NEW YEAR:
New Year's eve, December thirty-first, is a holiday known for rowdy partying and revelry. There is nothing wrong with celebrating the coming of the new year, but we should do it appropriately. In ancient times they, too, made lots of noise, and hollered and cheered when midnight came, as an attempt to send out the old year’s evils and bring in a good beginning to the new year. Going to New Year's Eve parties and getting high on drugs or alcohol is not ‘Christlike’ as they call it (or Messiah-like).
Romans 13:12-14 “The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Yahushuwa the Messiah, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.”
When I was a teenager I was not living for Yahuwah, nor did I know how to or that I should seek to, and my goal for this was to get drunk and party. Many teenagers look for a member of the opposite sex to spend the night with. I well remember the times my best friend’s mother became drunk on grasshoppers (a green alcoholic drink). She sat in front of the toilet the next day vomiting up what she swore were little green grasshoppers that were jumping out of the toilet! New Years day is known for hangovers. Now days we celebrate it at home as we thank Yahuwah for the blessings of the old year and ask him to bless the new one.
But this holiday also came from pagans:
"Janus was the Pagan Roman god of beginnings and endings and of gates and doors. He was depicted having two faces with one face looking to what is behind and with one face looking toward what lies ahead. The reasoning behind the symbolism of the two faces is that both gates and doors have two sides and to end something to start a new beginning one must pass through being on one side or the other not remaining in the middle."- Laura Jean Karr - lifeinitaly.com"Some consider Janus to be the first priest and the Father of Divination. Titles he earned by his ability to see the past and look into the future."
Below is an excellent blog to read about this pagan deity:
This is not Yahuwah’s New Year. On the Hebrew calendar the true New Year or first month of the year begins on the first day of Nisan, which falls between March and April, and it’s the same month that the Passover is in.
Here is a good read about the Real New Year by Maria Merola Wold.
The first day of the 7th month of the Hebrew calendar, Rosh Hashanah (same day as Yom Teruah), is a 'civic' new year, and it is celebrated as a New Year for the Jews. It’s pretty silly to think that the new year would begin in the 7th month instead of the 1st month. The Jews believe it is the day that Adam was created, the day that Samuel was born, and the day the first temple was dedicated, and they celebrate the creation of the world every year on this day! Rosh Hashana means ‘head of the year’, but this would be a civic new year, not the real new year, which is in the springtime. This day is on the beginning of the seventh month on the Hebrew calendar, not the first month, which is in the springtime.
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