I always felt it was important to celebrate these holidays knowing a messianic Jewish family I adore always celebrated . But until your channel I didn’t see a path where I have a step by step way to do celebrate Christ honoring holiday.🙏🙏thank you for the explanations!! ❤️♥️❤️
It’s not Jewish - it’s Biblical! We do a weekly Shabbat (best part of the week), we keep the Biblical feasts, and we eat God’s way! We are whole Bible people. ✝️📖🙏🕊️
Yes! We've kept the Sabbath for years. We believe in keeping God's holy days. We also live by the food laws. It's really nice to see others the same way. God bless you. ❤️
Wow......the comments. 😮 Thank you for sharing,in spite of negative feedback. As you and I both know,the more you step out of "worldliness " ,the more the world hates us. Keep sharing,Heidi!!❤
These comments have me a little boggled today... thankful knowing we work for the Lord and not for the angry people on RU-vid! Thank you for the encouragement today, friend!
Thank you sister for today teaching. It gave me a spiritual hug unlike any I have ever experienced. It all makes so much sense. The Christian celebrations leave me so empty and sad because everyone is so focused on gifts and no attention to our savior. Thank you, I love the beautiful spirit that the Lord has blessed you with.
As a born again Christian I can say finding out about Hebrew words, things that are shared with me by messianic Jews, and researching the old testament has brought my spark back. When you see how complicated it can be the grace of God is all the more meaningful. Never stray from grace and grow in knowledge and depth sister
I'm a Messianic Jew and just discovered your channel a little while ago and I love it! You have been such a blessing to me as a wife and mother. There is nothing more beautiful to me than Jews and Gentiles worshipping one God as one people. I am fortunate to be able to attend a large Messianic synagogue where Jews and Christians worship together. Many Christians today have unknowingly fallen to replacement theology through tradition and I'm always happy to see people returning to embrace the complete Bible, as was intended. Blessings to you and your family during this holy day season! Shana tova!
Amen! I love that you said, God is the God of details. Yes!! He has left nothing for us to guess. He has told us exactly, down to the details of how He wants us to worship Him. A lot of the time that gets flipped and people say, well this is how I worship Him. Between legalism and the “ME” culture it is sometimes heavy and lonely to worship God in spirit and truth. At the same time He draws us close and is all that we need.
☕️I am so thankful that you are talking about this. It has inspired me to look more deeply at the Holy Days. ❤ I wanted to ask how you would recommend going about practicing these days when our church doesn’t practice them and/or extended family. How do you navigate the Christmas type days within church or family gatherings? We want to be fully separated from “the world” and we feel strongly about looking into these days more. ❤ Thank you so much, again. Your channel has been such a blessing!
Along those lines, I’d like to know how others have (or would) handle this if they wanted to shift toward celebrating holy days if their husband is not on board? I’ve tried to teach the kids that I don’t believe participating in Halloween festivities is a God-honoring thing, but my husband doesn’t see the issue with the “fun” aspects like candy and dressing up for fun out handing out candy.
@@jennellecocco7211 I'm sorry to hear that. My husband is not a believer yet, but wants nothing to do with the world's traditions. It's sad that people will lead their children to hell over a little fun. Gifts under a tree is another way satan has people bending knee before an idol.
Jonathan cahn writes awesome books on this subject and has an awesome website for messianic Jews. Really fascinating and everything I learn makes my lifetime of Christianity even more profound and interesting.
I just happened upon your channel a few weeks ago and I’m really liking your channel. I’m especially liking what you are saying here. You’re spot on with what you are sharing. True Israel are Israel by being in Christ. 💕
I agree that I've been led in this direction since my rebirth. My family is slowly coming around and we don't have it all together as far as how we celebrate it but we're trying to implement more things. It was important to God, why shouldn't it be important to us as his children and as you said we are grafted into that vine...we're adopted into the family....are we really not supposed to take in any of the things of the family?
I don't understand why everyone thinks that Torah observance is legalistic. You may find individuals in any group that think they can earn salvation, but in the Torah study groups that I have attended, nobody taught that. Believing that you SHOULD keep the commandments is not the same as salvation by works. When I went to a Baptist church, I was taught that Nazarenes and Pentecostals teach salvation by works. When i went to a Pentecostal church I was taught that Seventh Day Adventists teach salvation by works. All of my experience in these denominations (including Torah Observant / Hebrew Roots) teach salvation through Jesus. Every denomination teaches that there are some things we should or should not do ( at least, I hope they do). It seems like whenever anyone wants to obey any of God's commandments that aren't endorsed by the the man behind one's particular podium, they are accused of trying to save themselves. If I choose to obey God's laws, as recorded in the Bible, I don't have to worry about misinterpretation by a man in the pulpit. I am trying to be Torah observant. I realize I'm not perfect. I need a savior. Thank God, He sent Jesus to die in my place.
Absolutely- and if you want to adhere to Torah law (whichever ones you choose to) then go for it! You certainly can. But to teach that as necessary is discarding a large portion of the completion of scripture. Hebrew roots gets into many heretical teachings... but I have seen some that choose to follow Torah that do so simply because they feel called to-- and many who do so feeling they must/it's what we're required to/it makes you a "better" Christian. And that's where we have to really reexamine. :)
Thanks so much for covering this topic! How do you decide which of the Biblical commands to observe? For example, why celebrate Passover but not keep kosher? (I don’t actually know if you keep kosher or not, just using it as an example.) I’m always very confused about which of the Biblical commands to keep as a Christian and I’m wondering how you make that distinction.
I totally agree with you my dear sister. Thank you for explaining it sooo well. I love the joy and the genuine enthusiasm in your voice. Blessings to you and yours! 🏵🌸🌹😍😍😍
Hello! ❤ Love the merch except....Wondering if in the future could offer more merch that is 100% cotton or closer to. Polyester isn't good and rayon specifically disrupts the endochrine system and can make headaches and such worse. Also more colors would be cool. 🦋 Thank you! I also love this video. I've seen odd attacks on Christians partaking in Jewish traditions, and it never has any Biblical foundation. But beware they will try to spin it that way if you don't look into it yourself. I don't have "a church" yet besides just being part of THE church!❤ But I have started partaking from home (virtually) in a Messianic synagogue. They are very welcoming to Christians and legitimately have the same message as far as I've experienced. I also study Hebrew because I see it as beautiful, and helps me feel closer to Jesus, he was Hebrew afterall and rhe original texts were in Hebrew! 🕊️ I'd love to be proficient enough to read the word in Hebrew one day. Aware there might be various versions as with the english Bible....I compare many when I feel more intensely about a verse(s)- the WBMS is my fav. Since one of the oldest English translations. ❤
I strongly considered adopting the Jewish holy days and traditions. But then I was like nope, too much work! Lol!!! I'm content about learning about them and teaching them to my kids, because they are a major part of our Lord's life. But i dont feel a conviction to celebrate them in our family. As a family we no longer celebrate American holidays. but as my husband is Polish we keep some of the traditions of his country ( mostly food based) but i did do away with anything i felt was pagan. So cool that your family feels lead to do that!
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I just came across your channel about a week ago. Thank you so much Heidi for explaining so much of the bible. You have made it much more easier to understand. You are a true blessing, keep your vlogs coming. l look forward to them every day and God bless you ❤
Great video. Personally, I found my understanding of the teachings of Jesus Christ grew as I delved more deeply into and tried to understand the Jewish faith and it's history. The Gospel begins with the genealogy and understanding those characters and their part in our biblical history seems to me personally, a key tool, given to us in our Holy Bible so that we can better understand what Jesus is teaching us. More Jesus in our lives and finding more ways to hold God up as high as we can must surely, always be positive. Different strokes of the same brush, different things help different people.
We as Christian believers go after Paul. He was established especially for the Gentiles by God himself. Jesus Christ came only for the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Matthew 15, 24. Those feasts were established for Jews. And has nothing to do with gentile believers. What did Paul and other Apostels decided what gentile believers should do. And this has nothing to do with substitution theology. The feasts aren't biblical, but Jewish they aren't meant for us and lots of things are satanic and legalistic. As soon as a Jew comes to Christ he is part of the bride and no longer a Jew spiritually, only physically. He is a Christian then. Please read the bible.
I am reading 2 Cor...and in the 1st letter, they have the issue of blending the Jewish christains, the gentiles and it was a mess. It is still happening today. I do that stuff too. I fell closer to Jesus.
I have been debating about getting the Artza Box subscription ~ now for sure I am :). Thank you so much for discussing these topics ~ we as Christians need to understand our “roots” ❤
The tradition is not what God wants...but he does want reverence and mercy...and Jesus is God so why doesn't everything God wanted for his children, which we are a part of, matter to us and shouldn't we respect his wishes as part of honor your mother and father on top of love God with all your heart, body and soul?
I get all the commercialism of His birth and death and resurrection but should we not keep and/or celebrate them along with Pentecost and Ascension days? Old and New Testaments both have very important events to remember that is one complete story. Can someone explain why Jesus's birth for example should not be celebrated with a feast and gathering of people and such? I was not raised catholic but we kept all five of these events in my family with a gathering of people and feasting. A few of these for three days each of keeping and celebrating.
Our first church put a large emphasis on the Jewish history so we learned a lot about all the biblical holidays. They would host Passover dinners and teach through the other ones throughout the year. We do have mezuzah’s on our doors, we put out a menorah during Hanukkah time, and when the kids were little, we did a Hanukkah night where we played the dreidel and read the story. They are grown now, but I still put it out and they play once in a while. As Christians, it is our history too. Although we also do all the other holidays as well. I do not think it’s a sin to celebrate them, however, if you were convicted not to celebrate them then you shouldn’t.
@@kelleym7623 actually, it is mentioned in the Bible and John 10:22 and 23 but it is referred to as the Feast of Dedication. Many biblical scholars believe that Jesus would have celebrated Hanukkah. Either way we chose to participate because of the history and the story of God‘s provision.😊
When you read the bible in context and understand the mysteries given to Paul that were hidden since the world began, you will understand that we are not grafted in. I used to believe this and then couldn’t understand why Paul completely contradicts what James and even Jesus says. He was preaching to us, the church (neither Jew nor gentile) in this dispensation of grace. We almost through our Paul’s epistles due to these contradictions until we prayed and God answered our prayer word for word the next day by a beautiful family who shared about the importance of rightly dividing the scriptures. Too much to unpack here, though check out David O’Steen and also Paul Lucas. There are no contradictions in the bible, just different gospels (good news) preached to different audiences ❤
Here is an amazing playlist from David O’Steen that really helped us as we were reading what the scriptures were saying ru-vid.com/group/PLvWuGe0XENWvlppTiTXbnhlStsInhDXED&si=O6UH9jeqRN5c_4fB
More on right division by Hope Bible Church, praying this blesses you as much as it has our whole family ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-axrEY2eB-iw.htmlsi=8yI20G3pHfUuMpO-
Thank you Liz. Absolutely agree. Praying others can study what you've mentioned here ; for themselves with the bible (KJV) to see if it is so. 2 Timothy 2:7 Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things. Xx
It does seem like if Jesus was living like a human tiday He would still be observing certain holidays. He was participating them at the time & didn’t say we should stop, correct?
He sure was- he's Jewish! He came to fulfill the Law but to show the substance of all that was. We're told not to condemn one another for celebrating feasts and Sabbaths-- or choosing to not partake in either. The focus is to know the depth- the why. Celebrating these doesn't make you better- we just love seeing the depth-- they all point to Jesus & were/will be fulfilled by Him! If we're going to choose to partake in things... I'd much rather choose these! :) XO
Wow the comments. Im sorry people are being nasty i am seeing both sides here. Yes the holy days for israel are beautiful howvere we all need to be faithfull bereans and search the scriptures to see what God says. Yes they were kept in the old testament AND new but we need to make sure on our theology that goes for EVERYONE. We must RIGHTLY divide the Word of Truth
And I thought that I was the only one who thought like this!!!! Something I would never mention in my church, who seem to have forgotten that Jesus was a Jew and came to be Messiah for the Jews.
Hi, Mezuzah means a parchment inscribed with religious texts and attached in a case to the doorpost of a Jewish house as a sign of faith. Deuteronomy 6:4-9 King James Version 4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: 5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: 7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. 9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
I see it as what is now non-denominational TBH but evangelists are mentioned in the Bible for what they were intended to do...not what is commonly seen in "evangelical" congregations. ❤ A brick and mortar church is not necessary from what I can tell in the Bible...but gathering with other Christians in his name is church! Also a prayer closet is something I personally think is the way we are supposed to pray.
@@ari3lz3pp The church is the bride of Christ. Christ is head of the church. No, you do not need a prayer closet to pray. You can pray any time, anywhere. We are to pray day and night without ceasing.
@@ari3lz3pp Please read the content surrounding the word closet in Mathew 6:1-7 KJV IMO, we do not need an enclosed private space designated for prayer. That said, there's nothing wrong with praying privately in a personal space. *We can keep our prayers private (between us and God) anytime, anyplace our physical bodies may be located* . God knows our very thoughts. He knows when our thoughts are directed to and/or about Him. I don't have to open my mouth and utter a single sound, when I pray for the person in an ambulance that passes us on the highway. Yet, I can offer SINCERE prayers in public. Jesus, Daniel and Hannah, for example, prayed in public. The following explains it far better than I can. Quote: GotQuestions "Public prayer should be God-honoring, selfless, and based in a true desire to speak to God and not to men. If we can pray publicly without violating these principles, we do well to pray publicly. If, however, our conscience forbids it, there is nothing less effective about a prayer offered in secret."
Because christianity is based on the traditions and teachings of judaism. All of our rituals and the divine laws we follow originated in the old testament.
I finally talked my family into not celebrating Halloween at all, going really low key for Christmas ( dinner and songs, but no spending on a day that is not His birthday) and going all out for passover and easter because it IS His most likely birthday, a feast He observed, and the greatest miracle of His great sacrifice, victory over Satan, and resurrection. Jesus also observed Hanukkah ( referred to as feast of the dedication)
I have to say that, as I have learned more about my great great grandfather who was full Jewish from Germany (he left to avoid persecution). I learned and continue to learn about all of things of his faith. So I, as a Christ follower, a Christian , have a mezuzah on my doors that I go in and out. I absolutely love them and it truly makes me think of my belief that I will take God with me as I go and as I enter and that this is Gods house-He has blessed us to live here. Something that I have read a few times lately is that Jesus never celebrated Christmas-He celebrated the Jewish Holy days. So when you think of it that way, making it out to be this is “Jewish” or this is “Christian” that some do isn’t the best way to look at it. Have a blessed day-and thanks for sharing all of this!
I'm messianic and Jewish,, it's Jewish from the line of messiah Judah. Israel is where messiah will reign soon. Jewish and gentile. Yeshua is God from Judah son of David. The 12 tribes of Israel in revelation. So it is Torah from the Jewish people who God chose. Gentiles come in from the Jews and received Yeshua our messiah. Just had Yom Kippur Kol nidre. Blessings and shalom. So beautiful your example of how Jesus lived. Enjoy sukkot.
A wonderful topic for this particular time of the year with a secular "holiday" upon us. Celebrating the fall holy days is a wonderful, after all they are God's appointed days. For the past 6 years I have been watching Love Israel channel on RU-vid. The host of the program is a Messianic teacher who has immigrated to Israel. It's great to see more Christians follow these special days of God. Shalom❤
