We have read numerous references to the Sabbath in the writings of the apostles, but they have given no hint that the Sabbath was abolished at the cross.
Q: Why have they failed to do this in all their references to it?
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: Which are a shadow of things to come;
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: Which are a shadow of things to come;
Colossians 2:16.17
Q: What Sabbath, therefore, would they conclude Paul was discussing when they read, in his letter to the church at Colossae, that the ritual of meats and drinks, new moons, Sabbaths, et cetera, was abolished?
Q: What Sabbath, therefore, would they conclude Paul was discussing when they read, in his letter to the church at Colossae, that the ritual of meats and drinks, new moons, Sabbaths, et cetera, was abolished?
Q: Honestly, what would be their conclusion?
A: The same conclusion we would reach after we had read in a book fifty-nine references to “day” as meaning twenty four hours, and then read the sixtieth reference to “day” in the context of red sky and setting sun.
---They would conclude that Paul was speaking of annual Sabbaths, not the weekly ones.---"
F.D. Nichols
