Moedim: The Appointed Times for Messianic Believers

Today's Messianic community widely believes and advocates that our Heavenly Father is restoring the celebration of the Biblical appointments or , chiefly found in Leviticus 23, to all of His people. Messianic Believers find great enrichment every year of going through these annual festivals, rehearsing God's plan of salvation history. We bereave the fact that too many of our Christian brothers and sisters have not partaken of the blessings of knowing things like the Passover, , or , and the significant enrichment all of us can have by seeing God's plan for history present within them. Some say that because of Yeshua's sacrifice at Golgotha (Calvary), the Torah or Law of Moses has been abolished, and thus the or appointed times are done away with, annulled, and abolished. Some believe that they might be important for us to understand in an historical sense for understanding the Bible, but are not to be followed as standard elements of our orthopraxy. This publication, simply entitled , is an important synopsis of what the appointed times of Leviticus 23 actually are, and why they have not been abolished by the New Testament.