It is amazing to me that you arrived at the keeping of the Sabbath from the scripture above, which says no such thing!
THIS IS THE FIRST OF TWO POSTS WHICH I HAD TO SEPARATE DUE TO WORD COUNT RESTRICTION
PLEASE LIMIT YOUR POST CONTENT OR BREAK THEM UP INTO SMALLER CHUNKS BECAUSE YOUR POSTS ARE ALL OVER THE PLACE WITH MANY ERRORS THAT HAVE TO BE ADDRESSED THANKS.
Doesn't Revelation 12 and 14 refer to the saints as they who "keep the commandments"? BTW, please spare us the claim these are "7 year tribulation saints" because 2 Peter 3:10 says when the Lord comes as a thief in the night, the Earth won't go on for another 7 seconds, let alone 7 years.
Attempting to bring Christians under the law is the work of Satan, plain and simple!
"Under the Law" means "under condemnation for violation". Also, I thought Jesus said those who "do and teach" are great, but the inhabitants of heaven will look down on those who "brea and teach" and call them "least"....and also the
last chapter of the
last book of the Bible says that only those who "do His commandments" have a right to the Tree and entrance to the Gate.
Keeping the law as a requirement for salvation, is salvation by works.
It's a requirement
after you've recieved salvation - "Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid; Yea, we establish the law."
There is no direct command from the Lord or the apostles to keep the Sabbath or to abstain from certain foods, or anything else. There are no rebukes from the Lord in the letters to the seven churches regarding not keeping the Sabbath.
Sorry. The Peshitta which is the
closest to the Textus Receptus KJV translates Hebrews 4:9-10 KJV, "
It is therefore the duty of the people of God to keep the Sabbath" because if we're resting inwardly in Jesus, we'll show it by resting outwardly every seventh day just as God did. All throughout the passage, "rest" is translated from "kataposis", but in verse 9, it's "Sabbatismos", or "Sabbath".
Why do you continue to ignore the scriptures that I provide that, unlike the one you provided above, which address the issue directly, such as the following:
"Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ."
Please don't be offended, but your posts are EXREMELY LONG, BRO! I've tried but the "post word count" always exceeds, so I ceased from it. But, I'll respond to every single point, beginning with Colossians 2:14-17 KJV and show that Paul is not referring to the Ten Commandments at all, but to the Mosaic Law alone:
"Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances..."
Moses wrote
his law with
his hands in a
book that was placed on the
outside of the Ark; God wrote with
His finger on tables of
stone which were placed
inside the Ark:
Deuteronomy 31:24-26 KJV
"...that was against us, which was contrary to us..."
The Mosaic Law was "
against us" with all its demands and harsh judgments - the Ten Comms are
for us, containing only blessings such as long life and peace:
Exodus 20:8:11 KJV;
Exodus 20:12 KJV;
Exodus 20:6 KJV; Exodus 20:2 KJV
...and took it out of the way, nailing it to the Cross..."
You can
nail up
paper books all day long, but you can't nail
stone to anything - it shatters in tiny pieces.
The Mosaic Law began at Sinai and ended at the Cross (
Galatians 3:19 KJV)...but the Ten Commandments carved out by God's hand and written with His finger go all the way back to the beginning (
Genesis 39:9 KJV;
Genesis 4:8 KJV;
Genesis 12:13 KJV;
Genesis 31:19 KJV, etc.) and "stand fast forever and ever" (
Psalms 111:7-8 KJV) and will never pass away.
"...and having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it..."
(He triumphed over Satan and his demons by fulfilling in His mission all to which the Mosaic Law pointed: Himself.)
"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]:
(All these elements listed in this verse pertain to the
Mosaic Law of ceremonies and sacrifices, including the phrase "sabbath days", which refers to the Yearly Feast Days, seeing that they are called precisely "sabbaths" in Leviticus 23. These Yearly Feast Day sabbaths are
plainly differentiated from the weekly Sabbath in verses 32 and 38 which says these Feasts are "your (Israel's) sabbaths" and are "
BESIDES the Sabbath of the Lord":
Leviticus 23 KJV;
Leviticus 23:32 KJV; ;
Leviticus 23:37-38 KJV)
"...which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ."
When you step into the shadow of a tree and begin walking, you eventually bang you head on the tree. Likewise, the entire Mosaic Law were shadows of Christ to which they led.
The weekly Sabbath was not nor ever has been a shadow of anything - when it was created, there was NO SIN and ALL WAS LIGHT. It was created as a memorial to Creation and now additionally is a memorial to our recreation in Jesus, which is what is the point of
Hebrews 4:9-10 KJV.
Let's not any longer confuse the "sabbath" of Colossians 2:16 as referring to the weekly Sabbaths;
it clearly refers to the yearly sabbaths of the Mosaic Law,
as shown exhaustively by the above texts in their contexts.