The yearly Sabbaths and Feasts are Statutes. They are still binding upon Christians
today. The Scripture teaches this, Elen White teaches this and History agrees...
The following are texts and references that your pastors and church leaders DO NOT TELL YOU.
God has NEVER made a holyday, which afterward made it "common".
"The words of Moses to Israel, concerning the Statutes and Judgments of the Lord, are also the word of God to us." ST 3/21/1895
“As men, women, and children proclaim the gospel, the Lord will open the eyes of the blind to see His statutes, and will write upon the hearts of the truly penitent His law. The animating Spirit of God, working through human agencies, leads the believers to be of one mind, one soul, unitedly loving God and keeping His commandments-- preparing here below for translation.” (Review and Herald, Oct. 13, 1904, Bible Commentary, Vol. 7, p. 984)
“The ceremonial system was made up of symbols pointing to Christ, to His sacrifice and His priesthood. This ritual law, with its sacrifices and ordinances, was to be performed by the Hebrews until type met antitype in the death of Christ, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. Then all the sacrificial offerings were to cease. It is this law that Christ ‘took . . . out of the way, nailing it to His cross.’ Colossians 2:14.” (Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 365)
“There are two distinct laws brought to view. One is the law of types and shadows,
which reached to the time of Christ, and ceased when type met antitype in his death. The other is the law of Jehovah, and is as abiding and changeless as his eternal throne. After the crucifixion, it was a denial of Christ for the Jews to continue to offer the burnt offerings and sacrifices which were typical of His death. It was saying to the world that they looked for a Redeemer to come, and had no faith in Him who had given his life for the sins of the world. Hence the ceremonial law ceased to be of force at the death of Christ.” (Signs of the Times, July 29, 1886)
“Christ was here repeating the instruction He had given to Israel through Moses. At
their sacred feasts the Lord had directed that ‘the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat, and be satisfied.’ Deut. 14:29. These gatherings were to be as object lessons to Israel. Being thus taught the joy of true hospitality, the people were throughout the year to care for the bereaved and the poor. And these feasts had a wider lesson. The spiritual blessings given to Israel were not for themselves alone. God had given the bread of life to them, that they might break it to the world.” (Christ’s Object Lessons, pp. 220-221)
“Well would it be for the people of God at the present time to have a Feast of
Tabernacles--a joyous commemoration of the blessings of God to them. As the children of Israel celebrated the deliverance that God had wrought for their fathers, and His miraculous preservation of them during their journeyings from Egypt, so should we gratefully call to mind the various ways He has devised for bringing us out from the world, and from the darkness of error, into the precious light of His grace and truth.”
(Patriarchs and Prophets, pp. 540-541)
“These types (feasts) were fulfilled, not only as to the event, but as to the time. On the fourteenth day of the first Jewish month, the very day and month on which for fifteen long centuries the Passover lamb had been slain, Christ, having eaten the Passover with His disciples, instituted that feast (Communion) which was to commemorate His own death as ‘the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.’ That same night He was taken by wicked hands to be crucified and slain. And as the antitype of the wave sheaf our Lord was raised from the dead on the third day, ‘the first fruits of them that slept,’ a sample of all the resurrected just, whose ‘vile body’ shall be changed, and ‘fashioned like unto His glorious body.’ Verse 20; Philippians 3:21. In like manner the types (feasts) which relate to the second advent must be fulfilled at the time pointed out in the symbolic service.”
“Anciently the Lord instructed His people to assemble three times a year for His
worship. To these holy convocations the children of Israel came, bringing to the house of God their tithes, their sin offerings, and their offerings of gratitude. They met to recount God’s mercies, to make known His wonderful works, and to offer praise and thanksgiving to His name. And they were to unite in the sacrificial service, which pointed to Christ as the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world. Thus they were to be preserved from the corrupting power of worldliness and idolatry. Faith and love and gratitude were to be kept alive in their hearts, and through their association together in this sacred service they were to be bound closer to God and to one another...if the children of Israel needed the benefit of these holy convocations in their time, how much more do we need them in these last days of peril and conflict! And if the people of the world then needed the light which God had committed to His church, how much more do they need it now!” (Testimonies, Vol. 6, pp. 39-40)
[[ The statutes are binding upon all Christians ]]
“In consequence of continual transgression, the moral law was repeated in awful
grandeur from Sinai. Christ gave to Moses religious precepts which were to govern
everyday life. These statutes were explicitly given to guard the Ten Commandments.
They were not shadowy types to pass away with the death of Christ. They were to be binding upon men in every age as long as time should last. These commands were
enforced by the power of the moral law, and they clearly and definitely explained that law. (Signs of the Times, April 15, 1875 and SDA Bible Commentary, Vol. 1, p. 1104)
[[ We have no Scriptural guideline to tell us that we are to keep this and that statute, and that we no longer have to keep these and those statutes, but our leaders have adopted the LACK of tradition from our Protestant forefathers and have not progressed in a full reformation.]]
“The Holy One of Israel has made known to us the statutes and laws which are to
govern all human intelligences. These precepts, which have been pronounced ‘holy, and just, and good,’ are to form the standard of action in the home. There can be no departure from them without sin, for they are the foundation of the Christian religion.” (Child Guidance, pp. 506-507)
“The light esteem in which the law of God is held, even by religious leaders, has been productive of great evil. The teaching which has become so wide-spread that the divine statutes are no longer binding upon men, is the same as idolatry in its effect upon the morals of the people. Those who seek to lessen the claims of God’s holy law are striking directly at the foundation of the government of families and nations.” (Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 143)
“The instructions given to Moses for ancient Israel, with their sharp, rigid outlines, are to be studied and obeyed by the people of God today.” (Letter 259, 1903. SDA Bible Commentary, Vol. 1, p. 1103)
“There are many in this age of the world who act as if they were at liberty to question the words of the Infinite, to review His decisions and statutes, endorsing, revising, reshaping, and annulling at their pleasure. We are never safe while we are guided by human opinions, but we are safe when we are guided by a ‘Thus saith the Lord.’ We cannot trust the salvation of our souls to any lower standard than the decisions of an infallible Judge.” (Lift Him Up, p. 106)
“The light given me is that we are to study more than we do the instruction given to
Moses by God after He had proclaimed the law from Sinai. The ten commandments
were spoken by God Himself, and were then written on tables of stone, to be preserved till the judgment should take place. After the giving of the law, God gave Moses specifications regarding the law. These specifications are plain and explicit. No one need make a mistake.” (Australasian Union Conference Record, March 25, 1907)
“God will not take into his kingdom and give eternal life to those who will not come
under his laws and statutes in this life.” (Signs of the Times, September 8, 1887)
“God will have no controversy with us in regard to these binding precepts. It is enough that He has said that obedience to His statutes and laws is the life and prosperity of His people.” (Manuscript 67, 1907)
“In these last days there is a call from Heaven inviting you to keep the statutes and
ordinances of the Lord.” (Signs of the Times, February 3, 1888)
[[ Sorely mistaken are Christians who erronieosly categorize the STATUTES as being
"ceremonial" but Elen White makes it clear that the only part of the law of sacrifices
were done away with by the death of Christ, which by a "DUH" moment it can be seen as being THAT shadow of the sacrifical ordinance. ]]
“The ceremonial system was made up of symbols pointing to Christ, to His sacrifice and His priesthood. This ritual law, with its sacrifices and ordinances, was to be performed by the Hebrews until type met antitype in the death of Christ, the Lamb of God that
taketh away the sin of the world. Then all the sacrificial offerings were to cease. It is this law that Christ ‘took ...out of the way, nailing it to His cross.’ Colossians 2:14.”
(Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 365)
“‘In the midst of the week He shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease.’ In A.D. 31, three and a half years after His baptism, our Lord was crucified. With the great sacrifice offered upon Calvary, ended that system of offerings, which for four thousand years had pointed forward to the Lamb of God. Type had met antitype, and all the sacrifices and oblations of the ceremonial system were there to cease.” (Great Controversy, pp. 327-328)
[[Christ made the distinction between what was ceremonial shadows of His death and the STATUTES which are binding: He nevr observed the ceremonial temple worship BUT He DID keep the Feasts: ]]
“Jesus traveled up and down the breadth of the land, giving his invitation to the feast. When the sun illuminated the landscape, Jesus said to the vast throng: ‘I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. He took the opportunity of presenting himself to the people during the feastdays, when they gathered at Jerusalem.” (Advent Review & Sabbath Herald, July 7, 1896)
“In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.” John 7:37 This feast was the Feast of
Tabernacles. See John 7:2.
