Is it possible to keep YHVH’s biblical feasts outside the land of Israel? The short answer is, yes. After all, the saints of Corinth at Paul’s instructions did.

The next question is this: Can you keep the feasts perfectly exactly how the Torah instructed the Israelites to keep them? The short answer is, no, not exactly. That’s like asking the question, can we do anything perfectly that the Word of Elohim instructs us to do such as be Christ-like in everything we do, live a sinless life, walk in perfect love? And the list goes on and on. Obviously not. But that does not mean that we don’t do the best that we can do, and try to get better and better loving and obeying YHVH. The fact is that a lot of things have changed culturally and societally in the past several thousand years with regard to the Bible’s instructions regarding keeping the biblical holidays, but the basic spiritual truths and prophetic implications of YHVH’s feasts have never changed.

The Bible is clear: YHVH gave his seven feasts to his people forever, and they are teaching tools that not only represent the progressive steps in heaven’s plan of salvation for each one of us, but they are memorials that help us to remember where we have come from, where we are at in our spiritual upward journey, and they show us where we are going and what is going to happen in the end times prior to, at and after the second coming of Yeshua the Messiah. This is very instructive intel for the end times saints!

Our keeping the biblical feasts here and now the best that we can wherever we live shows our Father in heaven that we are serious about loving and obeying him, that we want to learn his ways, and that as obedient children, we are taking steps toward him as imperfect as they may be.

Moreover, our obedience to him shows an earnest and willing heart intent on our part, and this is what he is looking for.

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