Colossians 2:16-17 Let No One Judge You? ( Eating, drinking, feast days, new moons, Sabbath day )

A video teaching for the Torah observant Messianic community of believers in the Assemblies of Yahweh ( in Yahshua Messiah ).

Transcript: Colossians 2:16-17 (RSB)(HRB) ~ Let no man therefore judge you in meat (eating), or in drink, or in respect of an holyday (feast days), or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body (is) of Messiah. 

Many within the world of churchianity and Christianity use this passage of scripture to say that we don't need to bother with news moons, appointed times or the dietary laws of Torah anymore. I would submit to you that these are all things we absolutely need to be paying attention to brothers and sisters. What Paul is saying here is that outsiders have no business evaluating or judging our biblical observances. Believers in Yahshua are not to allow those outside the Hebrew Israelite faith to sway them from their proper worship of Yahweh as rooted and instructed in Torah ( which includes the keeping of His appointed times ). Only the body of Messiah is to judge and make determinations on these matters: That is how to properly keep the news moons, dietary laws, feast days and so forth. What Paul is saying here to this assembly and by extension to us is, "don't let outsiders condemn you for doing the right way of worship per the Torah." Ignore them. Don't let them sway you from doing what is right. The Body of Messiah is to give the right rulings on all matters related to the faith, not the outsiders who like to mock and ridicule! Paul is not saying here that we can eat any kind of unclean meat that we want. News moons are very important to Yahweh's calendar. They help us to determine when Yahweh's annual Sabbaths are to be kept among other things. They help us to determine when a new biblical month begins.

And look at this: The scripture says here that these things are a shadow of things to come. For one, all these things will be kept in the millennial kingdom age when Yahshua retur..