The Fall Festivals - by David Hocking - http://www.davidhocking.org/blog/?p=4575
Rosh Hashanah is also known as the "Feast of Trumpets" and begins the Jewish New Year. On the Jewish calendar it comes on the first day of the month Tishri (Biblical information in Leviticus 23:23-25). Immediately following this day Jews honor ten days that emphasize repentance - often calling them "the days of awe." These "High Holy Days" are ended with Yom Kippur, known as the Day of Atonement, which falls on Tishri 10. On Tishri 15 begins the joyful celebration of Succoth or the Feast of Tabernacles (continues for eight days - the first and eighth days treated as "Shabat" (Sabbath Days - "holy convocations") - no manual labor is to be done.
Jewish tradition believes that God writes every person's words, deeds, and thoughts in the Book of Life which He opens and examines on the Day of Atonement. If your good deeds outnumber your bad deeds for the past year, that person's name will be inscribed in the Book of Life for another year. So, during Rosh Hashanah and the ten days that follow, people can not only repent of their sins, but they can increase their good deeds and their chances of being inscribed in the Book of Life (supposedly). Of course, there is no security in such a practice, nor does the Bible teach it. During Rosh Hashanah services in a Jewish synagogue, the Shofar is blown 100 times.
ROSH HASHANAH = REPENTANCE
YOM KIPPUR = REDEMPTION
SUCCOTH = RESTORATION
Isaiah 64:6 says "But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Isaiah 59:1-2 states clearly: "Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither His ear heavy that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you, that He will not hear."
King David wrote in his psalm of repentance that what we need is the "mercy of God" - Psalm 51:1-10 emphasizes that God must cleanse us from our sins and only He can make us "whiter than snow."
"Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy lovingkindness:
According unto the multitude of Thy tender mercies blot out my
transgressions. Wash ma throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse
me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin
is ever before me. Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned, and done
this evil in Thy sight: that Thou mightiest be justified when Thou speakest, and be clear when Thou judgest. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part Thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which Thou hast broken may rejoice. Hide my face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me."
Isaiah 43:25 quotes the LORD saying: "I, even I, am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for Mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins."
Isaiah 44:21-22 says: "Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for thou art My servant: I have formed thee; thou art My servant: O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of Me. I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto Me; for I have redeemed thee."
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