Jewish New Year

Today is Rosh Hashanah or the Jewish New Year. Actually it started on 28 Sept sundown and will end tomorrow evening. Rosh Hashanah is one of the most important days in the Jewish calendar. It is an exciting time for on this day, the Jews welcome the New Year and wish for a good, happy and fruitful year. A New Year makes us feel that a door is opened, welcoming new directions, opportunities and hopes. We can walk through this door and move forward in a hopeful and fearless way.

As some of us may know, this event is also called Feast of Trumpets. There will be a sounding of the trumpet or a ram's horn as in Leviticus 23:24 'In the seventh month, on the first day, it shall be a solemn rest unto you, a memorial proclaimed with the blast of trumpets, a holy convocation.' Trumpet sounding in the bible is also associated with these things:

1) Before victory is obtained (like the fall of the Jericho city & Gideon's war with Midianites)
2) Anointing and coronation of a new king (1 Kings 1:34)
3) A cry for battle and to gather the people to prepare for war (Nehemiah 4:20)
4) A call for worship of the Lord (Isaiah 23:13)
5) Raising of a signal flag, meaning the Lord is about to say or announce something (Isaiah 18:3)
6) A call to attention to the Word of God, perhaps a warning (Jeremiah 6:17, Ezekiel 33:3)
7) A sign that the day of the Lord is about to come (Joel 2:1)
8) Sending of His angels with a loud trumpet blast (Matthew 24:31)
9) At the last trumpet sounding, the dead will be resurrected (1 Corinthians 15:52)

Of course you may ask...what has the Jewish New Year got to do with me? The Jews are God's appointed people and their festivals all point to Jesus. The significance of this festival is the newness in our lives, the change in season and the Lord may be showing us new things that are going to happen. When we are careful to take heed of His Word, then we would be ready to move with Him when the divine shift occurs. He who has ears, let him hear what the Spirit has to say.