Again, accusations are easy to make with this group and yet no one proves it with scripture.
The context to Col 2:16 is in
Col 2:14 KJV and v17
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;
So we know this from
Colossians 2:14:
1. They are handwritten
2. They are ordinances
3. They are contrary.
Does this fit the Sabbath commandment in any way?
1. The Sabbath was
finger-written by God (not by hand)
Exo 31:18 Exo 32:16
2. The Sabbath is a
commandment of God (not an ordinance). Exodus 20,
Exodus 34:28 Deut 4:13 Exo 20:8-11 Exo 20:6
3. God said the Sabbath is
holy and blessed (not cursed and contrary)
Exodus 20:8-11 Genesis 2:1-3
Note: once God blesses something man cannot reverse it Num 23:20, so one would need a thus saith the Lord to do away with God's holy Sabbath day, which does not exist. There is another safeguard in scripture how many twist the words of Paul 2 Peter 3:16 and Paul does not have authority to take away one of God's commandments.
There are more than one Sabbath in scripture but only one weekly Sabbath that is a commandment of God blessed and made holy by God, written by His very own finger..
So what is this verse referring to:
Deuteronomy 31:24 So it was,
when Moses had completed writing the words of this law in a book, when they were finished, 25 that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying: 26 “
Take this Book of the Law, and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there as a witness against you;
The book that contained the ordinances were outside the ark- all of the Ten Commandments, which includes the Sabbath commandment are inside the ark.
Colossians 2:17 gives us more insight...
Col 2:17 which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.
Lets go to Hebrews 10 as it explains it....
Hebrews10:1 For the law, having a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with these same sacrifices, which they offer continually year by year, make those who approach perfect. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? For the worshipers, once purified, would have had no more consciousness of sins. 3
But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. 4
For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins. 5
Therefore, when He came into the world, He said:
“Sacrifice and offering You did not desire,
But a body You have prepared for Me.
6 In burnt offerings and
sacrifices for sin
You had no pleasure.
7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come—
In the volume of the book it is written of Me—
To do Your will, O God.’ ”
8 Previously saying, “Sacrifice and offering, burnt offerings, and
offerings for sin You did not desire, nor had pleasure
in them” (which are offered according to the law), 9 then He said, “Behold, I have come to do Your will, [
b]O God.”
He takes away the first that He may establish the second. 10 By that will we have been [c]sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all
1 Cor 5:7 For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.
Sin is the transgression of God's law
1 John 3:4 Romans 7:7 Jesus didn't die so we can continue in sin, but to continue living in His grace through faith, keeping His commandments by love
1 John 5:3 Romans 3:31
I would challenge this group to find one scripture from God that says we no longer need to keep the Sabbath commandment. God blessed the Sabbath, man can’t reverse Num 23:20 God personally wrote the Sabbath commandment with His own finger- no greater Authority than He. All of the thus saith the Lord on the Sabbath and there are many is for us to keep and not profane. Jesus tells us to live by every Word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. That’s where we should place our faith.
John 14:15-18 Mat 5:19-30 Rom 8:4-8
