{"id":12267,"date":"2021-07-28T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12267"},"modified":"2021-07-28T15:21:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T15:21:00","slug":"colossians-216-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12267\/colossians-216-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Colossians 2:16-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">John,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Since in Colossians 2:17 \u201care\u201d is used, is Paul saying the law had not passed away at that time, or is he just communicating it will always be a shadow?<\/span><\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align:justify;\" start=\"16\">\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Therefore, do not allow anyone to condemn\u00a0<em>y<\/em><em>ou<\/em> in\u00a0<em>matters of <\/em>eating or drinking, or in regard to a feast, or a new moon, or a Sabbath,<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#000000;\">which\u00a0<u>are <\/u>a shadow of things to come, but the reality is of Christ.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Wendell<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;\">==========\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Hi, Wendell.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>I am glad you are thinking\u00a0about what you are reading.\u00a0 The law probably had not yet passed at the time Paul wrote that letter.\u00a0 It is the\u00a0same for other\u00a0works of Paul.\u00a0 For instance, the book of Hebrews (which I believe Paul wrote) is filled with present tense verbs when the writer speaks\u00a0of the law, especially the activities of the\u00a0priests under the law.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>At the same time, the law will always be the shadow of Christ that God intended.\u00a0 That is what makes study of the\u00a0law, indeed, the whole Old Testament, so beneficial for believers today.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Thanks for the\u00a0question.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><span style=\"color:#0013a3;\"><em>Pastor John\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John, Since in Colossians 2:17 \u201care\u201d is used, is Paul saying the law had not passed away at that time, or is he just communicating it will always be a shadow? Therefore, do not allow anyone to condemn\u00a0you in\u00a0matters of eating or drinking, or in regard to a feast, or a new moon, or a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}