king Christians? Are they relevant to Seventh-day Adventists?
             Outlined in Leviticus chapter twenty-three, the feasts specifically are annual events, usually described as the spring festivals, and the fall festivals. The annual festivals began with the Passover, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and these were followed by the Feast of Weeks, or Pentecost. At the end of the Jewish year, there was the Feast of Trumpets, followed by the Day of Atonement, and then the Feast of Tabernacles.
             The religious significance and nature of these feasts made them such that they were not always observed with celebration. Some of these annual ceremonies, in fact, were characterized by fasting. Everything involved in these ceremonies was designed to point the people to a spiritual lesson, and a real occurrence in the plan of salvation; therefore, some of the festivals were celebrations of what God had done, while others were designed to help the people to come to repentance, and look forward to the cross. While these times were to fill the people with awe, they were also to remember that God was merciful, and that He would forgive them, and therefore these were also joyous times. God gave the festivals and the services of the sanctuary as a visual and concrete symbol of what He was doing for His people in the grand scale of time.
             The first idea set forth by those who believe in the relevance of the keeping of feasts today is that "Biblical typology has historical, eschatological, prophetic, Christological, and ecclesiological elements." This implies that, since type hasn't completely met antitype in these feasts, we are still to observe these yearly ordinances as a commemoration of what Christ did for us, as well as to look forward to the complete fulfillment of each feast's meaning in Heaven.
             They reason, also, that the sabbaths that God designed for His people are not part of the ceremonial law that was nailed to the...