September 17, 2012

Jews in Jerusalem and Around the World Are Celebrating Rosh Hashana, The Jewish New Year

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Rosh Hashana, the New Year for the Jewish people, marks 5773 on the Jewish calendar and is one of the seven Jewish Feast days that the Jews celebrate on a yearly basis. It's a feast also known as the Feast of Trumpets, a Holy Day that is very family oriented in Jewish families.

The Jews believe that it was five thousand seven hundred and seventy three years ago when God created the heavens, the earth, and all that is in them. A fact that lends itself to the belief that we are living on a young earth.

Jimmy's Prophetic Prospective on the News

Rosh Hashana not only marks the New Year for the Jewish people but it is also the day that Jesus Christ will return to the earth, that is according to Bible Prophecy. As hundred's of shofar's, which is the ram's horn, were blown in Jerusalem at the Western Wall; Jew's marked the first of the three fall Feast Days, the Feast of Trumpets, known in the Hebrew as Rosh Hashana, or the New Year. 

Jews celebrate 5773 as their New Year. Jews believe that five thousand seven hundred and seventy three years ago the Lord created the heavens, the earth, and all that is in them. God's chosen people also believe that the act of creation took place on what is the Temple Mount in Jerusalem which Orthodox Jewish scholarship believes is the original sight of the Garden of Eden. That's Isaiah 51:3 and Ezekiel 36:35.

According to the record of Scripture, Jesus Christ fulfilled the prophetic significance of the four spring Jewish Feast. Jesus was crucified on Passover, buried on Unleavened Bread, He resurrected on First Fruits and the Holy Spirit came to Jerusalem on the Feast of Pentecost, as the Lord had promised.

Looking back through history you can see that Jesus fulfilled those first four feast of the seven Jewish Feast Days in the proper day sequences. Thus to  be consistent, Jesus must fulfill the last three Feast, the fall Feast, also in the proper day sequences. The next Feast to be fulfilled will be the Feast of Trumpets or Rosh Hashana. And that happens when Jesus Christ comes back to the earth. Now I'm not talking about the Rapture of the Church but the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and that is the time when Jesus will tell the angel to blow the trumpet, that's Matthew 24:31.

This Rosh Hashana, the New Year for the Jewish people, the Feast of Trumpets; is indeed a reminder that Bible prophecy will be fulfilled.