Feast of Trumpets – Rosh Hashana

THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS

Lev: 23: 1The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, These
are the appointed feasts of the LORD that you shall proclaim as holy convocations-(rehearsal); they
are my appointed feasts. ………….23And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 24“Speak to the people of
Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of
solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation.

Tonight marks the end of (Elul) and the beginning of the Biblical New Year-1st of (Tishrei,).

*The Gospel begins in the “Spring feasts” with Passover, First Fruits and Shavuot and then comes
the “Summer Harvest.”

*The end of the age is linked with the blowing of Trumpets and is called Yom T’ruah – the day of
the Trumpets.

*The Shofar is linked to the last days that usher in the “Days of Awe.” It will be an “awesome
time” of miracles and prophecy being fulfilled. We will see great evil manifest itself but also
great holiness and revival will contrast the ever increasing culture of godlessness and wickedness.

*The Shofar has always been the sound that called God’s people to gather together and is the signal
that the summer harvest is ending.

*The shofar is also the sound of a battle cry to war. It is the sound of the Watchmen on the wall
warning of the danger to come. The end times are characterized by spiritual night when the
watchmen must be vigilant and rise above the city walls to see clearly.(not darkened and deluded by
sin and the junk of this age)

The Feast of Trumpets is the only Feast where the Shofar is blown 100 times – the last one being a
long blow is always refered to as “The Last Trump.”

The Feast of Trumpets is kept as a two day Feast because it begins at the sighting of the new moon
and could fall on either one or the other day. All the others are at the full moon.

The Feast of Trumpets is the beginning of the Days of Awe. The year begins with a period of examination of our hearts. We can examine ourselves on the following:

• Are we fulfilling the purpose for which God placed us on the earth?

• Are we really living for Him or are we living for ourselves?

• Are we controlled by the world and the flesh or by the Spirit of God?

• Are we spending our time and money on the things of the Kingdom of God

We can ask the Holy Spirit to work in us to will and to do God’s pleasure. We can lay hold of His promises to overshadow us with His Spirit and make us into the people He wants us to be.

~ What is Rosh Hashanah – Feast of Trumpets ~

Is the Lord the same Yesterday, Today & Forever? Do you believe in Divine Appointments? We need to realize the Lord fulfilled the Spring Feasts not only to the day but to the very hour. Dying as the Passover Lamb on the Feast of Passover, not on the day before nor on the day after. He was crucified at the time of the morning sacrifice, died at the time of the evening sacrifice. In the grave on the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and rose on the Feast of First Fruits. First Fruits was a Feast the Jews had been celebrating for over 1,000 years before Christ ever rose! It was on the very day of the Feast of Pentecost that The Holy Spirit was poured out. Pentecost had been celebrated for over 1,000 years before the book of Acts was even written.
The Jews were required by God to keep the Feast of First Fruits and the Feast of Pentecost back when the Torah was written by Moses!

The word “Feast” does not mean food! The Hebrew word is “Moed” and means an Appointment. Divine Appointments of God intersecting History to accomplish His will. They were called Holy “Convocations” which in the Hebrew is “Miqura” which means an “assembly” but also implies a “Dress Rehearsal”. So for over 1,000 years, the Jews were assembling for the Spring Feasts as Divine “Dress Rehearsals” for what was to come! Being performed only on the Divinely Appointed days to the exact hour so when God
intersected History we would know it was Him! Come and read how God will fulfill the Fall Feasts to the day at His Second Coming!

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God schedules His Divine appointments with man, we don’t dictate to Him when they will fit into our schedule. Know that you can have scheduled Divine Appointments with God because He has already put them in His Appointment Calendar, and He has revealed the days and times to all of us!

Lev 23:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts

(Appointments) of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, (Dress Rehearsals) even these are my feasts.

These are the Lord’s Feasts! Do you belong to Him? Come and experience the dress rehearsal so you’ll know what is going on when it happens! Know the Lord’s appointed times! Be there!

Jer 8:7-9 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.

Yom Teruah

The Feast of Trumpets is also known as Yom Teruah which literally means the “Day of Blowing”. This is the only Feast Day when the shofar is blown during the service 100 times! They are blown in a set pattern of 3 different sounds, blown 3 times each for a total of 9 blasts. This series of patterns is repeated 11 times for a total of 99 blasts. The 100th blast is set apart and this is the blast that is known as the “Last Trump”!

Lev 23:24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. (Dress.Rehearsal)

The Hebrew word for “blowing of trumpets” is “Teruah” from Strongs #8643 a battle-cry; especially a clangor of trumpets, as an alarm.

The Time of Jacobs Trouble

Also known as the Great Tribulation

Jer 30:6,7 Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness? Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;

Zeph 1:14-16 The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.

Day of the Awakening Blast

Isa 26:19 Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.

Psalm 47:5 God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.

The Hebrew word for shout here is “Teruah”! And the word trumpet is “Shofar”. This is not a manmade trumpet or it’s sound. Ps 89:15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound, (Here the Hebrew word for “sound” is also “Teruah”) which is why we want to hear and be able to know and discern the sound of the Shofar on Yom Teruah!

The “Opening of the Books”

It is taught in Judaism that it is on this day the Heavenly Court is in session every year. This begins what is known as the “10 Days of Awe” until Yom Kippur when the final judgment is meted out.
God opens the books and reads the account of every individual for the previous year and they have 10 days to repent before their sentence is announced and the books are closed on Yom Kippur.

Dan 7:10,11 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened. I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.

Dan 12:1-2 And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Malachi 3:16 Then those who feared the LORD spoke with one another. The LORD paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the LORD and esteemed his name. 17“They shall be mine, says the LORD of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him. 18 Then once more you shall see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God
and one who does not serve him.

“Opening of the Gates/Doors”

Ps 24:7-10 Lift up your head, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory.

Rev 4:1-2 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.

Ha Melech (Coronation of the Messiah)

There are 4 parts to the enthronement ceremony of a Jewish King:

1. Giving of the decree Ps 2:6-7 – Heb 1:8

2. Ceremony of taking the throne – 2 Sam 5:3– Rev 4:9-11

3. The Acclamation – 1 Kings 1:34,46 – 2 Kings 11:12

4. Subjects come and pledge their allegiance – Ps 47:1-9 – Ps 50:4,5 – Ps 102:13-18

On the Feast of Trumpets Israel as a Nation will most likely fulfill the prophecy given in Zech. 12:10-Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem. They will look on me whom they have pierced and mourn for him as for an only son. They will grieve bitterly for him as for a firstborn son who has died!

Ps 47:5-9 God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet. Sing praises to God, sing praises: sing praises unto our King, sing praises. For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding. God reigneth over the heathen: God sitteth upon the throne of his
holiness. The princes of the people are gathered together.

“Yom HaKeseh” the “Hidden Day”

Zeph 2:3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’S anger.

Ps 27:5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his
tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

Ha Kiddushin/Nesuin (Wedding of Messiah)

Joel 2:15-16 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
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The Feast of Unleavened Bread falls on the 15th of the month of Nisan, so it’s always at the full Moon, in the middle of the lunar cycle. The Feast of Tabernacles is on the 15th in the middle of the month of Tishri, at a full moon. It’s easy to find the 15th by counting from the 1st. Because everyone was to celebrate the Feast of Trumpets and it always fell on the 1st day of the lunar
month, based on the sighting of the new moon, it was known as the Feast where no one ever “knew the day or the hour” it would come. The Jews in Babylon and elsewhere were to keep it as well but it would take a day to get them the news so it was always kept for 2 days and was known as “one long day “. It was to be a day symbolically hid from Satan so even he would not be sure of its arrival!

In Dan 7:25 the antichrist changes the “times” because he doesn’t want us to be aware of the “appointed times and seasons” of the Lord. To Summarize: The Feast of Trumpets will be the beginning of the Tribulation and will also on the seventh year of the Tribulation be the awakening of Israel as a Nation to the identity of Yeshua/Jesus their long awaited Messiah – Zechariah 12:10)

Rosh Hashanah – Part 1 – Important to understand that each feast day may have multiple fulfillments.

Just as I can be a father, a brother, an uncle, a nephew, and a grandpa all at the same time, Rosh Hashanah, which means the “Head of the Year,” is several different things, all in one. Rosh Hashanah is known Biblically as the Feast of Trumpets, or Yom Teruah, which means the “Day of Blowing,” when the shofar is blown one hundred times.

Teruah, which means “blowing,” also means “to shout,” as in a battle cry.

Psalm 47: 5 speaks of God going up with a “shout” an the sound of the “trumpet.”

Psalm 89:15-18 festal shout–(Teruah)

There are three sounds made by the shofar on the Feast of Trumpets. 1 First there is the Tekiah, which is a single long blast. Then there is the Shevarim, which consists of three short blasts.
There is also the Teruah, consisting of nine short blasts in quick succession.

On Yom Teruah the shofar is blown one hundred times. The hundreth blast is known as the “Last Trump.” The last blast is a special blast, known as the Tekiah Gedolah. In English that means the “Great Big Blast”!

The word Teruah can refer to a gathering together or the sounding of an “alarm,” as in Numbers 10:7-9, where God says that when the enemy comes at you, if you blow an alarm with the shofar, He will remember you and save you.

The shofar also signals the beginning of the “time of trouble,”

or the Day of Judgment, where the books are opened.

*Daniel 12:1-4….time of trouble…awake from the dust… Rev. 1:10-20

It is blown to announce the coronation of the King. So if you remember to crown God as King and sound the shofar on the Feast of Trumpets, God will remember you and save you from your enemies!

Psalm 29 is also read every Feast of Trumpets, and you will see why. It repeatedly refers to the voice of the LORD.

Yom Teruah is also known/appointed as the “day of remembrance.”

Yom Teruah is the sounding of the alarm clock to tell the dead it is time to wake up!

Song 5:2-6 – In verse 2 the Hebrew word for sleep is the same word used for those who “sleep” in the dust of the earth. Original Word: ןֵשׁי – Yashen – (by implication) sleep (figuratively, to die); also to grow old, stale or inveterate: Original

Word: קפָדּ – daphaq: this Hebrew word used for knock is to beat, knock, pounding or driven hard –

*Isa 26:19-21 – In the Bible this word used for dew לָט-tal is tied to the resurrection of the dead.

Rosh Hashanah is additionally known as both the day of the wedding of the Messiah and the hidden day. It is very important to remember that while all of these events will happen on this day in some year, I am also not saying they will all occur in the same year.

ידִוֹדוְ דיִוֹדלְ ינִ אֲ

Joel 2:1 – 30-32 – Ezek. 33:2-7- A day of warning – Jer. 6:10-19 – people would not listen- did not want to walk in the old paths.

Yom HaDin – the Day of Judgement. Kingship and judgment are closely linked. Every year on this day, it is believed that the doors of the heavenly court are opened and court is in session. During the following ten days, to Yom Kippur, God determines who will live and who will die the next year.
On Yom Kippur the doors close and judgment is then meted out. God not only sits on His throne as King on Rosh Hashanah, but He also judges all mankind. Therefore, this day is also known as the
opening of the gates, opening of the doors, and the opening of the books.

Dan. 7:9-11 – Rev. 5:11-13 Rev. 4 – Psalm 24:7-10 another reference to the coronation and the books being opened.

2 Cor. 5:10 and 1 Cor. 3:13 is a reference to this Day. We must remember that everything happening on earth was based on a pattern in heaven. Moses was told to build the tabernacle after this heavenly pattern (Num. 8: 4; Ex. 25: 9).

Psalm 27:5 – Zeph 2:1-4 – Isa. 26:20-21 – hidden in the Day of Trouble. 1 Thess. 5:1 2,4 – righteous know the seasons

Mal. 3:16-18 – the Book of Remembrance, the Feast of Trumpets IS the Day of Remembrance.

Psalm 98:6 -“With trumpets and the blast of the ram’s horn [shofar]—shout for joy before the LORD, the King.”

Rosh Hashana blast sequence

TEKIAH = 1 BLAST SHEVARIM= 3 BLASTS TERUAH= 9 BLASTS

1 3 9 1 14 TEKIAH, SHEVARIM — TERUAH, TEKIAH

1 3 9 1 14 TEKIAH, SHEVARIM — TERUAH, TEKIAH 1 3 1 5

TEKIAH, SHEVARIM, TEKIAH 1 3 1 5

TEKIAH, SHEVARIM, TEKIAH 1 9 1 11

TEKIAH, TERUAH, TEKIAH 1 9 1 11

TEKIAH, TERUAH, TEKIAH 9 9

TERUAH 99

1 BIG ONE 1

TEKIAH HAGADOL 100

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