a memorial of blowing of trumpets [shofars], an holy convocation (KJV);
a signaled holy gathering (Jay P. Green rough translation);
a reminder by blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation (NAS);
a memorable acclamation, a holy gathering (Jay P. Green smooth translation);
a holy convocation announced with blasts on the shofar (CJB);
and a remembrance with shofar blasts, a holy convocation (ArtScroll Stone Edition Chumash/ASEC).
In Numbers 29:1, there’s a 2nd, and only other, reference to Yom Teruah in the Torah, where the Hebrew name for this day is translated into English as:
a day of blowing the trumpets [shofars] (KJV and Jay P. Green smooth translation);
a day for blowing trumpets [shofars] (NAS);
a day of blowing the shofar (CJB); a day of shofar sounding
it is Yom Teruah – the day of shouting an alarm.
(The 1st day of the 7th month)
A memorial of trumpet based on Numbers 29:1,the biblical name for the fourth feast isThe Day of Trumpets or more literally, Yom Teruah, which is a direct translation from the original Hebrew.
Each month True Israel/Yisra’El is commanded to sound their shofars, and the priests are to blow their silver trumpets.
“Blow the trumpet /shofar at the time of the new moon, at the full moon on our solemn feast day. For this is a statute for Yisra’El, A law of the God of Jacob.” Ps. 81:3-4
“Also in the day of your gladness, in your appointed feasts, and at the beginning of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the slaughters of your peace offerings; and they shall be a memorial for you before your God: I am YHWH your God.” Num. 10:10
The reason for Yom Teruah being a day of shouting and alarm is: “There are only 10 days left” for the wicked to repent of their wickedness and join themselves to True Israel/Yisra’El. Throughout the year the monthly reminder, the warning cry, has been blown; the 7th month is coming and soon it will be too late to repent. So now is the time!
Sunset on Wednesday, 2nd October is the Gregorian calendar date for 2024. 29 Elul on the Hebrew calendar and Rosh Hashanah on 1 & 2 Tishri is Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th October. This is also the Civil New Year in Israel. 5785.
The Appointed Times of our Heavenly Father paint a picture of what we can expect to occur in these last days. However, mistakenly believing that any one of them has reached its’ complete fulfillment and therefore does not have any influence on future events, may be spiritually shortsighted. Our ways and thoughts are not the same as the Creator of the Universe. Who said:
“Whom will He teach knowledge? And whom will He make to understand the message? Those just weaned from milk? Those just drawn from the breasts? For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.” Isa. 28:9-10
Obviously babies cannot understand the message, it is rather for those who are mature in His word.
Our Father’s message for His people is the same beautiful message that the man on the mountain in Isa 52:7brought, or that of John the Baptist, Jesus/Yeshua and Paul, which was simply: “the kingdom of Heaven is at hand, REPENT and believe the good news; our God reigns!”
“How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who proclaims peace, who brings glad tidings of good things, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion,“ your Elohim (lawmaker, judge) reigns! ” Isa 52:7
“In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, and saying,‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!’ ” Mat 3:1-2
“Now after John was put in prison, Yeshua/Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God and saying; ‘ The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of Elohim is athand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.’ “Mar 1:14-15
True Yisra’El
Understanding the message and the Appointed Times/feasts cannot be done without understanding who True Israel/Yisra’El really is, and who they are not. There is a distinction between the state of Israel/the country, those who follow the laws of a man-made government with its statutes etc. And True Isreal/Yisra’El, those who have repented, left the king and kingdom of their birth and have started to learn and to do our heavenly Father’s statutes, judgments and ordinances and have now come into covenant with Him at Passover/Pesach.
To understand the Appointed Times/feasts of the Lord/YHWH, we must be aware that there is a difference between the 2 types of people who live in His kingdom.
One type is the Ger:
When a person repents and turns from their ways and the ways of the world, to follow Gods ways, they become a Ger. This means that the individual is no longer a citizen in any other kingdom on earth; they and their families have joined themselves to True Israel/Yisra’El becoming citizens of that holy nation, or commonwealth, through repentance and the next step would be a public declaration of that separation by water immersion (that is what was originally understood by baptism). The Ger then keeps all the statues, judgments and ordinances that True Israel/Yisra’El does.
“You shall have the same law for the stranger [Ger] and for one from your own country [Ezrach]; for I am YHWH, your God.” (Lev 24:22)
“One law shall be for the native-born [Ezrach] and for the stranger [Ger] who dwells among you .” Exodus 12:49
The Ger has left the country of their first birth and joined themselves and their families to the holy, but now invisible, nation of True Israel/Yisra’El. When the Pharisees asked Messiah when the kingdom of heaven would come, His reply was,
“The kingdom of heaven/God does not come with observation; nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of Elohim is within you.” Luke 17:20-21
The kingdom is within us when we repent and join ourselves to True Israel/Yisra’El.
The 2nd is the Ezrach
Each year the Ger has the opportunity to become:
‘as one born in the land’.
Whether or not the individual has ever even seen the land of Israel. This was the case with all those who ate of the Pesach/Passover back in Egypt, they became as ‘one born in the land’ even though the majority of them had never even seen it and never would.
In Exodus 12:48, the instructions for the Passover as concerned the Ger reads:
“And when a stranger /Ger dwells with you and wants to keep the Pesach/Passover to YHWH, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall become as a native of the land [an Ezrach]; for no uncircumcised person shall eat it.” Exodus12:48.
Passover/Pesach is the only feast where we as Gerim; which are those who have joined themselves to True Israel/Yisra’El by repentance and baptism; may now actually become ‘as one born in the land.’ This person/the new Ezrach; is True Israel/Yisra’El because they have eaten of the Pesach/Passover lamb and placed the blood on their doors. They are now the ones that are ‘Born from above‘ as Messiah said we all must be. The Ezrach are the people who are born, a second time, into a “spiritual” kingdom, the land of their second birth.
The Appointed Times of the Lord/feasts of YHWH are first on an individual basis for Israel/Yisra’El and then on a corporate basis. The Spring Appointed Times/feasts are for the individual and the Fall/Autumn Appointed Times/ feasts are for the corporate body of True Israel/Yisra’El.
Except for one Sukkot every 7 years, only Israel/Yisra’El seed and the males who dwell with them attend the feasts of the Lord.
“Three times a year all thy males זכורך , za·kur’] shall appear before YHWH, thy God in the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles; and they shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed. Deut. 16:16 and Exodus 34:23
The Appointed Times of the Lord/ feasts of YHWH are not for everyone. They are only for True Israel/Yisra’El and those who have joined themselves to Israel/Yisra’El by coming into covenant with our Heavenly Father/YHWH! So we see from the scriptures that the Appointed Times of the Lord/the feasts of YHWH is not simply or exclusively a ‘Jewish’ cultural observation!
What does Scripture tell us about this festival and what commandments are given regarding it?
What are we to do and when are we to do it?
Looking at this moed and discovering what Scripture has to tell us about it, we should consider that the very same Creator God our Heavenly Father, Who granted favor and mercy by sending His Son to atone for our lawlessness, will send that same Son again to defeat His enemies and judge the world.
In the words of King David:oh, God, please “open our eyes that we might behold wonderful things from your Torah”and see our returning Messiah in this moed. Scripture was given to mankind to speak of Him and we should listen and hear its voice… His voice… especially during His appointed times.
What Scripture Says About Yom Teruah
Yom Teruah [יום תרועה,
Strong’s #3117 + Strong’s #8643] means
“day [of the] shout”.
“Speak unto the Bnei Yisra’El, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a Shabbaton, a zikhron teru’ah mikra kodesh. Ye shall do no melekhet avodah therein; but ye shall offer an offering made by eish unto YaHuWaH.” Wayyiqra/Leviticus 23:24-25
Although translated as trumpet, teruah is not an actual trumpet as Westerns know it. Rather, it is a type of sound made with a ram’shorn: a shofar. A shofar is a ram’s horn that is hollowed out and used as a musical instrument. It is ‘played’ by blowing and vibrating pursed lips much like a modern brass instrument like a trumpet or trombone.
The NASB adds the words “of trumpets” in this passage. Teruah is used in Scripture to describe both the sounding of a shofar as well as people shouting; (e.g. the “great shout” mentioned in Joshua 6:5 when the walls of Jericho fell, is the Hebrew word teruah).
“And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the keren hayovel, when ye hear the sound of the shofar, Kol HaAm shall shout with a teruah gedolah; and the Chomat HaIr shall fall down, and HaAm shall go up every ish charging straight in.” Yehoshua/Joshua 6:5
There are a number of reasons to sound the shofar aside from this festival. Two of the most common reasons given in Scripture are: the arrival of a king or the anointing of a king. For example: 2 Samuel 15:10, 1 Kings 1:34, 1 Kings 1:39, 2 Kings 9:13.
All of these mention a shofar being sounded as a person is anointed and proclaimed king. So, too, we can recognize the King who reigns over all Kings, when we hear the shofar being sounded on Yom Teruah.
Finding Messiah in Yom Teruah… as in His return.
After the spring moedim (Pesach, Chag HaMatzot and Shavuot) comes a long, hot, and dry summer in the Land of Yisra’El. But the moedim return in the Fall/Autumn and with them comes relief from the heat with cooler weather.
Like the spring moedim that foretold Messiah’s first coming, Yom Teruah marks the beginning of the fall festivals that foretell His second coming. In this moed we can see Messiah returning with a great trumpet blast and vanquishing His enemies in preparation for Judgment Day and the Day of Atonement.
The blessings of the moedim return with Yom Teruah which is the Feast of Trumpets, the first of the fall moedim.
Prophecy speaks of the Great Trumpet that will herald the return of the Messiah King following the long, hot, and dry centuries since His appearing.
We noted above that the Greek word used in the Septuagint for teruah was salpiggon (“trumpets”, singular salpigx). This word is used in the writings of the apostles eleven times including these prophetic passages:
“And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF THE SKY with power and great glory. And He will send forth His angels with A GREAT TRUMPET and THEY WILL GATHER TOGETHER His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.” Mattithyahu/Matthew 24:30-31
“And then will appear the Ot Ben Adam (the Sign of the Son of Man) in Shamayim. All the tribes of kol haaretz (all the earth) will see the Ben HaAdam Mashiach and his Bias, his Coming, on the ananim of Shamayim (clouds of glory of Heaven) with gevurah (power) and great kavod (glory). Mashiach will send his malachim with a loud blast of the Shofar, and the malachim will gather together Mashiach’s Bechirim from the four winds, from one end of Shamayim to the other.” Mattithyahu/Matthew 24:30-31
Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable must put on the imperishable, and this mortal must put on immortality. 1 Corinthians 15:51-53
“Hinei! I speak a sod (mystery) to you: we will not all sleep the sleep of the Mesim, but we will all be changed. In a rega (moment), in the wink of an eye, at the last shofar blast. For the shofar will sound, the Mesim (dead ones) will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For it is necessary for this perishable nature to put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature to put on the immortal.” Kehilah in 1 Corinthians 15:51-53
For the Master Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of Elohim, and the dead in Messiah will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Master in the air, and so we shall always be with the Master. 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
“For Yahusha Himself, at the signal, at the bat kol /voice, of the Sar HaMalachim (the Archangel), and at the shofar blast of YaHuWaH, shall come down from Shamayim, and the Mesim in Mashiach shall stand up alive in the Techiyas HaMesim first. Then [next in sequence], we who are alive and who have been left behind simultaneously with them shall be snatched up in the ananim (clouds) to meet Yahusha in the air. And so always with Yahusha we shall be.” Kehilah in Thessalonika I 4:16-17
The day or the hour?
Yom Teruah is the only moed that falls on the first day of the month. All of the other moedim fall on a day that is well into the month: the fourteenth, the tenth, fifty days after Passover, etc.
It seems that Messiah Himself pointed to Yom Teruah as the day of His return using this well-known condition?
“And He will send forth His angels with A GREAT TRUMPET and THEY WILL GATHER TOGETHER His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other. Now learn the parable from the fig tree: when its branch has already become tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near; so, you too, when you see all these things, recognize that He is near, right at the door. Truly I say to you, this generation will not pass away until all these things take place. Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away. But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone.” Mattithyahu/Matthew 24:31-36
“Mashiach will send his malachim with a loud blast of the Shofar, and the malachim will gather together Mashiach’s Bechirim from the four winds, from one end of Shamayim to the other. And from the etz teenah (fig tree), learn its parabolic lesson: when its branch has become tender already and sprouts leaves, you know that Kayitz (Summer) is near; thus also you, when you see all these things, know that it is near, at the very doors. Omein, I say to you, that this dor (generation) will by no means pass away until all these things come about. Shamayim vHaAretz will pass away, but my Dvar will by no means pass away. But concerning that day and hour, no one has daas, not the malachim of Shamayim, but only HaAv (the Father) of me.” Mattithyahu/Matthew 24:31-36
Messiah uses a parable of a fig tree to indicate that there will be signals/signs of the season of His return. Then He uses an expression that points to Yom Teruah, the day of the shofar blast that announces the arrival of the King! We should be aware of the time and the seasons and stay alert and spiritually ready for Him. He tells us:
“Be dressed in readiness, and keep your lamps lit. Be like men who are waiting for their master when he returns from the wedding feast, so that they may immediately open the door to him when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those slaves whom the master will find on the alert when he comes; truly I say to you, that he will gird himself to serve, and have them recline at the table, and will come up and wait on them. Whether he comes in the second watch, or even in the third, and finds them so, blessed are those slaves. Luqas/Luke 12:35-38
A verse in Revelation says we cannot know the time of the Messiahs’ return. These are the words of the Master, Himself:
So remember what you have received and heard; and keep it, and repent. Therefore if you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you. Rev 3:3.
Here Messiah is speaking to the believers in Sardis whom He declares to be “dead” Rev 3:1. It is these dead believers who, if they do not “wake up”, will be surprised at His coming.
Messiah uses common phrasing that points to the only well-known day of which “no man knows the day or the hour” to liken to His return, that being Yom Teruah.
When the shofar sounded in ancient Israel, it signaled that heaven and earth were about to meet, that divine power, the supernatural forces of heaven was about to break into the mundane affairs of men. It signaled that great things were about to happen.
Below are briefly the historical roots of our faith, the present relevance for believers and prophetic end-time implications.
looking at the following:
Yom Teruah or the day of blowing/shouting,
the shofar blasts prophetically,
the summer months between the spring feast of Shavuot/Weeks /Pentecost
and the fall feast of Yom Teruah
are a spiritual picture of what is often called the ‘Church Age,’ which is the period of time from the Feast of Pentecost/Shavuot in Acts 2 until the return of Jesus/Yeshua the Messiah at the end of the age and lasting for approximately 2000 years. For many, especially those living in a hotter climate, summer is a time of weariness and fatigue due to the excessive heat. In the same way, many believers have fallen asleep or are growing spiritually weary while waiting for the return of the Messiah. Jesus/Yeshua discusses this issue in the Parable of the Ten Virgins in Matthew 25, who all grew weary and fell asleep awaiting the coming of the Bridegroom /Jesus/Yeshua.
This all changes on the 1st day of the 7th month of the biblical Hebrew calendar, when away in the distance the sound of a shofar blast suddenly pierces the atmosphere and wakes up those who have fallen asleep. Not only does this blast on the shofar signal the beginning of the 7th month when the new crescent moon is sighted, (the day and hour that no man knows); but it seems that it announces the return of the Bridegroom (Messiah) coming for His bride (the redeemed saints). As in the parable, the cry went forth that the bridegroom was coming and all woke up to prepare for His arrival. In these end days, that cry is going forth even now for all to hear, to awake and to prepare for the arrival of Jesus/Yeshua the Messiah.
In the biblical calendar, the visible sighting of the crescent new moon always marks the beginning of the month and is announced by the shofar blast Ps 81:3. Likewise, on the first day of the seventh month of the biblical calendar, the arrival of the new moon, called Rosh Chodesh, when the shofar sounds it marks the beginning of Yom Teruah. This is the first day of the fall/autumn moed/festival/harvest season and is the time when the call goes out for the spiritually sleepy to wake up, and to hear the voice of the Lord, to be invigorated by the breath or voice of the shofar, which is symbolic of His prophetic Word going forth across the earth in the last days.
The ram’s horn shofar is bent into a curved shape and it represents the repentant, humble hearts, of both the one blowing and those hearing. This is the season for the righteous to get right with the Father and bend our hearts in humility before Him and shake ourselves out of spiritual lukewarmness and instead to wake up to spiritual action and preparation. The fall/autumn Appointed Times/Moedim, point to last days events that will occur at some point in time in the very near future. It’s a time to be refreshed by the breath of God, His Ruach HaKodesh, and to be aware of a time of new beginnings. Let’s allow Him to breathe on us, to revive us and empower us as we enter into this prophetic season, and as every day we prepare ourselves so that when the moment comes for each of us, we are ready to meet our Savior, Lord, King and Redeemer, Messiah Jesus/Yeshua, in the air.
Yom Teruah also begins a season that prophetically speaks of war and battle, in ancient times in Israel, the shofar was a weapon of warfare, and in the last days it will be used again as such. It was used to call Israel to battle, to defeat her enemies with Gods’ help. The shofar was also used to proclaim victory after the battle was won and to worship our Heavenly Father who had given them the victory. Israel’s fight against her enemies still continues on even in these end times and no more obvious than right now. The enemies of the redeemed Israelites, us, are mostly spiritual, being the world, the flesh and the devil.
James 3:15; Ephesians 2:2–3.
Through faith in Jesus/Yeshua the Messiah who defeated death, hell and the grave, we can have victory over death, sin, the devil and this world.1 Cor. 15:51–57; Rom. 8:27; 1 John 4:4; 5:4; Rev. 12:11.
As we hear the sound of the shofar calling us to rise up from our spiritual slumber, our Heavenly Father is telling His people to be the over-comers He has called us to be, so that we may be worthy to partake of the glories of his eternal kingdom.
Rev. 2:7, 11, 17, 26; 3:5, 12, 21.
Yom Teruah is also the time of the reaping of the summer harvest. Spiritually speaking, this period will be the time of the reaping of the righteous to their reward Rev. 14:4. and the harvest of the wicked to the great winepress of Elohim’s wrath Rev. 14:14-20
It is the time of the resurrection of the dead in Messiah Yeshua at the end of the tribulation, Matt. 24:29 and the beginning of the Lord God’s wrath being poured out upon the nations. Joel 3:11-13. This begins the wrath of God pictured by Yom Kippur /the Day of Atonement, which occurs 10 days after Yom Teruah; before which time the dead saints will have been resurrected and given their spiritual, glorified bodies.
During the month of Elul, our focus has been on repentance/teshuvah, restoration and preparation for the coming of the Messiah. In order to repent one must understand that Scripture defines sins as the violation of our Heavenly Father’s Torah, or instructions or teachings in righteousness 1 John 3:4.
The letter Sin or chet in Hebrew, loosely means:
a failure in our relationship with our Heavenly Father.
Our goal should be to continually move closer to Him, but chet is behavior that causes us to move away from Him.
If our Heavenly Father requires His people to turn away from sin and turn to righteousness, which is called repentance, then what is involved in repentance?
Repentance or teshuvah in Hebrew, means: to return.
In the biblical context, it means:
to return to Elohim”and to behavior He requires of us, in other words, return to obedience to his commandments.
While we deeply regret having moved away from the Father, we must not despair, for He has provided the WAY for us to return to Him promising us that when we repent, He forgives without delay.
The shofar’s blowing is a call to awaken out of spiritual sleep, lethargy, stagnation, slumber and to repent of sin. No man knows the day or the hour of the new moon’s arrival each month, however, according to scripture, one who is alert can certainly know the season and year. Sadly, human tendency is to grow weary in waiting, and begin to slack off in one’s obedience to the Lord’s righteous commands. When the new moon is sighted and the shofar sounds, this is the signal for those who are slumbering to wake up, for hope to arise in our hearts. This is time for renewal and spiritual revival to occur and action to be taken to put off sin and to draw closer spiritually to our Heavenly Father.
The awakening sound of the shofar blast is the Hebrew word teruah
Strong’s G8643, see Lev 23:24 and Num 29:1 where the phrase
blowing of trumpets is teruah), which means:
the shout or blast of war, alarm, alarm of war, war cry, signal, and sound of tempest.
Teruahderives from the Hebrew root word ruahmeaning:
alarm, signal, sound or blast of the shofar, to raise a shout.
The name Yom Teruahcould therefore have several literal meanings:
“the day of the shout,
the day of the war alarm
or the day of the shofar blast.”
When we understand the significance of this day from a biblical stand point, we realize that Yom Teruah is:
a day of shouting with exultant joy or
as a shriek in alarm, or
a day of shofar blowing.
Shofars were blown in biblical times to rally the people together, to alert the people in time of war, to warn the people, or as an instrument, along with shouts, to express the people’s joy, or to praise the Lord God.
Yom Teruah prophetically involves all these concepts, it’s a day when God’s people will shout with joy as they gather to meet Yeshua in the air, after having been bodily resurrected at the sound of the last shofar blast, but it is also a time of alarm and shrieking on the part of the wicked; because a time of war and terror are brought on by the judgments and are about to come upon the earth.
Additionally, Yom Teruah is:
a day of new beginnings or renewal,
to wake up from lethargy and slumber, to be broken out of that sleepy, comfort zone state and to be awakened to action.
Again, remember the ten virgins of Matthew 25 who slept in anticipation of the bridegroom’s arrival? When the shout went forth that he was coming they were all awakened. Some were prepared to go into the marriage supper of the bridegroom and some were not. Our Bridegroom is Yeshua.
Take to heart the full ramifications of its’ spiritual and prophetic implications. If we consider ourselves to be part of the bride of Yeshua, then we will want to let the message of Yom Teruah sink deeply into our hearts and adjust our lives accordingly.
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SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name. Amen.
As this year the Hebrew and Gregorian calendars are not in sync., we are between the two calendar dates for Passover/Unleavened Bread and First Fruits.
This gap in the dates, gives us an opportunity to focus on the single most miraculous event in time and eternity.
It is an event that we should remember all year, not just as the seasons make their turn.
Gethsemane and Calvary are in truth
the Gateways to Life /Chaim
and why Messiah said
I am the Way the Truth and the Life.
Derek, Emet and Chaim.
It is impossible for us who are bound in human flesh, to understand Messiahs agony, however, we don’t have to misunderstand it.
Matthew 26:36 – 38
It was the agony of God and man in the person Yeshua/Jesus as He came to face to face with sin; and on the cross He experienced total separation from His Father because as He became sin – as the sin offering – the Holiness of God could not look upon that sin.
It is not possible for us to experience Gethsemane and Calvary. We cannot learn about them through personal experience because they represent something totally unique.
They are the gateway,
the door, the dalet
into life for us.
It was not death on the cross that He was facing, that caused Yeshua/Jesus to agonize over when He was in Gethsemane; because He stated that His purpose was to die. He knew that was why He came.
It was not a shock to Him, He was completely aware of His Heavenly Fathers’ plan and the process He was to complete. Most likely His concern was that He might not get through this struggle as a Son of Man. He was confident at getting through it as the Son of God because Satan couldn’t not touch him there; the previous temptations had proved that. The pressure was the adversary’s assault against Him, with the focus that our Lord would come through for us on His own; solely as the Son of Man.
If Messiah had done that He could not have been our Savior.Hebrews 9:11–15
And we should read the account of Gethsemane and His agony in the light of His earlier temptations in the wilderness. The devil departed from Him until an opportune time. Luke 4:13. In Gethsemane was an opportune time, but satans attack was overthrown once again. The adversarys’ final assault against our Savior was in the garden of Gethsemane as the Son of Man.
The agony in Gethsemane was the agony of the Son of God in fulfilling His destiny as the Savior of the world. The veil is pulled back here, to reveal all that it cost Him to make it possible for us to become Sons and Daughters of God; HIs children, His Family. We should also remember that the Jews have a priority over the Gentiles, in that the Messiah Himself, Jesus Christ/Yeshua Hamashiach, came first as a Jewto the Jews. We are told in Romans 9:5, of whom are the fathers, and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
and reminded again in Romans 1:16-17 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth;to the Jew first, and also to the Greek/heathen/gentiles.
HIs agony was the basis for the simplicity of our salvation.
The cross of Yeshua/Jesus was a triumph for the Son of man, and not only a sign that our Lord triumphed; but that He had triumphed to save the human race.
Because of what the Son of Man went through, every human being has been provided with a way of access into the very presence of God.
Our gateway to God, our Heavenly Father.
1 Peter 2:24.
It cost him everything.
The cross of Calvary is the revealed truth of God’s judgment on sin. It was not a martyrs death, it was the ultimate triumph and shook the very foundations of hell.
There is nothing in time or eternity more absolutely certain and undeniable, than what He accomplished on the cross. It changed everything for ever.
He made it possible for the entire human race to be brought back into a right standing relationship with the Father. He made redemption the foundation of human life, that is, He made a way for every person to have fellowship, communion and an intimate relationship with the creator of the universe.
That cross was not something that happened
TO Jesus/Yeshua, He came to die.
The cross was His purpose in coming.
The great divide was restored by a great collide.
He is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Revelation 13:8.
The incarnation of Yeshua Messiah would have no meaning without the cross.
We must be sure not to separate –
God was manifested in the flesh –
from
He made Him to be sin for us.
1Timothy 3:16; 2Corinthians 5:21.
The purpose of the incarnation was redemption.
The Most High God came in the flesh to take sin away, not to accomplish something for Himself.
Not only is the cross the central event
in time and eternity…
it is the answer to all the problems in both.
The cross is not a cross of a man, but the cross of the only creator God, King of Kings and Lord of Lords; and it can never be fully understood through the human experience.
The cross is our Heavenly Father God, Adonai Elohim Melech haOlam, displaying His nature. It’s the Gate through which any and every individual can enter into oneness with Him. However it is not a gate we pass right through, it’s the one where we enter His presence and where we abide – in the life/chaim that exists and is found there.
The heart of salvation is Messiahs cross and the reason it’s so easy for us to obtain, is that it cost the Father so much!
It was the place where a Holy God and sinful man merged with a tremendous collision.
It is why the Way to life was opened, and we must remember, all the cost and pain of that collision was absorbed by the heart of our loving Father God.
The great division was restored by a great collision…. and the result was NOT
chaos, devastation and total destruction
but peace, healing and total restoration.
Colossians 1:20 and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross.
Let our prayer this week be for the eyes of our understanding to be enlightened, that we may know Him and power of His cross and resurrection…
Phil 3: 10-17 that I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, becoming conformed unto his death;
Ephesians 1:18-23 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,
Shalom aleikhem
chaverim and mishpachah!
Peace to friends and family.
Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week.
Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.
It’s all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.
You are very precious in His sight.
Not sure ..you can be…
SIMPLY SAY THE FOLLOWING MEANING IT FROM YOUR HEART..don’t delay one more minute,
SAY IT RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name.
have different dates for the Passover/Pesach week.
The Hebrew Calendar and Gods Appointed Times/Feasts, are always on the exact same date every year, whereas on the Gregorian calendar the months in which they fall are different.
This year, Sunday 24th March is/was Palm Sunday with Good Friday on March 29th followed by Resurrection Sunday on 31st of March. However Passover/Pesach according to the scriptures is always in the month of Nisan on the 14th day which is 22nd of April on the Gregorian calendar that is used today.
In Leviticus 23:1–2, the Lord told Moses, “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘The Lord’s appointed times which you shall proclaim as holy convocations—My appointed times are these:’”
Pope Gregory influenced the changes to the biblical dates in an effort to remove everything Jewish from Christianity and the roman catholic churches initiated new doctrines out of which every western denomination evolved.
Gregory XIII was the pope from 1572 to 1585, who promulgated the Gregorian calendar and founded a system of seminaries for Roman Catholic priests. The Gregorian calendar, a solar dating system now in general use. It was proclaimed by PopeGregory XIII as a reform of the Juliancalendar. He issued a papal bull, “Inter Gravissimus” and decreed that 10 days be skipped when switching to the Gregorian calendar on February 24, 1582 that established it as the new and official calendar of the Catholic world. The original goal of the Gregorian calendar was to change the date of Passover and called it Easter. It also gave us the leap year.
The Pesach/Passover, Appointed Time, set in by the Father is always in the month of Nisan which begins on 9th April.
4These are the LORD’s appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times. 5The Passover to the LORD begins at twilight on the fourteentha day of the first month. 6On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Breadb to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. 7On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any regular work.8For seven days you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the seventh day there shall be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.’”
Pesach/Passover according to scripture begins with the feast of the firstborn on nisan 14 (Monday 22 April)
The feast of unleavened bread begins 15th Nisan (23rd april) and
feast of first fruits which is also 1st day of counting the Omer to Pentecost/Shavuot on Nisan 16th (wed 24thapril )
Passover continues through the week and ends 22Nisan (tues 30th Apr).
Passover/Pesach is the remembrance of the children of Israels exodus and deliverance from Egyptian bondage as slaves, freed from cruel servitude. The Lord came down and delivered His people and by the sacrificial blood of a perfect lamb placed on their dwellings. The death angel passed over them and their deliverance was assured.
This was a type and shadow of the sacrificial death of Messiah, the perfect Lamb of God, whose blood has been applied to our house/our very being, and we are delivered from the devil/the cruel taskmaster of this world/ redeemed from sin and death and set free into newness of life. This is mainly what christians celebrate today not realizing the original passover is significant.
There will also be a greater exodus to come when Messiah returns and executes judgment over the sin in this worlds systems; and the demonic realm that inspires it. We will be delivered finally from the sin and death that is rampant in this world as He comes to take those of us still here to be together with Him.
The Passover/Pesach, did not begin with Messiahs death just 2000 years ago, and is not the only thing we are to remember at this appointed season. For those unfamiliar with the Pesach/Passover, according to the directions in the Torah, we must begin with reading
Exodus 6:2,3 I am the Lord I appeared to Abraham and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself fully known to them.
Moses and Aaron were commissioned by YHVH to go before Pharaoh and deliver the message to let my people go.
Note the divine name
YHVH יְהוָ֔ה
was already known in a cognitive sense by the pre Moses fathers. But this passage and the accompanying revelation of YHVH’s
4 verbs of redemption YOD HEY VAV HEY
is intended to indicate the direct experience of the power and glory not seen by the forefathers.
The 4 verbs/action words of redemption are in the Exodus itself and are the 4 cups of Passover/pesach.
1 I will free
2 deliver
3 redeem
4 take you
That is the basis of the annual remembrance of His redeeming power; the action which was ultimately fulfilled with Yeshua Messiahs sacrificial death as the Passover lamb whose blood secured their salvation from death (angel). Followed by the:
free, deliver, redeem, take you out of bondage
as slaves to Egypt -(a type of the world)
and Pharaoh/type of the devil/adversary.
The combined destiny of sin and death, without the sacrificial blood,
(the wages of sin is death); Romans 6:23
(the life is in the blood) – Leviticus 17:11
(a life for a life) Deut. 19:21.
We lose the fullness of meaning in what we call communion, because we only have 1 cup – the cup of redemption which is the third cup.
So when Messiah references the cup. I shall drink, and the cup Messiah Yeshua took during the meal are far more significant than we realize.
Our exodus will be complete when we exit this earth, either when we transition as He calls us home, or when He returns and He will drink the cup with us in the kingdom to come.
God waits to judge, until the iniquity of sin is full; and these are judgments against
the kingdom of darkness,
the adversary and
the fallen angels.
I will take them out from under the burdens
I shall rescue you from their service
I shall redeem you with an outstretched arm and great judgments
I shall take you to me for a people
I shall be an Elohim to you and you’ll know that I am Yahweh
I shall bring you to the land and give it to you as a heritage.
The arm is Yeshua/Messiah and great judgments will come in the end days.
3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty,but by my name the LORD I did not make myself fully known to them.
4 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, where they resided as foreigners.
5 Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are enslaving, and I have remembered my covenant.
6 “Therefore, say to the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.
7 I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
8 And I will bring you to the land I swore with uplifted hand to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD.’ ”
The four I wills in vs 6-8
I will take you out 1st cup of sanctification
I will rescue you 2nd cup of judgment
I will redeem you 3rd cup of redemption
I will take you 4th cup of praise
This is the cup He will drink with us anew in the kingdom on His return.
Exodus 3:15 God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers–the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob–has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.
It is here that Yahweh tells Abraham His name is YHVH.
And God speaks to Moses and says to him, “I [am] YHWH, יְהוָ֔ה
We are now at the 4thI will of Exodus 6:6-8.
I will take you as My people.
He is bringing us out from under the worlds/Egypts burdens.
Our Heavenly Father/Yahweh is bringing everything together as He did at Mt Sinai, where He personally came down to make covenant with the sons of Israel; and He will personally come down to complete His plan of the ages.
The Nail Pierced Hands of Messiah
Reveal The Love-Filled Heart Of Our Heavenly Father.
For those new to the site there is more on this Appointed Time and this Season of the Lord, links are below:
Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.
It’s all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion.
You are very precious in His sight.
Not sure ..you can be…
SIMPLY SAY THE FOLLOWING MEANING IT FROM YOUR HEART..don’t delay one more minute,
SAY IT RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name.
7th month 22nd day – Torah portion Vayikra 23:36 39.
Vayikra means “And [He] called” and it is found in Leviticus 1:1
The culmination of Sukkot /Tabernacles/Booths –
Immediately following the 7 day feast of sukkot is the closing moed/appointed time of the year, called:
yom haSh’miyniy Atzaret or
Shemini Atzeret
שְׁמִינִי עֲצֶרֶת —”Eighth [day of] Assembly”
This year it is on 7th October.
The commands for this day are very simple
do no regular work, rest and assemble.
In short the 8th day is a time to say good bye to sukot and the past year’s mo’adiym.
It’s a time to rest and reflect but also a time to look forward to the future because in just 6 short months it all starts over again.
Though this moed is often dismissed as being insignificant it can be an extremely meaningful time if we allow it to be. We are encouraged to look back at the journey we will have completed but also to look forward to the times that lie ahead.
The following day is known as Simchat Torah where this extra biblical jewish holiday celebrates the word of God.
The Mo’adiym are so much more than times to practice any Hebrew /Jewish traditions, or days to ponder what they indicate prophetically without actually participating in them. The Mo’adiym/Appointed times of the Lord, offer us a special opportunity to allow His Spirit to disciple us; as we walk in the ways of the Son towards maturity and our full potential in Messiah. These are times to learn and develop our usefulness for the Fathers Kingdom.
As we devote ourselves to living out the fullness in the meanings of the Mo’adiym, those who are of Israelite descent will more fully understand their calling as the people chosen by our Father. Chosen that is, to tell the world about Him and His redemptive plan for all who choose to believe in His Messiah. For those who are already believers in Messiah Yeshua/Jesus, they will draw closer to Him becoming more effective and victorious disciples for Him.
As we walk through the Mo’adiym/Appointed Times each year, it is an opportunity allow His Spirit to plant into us the deep truths that each moed/Appointed Time is designed to help us remember. This is so that the Father may bring in a bountiful harvest through us, for His glory and for the name of His Son, our Savior master Lord and soon returning King…the Messiah Yeshua/Jesus.
in Him we live and move and have our being. Acts 17:28
These Mo’adiym/Appointed Times were set in place for the children of Israel to follow as an annual life cycle of preparation for the unfolding plan of the ages. Prophetic in nature and so full of meaning, they are an essential aid to more fully understanding and appreciating all that was completed and fulfilled in Messiah’s time on the earth. His statement that He did not come to abolish or do away with the (law) teaching and instructions of his Father but to complete and to fulfill them. Matthew 5:17. And furthermore, it was to show us how to live a life according to His Fathers and His words; and not all the added restrictive laws and doctrines inspired by demonic, unclean spirits and added by men. Matthew 23:4. All the extra laws and rules that were given to the people not only overburdened them but caused them to be controlled by corrupt leadership.
The season of our rejoicing this weekend is that of
rejoicing in His Word and the freedom it has brought to our lives;
and on the 8th day reminds us of the hope of our salvation being completed.
Yeshua Messiah, His Word made flesh, dwelt /tabernacled among us and then sent His Spirit to be with us, to abide within us always, even to the end of this age; when He will return in all His Glory and forever tabernacle with us in fullness. Revelation 21:3-8
The 8th day rejoicing is coming as the reign of Messiah for 1000 years. Until then we have His Spirit of Holiness dwelling, abiding, tabernacle-ing within. We rejoice in His Word living in us, making us alive.
The promise for us all is looking unto Jesus, Messiah, the Word; Who is the author and finisher of our faith. Heb. 12:2
This years feasts, fasts, His Appointed Times, the Mo’adiym are completed. These are more than prophetic pictures of Yeshua/Jesus, they are set in the calendar as a reminder to His chosen ones; and are calling us to un-compromised devotion to only Him and by our obedience, our lives are changed. Not only are they an annual reminder of the Father’s miraculous history with the children of Israel, but also the story of our lives in Christ/Messiah are embedded within them.
They teach us about who we are supposed to be in Him; and we are led into a deeper walk with Him as we take the time to learn of them and their meanings. By our obedience and faithfulness to be a doer and as He told us to ‘learn of Me’; Matthew 11:29. He, through His Word, makes us into His disciples so that in turn we might share His truth that will make others free.
For every believer in Yeshua/Jesus Messiah, this Season of Joy שִׂמְחָה – simchah: joy, gladness, mirth is ongoing and we can rejoice continually and not just on one day of the year: for we are the sheep of His pasture and
He is the shepherd. John 10:14
Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of hispasture. Ps.100:3 Then we your people, the sheep of your pasture, will praise you forever; from generation to generation. Ps.79:13
Shalom aleikhem chaverim and mishpachah! Peace to friends and family. Shavua Tov, Have a blessed week. Make certain Messiah Jesus/Yeshua is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him. It’s all about Life and Relationship, NOT Religion. You are very precious in His sight. Not sure ..you can be… SIMPLY SAY THE FOLLOWING MEANING IT FROM YOUR HEART..don’t delay one more minute, SAY IT RIGHT NOW… Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus/Yeshua asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past. I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus/Yeshua is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus/Yeshua rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus/Yeshua. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’/Yeshua’s name.
Although translated as trumpet, teruah is not an actual trumpet as Westerns know it. Rather, it is a type of sound made with a ram’s horn: a shofar. A shofar is a ram’s horn that is hollowed out and used as a musical instrument. It is ‘played’ by blowing and vibrating pursed lips much like a modern brass instrument like a trumpet or trombone.
This Season of Joy
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