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Peter, that was an excellent article. "So shana tova, may you have a year filled with meaning and purpose. And happiness that will surely follow." I'll be saying shana tova from now on in. Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year. It is the anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve, and a day of judgment. It begins at sundown on the eve of Tishrei 1 (Sept. 20, 2017) and ends after nightfall on Tishrei 2 (Sept. 22, 2017).

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How Is Rosh Hashanah Celebrated? Rosh Hashanah is a Jewish holiday marking the first and second days of the Jewish year. (In 2017, Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown on September 20 and continues through nightfall on September 22). It’s the day G‑d created Adam and Eve, and it’s celebrated as the head of the Jewish year. http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/4830/jewish/How-Is-Rosh-Hashanah-Celebrated.htm#utm

Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year. It is the anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve, and a day of judgment and coronation of G‑d as king. http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/4644/jewish/Rosh-Hashanah.htm

It is my understand that the name Rosh Hashanah was picked up in Babylon. If you read the websites listed in the other posts so far, you realize that a LOT of tradition has been added and incorporated through the Oral Torah. God told Israel that the "first month" of their year was Nissan (the month of Passover). So Rosh Hashanah cannot be "New Year". The original name was Yom Teruah (Day of Shofar Blowing). The shofar blasts each day for 10 days, were to WARN the people that Yom Kippur (judgment day) was only 10 days away. They were to confess any sins, pray for forgiveness, and make things right with Yahweh BEFORE Yom Kippur. They were to be reconciled to those they had wronged. Personally, I spend this time praying the LORD will bring to my awareness those things HE wants to change in me. I ask HIM to remind me of those persons I need to forgive or to be reconciled with. I believe the LORD's appointed times, were prophecy. In Revelation there are seven trumpets and three woes leading up to the glorious coming and judgment day.

Orygun... the rain we're having this week has helped douse the wildfires. Many of the firefighters have been allowed to leave and return to their home areas.

ABC's of Rosh Hashanah A handy checklist of everything you need to know for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. http://www.aish.com/h/hh/rh/guide/48939217.html (ps:They got some awesome Challah recipes + some others. I'd like to do the round challah and the cookies!!)

I have already been Divinely judged and found guilty. Jesus took my guilt and gave me His righteousness. 28 Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.…Matthew 11 5Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said: “Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you.” 6So we say with confidence: “The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”… Hebrews 13 I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf. 27For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came from God......John 16 God is Love!~Jesus saves!

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In college we studied Revelation first in the light of the current events under how Domitian the deadly wound of the Nero persecution arose. (The first century Roman Emperors sounded a lot like Daniel 7. We start out with 10 of them. The 6th one was Nero who was the worst persecuting power but then he received the deadly wound and the level of persecution returned to baseline. then came three emperors who were plucked up Galba, Otro, and Vitllius, by the Flavain family where Titus destroyed the temple and Domitian healed the deadly wound of the Nero persecution. In the chapters such as Matthew 24 the second coming was connected to the fall of Jerusalem. The church lost it's first love. Texts in Romans indicate that the church though that going into all the world was to go to the Jewish world. (Paul said that the gospel was spread to the whole world and if he had the time he would like to bring the gospel to other places, such as Spain). The theme of Revelation is to preach again. That yes Domitian will martyr them as they preach but to not let that stop them, that in sheol the martyrs get to rest under the alter, to be resurrected when their number was full. That as the gospel spread and the people embracing the gospel were martyred that would have lead to a last generation on the earth and that under these conditions the thousand years would have been something special for the resurrected martyrs followed by the resurrection for everyone else. Of course the church did not preach again. Instead of the gospel going into all the world, we see that there was a spiritual vacuum that in the east ended up being filled by what was until then just a small insignificant religion in India called Buddhism. But had the church returned to her first love and preached again this vacuum could have been filled by the gospel. Domitian may have known how his family sounded like Daniel 7 and felt a pride to be the center of history for the Jewish' people's Bible. But in Revelation Domitian is also put in his place. His fulfillment of Daniel 7 was dependent on not what he did or did not do but on the spreading of the Gospel. If it was not spread there would be a turning from the focus on the 4 beasts in Daniel to an increased role and focused on the three other aspects of the feet of iron and clay, the toes of iron and clay and the attempt of the toes to unite, so a focus on 7 parts instead of the 4, and Domitian just being a nuisance part of the 4th head. And for the thousand years not being just something special for the martyrs, but for all who lived and died under the gospel. The two theories I've heard for the reapplication of the thousand years in this larger application over a longer history: 1. Looking at what the New Testament says about the second coming and heaven and the desolation of the earth passages in the Old Testament is the picture of the redeemed spending the thousand years in heaven, and on earth, the demons (who are too busy trying to deceive and kill us and do not have time to really understand what they are doing) finally have a time with nothing to do but reflect and realize what they have become and how ugly sin is. And the redeemed have their questions answered. (an investigative judgment of the questions of the redeemed and of the angels-- Paul says that we will be judging angels, and I don't think he meant to limit this to just demons otherwise he'd say demons) then he return to earth for the closing scenes of the Great Controversy. 2. Jesus reigns on earth for a thousand years, the demons in some kind of bottomless pit, and at the end of the thousand years Jesus giving us the choice to either continue living under his rule or to be thrown into a fire to burn in physical torment forever.

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