Col 2:16 Let no one, then, judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a feast, or of a new moon, or of sabbaths,
Col 2:17 which are a shadow of the coming things, and the body is of the Christ;
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Colossians 2:16-17 does not say that Jesus is a Sabbath at all. Your reading into the scriptures what they do not say and do not teach. If you disagree please address the post and the scriptures provided in them that disagree with you
here linked.
Firstly the scriptures already provided in the linked post above already prove that Colombians 2:16 is talking about the
annual sabbath in the Feast days not Gods' 4th commandment in the 10 commandment. Let's examine the claim that Gods 4th commandment is a "shadow law" and show from the scriptures that this is impossible and these are the reasons why it is impossible for God's 4th commandment to be a shadow law of anything...
1. God's
Sabbath was made "before" sin and before the laws and Gods' plan of salvation was given to all mankind *
Genesis 2:1-3.
2.
According to the scriptures the Sabbath was made for mankind when mankind was in perfect harmony with their creator and sinless and walked and talked with God face to face. Adam and Eve were created on the 6th day and the Sabbath was made for mankind on the seventh day *
Genesis 1:26-31;
Genesis 2:1-3 and
Mark 2:27 of creation where God blessed the "seventh day" of creation and made it a holy day of rest for all mankind.
3. God's Sabbath is a part of the "
finished work of creation" it is day seven of a seven day week that God blessed and made a holy day of rest for all man *
Genesis 2:1-3
4. God's 4th commandment of the 10 commandments points "
backwards" to the finished work of creation,
not "forwards" to things to come. For example God's 4th commandment of the 10 commandments starts off as "
REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY TO KEEP IT HOLY" (memorial - remember) -
Exodus 20:8. God's 4th commandment therefore is a "memorial" of the "finished work of creation" this is also shown when it is written " [10], But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God" and also the reason for the memorial commandment that points backward to the "finished work of creation" as further evidence is given in "v11, For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: why the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it."
5. There was
no JEW, there was
no ISRAEL and there was
no Moses when God made the "seventh" day Sabbath rest for all mankind *
Genesis 2:1-3;
Mark 2:27. Jesus is Lord and creator of the Sabbath and he commands his people to keep it as a
memorial of the finished work of creation and a holy day rest and a celebration of God as the creator of heaven and earth *
Mark 2:28;
Exodus 20:8-11;
James 2:10-11;
Hebrews 4:9
6. Shadow laws point "forward" to things to come
not backwards to things completed which the Sabbath and God's 4th commandments points back to.
7. JESUS is the Lord and creator of the Sabbath and kept it as a holy day of rest and taught us how to correctly keep the Sabbath the way he intended it to be kept.
8. The Sabbath will continue to be kept after the second coming in the new heavens and new earth. *
Isaiah 66:22-23.
The above scriptural evidence is provided to prove that it is impossible and not biblical to claim that the Sabbath is a shadow of anything. God does not change his laws so that we are free to break them.
Now if you disagree perhaps you can show why you disagree from the scriptures.
Hope this is helpful.
