All Things Being Equinox

Biblical Yom Teruah (Feast of Trumpets)

Yom Teruah is supposed to be the first New Moon AFTER the Autumnal Equinox. Therefore, the first New Moon after the Fall Equinox in 2023 is not until October 14, 2023!

Feast of Trumpets is not Rosh Hashanah, usually. Rosh Hashanah has been grossly secularized to meat civil and business considerations. Even as I write this in 2021, Rosh Hashanah is being celebrated two full days prior to a New Moon. As Christians, we do not keep the Feast Days of the Lord (Leviticus 23) out of some sense of regulatory fulfillment of Mosaic Law, for Jesus Messiah fulfilled the Law. Correct? Well, in this case, not yet, and that is rather the point. Jesus fulfilled the Spring feast days, to the day when he first came, but it is interesting that of the seven Feast Days Israel was commanded to keep forever, Jesus has not yet fulfilled The Feast of Trumpets, and that this day known as “the long day” and “The feast that no man knows” because it commences at the sighting of the New Moon after the equinox when the blinding sun is setting as the new moon makes a brief appearance.

Two primary New Testament verses are significant. One passage, 1 Corinthians 15, has already told us how the earlier feasts are fulfilled in Christ, but then we come to this portion:

50 I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. 53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:

“Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”

Also, we see similarly in Revelation 4:

After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”2 At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne.

Elsewhere on this site is greater detail, but it is worth noting that, contrary to civil Rosh Hashanah celebrated September 15, 2023, the biblical Feast of Trumpets falls after the equinox, thus not until after September 23, 2023.

Fun fact. Yom Teruah is supposed to be the first New Moon AFTER the Autumnal Equinox. Therefore, the first New Moon after the Fall Equinox in 2023 is not until October 14, 2023!

Autumnal Equinox – Fall Equinox -By Vigdis Hocken

“Equinoxes are opposite on either side of the equator, so the autumnal (fall) equinox in the Northern Hemisphere is the spring (vernal) equinox in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa. “The September equinox marks the moment the Sun crosses the celestial equator – the imaginary line in the sky above the Earth’s equator – from north to south and vice versa in March.”

So therefore, those wacky worldly people… They have it early. The Autumnal Equinox does not even happen until SEPTEMBER 22, 2023! What does that mean? The following New Moon for biblical Yom Teruah is September 23 or 24 in 2023. Why does this happen? Most Jews today, prophetically, are still secular, which means they plan holidays around business and weekends to maximize days off, etc. just like the secular decision-makers in USA. But it is not biblical.