Discovering the New Covenant by Greg Taylor - exAdventist Outreach
Discovering the New Covenant by Greg Taylor - exAdventist Outreach
Discovering the New Covenant by Greg Taylor - exAdventist Outreach
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THE SABBATH IN COLOSSIANS<br />
religious holidays, including <strong>the</strong> Sabbath, were symbols<br />
pointing forward to Jesus. They were typological prefigurations<br />
of Jesus. 2 How could <strong>the</strong> perversion of a symbol be a<br />
shadow or prefiguration of Christ? How could a perversion<br />
prefigure? That doesn’t make any sense. The most reasonable<br />
rendering of <strong>the</strong> text is that <strong>the</strong> weekly Sabbath is<br />
included in <strong>the</strong> ceremonial/sacrificial system that was fulfilled<br />
in Christ! No o<strong>the</strong>r explanation makes sense. No o<strong>the</strong>r<br />
interpretation does justice to <strong>the</strong> <strong>New</strong> Testament context or<br />
<strong>the</strong> Old Testament construction.<br />
When I first read this <strong>the</strong> way Paul clearly intended it, I<br />
could not believe what I was reading! Paul was making a<br />
radical transitional statement here! The Sabbath fulfilled in<br />
Christ! Could it be true? Could it be that <strong>the</strong> rest of <strong>the</strong><br />
Sabbath was a symbol of a greater rest in <strong>the</strong> person of Jesus<br />
Christ? More questions came to mind. What about <strong>the</strong> Ten<br />
Commandments? Aren’t <strong>the</strong>y eternal? What about <strong>the</strong><br />
Sabbath being from Creation? I had so many questions. I had<br />
to search <strong>the</strong>m out. The hunger to understand and learn was<br />
overpowering <strong>the</strong> fear that had been placed in me since<br />
childhood.<br />
2 Ibid. 246-248.<br />
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