Blow the Trumpets!!!
Posted in Our Jewish Root on 08. Sep, 2010
Shana tovah! For a sweet new year!
Tonight is the beginning of the Feast of Trumpets and the Biblical new year. It is the fifth of Seven Feasts recorded and defined in the Bible as “The Feasts of the Lord”. Our family is celebrating with extra sweet challah formed in a round loaf and dipping apple slices into honey as our pre-meal fun! I have found that the grandkids love the holidays. They don’t necessarily remember from year to year what it all means, but they definitely remember the food we eat. This morning Ashlyn (7 yrs old) started jumping up and down when I mentioned round challah along with apples and honey. “Oh, I remember! I remember! I LOVE apples and honey!”
We try to make every holiday something that the kids will enjoy and remember. If the kids remember, then it makes it more fun for the parental units as well. The Feasts of the Lord are meant to be enjoyed, and they are precious family times!
The blowing of the shofar comes from Leviticus 23:24.
“Tell the people of Israel, ‘In the seventh month, the first of the month is to be for you a day of complete rest for remembering, a holy convocation announced with blasts on the shofar.’”
Aside from the shofar blasts in the Torah, the seven trumpets in the book of Revelation are closely related to the Feast of Trumpets. Revelation 10:7
“…in the days of the sound from the seventh angel when he sounds his shofar, the hidden plan of God will be brought to completion, the Good News as he proclaimed it to his servants the prophets.”
Today as the shofars are sounded in Israel and Jewish homes and synagogues around the world, we pray for revelation of Yeshua the Messiah. He is coming again to set up His rule in Jerusalem. May we all be found faithful.
I celebrated last night at the Davis’ house. I think the kids had a little too much apples and honey! There should be a mass warning email every year about this danger before the hag begins. HA! Shanah Tova!
That’s hilarious! I can imagine how active that household is, because we have six kids under seven yrs old in OUR house!
We’re praying for you James. So sorry about all that has happened in the last few days. Lord, bring peace, wisdom, and clarity.
We love you!