The Shannah and 5778

The Shanah/Shannah and 5778

Song: Open my eyes Lord, Open my eyes Lord, I want to be like you, I want to be like you.

Open my heart Lord, Open my heart Lord, I want to love you, I want to love you.

Shannah means to repeat a second time as in repetition and it also means to change.

The year has 365 days and it repeats year after year. There are seasons within the year and they repeat year after year. Season as you know also means The Sabbths of Leviticus 23.

We creatures like to do routines. We repeat things we enjoy doing.

Our very nature is to repeat, just as we live, by nature, as creatures of habit. We gravitate toward that which we have done before, the same routines and courses, even when those routines and courses are harmful to us.

Routine means a regular course of action adhered to by order or habit.

The Jewish New year begins in the Fall in the month of Tishrei (September 15^th- October 15^th) and we read the first 5 books of the Torah on a weekly reading schedule year after year after year. We repeat the lessons from the Torah so we are a people of habit and routines.

The Biblical year begins in the month of Abib in the spring and this year is now the year of 5778 with 5 meaning grace, 7 meaning completion/war; and 8 meaning a New Beginning.

Shanah H8132

alter, beam, change, changed, changing, different, disguise, disguised, given to change, pervert, transferred, various (1).

shinan: repetition H8136
Transliteration: shinan; Word Origin from shanah
Definition repetition

shanah: to repeat, do again a second time, speak again

Original Word: שָׁנָה; H8138
Word Origin a prim. Root; Definition: to repeat, do again

We as humans have a choice to repeat year after year or change as we grow year after year.

The way of the world is to repeat—but the way of God is the way of newness and change. You and I can’t know God and not be changed by knowing Him. His will for this new Biblical year of 5778 which began on March 28, 2017 is not a time of repetition but of change, of new beginnings, new steps, of breaking out of the old and into the new. If you want to experience a year of new things, you must choose to live not in the repetition of the natural, but in the newness of the supernatural. Choose to walk not in your will but in the will of Him who is beyond the natural and beyond all that is old. As it is written, He makes all things new. Open your heart, your soul, your Spirit, and your mind to the newness of His will, and you will walk in the newness of life and in the shannan of change.

Gen_35:2  Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments:

A bride changes from old dirty rags to a new white dress and is a queen for the day next to her groom the King on their wedding day. And they live happily ever after as King and Queen after the wedding ceremony.

Isa 43:19  Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

Rom 6:4  Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

2Co 5:17  Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

This year is the year that counts to be able to step out of our old ways, habits, and steps. Take a step of faith and do what you have never done before but should have and walk in the newness of the Spirit.

 

This article is adopted from: The Book of Mysteries by Jonathan Cahn “The Shannah” Day 3.