Friday, December 23, 2005
Rosh Hashanah
"The LORD said to Moses, 'Say to the Israelites: "On the first day of the seventh month [Ethanim or Tishri] you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts. Do no regular work, but present an offering made to the LORD by fire."'" (Leviticus 23:23-25 NIV)
This holiday is called the Feast of Trumpets. Today it is called Rosh Hashanah (New Year). Ethanim is the seventh month in the sacred calendar but the first in the civil or agricultural calendar. Oddly, not much is in the Bible concerning this feast. But modern Jews put a lot of emphasis on this day--their new year's day.
"... your times of rejoicing--your appointed feasts and New Moon festivals--you are to sound the trumpet over you burnt offerings and fellowship offerings ..." (Numbers 10:10)
The Jewish calendar is based on the cycles of the moon. Every New Moon was the beginning of the new month, and a trumpet--ram's horn more specifically--was sounded. Ethanim begins sometime in September-October. The month ends the harvest period which began around Passover. Where the Passover begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread and Day of Firstfruits, the Feast of Trumpets leads the Day of Atonement and Feast of Tabernacles (see later posts).
Thinking of trumpets and the end of the harvest, I cannot help but think of the End of the Age.
"At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other." (Matthew 24:30-31)
"I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one 'like a son of man' with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, 'Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.' So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested." (Revelation 14:14-16)
This holiday is called the Feast of Trumpets. Today it is called Rosh Hashanah (New Year). Ethanim is the seventh month in the sacred calendar but the first in the civil or agricultural calendar. Oddly, not much is in the Bible concerning this feast. But modern Jews put a lot of emphasis on this day--their new year's day.
"... your times of rejoicing--your appointed feasts and New Moon festivals--you are to sound the trumpet over you burnt offerings and fellowship offerings ..." (Numbers 10:10)
The Jewish calendar is based on the cycles of the moon. Every New Moon was the beginning of the new month, and a trumpet--ram's horn more specifically--was sounded. Ethanim begins sometime in September-October. The month ends the harvest period which began around Passover. Where the Passover begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread and Day of Firstfruits, the Feast of Trumpets leads the Day of Atonement and Feast of Tabernacles (see later posts).
Thinking of trumpets and the end of the harvest, I cannot help but think of the End of the Age.
"At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other." (Matthew 24:30-31)
"I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one 'like a son of man' with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, 'Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.' So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested." (Revelation 14:14-16)
# posted by Wesley Son of Cornelius @ 1:11 AM 
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Hair, these posts are great! Thanks for putting the effort into this. I too thought about the end of the age and the harvest when I read about the blowing of the horn.
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