God's End-Time Calendar by Rod Parsley

Author:Rod Parsley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Charisma House
Published: 2015-07-25T16:00:00+00:00

PART THREE

CELEBRATING THE END OF THE AGE

Chapter 9

STARTING OVER

Listen, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet, for the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible will put on incorruption, and this mortal will put on immortality.

1 CORINTHIANS 15:51–53

BEFORE WE BEGIN TO FULLY EXPLORE THE FEAST OF Trumpets, allow me to first remind you that the fall festivals in the Hebrew calendar start in Tishrei, which is September in our Gregorian calendar. If you recall, the first three feasts of God occurred in the first month of the Hebrew calendar, Nisan, which is approximately April in our Gregorian calendar. Pentecost occurs in late May or early June. So the fall feasts are quite a jump in time from the Feast of Pentecost! This vast leap in time parallels a vast leap in the emphases of the feasts.

While the spring feasts of God were about redemption, deliverance, God’s abundant provision, and the revelation of God given to the Jews, the fall feasts had a heavier tone to them—a tone of awakening, repentance, God’s judgment, and ultimately of God making all things new.

There is another great difference between the spring and fall festivals that is important to note. While the spring festivals are fulfilled in the life of Jesus Christ and in the coming of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost, most Christian teachers believe that the fall festivals are as yet unfulfilled, prophetic statements awaiting the second coming of our Lord Jesus. This is both an exciting and challenging thought, and sometimes one that is difficult to interpret. Come with me now as we work our way through this interpretation.

ROSH HASHANAH—THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS AND AWAKENING TO JUDGMENT

On Rosh Hashanah, everything we do is imbued with extreme significance. We stand in judgment before the Heavenly Court while each of our actions, words, and thoughts are scrutinized.1

—RABBI MOSHE SCHUCHMAN

The first of the fall feasts on the Hebrew calendar is the Feast of Trumpets, which in Hebrew is Yom Teruah (yahm tuh-RU-ah), the “day of noise.” Jews commonly refer to this feast as Rosh Hashanah, which literally means “head of the year.” It is the Jewish New Year’s Day and is celebrated on the first two days of Tishrei.

In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath, a memorial with the blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.

—LEVITICUS 23:24

Rosh Hashanah is sometimes referred to by yet another name—the “Day of Remembrance” or Yom ha-Zikaron (yahm ha-ZEE-kah-rahn), on which the shofar is to be blown commemorating the sixth day of creation when God created Adam and Eve.

TEN DAYS OF AWE

Rosh Hashanah begins a ten-day period during which Jews enter into self-examination and repentance, known as the Ten Days of Awe, which conclude on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. During this time, God, in a

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