4 Shadows fulfilled in Christ

[Cyberseeker]

Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. (Col 2:16-17)

1. Foods
2. Festivals
3. New moons
4. Sabbaths

Four shadows. Can anyone suggest how these were fulfilled in Christ? For example, how was the keeping of Sabbaths 'found' in Christ?

 

[childeye]

An interesting topic. I will venture to make some guesses.

Food can typically mean what we believe in or that which inspires us. Christ was indeed food and drink for example. Food and drink for those starving and thirsting for something good to believe in.

Festivals are a bit harder and probably refer to celebrations that are commemorative of certain events that take place in the spiritual sense, where the Spirit of Christ transforms someone or affects the person in some positive direction.

New moons to me means new beginnings, change and perhaps adventure experiences.

Sabbath seems to be that place where we rest from trying to prove ourselves. A place where a person is above reproach and loved unconditionally. Such is how I see faith and the Kingdom of God.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

1. Foods
2. Festivals
3. New moons
4. Sabbaths

Four shadows. Can anyone suggest how these were fulfilled in Christ? For example, how was the keeping of Sabbaths 'found' in Christ?

The forbidden foods of the first covenant illustrate how we are to avoid fellowship with predatory and bottom feeding people that make us unclean and cutoff from fellowship with God.

The appointed Feasts and the penalty for not keeping them illustrate how we must 'keep' the appointed time of Christ's appearing without deviation in order to avoid the condemnation and wrath of God. When we believe in Christ, we meet in festive assembly as the people of God at the time God appointed in the appearing of Christ.

The Sabbath illustrates how we must enter into the Rest God has set apart from the beginning. When we believe in Christ we 'keep' the appointed Sabbath, Jesus Christ, and are not condemned.

 

[jasoncran]

well im doing channukah and its a bit deeper then that.

when i clear what isnt out there on the menorah i will post. its interesting on what its said.

 

[Jethro Bodine]

You reminded me of this passage:

7 Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth. (1 Cor. 5:7-8 NIV1984)

Just as the people of God kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread and then swept their houses clean of leaven after the Passover Lamb was sacrificed, so we, now that Christ our Passover Lamb is sacrificed, keep the Feast and cleanse our 'houses' of the leaven of sin.

Festival illustration/ Spiritual reality:

sacrificial lamb/ Christ
leaven/ sin
house/ body of Christ--the church
bread/ our bodies, or perhaps what we put in our bodies(?)