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If you look at many calendars you’ll see Rosh Hashanah starts tonight. I prefer to call it by it’s name in Leviticus 23 in an English Bible. The Festival of Trumpets.
The Festival of Trumpets
23 The Lord said to Moses, 24 “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of sabbath rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts.’”
The reason it moves in America is we don’t follow the same calendar they do in Israel. If you ask Google about that it’ll say the Israel calendar is lunar and ours is not.
What does ‘a sabbath rest, a sacred assembly’ mean to you? How can you make it happen for this Godly holiday? What can you do to observe this day as that festival?
This one doesn’t last but from sunset to sunset.
I tend to make the same meal each festival. A favorite and looked forward to dish. It’s not work free, but it is so good. And mostly prep can be done ahead of time. Make noodles, shred cooked chicken thighs. That just leaves potatoes to peel and boil and mash. Sure most people don’t really like this, but being from Indiana and having the love of chicken and noodles and mashed potatoes is so totally a meal we really love. When the family gathers for the holidays we always have chicken and noodles and mashed potatoes too. Thanks to my mother-in-law. It’s a dish so much of the family gravitates towards. We come by the love of it honestly and from our youngest days.
God told them to commemorate the festival with trumpet blasts, want to guess how many blasts they blow? There are four kinds of blows. One of them is blown last and sustained for as long as the person blowing it can hold it. The other three in cycles many times.
Would it shock you to hear 100?
The Last and Longest Blast of the Trumpet
“Tekiah Hagedolah, the final blast, a very long sound, is a call to come forth or to arise. … This is the Tekiah that announces that the king has arrived.”*
*Norten, Michael. Unlocking the Secrets of the Feasts (p. 69-70). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.
That blast is the one talked about it here:
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18
“For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
Therefore encourage one another with these words.”
Are you ready? If Jesus were to come today to retrieve His people, are you ready to go? Do you have a relationship with Him? Do you spend time with Him now, when He isn’t seen? He is coming. I don’t know when, but it could be any day and we all should be ready.
Let’s pray:
Lord Jesus, I want to hear that sound. I want to hear Your call. I want to be there to see it. Oh Lord, make me wholly Yours. In Your Name I pray. Amen.
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