Folks will add to Colossians to make it mean only certain holy days or festivals and not weekly Sabbath, but I am a simple person.
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I believe what God clearly says without adding or taking away from what is pretty basic to understand unless you have an agenda to judge folks who dont keep your version of the weekly Sabbath.
Col.2 is a chapter about "man religious traditions" VS The Holy Instructions of God.
Col. 2:
6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord,
so walk ye in him:7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and
vain deceit, after the
tradition of men, after the
rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Did Jesus walk in man made religious traditions, vain deceit or Rudiments of the world"? Of course not.
Are God's Commandments "Rudiments of the World", Vain deceit, or man's religious traditions?
Many on this forum imply this, but I disagree. It wasn't God's Laws, or ordinances that condemned the Christ, or the Gentiles who have turned to God.
It was the "law" the Jews had created as Jesus said;
4 For they (Not God) bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay
them on men's shoulders; but they
themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth,
and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
9 But in vain they do
worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. (Not God)
"We have a Law,
and by OUR Law, He should die". Did the Law and the Prophets condemn Jesus to death? Or did they foretell of an innocent man who was killed by religious man?
It was the Jews and their "commandments of men" who condemned the Christ, not God. It was their "
Commandments of men" who rejected the repentant gentiles, not the Law and the Prophets.
14 Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
15 And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
It wasn't God's "handwriting of ordinances" that were against Jesus and the repentant Gentiles, it was the "Commandments of men" that had been taught as Law for centuries. WE now call them the Talmud.
Jesus took them out of the way.
He Spoiled them by raising from the dead when
their law condemned Him to death.
He made a
show of them openly, not God as many imply.
He battled the Mainstream preaching of His time every day, not God's Commandments. He didn't battle against God, and "Triumph over God" by nailing God's Commandments to the cross, He battled the Mainstream religious preachers of His time and nailed their "Commandments of men" which were against them, contrary to them, to the cross.
Therefore, since we know it wasn't God who Jesus fought with, but the religious traditions of men;
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
days:
17 Which are a shadow of things to come;
but the body is of Christ, (not man made religious laws and traditions.)
18 Let no man beguile you
of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
This chapter is a warning about man made doctrines and traditions which the Jews were pushing.
20 Wherefore if ye be
dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world,
why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
21 (Touch not; taste not; handle not;
22 Which all are to perish with the using
after the commandments and doctrines of
men? (Not God)
Like Peter said: "We ought to obey God, rather than man".