The Bible praises the Land of Israel for its pomegranates (Deut. 8:8). Traditionally, they are eaten on the second night of the Biblical festival of Rosh Hashanah. The exotic fruit filled with its countless red “ruby” gem-kernels of juice, is fully ripe just in time for the feast.
Rosh Hashanah is known in the Bible as the Feast of Trumpets, and is considered the beginning of the Jewish New Year.
This Biblical holiday has a sober side – the call to take stock of our personal moral and religious life of the past year and to come before God with repentant prayers. However, Rosh Hashanah also has a light, culinary, sweet side to its celebration. In addition to pomegranates, dried fruit, grapes, honey and apple slices also cover the festive table.
Jewish dietary practice is diverse and symbolic. In the case of pomegranates, the seeds are considered to signify the variety and number of commandments in the Torah, and fruitfulness in general.
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We regather to take stock of our spiritual condition and make the necessary changes to insure that the upcoming year will be pleasing to God. “Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith” 1 Timothy 1:5
The fulfilment of Rosh Hashana is when all Israel, believing Jew and Gentile, is said to appear before the king of kings in anticipation of personal judgement. In 2 Cor 5:10 we read, “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.”
As mankind continues in the rebellion they began in Eden, the Lord looks to see who has accepted His redemption. He keeps a scroll of remembrance, Mal 3:16 and a Book of Life, Rev 20:12 to record all those who accepted His salvation, His Messiah, who went to the cross to pay the penalty of sin.
Some bible scholars believe Yom Teruah will be fulfilled just before the tribulation when the Antichrist imposes the Mark of the Beast on all his rebels, Rev 13:16. Then the trump, the shofar 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: 17: 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 Thess 4:16 The world then goes into the time of the Great Tribulation.
We see Big Brother gradually increasing his influence over society. Postmodern delusions that God doesn’t exist promotes the humanist justification of self. They’ll all go over the cliff like lemmings rather than give up their independence for God. Let’s continue to witness the salvation of God to them as Jesus told us, John 20:21, that some of them might be saved before we go.
“Shana Tova u’metuka!”