SCRIPTURES RELATED TO THE THREE FALL FEASTS

 

To help you understand the three fall feasts and how they relate to the end of the age:

 

TRUMPETS -

Nehemiah 8.1-8; Num 29.1; Lev 23.1-2; Ps 47.5-7; 1 Thess 4.16; 1 Corinth 15.52; Ps 102.16-22;

Ps 102.13; Zephaniah 1.6-8; Zephaniah 1.14-16; Eph 5.14; Matt 22.1-5; Matt 22.8-11. Feast of Trumpets: Repentance; Time of Jacob’s Trouble; Day of the Awakening Blast; Yom HaDin/Day of Judgment/ Opening of the Books/Opening of the Gates; Yom HaKeseh (The Hidden Day). Amos 5.20; Jeremiah 16.9; Ezek 39.17-21; Rev 19.17-21; Deut 32.41-43; Rev 6.20.

DAY OF ATONEMENT - Ps 27.7-9; Lev 16.29-34; Num 29.7-8; Isaiah 57.15; Isaiah 57.6-7, 13-14; Lev 25.9; Lev 23.27; John 1.29; Ps 103.12, Micah 7.19; Isaiah 11.9-12; Zechariah 3.9; Ezek 36 (Fulfillment of Day of Atonement); Rom 11.15;Rev 8.3-6; Isaiah 63.1-4; Rev 19.2, 13-15; Matt 13.38-39; Ex 23.16; Rev 14.18; Lev 16.16-17; Rev 15.8; Prophetically on this day Israel as a nation will realize Yeshua is their Messiah! This day was the only day the High Priest could speak to God “face to face”. Ezek 20.33-35; Isaiah 25.7-8; Hosea 5.15-6.3; Joseph as a type of Yeshua-Gen 42.21; Gen 43.16, 33-34; Gen 45.1-2. Ps 99.1-9. For the righteous the Day of Atonement is redemption, but for the wicked it is judgment.

TABERNACLES - God will dwell with or tabernacle among His people. Zechariah 14.16-17; Lev 23.39-40; Deut 16.13-14; Ex 25.13-14; Lev 23.41-43; 2 Corinth 5.1; 2 Peter 1.13-14; John 1.4. Water is compared, to the Torah, which descends from a high place to a low place--Ezek 34.26; Ps 72.6-8; Hosea 6.3; Joel 2.23; Deut 32.2; Deut 33.2-4; John 8.1. Shemini Atzeret, the 8^th day becomes the 1^st day which speaks of new beginnings--Lev 23.36; Rev 19.7; Ezek 39.22-23, 27-28; Luke 12.35-37.

MONTH OF ELUL - Significance: Time of reflection leading up to Rosh Hashanah (Trumpets) and Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). Customs: Blowing the shofar (ram's horn); asking people for forgiveness; reciting penitential prayers. The name of the month is said to be an acronym of "Ani l'dodi v'dodi li," "I am my Beloved's and my Beloved is mine," a quote from Song of Songs 6:3, where the Beloved is God and the "I" are believers. In Aramaic (the vernacular of the Jewish people at the time that the month names were adopted), the word "Elul" means "search," which is appropriate, because this is a time of year when we search our hearts.

According to tradition, the month of Elul is the time that Moses spent on Mount Sinai preparing the second set of tablets after the incident of the golden calf (Ex. 32; 34:27-28). He ascended on Rosh Chodesh Elul and descended on the 10th of Tishri, at the end of Yom Kippur, when repentance was complete. Some sources say that Elul is the beginning of a period of 40 days that Moses prayed for God to forgive the people after the Golden Calf incident, after which the commandment to prepare the second set of tablets was given.

DAYS OF AWE - The ten days starting with Rosh Hashanah and ending with Yom Kippur are commonly known as the Days of Awe (Yamim Noraim) or the Days of Repentance. This is a time for serious introspection, a time to consider the sins of the previous year and repent before Yom Kippur.

One of the ongoing themes of the Days of Awe is the concept that God has "books" that he writes our names in, writing down who will live and who will die, who will have a good life and who will have a bad life, for the next year. These books are written in on Rosh Hashanah, but our actions during the Days of Awe can alter G-d's decree. The actions that change the decree are "teshuvah, tefilah and tzedakah," repentance, prayer, good deeds (usually, charity). These "books" are sealed on Yom Kippur.


Resource: Judaism 101  http://www.jewfaq.org/index.shtml