At this time of year most people customarily think about the Chr-stmas and New Year’s Day celebrations. Yet you never find either Chr-stmas or January 1 (New Year’s Day) mentioned, or commanded to be observed, anywhere in the Bible.

Ch-rchianity has for generations been proof-texting their beliefs out of the Bible and they should not do that. Rather, the True Worshiper should study the sacred Scriptures to learn what the Bible teaches and then obey its instructions.

Why keep January 1 as New Year’s Day when our Bible clearly tells us that New Year’s Day, the first day of the beginning of the SCRIPTURAL months, is in the spring of the year? The month of Abib is the first month of Yahweh’s scriptural year. In Exodus 12:1-2, we read, "And Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be to you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you."

Actually, today the Jews observe the Feast of Trumpets, the new moon of the seventh month, as their New Year’s Day. However, Yahweh’s sacred Scriptures tells us in Exodus 12:2 that it is on the first day of the month of Abib that we shall reckon our New Year Day. "Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover to Yahweh your Elohim; for in the month of Abib Yahweh your Elohim brought you forth out of Egypt by night." (Deuteronomy 16:1).

Since we live in the world and must conduct business in the world, we must use the common calendar, which is the product of ancient Rome. However, we do not celebrate January 1, as New Year’s Day, or December 25 as Chr-stmas, nor do we celebrate or keep any of the other religious holidays designated on the Roman calendar, because they are not found nor commanded in the Bible.

Yahshua the Messiah, is our example. In 1 Peter 2:21, the Apostle Peter says that Yahshua the Messiah left us an example that we should follow in His steps. "For to this were you called: because the Messiah also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow his footsteps." Do you take Yahshua the Messiah as your example? He is the Son of Yahweh, a man who kept Yahweh’s commandments without sin.

In Luke 22:14-15, we read, "And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the apostles with him. And he said to them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer." Yahshua kept the Passover before He suffered His cruel death upon the tree by shedding His blood to atone for our sins. If He is our example, should we not do as He did? The logical answer would be the affirmative.

In John chapter 7 you can find that Yahshua the Messiah, was at Jerusalem observing the Feast of Tabernacles. Yahshua preached a sermon on the Last Great Day of the feast, the eighth day of the Feast of Tabernacles. "Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Yahshua stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink. He that believes on me, as the Scripture has said, from within him shall flow rivers of living water. But this spoke he of the Spirit, which they that believed on him were to receive: for the Spirit was not yet given; because Yahshua was not yet glorified." (John 7:37-39).

"And if the family of Egypt goes not up, and comes not, neither shall it be upon them; there shall be the plague with which Yahweh will strike the nations that go not up to keep the feast of tabernacles." Do you want to be struck with a plague? This is the reason why there are so many diseases prevalent at the present time. People are hearing the Word of Yahweh, but they are not keeping it. "This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that go not up to keep the feast of tabernacles." Those who do not worship Yahweh during His sacred seasons will be punished. Certainly, all those will die by the plague, if they do not obey Almighty Yahweh.

You must decide if you will keep the holidays that Almighty Yahweh has never commanded that you keep!

Conversely, you must decide if you will obediently observe the holy days He has commanded His True Worshipers to keep.

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