Mo'adim is the Hebrew plural of mo'ed, meaning an appointed time, a fixed meeting, a divine appointment. It comes from the root yod-ayin-dalet, meaning to appoint, to designate, to set a time. In Genesis 1:14, when HaShem created the sun and moon, He said they were l'mo'adim, for appointed times. The heavenly bodies were not created to mark random days. They were created to mark HaShem's calendar. The mo'adim are not Jewish holidays. They are not Old Testament relics. They are appointments that HaShem set on His calendar and invited His people to keep.

Leviticus 23 opens with HaShem saying to Moshe: "Speak to the children of Israel and say to them: the mo'adim of ADONAI, which you shall proclaim as holy convocations, these are My mo'adim." Not Israel's feasts. My feasts. HaShem's own appointments. The Hebrew is unambiguous. The church replaced them with Easter, Christmas, and Good Friday, dates that appear nowhere in Scripture and that sever the prophetic pattern HaShem embedded in His own calendar. Pesach, Shavuot, Yom Teruah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot: each one is a prophetic rehearsal. The spring feasts were fulfilled by Yeshua's first coming. The fall feasts point to His return. When Sha'ul tells the Colossians that these are "a shadow of things to come" (Colossians 2:17), he is not dismissing them. He is saying the shadow proves the substance is real, and it is coming.

The KJV, ESV, NASB, and NIV translate mo'adim as "feasts" or "appointed feasts," which English readers hear as optional celebrations, cultural traditions, something the Jews did. The Hebrew says these are divine appointments that HaShem set for all His people. The Gentile believer grafted into the commonwealth of Israel (Ephesians 2:12) was grafted into a family that keeps these appointments. The church told you they were cancelled. The calendar of heaven was never cancelled. It was abandoned by the people who were supposed to keep it.