What Was Nailed To The Cross?

George Burnside

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Colossians 2:14 -16 The Handwriting of Ordinances

Hebrews 9:10 (margin) "Ordinances" - are "rites" or “ceremonies" - the ceremonial law.

The Ten Commandments are not rites or ceremonies, nor do they deal with "meats", "drink" or "new moons".

"By the handwritings of ordinances the apostle most evidently means the ceremonial law." Dr Adam Clarke (Methodist)

"The Jewish ceremonial law is here represented." Dr Albert Barnes (Presbyterian)

The Seventh-day Sabbath was not Nailed to the Cross

“Sabbath days which are a shadow of good things to come." Colossians 2:16

This is the only place in the New Testament where "Sabbath days" do not refer to the seventh-day Sabbath. The Sabbath days here are a shadow of things to come. They are therefore typical

1. The Seventh-day Sabbath is a memorial which points back not to things "to come". The yearly Sabbaths were typical and therefore pointed to things "to come".
2. The Sabbath is never called an ordinance. The “Passover” was an ordinance. Exodus 12:43. Numbers 9:14
3. The Sabbath was made before sin entered, hence it was before any types.

Dr Adam Clarke (Methodist). "There is no intimation here that the Sabbath was done away or that its moral use was superseded. I have shown elsewhere that `Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy,' is a command of perpetual obligation and can never be superseded."

Dr Albert Barnes (Presbyterian). “No part of the moral Law - not one of the Ten Commandments can be spoken of as 'a shadow of good things to come'. These commandments are from the nature of the Moral Law, of perpetual and universal application."

The Ten Commandments

(Moral Law)

Spoken by God to the people. Deuteronomy 4:12, 13

Written by God Himself. Exodus 31:18

Written on Tables of Stone. Exodus 31:18

Placed in Ark. 1 Kings 8:9

Forever settled in Heaven. Revelation 11:19, Psalm 119:89,151

Summary of all Moral duties Exodus 20:3-17, Ecclesiastes 12:13

Contained no offerings or anything typical.

Contained weekly Seventh day Sabbath Exodus 20:8-11

Contained Eternal principles Revelation 11:19, Isaiah 66:22, 23

All Christians to keep them Matthew 19:16-19, Revelation 14:12

Judged by these Commandments James 2:8-12

The Law of Moses

(Ceremonial Law)

Given through Moses. Exodus 24:4

Written by Moses 2 Chronicles 35:12, Deuteronomy 31:9

Written in Book. Deuteronomy 31:24

Placed in side of Ark. Deuteronomy 31:26

Ceased with Christ. Daniel 9:27

Shows how sins forgiven Leviticus 1:4, Hebrews 8:10

Typical and shadowy Hebrews 10:1-9, 9:9-11

Contained Yearly Sabbaths Exodus 23:14-17, Leviticus 23:4-39

Stood only in Ordinances Hebrews 9:10

No Christian should keep Colossians 2:14-17

No one judged by this law Colossians 2:14-17

Circumcision counts for nothing. Obedience to God’s commandments is everything. 1 Corinthians 7:19 (Moffatt). The SEVENTH-DAY WEEKLY SABBATH was entirely different from the yearly “shadow” or typical Sabbaths. Besides the “Sabbath of the Lord” Leviticus 23:38. There were seven yearly, typical or “shadow”, Sabbaths. Leviticus 23:7, 8, 21, 24, 27, 35, 36.

Seventh-day Sabbath Yearly “shadow” Sabbaths

1. Made at Creation. 1. Made after Exodus from Egypt.

2. Based on the Example of God 2. God never rested on yearly Sabbaths.

3. In Ten Commandments 3. In law of Moses.

4. God Blessed and sanctified 4. God never blessed the yearly Sabbaths.

5. God commanded by His own voice. 5. Given through Moses

6. Weekly 6. Yearly

7. Seventh-day Sabbath is eternal 7. Yearly shadowy Sabbaths ceased.

8. Saturday only. 8. Any day of the week.

What Was Nailed To The Cross?

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