The Feast of Trumpets, also known as Rosh Hashanah or Yom Teruah – 2025 – LIVE COUNTDOWN – LIVE STEAM

The Feast of Trumpets in 2025 will be observed on Tuesday, September 23.

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The Feast of Trumpets, also known as Rosh Hashanah or Yom Teruah, is a Jewish holiday marking the beginning of the new year and the High Holy Days. It is a festival of both joy and seriousness, characterized by the sounding of the shofar (trumpet) and significant in both Jewish and Christian theology, where it symbolizes prophetic anticipation and the return of Christ.

Jewish Significance

New Year:
The Feast of Trumpets is the first day of the seventh month (Tishri) on the Hebrew calendar, which serves as the start of the Jewish New Year.

Yom Teruah (Day of the Sounding of the Shofar):

The name Yom Teruah translates to “day of the sounding of the shofar,” referring to the loud, symbolic noise of the trumpet that is central to the holiday.

High Holy Days:
The festival begins the Ten Days of Repentance, a solemn period leading up to the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur).

Sweet Foods:
It is a time of sweetness, with traditional foods like apples and honey eaten for a sweet new year.

Christian Significance

Prophetic Expectation:
In Christian tradition, the Feast of Trumpets is seen as a symbol of prophetic events, including the return of Jesus Christ to the world.

The Rapture:
Some believers connect the feast to the rapture, an event where Christ returns for his church.

“The Day and the Hour No Man Knows”:
The feast’s timing, determined by the sighting of the new moon, makes it difficult to know the exact day and hour it will begin, a reference that Christian scholars associate with Jesus’s teachings on the timing of his second coming.

Observance

Trumpets/Shofars: The central ritual involves blowing the shofar, a ram’s horn.

Rest and Assembly: The holiday involves resting from work and assembling as a community.

Two-Day Observance: Due to the unpredictability of new moon sightings, two days are often observed for the feast in modern times to ensure the correct start.

The signs of the bridegroom’s imminent arrival accumulate day after day, and the bride watches and longs with holy expectation for the appearance of the beloved of her soul to take her to dwell with him for eternity.

The seven solemn feasts instituted by God for the people of Israel are, without a doubt, a faithful reflection of Christ’s work. Christ fulfilled the first four, corresponding to spring, on the exact day of each: Passover (his death), Unleavened Bread (his burial), First Fruits (his resurrection), and Pentecost (the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the church). The remaining three, corresponding to autumn, still remain to be fulfilled: the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles.

This is why the Feast of Trumpets has been a highly observed feast by many Christians throughout the world, who firmly believe that the following prophetic events that will come upon the church and the world will be fulfilled during it.

This is not a space to set a date or predict a day for church time, but rather a reminder that the Word of the Lord will be inexorably fulfilled, and we long for the day of our redemption to be fulfilled as soon as possible.

We encourage the church of Christ to be prepared, to cleanse her robes through the sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ, to fill her lamps with the oil of the Holy Spirit, and to watch attentively, in prayer and fasting, for the glorious moment when the final trumpet will sound to raise us to our heavenly home.

Can it be on this Feast of Trumpets that the final trumpet will sound? It is our longing for it to be as soon as possible, and each day we will be watching expectantly, awaiting our redemption.

If you don’t yet know Christ, we invite you to surrender your life to Him, declaring your sins and recognizing Christ as your only Savior and His sacrifice on the cross as the only way to reunite with God the Father, our Creator.