Rocky Mountain Creation Fellowship has selected the Jewish New Year, which is the anniversary of Creation, as the holiday to observe Creation Weekend. The following is a list of reasons why this is an optimum choice.

We gratefully acknowledge information available on www.torah.org as the source of our information regarding this Jewish holiday.

Reference: www.torah.org/learning/yomtov/roshhashanah/vol4no11.html

1. The Jews observe each year the holiday given to Moses in Lev 23:24-25, called Rosh Hashanah, or the Feast of Trumpets, on the First and Second of Tishrei (in late September at the new moon), as a memorial to the Creation. The holiday begins the High Holy Days, culminating with Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) ten days later.

2. The celebration of this day is marked with solemnity, as it is the day on which the whole world is judged for the coming year, according to Jewish tradition. Rosh Hashanah is the birthday of mankind, for it was on this day that God created man, the 6th day of Creation.

3. The anniversary of the Creation of Adam and the beginning of God's rule as King, which commenced with the creation of Adam, is celebrated with the prayer: "This day is the beginning of your works, the commemoration of the first day of Adam." Each year on this day, Jews proclaim God as their one and true King, and His rule over them.

5. So while the apostate church celebrates the "enlightenment" of evolution on Darwin's birthday (“Evolution Sunday”), true believers can honor the Creator on Adam's birthday. [Last September, 2006 In a Denver Sunday school class, we had a birthday cake for Adam, who was 5766 years old, according to the Jewish calendar. We also blew the traditional shofar (ram's horn trumpet), in honor of the Feast of Trumpets, which reminded us that Christ will soon be returning.]

6. It is fitting that we have a holiday devoted to celebrating Creation, because "The works of the Lord are great, sought out by all those who delight therein. He has made His wonderful works to be remembered." (Psalm 111:2,4)

7. The event occurs roughly midway between Easter and Christmas, just after school starts, and seems a perfect opportunity to have a worldwide observance in the Church to honor our Creator.

8. Part of the motivation for the celebration of Creation Weekend is to refute the claims of the apostate church that celebrates Darwin¹s birthday on "evolution Sunday" each year in February. Over 10,000 pastors participated in the observance last year, by signing an open letter stating that evolution theory is compatible with Christianity, and to reject it is "ignorance." The letter claims that the atheistic philosophy of evolution is foundational truth which can "comfortably coexist" with the Bible." But the fact is that Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and He taught the Genesis account of Creation! A date to coincide with “Evolution Sunday” was not chosen to observe Creation Weekend, because that would draw attention to false teaching in the church, and because such a date bears no relationship to the Creation.

9. When Christ was asked by the disciples, “What shall be the sign of your coming?”[Matt 24:3], He said (among other things like “earthquakes in diverse places”), “None know the day or the hour.”[Matt 25:13]. We wonder if this statement is an indirect reference to Rosh Hashanah, which required official priest/observers to watch the moon and declare the arrival of the new moon, which in those days could not be predicted accurately. When the new moon arrived, the trumpets were then blown to announce the end of harvest, and Jews stopped their work and went to the temple to worship. For this reason, many wonder whether Christ’s return, which will also be announced with “a great sound of the trumpet” [Matt 24:31], will occur on Rosh Hashanah, ushering in the New Millennium at the time of the Jewish New Year.