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Episode: “Days of Remembrance: The Fall Feasts of The Lord”

Myles and Katharine explain the origin and significance of Rosh Hashanah (New Year, Feast of Trumpets), Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), and Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles), while providing insight for believers in Yeshua.

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Caption transcript for “Days of Remembrance: The Fall Feasts of The Lord”

00:05 Yeshua is revealed in the Feasts of the LORD.
00:08 Join us as we listen for the shofar
00:10 announcing His arrival.
00:12 Learn from the past and look into the future
00:15 as we study the Fall Feasts.
00:17 Prepare for the coming King, the Lion of Judah
00:20 and His millennial Kingdom.
00:26 Shalom and Welcome to our program.
00:27 I'm Myles Weiss.
00:28 And I'm Katharine Weiss
00:30 And we're bringing you a program
00:31 on the Fall Feasts of the LORD.
00:34 They're not of the Jews or of Israel.
00:36 They're of the LORD.
00:37 That's really important.
00:39 He's kept the first ones, The first four,
00:41 The Spring Feasts.
00:43 And He will keep the Fall Feasts
00:46 to the " moed ", to the "appointed time".
00:48 The Fall Feasts are the ones that
00:50 finish the cycle of the 7 Feasts of the LORD
00:52 which take place in three time periods.
00:55 The first time period, in the Spring -
00:57 Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits,
00:59 around the Passover season.
01:01 50 days later - S havuot or Pentecost
01:04 is when the Church was birthed.
01:05 So those have been kept by Messiah Himself.
01:08 And now we're looking forward to the Fall Feast:
01:17 Now taken together
01:18 they're the seasons of Tabernacles.
01:21 But here's the wonderful thing.
01:22 We're now looking towards the next one
01:24 which is "The Sound of the Trumpets"
01:26 So keep your ears open because Messiah is coming.
01:29 Let's go to Israel and pickup in a Sukkah,
01:32 the traditional tent in which the Feast of Tabernacles is held.
01:38 Myles-Well our Sukkah is looking good
01:41 it's coming along.
01:42 Katharine - It's beautiful!
01:43 Myles - and if you can put that here
01:45 I'm going to hang this up.
01:47 We'll keep working on it.
01:48 Katharine - I'll be back.
01:49 Myles - Alright.
01:54 As you know there are 3 major feast periods.
01:57 The Fall Feasts represent something
02:00 that has not fully taken place in the earth yet.
02:02 If God keeps to His pattern,
02:04 which we expect Him to do,
02:06 then just as Yeshua was sacrificed
02:09 on Passover - the blood of the Lamb,
02:11 the Church was birthed at Pentecost - Shavuot .
02:14 We're in this long, hot summer
02:16 leading up to the Fall Feasts
02:18 when God will fulfill the Fall Feasts picture
02:21 by coming with the sound of a trumpet.
02:24 The shofar represents this first Fall Feast.
02:29 Rosh Hashanah
02:30 You've heard it called Rosh Hashanah .
02:32 But really its biblical name from Leviticus 23:24
02:36 is " Yom Teruah "
02:38 "The Day of Blowing". Why?
02:40 Because it's a time when
02:42 God is pouring out of His Spirit
02:44 and we're hearing the " Ruach HaKodesh "
02:46 We seeing the blowing of the wind,
02:47 and we hear the sound of shofar
02:50 as God prepares His return.
02:53 Now for the Jewish people, we remember
02:56 that Leviticus 23:24 says,
03:04 "convocation"-What is that word?
03:06 Holy convocation is a " Mikrah ".
03:08 It's a "Moed", an "Appointed time".
03:10 But more importantly its a rehearsal.
03:12 Not only are we to meet with the LORD
03:15 on the holiday, on this Feast Day,
03:17 But it's a rehearsal of what God wants to do in the entire earth.
03:22 " Rosh Hashanah " - " Yom Teruah "
03:24 is full of the blowing of the Shofar
03:26 and the announcing of the appointment we have with God.
03:30 It's a time of repentance.
03:32 It's a time of remembrance.
03:33 In fact,
03:34 Genesis 22 - the binding of Isaac
03:37 the " Akedah "
03:39 is the signature verse and the
03:41 signature passage that is spoken of
03:43 during this season.
03:45 On this holiday, on this Feast Day
03:46 we speak about the binding of Isaac.
03:48 Why? Because Isaac pictures the Promised Son to come.
03:52 Remember Abraham was past child bearing.
03:54 He and his wife could not have children
03:56 and yet God brought this supernatural, promised son,
04:00 a picture of the Promised Son to come,
04:04 Yeshua HaMashiach , Jesus known as
04:07 "The Christ" in Greek and in English,
04:09 but Hebrew "HaMashiach", "The Anointed One".
04:12 " Yeshua " means "Salvation".
04:14 So when this King came born as a baby
04:17 his Mom, Mariam , not Mary, called him Yeshua , not Jesus.
04:21 She didn't speak English.
04:23 She didn't speak the language of our day.
04:24 She called him " Yeshua "
04:26 because it means "Salvation".
04:27 And the Scripture tells us that she said,
04:30 "Salvation is come".
04:32 And when he was presented in the Temple
04:35 Simeon said,
04:35 "Behold, the Salvation
04:37 that is coming to Israel."
04:38 This is a reminder.
04:40 This holiday, this Feast Day,
04:41 Rosh Hashanah, Yom Teruah
04:43 the "Day of Blowing"
04:44 is a reminder of His mercy.
04:46 And we're to remind God of His mercy.
04:49 In fact, this entire period begins in the month of Elul,
04:52 way back in the summer.
04:54 It begins a 40 day period leading up to Yom Kippur .
04:56 And "Elul", the month of Elul
04:58 is an acronym " Ani L'dodi V'dodi Li "
05:02 "I am my Beloved's and my Beloved is mine"
05:04 from the Song of Solomon.
05:06 This is about coming back to the LORD
05:09 in mercy and in repentance.
05:11 It's a love picture.
05:13 It's a picture of union with God.
05:16 Rosh Hashanah - Yom Teruah.
05:18 We have wonderful cultural items we take care of.
05:21 Even the celebration of the crowning of the King.
05:24 It's supposedly the birthday of the world.
05:26 The coronation day of the King.
05:28 A time of " Teshuvah " a "returning and repenting".
05:31 It's a " Yom haDin ", a "day of judgment".
05:34 One of the practices " Tashlik "
05:36 where we "cast" our bread upon the waters,
05:39 we cast our sin, because Micah 7:19 says,
05:48 This is the season of coming to the LORD.
05:51 A season of introspection of looking to the LORD,
05:54 of asking him for our names to be written
05:57 in the Lamb's Book of Life.
05:58 Now I have good news for you.
06:00 If you're a believer in Yeshua your name
06:02 is written in the Lamb's Book of Life.
06:04 We don't have to worry year from year
06:06 whether we will make it into that book.
06:08 When we accepted Yeshua we accepted Him.
06:10 But this also looks forward to the coming of the King.
06:14 And that's the prophetic picture
06:16 that " Yom Teruah " has for us
06:19 which is not only a rehearsal
06:21 but a looking forward to the King.
06:23 We will hear the sound of the shofar from heaven and
06:26 the King will go up with a shout.
06:28 We see that in I Corinthians.
06:30 We see it in Psalm 98.
06:32 And we will see it soon, perhaps in our lifetime.
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07:13 There are 7 Feasts of the LORD.
07:14 Remember they are not the Feasts of the Jewish people.
07:17 They're the Feasts of the LORD.
07:18 They belong to Him.
07:20 One of them, the 6th, Yom Kippur
07:22 is a day of fasting.
07:24 It's a solemn day.
07:25 It's the most holy day of the year.
07:27 It's the day in which in the old country,
07:29 in New York City when I was a child
07:31 we would go to Hebrew School, we would fast.
07:33 My friends and I would compete with each other
07:37 to see how long during the day
07:39 we could go before we would give in
07:41 and eat that forbidden jelly bean or some kind of treat.
07:46 But for the Jewish people as a whole it is the most Holy Day.
07:50 The entire nation of Israel was shut down.
07:52 And in place where there's a Jewish contingent
07:55 in any city, in any part of the world
07:57 it is the quietest day,
07:59 it is the day of fasting.
08:00 Its the day when if the books are opened and looked at,
08:04 the Book of Life is looked at
08:06 on Rosh Hashanah on Yom Teruah
08:08 the book is closed, it's settled,
08:09 its sealed on Yom Kippur .
08:11 The word "Kippur" comes from " Kaphar " meaning "to cover".
08:16 And so our sins as a people would be covered
08:19 by the holiest man, the High Priest, going into
08:21 the holiest place within the Tabernacle or the Temple
08:24 and offering a sacrifice of blood for the people.
08:28 But I have good news for you.
08:30 If you're a follower of Yeshua ,
08:32 if you believe that He is Mashiach
08:34 then your sins are not only covered from year to year
08:37 but they are taken away.
08:39 And that's why in John 1
08:41 We see the words,
08:44 "Behold! The Lamb of God"
08:46 "who takes away the sin of the world.
08:49 This covering, this taking away, this redeeming
08:53 can only take place by the perfect sacrifice,
08:57 the One with perfect blood who came from God.
09:01 The oldest book in the Bible, the book of Job.
09:04 In that book in chapter 9
09:06 Job asked the question,
09:08 I am here and God is here.
09:10 How can I get connected to Him?
09:11 I'm paraphrasing, but he says,
09:13 I'm looking for a daysman.
09:15 I'm looking for a mediator.
09:16 Is there anyone who can
09:18 connect me with this Holy God?
09:20 Because I am am just a man.
09:22 He was looking for a mediator,
09:23 a daysman, one who could
09:25 stand between himself
09:27 and the most Holy God.
09:29 That is the work that Yeshua did
09:31 when he came to become
09:33 our " kafar ", our "covering".
09:34 The One who takes away the sin of the world.
09:37 Imagine the Fall Feasts speaking of the harvest time,
09:40 the reaping of the grapes,
09:42 the season of looking for that
09:46 which has been produced to be
09:48 judged as to whether it is worthy or not worthy.
09:50 If we are found in Him, then we are found worthy
09:54 only because of His pure blood,
09:56 because of His sacrifice.
09:58 Now remember these 40 days that leads up to this Yom Kippur
10:03 begins in this month of Elul , on Elul day one.
10:07 40 days actually mirror the 40 days that the
10:10 12 spies were in the land,
10:13 searching out the land.
10:15 And only 2 came back with the good report.
10:17 It mirrors the 40 days that Moses
10:19 went up on to the mountain top.
10:21 In fact, Moses on the mountain top,
10:23 when he saw the sin that Israel was in
10:25 he offered to be a substitute.
10:27 He said, blot my name out of the Book of Life,
10:30 blot my name out and forgive the people.
10:33 Because he did say in Deuteronomy 18
10:36 That we are to be looking for one that
10:38 God would raise up like Himself.
10:40 God would raise up someone like Moses
10:42 from among the people of Israel.
10:44 Who fulfills that?
10:46 Only Yeshua, only Jesus
10:48 fulfills that identity
10:51 of the One who could be
10:52 that much like Moses.
10:54 And in fact, became our substitute.
10:56 One of the most beautiful pictures of Messiah
10:58 throughout the Old Testament
11:00 is the patriarch Joseph.
11:02 And there's an amazing story.
11:03 Part of the story of Joseph is that
11:05 his people did not recognize him.
11:07 His brothers did not recognize him
11:10 as the one who would save them
11:12 from the famine, from the difficulty.
11:14 As a picture of Yeshua
11:16 you could say that the first time
11:18 that Joseph was reunited with his brothers
11:19 they did not recognize him.
11:21 When Yeshua came the first time
11:22 My people did not recognize Him as Mashiach .
11:25 We missed the day of our "appointment" with Him, our " moed ".
11:30 In Joseph's story when Judah, his brother,
11:34 when Judah repented, then he recognized
11:37 this one who looked like an Egyptian
11:40 was one of the Jewish people.
11:42 In fact, his own brother.
11:44 In that way it's a picture of Messiah.
11:46 It's a picture of Yeshua.
11:48 There is a day coming when Judah repents,
11:51 when my Jewish people,
11:52 when we repent,
11:53 when we say we need you God,
11:55 Baruch Haba B'Shem Adonai
11:56 Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the LORD.
11:59 When we say that we will recognize Him
12:02 and we will be with Him.
12:04 The day is coming when all of Israel shall all be saved.
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12:57 Myles the Sukkah looks so amazing!
12:59 I know, this is coming out really great.
13:01 You know I love the settling in
13:03 for a 7 day time.
13:05 This is the only Feast that takes place
13:08 for an entire 7 days of living inside this booth.
13:11 A picture of the impermanence of life
13:14 and the tabernacling that God wants to do with us.
13:17 And that we're just passing through this life.
13:19 There was to be openness because we remember
13:22 that the LORD is over us.
13:24 And the stars are watching
13:26 even as they watched over the people of Israel
13:28 when they went through the wilderness.
13:30 You know, "Trumpets" is the time of repentance.
13:33 The "Day of Atonement" is a time of redemption.
13:36 And "Tabernacles" is the time of rejoicing.
13:40 So this is the Feast, the 7th Feast,
13:42 the completed Feast of rejoicing.
13:45 In fact, it was at this Feast that we read
13:47 that Yeshua came during the libation ceremony -
13:50 the pouring out of the water.
13:52 That's when he said, if anyone thirst come to me.
13:54 It was on the 8th.
13:56 It was on the final day, the day after today.
13:58 It's called " Simchat Torah ", "The Joy of the Word",
14:01 The thanking God for the Bible that takes place.
14:04 You know, Yeshua came as a prophet.
14:06 The first time he came to the earth as a prophet.
14:09 He resurrected as a Priest and he ever lives to make
14:11 intercession for you and me before the Father in heaven.
14:15 But He's returning as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.
14:19 He's returning as the "King of Kings" " Melech Ha-M'lachim "
14:24 This represents the coming together
14:26 of the Jews and the Gentiles to worship the LORD.
14:29 Every time the LORD always brings
14:31 the Jews and the Gentiles together.
14:33 Even in these species, even in this " Lulav "
14:36 that it talks about this wild olive branch that is brought in
14:40 representing that the LORD foresaw and foreknew
14:44 that the Jews and the Gentiles would be one in the Sukkah.
14:47 That's great.
14:48 Even going back as far as the time of Nehemiah.
14:50 Remember that was the time of restoration.
14:52 Whenever God restores his intention is to
14:54 bring Jews and Gentiles together.
14:56 Listen to this.
14:57 This is Nehemiah Chapter 8, verse 15.
15:10 To make Sukkot , the plural.
15:14 Think about this.
15:15 This is a holiday that will be celebrated
15:18 when the King returns.
15:19 When there is a 1,000 year reign of
15:22 Yeshua HaMashiach
15:23 from a Jewish Jerusalem.
15:25 The nations will come up to worship
15:27 along side the Jewish people.
15:29 This Lulav is waved east and west, north and south.
15:32 It's a picture of the authority and the righteousness of God.
15:36 The "Etrog" is a picture
15:38 of the beauty of Messiah, the beauty of Mashiach.
15:41 The day is coming when the nations will come up
15:44 to celebrate this Festival, this Feast, this Sukkot ,
15:49 Tabernacles with the Jewish people.
15:51 In Fact, in Zechariah 14 it says,
15:53 That if the nations do not go up to celebrate
15:56 they will have no rain.
15:58 So it's very important that
16:00 this holiday which is a time of thanksgiving,
16:02 a time of rejoicing.
16:03 In fact, I believe the American Thanksgiving
16:05 is patterned upon Sukkot .
16:08 It's interesting that the nations -
16:10 God says in Deuteronomy 32:8
16:13 that He numbered the nations according to the sons of Israel.
16:17 And in Exodus 1:5 the Scripture tells us
16:19 That there were 70 souls
16:21 that came out of Egypt with Jacob - with Israel.
16:25 Remember - Israel is Jacob
16:27 and Jacob is Israel.
16:29 There were 70 souls.
16:30 And so at the time of the Temple
16:32 there were 70 bulls sacrificed,
16:34 one for each of the nations.
16:36 It's so ironic that the nations would
16:38 come and destroy the Temple,
16:41 the very place that would
16:42 bring redemption to them,
16:43 and stand against the Jewish people,
16:45 the very people through whom
16:47 redemption is coming to the nations.
16:49 It's ironic, it's tragic,
16:51 but the day is coming
16:53 before that millennial resting with the LORD,
16:56 "tabernacling with God".
16:58 There is a day coming when God will judge
17:00 the nations according to how they treat Israel.
17:04 In Matthew 25 it says,
17:06 It says that He will judge the nations as sheep and goats
17:09 and separate them according the way that they treat His people.
17:15 So that's why we pray for America.
17:17 That's why we pray for the nations surrounding Israel
17:20 to get the picture that God is coming back
17:24 and He's always going to bring Israel to Himself.
17:47 ♪ Sha'a'lu shalom Yerushalayim ♪
17:51 ♪ Sha'a'lu sha'a'lu shalom ♪
17:55 ♪ In the Holy City of Jerusalem ♪
18:02 ♪ We will pray for peace, Sha'a'lu shalom . ♪♪
18:15 You know it's often been said
18:17 that there's a bucket list that we all have,
18:19 things that we want to do
18:20 before we go and we meet our Maker.
18:22 And I really believe that
18:24 each Christian should make
18:25 a pilgrimage to the Holy Land
18:27 and see the Land where
18:28 Yeshua was born,
18:30 where He walked and did his ministry
18:31 and where He will return.
18:33 And it will add to your journey in the LORD.
18:36 And you will add your faith to the people of the Book.
18:40 That's really true.
18:41 It's such a blessing
18:42 for you to come to Israel.
18:44 We would love to host you there.
18:45 When the Israelis see
18:47 Christians come these days
18:48 they celebrate in their hearts.
18:49 It's so uplifting
18:51 because they know that they're not alone.
18:52 So we would love to be that bridge
18:54 and bring you to Israel with us.
18:56 You will never be the same.
18:58 The Feast period, the Fall Feasts especially
19:00 have this sense of culmination
19:03 and it's amazing, the end of the Feasts the Tabernacles
19:06 actually is the one that speaks most clearly about the nations
19:10 being drawn in to the commonwealth of Israel.
19:13 And sometimes when we are there in Israel
19:15 during the Feast of Tabernacles
19:17 you actually see the nations dressed in white
19:19 flooding into Jerusalem.
19:21 It's the picture of the future.
19:23 Because Zechariah tells us in Zechariah 14
19:25 That all the nations will come up
19:27 and worship the LORD in the Feast of Tabernacles.
19:29 But they want the rain
19:31 and they want the blessing of the LORD.
19:32 And so many nations are receiving this prophetic instruction to go
19:37 and to do the dress rehearsal, the " mikrah ".
19:41 that God has intended for us to do.
19:43 It's really a beautiful picture of the future
19:45 that we have together as God knits together
19:48 Jew and Gentile to worship Him according
19:50 to His calendar and His plan.
19:52 Well, we have a wonderful interview
19:54 with our dear friend, Ron Cantor.
19:56 He's one of our favorite spiritual leaders in Tel Aviv.
19:59 He's with us in the Sukkah, in Israel.
20:02 Let's go to that interview right now.
20:06 So Ron, growing up in New York, the Old Country,
20:08 We called it " Rosh Hashanah "
20:10 but in the Bible it's " Yom Teruah ".
20:12 What's the deal with 2 different names?
20:14 Well, its interesting
20:15 because if you look in the Bible
20:16 in Leviticus 23 it says
20:18 on the 1st day of the 7th month
20:20 you are to do this
20:21 commemoration holiday and
20:23 blow the shofars
20:24 and that's all it says.
20:26 And not to work that day.
20:28 It's very unclear about
20:29 what its about.
20:31 And so we have to ask ourselves,
20:33 what is God trying to say then?
20:34 The Rabbis, they did ask themselves that.
20:36 And I think they said, we don't know what it means.
20:39 So let's...ummm...
20:41 Let's make it a New Year
20:42 cause it has to have meaning to it.
20:44 And so for a long time now
20:46 we've called it "The New Year" " Rosh Hashana "
20:48 But really biblically it's a day of memorial
20:50 where we blast the shofars.
20:52 Now as New Testament believers those Jewish people who have found
20:56 Yeshua , the Jewish Messiah,
20:58 we could see that its a memorial
21:00 that probably points forward
21:02 to the great trumpet blast
21:04 when Yeshua will appear in the clouds.
21:06 He's going to come back to Jerusalem
21:08 and set up His Kingdom.
21:10 So in light of the New Covenant,
21:11 " Yom Teruah " the "Day of the blasting of Shofars"
21:14 in our congregation here in Tel Aviv,
21:16 or about 30 minutes away in Tel Aviv,
21:18 we blast the shofars on Yom Teruah and
21:22 we look forward to the coming of Yeshua .
21:24 Hallelujah, that's the good word.
21:26 So what about Yom Kippur ,
21:27 the Day of Atonement?
21:29 It's the holiest day of the year
21:30 and the whole country is getting quiet.
21:32 Tell us about that.
21:33 Sure- well, the whole country shuts down.
21:34 There's not a car on the road,
21:36 kids literally ride their bikes on the highways.
21:38 It's a phenomenon to see.
21:40 But if we go back 2,000 years ago
21:42 something very interesting happened.
21:44 The Talmud, the Jewish Holy Book
21:47 says that the 40 years prior to the
21:49 destruction of the Temple which was in 70 A.D.
21:52 that God rejected the
21:54 Yom Kippur sacrifices every year.
21:56 Amazing.
21:57 So for 40 years the Jewish people were not forgiven
21:59 And there were 4 different signs.
22:01 We don't have time to go into each sign but
22:03 these signs would tell them
22:05 whether or not God forgave the people.
22:07 And those 40 years God did not.
22:09 Now, you have to ask yourself
22:11 What happened 40 years before 70 AD?
22:14 Yeshua died as the ultimate,
22:17 once for all sin and for all time sacrifice.
22:21 He died, gave His life as the ultimate Yom Kippur sacrifice.
22:24 Incredible.
22:26 So that's why we're praying
22:28 that as people are going to synagogue,
22:30 going to Yeshua,
22:31 that they will have a personal
22:32 encounter with Mashiach on this most holy day.
22:35 You know, growing up in New York we
22:36 built a communal Sukkah at the synagogue and
22:39 we would spend some time there.
22:41 What about Sukkot here in the Land?
22:44 I know it's the place -
22:45 It's the holiday that the Gentiles are invited to.
22:47 Right.
22:48 Well, Sukkot in Israel, it's fun, it's exciting.
22:52 People eat their meal, some more orthodox, sleep in the Sukkot .
22:56 But God is very much into signs.
22:59 And the actual building of a Sukkah , it's a,
23:02 in Hebrew we would say it's a " mitzvah" ,
23:04 it's a "good deed".
23:05 But it has prophetic significance.
23:07 It's saying, the God of Israel is alive.
23:09 He actually is the One who brought us up out of Egypt,
23:11 took care of us in the wilderness
23:13 and brought us into our own country.
23:15 I remember when I was a young father
23:18 my daughter Sharon was just a couple years old
23:20 and I was building the Sukkah for her,
23:22 to say, Sharon God is alive, He's rescued us.
23:26 And I remember that my neighbors,
23:28 this is in Maryland,
23:30 they were Palestinian.
23:31 Now we got along okay.
23:33 But he was sitting on his porch
23:35 smoking a hookah with his Palestinian friend.
23:38 As a Jew, a Jewish believer in Jesus,
23:40 I'm building the Sukkah and I realize I am
23:44 not violently, not angrily,
23:46 but I'm testifying to them
23:47 that the God of Israel is alive.
23:49 That's great.
23:50 The history of the Jewish people in the Land is real.
23:54 And always contested
23:56 but always having these signs to point to the reality.
23:59 I'd say that the headlines
24:01 are catching up to the Bible.
24:03 Absolutely.
24:03 Thank you.
24:06 You know the Feasts of the LORD are not
24:08 just an Old Testament fact.
24:09 They are present in our lives today
24:12 and they are speaking to people.
24:13 Just like Ron was saying by
24:15 him building a Sukkah he was testifying that
24:18 not only did God bring them out of Egypt,
24:20 but they are still remembering the deliverance
24:22 and that they're passing through this earth.
24:25 We're not, to like, put all of our eggs in one basket, so to say.
24:30 Right, our faith in this world because our faith is in Him
24:33 and in the world to come as well.
24:35 " Olam Hazeh : "this world"
24:37 " Olam Ha-Ba ": "the world to come"
24:39 And this Sukkah really points to the temporal nature of our life here.
24:43 Some people don't understand that there's a spiritual calendar
24:46 that begins with Passover
24:48 but a civil calendar that begins with Rosh Hashanah ,
24:50 the head of the year.
24:52 And one of the beautiful things about Rosh Hashanah
24:54 is the foods that we eat and the way
24:57 we celebrate hope for the next year.
24:59 And so let's go to Katharine's interview with Roni in Israel
25:02 about the cultural aspects of Rosh Hashanah .
25:07 Roni thank you for coming and telling us
25:09 about the holiday foods that we eat.
25:11 Now we're at Rosh Hashanah.
25:13 This is the head of the year.
25:15 This is the beginning
25:16 of the Jewish Calendar.
25:18 Tell me a little bit
25:19 why the Jewish people
25:21 have the honey.
25:23 Well, because this is the
25:24 beginning of the year,
25:25 one of the things we want to wish people
25:27 is a happy sweet year.
25:29 And that is why we have
25:30 both the apples and the honey.
25:31 They're are assigned for sweetness
25:33 obviously because they are sweet.
25:34 And that is why we always say,
25:36 [ Speaking Hebrew ]
25:38 That the year would be sweet
25:39 like apples and honey.
25:41 Wonderful!
25:42 Well I wish you
25:43 a happy New Year.
25:45 Happy New Year.
25:52 It's such a joy to be with Roni
25:54 and to learn the foods.
25:56 Well, we know the foods.
25:57 But to celebrate the sweetness of the New Year
26:00 and to remember to pray for our loved ones
26:02 that their names would be written in the Book of Life.
26:04 Really, it's very true.
26:06 Sometimes it can be a be a little confusing
26:07 the different names for the holidays.
26:09 So just by the way of review,
26:10 " Rosh Hashanah ", the "Head of the Year"
26:12 is " Yom Teruah ", the "Day of Blowing".
26:14 That's the Shofar holiday.
26:16 " Yom Kippur " is the "Day of Atonement"
26:18 That's the day of Judgment,
26:20 but the day that God's mercy will be shown
26:22 because the judgment was taken by Yeshua Ha Mashiach .
26:25 And "Tabernacles" is the same word as "Booths" or " Sukkot "
26:28 " Sukkot " is the plural
26:31 " Sukkah " is the booth that we were in,
26:33 Katharine and I and with Ron.
26:35 So there are different names for the holidays
26:37 but taken together they express the
26:39 next phase in the history of the planet
26:41 which is that we are looking up
26:44 because Yeshua is coming soon.
26:47 I love seeing that God has
26:49 a multi-level plan in this earth
26:53 and we are part of it
26:55 if we just simply call on His Name.
26:57 And we just invite you to do that
26:59 even today if the Lord is
27:01 drawing you by His love
27:02 would you just make that
27:04 fresh surrender to Him today?
27:06 The greatest thing you'll ever do.
27:08 The greatest adventure you'll ever embark upon
27:10 to walk with Yeshua here
27:12 and when we see Him face to face.
27:14 So with that we always want to remind you,
27:16 it says in Psalm 122:6
27:19 Sha'a'lu Shalom Yerushalayim
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