Talk:Feast of Trumpets (Christian holiday)
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The WCG began observing the Feast of Trumpets, and all seven of the annual Holy Days, in the 1930s. The Jewish Calendar was followed. Scripture, however, does not teach the following of the postponement rules of the Jewish calendar but the watching for the visible crescent. "Herb Solinksy" has some good research available on the biblical calendar. Web Reader 11:14, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
WCG observed it when it was called the Radio Church of God. Some in the COG 7th Day were observing it towards the beginning of the 20th century and possibly before. COGwriter.
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[edit] When did the WCG start observing this "holiday"?
Is there any historical detail as to when the WCG started observing this holiday? There is certainly a great degree of overlap with the Jewish observances on Rosh ha-Shana, making me think that a lot of ritual was "borrowed". JFW | T@lk 18:32, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Whoa, get serious!
Since when did christianity follow Rabbinic literature, Midrash, and other Judaism-only things? Why are all christian articles misleading? ems 07:16, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
- Sadly ems: Welcome to the intellectually dishonest world of the tricksters of Messianic Judaism... IZAK 11:17, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Missing The Point
It matters not when the WCG or any of its off-shoots began to observe the Feasts; if they had only started to do so in the last 12 months they are still Christian congregations by definition, and choose to worship in this way. Regardless of the denomination, faith, beliefs, traditions etc of anybody else this is THEIR Christianity. The article thus is encyclopedic, NPOV and factual. Period. You cannot dispute an article because it goes against your personal beliefs. 84.13.181.198 11:40, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
- To add, see the archived discussion at [[1]] where it was established that these articles are relevant and essentially accurate regarding the congregations who celebrate them 84.13.181.198 11:57, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
- Note, the WCG no longer observes the Jewish festivals. Those groups still following Herbert Armstrong do so, though.
As the originator of this article, I added back much of what was eliminated in this article by an evangelical who apparently wanted to get his/her prophetic understanding out there. I left those comments in, even though I did not agree with them, but felt that since this article was to a major degree about the Church of God observing of this day, that more on what the Church of God teaches about it needed to be added. COGwriter
Note, changed from "Church of God" to "Church of God groups still following Herbert Armstrong's teachings." The problem with simply "Church of God" is that most groups with that name do not keep these days - they would be Pentecostal (tongues-speaking) groups that worship on Sunday. "Armstrongite" would simply mean "disciples of Armstrong" - a title you would think these groups would gladly accept, given their view of the man. However, perhaps the above title will satisfy Mr. Thiel.
[edit] "Feast of Trumpets" is not specifically "Christian"
The Feast of Trumpets is not a "Christian" "holiday", it is specifically a "Biblical" "Holy Day". It was ordained by God within the Torah long before the followers of Armstrong. The Feasts are not specifically Jewish either. The early Chistian Church observed ALL of the Feasts of Yahweh. "Ignorant" Christians (those who do not know their own Christian history very well, if at all) simply assign the Biblical Holy Days to so-called "Messianic" groups or simply regard them as the "Jewish" festivals. They do not know and are never taught that coming out of the first century, most Christians, including Jesus the Messiah and his Apostles, observed the Holy Feasts. The reason modern Christendom doesn't observe the Feast Days today is because of the changes the Roman Catholic Church made in the 2nd through 5th centuries within Christendom. The Council of Nicaea (325 CE)specifically abandoned the Passover and replaced it with Rome's more popular pagan fertility festival--Easter. So before you start dissing people who know more history than you do, do your homework instead of just assuming your traditional "purpose-driven" Christianity is somehow inerrant. --Solascriptura 16:18, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
