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There are many booklets and articles that discuss this subject in detail, such as:
My answer here is just a brief summary of the general ideas.
Genesis 2:3 says that "God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it". The Bible talks about this day in terms of God, not in terms of a specific covenant or nation.
Similarly, the seven annual holy days are presented as events that are sacred to God, not as events that are part of a specific covenant with a specific people (except in the way God's chosen people are representative of all mankind).
The feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are My feasts. Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work on it; it is the Sabbath of the LORD … These are the feasts of the LORD
- … the LORD’s Passover.
- … the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD … bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest. He shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted on your behalf; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
- … Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain offering to the LORD.
- … In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. … you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD
- … the Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the LORD your God.
- … the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the LORD.
- … On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a sacred assembly … These are the feasts of the LORD which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering and a grain offering, a sacrifice and drink offerings, everything on its day
— Leviticus 23
Notice that it is the Sabbath and the seven festivals themselves that are holy or sacred, that they are "the feasts of the LORD", not "of Israel" and certainly not "of the Jews".
The people of Israel might have been chosen to know about these festivals, just as they were chosen to know about God's other commandments and laws, but God's holy days were not created for the Israelites only. Just as ("The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath" — Mark 2:27), God's festivals were create for man, all mankind.
Later, when "the LORD" was incarnated as Jesus, he warned people:
Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. — matthew 5:17–18
The Gospels record specific instances of Jesus's celebrating some of God's feasts. And we can in fact be certain that had he always celebrated all of them: had he ever failed to do so, the Pharisees would have made a far far greater fuss about it than they did for something as simple of ceremonial hand washing.
Following the Crucifixion, the Bible records that Christians continued to celebrate God's festivals.
- I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem (Acts 18:21).
- Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. (1 Corinthians 5:8).
Except for the obvious exception of Hebrews, Paul's epistles were mostly written to groups mostly composed of gentile converts, not Jews. In them, he frequently warns these new Christians to continue celebrating God's Sabbath and holy days, ignoring the criticism of their still-pagan friends, relatives, and co-workers, who as ascetics etc. reject celebration and pleasure, and therefore appear to have a higher moral standard. (E.g. see my answers to Does Paul reject the idea of celebrating holidays in Galatians? and Keeping the Sabbath and Colossians 2:16.)
And Zechariah 14:19 prophesies that in the future, in the Kingdom of God, all nations will celebrate God's festivals: "This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.".
It's obvious that the early Christian Church celebrated God's holy days, which were created for all mankind, and that they will continue to be celebrated during the Millennium.
The original question has been answered, but there is something far more significant to this than the continuation of harvest rituals and the commemoration of historical events.
Consider the physical meanings of God's holy days:
But these holy days also serve as symbolic prophecies of God's plan for mankind.
The Spring holy days represent what has already happened:
The Fall holy days represent what is about to happen:
During this whole process, God has been preparing mankind to develop perfect character, symbolically harvesting them to literally become his children, brothers of Jesus, like him in every way.
The booklets listed at the top (and many similar publications) provide much more detailed descriptions of how God's holy days symbolize God's plan for mankind.
I also wrote my own summary more than a decade ago: A Very Short History of the World — a Biblical Christian View.