Truly, just as faith without works is dead like a body without a soul is dead, likewise, the external, material, literal, temporal times and elements of the Feasts are dead if they’re not accompanied by an observance of the Spiritual substance of the Feasts. In Christ, the Spirit and flesh were one without measure. Therefore, those who are in Christ do not view the material shadow and the spiritual substance as adverse opposites, as if matter is evil. Rather, those who are in Christ know that even shadows become alive with Spiritual power, as was the case with Peter’s healing shadow (Acts 5:15,16). In Christ, “all things are made new, and all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ” (2 Cor. 5:17,18). In Christ, material is spiritualized and the Spirit materialized. As it is written: “The word became flesh” (Jn. 1:14). It is for this reason we read that the Lord will destroy those who defile their physical body, for it is the Temple of His Spirit (1 Cor. 3:16,17). Indeed, this is the sole reason souls go to hell: they do not deal with material in a spiritual way; their material and the spiritual are not integrated but compartmentalized; God’s Spirit is cordoned off from their material existence. When the Spirit of Christ is fenced off, blocked, isolated, segregated, blockaded, from the center of our lives, and the matters of our life are quarantined from God as if His Spirit were a disease, then surely we have swallowed a medicine more deadly than the disease. “Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God” (1 Cor. 10:31).