Q. Why don’t Messianic believers celebrate Yeshua’s birth, death and resurrection on appropriate days and feasts. I’d be interested in your response.

A. Messianic believers do celebrate many aspects of Messiah’s life but they are not according to man-made traditions or dates set by man. We don’t celebrate Yeshua’s birth because it was never deemed to be important. Even first century believers, who wrote the Scriptures and set up congregations, never celebrated His birth on any particular day or fashion. His own mother didn’t get everyone together and do a celebration. Secular as well as ecclesiastical history about Christmas will tell you that his birth was not celebrated for hundreds of years, and they didn’t even know what day it was. The Council of Nicea finally decided on a day that was used in paganism to worship the sun deity, but even that day wasn’t agreed upon by all and to this day a day in January is still observed by others. As far as His death is concerned , we have a day called Passover that brings out what happened very well. He was taken down from the cross and buried by the next feast called Unleavened Bread. He raised from the dead on the next feast called the feast of First Fruits. The next feast is Shavuot (Pentecost) when the Holy Spirit was sent and when the Torah was given at Mt. Sinai. Then comes the long summer and then the wheat harvest. The next feast is Yom Teruah (day of the awakening blast) or Rosh Ha Shanah and it teaches the catching away of the Bride to the wedding and coronation of the King. The next feast is Yom Kippur and it teaches the second coming of Messiah and the destruction of the false messiah. The seventh and last feast is called Sukkot and it is the Feast of Nations and the ingathering of the harvest. This feast teaches about the coming Messianic Kingdom. Last but not least we have the weekly Sabbath where all these subjects are touched on. The feast can be found in Leviticus 23 and these were the feasts celebrated by Yeshua and His followers, not what Christianity and other religions may have replaced them with. So, as you can see, the significant events in Yeshua’s life are celebrated and they are linked to our redemption and are the blueprints for prophetic events.