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How is Yovel Connected To The Fingerprint of God, Keys of Light, The Shofar and Jubilee? Part 2

The fingerprint of God is the confirming visual aspect of the God of Creation.

Fingerprints of Gods’ original authorship, can be seen in everything around us which has the breath and energy of life within it.

After we have placed our lives into His Hands, that is when we will begin to see His fingerprints on and in them.

Even the rams’ horn, from which the Shofar is made, shows the fingerprint of God, as does DNA.

1 John 1:5 – This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is LIGHT, and in him is no darkness at all.

The Keys of Light seem to be, the

revealed knowledge

imparted to those with

eyes to see and ears to hear

as opened by

Holy Spirit/Ruach HaKodesh. Eph. 1:8

16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. 17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them. KJV. Matt.13:15-17

This is understanding the spiritual and comprehending the dimension Jesus/Yeshua came to demonstrate.

Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, Acts 16:14 

When God opens the spiritual eyes inside of us, it may be opposite to what we have always thought; and may change both how we see a situation, and what we believe about it.

Our world view takes on a new look as the veils are removed. Just as the moment that the fog lifts and reveals what was there all the time, we simply could not see through the fog/veil.

While we cannot help but be affected by circumstances surrounding us, our spiritual senses can be sharpened to such a degree that, we can actually benefit from them.

This only comes from spending time in the presence of the Lord, for it is only then that we can see our circumstances through His eyes: that is when the eyes of our understanding are being enlightened.

When Jesus/Yeshua said in Matthew 13:13 Seeing they do not see.

He was no doubt referring to more than the use of the natural eyes and ears.

Paul makes a strange statement saying, that you must have “the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know” (Ephesians 1:18). Indicating that the heart has eyes!

The heart of the spirit apparently also has a door, upon which He knocks; and the lock is on the inside. Only we can open it to let in the Lord and His enlightening Spirit. The lock needs a KEY of LIGHT that illuminates, and as God is Light, so it is as Messiah said, He gives the Keys.

Your word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Ps 119:105

Locks are usually the recipients of keys and locks are mostly integral to, or somehow connected to, doors. They are also called portals, and as we have seen in paleo pictographs of the Hebrew letter dalet, this letter comes from the word meaning Door.

Paleo-Pictograph meaning of Dalet is:

Door, passageway, the process of entering in.

Also means threshold, starting point, point of entry, gate, must begin here.

These are His instructions; when He said I Am the Door of the sheep, we are to follow.

He gave us the example, manifested in the door. He is the One who opened the passage for us to enter in. He is also our guard, defender, shield and Shepherd.

We are to…Seek the kingdom… and we are given the keys. It’s up to us to find the doors and locate the locks, for He told us if we seek we shall find, knock and it shall be opened.

Every door leads somewhere. Every portal opens into something, mostly houses/ buildings of one type or another. The question is, who does the building belong to?

If we have a key and permission to use it, then we are also permitted entrance and obviously welcome; as we must know the owner who gave us the key. We would not give a stranger the key to our house.

Likewise Messiah gives us His KEYS to His house, which is the inner spiritual house of our physical being of which He is now the owner because we now belong to Him and are no longer strangers. We have His Keys of Light.

There is one nation which has never been eradicated throughout all of history. One group of people has survived where others have not.

They are His miraculous witness, they exist for the plan and purpose of God – chosen and separated; set-apart for the specific purpose to declare His existence and fulfill His purpose in restoring us to Himself. In the wilderness, the nation was reborn from bondage and became the herald of future events declaring the end before it began.

In Deut. 30:1-4, Moses declared the journey which Israel would take through all its times of tragedy and captivity. However, He also said they would return to the land. In fact, Moses says that when these events occur, God will do an amazing thing. He says that the Lord himself “will return and gather” His people from their captivity, it was a reference to the Jubilee ordinance.

Ex 19:19 As the sound of the ram’s horn grew louder and louder, Moses would speak and God would answer with a voice/shofar/thunder. 

They were to sound the rams horn/shofar.

Leviticus 25:10 (KJV).

And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

There’s only one place in the writings where the rams horn shofar is connected to the words you shall return, and it’s in Lev. 25:10 and is called the law of Jubilees.

The Jubilee is God’s origination and ordained by Him that at the Jubilee, all that has been lost is restored. In Jubilee year we come home and separation from family and land is ended and everything is returned and restored back to the original owner.

Here is another key of light/revealed knowledge.

The connection between the rams horn/shofar and jubilee is that,

the rams horn/the shofar

WAS THE SIGN

of the Jubilee.

It was the rams’ horn/shofar,

that both

ushered in

and

proclaimed its’ coming,

all through the land,

every 50 years.

This was given to Israel and the children of Israel, which includes every grafted in born again believer.

It is a returning to our ancestral possession/land. Deut. 30:3. The sign of the end times would be the return of Israel to her land of the promise!

There have been many Jubilees.

Yovel/Jubilee and Shofar are synonymous; and this is why the Shofar is called the Yovel. And it is why we have missed the deeper significance, when we only read the English words that have been translated from the Hebrew and Aramaic languages.

(Remember Bet/beit and vet, Bb and Vv are the same in the Hebrew alef-bet so the letters are interchangeable).

It is so much clearer when we read the Hebrew word as there is no letter J in the Alef bet, instead it is the letter Y.

Jubilee reads Y B L – even pronouncing the letters without vowels, it immediately sounds and reads like the Hebrew word; and adding vowel sounds makes it complete.

Now it is easier to see that Jesus/Yeshua is not only the Dalet /the Door; but also our Jubilee/Yubel. He is the physical manifestation of heralding the return and restoration of all things; the shofar declaring its imminent arrival and His impending return. 

The fact is, that all language needs a Voice, a Kol, and that voice also needs a frequency in the form of sounds to express itself.

To the foreigner another language sounds like nonsense; just a jumble of noise. But to the one who knows that language it makes perfect sense. This is true of all animals, birds, and sea life which communicate in their own way with sound; e.g the whales are even said to have a song.

So why would we not think the sound of a shofar would not communicate something to the listener as expelled by the blower?

The main KEY to this is Yom Kippur. The rams horn/SHOFAR is what ushers in and brings the Jubilee/Yovel.

Yom Kippur is the Key to Yovel.

Here is another key of light/revealed knowledge.

Jubilee represents the setting in motion of God’s purposes. It sets the stage, initiates and inaugurates the course; sets in motion a sequence of events, moving forward until the next Jubilee.

A sequence of prophetic purposes, that with the passage of time, will become increasingly manifest in the natural realm.

It’s the fruition of the seeds planted,

it sets in motion a new cycle,

it ends one and immediately begins another,

it opens up a new era,

it unleashes His appointed purposes.

It is a name based on the SHOFAR that was sounded to proclaim it’s coming. The year of YOVEL, when slaves and prisoners were set free; it is year of restoration.

The Jubilee/Yovel, can only begin

on one specific day.

Yom Kippur.

The Day of Atonement.

Why?

Because blessings can only come after being reconciled to God; and the only way that was possible was through the atonement.

So apart from Yom Kippur there can be no Jubilee. No atonement = no release, no freedom, and no restoration.

The atonement is the sacrifice of Messiah.

What is the Yovel key?

The key is Yom Kippur

because it brings the yovel,

the atonement, the at-one-ment.

Therefore if Messiah is the atonement and we are IN HIM, it could be said we also bring the Jubilee and the more we dwell in the atonement, the more we will live in the Jubilee.

To have the power of Jubilee means:

having the power to walk in freedom,

and the power of returning home,

the power of reconciliation,

the power of liberty and

the power to be restored to God-given inheritance.

To do this we must go deeper into Messiah, and into His atonement and this is achieved by way of relationship.

Deep calls to deep, and from Messiah comes our Jubilee because from Yom Kippur comes the Yovel.

Yud, Vav, Bet, Lamed.

As Yom Kippur is always preceded by trumpets which focuses on the end, it announces the closing of the annual sacred cycle.

The Shofar/trumpet will one day announce the coming of Kings and kingdoms. It is prophesied that when the Shofar trumpet sounds, the kingdom of God will come.

Shofar/trumpets call the people to gather before God. So it’s prophesied that at the sound of the Shofar/trumpet Gods’ people will be gathered up into His presence.

It’s a wake up call, and it will be enough to wake the dead!

And it will announce the start of a king’s reign.

Meaning: when it sounds, the reign of THE King will begin. The kingdom of this world will become the kingdom of the Lord.

These appointed times, are just as much a part of the new renewed covenant, as are the appointed days of spring. They are telling us, that faith is not only in what was, as in their fulfillment, but also of what is yet to come.

We live our lives FROM salvation and yet TO redemption. Our HOPE/TIKVAH is in the Lord.

Lev. 23:24; Matt. 24:31; 1Cor. 15:52; 1Thess. 4:16.

Lev. 25:10.

Jubilee is all about separation,

it’s Hallow, Holy, as in set apart. The command is to separate out and to treat it differently than the 49 yrs that preceded it.

First it’s a kadosh/holy year unto the Lord like no other year.

This is true both for corporate and personal observation.

2nd it’s a proclamation of liberty, freedom.

3rd it’s all about the inhabitants and citizens (which we are spiritually grafted into) of Israel.

4th its about the multiplication of time. This time period is 7yrs and 7 is the number of completion. This Year is 5780. Meanings: grace, completion, new beginnings.

Lev. 25 :8-10, the Shofar is to be sounded and is based on mathematics: 7×7+1=50

5th thing is restoration

yod means to work pictured as a hand to do a deed to make something to accomplish a purpose.

VAV pictured as an iron nail; means to add, to secure, to join together, to bind together, to make a connection between 2 things which are separated from each other. It’s a wooden peg and a wooden hook and it means: to hold up.

BET has the idea of a child or family and it pictured as a tent or house; a picture of a dwelling place. It means inside and is the 1st letter in the Torah – Bereshit that identifies the Son of God.

LAMED pictured as the staff of a shepherd; means control, to have authority, to urge forward, it’s the voice of authority.

Putting these together is clearly supportive of the common meaning of

Jubilee: A divine/holy deed is being done that restores families to their homes where they are once again joined together and revived and renewed and regain the authority and control over the land and possessions that were once lost.

There’s a further apocalypse though, which does not focus on Israel and the land, or its restoration. Nor is it restricted to Israel or the Jewish people; this is because it is about the Messianic Jubilee.

The deeper significance is in the spiritual sense as a prophetic forecast. And its implications are more far reaching because it’s for all people, everywhere on the face of the earth. It is declaring that God has a divine plan that will be revealed and unfold at the appointed time/MOED; in order to deliver mankind from the wrath of God, the bondage of sin and eternal separation from His presence/throne in Shamayim/heavens.

This Jubilee will heal and restore the breach between people and their Creator, through the atoning sacrifice of Messiah. Only through the blood of Jesus/Yeshua shed at Calvary, are our sins forgiven. Then we are invited to be reunited with our Heavenly Father and adopted into the family of God and one day we will be in His presence eternally.

This is the freedom that is being declared in the shadow type of Jubilee; this is Jesus/Yeshua’s Jubilee/Yubel/Yovel, and the one that Jesus/Yeshua declared in Galilee, recorded in Luke 4:18,19 when He read from the Isaiah scroll.

Rom 10: 9-10 says that it was being fulfilled by Him.

Jesus/Yeshua is our Jubilee.

Lev. 25:10.

Our conventional understanding of 50 is 7×7 + 1.

7 is divine completion, but of what?

What is the meaning behind the numbers of Jubilee/YOVEL – 10 6 2 30?

Yod with a numerical value 10: the perfection of a divine order, completeness of divinely ordered events, completing an order.

One of 4 sacred numbers and means ordinal perfection.

Vav with a numerical value of 6: means enmity with God, weakness of man, imperfection and the manifestation of sin and the evils of satan/adversary. It also means to fall short, to labor, to sorrow. It’s the number of man’s secular completeness and therefore the number of mans world.

Bet 2 is the first number in which there is a division; it can have a dual meaning and is made up of 2 other numbers 1+1. It can mean to indicate a difference of opinion, e.g. evil vs. good; and indicates that another 1 can come alongside us, the second one, or someone who comes alongside, either to hinder, or to help/assist.

It also refers to part of the creator God as the Son, the living Word. He was there at the beginning, He is the Alef and Tav. It is revealed to us as a beautiful picture as it is the first number/letter in Torah. At the creation account, it is the first letter of the first word, Bereshit; not genesis. It is a letter B/bet/beyt, and is the picture of a house or tent and the number value of 2.

Both the picture and numerical value point to the Son of God. The only Son, the uncreated Son, who was the divinely conceived, Son of the Father.

Lamed 30 means blood sacrifice.

It is 3 x 10 – 3 is divine perfection and x10 = ordinal perfection.

The result being, the divine order is at a magnified perfection – marking the right time.

The fact that 3 and 10 are 2 of the sacred numbers and are in the root of Jubilee/Yubel, indicates that whatever is hidden in this number is of extreme significance.

There are other numbers that are related to the sequencing of time, 40, 50, 300 and 400 and all are divisible by 10. However, 10 is the only one regularly used in the scriptures as the divine prophetic multiplier.

10 forecasts there is a divine plan in place unfolding in time and space. It can also be taken with other numbers in the same word, to forecast a particular and precise period of time. Wherever a number can be divided by 10, it indicates that there is a revelation in that number, that has something to do with the 5 W’s. Those 5 being, the Who, the What, Where, When and Why; as related to the divinely ordained plan of God.

6 is mans number, and as 7 is a sacred number that reveals divine completion, so 6 falls short of God’s perfection.

1 = God, Humans are short of perfection by 1 because they are without God.

6 magnifies man’s imperfection and is the manifestation of man’s secular completion; and always comes to an end with sin, sorrow and failure. More than any other number, 6 is the one that reminds us that we are at enmity with God and unable in our own strengths, to bridge the gap. It also reminds us that we are travelers passing through man’s fallen and corrupt world. Friendship with the world is enmity with God. We can’t serve God and mammon and invariably our lives are ruled by one or the other.

As we have seen, HaYovel, which in Hebrew means The Jubilee;

pronounced: HA-yo-VEL.

יוֹבֵל  lamed, bet, vav, yod, also has the meaning ram’s horn, trumpet. 

Yovel or yobel {yob-ale’}; apparently from yabal; the blast of a horn (from its continuous sound); specifically, the signal of the silver trumpets; hence, the instrument itself and the festival thus introduced — jubile, ram’s horn, trumpet.

According to Jewish tradition, the reestablishment of the Biblically-mandated Jubilee year, is part of the Messianic process. In Judaism, it is a positive religious commandment “to sanctify the 50th year” (Leviticus 25:8).

When all the twelve tribes lived in Israel, in their ancestral estates, the year following seven complete Shemittah cycles—the fiftieth year—was observed as Yovel, the Jubilee year. During Yovel, too, the land was not worked, as during Shemittah.

The Shemitah, (sometimes spelled Shemittahor or Shmita), is the final year in a seven-year cycle of debt forgiveness and land use, prescribed for Israel in the Old Testament. Known also as the Sabbatical Year. The Sabbatical Year and The Jubilee Year (Yovel), provided for a period of both social equality and ecological recovery, a year of REST/SHALOM.

Most Hebrew scholars agree that the original meaning of the word ‘Yovel’ (Hebrew for ‘jubilee’) is ‘ram’ or ‘deer’, as can be found in the Book of Joshua: “Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of RAM’S horns before the ark.

Strongs # 3104

Definition a ram, ram’s horn (a wind instrument) NASB Translation jubilee (21), ram’s (1), ram’s horn (1), rams’ horns (4)

yobel: a ram, ram’s horn (a wind instrument)

Original Word: יוֹבֵל
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: yobel
Phonetic Spelling: (yo-bale’)
Definition: a ram, ram’s horn (a wind instrument)

Word Origin
from yabal
Definition
a ram, ram’s horn (a wind instrument)
NASB Translation
jubilee (21), ram’s (1), ram’s horn (1), rams’ horns (4).

Every 50th year is considered YOVEL, meaning, that all Jewish slaves are freed and that all land which has changed hands in the years since the last YOVEL now returns to the hands of its original owner.

Jubilee (biblical) The Jubilee ( Hebrew: יובל  yōḇel; Yiddish: yoyvl) is the year at the end of seven cycles of shmita (Sabbatical years), and according to Biblical regulations had a special impact on the ownership and management of land in the Land of Israel; 

Yovel’s origin and use are both in the Hebrew language. Yovel is a variant form of the English name Jubal. Modern Hebrew has adopted the European sense of the word, and a Yovel can mean the marking of any anniversary. 

The name Jubilee is from the Hebrew word yovel, “ram’s horn,” the year being so called because a ram’s horn was sounded when it was proclaimed (Leviticus 25:9). 

Hebrew: יובל yōḇel; Yiddish: yoyvl) is the year at the end of seven cycles of shmita (Sabbatical years).

When Yovel/Jubilee arrives, the Jewish slave becomes once again a free person, who is devoted only to the service of Adonai/the Lord, and not to a human master and so, liberty takes on a new meaning. However it does not mean ownerless, rather it means belonging to the rightful, natural Master.

At the end of days, when Messiah/Mashiach shall arrive, we will return to the Source, and our natural condition, an existence unencumbered by a Yetzer Hara, an existence in which our sole desire will be to derive pleasure from Our Heavenly Father’s infinite perfection.

Yetzer Hara in Hebrew: יֵצֶר הַרַע  refers to the congenital inclination to do evil, by violating the will of God.

The term is drawn from the phrase: the imagination of the heart of man [is] evil. (Hebrew: יֵצֶר לֵב הָאָדָם רַע, yetzer lev-ha-adam ra).

The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

The yetzer hara represents the inner impulse or tendency within the human heart to gravitate toward selfish gratification (the word yetzer first appears in Genesis 6:5 

The Yetzer HaTov, is the spirit, that tells us to do good and to be loyal to God; it’s the good inclination and inner impulse to do good.

Yetzer יֵצֶר

Strongs # 3336 pronounced yay’-tser meaning: a form, framing, purpose, intent, intentions, mind.

So now we can see how Yovel is connected to the Fingerprint of God, the Keys of Light, the Shofar and Jubilee.

We are Yuval – led by Messiah Jesus/Yeshua.

Jesus/Yeshua is Jubilee/Yubel/Yovel/the Atonement/rams horn/Shofar who gave us the keys of His Kingdom, the keys of light and God’s fingerprint is on all of it.

We are in Jubilee and a divine/holy, set-apart deed is being done, as we work out our salvation, we are being restored to the Father and joined together into the family of God where all that was lost is regained, revived and renewed.

May the song of our life be as the sound of music to our Heavenly Father.

Shalom, shalom

‘Mishpachah’ ‘Family’

משפחה

Mish-pa-KHa.

Don’t leave this page before you choose Yetzer HaTov/ the inclination to do good and be loyal to God. The Yobel/Yovel, Jesus/Yeshua, calls to us by Way of the Yovel/Shofar/ the rams horn and all its’ wonderful significance in leading us to Messiah our Jubilee.

Please Do Not leave this page without the surety in your heart that you have Him in your life and heart as the days draw ever closer to the end of the age..

NOT CERTAIN?

YOU CAN BE..

Make sure 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 greatly loved and very precious in His sight.

He longs to give you the Shalom He paid the ultimate price for..

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. Amen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Apocalypse of the Trump – Part 3- The Sound Of The Neshamah?

In Part 2 we saw where there was a further

apocalypse/revealing,

in

this trump,

this shofar,

because each of the letters in the Hebrew Alef-bet, also represent numbers.

Part 3 concludes The Apocalypse Of The Trump with the sound of the Neshama, (Neshamah/Neshimah), The Breath of God.

 neshama (נְשָׁמָה nəšâmâh – Hebrew from the root nšm or breath).

Neshemah chayyim – breath of life.

Chayyim/Chaim is plural (literally lives/lifes, not life) Elohim is also plural.

The breath of our spirit and soul is combined with the wind, or breath that comes out from our inner selves. That wind or breath is then released out from our bodies.

In reality it is in part, the expelling of the breath of God’s life(chaim) in us. This same breath of God that was breathed into Adam.

God breathed lives/chaim/Chayyim into Adam.

For us as believers, our born again spirit, is further infused by the Ruach/Spirit of God.

The life-force is not a result of organic material, it is from God. The scripture says that spirit returns to Him when it leaves these physical bodies.

Following this thought…… Is it His indwelling Ruach/Spirit/Breath/Life/Chaim, that flows out through us and transferring along the shofar as it it blown/sounded; then it ascends to the realms of the heavens? The chaim, the lifes of God, issuing forth as Ruach/Spirit into the Shamayim/heavens.

Let’s look a little further…

As His presence was there at Sinai, at the Akedah/the binding of Isaac, and as the 2 shofars were ready to step in at the sacrifice and intervene/save/resurrect, the son.

That since God could raise him from the dead to perform his promises, he would sacrifice him to obey God’s command. Heb. 11:9

This faith grew from what God had done, in giving him Isaac from his own dead body, and Sarah’s dead womb.

The Covenant mandate was met; and God Who was the bodily fulfillment of the promise, eventually came. God will provide HIMSELF the Lamb.

He was to become the Lamb and prophetically declared it ahead of time.

Another mystical property of the sounds of the shofar, is the amazing ability to express the inner human neshama in the form of sound. (The shofar is not classed as a musical instrument.) 

Neshimah

Breath: Psalms 150:6

Nun/Noon – Shin/Sheen – Mem – Hey/Heh

Some Sages teach that the sound made by the shofar, IS the sound of the human neshama, the soul itself to which the 5 physical senses are connected.

Hearing is an essential part of the well known Hebrew prayer called the Shema.

Long before Messiahs day, the Israelites recited a daily prayer called the Shema. The prayer comes directly from Deut. 6 and is a way for them to commit themselves to listening to God’s word and obeying it.

Strongs # 8086 shama/shema שְׁמַע Pronounced: shem-ah’

 

Just as there is no single Hebrew word meaning obey, there also is no specific English word for shema. While this Hebrew verb translates as, hear or listen, it means much more than just hearing or listening. It is an excellent example of the mindset difference between Hebrew, which stresses physical action and Greek and Western culture that stresses mental activity.

SHEMA: means HEAR and OBEY or LISTEN and DO.

In Mark 4:9, Jesus/Yeshua said, he who has ears to hear let him hear. And this would have included the understanding of action the same as believe it is an active participation not a mental assent or agreement. If we do not act on what we believe and hear we are not accomplishing what is required of us as believers.

Be a doer not a hearer only!

The individual who has ears to hear is the one who diligently attends to the words of Messiah, that he may ponder and OBEY them. Many heard Him out of curiosity, that they might bear something new, not that they might lay to heart the things which they heard, and endeavor to practice them in their lives.

This indeed is the true meaning of faith without works being dead and James 2:18 Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith apart from thy works, and I by my works will show thee my faith.

Good works are obeying and doing. The action of doing the gospel message.

Blowing the shofar is possibly the raw sound of the neshama.

The bend of the shofar is said to be the transition between this world and the next; like a bridge, a joining, a vav, a portal, a dalet, a door; Jesus/Yeshua of course is THE door!

It is an entering in, through the veil. It’s a point of access into the heavenly places, joining the realm of His throne, to where we are situated, by the power of His Ruach flowing through us. Which is the voice/the kol of God.

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-voice-kol

Is the shofar the depth of, or somehow at the root of speech with its’ connection to the voice of God?

Teshuvah, means to go back, to return.

Look behold return to the cross!

Teshuvah is a compound word consisting of the Hebrew Tashan, meaning Return, and Hey, the last letter of the JHVH/YHWH name for God, also represents the Shekinah/Glory, or manifest presence of God. Thus, Teshuvah is a time to return to the presence of God.

So, in a way, are we (spiritually), going back to the moment of creation, to go back into the womb of eternity, to the moment of conception when everything began?

Do we return to our fetal state, our moment of creation; which is why we say we are born again! and in turn experiencing the understanding of CHAIM/lives?

(In Hebrew thinking it is believed that this teshuvah/return is what is meant by memory/zichronot – or remembering as a connecting function of Rosh HaShanah; when the blowing of trumpet/Shofar is sounded. The time of remembering when the Voice of God boomed out from Sinai’s summit.

Meaning of zichronot briefly explained:

There are 3 Basic Prayers said during Rosh HaShanah: Malchuyot, Zichronot, Shofarot. Celebrating God as the incomparable King of The Universe.

These thoughts are inspired by the letters shin, fey/fay, and resh/reysh.

 The goal here, is to enjoy the silence that follows the shofar blast. To forget everything that is not urgently pressing for our immediate attention and to echo and reverberate with the vibrating air of the Shin, fey, resh/reysh which spells shofar. 

Sh f r, the ram’s horn, is a figure of speech for the sound, however is it more than air and breath?

It’s the shofar blower’s own vibrations, those buzzing lips that make the sound.

Is there anything else contained in the sound and in the letters that make up the word for shofar?

Other words with the same letters;

Shin/sheen, pey/pay/fey/fay, resh/reysh are:

shafar שָׁפַר  – to be good, pleasing
shiper שִׁפֵּר – to improve, to beautify
hishtaper הִשְׁתַפֵּר – to become better
shefer שֶׁפֶר – beauty 

This suggests the sound of the shofar may be pleasing to our ears, and have the effect of motivating self-improvement and change. Also that the echoes of the shofar uncover beauty throughout this coming year.
Truly the sounds of the shofar are unsettling and knock things out of kilter, and when placed in a different order, spell other words and different meanings.

Shin, resh, fay –sin, resh, fay or
Saraph שָֹרַף – a troublesome thought, a fiery serpent or angel
Sereipha שְֹרֵפָה – burning, fire, conflagration

Resh, shin, fay
Resheph רֶשֶׁף  – flame, spark, fever

Here we could say that the vibrations of the shofar stir up troublesome thoughts and the friction becomes fire. Our souls are burned by feverish minds and hot headed actions. However, the flames can also have a purifying effect too and burn away that which holds us down, the sin that so easily besets us and becomes a burden.

What happens next?
Rearrange the letters and we get more words:

What’s left after the fire? Is there a new spark bringing illumination to a new angle/aspect of our lives?

Resh, fay, shin
Rephesh רֶפֶשׁ  – mud, dirt, mire
Raphash רָפַשׁ – to trample, to pollute

Pay, shin, resh
Pashar פָּשַׁר – to melt, to be lukewarm

We must also see that the shofar itself is of this world and that the horn came from an animal. It’s not an instrument made in heaven.
In one way we are hearing our own human effort. While in this world we all get muddy, because our way of life tramples on beings around us whether we are aware of it or not.
This gives rise to the question we should regularly ask ourselves. Are we only lukewarm in our desire to change?

Turning the same letters around one last time gives us hope:
Pay, shin, resh
Pisher פִּשֵׁר – to compromise, arbitrate
Pesher פֵּשֶׁר – interpretation, solution

Just as the vibrations of the shofars sounds are unsettling, let us pray that they may reveal to us new perspectives and understanding that will lead to solutions for balance in our spiritual walk embracing only Godly, healthy compromise, which will always bring us full circle back to shefer, beauty and goodness.

So it seems, shofarot may be connected to malchuyot biblically, (blowing of the shofar as part of the coronation at 1 Kings 1:34, 39, 41) even if it isn’t necessarily connected with Rosh Hashanah in the biblical text.

Malchuyot is a means to reaffirm the coronation of The Lord as King of the Universe, on the day that commemorates the beginning, the world’s creation where participants try to capture something of the awe-inspiring nature of the Lord God.

As we teshuvah, do we in some way return to the moment when the memories or seeds, of the parents are given to us?

This same Hebrew concept postulates that the sound heard by Adam HaRishon/the first human, on wakening from his creation, was the sound of a shofar. The sound made by his neshama as it entered him; that is, the presence of the spirit of God flowing into Him.

Was Hearing the 1st of the 5 physical senses activated in Adam?

When we wake someone it’s by sound, by speaking their name or the sound of an alarm clock.

The name Adam originated from the Hebrew word, אָדָם . Pronounced: aw-dawm, which means human, as a species, male and female. The Scriptures use this literal meaning for Adam, meaning simply humans. 

These thoughts suggests that the shofar can also take us back to the very moment when our neshama entered us. 

If indeed the sound of the shofar is the voice of God, why wouldn’t it be able to do so?

neshaMah

nun shin mem hey

 נֶשַׁמַה 

(Strong’s #5397) means: breath and is sometimes used in place of nephesh or rûach, it is derived from: נָשַׁם nâsham meaning: to pant or blow away (Strong’s #5395).

Nefesh, neshama and ruach are Hebrew words for soul… The first is the air, as it is still in the trumpet blower’s cheeks; and this corresponds to the neshamah.

The soul, or neshamah, is the self, the I, that inhabits the body and acts through it. It is believed that everything has a Soul, not just human beings, but every created entity has one also.

Creatures have a voice too.

The understanding is that animals also have souls, as do plants and even inanimate objects;

every blade of grass has a soul, and every grain of sand as part of creation as a whole, has the breath of God’s life in it.

The diagram shows a little of how it is viewed by some.

These concepts are unfamiliar to our western mindset.

We have also limited ourselves by the restrictions of translated texts, which fogs the pictures contained within the Hebrew alef-bet. However, it is revealed to those willing to dig into the very roots of the original language of the God of creation; whose very act of speaking brought forth all that is.

This same conceptual thinking, will help us to understand why a ram was found at the very moment of sacrifice.

There is even an understanding among some scholars that Isaac expired and was resurrected?!

What is certain is at that precise moment a shofar became available. Two rams horns to be exact.

In Hebrew thought:
Just as earthly kings have horns and shofarot blown to celebrate the anniversary of their coronation, so The Lord wants the shofar blown on the anniversary of the Creation- when there came to be a world that God could rule over, as it is said:
In the same way as earthly kings have horns and shofarot blown to announce their decrees – and only after this warning actually enforce the decree, so The Lord wants the shofar blown to announce the beginning of the 10 Days of Return, when all are commanded to turn their lives around.
Just as the shofar blew when The Lord gave the Torah at Mount Sinai, so it blows to remind us each year to do as our forebears said at Sinai.
Just as Yehezekel (Ezekiel) compared the words of the Prophets, calling for the people to change their ways, to a shofar, so we must know that those who hear the shofar and do not take warning and change their lives will be responsible for their own destruction, as it is said: Because the shofar was blown as a war-alarm when the Temple was destroyed, it should remind us of the destruction of the Temple, the disaster that we brought upon ourselves, and thus should warn us to abandon our misdeeds in order to avert disaster, as it is said:
Because The Lord used a ram as a substitute sacrifice for Isaac, the ram’s horn should remind us how Isaac and Abraham were prepared to give up all their hopes and dreams for The Lord’s sake. Bereshit (Genesis) 22.
Since the blowing of a horn causes cities to tremble, so the shofar will make us tremble and fear our Creator, as it is said: Since the shofar will be blown on the great day of the Lord.
Since the shofar will be blown when the tempest-tossed of The Lord ’s people are gathered in harmony to the Land of Israel, we should hear the shofar to stir our longings for that day, as it is said: (Yeshayahu) Isaiah18:3
This reminds us of:
(Matityahu) Matthew 24:29-31
Since the shofar will be blown when Mashiach revives the dead, we hear the shofar in order to revive our faith in that supernatural transformation, the final victory of life and freedom over death, the ultimate oppressor, as it is said: and of another event at Yom Teruah  (Yehezekel) Ezekiel 37:1-14

Another use of the shofar is to bring about the will of The Lord. This instrument is capable of breaking down the greatest of barriers: (Yehoshua) Joshua 6:4-9
The shofar is used to gather the people: (Shoftim) Judges 3:27
The shofar is capable of bringing fear to the heart of even the most hardened man: (Shoftim) Judges 7:16 And he divided the 300  [into] 3 companies,
The shofar can be used to halt actions that are not helpful: (2 Shmuel) Samuel 2:28

The shofar is used to announce the new moon and the Jubilee year.

The Torah provides for the blast of the shofar on Yom Kipppur to mark the start of yovel, Lev. 25:9

In this next verse we see, again, that the shofar is used to indicate the presence of The Lord: (2 Shmuel) Samuel 6:15
The shofar is also used to alert us and to call us to battle against our enemies: Ezra-Nechemiah 4:18

The shofar is used to call all of The Lord’s people to repentance on Yom Teruah Rosh HaShanah Tehillim  Ps.81:3
As a call to return in repentance before The Lord, the shofar has no equal: Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 58:1

 

There are 4 different sounds associated with the blowing of the shofar during the Yom Teruah service:

 

These sounds are interpreted as follows:

TEKIAH – ‫תקיעה

The tekiah is a long blast.

A pure unbroken sound that calls man to search his heart/lev, turn from his wrong ways, and to seek forgiveness through repentance.

In an: It is finished! Proclamation of Gods’ sovereignty, hailing Him as ruler of the world. We, like the heralds trumpets, announce that the authority of the King has come; and at the Name of the Messiah, every knee shall bow.

The object of Yom Teruah/Rosh HaShana is to crown The Lord as our King. Tekiah, the long, straight shofar blast, is the sound of the King’s coronation. In the Garden of Eden/Gan Eden, Adam’s first act was to proclaim God as King; and now, the shofar proclaims to ourselves and to the world: God is our King.

We set our values straight and return to the reality, of God as the One Who runs the world; guiding history, moving mountains, and caring for each and every human being individually and personally.

SHEBARIM – ‫שברים

A broken, staccato, trembling sound. It  typifies the sorrow that comes to man when he realizes his misconduct and desires to change his ways. The shebarim or shevarim is 3 shorter blasts. It is said that Shebarim/Shevarim is the sobbing cry of a Hebrew heart yearning to connect, to grow, to achieve.

TERUAH – ‫תרועה

A wave-like sound of alarm calling upon man to stand by the banner of Ha shem. The teruah is 10 (some say 9) very quick short blasts. The Teruah sound resembles an alarm clock, waking us from our spiritual slumber. Num. 10 (Also in 2Chron., Jer., Joel and Zeph.)

This shofar sound brings clarity, alertness, and focus, to fix what’s broken, open our eyes.

TEKIAH GEDOLAH .  גדולה ‫תקיעה

The prolonged, unbroken sound typifying a final appeal to sincere repentance and atonement. This note concludes each set of blowing during the Rosh HaShanah ceremony. It has been described it as a sign of divine withdrawal, based on the verse: “When the Shofar sounds long, they [the people] shall come up to the mountain…” (Shemot 19:13).

Please click link below to hear the sounds described above: Shofar begins at 00:11 mark.

It has been said that the tekiah blast represents joy, whereas the blasts of the shebarim/shevarim and teruah represent pain and affliction.

Short Hebrew statement spoken as a prayer:

Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha-olam, asher kidishanu bemitzvotav vetzivanu lazman hazeh.
Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the universe, Who has kept us alive, sustained us, and brought us to this season.

When we blow the Shofar we are accepting the Kingship of the Master of the World.

‫היום הרת עולם

Hayom harat olam

This day is the birthday of the world !

 

Why is Rosh HaSahanah called the birth-day of the world?

 

Hebrew texts tell us that this life is a corridor to the next life.

Death is a birth to a new existence.

 

This is in line with the meaning of chaim meaning lifes, not just one life, as the IM of chaim means a plural, more than one life.

Just as emergence from the womb/racham constitutes physical birth, and detachment from that body is the birth of the soul into the physical realm of earth. In the same way as the 8 or 9 months in the womb is the time period preceding the earthly birth, the 70 or 80 years on earth are the preparation or gestation period preceding Birth into the heavenly realm.

(Click link bellow to see in the season of our hiding the full apocalypse/revealing)

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-season-of-our-hiding/

 

It could be said that Rosh HaShananah, is the birth canal of the new year!

 

It is very significant that a shofar with its narrow mouthpiece and wider opening somewhat resembles a birth canal?

In fact, the Bible mentions a great woman with a name of the same etymology/meaning: Shifrah. She was one of 2 named out of the many midwives of the ancient Hebrews who left Egypt.

Apparently the name Shifra comes from a Hebrew root word meaning: the capacity to make something better, or to improve its quality.

And that is what she did: In keeping with this characteristic, and contrary to Pharaoh’s orders, Shifrah ensured that the babies would emerge healthy and viable, then swaddled and massaged them to foster their strength and beauty.

 

The shofar is repleat with birth imagery:

It can be viewed as the birth canal, the air rushing through it to create a plaintive cry, is the breath of life, and the sound that we hear recalls the cries of labor.

Traditionally, we hear 100 blasts of the shofar during Rosh Hashanah. It has been said that the first 99 are the cries of a woman in labor, and the final one, equal to the tekiah gedolah, is the responding cry of the newborn child.

This day is the birthday of the world, or more accurately, this day is the pregnancy of the world.

On Rosh HaShanah our world becomes pregnant with Gods’ presence, and in a way He is pregnant with us, (carrying us).

It is a time of mutual awareness and understanding. It is the time when we enter the inner world, the world of the womb, in order to be reborn into change.

God intervened in the wombs of the matriarchs Sarah, Rachel, and Hannah and made them pregnant. Their stories are punctuated by an act of divine intervention:

God remembers [ז-כ-ר] or takes note [פ-ק-ד] of them; connecting the mysterious name of the day, called a memorial of trumpet blasts [זכרון תרועה; zikhron teruah] (Lev. 23:24),

to God’s remembering these women:

שָׂרָה saw-raw’. Sarah. Gen. 21:1

חַנָּה khan-naw’. Channah. 1 Sam. 1:19

רָחֵל  RAY-chel. Rachel. Gen. 30:22

On Rosh HaShanah, the stories of Sarah, Hannah, and Rachel are read to remind the listeners of the hope for new life.

In the same way He added the Heh/Hey into Abram and Sarai’s physical names.

Heh or Hey means: behold! look!

There is an understanding that Sarah, the mother of the Jewish people, herself was born on this day.

The story of the Akedah, the binding of Isaac, is also read. It describes the moment when Isaac is offered up as a sacrifice by his father Abraham, to let us know that this time of year also signals radical change, a part of us, the self life in enmity with God must die, in order to be reborn into the power of the resurrected life for another year.

We are the ones who inscribe ourselves for life or death by living our lives throughout the year the way we do. We are the ones who give birth to ourselves.

In the next world our birth and the nature of our experience will reflect the choices we, and we alone, made.

In this life we were born into circumstances beyond our control, but in the next life we will emerge from the womb/racham of circumstances we shaped with our daily life choices and actions.

If we are true to our soul here, then our soul will experience a happy birth in the next world. If we succumb to the low impulses of the material body, will we be confused and dismayed when we emerge into the wide space of eternity?

It is true to say that the shofar sounds like a child wailing.

Already mentioned is that Shofar is a Hebrew word that comes from a root meaning BEAUTY.

שָׁפַר

means: to beautify, alluding to the beautification of our ways as we turn to God in teshuvah. In this month (i.e., the seventh month of Tishrei) you shall amend (shapperu) your deeds.

Doing teshuva means getting to the root of the problem and deepening our awareness of God.

The Inner Voice

שׁוֹפָר

Rosh HaShanah is possibly linked to the word shofar to the verse:

Iyov (Job) 26:13 “By His breath the Shamayim/Heavens are spread (shifra).”

This verse refers to the dispersing of the clouds to reveal/apocalypse of the clear blue sky.

That which was clouded over and concealed becomes revealed.

The root of the word shifra also means to beautify,

and true beauty is to see the essence of something, the purpose for which it was created.

Shifra is also the root of the word shofar.

שׁוֹפָר

handsome; trumpet; that does good,

shiphrah, brightness, Ex. 1:15 

שִׁפְרָה

The 11th century Jewish commentary on the passage from Exodus identifies Shiphrah with Jochebed, the mother of Moses, and Puah with Miriam, Moses’ sister, making the 2 midwives mother and daughter respectively. 

As a countermeasure, Pharaoh sent for the midwives named Shifra and Puah, and commanded them to kill every baby boy that was born. 3. The midwives feared God and did not obey. 

Shifra/Shiphrah – from the Hebrew meaning: to beautify or to be beautiful, or translates as improvement, a reference to the way that Yocheved would improve the newborns by cleaning them and straightening their limbs. Puah, means cooing, a reference to how Miriam would make cooing sounds to the babies which soothed them.

The fact is, that all language needs a voice, an utterance, and that requires sound and frequency as its carrier, by which it is expressed. Another language sounds completely foreign and unintelligible to one who cannot speak it, just a jumble of sounds. However to the one who knows that language, it makes perfect sense. This is true of animals, birds and sea creatures, who communicate in their own way and combination of sounds. So why would we not think the sound of the shofar could communicate something to the listener as expelled by the blower?

 Each has its nuances and subtleties, that when we understand them, adds a richness to the Word of God and to the overall meaning of the Appointed Time(s) of the Lord.

The shofar gives us a clarity to see beyond the clouds, to see to the blue sky beyond. It is this clarity that results in fear and trembling:

 

Amos 3:6 “Can the shofar be sounded in the city and the people not tremble?”

 

The shofar is said to be the midwife of the new year. Into its piercing cry, we squeeze all our heartfelt prayers, all our tears. Our whole being resonates with its call until it reaches the very beginning, the cosmic womb and there it touches a kind of switch as the Divine Presence shifts from the strict judgment of Yom ha Din (day of judgment) to the compassion of Rachamim/Mercies.

Click link below for more on Rachamim/Mercies
https://www.minimannamoments.com/mystery-of-rechem-the-secret-of-living-like-royalty/

Shafir in Hebrew means fine, but mey shafir means the amniotic fluid that surrounds the fetus (ubbar) in the womb. (Think mem and waters and the paleo pictograph.)

‫שופר : In the original sense of incising

From the root שפר which means: to be pleasing, be beautiful, be fair, be comely, be bright, glisten, to be beautiful, to improve and to develop.

שפור – Shipur also means: to elevate to a new level,

Messianic Connections

Notice in the following verses that Gabriel is sent in the 6th month of Elul. It’s possible that this is Elul 29 and that Miryam will be remembered on Rosh HaShana, the 1st day of the seventh month:

Luqas/Luke 1:26 And in the 6th month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.
28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
29 And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
30 And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Yeshua.
32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
36 And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the 6th month with her, who was called barren.
Gen. 22:8 is another example of His goodness, in the ascent of Abraham and Isaac up Mt. Moriah vrs, 13-14

So not only in the paleo letters but also in the numbers does each one represent and tell the good news of the gospel message of redemption and salvation. And it is also declared in the sound of the shofar every time it is blown as representing the voice of God announcing His presence and His whole plan of redemption and restoration and reconciliation, being released into the air waves with a

breath…. 

the Shin/sheen, sh from shaddai

the pey of the mouth and

the reysh from the head of the person…

blowing – declaring – the end from the beginning…

the alef to the tav

Yeshua/Jesus our Messiah typified in the shofar the rams horn of the sacricifial offering of the son.

The WORD is living and breathing and should be viewed as life not as a story.

We walk in the footsteps of the Hebrews, the meaning of their name: those who have crossed over and their life/chaim walk is cyclical.

It is an annual rehearsal for a forthcoming marriage and likewise our lives/chaim are to be as well. 

By blowing the shofar, we remember the faith of the Matriarchs/Patriarchs and our own capacity for self-sacrifice.

Blowing the shofar declares that the LORD God is the King of the universe, as it says in Psalm 98:6,

“With trumpets and the sound of the shofar (וְקוֹל שׁוֹפָר), shout for joy before the King ADONAI (הַמֶּלֶךְ יְהוָה).”

The Day of Trumpets truly is a rehearsal and celebration of that soon coming day of the Messiah’s return from heaven at the sounding of the great SHOFAR trumpet!

From Part 2…

Salpini is the Greek word for the trumpet

Saino is also associated with another primary Greek root verb, which is seio, meaning to rock or vibrate to and fro, to cause to tremble, or to cause to shake or quake. One of the important uses of this verb in the New Testament includes: Matt. 27:51 Just then the temple curtain was torn in two, from top to bottom!

 

The silver trumpets referred to in part 1

Silver – Kesef – כסף

Kesaph Strongs #3702 כְּסַף    
Phonetic Spelling: (kes-af’)

KAF SAMECH PEI

The Hebrew word for silver can be spelled: Kesaph/kasaph/kessef/kesef.

KAF = lines to follow the pattern and instructions, order, conduct, prescribe, establish, uprightness.

SAMECH = support, structure, the vine, the source, life, code, ideal, model, example,

PEI = open, opening, mouth, declaration-breath.

Meaning: The pattern – lines to follow,the Kodesh instructions of God our ALAHIM;

they are His order of conduct to teach uprightness, the source of our life support, the structure that trains us, according to the model – the ideal; our example is the One who declared it. God/YHVH, who is our deliverer, redeemer and our soon returning King, Messiah Jesus/Yeshua.

The cleansing of the earthly temple on the Day of Atonement was only a rehearsal of that Great Day of Atonement when Elohim will cleanse the earth of all sin. 

This great Judgment Day will see all sin eradicated and HaSatan/Adversary judged and bound.

And lastly, the 1st and 8th days of the Festival of Booths (or Tabernacles) are sacred references, depicting the kingdom age and

rehearsing when the Messiah will tabernacle with His BRIDE after He has wiped sin from all the earth.

Finally

God is interested in the relationship HE has with the user and not the shofar itself.

The shofars have a great purpose.  They were given to keep God’s children in the true memory and worship of Him, by keeping us constantly in the understanding of His great plan of redemption. The annual appointed days are all about the Messiah. 

May this be our prayer today:

we want to be like a shofar in the hand of God, totally emptied out on the inside, emptied of ourselves and our ways of being and doing. We desire to be filled with His Ruach HaKodesh in mind and spirit giving Him the freedom to flow through us and entering in to the ears of the hearers.

May the sounds of the song of our lifes/chaim be music to His hearing.

Shalom shalom!

Please don’t leave this page until you have Made that life-saving decision – time is running out. Don’t miss the day of your visitation!

The Shofars Voice/Kol is Calling for you today!

This life is NOT all there is!

You are not here by chance!

If you’re not certain you are ready for His return, don’t leave this site without being sure.

SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW…Don’t put it off one more moment…

Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus 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 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 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. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’ name. Amen.

You are now Born Again by the Holy Spirit of the Living God and you are part of the ever growing family of believers. You will never be the same again!

 

Apocalypse Of The Trump – Shofar Notes And Numbers – The Sound Of A Mystery?

The shofar is an ancient traditional Hebrew instrument, a natural trumpet, made from a ram’s horn.

Note in the above text it says the voice of the shofar.
The Hebrew word for voice is KOL…. Click link below for an interactive post on the Voice.

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-voice-kol-

The Hebrew word is shophar:

a horn (for blowing)

שׁוֹפָר

Pronounced: sho-FAR or SHO-far,

 

shophar {sho-far’}; from shaphar in the original sense of incising; a cornet (as giving a clear sound) or curved horn, cornet, trumpet.

Strongs # 7782 Lev. 25:9

Plural: shofarot

It is sounded during the month of Elul, on Rosh Hashanah, and on Yom Kippur.

This first blast of the shofar horn is believed by the Jewish faith to open up the gates of heaven. It is the Voice/Kol of God announcing His presence/declaring His throne manifesting in our midst. 

Shophar

The shofar and Yom Teruah – day of blowing of trumpets –

Blowing the Rams Horn.

A shofar is the horn of an animal that in most cases is twisted. There are three specific types of horns used to make shofarot; the ram’s horn, African kudu horn (later to become a Yemenite shofar), and the African Gemsbok horn (a straight horn).

These horns are from kosher animals that have a horn which can be hollowed out (not the antler of a deer).

Below are other types of horns:

  1. Cattle horn shofar (nonkosher),

  2. Kudu shofar,

  3. Ibex shofar,

  4. Aoudad sheep shofar,

  5. Water buffalo shofar (questionable if kosher),

  6. Partially-straightened ram’s horn shofar,

  7. Fully-twisted ram’s horn shofar,

  8. Blackbuck shofar,

  9. Pronghorn shofar. Most animal horns are hollow and can theoretically be made into shofarot. (Although some are pasul, disqualified, such as that of a cow.) Horns that are not hollow may not be used as shofarot, even if they are drilled through. Antlers, the branched horns of deer, may therefore not be used as shofarot since they are not hollow. Although the horns of pronghorns superficially resemble deer antlers, they are, in fact, hollow and therefore kosher. However, it is preferable not to use the pronghorn shofar because it is not curved.

  10. Gemsbok shofar

God said to Moses/Mosheh,  Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘The appointments of Yahuwah, which you are to proclaim as set-apart proclamations.  These are my appointments.  There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a set-apart proclamation.  You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to Yahuwah.  These are the appointments of Yahuwah – set-apart proclamations which you are to proclaim at their appointed times.

These are the Appointed Times of the Hebrew cyclical calendar.

Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew: רֹאשׁ הַשָּׁנָה), literally meaning the

head [of] the year

and is the Jewish Civil New Year.

The biblical name for this holiday is

Yom Teruah (יוֹם תְּרוּעָה),

literally,

day of shouting or blasting.

Because the roots of its use, go so far back through the millennia, it is literally a blast from the past! and maybe it’s where we get that saying from?

The Shofar Blasts

The ram’s horn is blown on the Autumn/Fall Moedim days in three specific ways.

Sounds of the Shofar.

 There are three types of sounds that are blown with the shofar:

a tekiah, a steady blast;

a shevarim, a broken note; and

a teruah, a shattered quavering note;

The shofar-blower can only control the number, length and clarity of the notes, sounded not the key or pitch”

Click link below to hear the sounds of the shofar being blown.
https://www.minimannamoments.com/apocalypse-of-the-teruahs-cry/

The Shofar is mentioned numerous times in the Bible, in reference to its ceremonial use in the Temple and to its function as a signal-horn of war.

The sound of the shofar is comparable to the trumpet-blasts that announce the coronation of a king.

According to Hebrew tradition, it was on this day, Rosh Hashanah, God created the world and assumed the role of its’ Sovereign; and in the sounding of the shofar we acknowledge Him as our King.

Rosh Hashanah is the first of the 10 Days of repentance; in Hebrew it is called Teshuvah and means Return. The promise of Teshuvah is that no matter how far we have strayed from our soul’s path, we can find our way back. The root, SHUV, means to TURN.

Rosh Hashanah is

Pronounced: roshe hah-SHAH-nah, also roshe ha-shah-NAH,

Always on the 1st day of the 7th month and falls on a new moon.

The Torah describes the first day of the seventh month;

1st of Tishri = Rosh ha-Shanah as a

Zikron Teruah,

Memorial of Blowing;

Lev.23

and as a

yom teru’ah

day of blowing;

Num. 29.

This was interpreted by the Jewish sages as referring to the sounding of the shofar.

Appointed Times of Leviticus 23:3 which in Hebrew is:

Moedim – pronounced, MO eh DEEM

The Moedim are times to give thanks to the LORD for all He has done…. Rejoice in the Lord always!

Notice that the Hebrew calendar is divided into two equal parts of exactly six lunar months each; both of which center on redemptive rituals and end with harvests.

The Moedim: the Appointed Times of God. He has set-apart, (Holy), precious times, to meet with His beloved.

Note in the chart above, the use of Gods’ Name as Yahuwah. This is taking the Hebrew letters of YHWH (often pronounced Yaweh); and adding vowels, (vowels are not present as letters in the Hebrew Alef Bet as in English Alphabet.) YaHuWaH.

Yeshua/Jesus, the Messiah of Israel, came and gave us a full understanding of the springtime Appointed Times and He has promised to come again and also fulfill the Autumn/fall Appointments.

MOEDIM

מועדים

Comprising the Hebrew Letters:

(open) mem – vav/waw – ayin – dalet – yod – mem
(closed)

(Hebrew reads from right to left)

and in paleo pictograph letters, both Moed and Moedim:

Moed is pronounced mo-ade’

מועדים

(Note the variant shape of the open/first letter M as the shapes changed over the centuries. Shown in charts further down in post.)

Strongs # 4140 Or moled {mo-ade’}; or (feminine) moweadah (2 Chronicles 8:13) {mo-aw-daw’}; from ya’ad; properly, an appointment, i.e. A fixed time or season; specifically, a festival; conventionally a year; by implication, an assembly (as convened for a definite purpose); technically the congregation are typically called, Jewish holidays/Yamim Tovim but in the Bible are referred to as God’s feast days.

Moa’dim in Hebrew means appointments or rehearsals. They are found in Leviticus 23 and each are called a shadow of things to come. (Col. 2:16-17).

God designed the universe itself, (the sun and moon and the whole planetary structure); in order to point to and regulate the Festivals, the Moedim. Thus, the Moedim are first and foremost…

a part of the creative order,

not merely

a part of the covenant

made with Israel at Sinai.

So from the foundation of creation,

God set within that creation His Moedim -(rehearsal and appointed times,) in order to remind us of His eternal plan.

This is the pattern of the Moedim, invisible yet imprinted within the seed of every woman. Of those who become pregnant, an apocalypse/revealing begins as a new chaim/life develops within her.  Click link for the apocalypse/the revealing of this mystery.

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-season-of-our-hiding/

The Moedim represent Gods’ plan of salvation for mankind.

As we have seen the Hebrew word for appointment, appointed time, place, or meeting is   

מועדים

Meanings of the letters:

Mem: the pictograph is of water like the waves of the sea and comes from the word mayim meaning waters, as in seas with abundant life. Symbolized by water, for the way that many living things can be pulled out even referring to the waters of childbirth. Mighty massive, many chaos(like the deep, to come from like water down a stream.)

Think of: The water/ word that washes us clean. The Blood that purchases us and saves us. To question as in the wonders of the sea. Mightiness as in the size of the sea. Chaos as in the storms of the sea.

Vav: The pictograph for Vav looks like a tent peg or nail. The meaning of the word vav is hook, as in a connecting hook used when the mishkan (tabernacle) was constructed; giving the meaning of joining together, making secure, becoming bound or nailed to.

Ayin: the pictograph is the eye. Look, appearance, to see, understand, experience, to be seen, a fountain. Spiritual sight and vision, to watch, to know. His word and His Spirit/Ruach coming together in our souls.

Dalet: the tent door, a path, a way of life. Jesus/Yeshua is the door. Movement back and forth, in and out of the door. Also means dangling or weakness, as in hanging ones head down. The 4 dimensions of Space and Time as in length, breadth, depth and height.

Yod: Arm and Hand Work, what a person makes, Actions what a person does, Throw. A hand closed or closing upon, to work, a deed done, a finished work.

Mem: The closed Mem at the end of the word has the same meanings as the open Mem at the beginning of the word. Mayim begins and ends with the same letter. Waters and is always plural.

These letter meanings when put together give a pictorial insight of the Moedim.

The Pictographs for MOEDIM could read something like this:

Moedim are like the ever moving waters MEM of the ocean they are never still, and life is like that too. It is in constant motion flowing forward, like the cycle of the Moedim.

Following them brings abundant life. From out of chaos comes order, as deep calls unto deep. Then as we are born the first time, we come through the waters of childbirth. Next, as we are born again by His spirit, we are washed cleansed first by His blood and then by the washing of the waters of baptism and then by His Word, the river of Life.

We become connected by covenant VAV, joined together.

As we become His tabernacle on the earth, we become safe and secure, becoming bound to Him and remember the VAV, nails, that made this relationship possible.

We then have our eyes AYIN opened and see His wonders and His mightiness.

We see AYIN more and more clearly as we experience and understand His Ways, His Moedim and Jesus/Yeshua so clearly in them all. Our spiritual sight and vision is increased and increasingly finely tuned as His Ruach leads us day by day.

The DALET, the door Jesus/Yeshua Himself is our path our Way of Life and we in our weakness depend on His strength as He leads us, we follow Him and we go into Him. The Moedim are action and declare to us that the deed was done and His life was a finished work.

As the MoediM are cyclical, every year the beginning reaches the end, which is also the new beginning.

Mem to Mem – Open Mem to closed Mem. And like the water it is a picture of, the MoediM and life, keep flowing. While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest will also; according to His promise and are celebrated annually in the MoediM. The picture of creation and of continuance and of fulfilled promises to us the bride of His covenant.

 

Below is a chart showing all the letters in early Paleo script, (used until 1st century A.D.) and modern Hebrew.

Moed is pronounced mo-ade’

A common nomenclature/terminology for this Moed is calling it, the Feast of Trumpets. The truth is, it is not a feast in the cycle of annual Moedim/Appointed Times and is only linked with trumpets/shofars or rams horns by inference.

The Biblical Hebrew name for this Moed/Appointed Time is

Zikhron Teru’ah 

The term Rosh Hashanah does not actually appear in the Torah, but rather is referred to as the

(Memorial of blowing [of trumpets

or a memorial with the blowing of horns], Lev. 23:24)

or Yom Teruah 

(Day of Blowing [trumpets] Num. 29:1)

Yom Teruah יוֹם תְּרוּעָה

The Ancient Paleo Hebrew meaning is that: God stands in the crossroads to judge. He is judge over every authority and household. He will judge every spirit in righteousness and truth. All the earth will rejoice in His justice.

The term Rosh Hashanah literally means head of the year. However, was not applied to this Moed until the 2nd Century A.D. more than 1,500 years after the institution of the Holy-day, holiday.

With the Temple destroyed and the Jewish people scattered after the Roman destruction of Jerusalem; observation of the day had to be changed.

Rosh Hashanah is celebrated as the Jewish New Year.

The unique feature is wrapped up in the phrase zik’ron t’ruah, which is rendered Remembrance – zik’ron

or a

remembrance of blowing with loud blasts of sound.

Zichron Teruah

זכרון תרועה

(Vayikra/Lev. 23:24)

Therefore, zik’ron t’ruah or

yom t’ruah/Yom Teruah – יום תרועה

Bamidbar/Num. 29:1

would be more accurately translated as memorial/day of loud blasts (of sound).

So we are remembering or memorializing something; caused by, or done in conjunction with, loud blasts of sound.

 Teruah: Phonetic Spelling: (ter-oo-aw‘) Definition: a shout or blast of war, alarm, or joy.

The word teruah, (root: resh, vav, ayin); points us in various directions. While it clearly means a loud sound, sometimes it is a loud sound of war or threats, and other times it is a loud sound of joy or praise.

The word teruah, in its various forms, appears over 30 times in Tanach.

 While teruah refers to the short blasts (of the trumpet or shofar) and

tekiah תקיעה refers to the long blasts,

the verb – taka -תקע – simply means

blowing on an instrument

(regardless of the length of the blasts).

Klein writes that the verb fully means to thrust, clap, give a blow, blast.

The word Zichron

is sometimes translated as

memorial,

but this Hebrew word also means

to mention,

often in reference to speaking the Name of God. E.g., Ex. 3:15; Is. 12:4; Is.26:13; Ps. 45:17 [Heb. 18].

One Greek word was used for both shofar and trumpet – Salpiggi

salpigx: a trumpet

Original Word: σάλπιγξ, ιγγος, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: salpigx
Phonetic Spelling: (sal’-pinx)
Definition: a trumpet
Usage: a trumpet, the sound of a trumpet.

Strongs#4536 sálpigks – properly, a war-trumpet (WS, 797) that boldly announces God’s victory (the vanquishing of His enemies).

In the Old Testament, trumpets were used to called God’s people to war, and to announce victory wrought by Him. Which was a military clarion that proclaimed the Lord inspired and empowered the victory on behalf of His people.

[“The trumpet was the signal employed to call the hosts of Israel to march as to war, and is common in prophetic imagery (Is. 27:13). Cf. The seventh angel (Rev 11:15)” (WP, 1, 193).

Trumpets in the OT summoned God’s saints for His righteous wars (Nu 10:9; Jer 4:19; Joel 2:1). See also Lev 23:24,25; Nu 10:2-10; Ps 81:3.]

The shofar is used to call people to Teshuvah/repentance, and many think that judgment day will be on the day referred to as the day of memorial which is a call to repentance.

The Hebrew understanding of repentance is: (The burning of that which is behind).

Lev 23:24 is commonly called the Feast of Trumpets or Yom ha din – day of the blowing of shofar.

The Hebrew text has neither the word feast nor the word trumpet these are added English words in the translation!

The shofar is the instrument used in 1Cor. 15:52 and 1Thess. 4:16.

This Greek word salpiggi, is often translated trumpet, but from the context of Resurrection.

The last trump: The shofar would be used because resurrection is for judgment. Jewish scholars say, judgment takes place during the feast of unleavened bread in the spring. Whether it’s then or day of memorial, resurrection will probably be called by a shofar.

If Paul meant trumpet in 2 Cor. 5:10; the reference he was making would be to the Feast of Booths /Tabernacles/Sukkot; calling for the celebration of the eternal kingdom.

We are to remember the abundance of His greatness, the expanse of His strength the mighty acts of the Lord God and praise Him in His Holy Place. (Since Jesus/Yeshua made the WAY, we ourselves are now His sanctuary.) In the glorious splendor of His majesty, we remember the One who gives us Chaim (lifes), and we return to Him every breath He gives to us, in praise and loving adoration.

We remember what we were and the life that once was and marvel at the unconditional love that caused the One who bore the penalty of sin, in our place. He lost His life that we may be found and we are raised to life everlasting, abundant and victorious over the finality of death. A death that would have meant eternal separation from His presence,

Do we ever really fully comprehend the reality of salvation?

We have so very much to remember and praise Him for.

Ps.81:3 gives insight indicating this occurred on either the 1st or 7th month.

The shofar was blown at the temple to begin each Sabbath. There was an inscription on the inside wall of the Temple that said:

To the place of the blowing of the trumpet [shofar].

Recently, there were archaeological excavations at the southeast area surrounding the Temple Mount, in an area called the Ophel. Amongst the debris of stones from the destruction of the Temple in A.D. 70, archaeologists actually found a piece of stone with the above inscription. (Zangla, 1998)

When the second Temple was destroyed the stones were scattered all over the place, but most ended up close the Temple, near the present Western Wall.

This stone which was discovered, was one of the top cornerstones. In the times of the Temple, the priests would gather at these cornerstones and blow the trumpet (shofar) to announce it was

Yom t’ruah/Yom Teruah – יום תרועה.

This stone has this inscription on it:

The Place of Trumpeting.

So, this cornerstone now actually gives us an association between the Temple and the

Zichron Teruah,

yom t’ruah/Yom Teruah – יום תרועה.

Of course Yeshua/Jesus is our true cornerstone.

He has now made His tabernacle within His Bride. Since Shavuot/Pentecost, there is no need for any special building, but prophecy reveals that the next Temple will be rebuilt by the Jews, many still unaware of who their Messiah is.

There are numerous prophecies indicating that there will be a new Temple built on the Temple Mount. Scripture says it will be the Temple in which the antichrist proclaims himself to be god at the half-way mark through the tribulation; so it could indicate that if we can establish when the Temple will be rebuilt, it may be possible to approximate when the tribulation period will begin.

Arthur Finkle shares the following significant purposes of the shofar: “The shofar is prescribed for the announcement of the New Moon and solemn feasts (Num. x. 10; Ps. lxxxi. 4), also for proclaiming the year of release (Lev. xxv. 9).

The first day of the seventh month (Tishri) is termed “a memorial of blowing” (Lev. xxiii. 24), or “a day of blowing” (Num. xxix. 1), the shofar; the modern use of the instrument survives especially in this connection.

In earlier days it was employed also in other religious ceremonials, as processions (II Sam. v. 15; I Chron. xv. 28), or in the orchestra as an accompaniment to the song of praise (Ps. xcviii. 6; comp. ib. xlvii. 5).

More frequently it was used as the signal-horn of war, like the silver trumpets mentioned in Num. x. 9 (see Josh. vi. 4; Judges iii. 27; vii. 16, 20; I Sam. xiii. 3). 

The shofar is used in the desert, on the temple mount, during the times of Rosh HaShanah (Yom Teruah) and Yom Kippur, as well as in the end of days.

The shofar was also blown at the following occasions:

The sound of the shofar is analogous to the trumpet-blasts that announce the coronation of a king. On Rosh Hashanah, God created the world and assumed the role of its Sovereign, and in the sounding of the shofar we acknowledge Him as our King.

Rosh Hashanah is the first of the 10 Days of Penitence/Teshuvah, and the shofar is sounded to stir our conscience, to confront our past errors and return to God, who is ever ready to welcome the penitent.

The shofar is reminiscent of the revelation of God at Sinai, which was accompanied by the sounding of a shofar. It thus reminds us of our destiny — to be a people of Torah, to pursue its study and to practice its commandments.

The sound of the shofar is reminiscent of the exhortations of the prophets whose voices rang out like a shofar in denouncing their people’s wrongdoing, and in calling them to the service of God and man.

The shofar reminds us of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, and it calls us to strive for Israel’s renewal in freedom and in fellowship with God.

The shofar summons us to the feeling of humility before God’s majesty and might, which are manifested by all things and by which our own lives are constantly surrounded.

The shofar is a reminder of the Day of the Final Judgment, calling upon all people and all nations to prepare for God’s scrutiny of their deeds.

The shofar foreshadows the jubilant proclamation of freedom, when Israel’s exiled and homeless are to return to the Holy Land. It calls us to believe in Israel’s deliverance at all times and under all circumstances.

The shofar foreshadows the end of the present world order and the inauguration of God’s reign of righteousness throughout the world, with a regenerated Israel leading all people in acknowledging that God is One and His name One.

Where does the phrase last trump come from?

In Judaism there are 3 recognized shofarim or ram’s horn trumps.

They are the first Trump,

the last trump, and

the great shofar.

These shofarim should not be confused with the two silver trumpets called chatzatzerah in Numbers 10.

The first trump and the last trump relate to the two horns of a particular Ram.

According to Jewish tradition the Ram caught in the thicket on Mount Moriah when Abraham was ready to slay Isaac and offer him up as a burnt offering.

For more on this, see

POST Blowing Our Own Trumpets

https://www.minimannamoments.com/blowing-your-own-trumpet-2/

Click link for shofar sounds and more..

Post Apocalypse of The Teruahs Cry

https://www.minimannamoments.com/apocalypse-of-the-teruahs-cry/

The first reference the Voice of God announcing His presence was Exodus 19:16

שׁוֹפָר on the top of Mount Sinai

an instrument (not necessarily musical) used to shout to God in a different way. God’s voice on the mountain sounded like shofarot (Plural of the singular shofar) to the Hebrews at Mt Sinai.

Something to think about. When the shofar is blown at anytime, is it an extension of the soul, is it a shout unto the heavens?

It is a reminder to the hearer to wake from spiritual slumber.

Could shofarot and shouts be counted as one and the same in the scriptures? 

If we believe in the Messiah of the Brit Hadasha/New Testament, HIS return will probably be announced with the sound of the shofar at God’s specific timing. If we are not listening / hearing we may be caught unaware.

Timing is everything in the scriptures. From the gathering of Israel around the tabernacle in the wilderness, to the fall of Jericho, and from Messiah’s birth to HIS return.

We recall what happened when both shouts with voices and with the shofar were released; huge walls fall at their sound as at Jericho.

Jericho in Joshua 6:20 is another scriptural connection between T’ruah and the Shofar.

The wall fell flat – a closer reading of the scripture reveals that it was the people, not the shofar, making the T’ruah. T’ruah is the sound of people shouting, yelling, or otherwise making loud sounds with their mouth (pey/fey).

Elsewhere in scripture t’ruah is the sound of alarm from the silver trumpets

Numbers 10:5 B’midbar

These silver trumpets are for the temple and are called chatzatzerah in Numbers 10.

Also spelled in Strongs#2689

chatsotsrah: (an ancient) trumpet

Original Word: חֲצֹצְרָה
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: chatsotsrah
Phonetic Spelling: (khats-o-tser-aw’)
Definition: (an ancient) trumpet

 

The sound of the shofaron,

Yom Hakipuriym

in the year of Jubilee –

A shout of praise. 1 Sam. 4:5-6; Ezra 3:11.

A shout of joy. Job 8:21; Ps. 89:15 and the playing of musical instruments Ps. 150:5 in other words loud blasts of sound.

Mmm is not claiming to be expert on any subject, especially when discussing issues from the scriptures, simply offering information upon which to ponder.

Next let’s look at the Paleo Hebrew Pictographs and see if there is any further apocalypse/revelation…..

שׁוֹפָר

Sheen/Shin +Vav +Fey/Pey + Resh/Reysh

Shen/shin/sheen

is the letter God uses to identify Himself. Meaning: sharp, to consume, destroy.

The ruach/spirit, the fervent ardency, the intense, fiery, consuming, passionate, POWER of His being/His essence.

VAV/ UaU/VAW

It’s the letter that joins together a nail or peg. Meanings: ownership, custody, purchased, WAV binding together as one in and through Messiah/Mashiach. We are grafted into the branch.

Fay/Fey-F/PH; Pay/Pei Pey

Pey can also look like this:

Mouth, To speak or, to open.

Brit Chadashah speaks of the Renewed covenant. We can see Pei, a mouth open, words of life or death and we are to choose life. Luke 6:45. Messiah is the way, truth and the life. Life abundantly, and our mouths are to open ready to share the gospel message. Showing the entrance, the way, the door, the beginning of new life. (80 is 8 x 10 and is the number of Yeshua/Jesus and of new beginnings.

R – RESH REYSH

Person/head or leader.

A messianic interpretation:

The first mystery is that God is identifying Himself and was connecting Himself to Moses so that he could speak with him. Gods’ Holy presence, which was announced by the shofar, was so terrible that Moses was filled with fear!

The VAV connects what is on the right to what is on the left within the word shofar. …Sheen says, God has already identified Himself from one side… so what is on the other side?

The letters on the other side are letters pey and reysh. They make a word of their own, originally found in Genesis 12:16. This word is translated as ox Judges 6:26. It’s the word used for a bullock that Gideon offers as a sacrifice for sin. The fear created by sin, caused the great divide/separation, between God and us. This is because of His Holiness and our sinfulness.

However it is the very same God who provides the sacrifice/Himself, that is the AT ONE MENT for that sin bringing reconciliation between Himself and us. For the Hebrews is was just once a year at Yom Kippur.

Heb. 9:13-14 points us to the ultimate sacrifice, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkled, was a sanctifying action. How much more the blood of Messiah!

The bull/heifer was a mere type of the ultimate sacrifice.

Part 2 will conclude.. The Apocalypse of the Trump

Meanwhile..please visit last years post on Yom Teruah where the sounds of the shofar being blown can be heard.

https://www.minimannamoments.com/apocalypse-of-the-teruahs-cry/
https://www.minimannamoments.com/blowing-your-own-trumpet-2/

the next 2 links are to posts about Sukkot

https://www.minimannamoments.com/sheltering-presence-god/
https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-sheltering-presence-of-god-cont/

and this link is to post about Yom Kippur

https://www.minimannamoments.com/at-one-ment-with-the-one-you-love/

You are loved! Abundant shalom and New Year blessings to every reader from your family and friends at MMM.

L’shannah tovah  – may this new year be filled with health and happiness!

Make that life-saving decision –

time is running out.

Don’t miss the day of your visitation!

The Shofars Voice is Calling for you today!

This life is NOT all there is!

You are not here by chance!

If you’re not certain you are ready for His return, don’t leave this site without being sure.

SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW…Don’t put it off one more moment…

Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus 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 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 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. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’ name. Amen.

You are now Born Again by the Holy Spirit of the Living God and you are part of the ever growing family of believers. You will never be the same again!

What Is The Connection Between Aliyah, Aloe, Spikenard, Gardens, Trumpets and a Plough? Part 2

Part 2: Conclusion of..

What Is The Connection Between Aliyah, Aloe, Spikenard, Gardens, Trumpets and a Plough? 

The Song of Songs, or Song of Solomon also called Canticles.

Hebrew: שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים, Šîr Haššîrîm,

Greek: ᾆσμα ᾆσμάτων, asma asmaton, both meaning Song of Songs, is one of the megillot (scrolls) found in the last section of the Tanakh, known as the Ketuvim (or “Writings”), and is a book of the Old Testament.

Incense contains spices

Spices in Hebrew is

בֶּשֶׂם

bosem

Phonetic: (beh’-sem)

Strong’s #1314 spice, balsam, the balsam tree

(an aromatic resinous substance)
This noun is derived from the root word בשם (B.S.M, this Semitic root is not used in the Hebrew Bible) meaning “to be fragrant.”

beyt – shin – mem

In the paleo Hebrew pictograph letters it looks like…

beyt: B, house, in, the body, the household or family, inside, within, amid. (tent – floor plan).

shin: S or Sh, eat, consume, destroys, teeth, ivory, point of a rock, a peak, to devour, something sharp, El Shaddai.

mem: M, closed, water, mighty, massive, many, chaos like the deep, to come from, like water down a stream.

(Remember Hebrew reads from right to left.)

From the Paleo/pictograph meanings, we could conclude the word

spices – bosem,

to mean:

Inside/within, (something to) eat/consume, to come from, like water down a stream.

(Think of a flowing smoke like fragrance in the air.. and the river of Lifes/chaim – flowing from both Eden and from His Throne.)

Whatever the fragrances of Eden were, we may not name them all accurately with modern translations, however, we see the spices chosen by God, winding and wafting by His Spirit throughout the Old and New Testament. They are interwoven into the history of humanity, usually indicating His presence in His Word, and His promise of a future Messiah. 

Spices can be:vegetable substances possessing a sharp taste and aromatic qualities. The Bible sometimes uses the Hebrew word bosem for spices in general, which literally refers to the rich fragrance of spices.

Purpose of Spices:

A real substance for a particular use, such as food or medicine and taken from nature

A Sanctified or set apart/holy, substance, for worship or to attend God’s presence, e.g.

The Tabernacle and its Furnishings

The Anointing of Priests

The dedication of the Ark of the Covenant &

The Mercy Seat

A substance accompanying and indicative of an acceptable offering (e. g. frankincense on a meat offering) or incense attending the prayers of saints in heaven.

Revelation 5:8 And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

Revelation 8:5:

And the smoke of the incense, (which came) with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand.

The word used to signify glory is Kavod – כָּבֽוֹד

Or Kabod. pronounced kaw-bode’: abundance, honor, glory

Strongs# 3519b

kaf – vet – vav – dalet

The meaning in the paleo pictographs…

kaf: palm of hand, a wing, to allow to cover, to open the hand, the power to suppress or build up.

vet: tent, house, body, the household or family, inside, within, amid.

vav: a nail, a peg, a hook, joining together, making secure, becoming bound or nailed to.

dalet: a door, a path, a way of life, movement into or out of.

Glory could be described using the paleo Hebrew pictographs as: the hand or wing covers the family/household within, joining together and making secure the movement through the door and pathway of life.

 

Continuing the purposes of spices: Attending the Shekinah Glory or a manifestation of Gods presence: in the case of the Shekinah Glory of God which appeared on the Mercy Seat of the Ark of the Covenant, where the sanctified, set apart/holy perfume was to be placed. (Exodus 30:34-38)

As the manifestation of Gods presence:  (Exodus 24:5,10, because the blood of the burnt offering, 24:5, was always to be placed upon the altar of sweet INCENSE, and the manifestation of Gods presence: 24:10 appeared afterwards).

There seems to be strong suggestions in scripture, that Gods Presence is associated with and follows after the spices/Incense/bosem – flowing like the water down a stream. The image of Water likened with Gods Word is already familiar to us.

Or: the presence of God in a communion between man and God, such as in the ‘Garden inclosed’ of the Song of Songs; because the Garden is filled with sweet aromas.

Could it be said, that it was prophetic, because it’s a place of Communion for the Sweet Savor which God ‘Smelled’ for the Travail in another garden (Gan) Gethsemane, the agony of Messiahs Soul?

Further continuing the purposes of spices…

As a fragrance or substance associated with kings, a gift fit for a king, or particularly with the Messiah of Israel.

This could be either directly, such as in the attendance of frankincense and myrrh at His birth and when offered to Him on the Cross. Or, indirectly, in a type and kind of the King of Israel, such as Joseph being carried to Egypt by spice merchants.

No doubt the aroma of frankincense and myrrh was drifting in the dry desert air, or in the gifts brought to Solomon by the Queen of Sheba; kingly aromas for the King of Israel.   

Lastly, spices in the Bible are associated with:

The riches of the world: over and over the mention of various spices are intertwined with the finery of wealth, which merchants brought to major ports and the outer regions of Israel. 

Notably scripture records that in the end of days, as the ‘Whore of Babylon’ meets her demise in the ‘smoke of her burning’; and the merchants in ships at sea, watch the city destroyed in one hour. They bewail the elegant cloths and woods, the precious metals and the spices, fragrances and perfumes which always accompanied and defined wealth and power.

Except perhaps where the instructions in Exodus are given for using the scents ‘of the apothecary’ in the Tabernacle; spices are relevant to the Song of Songs, probably more than in any other book.

Spices have a greater role, beyond anointing, in the book Shir HaShirim, the Song of Songs. This is the story of Israel and her Bridegroom, the ecclesia/called apart ones/church, and her beloved Messiah, and of God restoring to mankind perfect communion with Himself. Each spice mentioned, bears a particular significance pointing to the love and work of God, to Salvation and Messiah.

Spices as a Common Substance

As already mentioned, the first time we read of the word spices, is among the gifts that Jacob sent to Pharaoh, when his sons went into Egypt, to attempt to buy corn during a famine. The gifts are sent in part, to appease the anger of some elevated steward, whom he thinks has falsely accused his sons of double dealing. Jacob has no idea that it is his son Joseph, who he thought was long dead, was playing a little with the minds of his treacherous brothers. Gen.43:11

And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts and almonds;

As we have seen they are also used as a gift; e.g. when given to Solomon by the Queen of Sheba, in I Kings 10:2

And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones; and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.

It is also seen among the items gifted to him by his people and Hezekiah’s treasure house contained the spices in 2 Chronicles 32:27; and Isaiah 39:2 among other riches. In Ezekiel 27:22, one notes the role of merchants and the trade of spices is referred to. 

While most spices were costly, the first way to view them in the Bible is as a natural substance, used for many purposes, but the two most prominent uses of spices have to do with the Tabernacle and their use in in the Presence of God.

Spices bosem: spice, balsam, the balsam tree

Strongs:1314

בֶּשֶׂם

pronounced beh’-sem

meaning: fragrant (2), spice (2), spices (22), sweet perfume-smell, spice, sweet (odour). In some Bibles sweet calamus is translated as aromatic or fragrant Cane.

Strongs:5561

sam·mîm, סַמִּ֗ים 

sweet spices

The general uses of spices are also mentioned throughout scripture, notably in the gall mixed with myrrh’s sedative powers, which were offered to Messiah during His crucifixion. 

Mark 15:23 And they gave him to drink wine mingled with myrrh: but he received it not.

Second purpose was for application due to the healing powers of balms and ointments.  Many of these same substances continue to be used today for medicinal as well as worship purposes.

This list includes: saffron, cinnamon, calamus, frankincense, myrrh and others.

     The spices of the Tabernacle are unique, in that they are commanded by God, and they mark the Word, Work, and presence of God in the Holy of Holies and Ark of the Covenant. 

There are several uses within the Tabernacle of the Spices:

As a garnishment on certain Sacrifices, (e.g. Meat Offering was adorned with frankincense), or;

As an anointing oil for the physical tabernacle altars and furnishings/tools.

 (Exodus 30:23-25)

Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred shekels, 24 And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin; 25  And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil.

OIL Olive

The Hebrew word is

sheh-mehn

Shin, Mem, Nun Sophit (Nms).

Strongs# 8081

From H8080; grease, especially liquid (as from the olive, often perfumed); figuratively richness: – anointing, fat (things), fruitful, oil ([-ed]), ointment, olive, + pine.

from 8080 “shah-mahn” (Nms)

A primitive root; to shine, that is, (by analogy) be (causatively make) oily or gross: – become (make, wax) fat.

Oil means shine.

Also as previously mentioned, spices were used as an anointing before the Testimony of the Tabernacle, before the Ark of the Covenant. This was a slightly different, but set apart and holy spice/ointment which was not to be replicated, since it adorned the presence of God in the Shekinah glory on the Mercy Seat between the cherubim:

 And the Lord said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum: these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight 35 and thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together pure and holy; Exodus 30:34 (also 35-38)

Cassia

Strongs:7102

qetsiah: cassia (a powdered bark)

קִצְיעָה

Kuph, Dalet, Heh (hdq);

pronounced: kets-ee-aw

or keed-dah/qiddah: (cassia)

Strongs:6916

קִדָּה

pronounced kid-daw’

H6915; kah-dahd – cassia bark, as in shriveled rolls.

A primitive root; to shrivel up, that is, contract or bend the body (or neck) in deference: – bow (down) (the) head, stoop.

Cassia means shriveled and bow (down) (the) head.

Stacte:

(Greek: στακτή, staktē) 

Hebrew word is natap/nat-taph/nataf/nataph

נָטָ֤ף

Nun, Tet, Peh (ptn)

Strongs:5189

are names used for one of the ingredients of the most sacred temple incense, called the HaKetoret, referenced in Exodus 30:34.

It was to be mixed in equal parts with onycha (labdanum), galbanum and mixed with pure frankincense and made into an incense for burning on the altar of the tabernacle.

The Stacte is from the Storax Tree below.

 A primitive root from 5197 “nah-taph” (; to ooze, that is, distil gradually; by implication to fall in drops; figuratively to speak by inspiration: – drop (-ping), prophesy.

Stacte means ‘ooze’, ‘drop’ and ‘prophecy’.

and Onycha.

The Hebrew word for onycha is

sh’khey-leth

Shin, Khet, Lamed, Tav (tlxs).

Strong’s # 7827

Onycha means ROAR

From an unused root probably meaning to roar; a lion (from his characteristic roar): – (fierce) lion. (or of a large shell)

The Onycha is also called Gum Rockrose.

Onycha is one of the four spices mentioned in the Old Testament (Exodus 30:34) and as an ingredient of KETORET, Holy Incense, (in picture below).

Like many other herbs and spices mentioned during Biblical times, the origin of onycha is shrouded in debate, starting with the name itself.

Various scholars have argued that the origins of onycha include one of the four following options: gum tragacanth from the Astralagus species; benzoin from the Styrax species; a mollusk; and the labdanum plant.

In Greek, it means fingernail; Gum tragacanth, a tree gum, has a resin that falls on the ground and looks like finger nails.

In Hebrew literature, it specifically states that onycha came from a plant, not a tree or animal.

Other Jewish texts indicate that onycha was a resin, pointing again to a non-animal origin. Furthermore, Jews considered fish and water animals to be unclean.

 

The final candidate for onycha is said to be labdanum.

Labdanum/ Gum Rockrose can be Cistus ladanifer and Cistus creticus, which are both called rock rose or rose of Sharon.

The leaves and twigs exude a musky-sweet, sticky, brown resin that is high in waxes. The name rose of Sharon perhaps comes from the fact that the plant grows extensively on the Israeli Sharon plains, which lie between Jaffa and Mount Carmel. The plant is native to the western Mediterranean region, where it thrives in the hot summers and cool dry winters, grows to 2.5 meters, and is cultivated for its scented foliage and showy flowers.

It is a vigorous, dense, upright shrub that bears ornamental white flowers which have 5 distinctive maroon spots at the base of its petals, are up to 10cm across and have yellow stamens and pistils at its centre.

The plant is covered with an aromatic resin.

According to Pliny the Elder, an herb called ladan (which is Arabic for labdanum) had a fragrant smell. The Bible mentions rose of Sharon:

“I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste” (Song of Solomon 2 KJ V).

Strongs:7827

וּשְׁחֵ֙לֶת֙

shecheleth: (an ingredient of the holy incense) perhaps onycha?

שְׁחֶלֶת

pronounced: shekh-ay’-leth

chelbenah:

or galbanum:

Strongs:2464

pronounced: khel-ben-aw:

gum, a type used in incense

חֶלְבְּנָה

Galbanum resin.

The Hebrew word galbanum is

khehl-b’nah

Khet, Lamed, Bet, Nen, Hey (hnblx).

Strongs #2464

From H2459;

galbanam, an odorous gum (as if fatty):

from Strongs 2459 kheh-lehv (blx)

From an unused root meaning to be fat; fat, whether literally or figuratively; hence the richest or choice part: –     best, fat (-ness),  finest, grease, marrow.

Galbanum means fat and also rich. Khelb’nah is also where we get our modern English word galbanum.

The remarkable thing about these spices is, that both,

the spices of the Tabernacle and its furnishings, and

the fragrance to attend the Ark,

were not commanded as mere perfumes with a specific purpose, but oil fragrances that God marked as holy; and for which the penalty for profaning their use was being cut off – karet, in Hebrew, or even death:

Exodus 30;33  Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.

Exodus 30:38  Whosoever shall make like unto that to smell thereto shall even be cut off from his people.

Some of the spices suggest spiritual things and as nothing is included in His Word without a good reason, looking at the spices and flowers reveals some of the wisdom that God gave to Solomon. This included the Holy Anointing oil and the Incense for the Temple.

SOME POSSIBLE SYMBOLIC INTERPRETATIONS FROM THE MEANINGS OF THE SPICES:

In the application of the Holy Oil of the Anointing and the Ointment of Incense, if anyone tried to make these or get involved with these other than its proper use, are they usurping the prophetic role of Jesus/Yeshua, the Messiah?

In the case of the Priests: would those who usurp the first oil compound be making themselves play the role of a false priest in which is the Aaronic Levitical line, from where Messiah would descend? Recall, God removed the Priesthood from the other tribes.

If we combine the definitions of each of the spices in the Holy Anointing Oil, again, not in exact order, it seems to make a story….

Myrrh: Bitter

Cinnamon: Erect

Calamus: Purchased

Cassia: Shriveled/Bow (down) (the) Head

Oil: Shine

It could it be saying: One who was purchased, took on the bitterness and was shriveled, then erected and afterward bowed down the head and later shining appeared?

Was this a hidden prophecy of Jesus/Yeshua being purchased in silver by Judas, and took on Himself the sins /the bitterness of the world. His flesh was shredded /shriveled with the whip, then He was erected on a cross, then bowed down His head and died. Later we see the angel who was like lightning /shining, as the stone was rolled away, and also could be that Jesus/ Yeshua shined after He was revived to life /resurrected from the dead?

In the case of the second oil compound, the Ointment of Incense for the Temple: would those who usurp this would make themselves as a false Messiah taking the place of Jesus/Yeshua, who is the Tabernacle made Flesh? Is that why if anyone partook or made these combinations, they would be cut off from their people?

God said He will give us an oil of joy for mourning, which is in the book of Isaiah which Jesus read as He began His ministry!

(**see the possible interpretation of second oil further down.)

Below is a list of the spices and their biblical significance in the Song of Solomon, or ‘ShirHashirim’

Song of Songs 4:14

Nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, With all the trees of frankincense, myrrh and aloes, along with all the finest spices.

Nard or Jatamansi or Spikenard

Other names: nerd, nardo, muskroot.

Strong’s Hebrew: 5373.

נֵרְדְּ (nerd)

Phonetic Spelling: (nayrd)

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-nerd-in-the-ark/

It has a woody fragrance which is notably aromatic, warm and sensual. This fragrance is a combination of sweet, spicy resin and animal-fat odors.  With Jatamansi, the essential oil is similar to an organic earthy scent.

The plant is found growing between 3,300 and 6,000 meters in the Himalaya mountains, and generally found clinging to both steep rocky cliffs and stony/grassy slopes.

Sometimes it has been reported seen growing from ravines in the rocks and in crevices and small depressions. It can also be found in wet meadows and by the banks of the rivulets in the high valleys and peaks ranging from 3,000 – 4,000 m.

It is the unseen root that is used… Is this a reference to the unseen hand of God in our lives? Namely that when we are in places that seem inaccessible or insurmountable, God makes a way where there seems to be no way?

Spikenard, a fragrant oil, used for anointing

Mark 14:3

While He was in Bethany at the home of Simon the leper, and reclining at the table, there came a woman with an alabaster vial of very costly perfume of pure nard; and she broke the vial and poured it over His head.

John 12:3

Mary then took a pound of very costly perfume of pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped His feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

Saffron

Strongs:3750

כַּרְכֹּם  karkom

Saffron, the most sought after of spices, has its origins in the most beautiful of places. This exotic spice is sold in small bundles of long red strands and is heralded for the intense yellow color it imparts on dishes and the complexity of flavor it lends.

From Kashmir, India; it is the world’s most expensive spice. Kashmiri Saffron has long, flat and silky threads with a distinctive aroma.

Approximately 5,000 flowers are required to provide threads enough to make an ounce because there are only three strands of saffron in each flower.

Saffron is a precious spice because of the vast acreage involved, in addition to the labor-intensive handpicking of the flowers and extracting of the tiny threads.

Kobe beef is generally $150 (and more) per pound, whereas saffron can cost up to $315/oz (for the very best kind). That’s roughly $5,000 a pound!

Crocin is responsible for the aroma, flavor and color.

Calamus:

The specific name calamus (meaning “cane”) is derived from Greek κάλαμος (kálamos, meaning “reed”)

Calamus qaneh or kah-neh

Kuph, Nun, Heh (hnq) : a stalk, reed

Strongs:7070 a reed (as erect); by resemblance a rod (especially for measuring), shaft, tube, stem, the radius (of the arm), beam (of a steelyard): – balance, bone, branch, calamus, cane, reed, X spearman, stalk.

קָנֶה

pronounced kaw-neh’

from 7069 “kah-nah” (hnq), meaning: A primitive root; to erect, that is, create; by extension to procure, especially by purchase (causatively sell); by implication to own: – attain, buy (-er), teach to keep cattle, get, provoke to jealousy, possess (-or), purchase, recover, redeem, X surely, X verily.

Calamus: A sweet cane of Palestine also an ingredient of the holy ointment.

Calamus means purchased.

Sweet flag grows in India, central Asia, southern Russia, Siberia and Europe.

Calamus has been used for its fragrance, the plant was cut and used as a flavor for foods, and as a sweet smelling floor covering for the packed earth floors of dwellings and churches.

In addition to sweet flag and calamus other common names include: beewort, bitter pepper root, calamus root, flag root, gladdon, myrtle flag, myrtle grass, myrtle root, myrtle sedge, pine root, rat root, sea sedge, sweet cane, sweet cinnamon, sweet grass, sweet myrtle, sweet root, sweet rush, and sweet sedge)

Cinnamon,

qinnamon or keenamohn”- Kuph, Nen, Mem, Vav, Nun Sophit (Nwmnq)

Strongs:7076

From an unused root (meaning to erect); cinnamon bark (as in upright rolls): – cinnamon.

קִנָּמוֹן

Pronounced: kin-naw-mone’

Cinnamon means erect.

Cinnamon is Asia’s Most Popular Spice Tree.

(Old Cinnamon Tree)

Found on the Islands of Malaya. Native to India, Malaya, Ceylon, China, Japan and Taiwan, and depending on the exact species, are as common to them as some of our native trees are to us. The cinnamon sticks we commonly buy, are made from the bark of the tree, and are rolled naturally by being sun-dried.

Two species of the cinnamon tree are most common, and provide most of the spice sold worldwide and is used in both sweet and savory foods.

The spice from the Cinnamomum cassia, has a stronger taste and dark brown color. This version of the spice is popular in the United States.

True cinnamon is a common term for the Cinnamomum zeylanicum, a native of Sri Lanka (Ceylon). Its spice is sweeter in flavour. While Cinnamomum verum is sometimes considered to be true cinnamon, most cinnamon in international commerce is derived from related species, which are also referred to as cassia to distinguish them from true cinnamon.

 (Cinnamon Fruit)

The Hebrew Bible makes specific mention of the spice many times: first when Moses is commanded to use both sweet cinnamon (Hebrew: קִנָּמוֹן, qinnāmôn) and cassia in the holy anointing oil.

In Proverbs where the lover’s bed is perfumed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon; and in Song of Solomon, a song describing the beauty of his beloved, cinnamon scents cover her garments like the smell of Lebanon.

Cassia was also part of the ketoret, the consecrated incense described in the Hebrew Bible.

The Hebrew word for cassia is keed-dah

Kuph, Dalet, Heh (hdq).

Strongs# 6916,

From H6915; cassia bark (as in shrivelled rolls): – cassia.

from 6915 “kah-dahd” (ddq), and its defintion

A primitive root; to shrivel up, that is, contract or bend the body (or neck) in deference: – bow (down) (the) head, stoop.

Cassia means shriveled and bow (down) (the) head.

It is also referred to as the HaKetoret (the incense). It was offered on the specialized incense altar in the time when the Tabernacle was located in the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem.

The ketoret was an important component of the Temple service in Jerusalem.

The Ketoret incense:

Ex.30:34 And God said to Moses, Take for yourself sweet spices of stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; sweet spices of pure frankincense: shall be a part on a part: 35 And you shall make from her an Ointment of Incense, the work of a perfumer, salted (seasoned), pure and Holy:

A combination of spices.

Psalm 45:8 mentions the garments of the king (or of Torah scholars) that smell of myrrh, aloes and cassia.

(Cinnamon Flower)

According to Pliny, a pound (the Roman pound, 327 g) of cassia, cinnamon, or serichatum cost up to 300 denarii, the wage of ten months’ labour.

Cinnamon bark is widely used as a spice. It is used in cooking as a condiment and flavoring and also in the preparation of chocolate, especially in Mexico, which is the main importer of cinnamon.

True cinnamon, rather than cassia, is more suitable for use in sweet dishes. In the Middle East, it is often used in savory dishes of chicken and lamb.

(Cinnamon Leaves)

Frankincense tree; (above)

לְבוֹנָה

Lamed, Bet, Nun, Heh (hnbl)

lebonah

pronounced: leb-o-naw

(Strongs 3828) laban;

l’voh-nah or lbonah – leb-o-naw’;

frankincense

(from its whiteness or perhaps that of its smoke?)

(frank) incense.

from 3826 leeb-bah (hbl)

Feminine of H3820; the heart: – heart.

from 3820 leyv (bl)

the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything:

 Also known as olibanum,

Hebrew: לבונה

Frankincense is a resin extracted from the Boswellia sacra tree (from the family of Burseraceae.)

Frankincense is stripped off the bark of the tree by slashing the tree and then allowing the sap or gum resin, the frankincense, in it to bleed out of the tree and become hardened.

It has associations with the hormone melatonin manufactured by the pineal gland in the brain – a gland long associated with the ‘third eye’ of consciousness-expanding experiences and enlightenment.

For this reason frankincense has been associated with the priesthood, with the ceremonies of an inner sanctum, Frankincense was ‘precious’  – and that reason may have been beyond its material value of the time.

When burned, it gave off a sweet-smelling fragrance. It was an ingredient of the holy incense used at the tabernacle and the temple.

It also accompanied grain offerings and was placed on each row of the showbread inside the Holy.​— Ex 30:34-36;

Frankincense means heart.

**Looking at these specific spices and their symbolic meanings together,

the Ointment of Incense

could reveal another story?

Stacte: Prophet

Onycha: Roar

Galbanum: Fat/Rich

Frankincense: Heart

“A prophet will roar out from the fatness and richness of his heart“

The Prophet is Jesus/Yeshua, the Messiah, who spoke out (roared out) from the fatness and richness of His Heart towards the Jewish People, the Pharisees, Scribes, and Elders during His Ministry on earth.

Myrrh is extracted from resin.

Hebrew word for myrrh is “mohr”- Mem, Resh (rm)

Strongs#4753,

from 4843 “mah-rahr” (rrm)

Myrrh means bitter and from H4843; myrrh as distilling in drops, and also as bitter.

Myrrh, also called Commiphora myrrha and is native to Egypt.

The resin was frequently used in incense and perfumes in ancient Egypt, and the oil obtained from it was used for healing wounds in ancient Greece.

This particular resin has soporific/sleep-inducing/calming and tranquilizing properties, and for this reason is associated with a death-like state, even with death itself.

It has been found among the wrappings of Egyptian mummies, and its use in the mummification process is indicative of its associations with an apparent death – apparent, because the state was believed to be only the appearance of death. 

In many cultures and beliefs, death is merely the door to the other side: a necessary bridge that needs to be crossed and that bridge was represented by the resin myrrh.

Noting this third gift of the magi, this ‘shamanic death’, was therefore indicative of death as a state that, however seemingly-powerful, nevertheless could be transcended.

In these specifically-named three gifts we have the great symbolic significance as well as that of a valuable commodity.

Gold represents a deity,

Myrrh is suffering, and

Frankincense is worship.

And perhaps even the actual qualities of a priestly ‘kingship’ beyond mere earthly royalty, and mystical, symbolic death. For in resurrection even death is transcended, and our true and glorious immortality awaits. The gifts of the magi together suggest a picture of the future life of the receiver, even up to the crucifixion and beyond. 

Wise men consult with Herod.

Matthew 2:1-11. An interesting point is, that contrary to traditional timelines we may have been used to thinking from many childhood nativity plays; the ‘wise men’ did not visit Jesus/Yeshua at His place of birth, but some considerable time (weeks or even months) later at his ‘house’.

 The symbolism of myrrh is particularly telling:

the tree’s large thorns echo the crown of thorns of Jesus’ crucifixion, and the myrrh resin is harvested by deliberately ‘wounding’ the tree. A stake is driven into the tree deeper than bark level, which forces the tree to ‘bleed’ its precious resin.

(Think soldiers spear in His side.)

In light of what we are learning, taking a fresh look at the popular carol We three Kings of Orient Are, written in 1857 by Rev. John Henry Hopkinsis quite revealing. The relevant verses (sung in turn by each ‘king’ and then in chorus) are:

Born a King on Bethlehem’s plain

Gold I bring to crown Him again

King forever, ceasing never

Over us all to reign

Frankincense to offer have I

Incense owns a Deity nigh

Prayer and praising, all men raising

Worship Him, God most high

Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume

Breathes of life of gathering gloom

Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying

Sealed in the stone-cold tomb

Glorious now behold Him arise

King and God and Sacrifice

Alleluia, Alleluia

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zahab: gold 2091

Original Word: זָהָב
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Transliteration: zahab
Phonetic Spelling: (zaw-hawb’)

Aloes, along with all the finest spices (not named).

 Aloe, ahalim: the aloe (a tree)

174 אֲהָלִים

pronounced a-haw-leem’

Aloe was a bitter spice and it tells all the sweetness of bitter things.

The bitter sweet which has its own fine application that only those who have felt it in life’s journey and experiences can understand.

Aloe wood

The bitter yellow juice can be found just below the skin of the leaves.

As the Myrrh was used to embalm the dead and it tells of death to something.

It is indicative of the sweetness which comes to the heart after it has died to its self-will and pride and sin.

There is an inexpressible presence that hovers about some of Gods children, simply because their mellow spirit and chastened countenance bears the very impression of His cross.

It is the holy/set-apart, evidence of having died to something that was once proud and strong but is now forever at the feet of Jesus/Yeshua, any strength now comes from this intimate relationship and the drawing and receiving of His Ruach HaKodesh/His Holy breath.

It is the heavenly essence of a broken spirit, as in one totally submitted to His will and revealing a contrite heart, as clear as the musical notes that issue from the minor key in a melody. It is true to say that one who is honestly ready to die, is truly ready to live..

Think Hebrew not Greek

There are 70 occurrences of spices in the scripture and they have great significance.

Here those mentioned in Song of Songs 4:14

 Aloe, Nard and Saffron, Calamus and Cinnamon, With all the trees of frankincense, Myrrh and aloes, along with all the finest spices

Song of Songs 1:3

“Your oils have a pleasing fragrance, Your name is like purified oil; Therefore the maidens love you

Song of Songs 4:10

“How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, And the fragrance of your oils Than all kinds of spices!

2 Chronicles 16:14

They buried him in his own tomb which he had cut out for himself in the city of David, and they laid him in the resting place which he had filled with spices of various kinds blended by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great fire for him

Psalm 45:8

All Your garments are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made You glad.

John 19:38-39

After these things Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate granted permission. So he came and took away His body. Nicodemus, who had first come to Him by night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds weight.

1 Chronicles 9:29-30

Some of them also were appointed over the furniture and over all the utensils of the sanctuary and over the fine flour and the wine and the oil and the frankincense and the spices. Some of the sons of the priests prepared the mixing of the spices.

Exodus 30:23 Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,

לְבוֹנָה frankincense

Frankincense was a fragrance that came from the touch of the fire.

It was only in the burning of the powder, that sweetness rose in clouds from the heart of the flames.

It tells of the heart from which sweetness has been called forth, caused perhaps by flames of affliction, until the set-apart/holy/kadosh place of the soul, is filled with clouds of praise and prayer; reminiscent of the cloud of glory that filled the Mishkan sanctuary, and now resides within our hearts.

The question we need to ask ourselves is are we releasing and giving out the spices and perfumes of sweet odors from the heart?

It takes the fire of God in a spirit of burning…. Is. 4:4

for God is a consuming fire. Heb. 12:29

When the fire of the Holy Spirit is burning bright and clear in our lives, we’ll be able to help those in the dark to see clearly.

We need to keep our fire burning because the more the flame burns, the less wax it produces; (wax is symbolic of sin and weaknesses),  the Spirit is a Burning Flame.

Matt. 3:11-12 and Acts 2 His Ruach haKodesh imparted the fire and now we serve God because there’s a fire burning in us. The same One who sends us for His service and is the source of our service – is the fire burning in us.

Spikenard: 

“While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof” (1:12 Song of Solomon).

The essential oil was also used by Roman perfumers.

It is a truth that we begin to smell like those in whose company we spend time. We all can attest to smoke and how the smell attaches itself to our clothes and hair. Or garlic, that unless all eat, it is overpowering in its odor on ones breath. What we imbibe saturates our physical bodies. The principle is true and therefore what we fill ourselves with, will eventually ooze out, filtering through to the outside and all see what is truly inside.

1Cor 2: 14,15 and 2 Corinthians 2:15-16 Amplified Bible (AMP) 15 For we are the sweet fragrance of Christ [which ascends] to God, [discernible both] among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing; 16 to the latter one an aroma from death to death [a fatal, offensive odor], but to the other an aroma from life to life [a vital fragrance, living and fresh].

Proverbs 7:17

“I have sprinkled my bed With myrrh, aloes and cinnamon.

Song of Songs 4:14

Nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, With all the trees of frankincense, Myrrh and aloes, along with all the finest spices.

Revelation 18:13

and cinnamon and spice and incense and perfume and frankincense and wine and olive oil and fine flour and wheat and cattle and sheep, and cargoes of horses and chariots and slaves and human lives.

In Ephesians 3:19 The Word instructs us to know this the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled with all the fullness of God.

This means to reach a knowledge of the surpassing love of Messiah, so that we may be made complete in accordance with God’s own standard of completeness.

To be full of God, is to be full of everything God is to you and has for you.

To be full of God, is to come to a place of life, health, peace, abundance, total wellness.

Shalom in all its fullness.

The word of God is spiritual, and not mental or emotional. The word of God will renew our minds but mostly it will go down into our heart and cause faith and peace/shalom to rise and to grow. It is not felt at first, not until the shoot starts to come up.

“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free,” John 8:32.

As we meditate on the spices from Genesis to Revelation and the specific occasions they were used and the seasons of His appointed times, we should also pay attention to the blowing of the Shofar/ trumpet/rams horn, at this Yom Ha din/Day of the blowing of trumpets.

In our Heavenly Fathers calendar, it is a time of reflection, repentance/Teshuvah. A season of getting right with the Father, before the presence of His plough in our lives breaks up the fallow ground and in so doing, prepares our hearts to meet with Him.

It’s a time of being prepared as that bride for her groom and heeding the warning in the parable of the 10 virgins.

We are to have the spices adorn our gardens which represent our individual selves, and like Esther who was also prepared to meet the King.

Each young woman’s turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus after she had completed twelve months’ preparation, according to the regulations for the women, for thus were the days of their preparation apportioned: six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with perfumes and preparations for beautifying women Esther 2:12,

This exotic Biblical spice,

mor: myrrh מֹר

strongs 4753 from marar and is in small yellowish or white globules or tears. 

MYRRH (Heb. מוֹר, mor), one of the most important perfumes of ancient times. It is referred to 11 times in the Bible, more than any other perfume. The Hebrew, mor, refers to its bitter taste (mar, “bitter”); the root is common to the various Semitic languages, from where it was transferred to Greek μύῥῥα and Latin myrrha.

Pure Strongs:1865

Hebrew derowr (der-ore) means to move rapidly, freedom; hence spontaneity.

Myrrh Strongs: 4753

Hebrew mor (more) distilling in drops and also bitter.

The King James Version uses the word myrrh with the reference to different plants.

The verb מור ( mor) means to change, alter or exchange, and it obviously looks similar to the previous words (particularly the noun מור, mor, meaning myrrh).

Or mowr (more); from marar; myrrh (as distilling in drops, and also as bitter) — myrrh. (Hebrew – marar)

It was used in purification & beautification rites, in the formula for the Holy Anointing Oil, and in burial spices. Queen Esther was bathed in it for six months and with other aloes and perfumes for another six months before her presentation to the king.

She “soaked” 6 months in oil of myrrh … 6 more months in other spices … 12 months of preparation for 1 date … but 1 night with the King changed everything!

And so when we met Him for the first time it changed everything and our preparation time has been somewhat longer than Esthers’ 12 months!

The second meeting face to face

(paneh or panim), (face פָנִים paw-neem’)

will be when the last trumpet/shofar sounds; then it will be followed by the fulfillment of sukkot /to tabernacle with Him forever.

As we make aliyah

Aliyah, al-ee-yaw עֲלִיָּה

going up to the heavenly Jerusalem. We will be singing the psalms of His praise for He alone is worthy, as THE Yom Kippur sacrifice, who took our place as the ATONEMENT for sin.

In the verse 14 of chp. 4, Chief spices are included and scripture records that they attend the winds, North and South which are called to blow on the brides garden, which is ready for the bridegrooms appearance.

The bed of spices, is where the bridegroom goes to feed in the garden and to gather lilies. (6:2) Lastly, the call to the beloved to come like a young hart is mentioned first with reference to the mountains of Bether, and again in connection with the mountain of spices.

This seems to be speaking of the lovely communion with Mashiach/Messiah; if we visualize Him as the Living Tabernacle attendant with the sanctified perfumes of the sanctuary:

Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

Where the word for spices is ‘besem’. Song of Songs 8:14

Powders of the merchants, then can in a general sense, be understood to indicate spices which were traded at the time, all rare and costly, and especially to leaders and kings.

Looking at a deeper spiritual meaning in the context of the bridegroom/King, who at the same time is the Living Tabernacle; we find those costly powders include all the categories and overlap. Namely: chief spices, the sweet spices, and the special spices. Here we can see the Messiah/Bridegroom as the living tabernacle:

Rev 21:3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God [is] with women and men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, [and be] their God.

The personifying of the Tabernacle is clear when it is noted that the tabernacle of God is WITH us, and that HE will dwell with us. Making a truly magnificent picture, that high on the fragrant mountains of Israel, garlanded with flowers, the flora and fauna including the deer and the spices and here in the Song above all songs, we find the bride lovingly summoned to the heights, (mountain of spices), to dwell for ever with her beloved Messiah.

 It seems significant to note that Spices are never introduced in the song during His absence; therefore the time of His return from “the mountain of spices” (Solomon 8:14) is to be contemplated.

At the last supper, the cup of betrothal was given by Him; later, the cup or marriage shall be presented by her upon His return (Matthew 26:29). And this will be fulfilled when he comes for His kallah/bride. כַּלָה

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-hidden-mystery-of-the-kallah/

Proverbs 27:9 tells us that oil and incense bring joy to the heart.

And now we know that balsam and fragrant perfumes have a refreshing effect on us and comfort our natural spirits, when they sink and are tired.

The second part of the verse in Proverbs 27:9 KJV: Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart so [doth] the sweetness of a man’s friend by hearty counsel.

This indicates that likewise the very presence of a true-hearted friend, and much more their faithful counsel, cause a person’s soul to rejoice; especially when they are: ‘at such a loss, that he knows not how to advise himself.’

Meaning that good friends are like the anointing oil that yields the fragrant incense of God’s presence and we remember that is true because, there is the friend that sticks closer than a brother; which of course refers to Jesus/Yeshua His Ruach HaKodesh.

Don’t leave this page without assurance in your heart that the fragrance of His Ruach haKodesh is filling your garden today….and in turn being released into the earth drawing whosoever will into intimate relationship with Himself.

This is the 10 days of Awe beginning and it is also the New Year and the celebration of the creation of Adam.
For info on these Fall/Autumn Feasts click links below.
and https://www.minimannamoments.com/midweek-mannabite-the-sound-of-the-trumpet/ are about Feast of Trumpets/Yom Teruah (Day of Blowing)
and below are also about the Feast of Tabernacles/Sukkot etc.

You are loved! Abundant shalom and New Year blessings to every reader from your family and friends at MMM.

L’shannah tovah  – may this new year be filled with health and happiness!

Make that life-saving decision – time is running out. Don’t miss the day of your visitation!

The Shofars Voice is Calling for you today!

This life is NOT all there is!

You are not here by chance!

SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW…Don’t put it off one more moment…

Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus 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 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 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. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’ name. Amen.

You are now Born Again by the Holy Spirit of the Living God and you are part of the ever growing family of believers. You will never be the same again!