Posted by Steven Benjamin (by Proxy) on September 18, 2009, 10:22 pm, in reply to "Proxy: SABBATH STUDY 1 Sivan"
The feast of Tabernacles approaches soon, but first, to this timeframe, the first ten days of Sivan, known as THE DAYS OF AWE, or THE DAYS OF REPENTANC E.
The topic for this study has the unity of the topic of “SIN.” 1 Sivan, this year, but not every, falls on the weekly Sabbath. 1 Sivan, is however a High Sabbath, and thus a Sabbath in it’s own right, no matter what day of the week it falls upon. It is the DAY OF TRUMPETS, and blowing the shofar is mandatory on the day. Scripture does not outline a specific number, but Hebrew custom blows the shofar 100 times on the day. Hebrew custom also blows the shofar 100 times each day of the ten days known as the Days of AWE, with the exception of the last, in which it is blown only at Sunset on 9 Sivan, at the beginning of the Day of Atonement, and then due to a scriptural mandatory fast, sounding the shofar on 10 Sivan is outlawed in Israel, but not scripture. The reason is so that no one hear the shofar on 10 Sivan and mistake it as the signal that the Sabbath of Yom Kippur has ended, and end their fast early and by doing so face judgement. But even the 8 days between 1 Sivan and 10 Sivan in which the Shofar is sounded is a customary act, a cultural observance and not a scriptural observance. Still, the sound of Shofars going off throughout the land each day, in various parts of the day for those first 9 days, must certainly add some added amount of “AWE” to those “DAYS OF AWE.”
In this timeframe, are ten days of self reflection and repentance. Sins against God must not only be confessed but repented from. There is a difference, to repent from a thing, is to learn from one’s mistakes, and to commit to oneself, and/or God, not to repeat them. Confession is fine, one cannot repent without an acknowledgement of one’s wrongdoings, but drunks confess to be drunks and continue to drink, and thus remain drunks. Whores confess, even boast of their whoring and go about continuing likewise, confession, is not repentance.
In this timeframe, repentance must not only be sought from God, to make right the wrongs during the year one has in one’s personal relationship with God, but as well from fellow man. Stopping here for a moment, I don’t see maintaining ones relationship with God to be something you can do ONCE A YEAR, but should be kept up daily, as you would a marriage. If you only went about maintaining your marital relationship once a year, well, you might only maintain it once, and then someone else will be doing some maintaining, like custodial and property rights, alimony and the like. But some relationships are more distant, neighbors, friends, distant cousins etc. and unfortunately, for many, such is their relationship with God as well. With such relations, people you only see once a week, or once a month, or once every six months, it would be easy to have a spat, a falling out with a single encounter that could last all year. There is a sin God cannot forgive, that is the sin one commits against one’s fellow mankind.
After all, God is not the injured party. For this reason, murderers must attain forgiveness in the afterlife from their victims. Imagine that, the ATF, certain disgruntled parties going about spreading rumours, the FBI, CLINTON, all playing roles in the deaths of women, children, an entire community on April 19th, 1993, will one day have to face that same community, not the survivors, but the victims and seek pardon for their roles in the event which left those victims lifeless charred corpses to the pages of history, the Blood on their hands which will not wipe clean from their guilt stained conscious no matter how much soap and water, no matter how much liquor absorbed to numb the conscious, good deed performed to pacify the scales of justice, no…none of these efforts will bring absolution, no balance, no souls cleansed of the blood on their hands, nothing short of forgiveness which is not yours or mine to offer, forgiveness which not even God himself can give, but forgiveness which must be sought beyond the boundaries of this life, forgiveness which may or may not be awarded, which can only be sought, only be found just beyond the border of this reality called “LIFE”, just beyond that last gasp, that final breath of air, which sounds like “THE DEATH RATTLE,” which sounds like the pronunciation of a name…”KORESH.”
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