Stephen has a question about Leviticus 23. We were just talking about the Feast of the Lord. Can you explain the 10 days of awe that is observed during the Fall Feast? Did Yeshua observe these 10 days as the 10 days of awe, or was it added later after all of the persecutions that the Jewish people suffered at the hands of the Catholics? Okay, so let me clear that up for you. Let me first of all explain what the 10 days of awe is.
At the end of the Hebrew year, The last month is the month of Elul. It's always 30 days long. Always is.
And at the one Tishri, the month of Tishri, which is actually the first month of the turning of the year, it's actually the seventh month of the counting of months, but it's the month of the turning of the year, we have... Right off the bat on the first of it, we have trumpets, Feast of Trumpets. Ten days later, we have Atonement, Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement. Five days after that, we have Tabernacles.
which is Sukkot. These three holidays come, and they're referred to as the turn of the year. And our Torah cycle, as we teach, we conclude here, and we start anew after Tabernacles.
We start Bereshit, the first Torah portion teaching here. That cycle has been going on for a long time. This is part of the Hebrew calendar. The days between trumpets and atonement, these 10 days, are called the days of fear. We believe and we teach that this is the time frame that God is making a decision for the next year.
Who will live and who will die? And so the admonition or the, I should say, the exhortation that we give to people is, may you be found in the book of life. May God choose that you shall live.
as opposed to you shall die. May you be found in the book of life. By the way, that plays in, that has a lot of connotation, has to do with the end times.
But let me tell you about, besides this, the 10 days of fear, let me tell you what started over here. And by the way, we're in the middle of it right now. From one alul until atonement is 40 days.
It's the 10 days of all, the 30 days of the month of the law. These are called the days of repentance, that we begin to repent 40 days leading to the day of atonement. The days... of fear are the final part of this greater thing. Now, is this laid out in scripture where it specifically says this?
No, this is not laid out in scripture. These are the customs. Customs, these are the traditions that have come with the observance of these holidays. In other words, all you're told about trumpets is that today a blowing of trumpets. On Yom Kippur, it says this is just a day in which you shall afflict your souls and you will fast and so forth.
That's all it says. And then it says over Tabernacle, you'll dwell in Sukkah and remember how your ancestors escaped from Egypt. That's basically all it says. But what goes with that, the additional stuff, comes by custom and tradition of those who have kept the commandments before. This is the pattern of how they're done.
And one of the things was to prepare for these holidays correctly. In the case of the law, to prepare to get ready for all of these holidays. Once you hit Rosh Hashanah, trumpets, to sound trumpets and get ready here. Because there's trumpet blasts here and there's also a trumpet blast here.
In fact, this trumpet blast is called the last trumpet. The last great trumpet. Which God says that will be sounded when he judges the world. Okay, so it's associated with that. But this trumpet is associated with resurrection and convocation.
So this is the one where you get resurrected. This is the one. when the world gets judged. So that's pretty scary stuff in there.
And so there's a call to be mindful of God's future judgment upon the world when he will decide who lives and who dies between these two dates. And that's part of the understanding to it. It wasn't born out of any persecution. It was born out of people observing these commandments and trying to understand them as best they can and to make them a reality in their lives.
And so these things were customs and traditions that were developed associated with it. Part of the teaching of the priests. Thank you.
If you give, or you take away, if I hear your voice, or I won't follow, if you bite the seed, or I must be still, and just believe, I will follow you.