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14 Hope of Israel Ministries BIBLE Correspondence Course Lesson 18

shadow” good things to come. 2. Did the New Testament Church keep
COMMENT: Colossae was strictly a the Day of Atonement? Acts 27:9.
Gentile city, and Paul was writing to a Church COMMENT: All Biblical scholars
composed of Gentiles by birth. They had know that “the fast” refers to the Festival of
previously known nothing of YEHOVAH God Atonement in the fall of the year. Your marginal
or His Holy Days. Unless the ministers of the reference Bibles will have a note saying “Day of
Church of YEHOVAH God had taught them to Atonement."
observe these Holy Days, they would never have Here was the evangelist Luke -- over 30

The site of Colossae in the Lycus Valley. A thoroughly Gentile city in Asia Minor, Colossae was rife
with pagan asceticism. They believed fasting would force YEHOVAH God to hear them. But their
doctrines were nothing more than the vanity of human will power in denying their bodies food.

been “judged” by outsiders for doing so. years after the crucifixion and the cessation of all
Verses 16 and 17 are ONE sentence. In the Mosaic rituals which were fulfilled in the
this much misunderstood sentence Paul instructs Messiah -- writing that “the fast was now past”
Christians not to listen to any outside man or for that year. Luke would never have thought of
body of men but to the Body of the Messiah -- his mentioning “the fast" unless he and all the
Church -- concerning their weekly and annual Church had just been keeping it! And if the Day
Sabbaths. Note that the translators of the King of Atonement were no longer in existence, the
James Version erroneously inserted the word holy spirit could never have inspired these
“is” in verse 17 (in italics in most Bibles). It is words!
not found in the original inspired Greek text. The The early New Testament Church of
proper translation means: “Let no Outsider judge YEHOVAH God set the example for YE-
you ... but let the Body of Christ -- the Church -- HOVAH’s Church today. And the true Church
do the judging." of YEHOVAH God today does keep all of

Day of Atonement -- AT-ONE-MENT with YEHOVAH God!