Amen brother! No Sabbatarian, whether SDA or Hebrew Roots truly keeps "the Sabbath," for if they did, they would be in compliance with specific regulations that were strictly enforced and live exactly like the Jews (Exodus 16:23,29; 31:12-18; 35:3; Leviticus 19:30; 23:2-3, 32; Numbers 15:32-36; 28:1-10; 29:39-40; I Chronicles. 23:30-31; II Chronicles 31:2-4; Isaiah 1:13; Jeremiah 17:21; Amos 8:5; Nehemiah 10:31; 13:15,19 etc..).
So all of their talk about "keeping the Sabbath" amounts to nothing, for none of them truly keep all of it. In their at tempt to keep a part of that law they thereby bring them selves under obligations to "keep the whole law," as Paul argues in Galatians 5:3. Yet since none of them keep the whole law, they bring themselves under the curse of the law, by constantly violating one part while attempting to keep another.
This is the point that Paul clearly made against Judaizing legalists of his day in Galatians 3:10. The person who keeps one precept of the law just because the law says so, thereby acknowledges that the law is binding on him. Then if he neglects some other part of the law, he therefore becomes a transgressor of the very law he professes to keep.
This is exactly what these Sabbatarians do. They set out to keep the Sabbath because the law says so and thereby become "debtors to do the whole law" (Galatians 5:3). Then they neglect many things in the same law, and so are under the condemnation of the law (Galatians 3:10).
NOWHERE does the NT teach that keeping the Sabbath day is binding on Christians under the New Covenant. Sabbath keeping with all it's rules and regulations, was part of a covenant with Israel that is not binding on Christians under the New Covenant.
*Colossians 2:16 - Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day 17 things which are a mere shadow of what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.
Jesus warned of "MANY" Christians who WILL come in His Name, who preach that He is Truly the Messiah, who will teach lies about God. One such lie that you further, is regarding Col. 2. You and "Many" who come in Christ's Name, twist this scripture and use it to justify their faithless, lawless religion they have created in Christ's name.
Matt. 24:
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them,
Take heed that no man deceive you.5
For
many shall come in
my name, saying, I am Christ;
and shall deceive many.
These "Many" preach the insidious lie that the Pharisees were trying to "earn" Salvation by following God's Laws. But Jesus said over and over that they were following their own laws.
Matt. 15:
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.
The satanic lie that the Pharisees were obeying God's Laws leads to all manner of wicked perversions. They preach Jesus broke God's Sabbaths, so they also preach anyone who humbles them selves to God is breaking God's Sabbaths as well, like you just did.
They twist scripture after scripture as well as omitting volumes of God's Words in order to support their deceptive preaching. They are subtle, and very cleaver but God's "Spirit of Truth" exposes it for those who truly "seek" Him instead of the long haired creation of Christianity.
One great perversion of scripture is their version of Col. 2.
They would have us believe that God's Laws are "Rudiments of the World", "Vain Deceit", "Traditions of men".
That God's "good" "Just" and "Holy" Laws are really not good, just and Holy, but are against us, contrary to us. They are so bad, according to MMD and "many" others, that Jesus had to nail them to His Cross to save us from them. This lie is set up by the lie that the Pharisees were rejected because they were trying to get to heaven by following God's Laws.
Col. 2:
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.
"Many" who come in Christ's name, preach that Jesus was battling against God. That the "principalities and powers" that killed Jesus was God. That by raising from the dead He spoiled God. That He made a show of God openly. That He "Triumphed" over God on the cross. Even though the scriptures say "THEM", they don't care. Because it isn't about the truth with them, it's about justifying their religious tradition, just as it was for the Mainstream Preachers of Christ's time.
The truth is God's Instructions are not against us. God's Sabbaths are created "for us" as Jesus said. The "handwriting of ordinances" that were against the Gentiles and Paul and Jesus were the Laws the Pharisees had created. The "Doctrines" Jesus said were "Commandments of Men", not God. This is why the Gentiles were not allowed in God's Circle, this is why it was against the Law to eat a strawberry on a Sabbath walk.
"We have a Law, and by our Law, He should die". But did the Law and Prophets condemn Jesus? Did God condemn Jesus? No, God's Laws did not condemn Jesus and you can't find where it did. The "law" that condemned Jesus was the "law" created by the Pharisees. Their "laws" or "handwriting of ordinances" were against the Gentiles and Paul, not God's Laws as MMD and "Many" others preach.
Jesus Spoiled THEM, not God. He made a show of
them openly when
their Law condemned Him, yet God raised Him from the dead. He triumphed over THEM, not God as you preach.
God's Laws are not "Rudiments of the World, Vain deceit, Tradition of men, Man's Laws are.
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.
These things are from God, not man. They represent God's Salvation plan, not mans. So Paul is telling the Gentiles who were "Walking even as Jesus Walked", "don't let these religious false preachers judge you in your voluntary obedience to the Great God of Abraham. These Commandments are from God, not from man.
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,
Those mainstream Preachers had never followed God's Sabbaths or Holy Days, they had created their own just like you do. You have no idea what the Sabbath is or what it means because as did your fathers, you reject it. Creating your own Sabbath while rejected God's Sabbath as so burdensome that no one can obey it. Just like the mainstream preachers of Christ's time. Of course this is not true as Jesus, the Lord of the Sabbath, created it for man. And He said His Yoke is light, not the burden you preach. You are truly "Puffed up in your fleshy mind" and Paul explains.
Matt. 23:
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.
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?
These are not a "shadow" of things to come. These are traditions of men, rudiments of the world. Religious traditions which Paul was warning about in the first place.
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.
The truly sad part Dan is that you have been shown you are furthering these lies, yet you continue to preach them. Like the Pharisees after Jesus opened their own Bible and showed them where they were serving satan instead of the God they claimed to know.
I get it, you have your religion and Paul, Jesus or God almighty isn't going to influence you to consider the actual teaching of the Bible. I didn't write this to convince you of anything. You can't see the point as Jesus said. This knowledge comes from above. But there are others who might be reading who need to be warned of the evil deception and lies that "many" who come in Christ's Name preach on this very forum. Not my warnings, but the warnings of Jesus Himself.
Titus 1:
10 For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers,
specially they of the circumcisionMainstream Church)
11 Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses,
teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.