Feast of Trumpets / Rosh Hashanah 9/6 Monday Meditation

Feast of Trumpets / Yom Teruah / Rosh Hashanah / Jewish New Year. Perhaps you have seen this holiday printed on a calendar and didn't have any idea of its significance. This biblically-mandated holy day begins at sundown on Tishri 1, 5782 (September 6, 2021). God spoke in Leviticus 23:23 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 24 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. 25 You shall do no customary work on it; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord.’ ” This is the only one of the seven biblical festivals for which no reason is given. The true reason for this festival becomes apparent only in the New Testament when we learn of the blowing of "the last trumpet" when Jesus returns. The first four festivals were fulfilled literally in the life of Christ. The three fall festivals will be fulfilled in The Last Days. "Ancient Jewish tradition held that the resurrection of the dead would occur on Rosh Hashanah." (The Feasts of the Lord, by Kevin Howard and Marvin Rosenthal)