Page 33 - Laying Down the Law

Temple in Jerusalem is about to be rebuilt, the priesthood and Sanhedrin restored,
and sacrifices once more offered. It is folly to believe any of these things are being
accomplished by the will of Yahweh. He abolished these things when He sent His Son.
The shadows have been replaced with the substance found in Christ.
If some are inclined to continue to commemorate Feast Days, and Sabbaths, I
do not condemn them. It is error, however, to declare that such things are required
of Yahweh for Christians today. They are not. This the apostle Paul made clear in the
passage already cited.

Colossians 2:16-17
Therefore no one is to act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect
to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day - things which are a shadow of
what is to come; but the substance belongs to Christ.

If I have entered into the substance of the will of the Father, then none are able
to accuse me as a transgressor. The truth is that a great many are keeping the
shadows of these things, but they have yet to enter into the substance. These are the
ones who will incur condemnation.
Many are the saints who observe the Sabbath day by ceasing from physical labor,
yet they have not entered into the spiritual substance that this shadow pointed to.
Paul defines Sabbath rest in the following manner:

Hebrews 4:10
For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God
did from His.

The substance of Sabbath rest is entered when a man ceases from works that
arise from his own soul and begins to live a life submitted to the Spirit of God. It is
that which Christ declared of Himself when He stated, “I never do anything of My
own initiative. I only do the will of the Father.”
You may observe Sabbath days, but if your life is still under the direction of your
own soul, you have not entered into Sabbath rest and you are not yet pleasing to the
Father. Christ came that men might enter into the fulness of the desire of Yahweh for
them. The shadow had men ceasing from their labors one day a week. The substance
directs and empowers men to cease from their self-directed labors every day that they
might live to do the will of the Father.
Some have written to me over the years concerning the Scripture in Zechariah
that speaks of the Feast of Tabernacles being continued during the millennial rule of
Christ.

Zechariah 14:16-17
And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came
against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh