Mysterious Festival Days – David Treybig ucg.org

As a young child the author experienced a shift in his family’s religious observances, they stopped keeping Christmas and started keeping the biblical festivals of God. God’s way of life, as delineated in the Bible can be mysterious, contrary to what is taught in mainstream Christianity. Christ, Himself, called the Kingdom of God a mystery in Mark 4:10-12. Mystery is used several times in the Bible in reference to the gospel that Christ taught. Even God’s biblical festivals can be mysterious, and they are often dismissed by many as being only for the people of ancient Israel. But they are God’s festivals and are for everyone. The seven biblical festivals occur in early spring, late spring, and autumn. Passover is the annual observance of Christ’s death for baptized members of the Church of God. During the Days of Unleavened Bread, when leavened bread and leavening agents are removed from our homes, leaven represents removing sin from our lives. Pentecost commemorates the giving of God’s Holy Spirit on the same festival day just after Christ was killed. With diligent study, in time these, and the other autumn festivals, will cease to be a mystery to you, too.