What festival did jehovah witnesses celebrate?

Question

Do jehovah witnesses celebrate any festival?

Answer 1

The most significant "Memorial" one could observe is, of course, the Memorial of Christ's death. It is sometimes called "the Last Supper" or "the Lord's Evening Meal". Jesus directed true Christians to commemorate that "Last Supper" and the day of his death; notably, nowhere in the bible are Christians instructed to ignore the day of Christ's death and instead commemorate Christ's resurrection. Frankly, that ignores a Scriptural principle...

(Ecclesiastes 7:1) A name is better than good oil, and the day of death than the day of one’s being born

(John 15:13-14) No one has love greater than this, that someone should surrender his soul in behalf of his friends. You are my friends

(1 Corinthians 11:23-25, NWT) The Lord Jesus in the night in which he was going to be handed over took a loaf... Keep doing this in remembrance of me.” 25 He did likewise respecting the cup.. Keep doing this... in remembrance of me.”

(1 Cor 11:24, 25, NEB) "Do this as a memorial of me.”


Christ Jesus himself personally celebrated and explained the significance of that Last Supper to his followers (see Matthew 26:26-29). Apparently Jesus Christ established the occasion to supercede the Jewish Passover, which occurs after sunset on the 14th of Nisan (a month of the Jewish calendar).

(Luke 22:14-16) At length when the hour came, he reclined at the table, and the apostles with him. 15 And [Jesus] said to them: “I have greatly desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer; 16 for I tell you, I will not eat it again until it becomes fulfilled in the kingdom of God.


Sadly, it is only a minority of professed Christians who follow the BIBLICAL pattern for the Last Supper which was established by Christ himself. Sadly, most of Christendom ignores Christ's celebration and instead follow unrelated human traditions which purport to honor Christ, but in ways unconnected with what Jesus Christ established.

Like the former Passover, those Christians who commemorate the Last Supper have also done so on the date corresponding to Nisan 14, which generally falls between late March and mid-April. Interestingly, Christians in the centuries immediately after Christ's impalement were sometimes called "Quartodecimans" which literally mean "fourteen-ers"


There are fundamental differences between the Memorial which Christ Jesus instituted and the so-called "Easter" which Christendom adopted from pagan worship of the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre (or Oestre). While most Easter celebrations merely repackage pagan fertility festivals and concentrate on eating, decorating, and frivolity, the Last Supper focuses on the value of Christ's sacrifice and the sober obligation of Christianity.

No serious bible student pretends that Sunday is the sabbath; Christendom primarily reveres Sunday as a vestige of pagan Sun worship. It is true that Christ was resurrected on a Sunday, but Christ's resurrection was never intended for commemoration

(Matthew 15:6-9) You have made the word of God invalid because of your tradition. 7 You hypocrites, Isaiah aptly prophesied about you when he said, 8 ‘This people honors me with their lips, yet their heart is far removed from me. 9 It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach commands of men as doctrines.’”

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Answer 2

A lot of answerers seem to miss the point you make, that Jehovah's Witnesses claim DIVINE direction. The God I worship does not mislead and yes I am Christian.

Answer 3

They seem to pay attention to the Resurrection, but not in a festive sense.

Answer 4

They are permitted to celebrate wedding anniversaries as well. Additionally, the "Last Supper" is "celebrated", but of course that's a pretty solemn affair.

Jim, not a JW, http://www.jimpettis.com/wheel/

Answer 5

they celebrate weddings. that is how festive they get. no easter, no x-mas, thaxgiving , no cinco de mayo, no independents day. nothing.

Answer 6

they celebrate building of a new kingdome hall with a food fight.

Answer 7

the festival of doorknocking

Answer 8

Nissan 14th.