The disciples kept the Festivals until the temple was destroyed. The New Covenant was made with leavened bread. The feast of Unleavened Bread came three days later. The festivals were done away with.
Festivals and Sacrifices
Jeremiah 31:31,32.
“The days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when
I will make a covenant with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah 32
It will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them,” declares the LORD..
Daniel 9:27
He will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven.’ In the middle of the ‘seven’
he will put an end to sacrifice and offering.
Zechariah 11:10
Then I took my staff called Favor and broke it,
revoking the covenant I had made with all the nations.
Malachi 3:1
“I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple;
the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,” says the LORD Almighty.
Matthew 26:28
This is my blood of
the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Festivals rejected by Yahwah.
Psalm 40:6
Sacrifice and offering you did not desire— but a body you have prepared for me —
burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require.
Psalm 51:16
You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it;
you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings.
Proverbs 21:3
To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the LORD than sacrifice.
Isaiah 1:11
“The multitude of your sacrifices— what are they to me?” says the LORD. “I have more than enough of burnt offerings, of rams and the fat of fattened animals; I have no pleasure in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats.
Isaiah 1:14
Your New Moon feasts and your appointed festivals I hate with all my being. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.
Zephaniah 3:18
“I will remove from you all who mourn over the loss of your appointed festivals, which is a burden and reproach for you.
Lamentations 2:6
He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden; he has destroyed his place of meeting.
The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths; in his fierce anger he has spurned both king and priest.
Hosea 2:11
I will stop all her celebrations: her yearly festivals, her New Moons, her Sabbath days—
all her appointed festivals.
Amos 5:21
“I hate, I despise your religious festivals; your assemblies are a stench to me.
Since the days of Adam; Festivals, Sacrifices, and Offerings, has been a tradition of mankind. God only instructed Moses on how the people were to perform those things.
Festivals, Sacrifices, and Offerings
Jeremiah 7
21 This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices, and eat the meat yourselves, 22 for when I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt,
I did not speak with them or
command them concerning burnt offering and sacrifice.
26 However,
they wouldn’t listen to Me or pay attention, but became obstinate; they did more evil than their ancestors.
The Old Covenant has been revoked; we now live under the New Covenant.
Feast Festivals
Lamentations 2:6
He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden; he has destroyed his place of meeting.
The Lord has made Zion forget her appointed festivals and her Sabbaths; in his fierce anger he has spurned both king and priest.
After CE
Zephaniah 3:18 KJ
I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.
Before CE
Zephaniah 3:18 NIV
“I will remove from you all who mourn over the loss of your appointed festivals, which is a burden and reproach for you.
Isaiah 66:3
But whoever
sacrifices a bull is like one who kills a person, and whoever
offers a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever makes a
grain offering is like one who presents pig’s blood, and whoever
burns memorial incense is like one who worships an idol. They have chosen their own ways, and they delight in their abominations;
