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Originally Posted by Godsdrummer
I don't see this in the passage I just read I don't see this as the feast days rather I see it as doing just what we do today lifting days up above others IE. Christimas, birthdays, holy days, Easter etc, we do not observe the days as they did in new testament times. I think we are wrong all the way that is all I am saying. I want to do a study to try to find what we should truely do in worship to God. See I also am studing the idea of house churches as opposed to buildings. As I see it each family in OT comprised a house church, God wanted them to come together on a regular basis hence the feast days, Days to come together to worship God corporatly.
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I believe it is definitely pointing to feast days of Israel. A while back I made a study of Galatians and here are my findings. I can only share my findings and may everyone weigh them out before God with their own consciences.
Gal. 3 speaks of the foolish Galatians who were duped into reverting to law keeping. Paul taught that the law did not cancel out the Promise of God to Abraham although it was a genuine covenant. God's promises were still in effect, and law, which is not of promise, seemed to revoke such a thing. Law only came, though, as an interim time until the time the Seed should come due to transgressions creeping into Israel and messing it all up for the Messiah to come.
Paul begins to refer to his people using the pronoun "we". He is speaking to gentile converts. And the personal pronouns "we" and "you" are very important here in his explanation.
Galatians 3:23-26 KJV But before faith came, we [JEWS] were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. (24) Wherefore the law was our [JEWS] schoolmaster to bring us [JEWS] unto Christ, that we [JEWS] might be justified by faith. (25) But after that faith is come, we [JEWS] are no longer under a schoolmaster. (26) For ye [YOU GENTILES] are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
See how law was strictly intended for Israel alone to lead them up to Christ. This makes good sense since Gentiles were not under Law for Law to be able to bring them to Christ. Otherwise, they would no longer be gentiles, but Jews, too!
Paul said that YOU GENTILES are children of God by faith, without anything to do with Law. His reasoning was that law did not bring YOU gentiles to Christ, but just Jews. And although Law brought Jews to Christ, when they actually did come to Christ they were justified by the same faith that saved the gentiles.
This tells us, by the way, that the manner in which Law brought Israel to Christ was through teaching them principles through the ceremonies and rituals that foreshadowed Christ as well as emphasizing need for sacrifice for sin.
Since the Gentiles were brought INTO CHRIST through faith, they are Abraham's seed as much as any Jewish believer.
Galatians 4:1-5 KJV Now I say, That the heir [JEW DESTINED FOR PROMISE TO ABRAHAM], as long as he is a child [JEW BEFORE CHRIST COMES], differeth nothing from a servant [GENTILES NOT HEIRS WHO WERE SERVANTS IN BONDAGE - JEWS BOUND BY LAW AS GENTILES BOUND IN SERVICE TO FALSE GODS], though he be lord of all [HEIR IS PROMISED LORDSHIP BUT NO DIFFERENT THAN GENTILE UNDER LAW IN REGARDS TO BEING BOUND]; (2) But is under tutors and governors [JEWS' FORM OF BONDAGE SO TO SPEAK] until the time appointed of the father. (3) Even so we [JEWS], when we were children, were in bondage under the elements [LAW WAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLING - see 3:24-25 THAT BOUND ISRAEL] of the world: (4) But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, (5) To redeem them that were under the law [JEWS], that we [JEWS] might receive the adoption of sons.
As much as graduation day frees a student from tutors and governors, as though they were bound, Jews were freed from law-keeping (instituted only due to transgressions til the Seed, Christ, should come) when Jesus arrived. Graduation day was when Jesus arrived. The heirs were no longer children in elementary school when Jesus came. They were intended to be graduates, but most became dropouts!
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