During the Feast of Trumpets the Priests blew the Shofar 99 times or in 9 sessions they blew it 11 times. How often they blew the silver trumpets is not well known. On the last day they blew the shofar one time or the Last Trumpet. They did not blow silver trumpets on the Jubilee as was the custom on every other year. It is believed therefore that the Lord will return on the day of the Awakening blast or the Last Trumpet on the Last Day right before Yom Kippur on all years but the Jubilee year. The Jews called the blowing of these trumpets “The Wedding Day of the Messiah.” This is no coincidence. God is telling us that He will bring the church to Him as the Bride of Christ on that Last Trumpet. The Jews use the Words, “The Day No one Knows” because they do not know when the Father will approve the Day and Hour just as a traditional wedding. By Jesus saying no one will know the day or hour but only the father will know—He was saying that it would be the Feast of Trumpets since it has a 2-day feast, that the Jews recognize as “the day no one knows.”
The next Feast of Tabernacles will start at sundown on Sunday, September 25, 2022, and in Texas make it 7 hours earlier than Israel. The Feast of Trumpets on the Almighty’s calendar is the appointed season for us to come prayerfully before His holy presence with a “humble repentant heart that trembles at His word” (see Isaiah 66:2). The Spirit of truth is getting our attention, sounding like a loud shofar [trumpet] blast, alerting us to take our focus off this perishing world and place it upon the Most High God who requires loving obedience to His Word and Commandments. According to Jewish
teachings, Rosh Hashanah is the beginning of 10 days of judgment when the righteous are written into the Book of Life, the wicked are condemned, and those who are not wholly righteous or wholly wicked are given 10 days to repent and thus escape judgment. We who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life do not fear judgment, but draw near to God with confidence.
The other biblical Holy Days beginning with Yom Kippur also point to the conclusion of the age. During this season there is a heightened awareness and urgency for the need of repentance. Prophecy is quickly being fulfilled; we are witnessing the rapid succession of diverse judgments. Scripture tells us that this end time scenario will become more fierce, dramatic, and perilous as these judgments continue as “birth pains” coming closer and closer, faster and faster together, as we approach the end of this present world, as we know it (Matthew 24:8). Yahshua (Jesus) said, “But when these things begin to take place, straighten up [repent and turn to righteousness] and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near … Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man” (Luke 21:28,36).
Our God and Savior’s voice is like a “loud heavenly trumpet”/shofar blast, urgently getting the attention of “those who have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying” in these last hours (Revelation 1:10, 2:7-3:22). The Almighty commissions His prophets and obedient servants, “Cry loudly, do not hold back; Raise your voice like a trumpet/shofar, and declare to My people their transgression … their sins!” (Isaiah 58:1) The Feast of Trumpets is as a Loud Shofar and Shout from heaven beseeching the listening heart to, “Repent and turn from all disobedience and sin to escape the coming judgments. The shofar is waking us up and calling us upward. It is high time to wholeheartedly turn to the Holy God and Redeemer who says, “Be holy, for I am holy” “without holiness no one will see the Lord.” Just as the shofar called the Jewish nation to turn their attention to the Lord and ready themselves for the Day of Atonement, so will the “trump of God” call us to heaven and warn the world of coming judgment.
In the book of Revelation, Apostle John heard our Savior’s voice that “sounded like a trumpet/shofar” proclaiming, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place … ” (Revelation 1:10, 4:1). We are seeing these prophesied judgments beginning to fall, magnifying the reality that the conclusion of the age is upon us. In essence, our Savior is loudly expressing His urgent heart cry of passionate love for His redeemed remnant, “Repent and flee from your old sin nature and worldly desires. Don’t go back to sin and don’t look back to the world, both are under judgment. “Come out of her My people”, I don’t want you to share in the sins of the worldly (Revelation 18:4). Get your affections off this doomed world and wholeheartedly follow Me out of harm’s way. I redeemed you to be a holy people as “a bride who has made herself ready”, waiting for that last great shofar sound (Revelation 19:7). God gave us the Great Sign of Revelation 12 to get our attention that the Coundown was on. We have little time left to fulfill the 80 years of new Beginnings since the nation of Israel was founded. 70 years represents God’s allotted time for the nations to come under His Sovereignty. Instead the nations since 1948 have rebelled and so the window for repentance has closed and the nations will be judged.
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