In the previous post, we saw some aspects of the fifth
biblical feast: the Feast of Trumpets,
in Hebrew: Yom Teruah (Lev. 23:23-24). Today, this feast is more popularly
known by another name: Rosh Hashanah.
Rosh Hashana literally means “Head of the year”. It is called
this because it is the beginning of the year. This goes all the way back to
creation. According to Jewish tradition, on that day God created Adam.
Because of this, this day is considered as the beginning of
the year (or the “Jewish new year”).
However, we have to explain that since the Exodus of the
Israelites from Egypt, God changed the
order of the calendar…
(Exo. 12:1-2) The LORD said
to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, (2) “This month shall be for you
the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you.
Starting on that first Passover, the first month (of
creation) became the seventh biblical month; and the one that was the seventh
month became the first month.
Sound confusing? To understand it in more familiar terms… it
is like “June” became the first month, and “January” became the seventh month.
Today, Jews call Rosh
Hashanah “the new civil year”, and the 1st of Nisan the
“biblical new year”.
[For more information on this subject, you can read: Biblical Calendar]
A NEW BEGINNING ON
THE FIRST DAY
An important biblical event happened on the day of Rosh Hashanah (1 Tishrei). Exactly on
that day the waters of the Flood were dried out…
(Gen. 8:13) In the six
hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the
waters were dried from off the earth. And Noah removed the covering of the ark
and looked, and behold, the face of the ground was dry.
It is no coincidence that this happened on “the first day of
the year” [when the calendar still hadn’t been
changed]. That day marked a new
beginning, not just for Noah and his family, but for all of humanity.
Just as it happened in the time of Noah, God will give us a
new chance to restart on these dates. On this month the last three biblical
feasts will be celebrated (Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot), which speak
prophetically about the second coming of Jesus (heb. Yeshua). The Lord will bring a new era into the world with his
millennial kingdom, after which God will make new heavens and a new Earth (Rev.
21-22).
Next time… we will
see why the Feast of the Trumpets is identified as “the Hidden Day”…
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