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In answer to your point 1.
you said ". If you assert that Saturday Sabbath observance is required for New Covenant Christians, then
to be consistent you must make the same assertion for annual festivals such as the Feast of Tabernacles, animal sacrifices,"
That is not true, not sure how you think one equals the other. the new testament and the Old both make it clear that sacrifices would not continue forever. But Concerning the 7th day Sabbath there is no such stipulation. Do you actually know what prophecy I am referring to? Because the prophecy is in regards to the Gentiles coming in which Paul in the New testament spends much time on. Saying one equals the other is not well founded logic. I am not trying to say anything about you personally please don't take it that way. So no you are in error to suggest that consistency would dictate to allow sacrifices also. That is totally inconsistent with what Scripture teaches.
point 2,
Interesting point as I have said He does not simply mention them twice. all of those things mentioned are found in connection with feasts. new moons food and drink and Sabbaths are all part of feast but they are not the feasts themselves. in fact you mentioned numbers 28:24 in another post. So let me correct you on an assumption. I never said they were not offerings you have assumed that. Now the very verse you have sited actually makes my point. if you read the context you will find that they are indeed food and drink offerings that are connected to the feast of Passover Just as I have been saying all along. They themselves are not the feast but they are part of the feast. hope that clears things up a little. Oh and yes what I have said in no way proves that the festivals still need to be kept. Scripture teaches the very opposite that they were met in Christ.
Point 3,
This is not hard I have already answered this one in the original post. Context tells you which is being referred to. the context in Colossians most clearly as demonstrated refers to Sabbaths that are in conjunction with the feasts. Its not a matter of randomly picking and choosing its a matter of sound biblical context. The only reason you take issue with it is because of your view of the 7th day Sabbath. but the context clearly shows that the 7th day Sabbath is not being referred to in Colossians on many levels. its not a shadow pointing forward though you try to make it one. But the Sabbaths which were in connection with the festivals did indeed point to rest in Christ. They are the Sabbaths that teach what you misapply to the 7th day Sabbath. This is the problem you connect the rest in Christ to the commandment that clearly says that it points back to creation. instead of realizing that it is the feast Sabbaths that were designed to do this. They are the once that are connected to the festivals which point forward to Jesus giving us rest by his sacrifice.
It seems like simple logic and context to me not to mention biblical. If there are two different types of Sabbaths mentioned. one points back to creation and one points to rest through a sacrifice then Paul speaks of Sabbaths that are a shadow of things to come in connection with Jesus paying the price for our sins. Its a no brainier which one is being referred to.
Feast Sabbaths=Rest in the sacrifice of Jesus, shadow of things to come
commandment Sabbath=Jesus is our creator, memorial of a past reality.
as far as your points on Hebrews 4 that is a massive study on its own and so is revelation 17. not enough time to go into that right now. blessings.
you said ". If you assert that Saturday Sabbath observance is required for New Covenant Christians, then
to be consistent you must make the same assertion for annual festivals such as the Feast of Tabernacles, animal sacrifices,"
That is not true, not sure how you think one equals the other. the new testament and the Old both make it clear that sacrifices would not continue forever. But Concerning the 7th day Sabbath there is no such stipulation. Do you actually know what prophecy I am referring to? Because the prophecy is in regards to the Gentiles coming in which Paul in the New testament spends much time on. Saying one equals the other is not well founded logic. I am not trying to say anything about you personally please don't take it that way. So no you are in error to suggest that consistency would dictate to allow sacrifices also. That is totally inconsistent with what Scripture teaches.
point 2,
Interesting point as I have said He does not simply mention them twice. all of those things mentioned are found in connection with feasts. new moons food and drink and Sabbaths are all part of feast but they are not the feasts themselves. in fact you mentioned numbers 28:24 in another post. So let me correct you on an assumption. I never said they were not offerings you have assumed that. Now the very verse you have sited actually makes my point. if you read the context you will find that they are indeed food and drink offerings that are connected to the feast of Passover Just as I have been saying all along. They themselves are not the feast but they are part of the feast. hope that clears things up a little. Oh and yes what I have said in no way proves that the festivals still need to be kept. Scripture teaches the very opposite that they were met in Christ.
Point 3,
This is not hard I have already answered this one in the original post. Context tells you which is being referred to. the context in Colossians most clearly as demonstrated refers to Sabbaths that are in conjunction with the feasts. Its not a matter of randomly picking and choosing its a matter of sound biblical context. The only reason you take issue with it is because of your view of the 7th day Sabbath. but the context clearly shows that the 7th day Sabbath is not being referred to in Colossians on many levels. its not a shadow pointing forward though you try to make it one. But the Sabbaths which were in connection with the festivals did indeed point to rest in Christ. They are the Sabbaths that teach what you misapply to the 7th day Sabbath. This is the problem you connect the rest in Christ to the commandment that clearly says that it points back to creation. instead of realizing that it is the feast Sabbaths that were designed to do this. They are the once that are connected to the festivals which point forward to Jesus giving us rest by his sacrifice.
It seems like simple logic and context to me not to mention biblical. If there are two different types of Sabbaths mentioned. one points back to creation and one points to rest through a sacrifice then Paul speaks of Sabbaths that are a shadow of things to come in connection with Jesus paying the price for our sins. Its a no brainier which one is being referred to.
Feast Sabbaths=Rest in the sacrifice of Jesus, shadow of things to come
commandment Sabbath=Jesus is our creator, memorial of a past reality.
as far as your points on Hebrews 4 that is a massive study on its own and so is revelation 17. not enough time to go into that right now. blessings.
You are simply rejecting truth.
Why do you claim that the word for Sabbath is talking about annual Sabbaths when you would agree that the other 59 times it's used in the New Testament, it is referring to the weekly Sabbath? In addition, why did you ignore my point regarding the consistent use of the triplets in either ascending or descending order in other Scriptural references? The formation that Paul used in these verses is consistent with that....weekly, monthly, annual or annual, monthly, weekly.
In addition, you might ask yourself the question as to why Sabbath-breaking is never mentioned in the epistles to the Gentiles if it is a binding requirement under the New Covenant. He addressed many other sins, but Sabbath-breaking was never mentioned, nor was there any instruction to Gentiles on how to keep the Sabbath.
Also, from the book of Acts forward, there are 11 mentions of the Sabbath. Colossians 2:16-17, Hebrews 4, and nine references in the book of Acts are the only references. Eight of the nine references relate to Paul preaching the gospel to Jews and Gentiles who were at the synagogues and were not Christians...they were potential converts. The ninth reference is alongside the river and was a group of Jewish women gathered for prayer.
There is a conspicuous absence of discussion regarding the Sabbath, which is significant considering that the Seventh Day Adventists and Armstrongites make it their FOCUS. It is not a peripheral issue with them; it is their FOCUS.
This alone should tell you there is something wrong with your church's theology, including the fact that it's largely based on a woman who had very low moral standards and used the writings of others claiming they were direct revelations from God to her. The books of these authors were found in her estate library, by the way, so there is no mistake that she used them for her materials.
I ask myself the same thing about Herbert Armstrong, who was involved in incest with his daughter. Good fruit does not come from such an obviously bad tree.