A quarter century later, Rosh Hashanah and 9/11 converge on the day judgment is written, but the shofar is silent:
This Rosh Hashanah arrives on the eve of September 11, 2026, twenty-five years to the day since nineteen terrorists hijacked four American airliners and killed 2,977 people, including five Israelis, drawn from more than seventy nations. The Jewish New Year, theYamim Noraim, the Days of Awe, begins this year at the exact hour America marks a quarter century of mourning. It is only the second time since 2001 that the two dates have coincided, and this year Rosh Hashanah falls on Shabbat as well, meaning the shofar that normally opens the Jewish year will not sound at all.
TheUnetane Tokefprayer, recited on Rosh Hashanah since medieval times, states, “B’Rosh Hashanah yikateivu, u’v’yom tzom Kippur yeichateimun,” “On Rosh Hashanah it is written, and on the fast day of Yom Kippur it is sealed” (from theUnetane Tokefprayer). The prayer plainly names what will be decided that day: “who will live and who will die.” American Jews reciting those words this year will do so twenty-five years and two days after standing in synagogues in 2001, when Rosh Hashanah fell on September 17, and half the country was still counting its dead.... The prayer that names life and death was never abstract for them. This year it returns on the anniversary itself.
She's right; everything is converging! When I first started watching Bible prophecy come true, it was like she said: one thing might happen in an entire year, and then several years later something else would come to pass. Now, it's hard to keep up! Prophetic things happen every day! Lately I especially notice the way society is getting coarser and just meaner. People are hurting others for no reason. It never used to be like that. Maybe this Rosh Hashanah will be the rapture!
