It is Jewish tradition that the names of people are  WRITTEN in books on Yom Teruah (The Feast of Trumpets): righteous, or wicked, or indeterminate. Only on Yom Kippur, after The Days of Awe, 10 days later, are the names SEALED. Someone can change for the better, repent, and go into the Book Of The Righteous between Yom Teruah and Yom Kippur. Believers, the Redeemed in Messiah-Christ, want our names WRITTEN, never erased, and SEALED in The Lamb’s Book of Life. Yom Kippur is THE LAST DAY of 40 days of Teshuvah (repentance). LAST DAY. Also It is THE LAST DAY of THE DAYS OF AWE. Can we spiritually discern Yom Kippur completing, fulfilling, finalizing, and SEALING earlier themes associated with Yom Teruah? Some of the themes: Raising of the Dead, Arrival of A Great King, Royal Wedding, and King’s Coronation. Have these been symbolically proclaimed by the sounds of many rams horn shofars blown globally on Yom Teruah 2022? Are The Appointed Times of Yom Teruah and Yom Kippur, Time # 5 and Time # 6, part of a vitally necessary continuum and process to be final and SEALED on Yom Kippur 2022? Yom Kippur involves the longest fast of the year. It is traditional for Jewish brides and grooms to fast before going to the wedding canopy (the Chuppah) for the concluding wedding rituals. The Messiah’s teachings about fasting appear in all 3 Synoptic Gospels. Will the Messiah end the pre wedding fast by arriving on Yom Kippur? Or at the midnight hour for Israel going into Tishri 11, the weekly Day 7 Shabbat?

 

Upon reflection, it seems that Yom Kippur is a necessary day of completion, finalization, and SEALING in many ways that Yom Teruah is not. Yom Teruah as prelude? A day to Ramp Up in anticipation and eagerness for “The Joy of His Appearing” in 2022? Yom Teruah is like the day for ANNOUNCEMENTS and PROCLAMATIONS of nearing events, while Yom Kippur is about multiple SEALINGS! Remember that the ENDING of a 40 day period is about SUMMATION and COMPLETION. Think of Jonah and Ninevah. LAST DAY. All finished. Done deal. Each and all repented. Saved. Now think of national Israel on Yom Kippur. It was THE DAY annually when ALL ISRAEL’S SINS were symbolically blood washed, covered (Kippur). Total cleansing. Blood. Faith. Hope. Trust. Purity. Righteousness. Deliverance. Relief. Joy and Rejoicing. FREEDOM for each and all! Is Yom Kippur an annual big deal? It certainly is, since days long ago! APPOINTED TIME!

 

   On Yom Kippur at synagogues is the beautiful and sublime ritual called The Closing of the Gates. Gates of Heaven. And within? Is The Book of Life with the names WRITTEN and SEALED. Near sunset, the last few rays of sunlight are fading away. Near twilight, approaching night’s profound darkness. Day is DONE. ONLY THEN is blown on the shofar, the thrilling sound of THE GREAT TRUMP. Long lingering in the air in space and in time. Then silence. This is 10 days after The Last Trump heard on Yom Teruah. Are there only 10 days of tribulation for the bride of Messiah, the body of Christ, to consider with AWE the SHEER AUGUST MAJESTY of ABBA FATHER and His ever living SON, THE MESSIAH OF ISRAEL? To REPENT and PREPARE before the great SEALINGS on Yom Kippur 2022? I wonder…

 

With Love and Shalom,

Jean