L’Shana Tova – Happy New Year!

Yesterday was the last day of the Shemitah year. Today is the first day of the Jewish civil New Year.  It is also Rosh Hashanah, or Feast of Trumpets.  Today is also the first day of a Jubilee Year.

The Bible connects the trumpet (or shofar) with the Jubilee Year:

“And you shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years. ⁹ Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land. ¹⁰ And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family. ¹¹ That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you; in it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows of its own accord, nor gather the grapes of your untended vine. ¹² For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you” Leviticus 25:8-12

This is the year to make the trumpet sound throughout your land to proclaim liberty to the captives. We no longer have time on our side my friends. The Bridegroom is returning soon. We need to unashamedly lift up the trumpet (shofar) and “Blow the trumpet in Zion. Sound the alarm in My holy mountain” Joel 2:1

This is a year of restoration. This is the year where we need to ready ourselves in order to receive the returning prodigals.   First we need to let the Spirit of God search us in order to check that our names are written in the Book of Life. We also need to confirm that our lives are in line with the perfect will of God. Then it is that we are to set others free around us.

This is the year that when the shofar sounds those who are captive/bound/oppressed will be set free. Truly “each of you shall return to his possession and each of you shall return to his family”. This is the year that our sons and daughters will return to us.

Yes there is harvest of wickedness ripening all around us.  But simultaneously there is also a harvest of righteousness.  Jesus said that the fields are white unto harvest.  Go forth, go forth my brothers and sisters into the ripened fields, in the power of the Spirit, for the time of reaping is at hand.

God bless you and Shalom this Feast of Trumpets season,

Belinda

 

 

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