Passover and the other Leviticus 23 holy days are not “Jewish holidays”. They are “YHWHs holy days”. Yeshua celebrated them and He should be our example. We should celebrate them also. They help to focus our relationship with the Father. We should not substitute for them by ignoring them and replacing them with holidays of man’s creation (e.g. such as Christmas and Easter).
Yeshua was passionate about holiness. What is set apart for YHWH’s purpose, let no man corrupt. Just as it is with the temple in John 2, so it is also with the Passover itself and other holy days which are disregarded amongst most who identify as Christian today. Yeshua was not concerned with traditions of man or what culture had accepted and normalized. He was not concerned with what the chief priests taught and what people might think about Him. He was chiefly concerned about honoring YHWH and pleasing YHWH. He was willing to turn over a few tables to get people’s attention in regards to what they were doing wrong.
First Passover—Cleansing the Temple
13The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 14And He found in the temple those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. 15And He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables; 16and to those who were selling the doves He said, “Take these things away; stop making My Father’s house a place of business.” 17His disciples remembered that it was written, “ZEAL FOR YOUR HOUSE WILL CONSUME ME.” 18The Jews then said to Him, “What sign do You show us as your authority for doing these things?” 19Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” 20The Jews then said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and will You raise it up in three days?” 21But He was speaking of the temple of His body. 22So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said this; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had spoken.
23Now when He was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in His name, observing His signs which He was doing. 24But Jesus, on His part, was not entrusting Himself to them, for He knew all men, 25and because He did not need anyone to testify concerning man, for He Himself knew what was in man.
Learn more at Bible.org – The Lord’s Appointed Times (Leviticus 23)
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