... why do you think Ezekiel 45 is not referring to the weekly sabbath as well?
Several reasons, context was the first. Colossians 2, Ephesians 2 and Hebrews 9-10 another. Mediation another [God directly, versus through Moses]. Location [Stone, versus parchment/lambskin]. Author [God directly vs through Moses hand]. Pre vs post sin of mankind. Weekly, vs yearly [or of years]. God's vs the peoples. and so on.
Colossians 2, utilizes Ezekiel 45:17 KJB, as already seen here:
"... [5] In verse 16 there is a list of
"ordinances" that are found given in that order [and other], in the Old Testament, what are they referring to there, and where is Paul quoting from?
Colossians 2:16 KJB Let no man therefore judge you
in meat, or in drink, or
in respect of an holyday, or
of the new moon, or
of the sabbath [days]:
Paul is quoting from (you will want to look up that word “solemnities”):
Ezekiel 45:17 KJB And it shall be
the prince's part
to give burnt offerings, and
meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths,
in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare
the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings,
to make reconciliation for the house of Israel. ..." -
COL 2:14-17 The REAL truth from God's Word
First of all, can we all agree that Colossians 2:16 KJB, when it speaks of
"in meat, or in drink" is
not referring to the Genesis/Levitical/Deuteronomic, etc. dietary and health laws in regards clean/unclean, but is instead a direct reference to
"meat offerings" and
"drink offerings", and that anyone who says otherwise, after being shown the connection, is in error on that point?
I really would like to lay that to rest.
Moving onward:
"...
Colossians 2 KJB, parallels
Ephesians 2 KJB, and
Hebrews 9-10 KJB.
The language is the same. The "ordinances" in
Colossians 2 deals with "shadows", such as the
daily "meat and drink" offerings of a worldly sanctuary and carnal ordinances, the
seasonal "feast days", the
monthly "new moons", and the
year based "sabbaths", in the singular, every 7 and 50th years, as Paul is citing
Psalms 98:1-3; and
Ezekiel 45:17 KJB with other texts.
The Sabbath of the LORD thy God is always called
"my [as in God's] sabbaths" [or "the sabbath day", or "the sabbath of the LORD"] and is eternal, and the
others in
Leviticus 23:4 onward are called
"your [the peoples] sabbaths" [
Leviticus 26:35 KJB]
and "her sabbaths" [Leviticus 26:34,43; 2 Chronicles 36:21; Lamentations 1:7; Hosea 2:11 KJB] which are
"beside [given in addition to] the sabbaths of the LORD" [
Leviticus 23:38 KJB].
The Ten Commandments, including the Sabbath of the 4th Commandment, are "light" [
Proverbs 6:23,
Isaiah 8:20, 51:4 KJB], never a "shadow", are "spiritual" [
Romans 7:14 KJB], never "carnal" [
Hebrews 9:10 KJB], even eternal [Exodus 31:16 KJB], never temporary.
Colossians 2:14 - "ordinances"
Ephesians 2:15 - "law of commandments contained in ordinances"
Hebrews 9:1 - "ordinances of divine service"
Hebrews 9:10 - "carnal ordinances"
Colossians 2:16 - "in meat, or in drink" [offerings]
Hebrews 9:10 - "meats and drinks" [offerings]
Colossians 2:12 - "also ye are risen with him"
Ephesians 2:6 - "raised us up together"
Colossians 2:16 - "a
shadow of things to come"
Ephesians 2:7 - "in the ages to come"
Hebrews 9:11 - "of good things to come"
Hebrews 10:1 - "the law having
a shadow of good things to come", "those sacrifices", "offered
year by year"
[ps. none of the Ten Commandments deal with carnal sacrifices]
etc. ..." -
SHADOW LAWS OF THE OLD COVENANT FULFILLED IN THE NEW? COL 2
Singular day [of the LORD, definite article or possession/ownership]:
Leviticus 23:3 KJB - Six days shall work be done: but
the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is
the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
[or if speaking of all the weekly 7th days together, as
"my [the LORD's] sabbaths"]
Exodus 31:13; Leviticus 19:3, 30, 26:2; Isaiah 56:4; Ezekiel 20:12,13,16,20,21,24, 22:8,26, 23:38, 44:24 KJB
Plural [of the people,
"your" and
"her"]:
Leviticus 26:35 KJB - As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
Leviticus 26:34 KJB - Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
Leviticus 26:43 KJB - The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
2 Chronicles 36:21 KJB - To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
Lamentations 1:7 KJB - Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
Hosea 2:11 KJB - I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
Please notice Hosea 2, in connection to Ezekiel 45:17, and Colossians 2:16.
[1] seasonal feasts, followed by
[2] new months, followed by
[3] her sabbaths.
Notice it does
not say "my sabbaths", or "the sabbath".
Notice again, the
increasing order, in relation to the shadowy things all given after sin of mankind, the seasonally, to monthly, to the yearly, 7th year and even 50th years, which ties back to Leviticus 25:4,6,8 [
"sabbaths of years"] and 26:35 etc.