The Time Is Near

For all of us who do not celebrate the pagan holidays of modern day Christianity (Easter and Christmas, mainly), the holiday season is already about to begin ! What Thanksgiving is to most Americans - the official start of the Christmas Season - the Feast of Trumpets used to be to ancient Israel, and it still is for bible believers today. How so ?

Well, the Feast of Trumpets, celebrated on the first day of the month of Tishrei, marks the beginning of the most festive month in the Hebrew festival calendar. During the month of Tishrei, we celebrate the last three of the biblical feasts or holy days, namely the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles as the "glorious finale", so to speak. After these feasts, which also mark the end of the harvest season, we will have no big feast until the new year begins with the month of Nisan and the Passover is upon us again on Nisan 15th.

I suppose that many out there, like our family, are struggling to a degree to find a suitable way to celebrate the biblical feasts. Since we are no Jews and do not follow Jewish traditions, we do not look to the Jews to see how they celebrate the biblical feasts and emulate what we see, but instead, we look to Scripture and the meaning of the biblical feast in question, and then do our best to give the feast the spirit of its original meaning. You can imagine that many of the things we do are family idiosyncrasies, but I guess every run-of-the-mill Christian family has its own idiosyncrasies that show when they celebrate Christmas or Easter, even if there are a lot of common traditions out there, so this is no great surprise.

Let this be enough for a short introduction though - I will talk a little more about the Feast of Trumpets and its meaning in another post. For now I hope that you will feel supported if you, esteemed reader, are amongst the few people out there who also follow Scripture instead of the traditions of man :)