About this book

Most Christians today have never been taught what the Biblical Feasts are. Many have been told they’re Jewish customs the church has moved past — relics of an old covenant that don’t apply anymore.

But the Festivals of Leviticus 23 are not Jewish customs. They are God’s own appointed times — the holy days He gave His people to teach His holy ways. The early church kept them. So did Yeshua. Somewhere along the way, most of the church stopped.

This book is for readers who are new to the Festivals and want to understand them from Scripture. It walks through what the Festivals are, when God’s people first began observing them, why most of the church stopped, and what we lose when we set them aside. Most importantly, it shows how the Festivals reveal God’s plan of salvation — a prophetic framework that becomes clear once you know how to read it.

The book is structured around a simple conviction Tom states in the foreword: truth suffers nothing from investigation. The closer you examine something true, the more its truth becomes evident. The closer you examine something false, the more its weakness shows. So this book invites investigation. Test everything against Scripture. Keep what is good.

You don’t need to be a theologian to follow it. It’s written for sincere Bible students who want to know what God’s Word actually says — and who are willing to ask whether the traditions they’ve inherited match it.

What’s inside

The book moves through nine chapters in three sections:

Opening foundation

1. What role does God’s Word play in your faith? — The starting point: how we know what we know, and why Scripture is the standard

God’s Festivals

2. Festivals & Holy Days — The seven Festivals of Leviticus 23, examined one by one
3. When did we start observing the Festivals? — From Genesis forward, tracing the Festivals through Scripture

History of mistakes

4. When did we stop observing the Festivals? — What happened in church history, and how
5. A Great Rift Among the Church — The split that shaped Christian practice for centuries
6. An Attempt to Shift our Focus — The substitutions that replaced God’s calendar with another

Reclaiming God’s Festivals

7. His Festivals Today — Why they still matter, and how to begin
8. What Celebrating God’s Festivals Looks Like — Practical observance for modern believers
9. Learning from God’s Festivals — The deeper lessons each Festival teaches about God’s plan of salvation

Appendices

• God’s Festival Calendar
• Leviticus 23: Festivals of the LORD — the full Scripture text

A note from the author

Tom shares part of his own story in the book’s foreword:

“I was raised in a Roman Catholic home along with my six siblings. While there was no Bible teaching in the home, a gospel seed was planted during my youth, gleaned from regular attendance at Sunday Mass and catechism. My parents quit taking us to church in my early teen years, and I would eventually learn that they had a disagreement with some of the church teachings. Their decision to hold true to their fundamental beliefs showed me that it was acceptable to challenge established belief systems.”

That conviction — that established beliefs should be examined, not just inherited — runs through every chapter of this book. It’s why Tom encourages readers to bring their Bibles, test his claims, and weigh the evidence for themselves.

What readers are saying

This book…

• is not complicated; you don’t have to be a theologian to understand it
• provides insight into issues I wasn’t aware of and has renewed my interest in following God’s Word
• is put together structurally in an easy-to-read fashion
• could not be put down once I started reading it
• has capsulized the pertinent information on the subject of God’s Festivals
• respects another’s persuasion of the subject while putting forth a respectful, solid argument
• reveals the prophetic nature of God’s Festivals, clearly demonstrating that God is operating on His Festival schedule
• demonstrates that the Biblical typology of the Festival system reveals the plan of salvation through to its close
• can be read in a couple of days; it’s short and to the point

About the author

Tom Stapleton came to Yeshua at the age of 25 and has spent the decades since studying and teaching prophecy from Scripture. His teaching ministry, based at Camp Tamiyd in British Columbia, weights the words of Yeshua above all other sources, and reads Scripture through the prophetic framework of the Biblical Feasts.

Tom is the author of Restoration of God’s Festivals: An End Times Shadow Fulfillment, A Better Understanding of The Character of God, and (with his wife Judy) “The Wise Shall Understand”: Daniel and Revelation and Re-Examining 1844: A Better Understanding.

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