Wow! What a great time we had last night in our Rosh Hashana Eve celebration.
We started with a meal and then the Rabbi gave a teaching. This is a time of celebration of the creation of man and looking back at the mistakes of the past year. Then we walked down to the lake. We prayed again and did a form of tashlikh. I say a form because we know that our sins have already been cast away by what Jesus did for us at the cross. This was more of seeking God for the things that HE desired to change in us from the old year to the new year.
Micah 7:18-20 (New King James Version)
18 Who is a God like You,Pardoning iniquity And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage?
He does not retain His anger forever,
Because He delights in mercy.
19 He will again have compassion on us,
And will subdue our iniquities.
You will cast all our[a] sins
Into the depths of the sea.
20 You will give truth to Jacob
And mercy to Abraham,
Which You have sworn to our fathers
From days of old.
PS 103:11, 12
11 For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is His mercy toward those who fear Him;
12 As far as the east is from the west,
So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
Then there was the blowing of the Shofar. On the link I gave for the description you can hear the sound that the shofar makes. It is not a Messianic site but it gives a simple and thorough description of the basics of Rosh Hashana.
Rosh Hashana is big on the sounding of the shofar. It is also called The Feast of Trumpets.
I think that while we don't know the day (there are 2 days that are celebrated Rosh Hashana), we don't know what year but we can estimate that Jesus will possibly return during the season of Rosh Hashana. Why? Because the trump will sound!
1 Thessalonians 4:15-17
15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. 16 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. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
Rosh Hashana is one of the "times" that God gave. It is good to know what the times are saying to us.
Matthew 16:2-4
And He answered and said to them, “When it is evening you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red’; 3 and in the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites![a] You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times. 4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet[b] Jonah.” And He left them and departed.
We started with a meal and then the Rabbi gave a teaching. This is a time of celebration of the creation of man and looking back at the mistakes of the past year. Then we walked down to the lake. We prayed again and did a form of tashlikh. I say a form because we know that our sins have already been cast away by what Jesus did for us at the cross. This was more of seeking God for the things that HE desired to change in us from the old year to the new year.
Micah 7:18-20 (New King James Version)
18 Who is a God like You,Pardoning iniquity And passing over the transgression of the remnant of His heritage?
He does not retain His anger forever,
Because He delights in mercy.
19 He will again have compassion on us,
And will subdue our iniquities.
You will cast all our[a] sins
Into the depths of the sea.
20 You will give truth to Jacob
And mercy to Abraham,
Which You have sworn to our fathers
From days of old.
PS 103:11, 12
11 For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is His mercy toward those who fear Him;
12 As far as the east is from the west,
So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
Then there was the blowing of the Shofar. On the link I gave for the description you can hear the sound that the shofar makes. It is not a Messianic site but it gives a simple and thorough description of the basics of Rosh Hashana.
Rosh Hashana is big on the sounding of the shofar. It is also called The Feast of Trumpets.
I think that while we don't know the day (there are 2 days that are celebrated Rosh Hashana), we don't know what year but we can estimate that Jesus will possibly return during the season of Rosh Hashana. Why? Because the trump will sound!
1 Thessalonians 4:15-17
15 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. 16 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. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
Rosh Hashana is one of the "times" that God gave. It is good to know what the times are saying to us.
Matthew 16:2-4
And He answered and said to them, “When it is evening you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red’; 3 and in the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites![a] You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times. 4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet[b] Jonah.” And He left them and departed.
