YOM TERUAH - THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS - THE DAY OF BLASTING
 

Pentecost is the bridge between the two advents of Yeshua. The feasts of the Lord (Lev23.1) are divine appointments. The Hebrew word is mo’ed = appointed times. The feasts give us the knowledge of what lies ahead. Observing them is like a dress rehearsal. We keep ourselves prepared so that we are not surprised by the thief in the night.

Trumpets is the day of the creation of the world. The date on the Hebrew calendar is 1 Tishri. It is also called Rosh Hashanah. We say Shana Tov = Happy New Year. We are commanded in Lev 23.1 to proclaim the feasts. To go out and let everyone know. A proclamation.

Trumpets (Yom Teruah) is the time for repentance. Ten days after the Feast of Trumpets is the Day of Atonement. The ten days between Trumpets and Day of Atonement are called the “Days of Awe” and are to be the time of repentance as the Day of Atonement approaches. The Day of Atonement is our “day of redemption”, but for the wicked it is the “day of wrath”. Five days after the Day of Atonement is the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) which is a time of rejoicing and celebration--a wedding celebration with the King.

The three fall feasts are prophetic of the end of the age when the Messiah comes and restores all things. The Jewish community is still waiting for the return of the Messiah. They do not know who he is because they missed him at his first coming--Yeshua is his name--Jesus the Christ (The Anointed).

Yom Teruah is known as the “Day of Blowing” in the Jewish community. It is the time of Jacob’s Trouble as proclaimed by the prophets in the Old Testament. Other names for Trumpets are: Day of Awakening Blast, Yom Hadin = the Day of Judgment, Opening of the Gates, the Hidden Day, Ha Melech = Coronation Day, Opening of the Books.

Then God said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years….Gen 1.14

The Hebrew calendar is both solar and lunar. Solar defines the years and the lunar defines the months. The west is on the Gregorian Calendar which was a refinement of the Julian Calendar started by Julius Caesar. In 1582 Pope Gregory adjusted the calendar for lost days. This is the calendar we observe today in most of the world.

God wants us on another calendar--His calendar. We cannot know the times or seasons if we do not understand God’s calendar as revealed in the Bible. Satan knows what is coming and he has deceived the world. He knows God’s mo’eds, the appointed times. And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. Dan 7.25

We need to be in agreement with God and understand His calendar. The book of Revelation says that Satan has deceived the whole world. That deception begins with the calendar. If we do not understand the times (1 Chron 12.32) we will not know what is happening--we will have no hope! It is essential for us to understand the Hebrew calendar!
The Israelites were to blow the shofar--to sound an alarm--and God will remember them. This is a shadow of the Feast of Trumpets. Trumpets is the warning blast of the shofar that announces the imminent coming of the King!

Then they that feared the Lord spoke often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son that serves him. Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that serves him not. Mal 3.16-18

And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you. Num 29.1
A Holy Convocation--the Day of Blowing. From this verse we get “Yom Teruah”. Teruah is a battle cry, an alarm, a shout. Alarm, Trumpets, Shouting!

For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? 1 Cor 14.8 Uncertain sound? We are to know the sound--this is the purpose of the dress rehearsal of Yom Teruah.

God is gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet. Ps 47.5For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 1 Thess 4.16 And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south. Zech 9.14

These verses all are symbolic of the Feast of Trumpets. The feast is a reminder, a memorial, to what is going to occur sometime in the future at Yeshua’s second advent. We are to know and understand!

Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance. Ps 89.15

The sound of the Trumpet is a joyful sound--Our redeemer comes! Trumpets is the alarm! Those who know the Lord and are prepared will recognize the sounds of alarm!

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