchronize it with the calendar that the Messiah followed, but to oppose it. We have to be careful, it’s the end of time, and I think that… Read more »
The days of the week have never changed (other than name) even though the calendars have.
Hi Floyd, indeed, I appreciate this verse
“And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received THE! atonement.”
Romans 5:11
Please look at the prophesy of Ezekiel where he was shown a “greater abomination” with men in the courtyard of God’s house looking away from the entrance to the sacrificial altar. I think if you are focusing on the sacrifice that was made, you are putting your back to the temple. Eze 8:16
A mini bible study on feasts days. Moadim-moeds in Hebrew means appointed times for the Lords festivals. These festivals were shadows pointing Foward to the cross and to future events and now are shadows pointing back to the cross and to future events. These God given appointed times were created before sin just like the 7th day sabbath of creation. They are memorial days or holidays of Gods work. Give worship to God the way he intended, not the current world view using man made worship on 1st day, pagan holiday feasts, pagan lingo of Eliohim/Yahweh/Yeshua names-(this name one is… Read more »
“Saturday” in Hebrew is “Yom Shabbath (יוֹם שַׁבָּת)” which means “Shabbathical day” as it comes from “Yom (יוֹם)” and “Shabbath (שַׁבָּת)” means “Shabbath” as it is doubled version of “Shabath (שָׁבַת)” which comes from “Sh-B-Th (שבת)” which means “stop labouring”.
[…] I read your article regarding the SDA accepting the Feasts. As a Seventh Day Adventist (SDA), I believe the ceremonial laws that pointed to the redeemer […]
Peace I believe in SDA doctrine as well, but there is nowhere in the Bible or the writings of EGW that says the annual Holy days of GOD are done away with. Now, verses are used to make it appear as it does, but it’s not the case. What the brothers and sisters here at YRM is pointing out to you is very important, you heard actions speaks louder than words right? Well, the actions of the apostles and the early Gentiles shows that the annual Holy Days of GOD still being observed. Let’s check it out, YRM pointed out… Read more »
I have been out of Sunday worship now for about 3 years , since some lovely Sabbath believing worshipers opened my eyes to the truth of the Sabbath…Which I thoroughly love except it has been a very lonely walk as I am the only one in my household who keeps the Sabbath in my heart…I live in a small country town in Western Austrailia.. Their is no other fellowship for miles around but their are some Seventh Day Churches. I long to be apart of a fellowship again I have even considered going to check them out. Would it be… Read more »
Yahweh never moved the Shabbath to Sunday.
Hi Jennifer
By all means try and connect with some seventh day churches.
My wife and I just got back from western Australia worshipping in several of them.
We need to draw together with like minded believers. (Heb. 10:25)
What area do you live by…maybe I can find one fore you…
I am a Sabbath keeping pastor and know a number of Sabbath keepers in NSW.
God bless you.
Bob
I have been struggling with this for a long time and have brought this up with church family. Went down like a lead balloon. Finally I googled for help and here I am. I’m from Brisbane Australia and am hoping to find a group to fellowship with . Can anyone put me on the right track?
google lou munilla – sunday alert
Hi Maria
My wife and I just got back from western Australia.
We worshipped with several Sabbath keeping churches.
We were even just north of Brisbane area with one group.
I know of many in Brisbane area who worship on Sabbath.
Let me know if you need some help finding one.
God bless you in your journey.
Is there a directory of feast keepers group worldwide. We travel a lot and would like to fellowship with like minds.
I believe Asia is ripe for this message. We have noticed that believers in this region are growing and increasing in numbers. We live in the US but intend to move to Asia to share this message. Shalom
Hi Jeff. Greetings from Goa, India, ASIA. Asia is the most populous continent, with its 4.54 billion inhabitants accounting for 60% of the world population. The world’s two most populated countries, China and India, together constitute about 36% of the world’s population. India is the second most populated country in the world with nearly a fifth of the world’s population. According to the 2017 revision of the World Population Prospects, the population stood at 1,324,171,354. During 1975–2010 the population doubled to 1.2 billion. With current population growth trends in India coupled with UN population estimates, India’s population is soon gonna… Read more »
Tony Suckla has been working in India for years. Here is his site: http://www.sevendayweek.com/
Thanks a lot for sharing Tony Sucla’s website. Had a good glance at all his webpages. After reading his web content, his website recommended another more deeper and richer resourcefull website that is digging deep into Elohims Sacred Word that is http://www.nazareneisrael.org Thanks once again.
Shalom beloved. Does anyone know if there are gathering/s planned for Sukkot/Tabernacles in Florida this year (2019)?
Shalom Alechem.
We are not aware of anyone in FL keeping the feasts at the same time we are.
There is a penacostal church, doing all the feast days and of Jan. 2022 keeping Saturday Sabbath, Freedom Fir Life family church 6430 S.Lewdingar Dr. HOMASASSA Florida34446 tel. No.352-628-1088 can go on line at 1015 on Sundays until Jan. Then Saturday services
We use to be super worldly and were into spiritualism, extremely worldly music, drinking and we’re big pot heads. God woke us up, and we realized He was real! He detached us from our addictions. We started praying and reading the Bible and saw lies in the church and did not know where to go. God led us to 7th day adventist church and the pastor taught us so much truths in the Bible. Now we’re baptized and My husband and I are 2 year old 7th day adventist. We still got a fire for his word and can’t get… Read more »
JMurray: … She also said (?) there will be more truths about feast days that they (?) just don’t understand yet. …
Can you provide the reference this statement of hers ? i would like to read her direct quote your referencing. And does she (EGW) reveal who the non-understanding “they” are ?
Praise God! Your testimony almost mirrors ours! And we are excited and continue learning as our Creator continues to shed light on what He wants us to know through His Holy Spirit. And we were willing to listen and cone out of Babylon during the start of the Covid “plandemic”. It’s been an astonishing journey for sure! We are SDA’s and feast keepers. The Word can speak for itself, and as we prayerfully read, His truth becomes more clear. Inam glad to hear more people, especially through the SDA church see the importances of keeping the feasts, as the shadow… Read more »
I love this I grew up celebrating the feasts. As an adult I converted to Seventh Day Adventist.
It is true that many SDA members have come and are still coming to the realization that these feasts indeed were meant to be kept. The reason this truth has been overlooked over the years, is that these feasts were considered in SDA church as ceremonial laws and therefore in some ways equated to the Jewish traditions among which are the pharisaic inventions that were the subject of conflict between Jesus and the Pharisees. But that is not all that is coming to light to these SDAs. It turns out, some of them are questioning the authenticity of the weekly… Read more »
The 7th day sabbath far predates Hillel II. The Lunar Sabbath is RIFE with flaws.
And hiw do you explain why EG White herself said that the Lords Supper REPLACED Passover. She said this. Anyone can google it. So either you throw out the prophet and keep doing what youre doing, or you repent and come back to the fold. Stop acting like Ellen White never said anything too strongly one way or another on the feast days. That is a lie. She clearly said they were replaced. Stop pretending EG White is your prophet because she isnt.
We absolutely do not recognize E.G. White as a prophetess… If anything we believe she is a false prophetess. What gave you the idea that supported EG White in ANY WAY?
Leviticus 23:16
Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD.