The Feast Of Trumpets Or Yom Teruah

All the Feasts in the Scripture are seen as “Jewish Festivals” but those are actually the Festivals of YHVH, He made them and He instructed His people to observe them. The Festivals of YHVH are divided into two main groups; the Spring Festivals and the Fall Festivals. We have already celebrated the Spring Festivals; Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits and Pentecost. The Feast of Trumpets is the first of the last three Festivals, which fall under the Fall Festivals. It is also known as “the Day of Blowing” or Yom Teruah. All the Festivals are Commandments or Ordinances that YHVH gave to act as reminders of something that He did for us and what He will do for us. The Festivals are also time stamps signalling the “work of the Messiah” where He have divine appointments with man to come and do His work that will benefit us if we obey. The Festivals are also the “lights on the wall” of the City (Isa ) and will reveal the Messiah to everyone who is waiting for Him. Nobody would have known that “Jesus” is the Messiah if it wasn’t for the Spring Festivals, and yet Christians today ignore these Festivals of YHVH and rather follow Pagan infected religious festivals created by Satan. (Easter & Christmas).

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This Feast is celebrated on the first day of the seventh month each year and YHVH declared it to be a Sabbath where no work is to be done.

The blowing of Trumpets The Feast of Trumpets is symbolized by the blowing of the trumpets. The meaning of the trumpets are found in the following passages: !

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Two silver trumpets were used at the Feast of Trumpets and these trumpets are symbolic of the two houses; Ephraim (Gentiles) and Judah (Jews) who will assemble at the end of times. Silver is a symbol of purity and this shows that YHVH’s people need to be prepared and cleansed for His Second Coming. The blowing of trumpets will cause YHVH to remember His people and save them in these times of war.

This feast is one of the three Fall Festivals that has not yet been fulfilled and this is the main reasons for us to observe it. Y’shua will come and fulfil these three festivals during His Second Coming and these Feasts are given to us to help us to prepare for His Coming and to recognise the real Messiah when He comes. The false Christs will not fulfil YHVH’s Festivals and they will not know the appointed times YHVH prepared to come and do His final restoration work. The feasts are called “moed” or appointed times, which gives the timing and sequence of the work of the Messiah. If you believe in the Messiah and His coming, you should celebrate His Feasts as preparation for His Coming. YHVH uses a lot of symbolism to foretell the future events and to give information to His Bride so that she can be ready. These Festivals are full of symbolism and it reminds us of YHVH’s Plan. The Feast of Trumpets is the Festival that is symbolic of the event where Y’shua will come to gather His Bride. This is also known as the “Rapture” or the Gathering of His people and will take place near the end of the Tribulation. #

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! The Church knows this to be the “Rapture” which they believe will happen prior to the Tribulation, but we have seen from these verses that it will happen only at the end of the Tribulation at the sounding of the Last Trumpet which is the Seventh Trumpet described in Revelation. This term “Rapture” is not Scriptural and it is actually the word “gathering” where YHVH will come to gather His Bride to be with Him for the Marriage Festival.

The Hebrew Marriage consists of two main parts; the contract and the gathering. The written contract is called a ketubah. During betrothal, you are legally married, but do not physically dwell with your mate. Betrothal is so legally binding that you cannot get out of it without a divorce. The Second Stage is called the Gathering where the Groom will come and fetch his bride so that she can live with him in the house he prepared for them. When a man was interested in a woman and wanted to marry her, he went to the father of his bride to be and made a contract with him by paying an agreed price for her. When the father accepted the contract, his daughter was put aside or ‘set-apart’ (holy) for that young man and no one could ask for her hand because she was already spoken for. The young man had to go back to his father to go and prepare a place for him and his new bride where they could raise a family. He had two years in which he could finish their house and after the two years he would come and take his bride in the middle of the night. He and his best men came in the middle of the night, blowing on trumpets (shophar’s) to announce his coming. The girl must be ready by having a lamp full of oil in her window and when she hears the sound of the trumpet, she must light her lamp to show him that she is still his and waiting for him. If she was not at home at his coming, the wedding was cancelled, if she did not have oil in her lamp, the wedding was cancelled. Y’shua is the young man and we are His Bride. He paid with His blood and sealed the contract for our hand in marriage. He went away to His Father to go and prepare a place for us and will come back after “two years” (2000 years) to come and collect His bride in the middle of the night at the sound of the trumpet (rapture). We should be ready, waiting as his set-apart bride, awaiting his return with our lamps full of oil – busy with His Word shining His light doing it. When He comes again you better be home and have your lamp lit, shining His light in this dark world.

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, In this time we, like in Elijah’s day, are to gather the double portion (preparation) during the sixth day of the appointed time. For Israel was told that on the day prior to the Sabbath, they were to gather twice as much Manna. We also see that Elijah gave a double portion to Elisha. John the Baptist also came in the spirit of Elijah, preaching repentance and prophesied the coming of the Messiah. [Mark. 1:4 – 11] Furthermore, Isaiah said the Messiah would give us a double portion (anointing), for we are His people. [Luke. 4:17 – 21 Isa. 61:7, Hebrew.12:23]. 4 5 (

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These are truly exciting times. But be warned: when the spirit of Elijah comes, so does the spirit of Jezebel… Jezebel saw the God-given field of another and wanted it. She was even willing to kill for it (1 Kings 21). Those controlled by this spirit, man or woman, likewise see the fruit of others and want it for themselves. This spirit is driven by covetousness. To obtain it, like Jezebel, they spread lies in order to steal, kill, or destroy the rightful owner of the field or fruit. Within an assembly of believers, some may be envious of how YHVH is using others and this will open them up for the spirit of Jezebel and this will bring division, confusion and turmoil within the assembly of believers. Do not allow this to happen and guard your hearts from her attacks. Jezebel wanted the field of “Naboth the Jezreelite”. His name means “Fruitful Returning One”. Naboth is a plural for fruit and Jesreel refers to Ephraim’s scattering and return back to sonship [Hosea 1:4 – 5, 2:22]. The Father calls His re-gathering of all the tribes of Israel, “the great day of Jezreel” [Hosea 1:11] ,

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Jezebel will try to destroy this prophecy to become true in any assembly where Jews and Gentiles will serve the Master Y’shua together in unity. People with the spirit of Jezebel will not accept this prophecy and will speak against the reuniting of the scattered nations of Israel and the Gentiles back into Israel. We are moving into a great day, but beware, because Jezebel sought to steal and control the fruit of the Jezreelite. And this same controlling, prophet hating, destructive spirit is remarkably active in these last days, especially over this festive season. As stated in Revelation, Jezebels reward is a bed of sickness, and plagues. And those who commit adultery with her, those who encourage thievery of God-given gifting of others, trough slander, will experience great tribulation – unless they repent. +

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In Hebrew such slander is called lashan harah – the evil tongue. Slander, which is to ruin (kill) the reputation of another trough falsehoods, is related to the sin of murder. Let us not be people who look for opportunity to steal the God-given fruit of others. Instead let us be a people who look for the fruit of repentance within ourselves. Let this also be a comfort to those who are persecuted and rejected because of the spirit of Elijah upon them. [Mat 5:10]

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But first, these hammered sons must be taken to the wilderness where the almighty will deal with them face to face. In seeing the face of the Holy One, these transformed people will be forever changed. He seeks to perch them in this time of isolation of all that needs to be perched from their lives. The trumpets of Teruah are made of silver, of Keh’sef. This word comes from Kasaf; a root word that can be translated as longing. Ps. 84:2 3

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The Feast of Trumpets is celebrated by the blowing of Trumpets. We will now look at the different words translated as “trumpet” to seek the deeper wisdom behind the trumpet YHVH commanded us to blow. There are three words used for trumpets in Scripture:

1. Yobel 2. Shophar 3. Teruah

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1. Yobel Yobel is first used in Scripture in Exo 19:13, and it means ‘trumpet’, to bring, lead, carry, conduct, bear along, ram, ram’s horn, trumpet, cornet, stream. *H

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This is the event where YHVH called His people to Mt Sinai where He spoke the Ten Words or Commandments to them with an audible voice. When the trumpet sounded long, they could go up to the mountain. ‘Sounded’ is the word “mashak” root word used for the word “masiach”

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hook’. The Messiah came to sound the trumpet and gather (fishing) out, to bring or to lead His people out of the nations (sea). When the Messiah comes, the people will be able to come up the mountain, up to where YHVH is, into His presence. That means that YHVH came to restore both houses back to Him at the sounding of the trumpet at the time of the Second Coming.

Overcoming death, taking away the separation - Shot or Stoned Before the first coming of Y’shua, no man was allowed to come close to YHVH because they would surely die. Death entered the world through sin, which caused man to be separated from YHVH. Death in Hebrew means separation and we are currently living in a separated fallen state of death and will one day be restored back to Him. There were two ways used to put someone to death; to be stoned and to be shot. Stoned: They used this way to put people to death in the time of Moses and onward. The word for stone is “aben”, as in a stone used to build something. The only place that is build with stones and is connected to death is the stone altar that was used for sacrifices. The sacrificial system was in place to help to reconcile man back unto YHVH so that man can be restored back unto YHVH. Y’shua became the perfect Sacrifice so that we can be restored back into His presence. This is the second way to “die”, to come into the Kingdom accepting the Blood of the Lamb and to become living sacrifices unto Him, following Him as your new Master. This is how we enter into the Covenant with Him so that we may have access to His Torah and quality of life. Shot: The word for ‘shot’ is “yarah” (shot, flow as water, rain), and it’s verbal root is “tor” which is the basis for the word “Torah”, which is the name for YHVH’s Law. This gives us the second way of how to “die “ to the flesh so that we can approach Him Y’shua is known as the Word (Torah) of YHVH that is living in our hearts through His indwelling Spirit. This is a continual dying after you have entered in through His Blood. We see that these two ways YHVH put into place to cancel death so that man could be prepared and changed and could be restored back to Him. YHVH did not change; man initially changed through sin and death and must change from the fallen state, to be restored back into YHVH’s presence.

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Y’shua’s blood (brazen altar) and the water of the Word (Laver) are the two obligated things you have to go through to enter into the Holy place and the Holy of Holies. These two are in balance with each other in a Menorah pattern and you need both to be restored back to YHVH. We need to be “stoned” (accept Y’shua’s Sacrifice) and “shot” (accept the Torah) and in order to be restored back into YHVH’s presence. + $ 6 ,E,D +

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You first need to accept Y’shua’s offering and then get to know Him through His Word (Torah) as stated in Matt 7:21-23, so that you have faith in Him AND know Him through your cleansing process of the Word (Torah).

2. Shophar The word “shophar” is first used in Scripture in Ex 19:16 and it means - beauty, goodness, to be pleasing, be beautiful, be fair, be comely, be bright, glisten. The word “Shophar” consists of the two parts “Shin”,

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This is the same event as seen previously where YHVH gave the Ten Commandments to Israel at Mount Sinai. They heard the trumpet or Shophar from the Mountain and the Commandments were spoken by YHVH’s own Voice. They had to cleanse themselves for three days before they could face YHVH and His Commandments also cleanse us and beautify us and be ready at His Second Coming. The Shophar was sounded just before YHVH spoke and he shophar reminds us that we should listen to YHVH’s Voice and do what He says so that we can bear fruit. (good works – motsvots – commandments).

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This verse starts off by giving the Torah name for the month (“First Month”) and then translates this month into its pagan equivalent (“which is the month of Nissan”). By the time of Esther all the Jews lived within the boundaries of the Persian Empire and the Persians had adopted the Babylonian calendar for the civil administration of their Empire. At first the Jews used these Babylonian month names alongside the Torah month names but over time the Torah month names fell into disuse. One field of Babylonian religious influence was in the observance of Yom Teruah as a New Years celebration. From very early times the Babylonians had a lunar-solar calendar very similar to the biblical calendar. The result was that Yom Teruah often fell out on the same day as the Babylonian New Years festival known as “Akitu”. Akitu fell out on the 1st day of Tishrei which coincided with Yom Teruah on the 1st day of the Seventh Month. The fact that the Jews had started calling the Seventh Month by the Babylonian name Tishrei paved the way for turning Yom Teruah into a Jewish Akitu. At the same time the Rabbis did not want to adopt Akitu outright so they Judaized it by changing the name of Yom Teruah (Day of Shouting) to Rosh Hashanah (New Years). It may seem bizarre to celebrate Yom Teruah as New Years considering that it falls out on the first day of the Seventh Month, but in the context of the Babylonian culture this was perfectly natural. The Babylonians actually celebrated Akitu, New Years, twice every year, once on the first of Tishrei and again six months later on the first of Nissan. The first Babylonian Akitu celebration coincided with Yom Teruah and the second Akitu coincided with the actual New Years in the Torah on the first day of the First Month. While the Rabbis proclaimed Yom Teruah to be New Years they readily admitted that the 1st day of the “First Month” in the Torah was, as its name implied, also a New Years. They could hardly deny this based on Exodus 12:2 which says: 8&

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: The context of this verse speaks about the celebration of the Feast of Unleavened Bread which falls out in the First Month. In light of this verse the Rabbis could not deny that the first day of the First Month was a biblical New Years. But in the cultural context of Babylonia where Akitu was celebrated as New Years twice a year, it made perfect sense that Yom Teruah could be a second New Years even though it was in the Seventh Month. In contrast to Babylonian paganism, the Torah does not say or imply that Yom Teruah has anything to do with New Years. On the contrary, the Feast of Sukkot (Booths) which takes place exactly two weeks after Yom Teruah is referred to in one verse as “the going out of the year” (Ex 23:16). No one would ever call January 15 in the modern Western calendar “the going out of the year” and the Torah would not describe Sukkot in this manner if it intended Yom Teruah to be celebrated as a New Years.

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