Let's look at this from another angle
Colossians 2:16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 17 These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.
It seems every single "watchman" is focused on the feasts. This is based on the feasts needing to be fulfilled and this is probably the single best verse in the NT telling us that they are prophetic of things to come. But this portion begins with "therefore" so we have to understand the context.
Colossians 2:13 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you[d] alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
The context is the crucifixion of Jesus and His triumphing over "the powers and authorities". Also we are told that the body of these shadows, these feast days, is the Body of Christ.
So instead of looking at calendars, and there are at least four that I know of, perhaps more, I want to look at the Body of Christ and more particularly the Body of Christ when He is being crucified.
We have 4 accounts to look at but I am going to look at Luke's account. The reason is this, the first three gospels appear to give us three different groups, Luke is the account for those who are raptured prior to the tribulation, Mark is for those raptured during the tribulation, and Matthew is for the Jews rescued at the end of the tribulation.
Luke 23 begins with this monkey trial. Pilate who may have missed the email that Jesus is to be crucified says he finds no basis for a charge against this man. The religious leaders go beserk and while they are ranting Pilate realizes he can send Jesus to Herod. Neither Pilate or Herod see any reason to crucify Jesus but the religious leaders go nuts and demand that a person guilty of insurrection be released and Jesus be crucified.
So that is the first thing I want to see, the Body of Christ is going to be crucified, the secular and governmental leaders see no basis for death, but rabid Satanists, religious leaders who appear as angels of light, are the ones demanding death. Also it is pretty clear that this is mob rule. Recently we have seen some huge mobs screaming about abortion, wanting to kill the various Supreme court justices who think we should overrule Roe v. Wade. We are also seeing a huge monkey trial concerning January 6th that has been bouncing around for the last few months. Without a doubt we are seeing people get "crucified" for standing for righteousness and we are also seeing the powers and authorities made a public spectacle and being put to an open shame.
But then Jesus says something very interesting:
Luke 23:28 Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children. 29 For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ 30 Then
“‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!”
and to the hills, “Cover us!”’
31 For if people do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
I would say that this is a clear reference to the coming tribulation. So this crucifixion is clearly taking place prior to the tribulation. When you are at war there are all kinds of atrocities that take place, summary executions were common during WWII, during famine there are horrible atrocities that take place, and during plagues there are terrible atrocities. Jesus is saying that this is happening before all that, so as bad as this monkey trial and injustice is, imagine what it will be like during the tribulation.
In the same way I think we can say the same thing about the January 6th hearings and these mobs threatening the Supreme court justices over Roe v. Wade.
This is a reference to
Hosea 10:8 The high places of wickedness will be destroyed—
it is the sin of Israel.
Thorns and thistles will grow up
and cover their altars.
Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!”
and to the hills, “Fall on us!”
"High places of wickedness", "thorns" depicting sin will "cover their altars". I think this is a very clear reference to Moloch and Baal worship which includes the sacrifice of babies and why I think they are so rabidly illogical with their protests concerning Roe v. Wade. First of all they say that 65% of the country supports abortion. Fine, if that were true then you have nothing to worry about, every state will pass their own laws. Then they portray this ruling as the Supreme court outlawing abortion. That is absurd, the Supreme court is simply saying they have no jurisdiction, it is a matter for each state to decide. Then they make it sound like it would be impossible for someone living in one state to go to another. I live in the biggest city in South Dakota, we are 3 miles from Iowa, we are about an hour from Nebraska, and we are about two hours from Minnesota. When I lived in NY I was very close to Connecticut, and Massachussetts, and New Jersey and Pennsylvania. I suspect that for 90-95% of Americans they are a short drive to another state. So nothing they say is logical or truthful. They have a high place of wickedness that will be destroyed.
So my point is, instead of looking at calendars and dates, let's look at the Body of Christ. What we see happening right now is precisely what we saw happening at the time Jesus was being crucified. The objection to Jesus and the demand for His crucifixion was coming straight from "the high places of wickedness".
So it is clear that the context in Colossians concerning the feasts being a shadow of things to come is Christ being victorious over the powers and authorities and putting them to an open shame. Right now we are seeing the same battle. In Chapter 2 of Colossians the context is the Passover feast, the feast of unleavened bread and the feast of firstfruits.
So I looked at Colossians 4 to see if there is any reference to the end of the age and I found this remarkable verse:
16 After this letter has been read to you, see that it is also read in the church of the Laodiceans and that you in turn read the letter from Laodicea.
Now many interpret this to mean that we have lost some letter of Paul. But that does not make sense to me. The New Testament is our covenant, it is a legal document, if something were missing it could undermine the legality of the contract. Besides, we do have a letter to Laodicea. Some will say that Paul didn't write the letter to Laodicea, I would argue that Paul didn't write the letter to Colossi, these letters are the word of God, all of them.
But let's consider for a second that the Bible is the word of God, it is complete, and it was written outside of space and time. The letter to the Laodiceans is the seventh letter to the churches in Revelation, it signifies the end of the church age. The feast of weeks is after seven complete sabbaths and the church age ends after seven complete churches. Laodicea is the apostate church, it indicates the church that panders to the whims of what the laity wants to hear. Is this verse a reference to the Feast of weeks being the end of the Church age and hence the time of the rapture?
Colossians 2:16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 17 These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.
It seems every single "watchman" is focused on the feasts. This is based on the feasts needing to be fulfilled and this is probably the single best verse in the NT telling us that they are prophetic of things to come. But this portion begins with "therefore" so we have to understand the context.
Colossians 2:13 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you[d] alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
The context is the crucifixion of Jesus and His triumphing over "the powers and authorities". Also we are told that the body of these shadows, these feast days, is the Body of Christ.
So instead of looking at calendars, and there are at least four that I know of, perhaps more, I want to look at the Body of Christ and more particularly the Body of Christ when He is being crucified.
We have 4 accounts to look at but I am going to look at Luke's account. The reason is this, the first three gospels appear to give us three different groups, Luke is the account for those who are raptured prior to the tribulation, Mark is for those raptured during the tribulation, and Matthew is for the Jews rescued at the end of the tribulation.
Luke 23 begins with this monkey trial. Pilate who may have missed the email that Jesus is to be crucified says he finds no basis for a charge against this man. The religious leaders go beserk and while they are ranting Pilate realizes he can send Jesus to Herod. Neither Pilate or Herod see any reason to crucify Jesus but the religious leaders go nuts and demand that a person guilty of insurrection be released and Jesus be crucified.
So that is the first thing I want to see, the Body of Christ is going to be crucified, the secular and governmental leaders see no basis for death, but rabid Satanists, religious leaders who appear as angels of light, are the ones demanding death. Also it is pretty clear that this is mob rule. Recently we have seen some huge mobs screaming about abortion, wanting to kill the various Supreme court justices who think we should overrule Roe v. Wade. We are also seeing a huge monkey trial concerning January 6th that has been bouncing around for the last few months. Without a doubt we are seeing people get "crucified" for standing for righteousness and we are also seeing the powers and authorities made a public spectacle and being put to an open shame.
But then Jesus says something very interesting:
Luke 23:28 Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children. 29 For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ 30 Then
“‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!”
and to the hills, “Cover us!”’
31 For if people do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
I would say that this is a clear reference to the coming tribulation. So this crucifixion is clearly taking place prior to the tribulation. When you are at war there are all kinds of atrocities that take place, summary executions were common during WWII, during famine there are horrible atrocities that take place, and during plagues there are terrible atrocities. Jesus is saying that this is happening before all that, so as bad as this monkey trial and injustice is, imagine what it will be like during the tribulation.
In the same way I think we can say the same thing about the January 6th hearings and these mobs threatening the Supreme court justices over Roe v. Wade.
This is a reference to
Hosea 10:8 The high places of wickedness will be destroyed—
it is the sin of Israel.
Thorns and thistles will grow up
and cover their altars.
Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!”
and to the hills, “Fall on us!”
"High places of wickedness", "thorns" depicting sin will "cover their altars". I think this is a very clear reference to Moloch and Baal worship which includes the sacrifice of babies and why I think they are so rabidly illogical with their protests concerning Roe v. Wade. First of all they say that 65% of the country supports abortion. Fine, if that were true then you have nothing to worry about, every state will pass their own laws. Then they portray this ruling as the Supreme court outlawing abortion. That is absurd, the Supreme court is simply saying they have no jurisdiction, it is a matter for each state to decide. Then they make it sound like it would be impossible for someone living in one state to go to another. I live in the biggest city in South Dakota, we are 3 miles from Iowa, we are about an hour from Nebraska, and we are about two hours from Minnesota. When I lived in NY I was very close to Connecticut, and Massachussetts, and New Jersey and Pennsylvania. I suspect that for 90-95% of Americans they are a short drive to another state. So nothing they say is logical or truthful. They have a high place of wickedness that will be destroyed.
So my point is, instead of looking at calendars and dates, let's look at the Body of Christ. What we see happening right now is precisely what we saw happening at the time Jesus was being crucified. The objection to Jesus and the demand for His crucifixion was coming straight from "the high places of wickedness".
So it is clear that the context in Colossians concerning the feasts being a shadow of things to come is Christ being victorious over the powers and authorities and putting them to an open shame. Right now we are seeing the same battle. In Chapter 2 of Colossians the context is the Passover feast, the feast of unleavened bread and the feast of firstfruits.
So I looked at Colossians 4 to see if there is any reference to the end of the age and I found this remarkable verse:
16 After this letter has been read to you, see that it is also read in the church of the Laodiceans and that you in turn read the letter from Laodicea.
Now many interpret this to mean that we have lost some letter of Paul. But that does not make sense to me. The New Testament is our covenant, it is a legal document, if something were missing it could undermine the legality of the contract. Besides, we do have a letter to Laodicea. Some will say that Paul didn't write the letter to Laodicea, I would argue that Paul didn't write the letter to Colossi, these letters are the word of God, all of them.
But let's consider for a second that the Bible is the word of God, it is complete, and it was written outside of space and time. The letter to the Laodiceans is the seventh letter to the churches in Revelation, it signifies the end of the church age. The feast of weeks is after seven complete sabbaths and the church age ends after seven complete churches. Laodicea is the apostate church, it indicates the church that panders to the whims of what the laity wants to hear. Is this verse a reference to the Feast of weeks being the end of the Church age and hence the time of the rapture?