Page 117 - Prophetic Word Newsletter Archive 2010

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THE CHRISTIAN DILEMMA:
THE CELEBRATION OF

GOD-CENTERED MAN-CENTERED

VS.

“AND ELIJAH CAME
TO ALL THE PEOPLE,

AND SAID,
"HOW LONG
WILL YOU FALTER

BETWEEN
TWO OPINIONS?

IF THE LORD IS GOD, BUT IF BAAL (IS GOD),
FOLLOW HIM; FOLLOW HIM.“

BUT THE PEOPLE ANSWERED HIM NOT A WORD.”
1 Kings 18:21-22

Certainly Elijah was not confronting God’s people over a choice between holy days and holidays as my
illustration above may suggest. However, these words were uttered as a confrontation between the
age-old conflict of what belongs to God vs. what belongs to the god of this world. Therefore I am
choosing to use Elijah’s words as a principle of confrontation that is indeed applicable to the dilemma
set before Christians today pertaining to the observance of God-centered holy days vs. man-centered
holidays that are steeped in pagan-based beliefs. I would like this newsletter to utter the needful
challenge to God’s people, “How long will you falter between two (such) opinions?”

Has God indeed set before us a pattern of holy days that He fully expects His people to choose over
the pagan-based holidays celebrated by the unregenerate people of this world? Do we think that the
popular, non-confrontational, “best of both worlds” philosophy is truly acceptable Christian service in
God’s sight as a reasonable solution to this dilemma? Or might we ask, is this an area in which God’s
people are so compromising with the unregenerate world, that there is little or no distinction manifested
between a believer in God and the unbelieving, God-rejecting, populace of this world? We must ask
ourselves as followers of Christ, should we be celebrating the very same holidays as do the
unbelieving in Christ?

This newsletter is a follow-up to last month’s issue in which I presented the overwhelming evidence
that both the New Testament and the New Covenant are marked with the underlying theme of the
seven Feasts of the Lord, God’s true holy days that reveal the complete prophetic work of Christ on the
earth. If you have not read that newsletter, I suggest that you do so before considering this present
one. Since God has given such a preeminence to the theme of the Feasts of the Lord in Leviticus 23, it
is my conviction that God’s people should be celebrating what these God-centered holy days represent
rather than the man-centered, pagan-based holidays that are so cherished, and even revered, by
believers and unbelievers alike.