רֹאֹשׁ הַשָּׁנָה - וֹם תְּרוּעָה .5
Yom Teruah (Day of the Shofar Blowing) or Rosh Hashanah (Head of the Year) Trumpet Blowing / New Year's Festival
In ancient Israel, this day was originally called the "New Moon Sabbath" and the "Day of Blowing the trumpet "(Numbers 29: 1; Leviticus 23: 23-25; Psalm 81.4). Rosh Hashanah / Yom Teruah falls on Tischri on the Jewish calendar or the first of the seventh month , whichever according to the Greorian calendar. New moon sighting in the Falls in September or the first half of October.
It was not until late Judaism that it became New Year's Day in the Jewish bourgeois calendar and, at the same time, the day of remembrance of the ascension to the throne of the judging God, before whom the scrolls of merit and guilt are spread out. In this sense, this day is also celebrated today among the Jews. The focus of this and the following days is blowing on the shofar (Ram's horn). The "instrument" is reminiscent of the planned sacrifice of Isaac But in the place of which a ram was sacrificed to God, and its horns to God to remind of the vicarious atonement of Israel (Genesis 22).
In Numbers 10: 1-2, however, God asked Moses to produce two silver trumpets. Silver is stronger than gold, but it was very valuable (durable, weatherproof and valuable). Both trumpets should be blown uniformly. This points to the coming and future: Aaron's sons blew the two trumpets. They point to the two witnesses (prophetic voices) in Revelation 11: 5-6. The witnesses will prophesy together and proclaim judgment, just as the trumpets are now supposed to proclaim the warning before the court.
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The trumpets announce that the Lord God is on his way. (Exodus 19:13; 1 Thes 4:16; Ps 47: 5) call the congregation to a gathering, to celebrations and to fight the enemies (Numbers 10: 42, 9, 10).
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The trumpets also call for a fight.
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The trumpets call God's people and also the followers of Jesus together.
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They are an indication of the "sounding of the trumpet" with which the resurrection of the dead who fell asleep in the Lord is announced (Revelation 8; 1; Corinthians 15: 51f).
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They announce that the journey will be continued or started. (4th Mo 10: 1)
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Especially in the anniversary year the trumpets are blown, ie. there are certain times when the trumpets are supposed to shake and remind (Ps 150: 3)
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The trumpets announce the coming judgment and call for repentance. (Rev 8: 2) The day of atonement (Yom Kippur) also follows a few days after Yom Teruah.
God speaks to us through the trumpets. (Rev 1: 10-11; Zechariah 9: 4)
Messianic Jews and Christians are reminded by the meaning of the Jewish New Year of the eternal truth in Romans 8, 32-34: God did not spare his own son, but gave him up for all of us to die. How should He not give us everything with him? Who else wants to accuse us? " God himself acquitted us. Who wants to condemn us? Jesus Christ died for us. Even more: He rose from the dead. Now he sits at the right hand of God and stands up for us.