Colossians 2:16-17 groups the Sabbath and festivals with New Moons and food and drink offerings,
and I am pretty sure you are not observing those. They are grouped in things that are not being
observed by Armstrongites..why not?
well first off I am not an Armstrongite like you where, so please stop calling me this.
Do you want me to start calling you a Michael Brownite, seem you promote him alot.
So I do not know what they do on these holydays of God, ask them or the Word of God.
Going by The bible it says that God gave us the moon to [tell seasons]
He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.
to observe any of Gods feast days, you have to know when the year starts,
so anyone observing Gods Holy days, needs to know when new moon[year] happens.
“This month [in the spring] shall be unto you the beginning of months …” (Exodus 12:2).
Leviticus 23:2 starts all of Gods very special Holy convocations to Him our God.
2Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning (the feasts of the Lord),
which ye shall proclaim (to be holy convocations), even these are (my feasts).
4“These are the appointed feasts of the LORD, the holy convocations,
which you shall proclaim at [the time appointed for them].
- Gods months started in the spring, the month called Nisan,
Jesus Christ ran off of Gods calander, not romans doctrine.
Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or no?
Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not?
Even Noah knew and recorded the flood events using [Gods calander].
to know the time appointed for feasts, we observe the new moons to know when.
- so it says Gods feasts made by God for God, a Holy convocation to the Lord.
the annual sabbaths were observed before mt. sini, before the ordinances
contained in the law of Moses were given. they were not part of the law of Moses.
-like they had to count 50 days to come to Pentacost, being all in one accord.
if they where [not] keeping the holyday together after Christ arose,
would they be filled with the holy spirit, and to show this new power that day?.
we are told to come out of this world and not follow its ways.
and the only sign given this evil generation deals with his Holy days.
the world follows the roman calander and its seasons and tradations.
again the bible says
Exodus 12:14 “And this day shall be unto you for [a memorial];
and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations;
ye shall keep it [a feast] by an ordinance [for ever].
1And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
2This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
3Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take
to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
24And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
43And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover:
There shall no stranger eat thereof:
44But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him,
then shall he eat thereof.
45A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
47All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
48And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the Lord,
let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be
as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
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16And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall
be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which
every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
17And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought
your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations
by an ordinance for ever.18In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even,
ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
“And in the first day [of the seven, 15th of Abib] there shall be an holy convocation, and in
the seventh day [21st of Abib] there shall be an holy convocation to you.
And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread;for in this selfsame day [the 15th Abib] have
I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day [the 15th,
not the 14th] in your generations by an ordinance for ever”(verses 16-17).
This day is a memorial, not a shadow of the cross. A memorial of deliverance
from Egypt, which pictures to us deliverance from sin!
Observe that the Days of Unleavened Bread are a period, having two high-day sabbaths.
And this period is established forever— given while the Israelites were still in Egypt.
—before one word of the ceremonial law of Moses had been given or written
before God even proposed the Old Covenant! What the law of Moses or the
Old Covenant did not bring or institute, they cannot take away!
Exodus 13:3 “And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye
came out from Egypt.” This was the 15th of Abib. Verses 6, 8-10:
“Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be
a feast to the [Eternal memorial)—“And it shall be for a sign”—that is, having
also a future meaning—“unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between
thine eyes”—having to do with both works and will—why?—
“that the Lord’s law may be in thy mouth …. Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance ….”
-food and drink offerings now?
The Passover only pictures the death of Christ for the remission of sins
that are past (Romans 3:25).
1Co 11:23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you,
That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
1Co 11:24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat:
this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.
1Co 11:25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped,
saying, This cup is the [new testament] in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it,
in remembrance of me.
referring back to this...
Luk 22:15 And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat
this [passover with you] before I suffer: For I say unto you, I will not
any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
Luk 22:17 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said,
Take this, and divide it among yourselves:
Luk 22:18 For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine,
until the kingdom of God shall come.
Luk 22:19 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them,
saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.
Luk 22:20 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying,
This cup is [the new testament] in my blood, which is shed for you.
Do what in remembrance of me? They were taking the Passover.
Jesus changed the symbles of the passover only, did not do away with it.
The Passover service also consists of the foot washing...
Joh 13:12 So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments,
and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?
Joh 13:13 Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.
Joh 13:14 If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet;
ye also ought to wash one another's feet.
Joh 13:15 For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Joh 13:16 Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord;
neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
Joh 13:17 If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
and then Paul says this...
1Co 5:6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth
the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump,
as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
1Co 5:8 Therefore let us keep [the feast],
not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness;
but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
- are you keeping or observing food and drink offerings as told us to do by keeping
the new testement symbols of passover and the feast of unleavened bread?
- and why is there so much confusion on this issue?
The Lord hath done that which he had devised;
he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old:
he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy
to rejoice over thee, he hath set up [the horn of thine adversaries].
And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints
of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his
hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.