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I disagree that transference is weightier than the arguments presented here that favour Col 2:16-17 as saying the sabbath day was a shadow, for permanence is far more correctly understood as the observance continuing in the spiritual manner rather than the natural manner of keeping a natural day.
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It almost sounds as if you are mistaking natural for physical, and spiritual for non physical...
And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
1 Corinthians:10:3
And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
1 Corinthians:10:4
The food and drink were physical. The water was undoubtedly regular, natural H2O. But they are called spiritual because the food and drink were provided by God. The Sabbath day is a physical day (whatever that actually means) but it was provided by God, and tgerefore is a spiritual day. Keeping the Sabbath day holy in honour of Christ the Creator, and Lord of the Sabbath, is spiritual, not natural. It is in fact the carnal man who is not obedient to God and His law, whereas the spiritual man obeys God and His law:
That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Romans:8:4
Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Romans:8:7
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As you will have noticed, I use those passages myself to show that the resurrection is of a physical nature, though it's very spiritual.
Many natural and spiritual things are often both very physical, but not all. This is the problem that non-physical resurrectionists don’t realize. Their error is in thinking everything spiritual must be non-physical, but that is only the case sometimes. They think natural means physical. A natural mind is not physical. But a natural temple is.
But there are instances when spiritual does refer to something non-physical when the natural counterpart is physical.
For example, there was a natural temple and city in the forms of the temple in Jerusalem and old Jerusalem. But the spiritual counterparts of both are not physical. The temple of the Holy Ghost is said to be the church. In some instances, the believer’s individual body is considered the temple of the Holy Ghost (as in
1 Cor 6:19), but in others, it is not the physical body but the body of believers…
1 Peter 2:5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
We each are lively stones, spiritually speaking, because a stone is not literally a body. And human beings are partly physical, but not completely. We become lively stones, comprised of spirit, soul and body, and are built into one grand spiritual house.
New Jerusalem is not a physical city whereas old Jerusalem was. Everywhere that believers exist is where the New Jerusalem exists. We’ve already come to this New city, and you and I are in it though we’re not in the same physical location. It reminds me of the place where Jesus said we’d worship… in spirit and in truth, which are not physical locations.
Likewise, we’ve come to Mount Zion, which is not a physical mountain, whereas the natural Mount Zion is a physical mountain.
This is the same that I see with Sabbath. It was a physical day, seeing as the physical sun set and set again surrounding a time that we calculate on that movement, that physical celestial relationship with the physical earth. Physical causes made this day. Therefore, the day is a physical day.
A person physically rested from physical labour on the seventh day. The rest with in which we rest in the spiritual sabbath is not from physical labour, but from the striving in our hearts to deal with all of our problems in our own means, and instead going to the throne upon which Christ sat, when He sat down and rested from His work of the cross, providing us grace to help in the time of need.
You saw some of this when you realized that the image of Christ’s priesthood and mediatorial role was foreshadowed by the sabbath day. And that entire spiritual provision of all of this is by no means natural nor physical.
The counterpart of the physical sabbath, as I see scripture teaching, is not a physical day caused by the physical position of the sun in relation to the earth and the movement of the rotation and revolving of the earth around it. The spiritual day of rest is the period of time calculated by the spiritual, or superNATURAL, causes of Christ’s seating as King and Priest when He supplied a spiritual non-physical rest. And it occurs over time that’s far the beyond 24-hour solar day.
So, some things that are spiritual are not physical.
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