So then you're really proclaiming the sabbath is a holy day. Then Col 2:16-17 testifies against what you promote both as a holy day and shadow law.
Not at all brother
Colossians 2:16 is not talking about the weekly sabbath it is talking about the ceremonial sabbaths connected to the annual feasts.
If we do not consider both the within scripture and chapter context and read the scripture in isolation to the rest of the chapter then we will not get the correct understanding of what is being discussed in
COLOSSIANS 2. It is very clear looking at
COLOSSIANS 2:11-17 that the CONTEXT is the law in ORDINANCES from the MOSIAC BOOK of the OLD COVENANT and not God's 10 commandments. This is shown in detail in the previous two posts looking at both the within scripture and chapter CONTEXT of
COLOSSIANS 2:16-17.
Then comparing the within scripture context we can see very clearly that PAUL is referencing the MOSAIC Shadow law in FEAST days nearly word for word in
EZEKIEL 45:17 with
EZEKIEL 45:18-25 as confirmation. For example PAUL quoting
COLOSSIANS 2:16 [16] Let no man therefore judge you in MEAT, or in DRINK, or in respect of an HOLYDAY [FEASTIVALS], or of the NEW MOON, or of the SABBATH DAYS <plural>:
PAUL is quoting from
EZEKIEL 45:17 [17] 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.
So both the within chapter CONTEXT talking about the SHADOW laws of the MOSAIC BOOK of the OLD COVENANT and the within scripture CONTEXT talking about the ANNUAL FESTIVALS and ceremonial sabbaths connected to FEASTS (not God's 4th commandment) and also PAULS reference to the OLD TESTAMENT scriptures, all three reference points all agree together that
COLOSSIANS 2:16 is in reference to the MOSAIC SHADOW laws and not God's 4th Commandment or God's 10 Commandments. The BURNT OFFERINGS, and MEAT OFFERINGS, and DRINK OFFERINGS, in the FEASTS, and in the NEW MOONS, and in the SABBATHS when applied together are all references to the annual FEAST days of
LEVITICUS 23.
In these annual FEASTIVALS there were special ceremonial sabbaths (not God's 4th commandment) that where linked to certain FEASTS that could fall on any day of the week depending on the yearly cycle. These included;
* Annual festival of The blowing of trumpet (
Leviticus 23:24)
* Annual Day of Atonement (
Leviticus 23:32)
* Annual Feast of tabernacles (
Leviticus 23:39)
These "SPECIAL" Sabbath could fall on any day and were connected directly to these festivals that were prophetic in nature pointing to Jesus and God's plan of Salvation in the NEW COVENANT.
COLOSSIANS 2 is talking about the SHADOW laws in ORDINANCES from the MOSAIC BOOK of the OLD COVENANT *
EXODUS 24:7 which are fulfilled in Christ as shown in God's WORD in previous posts in
1;
2;
3 and
4 linked. Please feel free to respond to the linked posts (1-4) and all the scriptures in them if you disagree?
Your mixing up God's SHADOW laws in ORDINANCES with God's ETERNAL LAW (10 Commandments) which God's WORD says in the NEW COVENANT give us the KNOWLEDGE of GOOD and EVIL; SIN and RIGHTOUESNESS *
ROMANS 3:20;
ROMANS 7:7;
1 JOHN 3:4 and leads us to Christ that we might be forgiven by faith *
GALATIANS 3:22-25;
ROMANS 8:1-4.
If we have no law then we have no KNOWLEDGE of what SIN is and no need of a Saviour. If we have no Saviour we are lost because we still in your sins and the wages of sin is death to all those who reject the gift of Gods dear son *
ROMANS 6:23.
Now did you have any scriptures to show that God's 4th Commandment has been Abolished and we are now commanded to keep Sunday as a Holy day?
Hope this helps.
