Musing - What’s the Significance of HIS (Fall) Feast Days?

 Hebraic Musing - What’s the Significance of HIS (Fall) Feast Days?  

Understanding the message or significance of the FALL FEASTS is exciting for the Jew and should also be for today’s Christian.  Note the foretelling of our walk and future events leading up to Yeshua’s 1^st and 2^nd coming:

1.   Rosh HaShanah hnvh  var  or Yom Teruah is the start of the High Holy Days and G-d’s Wake-up Call with Trumpets/Shofars recognizing that Judgment day is near!  We can see this as the day the church will be re-gathered.   So, the custom is to do good deeds to get our name written in the Book of Life.  (The best deed obviously is to recognize Yeshuah as the Messiah!)  The day starts with the Shofar blown 100 times to start an exciting New Year celebration.  A Sabbath according to Lev.23:23-25 & Numbers 29:1-6.  (This year it was last Monday, Sept.22nd at sunset to 24^th at sunset)

2.   Yom Kippur  rPK  <wy  or Day of Atonement is the Holiest Day of the Year.  This is the day the High Priest entered the Holiest of Holies to make atonement for all the people and the scapegoat is released to carry our sins away.  Yeshua entered the Holy of Holies (heaven itself) once for all, by His own blood sacrifices, the veil tore.  Represents the Final day of Judgment when God judges his people.  (Many Jews attend Rosh HaShanah & Yom Kippur services even if they have not attended services the rest of the year.)  It is typically a day of total fast and reflection/confession of our sins to repent and be cleansed.  Since Jews can no longer offer blood sacrifices (temple torn down in 70 AD) they substitute prayer and good works. (Next Wednesday, October 1, at sunset to October 3^rd at sunset)

3.   Sukkot   twKs   or Feast of Booths or Tabernacles is celebrated for 7 days by living in booths for 8 days (God requested they stay an extra day for fellowship with Him).  It reminds the Israelites of their 40 years living in the desert.  We Christians could use this time to reflect on the time we spent in our desert before we entered the promised land.  Many believe Jesus was born at this time and He ‘tabernacled’ with us, and that He may return during this feast.  This represents the final harvest when all believers will celebrate this feast.   It has been reported that the Pilgrims celebrated “Tabernacles” and history has altered the concept/name to ‘Thanksgiving’.  (Monday, October 6^th at sunset to the 14^th at sunset⁾

4.   Simchat Torah    hrwT tjmc, the added 8^th day of Sukkot, celebrates “The Joy of the Torah”.  This day was appointed by G-d as a sacred assembly in Deut.31:10-13   "At the end of every seven years, in the year for canceling debts, during the Feast of Tabernacles,  when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord your God at the place he will choose, you shall read this law before them in their hearing. Assemble the people — men, women and children, and the aliens living in your towns — so they can listen and learn to fear the Lord your God and follow carefully all the words of this law.  Their children, who do not know this law, must hear it and learn to fear the Lord your God as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess."  NIV    I think the Lord wants us to read the Torah, to listen, learn to fear Him, and follow carefully all the words.  And it is for all His children, of whom I am one and so are you.  We believers are to be rejoicing with the Living Torah – Yeshua HaMashiach.   Let’s sing ♫Simchat Torah♫ (Literally “Rejoicing of the Torah”) the day after Sukkot. (Tuesday, Oct. 14 at sunset to Oct. 15 at sunset)

G-d’s feast days present a complete salvation message.  SUMMARY of the significances of the Feasts – Remember our deliverance from slavery (salvation): we learn to live without sin; we know that the “bread of life” arose so we can have everlasting life; we have His commandments written on our minds and hearts for our own good; we recognize and acknowledge preparation for a judgment day when there will be a final harvest.

Points to Ponder

♫  Are you ready?  Are you ready?  Ready for that judgement day? ♫

Shouldn’t we mark our calendars with these “Feast Days” so we don’t forget?

“Shalom Aleichem” (Peace unto you.)     Response – “Aleichem Shalom” (Unto you peace)

Yosef   a.k.a.  Joe Brusherd                            September 30, 2025            
Author: “Hebraic Insights – Messages exploring the Hebrew roots of our faith” 
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Note – Originally published as Hebraic Insight #24, June 17, 2009