Biblically, Yom Teruah Yes, Rosh Hashanah No

By and large to Jews today is Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of a new year. To many others it is Yom Teruah, the Day of Trumpets. To some it is both. For certain, though, it's one of the feasts of the Lord described in Leviticus 23.

I wrote about this on another blog a few years ago. Here's the link:

Yom Teruah

Biblically, Rosh Hashanah occurred about six months ago, in the spring.

Ex 12:1-6
1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
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Read on and we'll see that this is the month of the Passover, the month God brought Israel out of Egypt. No other month is spoken of as the beginning of the year anywhere in the Bible. So, the beginning of the first month, not the seventh, is Rosh Hashanah. Considering a seventh month year's beginning is something the Jews brought back with them from Babylonian captivity.

Also Important for Me

Here are a few more scriptures that are important for me, scriptures that I need to bring to remembrance often.

1 Thess 5:16-19
16 Rejoice evermore.

17 Pray without ceasing.

18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
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Acts 10:1-2
10:1 There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,

2 A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
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2 Cor 6:10
10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing;
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Phil 4:4
4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
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James 1:2-3
2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
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Rejoice and pray. Pray and rejoice. Always.