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10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter apass through the fire, bor one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer,  
11 aor bone who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.  
12 For all who do these things are1 an abomination to the Lord, and abecause of these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you.  
13 You shall be blameless before the Lord your God.  
14 For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, the Lord your God has not1 appointed such for you.  

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15 a“The Lord your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your midst, from your brethren. Him you shall hear,  
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Deuteronomy 18:10-14

Let me connect this to Galatians 4:10. God's own law forbids the observing of times. Is God contradictory? No, He is not. This is spoken to Israel. And God's holy days are not based on the observation of times. Certainly God's holy days are established each year by the movements of the heavenly bodies. But the observation of times goes beyond that. It involves the intercession of spirits and superstitious reading of omens in cloud formations, tealeaves, animal entrails, tarot cards, or the rolling of dice, and similar things. The modern day term is "augury."

Keeping His Sabbaths and reverencing His sanctuary in this context seems to imply very strongly what God had in mind when He inspired those comments forbidding the observing of times. To me, considering Paul's reverence for the Old Testament, he certainly did not have so-called "Jewish days" in mind at all. He had pagan practices in mind. Galatians 4:10 cannot be used to affirm that one is not to observe God's Sabbath and holy days.

Excerpted from The Covenants, Grace, and Law (Part 23)

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