The LORD said to Moses: “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts. Do no regular work, but present an offering made to the Lord by fire.’ ”
Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed– in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm.
Leviticus 23:24, 25
Let nothing move you.
Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
1 Corinthians 15:51-53, 58
Rosh HaShana takes place on the first day of the seventh month, the end of the summer harvest season. The fall season is soon coming, the time to work, to harvest, will be over, and it is marked by the plaintive and soul-stirring blast of the shofar. For most it is simply the Jewish New Year, a time to be happy, eat, and celebrate, just the first holiday of the High Holy Days, but this holy day in the Spirit marks and reminds those who understand, that the shofar blasts are also alarms, promptings, that these days are drawing short, and that we all must do the work that we have been equipped for, while we can, while there is light.
We are reminded to stand firm, and remain steadfast and not be moved.
Be bold and be strong, beloved. Jesus is coming, and will soon come -like a thief in the night- so be aware and be found ready with our hands on the plow, our eyes focused on Jesus.
L'Shana Tova !
Close your eyes, be still and listen ... Can you hear the sound of the coming King?
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