Discovering the New Covenant by Greg Taylor - exAdventist Outreach

THE SABBATH IN COLOSSIANS
Testament construction always refer to the weekly Sabbath.
To try to make this Colossians passage refer to ceremonial
festival sabbaths ignores this construction.
First of all, Leviticus 23 lists all of the religious feasts.
At the top of the list is the seventh-day Sabbath followed by
the other feasts. The seventh-day Sabbath is listed right
alongside all of the other sabbaths. In passages throughout
the Old Testament, the same order is found in either
ascending or descending order, clearly including the weekly
Sabbath with the special feasts. Notice the following verses:
. . . to stand every morning to thank and praise the
LORD, and likewise at evening; and at every
presentation of a burnt offering to the LORD on the
Sabbaths and on the New Moons and on the set feasts,
by number according to the ordinance governing them,
regularly before the LORD. 1 Chron. 23:30-31
Behold, I am building a temple for the name of the
LORD my God, to dedicate it to Him, to burn before
Him sweet incense, for the continual showbread, for the
burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths,
on the New Moons, and on the set feasts of the LORD
our God. 2 Chron. 2:4
Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to exact from
ourselves yearly one-third of a shekel for the service of
the house of our God: for the showbread, for the regular
grain offering, for the regular burnt offering of the
Sabbaths, the New Moons, and the set feasts. Neh.
10:32-33
I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days,
her New Moons, her Sabbaths—all her appointed feasts.
And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which
she has said, 'These are my wages that my lovers have
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