I have heard it said that you do not believe that Christmas and Easter are pagan holidays. Could you please explain?
Messianic Apologetics editor John McKee discusses the issue of Counting the Omer, between Passover and Shavuot (Pentecost).
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Can you please elaborate on how dispensational theology has affected the development of the modern Messianic movement?
How can you say that the Law of Moses is still to be followed by Christians today, when it is quite clear that the Law of commandments has been abolished?
Why do Jews have an egg on their seder plates? Does this not come from Easter?
Certainly, when Believers in Messiah Yeshua sit down to partake of the Passover meal, they are not just remembering the Exodus of the Ancient Israelites and the plagues which God dispensed upon the Egyptians. Each of us sits down to remember great events in the salvation history of the world. The primary event we remember is the slaying of the Passover lamb, God’s mercy toward His people in Egyptian bondage, and how He led them to freedom through the Red Sea. This is a heritage which all those who follow the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob partake of, as the Apostle Paul wrote, “For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea” (1 Corinthians 10:1, NASU).
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I understand that your ministry questions the existence of the Church, as a second body of elect. How do you approach Jesus’ explicit words to Peter that He would build His Church?
Where did the traditions from the seder meal employed during Passover come from?
It comes every Spring, usually sometime in March or April. You know it because in stores you see the baskets, candy, rabbits, eggs, and the annoying fake grass that goes in those baskets. You see the Cadbury cream egg commercials on television with the rabbits gobbling like chickens. Its name is Easter.
Most sincere Christians celebrate the season of Easter not as a time to fawn over rabbits or eat candy, but as a serious time to remember the resurrection of Messiah Yeshua (Christ Jesus). They commemorate His death on Good Friday and His resurrection on Easter Sunday. Certainly, of all the events in our faith, the resurrection of our Lord is the most important. The Apostle Paul validly writes, “But if there is no resurrection of the dead, not even Messiah has been raised; and if Messiah has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain” (1 Corinthians 15:13-14). However, when we consider the pre-Messianic and pre-Christian origins of “Easter,” we do need to reevaluate it.
