We are coming upon a special time in the Hebrew calendar, the time of the fall biblical feasts. These are prophetic days that look towards the future. Yom Teruah (Festival of Trumpets-in modern times called Rosh Hashanah), Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), and Sukkot (the Feast of Tabernacles) are all biblical holy days that have rich historical meaning, are traditionally observed in Jewish communities throughout the world, and are also related to the end times and 2nd coming of the Messiah! Yom Teruah/Rosh Hashanah begins sunset of Monday, September 22, 2025, ends nightfall of Wednesday, September 24, 2025. Yom Kippur begins sunset of Wednesday, October 1, 2025, ends nightfall of Thursday, October 2, 2025. Sukkot begins sunset of Monday, October 6, 2025, ends nightfall of Monday, October 13, 2025.
Arlene Stucki, a long time TJCII intercessor and teacher, wrote an article in the Fall 2019 TJCII Newsletter about the feasts and how they relate to our lives in Yeshua. Below is a reprint of that article.
The Days of Awe by Arlene Stucki
Gentile believers in Yeshua have much to learn from the Autumn Biblical Feasts of Israel. These are “Days of Awe” (Yamim Nora’im). There are no such days within the Church calendar that can compare. I learned the meaning of true repentance from the most somber day of the Jewish year: Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement). Leviticus chapter 16 makes it clear that in Temple days, this was a day of national repentance. After the destruction of the Temple, this day also took on the gift of a focus on individual repentance. Because of the atoning death of Yeshua for our sins, we can easily fall into the trap of taking the need for heartfelt repentance much too lightly. To do so, is to belittle the price of the grace of the LORD that is extended to us through Yeshua’s death and resurrection.
Five days after Yom Kippur, the Festival of Sukkot (Tabernacles) comes with great joy. It is a seven day celebration of forgiveness, and even more, of a joyful expectation of the return of our Messiah Yeshua. The vision of TJCII is deeply imbedded in the joy of this expectation.
Yeshua prayed intensely for the unity of His followers just before He suffered that we might have life. TJCII exists for the very purpose of unity in the midst of our many diversities. May we not fail to extend His grace to one another, as we become more conformed to the image of His Son.