Feast of Trumpets/Yom Teruah

Leviticus 23: 23-25 and Yahuah spoke to Moses (Mosheh), saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you have a rest, a remembrance of blowing of trumpets (Yom Teruah), a set-apart gathering. ‘You do no servile work, and you shall bring an offering made by fire to Yahuah.’ ”

Numbers 29:1 ‘And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you have a set-apart gathering, you do no servile work, it is a day of blowing the trumpets for you.

Instead of grains as per the previous Appointed Times, we will see the fruit harvests.

This Appointed Time relates to the restoration of all things.

Many call this Appointed Time “The feast of Trumpets,” but it is not a pilgrimage Feast, rather it is a day of blowing (Yom Teruah). The blowing of trumpets and shofars on day 1 of month 7 has been associated with the day that Yahuah will rise the righteous from the dead.

The Hebrew word teruah, literally means “blast or blowing.” It is not the instrument of blasting that is noted, but the sound. We know that Elohim created with His voice – sound. The voice of Yahuah is a mighty sound – Psalm 29. The sound could actually been seen.

When we think of this day we think of a mighty blast that gets the attention of all of the people. It is the voice of the Trumpet that we heard at Sinai. We remember Sinai, but we also remember that the covenant was thereafter broken. Moses had to intercede, and he prayed that the children of Israel not be blotted out from His book (scroll) – Exodus 32:32-33. Think about this scroll, will Yahuah remember this day. We are trying to get His attention on this day so that He will remember us.

The scroll is connected with judgment and the covenant people. Read Malachi 3:1-18, about this important issue: “See, I am sending My messenger (John the Baptist), and he shall prepare the way before Me. Then suddenly the Master you are seeking comes to His temple, even the Messenger (Messiah) of the covenant, in whom you delight. See, He is coming,” said Yahuah 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 refiner, and like the soap of a launderer. “And He shall sit as a refiner and a cleanser of silver. And He shall cleanse the sons of Lewi, and refine them as gold and silver, and they shall belong to Yahuah, bringing near an offering in righteousness. “Then shall the offering of Yahudah and Jerusalem be pleasant to Yahuah, as in the days of old, as in former years. “And I shall draw near to you for rightruling. And I shall be a swift witness against the practisers of witchcraft, and against adulterers, and against them that swear to falsehood, and against those who oppress the wage earner in his wages and widows and the fatherless, and those who turn away a sojourner and do not fear Me,” said Yahuah of hosts. “For I am Yahuah, I shall not change, and you, O sons of Jacob, shall not come to an end. “From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from My laws and did not guard them. Turn back to Me, and I shall turn back to you,” said Yahuah of hosts. “But you said, ‘In what shall we turn back?’ “Would a man rob Elohim? Yet you are robbing Me! But you said, ‘In what have we robbed You?’ In the tithe and the offering! “You have cursed Me with a curse, for you are robbing Me, this nation, all of it! “Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, and let there be food in My house. And please prove Me in this,” said Yahuah of hosts, “whether I do not open for you the windows of the heavens, and shall pour out for you boundless blessing! “And I shall rebuke the devourer for you, so that it does not destroy the fruit of your ground, nor does the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,” said Yahuah of hosts. “And all nations shall call you blessed, for you shall be a land of delight,” said Yahuah of hosts. “Your words have been harsh against Me,” said Yahuah, “but you have said, ‘What have we spoken against You?’ “You have said, ‘It is worthless to serve Elohim. And what did we gain when we His Charge, and when we walked as mourners before Yahuah of hosts? ‘And now we are calling the proud blessed – not only are the doers of wrongness built up, but they also try Elohim and escape.’ ” Then shall those who fear Yahuah speak to one another, and Yahuah listen and hear, and a book of remembrance be written before Him, of those who fear Yahuah, and those who think upon His Name. “And they shall be Mine,” said Yahuah of hosts, “on the day that I prepare a treasured possession. And I shall spare them as a man spares his own son who serves him. “Then you shall again see the difference between the righteous and the wrong, between one who serves Elohim and one who does not serve Him.

This chapter speaks of a time of restoration when the people of Yahuah return to Him. It is a time when Yahuah opens up the scroll and remembers His people. Both of these events, the blowing and the opening of the scroll, deal with remembrance.

This Appointed Time commemorated the blowing of the silver trumpets and the shofar to gather the people together for set-apart convocations in the wilderness. This Appointed Time pictures the meeting with Messiah in the air, as He comes with the wrath of the Father upon the wicked, and comes to resurrect all those who have died in Him, and all who are still alive on the earth at His coming.  This is what He calls the “harvesting of the earth” - Matthew 13 = the sower.

He has a definite path of return--Matthew 24:27-31; Isaiah 63:1-6; Habakkuk 3, Deuteronomy 33:2-3 and others. Therefore, “no man knows the day or the hour” in which the third trumpet (a shofar/ram’s horn) will be blown.  Three trumpets are blown, and everyone waits for the “last trump” to be blown, which signals the opening of the gates of heaven, and the descent of Messiah to gather those in who are righteous.  This is the hope among the believers in Messiah.

Messiah gives us a sign when this day is approaching, by telling us, a man, a world ruler, will set up his reign on the Temple Mount.  He does not come as a “thief in the night” to those watching, praying, and hearing the Ruach (Spirit) of Yahuah.

That is clear from I Thessalonians 5:1-10 now, brothers, as to the times and the seasons, you do not need to be written to. For you yourselves know very well that the day of Yahauh comes as a thief in the night. For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then suddenly destruction comes upon them, as labour pains upon a pregnant woman, and they shall not escape. But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. For you are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. So, then, we should not sleep, as others do, but we should watch and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. But we who are of the day should be sober, putting on the breastplate of belief and love, and as a helmet the expectation of deliverance. Because Elohim did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain deliverance through our Master Yahusha Messiah, who died for us, so that we, whether awake or asleep, should live together with Him.

Therefore, the children of light know the seasons by the Appointed Times. I Thessalonians 4:13-18; I Corinthians 15:51-58; Revelation 11:15-17; Philippians 3:20-21; Revelation 19:11-16; Zechariah 14:1-5; and Jude 14-15 are scripture of Messiah’s second coming.

 

He comes at the “last trump”—the 7th trumpet of the tribulation.  This is clear from both, I Corinthians 15:51-52 See, I speak a secret to you: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. Revelation 11:15-19 and the seventh messenger sounded, and there came to be loud voices in the heaven, saying, “The reign of this world has become the reign of our Master, and of His Messiah, and He shall reign forever and ever!” And the twenty-four elders sitting before Elohim on their thrones fell on their faces and worshipped Elohim, saying, “We give You thanks, O Yahuah 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, small and great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth.” And the Dwelling Place of Elohim was opened in the heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His Dwelling Place. And there came to be lightnings, and voices, and thunders, and an earthquake, and great hail. 

It is quite plain from the Scriptures that Yahusha Messiah comes with the wrath of the Father, which is so severe that no one can withstand it without His protection.  So, the Feast of Trumpets is the celebration of our gathering together unto Him, but also of judgment on the wicked.  It is a day of separation and justice.

We need to remember what His people did after hearing and seeing the sound from the mountain. As we remember, our prayer should be that we be remembered by Him, the Almighty Creator.