10/09/2026
Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruah) begins tomorrow evening! Are you ready?
Yom Teruah/ Rosh Hashanah is Friday, September 11th at Sunset until Sunday September 13th at Sunset, Known as “one long day”
"The Coronation of the King"
It was so interesting for me to find in Jewish writings, a common understanding of end-time events that we, as Christians, have written volumes of books and had endless discussions trying to figure out when these events will take place. Yet in the pages of countless Jewish books and festival liturgy, I have come to realize that our end-time understanding can be greatly enlightened when we see that they are all on the biblical calendar and hidden throughout their festival traditions and ceremonies, as well as hidden throughout the Old and New Testaments. As I listed before in an earlier post, the first fall feast has many names and idioms associated with it. The one I want to draw your attention to today is, “The Coronation of the King”.
A major theme associated with this first fall feast of Rosh Hashanah/Yom Teruah is the Lord’s kingship over the whole earth and Psalm 24 is read in synagogue.
“Lift up your heads, O you gates!
And be lifted up, you everlasting doors!
And the King of glory shall come in.
8 Who is this King of glory?
The Lord strong and mighty,
The Lord mighty in battle.
9 Lift up your heads, O you gates!
Lift up, you everlasting doors!
And the King of glory shall come in.
10 Who is this King of glory?
The Lord of hosts,
He is the King of glory.”
(Note: Yom Teruah is also known as the time of “open gates” and open doors”)
Remember in the month of Elul, we talked about it being known as the time when the King has been on a long journey, He is on His way back to His palace but on His way, He stops in a field to greet the people and hear what is on their hearts. On Rosh Hashanah, He is back in His palace, and He sits on His throne. His coronation is enacted every year, and homage is paid to Him. The following is an excerpt from a Jewish book on the fall feasts called, 60 Days, A Spiritual Guide to the High Holidays, P. 84, by Simon Jacobson:
“The idea of Rosh Hashanah as the day when we coronate G-d as King of the Universe... is essential to the observance, because in the language of Judaism, a king is a metaphor for absolute authority. On Rosh Hashanah we accept upon ourselves G-d as the one and only absolute authority who rules every aspect of our lives, and we submit to His judgment, which we believe will be merciful because He is also our Father.”
It is interesting to note that Israel’s kings in ancient times had their coronation ceremony on Rosh Hashanah (Yom Teruah). In light of that, it makes total sense to me that the King of all Kings will have His coronation at the same time!
By Christie Eisner
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