The Prophetic End-Time Meanings of the Jewish Fall Feasts
“You were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.” (Ephesians 1:13)
Like the Jewish Spring feasts (Passover and Pentecost), the Fall feasts — Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot — also hold special prophetic meaning for followers of Jesus.
The Fall feasts occur in the Jewish month of Tishri (late September/early October). The first feast is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. It is a joyful time spent with friends and family, eating sweet foods, blowing the shofar (ram’s horn), fasting, performing charitable works, and attending worship services. It is also a call to repentance when the Jewish people settle in for prayer, seeking God’s mercy so He will write their names in His Book of Life. If God does not write their name in the Book of Life, the belief is God will write their name in the Book of Death.
However, God will not write many people’s names in either book. Those people have another ten days to repent and seek God’s mercy. These ten days are called the “Days of Awe” or “Ten Days of Repentance” and end on Yom Kippur when God closes the books.
While it may seem that Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur have purely Jewish significance, prophecy records that they both point to New Testament end-time events.
