Chuck Pierce: "UNDERSTANDING THE JEWISH NEW YEAR, 5767, JEWISH HOLY DAYS, AND 'RAMADAN'"

Chuck Pierce: "UNDERSTANDING THE JEWISH NEW YEAR, 5767, JEWISH HOLY DAYS, AND 'RAMADAN'"

Entering Year 5767

May the Lord bless you with all of His blessings that He has stored for you in Heavenly places. We have just ended the Hebraic Year 5766, and have participated in the "blowing of the trumpets" that ushers in the year 5767, the year of the "Clash of the SWORD of the Lord."
5766 has been a year to "Stake our claim for the Future." As we move forward into 5767, He is ready to sharpen you and develop your identity for the future. With the 30-day prayer focus, this article is fairly long, but is worth your reading and participation to understand the times we are in.

We are entering Rosh Hashanah, the Head of the Year celebration. This is a holiday of giving. There is a great power and release in giving. Rosh Hashanah began on the evening of September 22nc. ROSH HA-SHANA, the "Head of the Year," is marked with two holidays. Jews eat apples dipped in honey and wish each other "Shana Tova!" (A Good Year). This fall feast has become the "Jewish New Year." Rosh Hashanah heralds the beginning of the "civil" new year.

Modern Rosh Hashanah is traced back to the so-called "Feast of Trumpets," the sounding of the trumpets on the first day of the seventh month (Tishri) of the religious calendar year (Leviticus 23:24; Numbers 29:1).

Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, which includes prayer and fasting, also begins this year at the same time. This year, there is a war in the Heavens over who will control the sound in the earth realm.

THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE SWORD!

Remember, we are still coming full circle. This year the sword helps us cut our way into that place that the Lord will help us stand and decree victory in the earth realm. The sword is a symbol of war! The sword is a symbol of divine judgment! The sword is a symbol of power and authority! (Romans 13:4)

We are praying that you enter into a new place of authority and all of your spiritual enemies be overcome. The Word of God is called "the sword of the Spirit!" The sword also represents the justice of God (Zechariah 13:7). The sword represents the protection of God (Deuteronomy 33:29). This will be a year that God deals more harshly with wicked structures.

Three scriptures that I will be praying for you are:

1. Isaiah 41:15-20, especially verse 15, "You will be a new, threshing instrument with many sharp teeth. You will tear your enemies apart, making chaff of mountains." DECREE THAT YOUR IDENTITY BE MADE NEW. MAY YOU OVERCOME EVERY MOUNTAIN IN THE PAST THAT HAS BLOCKED YOUR WAY! The Lord Jesus Christ is a sword (Isaiah 49:2; Revelations 1:16). May you come into a new, intimate place with Him, and overcome and press through into a new identity.

2. Hebrews 4:12 "For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." DECREE THAT THE WORD OF GOD IN YOU PIERCE AND UNLOCK REVELATION THAT HAS BEEN STORED FOR THIS HOUR!

3.) Psalm 149, (you should memorize this passage) which says, "Praise the LORD! Sing to the LORD a new song, and His praise in the assembly of saints. Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. Let them praise His name with the dance; Let them sing praises to Him with the timbrel and harp. For the LORD takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the humble with salvation.

Let the saints be joyful in glory; let them sing aloud on their beds. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand, to execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples; to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; to execute on them the written judgment--this honor have all His saints.

Praise the LORD!"

DECREE THAT YOU WILL REMEMBER THAT YOU HAVE A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD. DO NOT FORGET TO PRAISE THE LORD! May praise overwhelm you this year.

The CONVERGENCE

Holy seasons for two of the world's religions are converging this year. The first full day of Rosh Hashanah, which marks the start of the Jewish New Year, started on September 23rd. The Muslim holy month Ramadan, is predicted to begin the same day. (I explain Ramadan below.) THE BLOWING OF THE TRUMPETS IS MORE IMPORTANT THIS YEAR THAN WE HAVE EXPERIENCED IN RECENT YEARS! This Feast culminates with the Feast of Tabernacles.

On the Feast of Trumpets, or "Day of Blowing" (Yom T'ruah), "You shall have a Sabbath, a reminder by blowing, a holy convocation" (Leviticus 23). The shofar was used as a call to battle (Judges 3:27). It was sounded at the battle of Jericho. In Joel 2:1, it sounded an alarm on the Temple Mount to herald the coming of the Day of the LORD. In Joel 2:15, it is associated with repentance, the calling of a fast and solemn assembly. In Psalm 150, it is an instrument of jubilant praise.

Zechariah 9:14, specifically states that the Lord GOD Himself will blow the shofar when He fights in the last days with the Sons of Zion against the Sons of Greece. This is a sound that we must get to know. The trumpet referred to here was the shofar, a ram's horn. It was distinctive from the silver trumpets blown on the other new moons.

Silver trumpets were sounded at the daily burnt offering and at the beginning of each new month (Numbers 10:10), but the shofar specifically was blown on the beginning of the month Tishri. It begins the "ten days of awe" before the day of atonement. According to Leviticus 23:24-27, the celebration consisted of the blowing of trumpets, a time of rest, and "an offering made by fire."