Month 7 – The Seventh Month & The Feast of Trumpets
What’s the only feast that falls on the beginning of a month? The Feast of Trumpets! The Feast of Trumpets always begins on the first day of the seventh month on the Hebrew calendar.
Look at Leviticus 23:24-25:
24 “Tell the people of Isra’el, ‘In the seventh month, the first of the month is to be for you a day of complete rest for remembering, a holy convocation announced with blasts on the shofar.25 Do not do any kind of ordinary work, and bring an offering made by fire to Adonai.’”
Why the Zadok Priestly Calendar?
If you are keeping the Lunisolar Hebrew calendar in which each month starts with a new moon and a 13th month is sometimes added, I applaud your desire and commitment. I have kept and promoted this calendar for nearly 20 years.
In 2024, I faced confusion with the calendar. Some believers and congregations added a 13th month to accommodate the ripening of the barley in Israel, some did not.
That put Messianic congregations a month apart in their feast observances. Also, the actual sighting of the first sliver of the new moon (which determines when a new month starts) did not line up with what was calculated on the calendar I was using, which further threw off the dates of the feasts and rosh chodesh (head of the month) observances.
So, I redoubled my efforts. (more…)
