quote-Galatians 4:9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage? 10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. 11 I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
Is Paul talking about things like ‘Mon’Day or ‘Tiws’ Day or Thors Day and April and May and July , and Christmas time or Easter time and Year of the Dragon?
Or was He speaking of biblical days like the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th Days.
Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, Weeks, Booths?
Because if one is saying Paul is telling them to ignore the biblical days, we have a problem when He tells the Corinthians to keep the feast.
And with study, those biblical days do one thing and one thing only- point to the Creator and Redeemer and the Kingdom. No one else and no place else.
That is why the real bondage is calling today Monday. or tomorrow Tiws day after a false god.
But to each His own. Everyone is on a journey to sanctification. Rome offers to the world its days and months and times and years and most are much more comfortable with Rome.
The passage, taken in context, indicates that Paul was referring to these people lapsing back into observing pagan ‘days’, like the Saturnalia. Polycarp went to Rome in his old age to oppose such heresies as changing the Lord’s Table observance to correspond to a pagan rite, rather than keeping it on Nisan 14 as established by our Lord.
Wrong. The Galatians were hardly being warned about lapsing back into observing pagan days, times, months and years, as instead they were warned about being circumscribed, and seeking to be justified under the Law!
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing. For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. (Galatians 5:1-4)
How in the world does that sound like lapsing back into observing pagan days like Saturnalia? Being not entangled again with the yoke of bondage contextually refers to salvation under the Law, and which includes judging when to worship based upon external signs. The FACT is that the only specific day that any pastored, called-out assembly/church ever are described meeting together on is the first day of the week, while observing liturgical Jewish days is relegated to being typological, as re as dietary laws and temple purification, which are no longer binding on believers. (Col. 2:16,17; Heb. 9:10).
As for the "feast" of 1 Co. 5, that refers to Christ being the Passover, which He fulfilled, and the only literal feast there would that which commemorates the Lord's death, the day of which is not mandated, but is "as oft as ye do this."