Therefore, do not let anyone judge you about what you eat and drink or about the observance of a festival(holiday) or of the new moon or of a sabbath. 17 Those things are a shadow of the things to come, but the reality belongs to the Christ.
At first it caught me off guard how a plagarized holiday like Christmas could honor Jesus in any sort of way. But like every other scripture, context is important.
What is the New Moon Festival?
Source:http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1200001507?q=new+moon+festival&p=par
"God’s command to Israel was that at each new moon, which marked the beginning of the lunar months of the Jewish calendar, trumpets were to be blown over their burnt offerings and communion sacrifices. (Nu 10:10) Special sacrifices were to be offered on these days besides the continual daily sacrifice. The new-moon offering was to consist of a burnt offering of two bulls, one ram, and seven year-old male lambs, with corresponding grain and wine offerings, as well as one kid of the goats for a sin offering.—Nu 28:11-15.
This is all that was commanded concerning its observance in the Pentateuch, but thenew-moon observance grew in time to become an important national festival. At Isaiah 1:13, 14 it is placed alongside Sabbaths and festal seasons. In the time of the later prophets, at least, on new-moon days the people did not engage in commercial enterprise, as is indicated at Amos 8:5. This was more than the Scriptures required fornew-moon days. Even so, as the last two cited scriptures show, the Jews’ observance of the new moon had by that time become a mere formalism, hated in Jehovah’s eyes."
What is the Sabbath?
"Sabbath is taken from the Hebrew sha·vath′, meaning “rest, cease, desist.” The sabbatical system prescribed in the Mosaic Law included a weeklySabbath day, a number of additional specified days throughout each year, the seventh year, and the fiftieth year. The weekly Sabbath of the Jews, the seventh day of their calendar week, is from sunset on Friday until sunset on Saturday. Many professed Christians have traditionally kept Sunday as their day of rest and of worship; others have adhered to the day set aside on the Jewish calendar."
As we can see, The New moon festival and the Sabbath were the holidays God commanded the Israelites to do before Jesus died. Now lets go back to Colossians 2:17
"Those things are a shadow of the things to come, but the reality belongs to the Christ."
The bible doesnt say that it is ok to celebrate holidays with pagan origins. This was part of the message from Paul to the brothers in Co·los′sae Telling them that since Jesus died for our sins, it was no longer necessary to celebrate the holidays Jehovah had commanded of them before. And that they shouldn't judge one another about what they do on those holidays.
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