How Eight False Feasts Substituted God's Eight True Feasts

I'll go ahead and give you the title of this, which is, How 8 False Feasts Substituted God's 8 True Feasts. So here you have eight feasts that are the ones that are well known, but they're actually masking or hiding the biblical eight feasts that are revealed in God's Word. So it's a fascinating study how this came to be. As you know, we're in the midst of one of the busiest holiday seasons of the year.

Now, most people don't question what they believe. They just go along with the traditions of the time. I certainly didn't question it. I just went along. I had no idea there was another side to this story of holidays until I came to the church and my eyes were opened, seeing what it said in the Bible. Somehow at that time, I really hadn't read much of the Bible. I had gone to mass on Sundays and had catechism, but true deep Bible study, I didn't know. I had fallen into the trap described in Proverbs 1817. I'd like to read it to you from the Passion Translation.

It says, there are two sides to every story. The first one to speak sounds true until you hear the other side and they set the record straight. So the same thing should be done with these supposedly Christian feasts of the world. You hear both sides of the story before coming to a decision. Why is this so important? Because you will not be deceived. And unfortunately, there's a spirit of deception that is so powerful. It's unseen, but it influences, exerts great power.

As 2 Corinthians 11, 13 through 15, 2 Corinthians 11, 13 through 15 says about religious deception. Even in Paul's day, even in the time of the New Testament, there was already a spirit of deception. Look what Paul said. This was to the congregation of the Corinthians. He says those men who are among you are not true apostles.

They are false apostles who lie about their work and disguise themselves to look like real apostles of Christ. Well, no wonder even Satan can disguise himself to look like an angel of light. So it is no great thing if his servants disguise themselves to look like servants of righteousness. In other words, nobody's going to walk around and say, oh, yeah, I'm part of the false church.

Right. I mean, nobody's going to come in and it's like saying, well, come over here because I've got bread that is poison, but it's at a cheap price. Nobody would do that. So you have to always be careful because appearances can deceive. And he ends up saying in the end, they will get exactly what their actions deserve. One of the key terms in this section of scripture is disguise.

The Bible says that Satan disguises himself when he teaches his distorted ideas. So they will appear saintly, holy and good. Also, his servants, quote, disguise themselves to look like servants of righteousness. In other words, they say, yeah, I'm following the Bible. I'm doing all of this thing properly.

Therefore, it will not be easy to detect who is saying the truth until one carefully investigates both sides of the subject. And by the way, today, those that are searching for the truth, they have so many resources available that we had to go to the public library and wade through all kinds of books until you finally got both sides of the story. So I will be using for the sake of brevity, the artificial intelligence feature in Google that gives a reply with an overview based on millions of different sources about the substitution of God's feasts by Roman Catholic feasts, many also adopted by Protestants and evangelicals.

And so I've been shocked, but pleasantly so that here this whole machinery that just taps in all this information, and then condenses it. And you know what? It's a lot more honest than if you go to some of these places that have their biases, because here it's sort of like cold down to its essence. That doesn't mean you have to trust it completely.

But like I said, I was really pleasantly surprised how accurate and honest some of these replies are. So let me present eight examples on this topic of the holidays, especially since we're in the midst of one of those festival seasons that disguises itself to appear as a true feast of God. We are going to go over eight false feasts that counterfeit or hide God's eight true feasts in a roughly similar sequence in the Roman calendar. So this is not all just haphazardly or just randomly done.

No, there was intention, but at the top of the leaders, they knew what they were doing. But then in the masses, they just said, well, this is just going to change a bit. But hey, we're all Christians. We can accept these changes and we're the authority anyways. Right. You have to trust us on this.

So let's start with the first feast that was established to hide the first of God's true feasts. This one is kept weekly while the seven other feasts are annual feasts. So in the Bible, there's one feast that is kept on the Sabbath day, which is today the Sabbath day. It is one of God's holy feasts established with his authority in the Bible.

And then the other seven feasts, there are annual feasts, they are kept once during the year. And so there are eight in total, but one is weekly and seven are annually.

Let's read in Leviticus 23, one through three Leviticus 23, one through three, it says, quote, and the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, speak to the children of Israel and say to them, the feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, convocations are assemblies, meetings. This is one of those holy convocations that is established by God, not by man.

These, God says, are my feasts, not man's, not man made. This is the God of the Bible talking to God, who created the whole universe that set his son so he could teach the truth to mankind. Mankind still doesn't want to follow God because there is this subtle deceiver. Satan is the great counterfeiter. And by the way, if you're going to deceive somebody with a counterfeit bill, how many have ever been given a false bill?

Aha, a couple, right? And do they make them the wrong color like red or or they're going to put another picture on it? No, they have to make it just as exactly as possible. Because that's the way you can get away with a false bill. And, you know, when you try to buy something, then I say, I'm sorry, this is false. It doesn't it's not worth a penny. But you've been deceived. So it is the same way with the feasts. Don't think that this is something that is so different. No, it's it's made so that it can be substituted without much notice. It goes on to say God says these are my feasts.

And which is the first feast, he says six days shall work be done. But the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest. A holy convocation. So here's where we get the authority from God to be able to have a holy convocation. This is not invented. This is a requirement of God's people. He knows we need to get together at least once a week, recharge our spiritual batteries, and be ready for the six days that come ahead. Because I tell you, it's a world full of temptations, distractions.

And Satan wants you to fall into that hole that people can do with just a few mistakes. I don't know how many of you heard that comment by the famous singer composer Elton John that he mentioned in an interview here a day or two ago. He said, I know that smoking marijuana is dangerous and damaging because he said I lived it. And the worst thing that could have been done was to make this open and legal in Canada and the U.S. Elton John himself was seen so much. He said it is addictive. It leads to other drugs.

And so he knew he was going to be heavily criticized and you have to give him credit. Because he said this is the worst decision made. And so it's interesting the person with that much background because he said when I got stoned, I didn't think straight. That's not the way to live your life. So here we are with the holy convocations that we meet to be able to know God's truths and then apply them during the next six days of the week.

It's like putting on your spiritual armor and then facing that enemy. There are three great enemies that we have to face. And if you do and you overcome, Christ said you will rule under him when he comes back because you will be able to teach others these truths. So he says you can make it, but you have to be an overcomer. You cannot let the world overcome you. There are three great enemies. The first one is our human nature.

It is selfish by nature. It has this downward pull towards sin. So that's our biggest enemy. The second one is the world and its ways and its system, which leads to sin also. And the third one is Satan himself, who's behind the scene, always tempting and seeing who he can devour. Who's the weak one that he can go after? And now this isn't something new. Those three enemies are going to be with you, whether you accept the challenge from God to overcome or not, because you can be out there in the world and not believe in anything. And guess what? You got your human nature who's going to overcome you.

And then you have the world that is going to lead you in the wrong way. And Satan is very happy to make a business and a contract with you to make you prosper and to get fame or whatever for you to give up that spiritual life and eternal life with Jesus Christ. So he that's basically his strategy. So let's start here. It says Leviticus 23 at the end. You shall do no work on it. It is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings. And so how can you really honor God if you're going to be out there playing golf someplace or going out?

Oh, yes, I'm thinking about God. No, you're not. That's why this is a day of rest. This is time you take time out and be able to study his word and also just relax be with your family. Take a walk around, enjoy nature, whatever. But the thing is that it is a day that you give to God so that you he can replenish you spiritually. So what is the next feast?

Well, I've still got one more point. So that's the Sabbath day. But how did Sunday become the substitute? How did the first day of the week became a substitute for the seventh day of the week? Just go to any dictionary. Webster's dictionary. Put down or look up Saturday or Sabbath. It says it's the seventh day of the week. That's what the Bible tells you is the holy day. And then look up Sunday, the first day of the week, the day of the sun.

Nobody ever worshiped on Sunday in all the Bible. There is no example of a man or woman of God in the Bible who quit keeping the Sabbath day and started keeping Sunday. That's a historical fact that you can check it. Just let me know somebody who said, you know what? Yeah, I'm keeping Sunday. I'm not keeping Saturday.

There's no such example. Even as late as the mid 400s, two Catholic Church historians, one is what's called Socrates scholasticus and the other one was Sosomen, right? That the practice of assembling together on the Sabbath was practiced everywhere except in Rome and Alexandria. A major factor which contributed to that early abandonment of the Sabbath keeping in Rome and Alexandria was the presence of strong anti-Jewish feelings. They just didn't want to do anything. So they wanted to have another day besides to what the Jews did. And by the way, the Jewish Christians, which is more important. Paul was a Jewish Christian and he always kept the Sabbath. He never changed that. It was only in the synod of which is like a small council of Laodicea in the years 463 to 464.

400 years from the time of basically the Apostle Paul's time that Sabbath keeping was officially banned in the Roman Empire and punished severely because of it still widespread observance. The Catholic Church was dead set on stomping out, quelling, crushing anybody that kept the Sabbath. That's how Sunday triumphed. It wasn't by reason. It wasn't by examining scriptures. It was by church authority that if you were caught keeping the Sabbath, then your goods were going to be confiscated. You were going to be persecuted. Now, that's not a Christ-like attitude, is it? And then, of course, you had the Inquisition where they interrogated and tortured you to see if you kept the Sabbath or not. In this way, the Catholic Church imposed its will over the Roman Empire at that time about exclusively keeping Sunday instead of the Christian Sabbath. Nonetheless, it did not stamp out the Christian Sabbath that was observed in secret due to the vicious religious persecution. People believed the Sabbath was still the fourth commandment of God. We only have 10 that God gave at Mount Sinai. And the fourth is remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. He didn't say Sunday. Christ never changed that. So let's go to the second feast, which now we start with the annual feasts. It's Good Friday for the Passover. Instead of the Passover, you have Good Friday. Leviticus 23 4 through 5 says, These are the feasts of the Lord, holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at their appointed times. On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the Lord's Passover. So God gives biblical calendar that we observe. And for these feasts, we start with a biblical calendar that doesn't start in the Roman time. It always begins at the beginning of spring. And so from that, on the fourteenth day is the Passover that we keep every year, just like Jesus Christ and his apostles did. And God's people in these past 2000 years.

So this second feast that was substituted was the Passover for a feast that came to be known as Good Friday. I kept Good Friday as a Catholic. Now the Google artificial intelligence overview, when I asked it, I thought, oh, they'll not admit this, right? Well, you can't put this computer in jail. You can't persecute it. So whatever it says, it's the compilation. He says, According to Christian theology, Good Friday is considered to have, quote, substituted for Passover in the sense that Jesus' death on the cross, which, and I put supposedly, occurred on a Friday during Passover week, is seen as the ultimate Passover sacrifice.

And so it says, therefore, the Christians view Good Friday as the new and ultimate Passover celebration.

Although they do not celebrate Passover in the same way as Jews do. They don't keep it as the Bible says. So this is the way it was substituted.

In this manner, Good Friday, that is part of the Easter celebration that week, came to substitute the Christian Passover, which was still kept by a sizable group in the first couple of centuries. So again, it was never stamped out, but of course, the persecution made them not be able to publicly keep these feasts.

Okay, let's go to the third one.

This is Easter Sunday for the days of Unleavened Bread.

The Bible says, Leviticus 23 six, and on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord. See, who is the Lord? That's God the Father. Talk about Jesus Christ. Those are the feasts that they established, that they want us to keep. They didn't give anybody authority to substitute others. It says to the Lord, seven days you must eat unleavened bread.

The third feast, which was changed, was the days of Unleavened Bread for a new feast, Easter Sunday. Did you know its origins are pagan? Consequently, after Good Friday was substituted, had substituted the Passover, Catholic leaders realized to be consistent, something had to replace God's third feast, the days of Unleavened Bread, which followed the Passover.

What was invented in its place was Easter Sunday. Now, I ask the Google AI overview reply. I love it because all you have to do is say, like, did Good Friday substitute the Passover? That's all. And what did it say? Yes, Easter Sunday replaced the days of Unleavened Bread.

But not until long after the New Testament was written. So it took quite a while for Easter Sunday to appear. The early church observed Passover and the days of Unleavened Bread. Following the example of Jesus and the apostles. Boy, Google's in trouble now. They just told the truth.

So let's go to the fourth feast that was changed. This is called Whit Sunday, which was a substitute for the Feast of Pentecost. How many have heard of Whit Sunday? Okay, that's not well known. It's more of a British term. But let's see what the Bible says about Pentecost.

Leviticus 23 16 and 21 says, this is the fourth feast of God. Count 50 days. That's where the word Pentecost comes from. It means 50th in the Greek. Count 50 days to the day after the seventh Sabbath. Then you shall offer a new grain offering to the Lord. And you shall proclaim on the same day that it is a holy convocation to you. You shall do no customary work on it. It shall be a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generation. So this is not short term. And this doesn't have to do with just the Jews because the Jews are supposed to be able to give that truth to the world. And in the New Testament, this was the truth that was given to the world.

So this is what we keep.

Again, many of these feasts might not be so familiar with you. But each one substituted one of God's feasts for man-made feasts. Actually, the Catholic Church established what is with Sunday today at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD by the order of the Emperor Constantine. He was the one that changed the calendar. He's the one that said, well, now you start counting differently for the day of Pentecost.

Once the date of the Passover was changed, the 50-day count to Pentecost also began at a different time. Thus, Pentecost falls today, this with Sunday, on a different date than the original feast.

This is the British now called with Sunday. It is being celebrated by traditional Christianity on a different day and with a different meaning than what the Bible taught.

So, I don't know about you, but I don't like to be lied to. And so, boy, I'll tell you, when I started learning all these things, I was madder than a horned heart.

And guess what? I went to the priest and started asking him some questions. They couldn't answer. They got upset at me. Just follow church leaders. Just follow them. Now, let the priest interpret these things for you. And so, to me, it just, I did not want to follow lies. Whatever form it's in.

So then, we come to the fifth feast that was counterfeited.

This is the feast called Halloween-All Saints Day. So, actually, Halloween is just the evening of the next day, which is All Saints Day. They're both combined. Halloween All Saints Day instead of the Feast of Trumpets, which is God's fifth feast. Let's read the Bible. Leviticus 23, 24 says, quote, Speak to the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a Sabbath rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. Now, if God said that, do you think he really was serious? Or he said, well, you know, if you find some other substitute, it's good enough for me. This is the God that built everything. The one that's, you know, thundered in Mount Sinai. The God who means business and he's still loving God. He's patient. When people don't know any different, he's not judging them, because they don't know the truth. So, when you come to the truth that you start having to be more careful, because it's kind of hard to unlearn these things afterwards. Can you look at yourself in the mirror afterwards? Say, yeah, I'm an honest person. I really want to keep things that are truthful. What does Halloween have to do with All Saints Day? Again, look it up in this Google artificial intelligence reply. And the answer is found in the meaning of the term Halloween. It actually means All Hallows' Eve, or the evening before All Saints Day, when a Catholic Mass was held to prepare one for keeping All Saints Day, honoring those that had supposedly gone to heaven. So, here we have the sermonette mentioning about, well, people believe that after you die, you immediately go to heaven or hell or purgatory, right? But, no, that's because these false teachings have deceived people.

How does Halloween All Saints Day substitute for the Feast of Trumpets? Roughly around the same time. So, you see, you have God's calendar, and then you got the Roman calendar. And so, see, a Roman calendar doesn't have God's feasts, and God's calendar doesn't have the world's feasts.

The Feast of Trumpets, whose significance is augmented in the New Testament, is one of the signs of Christ's return. The blowing of the trumpet that announces his triumphant coming to the earth, and the resurrection of God's faithful throughout the ages. That's the meaning of this fifth feast.

As Jesus said about himself, quote, in Matthew 24, 31, and he will send his angels with the great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other. So, that's when the resurrection takes place, not before.

The Apostle Paul explained, regarding Christ's coming, for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ, notice, not those supposedly immortal souls in heaven, will rise first. So, you see, the Bible insists you have to wait for Christ to come back to begin the resurrections, not before. And this takes us to the sixth of the feasts. All souls' day, instead of the day of atonement, which is the sixth feast here, which we have.

Let's read what it says in Leviticus 23, verse 27. It says, also the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the day of atonement. It shall be a holy convocation for you. You shall afflict your soul and offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. So, again, God says it is a day, a holy convocation. It's a day to rest on that day. And all souls' day is the Catholic feast to celebrate those they consider as faithful who have died. As the AI overview states, all souls' day is a Christian holiday that commemorates all the faithful departed, talking about in the Catholic Church, because they think Protestants are not going to make it to heaven. So, it's only, it says, especially those who are believed to be in purgatory. The Catholic Church first defined its teaching on purgatory at the second council of Leon in 1274. So, over a thousand years from the time of Christ, that's when they decided that the teaching of purgatory is part of the Catholic teaching. So, this feast deals with the fate of those affiliated with Catholicism that die and quote, especially those who are believed to be in purgatory. This touches on the subject of atonement or the means of forgiveness of sins and a person's final destination. The Catholic Church says you have to be a good Catholic and you've sinned, but it doesn't get to the point of mortal sins. So, when you die, you go to purgatory. And there you are in a fiery torment, burning up your sins. Sometimes it can take hundreds of thousands of years. And then finally, you're pure enough to go to heaven. Well, that's not found in the Bible. The Catholic belief is that people, and by the way, I have nothing against people that are Catholics. I have something against what is being taught by the Catholic leaders as part of the Bible teaching. That's where I have the problem, not with the people, but with what is being taught. The Catholic belief is that people can pray to dead saints that can intercede on behalf of those believers, atoning for their sins in purgatory. And that eventually will make them able to get to heaven. In contrast, God's Feast of Atonement deals with how our sins are forgiven without a teaching such as purgatory, which is a man-made, medieval teaching of sinners suffering in hell until they have paid their sins through terribly suffering. Now, I remember, to me, that was a relief. When I was a little boy, my mother would say, you don't go to Mass, you're going to burn in hell. You're going to be in purgatory. She would give me these pictures of all these people every day going into hell. Basically, that's where I went, not because I wanted to learn something. I wanted fire insurance.

And I was so relieved when I said, oh, it's good, it's not in the Bible. I'm glad God didn't teach it as man. Yet, as the Bible says about Christ's Atonement for our sins, mentioned in conjunction with the Day of Atonement, it says here in Hebrews, let me get the quote of the place, Hebrews 9, 26, and 27. It says, But into the second part, the high priest went alone once a year, which is talking about on the Day of Atonement, not without blood, in other words, he had to come and also confess his sins, which he offered for himself and for the people's sins, committed in ignorance, and as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this, the judgment. So Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many to those who eagerly wait for him. He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation. So you see, God's Atonement, you don't have to worry about purgatory. You don't have to worry about burning in hell. All you have to do is go before him, confess your sins before him. Christ is our only mediator between us and God, and accept God's truths. Do what's right, and God says your sins are going to be wiped away. They're going to be erased.

Consequently, this false idea of Souls' Day, based on the unbiblical doctrine of immortality of the soul, came to substitute for God's feast, the Day of Atonement, which pictures the complete removal of sin in the future at Christ's return, when Satan is bound, the perpetrator of sin and deception. It's one day where Satan is not going to be around to tempt mankind anymore.

So let's go to the seventh feast, which is the substitution of Christmas for the Feast of Tabernacles. The Feast of Tabernacles was substituted by Christmas. In Leviticus 23, 34, talking about his feasts, God says, Speak to the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days to the Lord. So guess what? God's people, they get to have a spiritual vacation every year. And so we save up every year, and this year there were 64 feast sites around the world that you got to choose from, to spend eight days with a brethren and keep the Feast of Tabernacles. And so we have our own system of saving up for that feast. And I'll tell you, like my daughters have been around the world visiting all the feast sites. We just had the chance to go to Crete and have eight days with the brethren in a beautiful place and meet together. And I coordinate the feast site normally in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. And so the brethren are able to go, they choose where they want to go, and it's a spiritual refreshing, as well as so much fun. And the young people get together and have kind of get togethers and we have dances for them. And we got dances from five years old to 95 years old to get together. And so it's healthy and good. And God commands us to do this, to get a break from the world. Wouldn't you have liked to have gone through every year to have eight days to dedicate this way? I remember the first time I was 17 years old, you know, after I learned about this, I wanted to do these things. And I lived in North Carolina and they had a place in Jekyll Island.

And I'd just been in the church for two weeks and I was ready to go. I wanted to go so bad. Well, they told me, look, don't rush things. Your parents are not too happy about this. So I didn't. But then the second feast, boy, did I enjoy that. And we're together in big sandy Texas. And there was a big forest where people propped up their tents and had their barbecues. We had a big, it was like, how many? I think it was like 7,000 or something. 10,000? Shelly, no, because she's from Texas. And here we were students at Ambassador College, famished, eating our food in the cafeteria, which was good. But, you know, and we'd walk around, come here, Sonny, come here. A nice steak. And I ate more steak. I hadn't hardly eaten any steak until that time in my life.

And people were so generous because they share and everything. So, of course, for us, we look forward to it. And the kids are able to see the world and so many opportunities. My daughter met her husband at one of the Fisa Tabernacles in Italy. And got married afterwards and things. So a lot of young people never meet the right person that believes the same thing.

But, you know, this is in the honor system. It's up to you. Nobody's forcing. Nobody is doing. You have to want to keep God's truth. Now, if you want to keep God's truth, you're part of the team. We want to help you. We want to strengthen you. We want to serve you. But we respect your ideas. And this is open. Nobody is here. We're not persecuting. We're not brainwashing or anything. This has to be done voluntarily. But once you do, then we're all together. We're all family. And you know what? Blood, they say, is thicker than water. Because family ties are stronger than friendships. But spirit is stronger than blood or water.

And you have this common desire, like Ray mentions, about just God's truth and how liberating it is. And it's such a great substitute for what the world offers. Why do you want to eat this bland, kind of badly created food when you can get steak and eggs from God?

He's got the best manner with Christ coming and showed the way. So, as most know, the Feast of Christmas is described as a time of celebration and rejoicing. But did you know that God has a feast of celebration and joy before that time?

Leviticus 2340, talking about the Feast of Tabernacles, says, And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days. So again, this is something God wants us to do. And it's a wonderful plan and how He set it up. Anyone who has ever kept the Christian Feast of Tabernacles knows how much rejoicing there is.

Yet with the biblical moderation that is taught in the Scriptures. During that feast, there is no pressure to exchange gifts or use so many pagan-derived decorations, such as Christmas trees, mistletoes, and ewe logs. Let's go to the final feast.

Now, for the next feast, the eighth day in the Bible has been substituted by New Year's.

Leviticus 2336 says, On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. Now that has to do with the sacrifices that Christ fulfilled. So we know there's no more sacrifices. It says He did this for us and once and for all. But at that time, the sacrifice is pointed to that ultimate sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

He says, It is a sacred assembly and you shall do no customary work on it.

After the seven-day Feast of Tabernacles celebration is finished, the last feast is called the eighth day. It has a different spiritual meaning than the Feast of Tabernacles. So we actually have eight days that we keep when we go to these different places.

What was the substitute for the eighth day? It is the Catholic feast of the New Year. It takes place a week after Christmas, just as the eighth day is a week after the Feast of Tabernacle commences.

According to History Channel.com about New Year, it says, Julius Caesar instituted January 1st as the first day of the year, partly to honor the month's namesake, Janus. That's where we get the word January from the Roman God, pagan God Janus, the Roman God of beginnings whose two faces allowed him to look back into the past and forward into the future. And by the way, this all happened. Janus is the pagan symbol or the personage of Noah.

Who lived during before the flood and after the flood. So again, God has in the Bible the truth, and then they paganize it with a kind of a two headed God.

So you can look it up later.

It says, Roman celebrated by offering sacrifices to Janus, exchanging gifts with one another. Have you heard that before? Decorating their homes with laurel branches and attending raucous parties and medieval Europe. Christian leaders temporarily replaced January 1st as the first of the year, with days carrying more religious significance, such as December 25th, the supposed anniversary of Jesus' birth. I put there supposed because it isn't true. And March 25th, the Feast of Annunciation, Pope Gregory the 13th reestablished January 1st as the New Year's Day in 1582.

So congratulations. You've been keeping what the Pope said basically for over 400 years on his authority.

Did he have the authority by God to change his feasts?

As can be seen, this New Year's Feast has nothing to do with the biblical Feast of the Eighth Day.

To sum up, just as God established eight holy days during the year, the Sabbath and the seven annual feasts, so there are eight man-made feasts scattered throughout the year to mask what was originally taught and practiced in the New Testament church.

Now you have seen both sides of the story.

Which are you going to choose?