This is your new First you know who he is addressing to in Laodicea (churches today) V1 which we know how they end up in Revelation 3:14-22. Do not start from verse 6 because you wont get the whole picture of truth. Verse 2 you can see that the whole thing is to establish truth , "confirmation of understanding, to a true knowledge of the Secret of Elohim, and of the Father and of the Messiah. V3 In whom are hidden all treasures of wisdom and knowledge." Lets see now knowing that there are secrets and hidden treasures of wisdom and knowledge to read in context the verses you quote. V6 Accepting Messiah and walking in Him. We must walk like He walk that is: Keeping Sabbath Holy, wearing TzitTzit, do not make His Holy Name Vain ( calling Him Lord (Baal) and God( Gawd) keeping the 2 greatest commandments which is to love YHWH meaning to keep the first 4 commandments and loving your neighbor like yourself which is to keep the other 6 commandments. Verse 7 is stating something that until recently was hidden for us, the word "Believe" means to Support like holding up or to prove your trust by obedience. " He who believes shall obey, for by his obedience he proves that he believes" Simple obedience or action is the evidence of your faith or who you follow. Now we have 2 primary context of Colossians 2 here walking like Him Messiah Yeshua and obey Him to prove we are His (read John 14:15, Gal 2:20 and 1 John 2:3-6). He is warning them about preachers that talk in Greek terms of Philosophy and empty deceit according to traditions of men, in those days you had just like what we have today prosperity gospel pastors, collective salvation and deceivers like Joel Osteen and Benny Hinn and others that preach feel good message instead of truth. Traditions of man you have them in Christmas, Easter, Valentines, Lent, Sun-day worship and one time baptisms, ect. All these listed above are traditions of men and elementary matters of the world and false doctrines. Is all in Messiah to change from flesh to Spirit but in verse 11 we were circumcised in Messiah and not in the flesh but we have to put off the sins of the flesh. V 12 gives us another clue of the belief in the working of Elohim (which is plural) and not just the Father ot the Son, who raised Him from the dead. V 13 says that we were dead in our trespasses so we could live together with Him. Trespasses of what Nathan? of the Torah because Sin is lawlessness. Having blotted out the Dogmas or Oral Laws, Church By Laws written by deacons, Doctrinal Statements written by man, the requirements. Lukewarm is the Assembly of Laodicea says Messiah in Rev. 3. They kept other laws added by man and dogmas. Those are the ones he writes about in verse 14 saying that were nailed to the cross those other laws like the oral law of the Pharisees . In verse 15 He stripped the principalities and authorities ( Religious Leaders) and thus they judged Him and crucified Him unjustly Messiah prevailed by rising from the dead giving evidence of who He really was. HalleluYAH, So He says in verse 16 saying " do not let these pagan religious leaders and unbelievers judge you(Someone that does not keep Torah) in what you do or in respect of Keeping the Feasts (Lev 23) or a New Moon( you must blow the Shofar) or Keeping Shabbat because these V17 are a Shadow of what is to come (prophetic future of end of days) but the Body of Messiah, because these which keep them will know. V18 -19 Gives picture perfect of Pastors we meet They had been led away by false teachers that show a false humility (look at their retirement account while the poor, the widows and orphans lay waste) and worship of angels ( Tod Bentley, Toronto Revivals, Catholic Church. inquisition) standing on what he has not seen(false translations and teachings are not seen), puff by fleshy minds ( Big Buildings and homes, Physical looks, materialistic) and not holding to the head and the rest of the body that grows with the growth of Elohim not by these leaders but by the Spirit that leads to all understanding and not mere reading of a mistranslations. Messiah Yeshua was not a Christian. Messiah Yeshua was not called Jesus. He was in the beginning of creation and has never changed. He is the Word(Torah) and if we do not want Torah we can not have Him not the Father. Torah has a meaning "Instructions for living" those instructions have never been done away and the Son could not change what the Father had stated from the beginning in Yeshua Himself. Matt 5:18 I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Torah until everything is accomplished.
Verse 20-22 resumes the whole matter as in Eccleciastes 12:13. If then, you died in Messiah from simple and elementary matters (Gal 4:3, 9 and Matt 15:8-9) of the world (not the Torah) why, then as though living in the world (because we are no longer of this world) you subject yourselves to Dogmas ( doctrines of men, doctrinal statements, Oral Laws, Church By laws, false teachings of prosperity and wealth, collective salvation ect) And it concludes with Do Not Touch, Taste, Handle which are all to perish with use, according to the commands and teachings of men?
This is talking to the Lukewarm Assembly of today. They say they believe and they are lawless. Fail to keep the Word and Torah that came out the Mouth of YHWH and given to Moshe(Moses) but they keep the doctrines of man (Denominations, Luther, Calvin, Constantine, and other Christian Commentaries (Scofields, Darby, Henry,Smith, Wesley ect).
There is so much more to learn daily that even those like me as former pastors and missionaries have to become the least and leave our pride and doctrines of man to come to the real understanding of Messiah. blog post. Click here and start typing, or drag in elements from the top bar.
Verse 20-22 resumes the whole matter as in Eccleciastes 12:13. If then, you died in Messiah from simple and elementary matters (Gal 4:3, 9 and Matt 15:8-9) of the world (not the Torah) why, then as though living in the world (because we are no longer of this world) you subject yourselves to Dogmas ( doctrines of men, doctrinal statements, Oral Laws, Church By laws, false teachings of prosperity and wealth, collective salvation ect) And it concludes with Do Not Touch, Taste, Handle which are all to perish with use, according to the commands and teachings of men?
This is talking to the Lukewarm Assembly of today. They say they believe and they are lawless. Fail to keep the Word and Torah that came out the Mouth of YHWH and given to Moshe(Moses) but they keep the doctrines of man (Denominations, Luther, Calvin, Constantine, and other Christian Commentaries (Scofields, Darby, Henry,Smith, Wesley ect).
There is so much more to learn daily that even those like me as former pastors and missionaries have to become the least and leave our pride and doctrines of man to come to the real understanding of Messiah. blog post. Click here and start typing, or drag in elements from the top bar.