Colossians Chapter 2, verses 1 thru 16, is a text many think sets aside the holiness and honoring of God’s eternal sabbath day. Many do not have a good understanding of how God viewed and spoke of the sabbath day in the Old Testament and during the ministry of Jesus Christ in the gospels. If they had a better idea of how God viewed this period of time from the days of creation forward, they would know that this text in Colossians 2 could not possibly be setting aside the sacredness of God’s sabbath. God does not contradict Himself. He does not speak out of both sides of His mouth. He does not have two bodies of believers comprising His church, one a sabbath keeping body and the other a Sunday keeping body of believers.
God says that someday “from one sabbath to another, shall ALL FLESH (every Jew, every Gentile, every Baptist, every Christian) come to worship before me, saith the Lord” (See Isaiah 66:23). That is a prophecy, a prophecy that MUST be fulfilled. But, returning to the text in Colossians 2, a later translation of the original languages, the Revised Berkeley Version, makes this passage much easier to comprehend. Verse 14 in that version reads: “Christ “cancelled the record of debt (all our sins) that stood against us (claiming our lives), WITH ITS REQUIREMENTS, and took it out of the way when He nailed it to the cross.” The REQUIREMENTS for sins were “those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually” (Hebrews 10:1) on the holy days, new moons and sabbaths!
The truth CAN be known, but one will have to be 100% surrendered to the LORDship of Jesus Christ in order for the Holy Spirit to lead and feed them spiritual truth as that person diligently studies God’s Word. Fail to do that, fail to take that route, do your own thing, go your own way, follow the religious path you were merely reared in from years before, and I guarantee you that you will embrace gross, far reaching error.
Christianity was corrupted a long, long time ago. (See 3 John 9-10, I John 4:1; 2 Peter 2:1-3; 2 Timothy 3:13; Acts 20:29-30). Things did NOT get better with each passing century. They got worse – a lot worse. Error became deeply entrenched, firmly held, widely believed. The way of truth has now long been viewed as false Christianity! God’s holy sabbath has been replaced by Sunday observance. “The prophets (preachers) prophesy falsely (preach false doctrine)…and my people love to have it so” (See Jeremiah 5:31). Sunday observance is that “old time religion” for most, and ON THE AUTHORITY OF GOD’S WORD, I tell you it is without scripture support! God have mercy on those who neglect to really prove all things, bowing to Jesus’ total LORDship and searching the scriptures daily as they may well live into that era when all who walk contrary to God’s way will pay a terrible price at the hands of God’s avenging army – the terroristic Muslim hordes!
Christ’s Aged Servant (Galatians 1:10-12),
Donald Wiley