Oh you foolish Galatians, how dare you keep those feasts?

Paul did indeed rebuke the Galatians for keeping feasts but it's not the feasts that you've been told.

PAULTHE LAW

11/13/20244 min read

I remember reading the letter Paul wrote to the assemblies in Galatia through the doctrinal lens that had been so eagerly provided to me by "Christendom". This false doctrinal lens was created by the Catholic Church and passed down to her many daughters via the reformation. The doctrine essentially states that the Law with all it's Holy Days are done away with, therefore, Paul had to rebuke the "foolish" Galatians for falling back into the yoke of bondage that is obedience to Yahweh. Nothing could be further from the Truth, that Truth being Christ and His Gospel. In the below verses Paul details exactly what the rebuke is for.
Gal 1:6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:
Gal 1:7 Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.
Gal 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Paul begins with a powerful warning, that there are people that would pervert the Gospel of Christ and goes on to say that if even "we", the apostles themselves would come to them with a different gospel to could consider them accursed. Which they would be most definitely cursed just as stated by John in his letter to the elect lady.
2Jn 1:9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, HATH NOT ELOHIM. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
2Jn 1:10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him Elohim speed:
2Jn 1:11 For he that biddeth him Elohim speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
The doctrine of Christ that John is referring to is the one and only true Gospel. Reformed Catholicism teaches that there are 2, one preached by Christ and the other by Paul. This is the very same lie that Paul was addressing in his letter to the Galatians. Paul warns of "another gospel" and built into this warning is the fact that there is only one, as it is being inferred strongly to only accept the one. In essence he was warning of people that were doing the exact thing that is being done today which is that they are preaching another Gospel and bringing people into bondage to it. Paul Reiterates...
Gal 1:9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach ANY OTHER GOSPEL unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
It's ironic that there are many verses in this letter that are used to get people to disobey the Gospel taught by Messiah, when the whole point of the letter was to bring people back into obedience to Him. Paul's letters are indeed hard to understand as Peter warned and there are many points in this letter that would fall under that warning. What needs to be understood is that there is only one True Gospel and it is the one that Christ taught. This is the Truth that we need to obey and follow.
Gal 3:1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should NOT obey the truth, before whose eyes Yahshua the Messiah hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
Who has bewitched us to not obey Christ? It's easy to look at somebody under some other religious "authority" like the Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses and say that they're lost for following false leaders. It's a lot harder realization to come to when it's the ones that we love and that we have placed ourselves under that have led us away from following, hearing and obeying Messiah.
The verse that is commonly taught as Paul commanding believers to not keep Yahweh's Feast Days is below.
Gal 4:10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
Gal 4:11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
Paul is saying not to observe months, times and years and a few verses later talks about being under the Law and likens the Old Covenant to a bondwoman. Clearly Paul is talking about Yahweh's Feasts... Right? Look at the 2 verses before though.
Gal 4:8 Howbeit then, when ye knew not Elohim, ye did service unto them which by nature are no elohim.
Gal 4:9 But now, after that ye have known Elohim, or rather are known of Elohim, HOW TURN YE AGAIN to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
Gal 4:10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
Gal 4:11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
Look at this in context. These were former pagans that worshiped false gods when they did not know Yahweh. Paul say's that they did service to these false gods (in times past) and then asks how it is that they could turn back again to these weak and beggarly elements calling them bondage. The Law of Yahweh, is not weak, it is not beggarly and it is not bondage. To say so would be to say that Christ himself was in bondage to weak and beggarly elements, after all, He was the Word made flesh and kept the Law perfectly. The times that the Galatians were observing were the pagan holidays that they formerly observed and that they were surrounded by. Paul was rebuking them for not obeying the Truth according to the Law below.
Deu 18:10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, OR AN OBSERVER OF TIMES, or an enchanter, or a witch,
These are pagan practices which Paul was rebuking as commanded in the Law itself. Paul then makes a very strong statement saying that he is "afraid for them" and that his labor among them might have been in vain.
Yahweh's Feast days which all point to Christ, by the way, are commanded to be kept by the Father. It truly is pretty sick that people have abandoned them for pagan holidays that have been subtly renamed by the Catholic Church and repackaged in order to keep people in bondage to the weak and beggarly elements.