Part 2 - Rosh Hashanah and the New Covenant

 

The commandments for the celebration of Rosh Hashanah include the offering of sacrifices. Because the Temple was destroyed in 70AD, many of the Old Testament laws, including the Rosh Hashanah commandments, cannot be kept today. Here are the Rosh Hashanah commandments:

"And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD." - Leviticus 23:23-25 KJV

"Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God." - Numbers 10:10 KJV

The New Covenant brings the final sacrifice of Christ, God manifest in flesh, that is able to take away our sins, while the Old Covenant sacrifices could not. (1Corinthians 15:1-4, Acts 2:37-39).

"For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. ... For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins." - Hebrews 10:1, 4 KJV

"By the which will [For God’s will] we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all [once for all time]." - Hebrews 10:10 KJV

"He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not.

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." - John 1:10-13 KJV (John 3:5).

We that have received Him look forward to the day when the trump of God will sound.

"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." - 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 KJV