Feast of Trumpets
Leviticus 23:23-25
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "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. You shall do no customary work on it; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.'"
I Thessalonians 4:16-18
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.
As do all the biblical feasts, the Feast of Trumpets foreshadows an event important to my Christian faith - in this case, the Rapture, when Jesus will come again to fetch the faithful. Just as the shofar sounds each year on Rosh Hashanah, so shall the shofar call to all believers, alive and dead, on that holy day to come.
I wish "Shana Tova," or "a good year," to all Jews, but I listen for the shofar from the heavens which will finally call me home.
Even so come Lord Jesus.