dear Jean thanks for your article and observation, something allways happen in me, when we come close to Yom Kippur, - because I have a vision in the days before the six-day war in 1967. - (I know the YK-war followed in 1973 as war 2)Jean it is a interesting observation you have done, about the church of Smyrna and the ten days, and this year I believe it make a deep sence to me, - also because Im going on hospital 22th of Sept. for operation on 23th of Sept. and one of my good christian friends in N.Y. wrote to me, and strengthen me with this words: dont frigthen Jan, perhaps you will be raptured, and disappear from the table. - First I laugh, and then I said: Oh yes Lord let it be !Jean I like your letters, and allways read them, bless to you !Maranatha, - ><> come Jesus, come and take us Home <>< - jan mikael !Jean Stepnoski (12 Sep 2007)
"The Days of Awe: The 10 Day Process from Trumpets to Yom Kippur"
Dear John and all Doves,
When we as gentiles do research on the Feasts/Additional Sabbaths like the Feast of Trumpets or Yom Kippur we tend to see them as days separate onto themselves. If we try to live them and follow the example of our Master, we learn valuable things in our relationship. With the Feast of Trumpets we are in a 10 day process called the Days of Awe which end with Yom Kippur, the Solemn Day of Atonement. We are in a 30 day process begun at Elul 1 which again ends at 40 days with Yom Kippur. In the Scriptures, is a 40 something process cut short? No. This one may be complete as well. It is not less than 40 days or 40 years. And it does not go to the 41st stripe, as Steve Berryman noted.
Before the exile to Babylon, the Feast of Trumpets may have been a more solemn day and also a fast day. Day ten, Yom Kippur is the only commanded annual fast day in the Scriptures. People are told to afflict their souls in repentence, fast, and seek atonement. This is a process and cycle more important than we may understand. It is a season of sorrow in Tishri 1-10 before the Season of Our Joy from Tishri 15-22 called the Feast of Tabernacles. It is also called the Feast of Ingathering. Will we be the harvest home to be ingathered this year?
One of my postings recently was about whether the Master will come and end the fast of Yom Kippur. He tells us that when the groom is away that the bride will fast. When he returns the bride will no longer fast and no one will be able to take her joy away from her. The annual fast day ends 9-22-7007 with sunset in Israel. I agree with the idea that Trumpets begins the sundown of the day of the partial solar eclipse. We then go forward the ten days. Also, the letters to the 7 faith houses are before the seals are broken. Can Sardis become Philadelphians during these next 10 days of tribulation? Our Master told us that we will have tribulation in this world. However, we are to fear not, because He has conquered the world. These are 10 invaluable days before us. Will the cycle and process clearly stated in the Scriptures be changed? We will soon find out.
When the Beloved, Our Groom, comes for us as promised to take us to the wedding canopy. the wedding chamber, our new home, at the Abba's House our joy will be supreme and know no limits. I long for the day of ingathering. With the days becoming the few and the precious, may we in spirit, watch, look up, prepare, and pray.With Love and Shalom,
Jean Stepnoski