Sunday, September 29, 2019

Happy New Year!

I have been so busy I have posted very little in the last couple of years. I will be semi-retiring at the end of January and hope to write, write, write. This post is actually a copy of last year's, but with the dates changed as appropriate.

Tonight, Sept. 29, 2019, at sundown a new year begins in Israel.  It will be the year 5780.  It is Rosh Hashanah, the Feast of Trumpets, and the shofar will be blown 100 times.  It is the anniversary of the creation of the first man and woman, the anniversary of the first sin, the anniversary of the binding of Isaac, and judgement day for the whole earth.

The sound of the shofar is a call to repentance and the proclamation of G-d as King of the Universe.  The language of the shofar is the only language the Satan can not understand. For the next 8 days choose life, choose repentance, choose to forgive, and most of all choose to ask for forgiveness of those you may have wronged.

On the evening of October 8 the Holiest Day of the year will begin, Yom Kippur - Day of Atonement.  It is on this day that our destiny, as to whether we live or die in the coming year, will have been determined and G-d will seal the books for another year. This is not a determination of life after death, but is a life and death situation. Have your deeds merited another year upon the earth?

Now is the time of repentance.  Awake, awake and repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.  Today is the day of salvation.

"See, I speak a deep secret to you: we will not all sleep (the sleep of the dead), but we will all be transformed.  In a moment's notice at the sound of the final shofar.  For the shofar will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible and those who are alive (mortal) will be transformed (to immortality)."  I Corinthians 15:51-52 (Hannah Rachel translation - HRT)

Do not wait, turn to G-d.........and listen to His voice.

"Then the sign of the son of man will appear in heaven, and all families of the earth will mourn, and they will see the son of man coming with the clouds of heaven (the Shechinah or glory of God) in power and great glory.  He will send forth His angels with the sound of a great shofar; they will gather His chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other."  Matthew 24:30-31 (HRT)

This will be the sound of the shofar tomorrow, listen for it......wait for it......keep your eyes set upon Messiah's return!

Sound of the Shofar
http://www.chabad.org/multimedia/media_cdo/aid/977030/jewish/Shofar-Blasts.htm



Shalom!