In Colossians 2:16-17, Paul refers to the Sabbath as a shadow of Christ, which is no longer binding since the substance (Christ) has come. It's clear in those verses that the weekly Sabbath is in view. The phrase "a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day" refers to the annual, monthly, and weekly holy days of the Jewish calendar (1 Chronicles 23:31; 2 Chronicles 2:4; 31:3; Ezekiel 45:17; Hosea 2:11). If Paul were referring to special ceremonial dates of rest in that passage, why would he have used the word "Sabbath?" He had already mentioned the ceremonial dates when he spoke of festivals and new moons.
Sorry I could not help myself there is so many holes in your website post it is not funny and they can be clearly seen from God’s Word. So let’s start with your first section above. Let’s take a look at all the scriptures you have quoted along with your interpretation and let the Word of God answer your question.
Col 2:16-17,
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
sabbaths days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
1Ch 23:31
and whenever burnt offerings were presented to the LORD on the
Sabbaths, at the New Moon feasts and at the appointed festivals. They were to serve before the LORD regularly in the proper number and in the way prescribed for them.
2Ch 2:4,
Now I am about to build a temple for the Name of the LORD my God and to dedicate it to him for burning fragrant incense before him, for setting out the consecrated bread regularly, and for making
burnt offerings every morning and evening and on the Sabbaths, at the New Moons and at the appointed festivals of the LORD our God. This is a lasting ordinance for Israel.
Eze 45:17-21,
It shall be the prince’s duty to furnish the
burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings, at the feasts, the new moons, and the Sabbaths, at all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel: he shall provide the sin offerings, grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to make atonement on behalf 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. Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary: And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering, and put it upon the posts of the house, and upon the four corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court.
And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one that erred, and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the house. In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the Passover, a Feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.
Hos 2:11,
I will stop all her celebrations:
her yearly festivals, her New Moons, her Sabbath days--all her appointed festivals.
Let’s start with all the scriptures you have quoted above. The context of all the Scripture you have quoted above are only in connection with the same things;
(1) Sabbath(s) at the New Moons;
(2) Appointed feasts;
(3) Burnt offerings, food and drink offering;
(4) All the above is being referred to in Col 2:16-17
All of the above scriptures have the same things in common. They are referring to annual Feasts or festivals of Israel commanded under the laws of Moses. Let’s read about them from God’s Word in
All the above were called annual sabbaths because they had special connections and duty requirements with certain yearly feasts. In addition to the weekly Sabbaths (Lev. 23:3), there were seven annual, ceremonial sabbaths scattered through Israel's religious calendar. These yearly sabbaths were not directly related to the seventh-day Sabbath or the weekly cycle. These sabbaths, "beside the Sabbaths of the Lord" (Lev. 23:38),
were the first and last days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Day of Pentecost, the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the first and last days of the Feast of Tabernacles (Lev. 23:7, 8, 21, 24, 25, 27, 28, 35, 36).
Because the reckoning of these sabbaths depended on the beginning of the sacred year, which was based on the lunar calendar,
they could fall on any day of the week. When they coincided with the weekly Sabbath, they were called "high days" (John 19:31). "While the weekly Sabbath was ordained at the close of Creation week for all mankind, the annual sabbaths were an integral part of the Jewish system of rites and ceremonies included in the laws of Moses which pointed forward to the coming of the Messiah, and the observance of which terminated with His death on the cross (Col 2:14).
1 Cor 5:7-8 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: 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.
Paul is saying that the believing Christian need not keep the ceremonial laws, the shadow sabbaths, because they find fulfillment in faith in Jesus Christ, the true passover lamb. The yearly ceremonial sabbaths associated with the Hebrew Temple, which taught the plan of salvation through a coming Messiah, the passover lamb of God. Now that salvation through Jesus of Nazareth is clear to the Gentile church, there is no further need for the earthly Temple, its ceremonies and shadow feast sabbaths because that lesson has been learned by those with faith.
However, nowhere does the Bible indicate that one of the Ten Commandments has been abrogated, or that the disciples or Jesus abandoned the weekly Seventh-day Sabbath for Sunday keeping.
Spring Festival Calendar:
· Passover, The crucifixion, Jesus is God's Passover Lamb. (14 Nisan, not a Sabbath)
· Feast of Unleavened Bread (Pilgrimage to Jerusalem required for all men.) Putting away sin from one's life.
o Sabbath of 15 Nisan, 1st day of the feast.
o The Omer, first fruits of the barley harvest, 16 Nisan. Resurrection.
o Sabbath of 21 Nisan, 7th and last day of the feast.
· Feast of Weeks - Pentecost, a sabbath day 50 days after the Omer (Pilgrimage to Jerusalem required for all men.) Firstfruits of the wheat harvest. The outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
Fall Festival Calendar:
· Trumpets, Sabbath of 1 Tishri, Announcement of impending judgment.
· Day of Atonement, Sabbath of 10 Tishri, The pre-Advent Judgment.
· Feast of Tabernacles (Pilgrimage to Jerusalem required for all men.) The ingathering of God's people - the second coming.
o Sabbath of 15 Tishri, 1st day of Tabernacles, freed from the bondage of sin.
o Sabbath of 22 Tishri, 8th and last day of Tabernacles.
Prior to the incarnation of Jesus and his crucifixion, all the above festivals awaited their fulfillment. They were what are called "types". They were symbolic of specific events yet to come. The event that is foretold is referred to as the "antitype". In the New Testament, the Greek words corresponding to type and antitype are:
G5179. tupos, too'-pos; from G5180; a die (as struck), i.e. (by impl.) a stamp or scar; by anal. a shape, i.e. a statue, (fig.) style or resemblance; spec. a sampler ("type"), i.e. a model (for imitation) or instance (for warning):--en- (ex-) ample, fashion, figure, form, manner, pattern, print.
G499. antitupon, an-teet'-oo-pon; neut. of a comp. of G473 and G5179; corresponding ["antitype"], i.e. a representative, counterpart:--(like) figure (whereunto).
The
"shadow" or "type" itself had no substance, but rather pointed to a future event that would have substance, the "antitype". For example, slaying the Passover lamb is the type, the crucifixion of Jesus is the antitype.
The connection with Col 2:16-17?
Lets look at it but we will look also at the context from verse 14...14 (context),
"Blotting out the handwriting" (Greek = manuscript legal document G5495) of
"ordinances" (G1378
δόγμα, dogma; dog'-mah =
civil, ceremonial or ecclesiastical ordinance) that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way,
nailing it to his cross; So the context is the blotting out of the civil, ceremonial and ecclesiastical laws. So Paul is not talking about any of God's 10 commandments or moral law as the Greek word used is Dogma. This is the Context in verse 14 and follows on to verses 16-17
15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
16
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 day(s)
17
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. So comparing
Leviticus Chapter 23 and looking at both the Hebrew and Greek in context of
Col 2:14-17 it can be clearly shown that Paul is firstly referring to new moons, food and drink offerings, holy days and ceremonial annual Sabbaths (also called high Sabbaths (John 19:31) that all have their origin and connection to the annual feasts (e.g Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread, Feast of First Fruits, Blowing of Trumpets, Day of Atonement and Feast of Tabernacles) These were the Shadow Sabbaths referred to in Col 2:16 which were all pointing to Jesus and nailed to the cross. As the context is the ceremonial and ecclesiastical laws.
Now in comparison let’s look at God’s 4[SUP]th[/SUP] commandment from His 10 commandments. In God’s Law (10 commandments) the 4[SUP]th[/SUP] commandment of God is very clear and specific.
Exo 20:8-11,
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Please show me where it says we need to offer
burnt offerings, meat and drink offerings and on the
New Moon in this commandment? It is a weekly 7[SUP]th[/SUP] Day Sabbath commandment to be held every week not only with annual feast days of Leviticus 23. This is the distinction between the yearly ceremonial sabbaths and the 7th-day weekly Sabbath commandment: obviously the 7th-day Sabbath occurs on the last day of every week, but rather than being prophetic in nature, it is commemorative, a memorial to creation, established by God himself as scripture clearly tells us (Gen 2:1-3). Because it is only commemorative, and not a shadow of things to come, the weekly 7th-day Sabbath is
not part of the discussion in Colossians 2:17. When this is understood, the weekly 7[SUP]th[/SUP]-day Sabbath is clearly not a part of the prophetic sequence of events in the plan of salvation that are portrayed by the yearly ceremonial Sabbaths. Other references to the laws of Moses and feast days can be better understood;
1 Cor 5:7 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:
1 Cor 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.
Paul is saying that the believing Christian need not keep the ceremonial laws, the shadow sabbaths at the New Moons, the meat offerings and the drink offereings because they find fulfillment in faith in Jesus Christ, the true passover lamb. The yearly ceremonial sabbaths associated with the Hebrew Temple, which taught the plan of salvation through a coming Messiah, the passover lamb of God. Now that salvation through Jesus of Nazareth is clear to the Gentile church, there is no further need for the earthly Temple, its ceremonies and shadow feast sabbaths because that lesson has been learned by those with faith. Nowhere does the Bible indicate that one of the Ten Commandments has been abrogated, or that the disciples or Jesus abandoned the weekly 7th-day Sabbath for Sunday keeping.
Now is that enough scripture for you?
More scripture support? (linked):
Col 2 Sabbaths and Shadows of things to come (1)
Col 2 Sabbaths and Shadows of things to come (2)
Colossians 2 (a must read God's Word)
Scripture support on the difference between God's Law and the laws of Moses linked
God's Law and the laws of Moses (1)
God's Law and the laws of Moses (2)
God's Law and the laws of Moses (3)
Hope this helps the faithful Bereans
God bless
you gog ers should stop lying to yourselves and accept Gods word. He will never ever be fine with sin, never say well Jesus died so dont worry about all your ongoing sin, your already saved. clearly Paul forbids sinful actions in regards to salvation. rather than pluck what you think supports the gog, why not learn the gospel? its actually there and actually works. the answer to why thats not acceptable to people is because they enjoy the flesh too much to even consider giving it up. 