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Originally Posted by Evang.Benincasa
If Jesus' religion was void of a "sabbath" then the mentioning of a sabbath difficulty would of not been mentioned. Also Jesus mentions man wasn't made for the sabbath, but the sabbath was made for man. How, can anyone get the idea that Jesus was looking to teach that the sabbath would no longer be observed? You don't have to be a Sabbath Keeper to see the obvious in scripture.
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But simply because of the Sabbath was made for man doesn't mean that man is supposed to always keep the Sabbath. It doesn't mean that the Sabbath is always going to be in effect. The temple and the animal sacrifices were also made for a man, but both of them are gone now and we have what those things merely foreshadowed.
When Colossians talked about nobody judging, it's not talking about people who were keeping those things and were criticized for doing them. It was talking about the handwriting of ordinances that was removed out of the way, and Legalists generally are the ones who judge those for not doing this things, while liberals are the ones who despise those who do.
Romans 14 was dealing with Legalists esteeming one day above another, and the stronger Brethren of faith despised them in return. It's not days of fasting, since the day is not esteemed in a fast. But the fast itself. However, the day is esteemed in sabbath keeping.
And the reason that Sabbath day's journey was mentioned in Matthew chapter 24, is because you can only go a certain Distance by law on sabbath whether you kept sabbath or not. Jerudalem Law demanded it and enforced it in you. So when Jesus said pray that your journey be not on the Sabbath, he was saying by law they wouldn't be able to flee like they should be able to otherwise on a sabbath day. That proves that it's a first-century fulfilment because it's not a law that requiring anybody to not go a certain distance on a Sabbath today.
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