The Idea
One letter changes everything. These aren’t holidays. They’re holy days — God’s own calendar, written before the world began.
Two Calendars
Every culture runs on a calendar. Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, New Year’s — these are the days we call “holy.” We gather. We celebrate. We pass them down to our children.
But there’s another calendar. An older one. Given by God to Moses on a mountain, woven into the rhythm of the Hebrew year. Seven feasts. One weekly Sabbath. Dates so specific they fell on the exact days of Jesus’s death, burial, and resurrection.
That’s not a coincidence. That’s a design.
Side by Side
| God’s Calendar | Our Traditions | |
|---|---|---|
| Origin | “These are my appointed feasts” — Lev 23:2 | Developed over centuries by culture, church councils, commerce |
| Calendar | Hebrew lunar — tied to creation rhythms | Gregorian — civic, solar, Roman in origin |
| Points to | Jesus — every feast is a shadow he fulfilled or will fulfill | History, seasons, saints, cultural memory |
| Jesus | Kept and fulfilled every one — at the exact right time | Observed none of these (they postdate him) |
| Examples | Passover, Pentecost, Feast of Trumpets, Tabernacles | Christmas, Easter, New Year’s, Thanksgiving |
| Status | 4 fulfilled · 3 still coming | Annual — no prophetic timeline |
Shadows and Substance
Paul calls the feasts “a shadow of things to come,” and the substance is Christ (Colossians 2:17). Every feast is a preview — a prophetic picture drawn centuries before Jesus arrived to fulfill it.
Passover: a lamb slain, its blood protecting the household. Jesus: the Lamb of God, crucified on Passover. First Fruits: the first sheaf of harvest lifted up before God. Jesus: raised from the dead on First Fruits, the “firstfruits of those who sleep” (1 Corinthians 15:20).
Four feasts fulfilled. Three still ahead — and they’re about the return of the King.
Freedom, Not Law
Do you have the freedom to celebrate Christmas and Easter? Absolutely. We’re not saying those traditions are wrong. God meets us where we are.
But we wonder: what if we also learned to celebrate the days God himself called “My appointed feasts” (Leviticus 23:2)? What if our family rhythms were anchored to the same calendar Jesus kept — the same days he fulfilled?
Not to earn anything. Not out of religious obligation. But because these days tell the most complete story of Jesus ever told — and we don’t want to miss it.
What Holydays Is
Holydays is a simple guide to God’s appointed times. It tells you when they fall, what they mean, how Jesus fulfilled them, and what they still promise. It’s built for people who are curious — who want to go deeper into the story Scripture was already telling.
These aren’t obscure religious observances. They’re the heartbeat of the whole Bible. And once you see them, you can’t unsee them.
“These are the Lord’s appointed festivals, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times.”
Leviticus 23:4