THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND!
YOM TERUAH
Feast of Trumpets: Psalm 98-99:5; Leviticus 23:1-4; 24-25
This Yom Teruah (the Feast of Trumpets and Shouting) is highly significant: It includes:
1) The New Moon announcing the Hebrew month of Tishre
2) Yom Teruah (The blowing of the trumpets)
3) Rosh Ha Shanah: New Year’s day counted from creation
4) The great transition into a “smittah year”--the year of Yahuweh’s release and land rest—the beginning of the final seven years before Messiah’s return, the beginning of the 70th week of Daniel’s prophecy, the end of Ephraim’s punishment after 2, 730 years—the time of Ephraim’s release to come home, and the end of Judah’s punishment too, the end of the Bride’s marking, and the transition from the time of the “fishermen” to the time of the “hunters”.
Approximately 223 prophetic Scriptures refer to the Festival of Yom Teruah:
1. This is the day of the blowing of trumpets for THE GATHERING of the people: Genesis 49:10 with II Thessalonians 2:1; Matthew 24:31; Numbers 10:1ff
2. This is the “day of Yahuweh” –the day of wrath and judgment: “Yom Ha Din”. (Zephaniah 1:14ff, Matthew 13, Revelation 11:15-19, Isaiah 63:1-6, etc.)
3. This is the day of the return of Messiah for His Bride
The Ancient Hebrew Wedding Ceremony:
A. The man goes to the Bride’s father to ask for her hand in marriage.
B. If the father says “yes”, the man gives the father his terms of the marriage Covenant--what he expects from his bride. In Messiah’s case this is the Ten Commandments.
C. The girl is called in and given the terms of the marriage. If she chooses to marry the man they drink wine together to seal the engagement/betrothal (This is what Messiah was doing at His last supper with His disciples)
D. The man gives the father the purchase price required for the
bride. (I Corinthians 6:20; 7:23; I Peter 1:19-20)
E. Then the man repeats the words of John 14:2-3 to his fiancé.
F. He goes away to prepare a home for her—an attachment to his father’s house. After approximately two years, the man comes for his bride. The bride is expected to have prepared herself thoroughly and to be ready at his return.
H. He comes with great fanfare and ceremony to claim his bride.
I. They go into the chupa--wedding chamber—for seven days to consummate the marriage.
J. The “friend of the bridegroom” waits for the groom’s knock from the inside of the chupa. At the knock, the door opens and the couple come out to the wedding feast. The prepared guests are waiting, and the attendant of the groom (symbolically Elijah) and the attendant of the Bride (symbolically Moses) lead the couple to their waiting guests. (The attendants are pictured in Matthew 17:1-8)
4. This is the day of the “Coronation” of the Bride and Bridegroom—the crowning of Messiah and His Bride (Psalm 45; Revelation 19:7-16) – Their wedding day!
5. This is “the day and the hour that no man knows” (Matthew 24:36)
6. This is the “head of the year”—New Year’s Day from creation (II Peter 3:8)
7. This is the day when Messiah rewards His faithful servants, and judges the wicked (Matthew 24:45-51; Revelation 11:15-19; II Corinthians 5:10)
8. This is the day that the Devil is bound for 1,000 years
9. This is the day that the anti-messiah and the false prophet are cast into the lake of fire forever (Revelation 19 and 20) This is the day that the set-apart ones possess the Kingdom (Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14, 18, 21-22, 26-27; II Timothy 2:12; Revelation 20:1-6)
What is the “day and hour that no man knows”? It is the time of the dark of the moon the 29th and 30th of the month before the sighting of the first sliver of the new moon by two appointed witnesses. On this Yom Teruah of Messiah’s coming, His two witnesses will go before the
High Priest--Yahushua—as they ascend from Jerusalem, and declare that they have sighted the first sliver of the new moon of Tishre 1, the shofar will sound and the King of Kings will descend. (Revelation 11)
The Scriptures: There are hundreds of Scriptures! It is estimated that there are approximately 300 prophecies in the Tenach alone regarding His coming to rule and reign. Here are a few samples:
I Corinthians 15:49-58
I Thessalonians 4:13-5:10
Philippians 3:20-21
I John 3:1-3
John 5:24-30
John 11:25-26
John 14:1-3 (words of the marriage ceremony)
Acts 1:10-11
Isaiah 26:19-21
Daniel 12:1-3
Revelation 1:7-8
Revelation 19:1, 7-16
Zechariah 9:13-17
Titus 2:11-14
II Timothy 2:12; 4:7-8
Revelation 20:1-6 (The FIRST RESURRECTION) --There are only two resurrections: one of the just and one of the damned (see John 5:24-30).
Zechariah 14:1-5
Jude 14-15
Job 19:23-27
The Original Festival:
Leviticus 23:24-25; Numbers 29:1ff (Matthew 24:29-31) The gathering of the people for assembly
The Four Blasts:
“No one knows the day or the hour” (Matthew 24:25-27) of the blowing of the final blast--announcing the first sliver of the new moon of Tishre 1 and the opening of the gates of heaven for Messiah’s descent (Revelation 19).
The final blast is sounded by the blowing of a Shofar:
Revelation 11:15-18 – “the last trumpet” - II Corinthians 15:51ff
This day is called “Yom Ha Din”, the “day of judgment”, because on this day the wicked are separated from the righteous. It is connected to “Dan”--the judge. Yom Ha Din: This is the day of the separation of the wheat from the tares, and the wheat from the chaff—Matthew 13:36-50. Messiah removes all the wicked from His Kingdom.
The blowing of the shofar from ancient Hebrew tradition:
A. First blowing—“Tekiah”: the Wake Up Call (Romans 13:11)
B. Second blowing--“Shevarim”: Broken (three short broken notes)
C. Third blowing—“Teruah”: The alarm—the shout! (Shorter blasts)
D. Fourth blowing—“Ha Gedolah”: The Great Blast—an unbroken note that is sustained as long as the shofar blower has breath. This is the long blast announcing Yom Kippur.
Yom Teruah: “And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other”. See Revelation 11:15-18
The Moedim: The appointments
Leviticus 23:2, 4, 37, 44; I Thessalonians 5:1ff
“Set Apart convocation” – “Convocation”: “a public meeting, a rehearsal, an assembly” – these festivals are rehearsals for things to come
Ja’cob (James) 5:7-8: The time of the fruit harvest
The time of the 5 species, which are waved at Sukkot: 1) grapes 2) olives 3) dates 4) figs and 5) pomegranates
Messiah comes to reap the “precious fruit of the earth”: The Father (by His Ruach) is the “husbandman”—the overseer of the production of fruit - John 15:1-5; Galatians 5:22-24; Matthew 7:15-20. The Bride, with the help of the Ruach Yahuweh, prepares herself. She and the Ruach call out: “Come Messiah
Yahushua, Come!”
Shalom and Chag Sameach,
Yedidah
The Scriptures for Yom Teruah Teaching written out:
Psalm 98:1-99:5: “Sing to Yahuweh a new song! -- For He has done wonders. His right hand and His set-apart arm have brought Him
deliverance. Yahuweh has made known His deliverance. His righteousness He has openly shown before the eyes of the nations. He has remembered His kindness and His trustworthiness to the house of Israel. All the ends of the earth have seen the deliverance of our Elohim. Raise a shout to Yahuweh all the earth. Break froth in song, rejoice and sing praises. Sing to Yahuweh with the lyre, with the lyre
and the voice of a song. With trumpets and the sound of a ram’s horn, raise a shout before Yahuweh, the King. Let the sea roar, and all that fills it, the world and those who dwell in it. Let the rivers clap their hands, and let the mountains sing together for joy before Yahuweh, for He comes to judge the earth. He judges the world in righteousness and the people in straightness”.
99:1-5: “Yahuweh shall reign—peoples tremble! He is enthroned between the cherubim—the earth shakes! Yahuweh is great in Tsiyon and He is high above all the peoples. They praise Your Name, great and awesome—it is set-apart”.
The Gathering:
Genesis 49:10: “The scepter shall not turn aside from Judah, nor a Lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to Him shall the gathering of the people be.”
II Thessalonians 2:1-2: “As to the coming of our Master Yahushua Messiah and our gathering together to Him, we ask you brothers not to become easily unsettled in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter…”
Matthew 24:31: “And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other”.
Matthew 13:30, 41-43; 49: “Let both (the wheat and the tares-darnel) grow together until the harvest, and at the time of the harvest I shall say to the reapers `FIRST gather the darnel and bind them in bundles to burn them, but then gather the wheat into my granary’”. Verses 41-43: The Son of Adam shall send out His angels and they shall gather out of His Kingdom all the stumbling-blocks, and those doing lawlessness, and shall throw them into the furnace of fire—there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous shall shine forth as the sun in the reign of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear”. Verse 49: “Thus it shall be at the end of the age: the
angels shall come forth and separate the wicked out of the midst of the righteous”.
Numbers 10:1-10: The rules of the silver trumpets for gathering and war.
The “Day of Yahuweh”—day of wrath and judgment (Yom Ha Din)
Too many Scriptures to write out – a few samples:
Revelation 11:15-18: “The seventh angel sounded (the last trumpet), and there came to be loud voices in the heaven saying: `The kingdoms of this world have become the Kingdom of our Master and of His Messiah, and He shall reign forever and ever’…`We give you thanks, O Yahuweh, El Shaddai, the One who is, and who was and who is coming, because You have taken Your great power and reigned. And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath has come and the time of the dead to be judged and to give the reward to Your servants the prophets and to the set-apart ones, and to those who fear Your Name both great and small and to destroy those who destroy the earth’”.
Malachi 3:1-3: “`Behold, I am sending My messenger and He shall prepare the way before Me. Then suddenly the Master you are seeking comes to His Hekal, even the Messenger of the Covenant in whom you delight. Behold, He is coming’, says Yahuweh of Hosts. `And who is able to bear the day of His coming, and who is able to stand when He appears? For He is like the fire of a
Isaiah 63:1-4: “Who is this coming from Edom, with garments of glowing colors from Botsrah, who is robed in splendor, striding forward in the greatness of His strength? `It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save’.
`Why is there red on Your raiment, and Your garments like one who treads in the winepress?’ `I have trodden the winepress alone…I trod them down in My displeasure and I trample them in My wrath. Their blood is sprinkled upon My garments, and I have defiled all My raiment. For a day of vengeance is in My heart and the year of My redeemed has come’”. (Notice that the time of the redeemed is at the same time as the vengeance on the wicked!)
Zephaniah 1:14-2:3: “Near is the great day of Yahuweh, near and
hurrying greatly, the noise of the day of Yahuweh. Let the mighty man then bitterly cry out! That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and trouble, a day of waste and ruin, a day of darkness and gloominess, and day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of ram’s horns and alarm…neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to
deliver them in the day of the wrath of Yahuweh. And by the fire of His jealousy all the earth shall be consumed, for He makes a sudden
end of all those who dwell in the earth. Gather together, gather together O nation without shame, before the decree is born—the day shall pass on like chaff—before the burning wrath of Yahuweh comes upon you…Seek Yahuweh, all you meek ones of the earth, who have done His right-ruling. Seek righteousness, seek meekness--if so be that you are hidden in the day of the wrath of Yahuweh”.
The wedding day: Psalm 45 (Read the whole Psalm)
Revelation 19:6-16: “And I heard as the voice of a great crowd, as the sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty thunders, saying `HalleluYah, for Yahuweh, El Shaddai reigns! Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him praise, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has prepared herself’.
And to her it was given to be dressed in fine linen, clean and white, for the fine linen is the righteousness of the set-apart ones. And he said to me, `Write! Blessed are those who have been called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!’” (The guests—the “saved of the earth”)
Verse 11-13: “And I saw the heavens opened and there was a white horse. And He who sat on him was called `Faithful and True’, and in righteousness He judges and makes war. And His eyes were as a flame of fire and on His head were many crowns…and having been dressed in a robe dipped in blood—and His Name is called `The Word of Yahuweh’. (Compare wording with Isaiah 63:1-4)
“The day and hour no man knows”
Matthew 24:36: “But concerning that day and the hour, no man knows, not even the angels of the heavens, but My Father only”.