Over 15,000 members of the Worldwide Church of God attended a Christian Feast of Tabernacles observance in Big Sandy, Texas in 1978. Specific practices vary among denominations: these holidays jewish bread be honored in their original form in recognition of Christianity’s Jewish roots, or altered to suit Christian theology. Messianic Judaism, and of its offshoot known as Hebrew Roots.
Most point to the tradition that Jesus’ parents kept God’s holy days, that Jesus himself kept God’s holy days during his ministry, and that the Apostles observed the same feasts after they were called “Christians”. Many of these Christians believe that the intended purpose of all of the biblical holy days is to foreshadow or point to the identity of the Messiah, citing that Paul the Apostle confirms this view by linking Jesus’ sacrifice to the fulfilment of the Jewish feast of Passover. The Eucharist was instituted on the night of the Passover Seder which Jesus and the apostles were celebrating. It is not common for mainstream Christians celebrate Passover. Some regard Passover as superseded by Easter and the Passover lamb as supplanted by the Eucharist. The main Christian view seems to present the Passover meal, which was held on the night before Jesus died, also named Last Supper, as the Evening of New Covenant, and Christians generally agree that was on Thursday being observed at Church.
