Preface: Rosh Hashanah 2025 begins in the evening this coming Monday....September 22....and ends at nightfall on Wednesday the 24th. The following was posted last October 2:
"Then the LORD spoke to Moses, 'Speak to the children of Israel, saying...In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath-rest, a memorial of trumpets, a holy convocation'." Leviticus 23:24 NKJV
There will be some Christian churches....in the next couple of days....that will have a special service....and during that service a ram's horn....called a shofar.....will be sounded. That same blowing of the shofar will be heard in synagogues across America....and the world....and throughout Israel. All of this signaling the beginning of a new year....reflection upon that past year....and hope for the year about to begin.
So the second cycle of high holy days....or high holidays as some prefer to call them....begins this year....2024....on October 2....tomorrow....at sundown.....which begins the first day of the seventh month of Tishri. The Jewish people actually have two....'New Years'.....one beginning the biblical year....that in the Spring....and this the second....which is also a civil celebration like our January 1. Beginning with the first day....(it is a two day celebration)....of what over time has become known as....Rosh Hashanah....and continuing ten days....(referred to as the Days of Awe)....to Yom Kippur....are considered a time of repentance and consecration. We in evangelicalism know Rosh Hashanah more as the Feast of Trumpets.
So don't be too surprised if sometime during those two days of Rosh Hashanah....maybe in your church....or maybe on television....you hear a short blast of something that sounds like the horn you might hear at a football game....and another blast of sorts....and then a few short staccato blasts.
I don't know how the people in Israel will be viewing Rosh Hashanah this year. The secular people will probably celebrate it as any old News Years celebration. Some will probably blow the shofar and take part in all the rituals....and still others will actually believe what the day is supposed to be. All of them though will have these extraordinary times and dangers in the back if not in the forefront of their minds.
We read of a number of uses of the trumpet in the Bible....along with Leviticus 23:24....for celebrations....for a call to assembly....warnings....and for a call to war.
"Blow the trumpet in Zion, And sound an alarm on My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, For the day of the LORD is coming; Indeed, it is near." Joel 2:1
"In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed." 1 Corinthians 15:52
"For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first." 1 Thessalonians 4:16
The following is from ten days ago:
There was a blood moon over Jerusalem only two days ago! (September 7....and a blood moon rose over Jerusalem) That epic four consecutive total lunar eclipses....all on Jewish feasts....this from 2014/2015....came and passed....and people said that nothing important happened.....but in the middle of that tetrad Donald Trump came down that escalator....even into the middle of evangelicalism....the same Donald Trump that was born on a blood moon on June 14, 1946!
God is not giving us connect-the-dots games to play. What He is doing is letting His people know that something is about to happen....and to therefore prepare....and rejoice. Is there abuse in studying biblical prophecy? Of course there is. There is abuse in doctrine and church polity and worship and evangelism and just about every area of God's Word. That doesn't keep us from studying His Word....rather it should make us....as did the Bereans....study it more.
