Paul is telling these Christians not to accept criticism for keeping the holydays, new moons and sabbath days for they ARE [not were] a shadow of things to come; but the reality of all this is Christ.
Where is the statement that says we shouldn't keep these days? Colossians 2:16 assumes they are keeping the holydays,etc., and says don't let anyone judge you for it. This is 'rock solid' proof that the mostly gentile Colossian church was keeping these days.
Who would judge them FOR keeping them? The only ones trying to impose their religion on anyone else was the judaizers. Even the pagans didn't care if you kept God's days in addition to their own, so it certainly wasn't them.
Some of the the days were shadows of yet futyre parts of God's plan (Tabernacles=Millennium, etc.) But still; Christ is the "reality" we should be looking to. (inasmuch as Christ was already reigning in the Church, it was in a way the Kingdom, and those days can be seen as foreshadowing the Church age after the final derstruction of the OT system --yet in their future, as well).
If the holidays of the Bible are done away with, so is eating and drinking, for they are listed there, too.
That could mean dietary restrictions. Geberhard, who was here arguing in favor of the feasts, point out that it could be apart of the "feasts". Even if this was true, still, nobody was trying to stop anyone from keeping days. But people were judging others for NOt keeping them, as we see still going on today.
