This year 2018, it looks like the seventh month will begin with the sighting of the new moon at sunset on September 10th. It is the Holy Day known as Yom Teruah which means “Day of Shouting” also called Feast of Trumpets or Rosh Hashanah (Leviticus 23:23-25; Numbers 29:1-6).
I found this commentary by Keil & Delitzsch very enlightening. This day is appointed for a memorial before Jehovah (Num_10:10), to call us into remembrance before Jehovah, that He might turn towards us, His favour and grace.
For me the trumpet blast is not only a call to remembrance of what God has done, but also a looking forward to that “last” trumpet blast, announcing Jeshua our Messiah’s return.
What I hadn’t realized till this year is that the whole month is special, not just the three feasts that are in it.
The Work is done, time to Rest…
The seventh month of the year, like the seventh day of the week, was consecrated as a Sabbath or sabbatical month, by a holy convocation and the suspension of labour, which were to distinguish the first day of the seventh month from the beginning of the other months or the other new moon days throughout the year.
For the whole month was sanctified in the first day, as the beginning or head of the month; and by the sabbatical observance of the commencement, the whole course of the month was raised to a Sabbath.
This was enjoined, not merely because it was the seventh month, but because the seventh month was to secure to the congregation the complete atonement for all its sins, and the wiping away of all the uncleannesses which separated it from its God, viz., on the day of atonement, which fell within this month, and to bring it a foretaste of the blessedness of life in fellowship with the Lord, viz., in the feast of Tabernacles, which commenced five days afterwards.
This significant character of the seventh month was indicated by the trumpet-blast, by which the congregation presented the memorial of itself loudly and strongly before Jehovah on the first day of the month, that He might bestow upon them the promised blessings of His grace, for the realization of His covenant.
The trumpet-blast on this day was a prelude of the trumpet-blast with which the commencement of the year of jubilee was proclaimed to the whole nation, on the day of atonement of every seventh sabbatical year, that great year of grace under the old covenant (Lev_25:9); just as the seventh month in general formed the link between the weekly Sabbath and the sabbatical and jubilee years, and corresponded as a Sabbath month to the year of jubilee rather than the sabbatical year, which had its prelude in the weekly Sabbath-day. Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
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