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YOM TERUAH - Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
The name of this teaching is YOM TERUAH - Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. We are going to see that Yom Teruah - the Feast of Trumpets has implications and meaning in the past and in the present and in the future. Yom Teruah is Hebrew words for Festival or The Feast of Trumpets. More accurately it is the day / yom of shouting sounds. Teruah basically means a shrill cry, it means a high-pitched shrill cry. Like we have heard Indians yell - that is really what a teruah is. It is a high-pitched shrill cry that symbolizes one of the feast days of Yahweh found in the scriptures that have been kept by our Jewish brothers for thousands of years.
In Leviticus (Wayiqra) 23, we can see these feast days and begin to understand them. They have significance for our lives today as we desire to live what our ancestors experienced in the past. The feast days have prophecy that we are going to see unveiled for us. The more we understand and the better we understand the feast days, the better we can know and understand Yahweh. This is Yahweh's time table, this is Yahweh's plan for mankind.
Leviticus 23:1-2 - 1 And Yahweh spake unto Moshe, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, concerning the feasts of Yahweh, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.
These are not Jewish feasts, these not pagan feasts, these are feasts of Yahweh. And, He says here there are My feasts you shall keep. So Yahweh is waiting on us to keep the feasts of Leviticus 23. These feasts begin with the sabbath day. Then the rest of the festivals are discussed. This message is going to help the new beginners; if you have only been studying Torah for a couple of weeks. And its going to help us who have been around the festivals for several years. There is always something more to learn and understand. To Yahweh, time is not a timeline but it is in a circular pattern that it repeats itself over and over and over again. We are going to learn about the Yom Teruah, the Festival of Trumpets so that we can keep it better.
A few years ago, our family was getting ready for the festival of trumpets and my son, Judah, was all excited. He was putting on nice clothes and could smell the great food being cooked. But, he did not understand why he was wearing really nice clothes. He said "Daddy, why are we going to worship today? It is not Sabbath." And, I said, "well, Judah we are getting ready for the feast of trumpets. We have our trumpets and shofars!" He looked up at me with confusion and said - "Daddy, we are going to have a feast and eat trumpets." I laughed a little bit and I tried to explain him, "No! We are not going to eat the trumpets, we are going to blow the trumpets but we are going to eat, we are going to have a feast."
So, the Feast of Trumpets, it is a strange event, I mean think about it, we are going to eat a bunch trumpets. No! It is one of the seven biblical festivals in Leviticus 23 and it is strange to us because we are not used to doing this. Most of us did not grow up in synagogues where the feast of trumpets is celebrated each year. The holy day is ignored by most churches. Another strange part about this celebration is that there is not a huge list of commandments of things to do concerning this day. Now, we have Passover that we keep and Passover with all these rules of things to do. We have got Easter, everybody knows how to keep Easter, right? We dye our Easter eggs and celebrate the fertility of the Easter bunny - maybe, not. We know about Yom Kippurim, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement because the Scriptures tels us we are to afflict ourselves that day, so we fast. However, most of our religious backgrounds do not address Yom Teruah. It is foreign to us, it is strange to us. It is really sad that Christianity does not teach the biblical festivals because there are so much here. We should be amazed when we began to study and really understand that this is Yahweh's plan and outline of the end times of concerning Yahshua's first coming and second coming. I believe that the Feast of Trumpets has more connection to the Newer testament really than any other festival that we keep. So in this teaching, we are going to answer a couple of questions -
What is Yom Teruah?
How do we celebrate Yom Teruah?
What can we learn from it?
YOM TERUAH - Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.
If you continue reading in Leviticus 23, looking at verse 23, it says, 23 And Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, 24 Speak to b'nai Yisrael/the children of Israel, saying, in the seventh month, in the first day of the month, ye shall have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocationor in Hebrew a miqra kodesh.
Here are the instructions for celebrating the day and in Leviticus 23 where the festivals of Yahweh are commanded, these are worship times, and again this is not the Jewish festivals, these are the Yahweh feast days.
So, Yom Teruah, it is given to us as a miqra kodesh or a holy convocation. The moadim / feasts are rehearsals and they are reminders. We are reminded of what took place in the past and we are rehearsing something for the future.
Let us discuss Yom Teruah - yesterday: It says that we are to have a remembrance of blowing of the trumpets, a memorial of blowing trumpets. Give a thought about what we are to remember and what exactly are we to blow? The word there for trumpets is "shofar." When the trumpet or the shofar of Yahweh, the ram's horn of Yahweh, is blown in the biblical context, it was done to remind us of something. This is kind of like tying a string around your finger to remember something important or setting your alarm to go off. The alarm shouts that it is, "time to get up, time to get up!", what you do like? you do like me? you hit the snooze button a couple of times? I know, I do." This is a reminder that every year it going off reminding us of something, so the question is reminding us of what? sometimes you just have to ask the question.
In Numbers 10:9, it says, 9 if your go to war in the land against the enemy that oppresses you, you shall blow an alarm with trumpets; and you shall be remembered before Yahweh your Elohim, and be saved from your enemies. The trumpet/shofar is used when you go out to war.
In Numbers 10:10, it says, 10 Also in the day of your gladness, on your solemn days, in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you a memorial before Yahweh: I am Yahweh your Elohim. The trumpets were blow as part of worship.
Also in Numbers 10:2-4, it talks about a gathering of an assembly together, 3 And when you shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle. The sounding of a shofar is a reminder to worship; it is a reminder of warfare, to gather the assembly, to sound the alarm of coming judgement.
In Yoel or Joel 2:1, it tells us, 1 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sound an alarm in My holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is nigh at hand; 2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like before, neither shall be hereafter it, the years of many generations. And, we see that it is a day of sounding an alarm for coming judgement.
Then, finally it tells us in Second Kings/ Melechim Bet 9:13, it says, 13 Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu or Yehu is king. It was to announce the proclamation of a new king.
Sounding of a shofar, one the reasons to sound the shofar was to announce the coronation of a new king. One other day it says to celebrate, it says on your solemn days. Rosh Kodesh is Hebrew for the renewed moon and every month we are commanded to gather together on the renewed moon and celebrate Yahweh; just worship Him and celebrate a new month, the beginning of a new month and the end of an old month and when we do so it says that we are to sound the shofar and then what is called the silver trumpets. Now, the interesting thing about a new moon is that you almost never know when the new moon is going to be and there is a lot of controversy right now in different messianic movements and groups about when the new moon is going to be; should we ask the Carites when the new moon is? should we go station ourselves in Israel and look for the new moon? should we guess when it is going to be? should we use the Jewish calender when it is going to be? and what is interesting is during biblical times when the temple was standing that there would be two witnesses who would see the new moon, it took two witnesses to see it and they would proclaim the Rosh Kodesh. Notice what I said, temple times, two witnesses proclaiming the Rosh Kodesh is Yerushalayim, but even today for the new moon if it is going to on this day or on that day. Now, we teach and we use traditional Jewish calender and it gives us usually one or two days when that new moon should be celebrated. Yom Teruah or the seventh month when the Feast of Trumpets begins is the only holy day of Yahweh that begins on a new moon and it is traditionally a new moon that you do not know whether it is going to be the first day or the second day and the Jewish Rabbis have called it one long day because they do not if it is going to be the first day or the second, so they say one long day you celebrate and you worship; keep that in mind for later, store that one in your bank deposit for later, you need to withdraw that one later.
The significance of Yom Teruah, first of all we have never told not to celebrate it. Here it tells us to celebrate Yom Teruah, where it is in the word, where does Yahshua say, "Oh! You don't need to do that Jewish festival." Mmmmmm! I haven't found it. We are to continue the faith what was handed down from Moshe and keep the feasts.
Now today, traditionally, this is mostly kept by the Jews and it is not called Yom Teruah by them, they call it Rosh Hashanah; we have all heard of that, right? and that Rosh Hashanah in Hebrew means the New Year but did not we just read it said in the seventh month, so how could it be the New Year if this it is the seventh month. They call it Rosh Hashanah, they begin preparation for the next upcoming festivals, they eat apples and honey and say, l'shana tova tika t'vuh, may you have a great new year is the greeting. You pick up the phone on your Rosh Hashanah and you answer "Shalom, l'shana tova tika t'vuh," may you have a great, hope you have a good new year. The problem is, that is not what the scripture say right here. It says, this is the seventh month and if your read a little bit in Leviticus Wayiqra 23 and also in Exodus, it says, you shall begin your months with the month of Aviv or what they call Nisan; not the car but the month of Nisan with Passover. However, it is understood that on this day, Rosh Hashanah or Yom Teruah, it is not our new year but it is what considered the Civil New Year, just like mini businesses have a physical year and then we have calender year. In Judaism, there is a Civil New Year, there is the Religious New Year, there is even a new year for trees, so it is actually four new years in the scriptures and it is very confusing, so let us keep it simple, alright. This is not the New Year but the Civil New Year and if you have a Jewish calender this is when you get a new one, you flip it over during usually the month of September or October when Yom Teruah occurs, now where do we get that from? If you take the first two words basically in the Torah, beresheeth aleph and you turn them around, it says, aleph b'tishri in Hebrew. Go to a Torah scroll, you read it, it is beresheeth aleph which means in the beginning, aleph. You turn that around it means aleph b'tishir, which means on the first day of Tishri. It is kind of loose but that is where they get the idea that Adam was created on the first day of Tishri. Now, I like that idea, that is about a scripture and was a guess. We do not want to create a whole big doctrine around it but I think it is a good idea. This was the day that Ahdahm was created and it is the day that Jewish calender flips over, so we are entering into the year 5768 and with this new year they say it is 5768 years since Ahdahm was created give or take about 300 years I think their calender is off (250-300 years, that is for another discussion).
We also see significance today that it says in Leviticus 23:24-25 this shall be a memorial, it shall be a sabbath, you shall do no work on this day. So, it is a sabbath to try to take off work on this day, to take off work to worship and to rest on this sabbath, sabbaton actually. This is also considered the first the day of the Yamim Noraim that means the Days of Awe, the 10 days of reverence or awe. And, beginning with this day the first day of Tishri for the next days are preparation days for Yom Kippurim, the Day of Atonement and these are considered to be some of the most holy days out the year that what you do during the 10 days between the Festival of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement sets the stage, sets your habits and patterns for the whole up coming year, pretty amazing! So, the 10 days here are days of soul searching or days of change or days of repentance and these are days, this time period between Yom Teruah, the Festival of Trumpets and Yom Kippurim or the Day of Atonement where you try to make amends. Now, preceding the Feasts of Trumpets is the month of Elul and during the month of Elul it is a tradition that the orthodox Jews sound the shofar every day, every day in their homes to awaken them and to remind, hey! we have got the Feats of Trumpets coming up and I need to get right, I need to make amends, I need to contact the people that I have offended or that have offended me and I need to offer forgiveness to them or let them know that I have forgiven them and I need to confess my sins before Yahweh because the Day of Atonement is coming even to this day. Sadly, they do not have the blood of Yahshua but at least they try to make peace or do tikkun olam which is fixing the world. As we celebrate, we will gather together, we will blow the shofars, we will have some meals, we will dance, we will sing, we will praise Yahweh and that is about it and it is about all the commandments concerning this. No all-night vigils or anything crazy like that. However, when we celebrate we not only look back and say this is a festival way back then, this was for the Jews way back there but this is for something for us today and we also see it is prophetic picture of end time events.
In the book Qolesaya/Colossians chapter 2, there is one of those verses that Christian brothers and sisters love to quote to me and say, "well, I don't need to keep those Jewish feasts, you know, it tells me right here in my King James Version, no man should judge me," so lets take a look at that. It says in Colossians 2:16-17 - 16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath: 17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Messiah. Couple of things, first of all it says let no man therefore judge you in meat or drink or in respect of a holy day.
No man should judge you as you judge yourself, you should be judging yourself in respect of what you eat and what you drink in the holy days.
This is very clearly spoken to believers who are already keeping the feasts days and I believe one thing that the writer here was saying, Paul or Rabbi Shaul was saying was you keep the feasts days and you may do it a little differently and that person keeps the feast days and they may do it a little differently, do not judge them by how they keep it. Can we judge those who do not keep it? Yes. Because if they are not keeping the mitzvot and are not keeping the commandments, they are actually judging themselves but we can look upon them and say, well not in judgement and looking down on them, but we can say, well those persons they are just not doing it. So that person not doing it cannot look upon me and tell me how to do it, right; just as much as I cannot look to my brother who is doing it already and say, you need to do it this way.
Very clear also that it says here in verse 17, these are shadows of things to come. So, eating kosher food or clean food, keeping the holy days or the new moon or the sabbath days are shadows of things to come. Does it say that these are things that passed away? No. It says these are shadows of something greater that is coming in the future, something greater. A shadow is a resemblance of something bigger. If you take a look down on the floor now, you see shadow and it is not intricately detailed, right? It is like how we eat kosher, it is like how we keep the feast days. We try and it looks like the real thing but it is not and you know what that is called chesed or grace and you know what, we cannot do it right, we try but we cannot do it. We are going to fail, we are going to falter but by His chesed or grace we are living in the shadow of the almighty Yahweh that is wonderful because it is shadows of things to come which is the body, Mashiach. So, what is coming? Yahshua is, He is coming again and He is going to show us how to keep the feast in real time, the real way to do in the millennial kingdom; we will talk about that in just a little while, but notice it says not already come.
So some people will take this verse and they will read it saying, I don't have to keep the holy days because it says no man should judge me. You have got to judge it from Hebraic perspective, you have got to read the verse from Hebraic perspective because again it says, let no man judge you in meat or drink. What does the bible consider meat? the bible does not consider pork meat; the bible considers pork an animal, as scavenger, a garbage disposal system. Never does the bible say pork is meat. So, no man should judge you in your clean eating it actually says. It is whole another perspective, isn't it? No man should judge you in how you drink; does the bible say you cannot drink or you do drink? it is very clear, it says do not be drunk with wine but be filled with Ruach Hakodesh. Does it tell us we cannot drink? no. Again here, it is how you read it from a Hebraic perspective, so hopefully that is helping us a little bit. What is greater? what is the shadow of things to come? We are living the shadows so to better to understand what is coming, I want to review for a few minutes all the feasts days, real quickly we are going to run through the festivals of Yahweh.
In Leviticus 23 and it starts in verse 5, it says, on the fourteenth day of the first month between the evening is Yahweh's Passover or Pesach. Passover, which is in Aviv in the first biblical month, reminds us of when Yahweh brought the Israelites out of Egypt, right and so as He brought them out of Egypt and we celebrate that for passover seder, we also look ahead to what Yahshua did because the feast days give us a better understanding and teach us about Yahshua's life, His coming, His purpose and His return and what is going to happen after He returns. So when we celebrate Passover and we understand passover, we have a greater understanding of Yahshua's advent or His first coming. Yahshua came to be the Passover Lamb. As it tell us in First Corinthians 5:7-8 - 7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Messiah our Passover is sacrificed for us: 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Sometimes we hear that verse concerning communion, but it clearly is talking about the Feast of Passover. When we keep the Feast of Passover, we see Yahshua as the Lamb and it talks about this in Revelation 5:12, it says, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. Worthy is the Lamb, praise Yahweh. He is worthy. Yahshua is the Lamb of Yahweh who took away the sins of the world. So when we keep Passover, we are reminded of that. Remember the blood on door post and a death angel passes over. When we apply His blood to the door post of our life, the death angel has no power, Amen, praise Yahweh.
We see also in Leviticus 23, it talks about the Festival of Hag Hamatzah which is the seven days of eating matzah or unleavened bread. This is the picture to us of Yahshua's sinless life and during this time after Yahshua died, he was in the grave, He was unleavened right, he did not have any sin and this is the picture of that.
Then, we see first fruits coming up and it talks about this and with the Festival of First Fruits this points to Mashiach or Messiah's rising from the dead. It is our promise of resurrection. It tells us in First Corinthians 15:20, that Yahshua is the first fruits of the dead. So by accepting his Passover blood, his sinless sacrifice, we are promised resurrection; we are promised eternal life, Amen. So, that is a reminder of us for that.
And then, Leviticus 23 talks to us about Shavuot. Now, Shavuot is Hebrew for in gathering or actually what we would say Pentecost. We all know bunch of Pentecostals, most of which do not keep the festival of Pentecost unfortunately. Fifty days after Passover is the Feast of Shavuot or Pentecost. We see the first Shavuot in Exodus 19 when the Torah was given. Exodus 19:16, it says, 16 it came to pass on the third day in the morning, there were thunders and lightnings, and thick clouds and the voice of the shofar exceeding loud; when the people in the camp and trembled. And Moshe brought out and they received the Torah or the law at that time. So we see this was the first Shavuot, fifty days after Passover. What did Yahshua, he said go and tarry, where? in Yerushalayim. He did not tell them go to Rome and go to the Catholic Church. He told them to go to Yerushalayim and in Acts 2 it very clearly says, Acts 2:1 - 1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the house where they were sitting. 3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Ruach Hakodesh/Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. 5 And there were dwelling at Yerushalayim/Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. Does it say that they were in the upper room? did I read the words upper room? Now, we have been thought and we have read before that 120 were gathered in the upper room when the Holy Spirit fell. Acts chapter 1, they were in the upper room; Acts chapter 1 at the very beginning they are with Yahshua on a mount, then it says they are going to the upper room and Acts chapter 2 it says there are in Jerusalem and it says at the house. In Hebraic thought, the house or the bayit is always in reference to the temple, the place of worship, blows your mind because we have always been thought there are in the upper room but nowhere does it say, because how could you get 120 people in a small upper room where about an eleven were. Read it, study for yourself. You know, sometimes we think the things are so chronological but we all know, you read Revelation, it is not chronological. You know, it starts it Genesis, so we think it is beginning and the end it ends in Revelation, everything in between is a little bit mixed up but nowhere does it say they were in the upper room when the Ruach fell. All it says is that they were gathered together in one place, in Jerusalem, in the house. Guess what? it is a commandment to go to Jerusalem, to the place of worship during the Festival of Shavuot, fifty days after passover. So here, the Holy Spirit fell and guess what also happened, it says they stepped out and they preached and 3000 people were born again. They were 3000 people, that is a big upper room, right. There they preached, 3000 people were born again. Go back and read Exodus, how many people were killed when they were worshiping the golden calf during the first Shavuot, 3000 people, what a correlation there, what a neat picture.
So, we see that with Passover Yahshua is the Lamb; we see He is the unleavened bread and does not have any leaven or sin in Him; we see that He was placed in the tomb and he resurrected and first fruits is the picture of his resurrection; we see that He said go and tarry, 50 days later and they go and the Ruah Hakodesh fills them as they were together and we see all these happening in Yahshua's advent. These are spiring feasts that point to Yahshua's first coming but then what happens, there is a long period of time from the spiring feasts days to the fall feasts days, several months, many moons pass between Passover and Sukkot, it is actually six months between that time so that is prophetic for us, we will take a look at that.
There is this long time of waiting which is why 30 days before the Festival of Trumpets begins, the Jews begin sounding shofar reminding them, gotta get ready, Yom Teruah is coming or what they call Rosh Hashanah is coming. They get ready and go and do mikvah, they have baptism and they prepare themselves for the coming feast day. Now, as we look back to the spring feast days, we can see with clarity this is what Yahshua did; He died, He resurrected, He was sinless. We look ahead to the fall feast days with couple of ideas with timelines and charts, I mean we have all seen them right. You know every TV Evangelist has their own chart of what is going to happen in the end times; I submit to you today no charts, couple of pictures and couple scripture verses.
So, it is clear from Yahshua's prophesies and foretelling that His return will company signs that point us to a future when I believe Yom Teruah that Yahshua is going to return on a future feast of trumpets. No man knows the day nor the hour, right? but we can know the seasons haven't Yahshua said that; He said, look you should know the seasons; didn't we say that Yom Teruah is not one day but how many? Two so no man knows the day nor the hour but it is one long day. We look at the seasons, we get an idea, we get a picture. Let us look at a couple of verses here. Now, we have got to see this, this is important, Yahshua is about to ascend into the heavens and they can ask Him anything in the world, they can ask Him who is going to win the super bowl? what is the lucky lotto numbers? they can ask Him anything. They want to know what is most important. I mean think about it, if you are going to a dead person who you are never going to see again and you are around their death bed, they are going to give you some words of wisdom to carry your whole life. Let us see what happens here in Acts chapter 1.
Maaseh Shlichim or Acts 1:6-11, it says, 6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Master, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? (they knew that the restoration of Israel was most important in Yahshua's mind, that is powerful, they knew that that was coming), 7 And Yahshua said to them, it is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in His own power. 8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Ruach HaKodesh is come upon you: and you shall be My witnesses unto me both in Yerushalayim, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and to the uttermost part of the earth. 9 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. 10 And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men (how many men? how many witnesses? two, halleluYah!) stood by them in white apparel; 11 Which also said, you men of Galilee, why do you stand here gazing up into shamayim/the heaven? this same Yahshua, which is taken up from you into shamayim/heaven, shall come in like manner as you have seen him go up. Two witnesses proclaiming the return of Yahshua in the same manner, pretty interesting. We are going to top much of verses together.
In First Corinthians 15:51-53, it says, 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery; We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, 52 In a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last shofar sounding: for the shofar will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must put on imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. Now, we hear that a lot at funerals, when is it going to occur? what is going to bring about his return? the sounding of the shofar.
In First Thessalonians 4:14-18, it says, 14 we believe that Yahshua died and rose again, and so we believe that Elohim Yahweh will bring with Yahshua those have died in him, 15 according to Yahweh's own word, we tell you that we who are still alive who are let till the coming of Yahweh will certainly not prevent those who have fallen asleep. 16 For Yahweh himself will come down from heavens with the loud teruah/with the loud shout, the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call/the shofar call of Elohim; the dead in Messiah Christ will rise first: 17 and after that we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet Yahweh in the air: and so we will with Yahweh forever. 18 therefore (beat everybody down with these words? no that is not what it says) encourage one another with these words. Notice here the picture, the sounding of a shofar, the dead in Mashiach will rise first, those who remain will be changed.
We see in Luke/Luka 21:27-28, it says, 27 And at that they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power, with great glory. 28 And when these things begin to take place, stand and lift up you head because redemption is drawing nigh. He is speaking to believers and he says redemption draweth nigh; when you see these things occur prepare your heart.
Matthew 24:29-31 -29 Immediately after the great tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, the moon shall not give her light, the stars shall fall from heaven, the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: 30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And He shall send his angels with a great sound of a shofar, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds/the four corners, from one end of heaven to the other. So again, we see the shofar being sounded, we see the world realizing they are in trouble, we see some signs in the heavens. All of this happens at one time and then the elect are being gathered. We see it actually says that stars shall fall from the heavens, that is important; the moon shall not give her light, remember that.
Revelation 6 talks about this also in verses 12-17, verse 15, it says, and the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men and the chief captains, and the mighty men and every bondman, and every free man hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains (they known what is coming, they go to hide) and said to the mountains and rocks, fall on us please, hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, from the wrath of the lamb for this great day of his wrath has come; who shall be able to stand? So, notice, with Yahshua's coming is a sound of a shofar and wrath, you see that; stars are falling out of the heavens.
In Revelation 11:15, 16, 18,19, it says, 15 the seventh angel sounded a shofar, greater voices in heaven sounded. The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Master and Mashiach, 16 and four and twenty elders sat before Yahweh on their seats fell upon their faces in worship saying, we give thanks to thee O Yahweh almighty which art, which was and who art to come because you have taken to the thy great power and has reigned. 18 and the nations were angry and thy wrath has come and the time of dead, that they should be judged and thou shouldest give the reward unto thy servants and the prophets; 19 and the temple of Yahweh was opened in heaven and there was seen in his temple the ark of the testament' lightnings and voices and thunders and earthquake, and great hail.
"It is a lot going on; I am going to tie all these together."
Now, a point great contention and of great debate in the church today and Christianity today is the return of Yahshua and the rapture of the church. There is the pretrip; left behind folks making millions of dollars with their books, there is the posttrip; you better get ready because you are going to have to walk through it, there is the midtrip, there is the preterist view, there is the pretrip preterist view and there is a you name it, there is name for it type of understanding of when Yahshua is coming back and when the rapture is going to occur. However, most of these groups teach that the meeting in the sky is one of it and while the return of Yahshua to fight the battle of Armageddon is a second event, that is what most pre-tribulation TV evangelist, eschatology teachers teach. My understanding is that Yom Teruah or the Feast of Trumpets is prophetic of both His second coming and the Yom Yahweh, the Day of Yahweh and that His second coming and the catching away of the saints are not two separate events but one and I want to show this in the scriptures.
Now, people say would you believe in the rapture, yes. We will see the Hebrew word for rapture, natzal, it is Hebrew for the catching away of the saints. However, I believe in a lot of different time than what we read from our pretrip, fiction novels or what we see on the TV. It is great, I say pray for the pretrip and plan for posttrip and we will look at that and I will show you actually I believe in scriptures where it makes it very clear, very clear.
Today though are times of refreshing. Remember when talked about Yahshua is said, when Yahshua is returning encourage one another with these words, these are times of the regathering, these are great times to be alive, Amen. I mean these are awesome times, the prophetic time clock is ticking second by second, closer and closer until we hear the alarm and we are not going to be able to get the snooze button anymore because He is coming, praise Yahweh. Remember we said that there was a long space, a lot of time between Shavuot or the Festival of Pentecost and Trumpets and we said there was a long time, many months pass, the summers months, times of drought sometimes that is prophetic of today, that is the long space of Shavuot when the holy spirit, the Ruach Hakodesh was given and when Yahshua returns with the Feast of Trumpets, that is the time we are living in. However, I believe we are in the beginning of the end that just as the trumpets preceded 30 days of repentance, today people hearts are turning to Yahweh greater than ever before. Yes, wickedness is just increasing; we see it in the schools; we see it in the newspaper; however, we are also seeing a greater return to the true worship of Yahweh; people keeping Torah; people calling upon the name of Yahweh; we see people's hearts being opened to the Hebraic roots of the faith; we see more people being born again now than every before in the history of man; we see the internet giving us an ability to teach people all over the world as thisministry does, just as people are hearing the gospel now for the first time, missionary are able to go out and proclaim it. We are living in that time and it really is getting faster and we are approaching that time even greater now with what happened in 1948, everybody know what happened in 1948; when Israel became a nation, that should be a key, that should be a clue to all of our brothers and sisters that hey! something is going on here; Yahweh has not forsaken the Jews, Amen and in 1967 when Jerusalem was captured and reclaimed as the capital. These events have propelled us towards and into the beginning of the end and today we see the terror of Islam being poured out on Israel and all of the world, all of the world. We are seeing the sides began to mount and people are either bowing down to Islam and cowarding to its existence. Speaking to someone this week, she is from Amsterdam and she was telling me how the Islamic people, how she is so glad to be living in America now because her church was overtaken by the Muslims. They came in and because they voted, like for pastors and things like that, they were able to actually vote the pastor out and put in an eman. I had a conversation with her this week, unbelievable and she said her church does not even stand anymore, they turned the building into a mosque and we are seeing that occur; there is an audio teaching on our website, www.emetministries.com called "End Times Israel and you" and it makes it very clear that we are seeing the sides began to mount and the terror is increasing, Yahweh is using Islam as a force, where I believe, from which the anti messiah will come out of, terror is increasing, battles are beginning, the Islamic fanatics are spreading danger, the anti messiah; who knows could be amongst us, I do not know, but we see these things are occurring that is where we are at today. It is very important that we understand the times. Now, I want to notice that as the times increase and as the times get closure some of the signs that are going to company this. So turn with me to Matthew 24:12-31- 12 and because lawlessness or Torahlessness abounds, the love of many shall grow cold (that is what happening today, people do not keep Torah and their love is growing cold), 13 but he that shall endure to the end the same shall be saved (it is telling us to get endure, right and not get onto rapture bus) 14 and the gospel of the kingdom shall be proclaimed in all of the world for a witness to all the nations then shall the end come. 15 When therefore shall you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel hanavi, Daniel the prophet in beit hamikdash or the temple; 16 then let those who are in Judah flee into the mountains, 17 let him who is on the house top not come down to take anything out of the house, 18 neither let him who is in the field return back to take his clothes. 19 Woe to them that are with child, to them that are nursing children in those days, 20 make prayer your flight is not in the winter neither on the sabbath day. 21 For then (when? then) shall be great tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time nor shall ever be 22 and except those days were shortened no flesh would survive. Now notice in verse 15 it says therefore you shall the abomination of desolation standing in the temple, then it tells us this is the catalyst of really the end time events beginning to really start to take place. Notice it says that we shall see it. If we are already in heaven, if the pretrip rapture is true, how can we can see it? does not that make sense. It says we shall see it, it tells us here that we shall endure until the end and going to verse 29, makes it even more clear, 29 immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, the moon shall not give its light and stars shall fall from the heavens. Didn't we just read that on Yom Teruah that the stars are going to falls from the heavens? here it says that is going to occur after the tribulation, you follow me here. So Yahshua cannot come before the tribulation if this is going to happen after the tribulation and notice here it says immediately after the tribulation the sun shall be dark, the moon shall not give its light. 30 and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in the heavens and then shall all the tribes of the land mourn, they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of the shamayim with great power and glory. 31 And He shall send his heavenly messengers with a great sound of the shofar, they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from the one end of the heavens to the other. So, when is the so called rapture; the natzal; the catching away, after the tribulation it says very clearly because it says the stars are going to fall; it says that the moon is going to go away; it says the sun is going to be darkened; the tribes, the people going to see whom they have pierced and the shall mourn and then the trumpet will sound and the elect will be gathered. It is right there, we are reading it right out of scriptures, it is very clear to us. Notice that the saved see the abomination, they flee to the mountains, it says they make prayer to Yahweh. Are bunch of unbeliever going to make prayer to Yahweh? No. It says when you see this go out and look for the returning of Yahshua. How can we do all this if we are already in heaven. To me, it is clear that the Day of Trumpets is the culmination of the end time events. Let me make this clear; in verse 29 it says immediately after the tribulation, so Yahshua is returning after tribulation, it is pretty much already taken place, with a sound of shofar with the natzal, the catching away of the saints to fight with Him. Now in Revelation 11 it tells us about two witnesses, who are there and who preach that the end is coming. We are familiar with the two witnesses of Revelation, right? Notice that it is two witnesses and what are they are saying? they are saying the end is coming, right? they are saying prepare themselves. What did they say, the new moon is coming. The two witnesses, just like Torah says you have got to see a new moon, are standing in the temple proclaiming the Rauch Kodesh or the Festival of Trumpets is coming, you better get ready; that is powerful because we are going, we may see that in our days and maybe our children or our grandchildren or great grandchildren but we may see the two witnesses standing there proclaiming and we are going to know to be ready. Yom Teruah or the Feasts of Trumpet is what I believe the beginning of end you could say. When tribulation is already begun and the wrath of Yahweh will be unleashed.
Let me go through a couple verses real quickly.
In Revelation 11:3 it says, 3 and I will give power unto my witnesses, they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. We know what happens to them, we are familiar with that.
Well, in Amos 5:18-20 - 18 it tells us woe unto you that desire the day of Yahweh! to what end is it for you? the day of Yahweh is darkness not light. 19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and serpent bit him. 20 Shall not the day of Yahweh be darkness and not light? even very dark and no brightness in it.
Zephaniah 1:14-16 - 14 the great day of Yahweh is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voices of the day of Yahweh: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. 15 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. 16 A day of the trumpet/the shofar and alarm against the fenced walls, and against the high towers. That when Yahshua returns it is going to be the culmination of the wrath or the judgements being poured out and that will assure in the Day of Yahweh.
It tell us in Isaiah 13:9-12 - 9 behold, the day of Yahweh comes, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. 10 For the stars of the heaven and the constellations shall not give light: the sun shall be darkened in its going forth, the moon shall not give light (didn't we just read that in Matthew 24). 11 And I will push the world for their evil and the wicked of their inequity; I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will ay low the haughtiness of the terrible. We see in the book of Revelation the seven trumpets or shofar is being sounded each releasing more judgement or wrath upon the world because of following the anti messiah and we see here at the very end of that the Yom Yahweh, the Day of Yahweh coming brining about Yahshua's return when we shall meet Him in the air and we shall fight with Him, that is when the battle of Armageddon occurs. The dead in Mashiach shall rise first, we shall meet him in the air and it says that Yahshua, He will just say the word and the enemies of Yahweh will be vanquished and blood will be as high as the horses range.
It tells us in Revelation in 6:12-15, - 12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became as sackcloth, and the moon became as blood; 13 And the stars of heaven fell out of the heavens, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. 14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places; You ever wonder how every eye will see Him on that day? it wont be seeing in honey, it is going to be that scroll, it is going to be that even sky is going to part, HalleluYah! You know what I am saying. Now, Tim LaHaye says in left behind they are going to see it on TV, I don't think so. It tells us here that the scroll, the sky is going part. 15 Andthe kings of the earth, the great men, they are all going to just fall down and hide themselves;, great day of wrath.
Zechariah 14:1:4, this is really good, 1 Behold, the day of Yahweh comes,(see what happens)2 For I will gather all nations against Yerushalayim/Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city (cant we see that happening?). 3 Then shall Yahweh go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. 4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Yerushalayim on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove towards the north, and half of it towards the south. His return upon the mount of Olives splitting it and yet this is the beginning, you can say this is it, this is when the world will be judged because of their lawlessness, because of following the anti mashiach.
It tells us in Revelation 11:15, - 15And the seventh angel sounded the shofar; and there were great voices in heavens, The kingdoms of this world have become as kingdoms of our Master. Notice that the seventh sounding of the shofar; what month is Yom Teruah in, the seventh month. The seventh sounding of the shofar is going to bring about the kingdoms of this world celebrating and worship Yahweh; it is powerful. So, Yahshua is going to setup his kingdom. There is going to the resurrection of the dead and I believe that when Yahshua comes, he is going to catch away, the natzal, all of the saints at that time, the Day of Yahweh will occur; the battle of Armageddon will occur and at that point Yahshua is going to setup his thousand-year millennial reign. Well, that's two thousand years; thousand-year millennial reign cause how long is a millennial? thousand years. So, he is going to set up his millennial reign before Yahshua comes back though.
We said that these are days of regathering, of restoration and we said that there are 30 days before Yom Teruah, the Feast of Trumpets where there is great repentance. Look at this, Joel 2:12-14 - 12 Therefore also now, says Yahweh, turn unto me with your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning: 13 And rend your heart, and turn unto Yahweh: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, of great kindness, and repent of your evil. We see this happening before we see the trumpet sounding and the Day of Yahweh occurring. The restoration of all things including people turning back; it is powerful.
In Isaiah 27:12 - 12 And it shall come to pass in that day, Yahweh shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, you shall be gathered one by one, you children of Israel. 13 And it shall come to pass in that day that the great shofar shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and they shall worship Yahweh in the holy mount at Yerushalayim. So, when that great shofar comes what is going to happen. The restoration of Israel in its entirety, in its fullness and we are going to come to worship him in Yerushalayim.
Now, sometimes when you read in the scriptures, the Day of Yahweh or Yom Yahweh is referred to as a day of wrath and other times it is referred to as a time of peace, does not that make sense? For us it is a time of peace, it is a time of shalom, but for those who are not following Yahweh it is a time of wrath. Now, if Yom Teruah is next in Yahweh's cycle and it is picture of Yom Yahweh, the Day of Yahweh when he comes and He executes judgement and this is the regathering of the saints of all Israel, what comes next? Let us take a look at it, it says for Yahweh himself shall ascend from heaven with a shout, with a voice of archangel, with the trumpet Yahweh; the dead in Mashiach shall rise first and we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with him in the clouds to meet Him in the air. There is a time between Yom Teruah or the Feast of Trumpets and the next feet day called Yom Kippur, we have said this before, earlier we said there were ten days, right? the ten days of awe. Now, I believe that the ten days of awe are picture to us of the millennial kingdom of Yahshua that when Yahshua returns at Yom Teruah, He is going to, at that point as we read, execute judgement, the battle of Armageddon is going to occur, we are going to meet him in the air, we are going to fight with Him, then we are going to come down and rule and reign with Him. It says at that point, remember we read in Revelation 11, that the kings of the world will proclaim and become kings of Yahweh and I believe that that is going to happen at that time in setting up his millennial kingdom. Let me read this to you in Revelation 20:3 - 3And he shall cast him into the bottomless pit (talking about ha'satan), the adversary will be shut up and set a seal upon him that he should not deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled and after that he must be loosed for a season. Here at this point, the adversary will be bound for thousand years. What is going on during that time? life is going to go on here on earth, those in Yerushalayim who came to fight against us those are the ones who are going to die because it says no man shall stand on the Day of Yahweh. Well, does that mean no man in the world? I don't believe so. I believe it means no man in the area where the full wrath is going to be poured out because otherwise there will be nobody to live during the millennial kingdom. So, during the millennial kingdom; during these thousand years; during, I believe, a ten days of awe what is a picture to us here, this is when Yahshua will rule the world with Torah, with the rod of iron it says and we are going to teach them Torah; we are going to teach the nations the word, isn't that powerful. We have been learning it, we have been celebrating it, we have been doing the reminders and learning Torah, so every time we gather on sabbath is to rehearse a time when we are going to teaching others, that is powerful. It tells us in Isaiah 66 that from one new moon to another, from one sabbath to another, all flesh come to worship me. When is that going to occur? during the millennial kingdom. We are going to be worshiping Him on His days. So if that is the case, if this is the picture of a thousand years when ha'satan is bound, what comes next? After those ten days, comes Yom Kippurim, the Day of Atonement and now this is also told us to be a day of judgement what we call the bima, the great white throne judgement, but I believe in the timeline of end times this will be the day where the books will be opened and the dead will be judged; they will be judged it tells us in Revelation 20 and at Yom Kippur first of all there is shofar sounding saying it is time for Yom Kippur and that is saying, look, the battle is over, so the thousand years is over, ha'satan is loosed for a season and then Yahweh says alright I have had enough and that is when He judges ha'satan finally and that is when He judges the world. It says he shall go out, in revelation 20:8, and deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth. Revelation 20:11 - 11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before Yahweh; and the books (how many books? more than one) were opened: and another book was opened (books - two were open and another book - a third book was opened), which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13 And their sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up their dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And whosoever was not found written in the sefer ha'chaim, the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. This occurs, I believe, on Yom Kippur because as we study about Yom Kippur even the Jews teach that on this day the books are shut and that from the previous ten days you have got a choice whether you are going to live in the righteousness or your going to live in wickedness and what you do in the ten days proceeding Yom Kippur set the pattern for your up coming year. Well, what is done is done for the dead, they do not have any more choices and during that thousand year millennial reign that sets the times for whether we are going to be judged or not and then finally the books are opened and then the books are shut.
So, what comes after Yom Kippur? it says there was great silence in the heavens because was able to open the book and who was worthy, the Lamb, He was able to open and so I believe that the great silence there is a picture of the couple days that in between Yom Kippur and the next holy day because the last fall feast day is the Festival of Tabernacles, Sukkot; its one of my favorites and with Sukkot we see that we are commanded to build a sukkah. Now, what is a sukkah? it is a tabernacle, it is a tent, it is a dwelling. So as we get ready to celebrate Sukkot this year, we will build our own tabernacle and we will one hopefully at our homes and we will spend some time in it and we will worship there. It is amazing picture of what occurs after the return of Yahshua after the thousand years.
Let us read in Revelation 21:1-7 - 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: and the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; there was no more sea. 2 And I Yochanan/John saw the holy city, new Yerushalayim, coming down from Yahweh out of heavens, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And a great voice out of heaven shouting, Behold, the tabernacle of Yahweh is with men, and he will dwell with them, they shall be his people, and Yahweh himself shall be with them, and be their Elohim. 4 And Yahweh shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. 5 And he sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. He said unto me, write, for these words are true and faithful. 6 He said unto me, It is done. I am the Alef and Tav, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water freely. 7 He that overcomes shall inherit all things; I will be his Elohim, and he shall be my son. This is the picture; the new heavens and the new earth are a picture of our dwelling with Yahweh for eternity in His great and glorious sukkah. So when we celebrate Sukkot, it is like we are preparing for that time; that's powerful. Not just up in heaven getting wings and floating around like we see on the white clouds commercial for toilet paper, not little babies up their but dwelling with Him forever. Even take a look at Revelation 21:16, it says, 16 And the city lies foursquare, and its length as large as the breadth. It is foursquare and it is long foursquare, its length and breadth and the height are equal, it is a perfect cube. What is the shape of a sukkah? a cube, a square. So we are commanded in Leviticus 23 to build Sukkot, to build out sukkahs, to give us an idea of that coming great and glorious new Yerushalayim. You ever wondered why it was square, a cube, this is it, this is giving us that picture. Isaiah 66:22 - 22 as for the new heavens and the new earth, which I shall make, shall remain before me, saith Yahweh, so shall your seed and your name remain. 23 And it shall come to pass, from one new moon to another, from one sabbath to another, all flesh will come and worship before me. That is what is coming; halleluYah! Yahweh's plan is outlined. His eternal holy days we are going to be keeping in the millennial kingdom, there are picture of what is happening and Yom Teruah is a picture of his return. So, we are to celebrate and to prepare for his soon coming.
So, here is a question for you, get all this knowledge now, you got eschatology in less than an hour, you got enough to go back chew on right, how now shall we live? Firstly, tribulation is coming - so I encourage you to prepare, even if it is your grandchildren, be ready. My kids go to school, they got a letter this year saying prepare your home for a flu influenza outbreak. We got a letter in the first day of school telling us we need to store up food for 12 weeks at our home because an influenza outbreak may occur this year. Am I ready for the great tribulation? I got enough to last until the next pay period, you know what I am saying? and the government is telling me to prepare, how much more should we prepare and be ready? so that is important. The terror is increasing, be ready. Prepare our hearts even greater, it tell us in Mark 13:33 to be watchful because you do not know when that time is, we can have some ideas when we see the abomination of desolation. So, be watchful, keep watching for a thief in the night. We need to be like Ezra and Nehemiah. This is awesome because it tells us in Nehemiah 8 that this is first time that Ezra and Nehemiah, they have returned from exile, this is the first time they are back in Jerusalem and they are preparing to read the Torah out loud to the congregation and guess what? it happens to be on the Feast of Trumpets, on Yom Teruah. Turn to Nechemyahu/Nehemiah 8, it is a revolving book you never know where it is. It is like my gas tank, it is revolving gas tank; I drive up the gas station and one side is always on the other and Nehemiah is like that.
Nechemyahu/Nehemiah 8:1-3, 912 - 1 And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring out the book of the Torah of Moshe, which Yahweh had commanded. 2 And Ezra the priest brought the Torah before the congregation both of men and women, all that could hear with understanding, (what day was it?) upon the first day of the seventh month (what day? Yom Teruah, the reading of Torah after exile). 3 And he read therein before the street before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the Torah. 9 And Nehemiah and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto them, This day is kadosh unto Yahweh (set apart, holy unto Yahweh your Elohim); mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the Torah. 10 Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto Yahweh: neither be sorry; for the joy of Yahweh is your strength. 11 So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day of Yahweh is holy; neither be grieved. 12 And all the people went their way to drink and eat, to send portions, to make great merry because they understood the words declared unto them. We are just like those because when we hear Torah for the first time we want to weep because we understand that we have been away for so long, we want to weep, but what does Nechemyahu say/Nehemiah says don't weep, celebrate, rejoice, keep the feast, eat a lot of food because the joy of Yahweh is your strength. The return of Yahweh, the Yom Yahweh it is a terrible day for the unbelievers, but for us it is joy of Yahweh. We love to quote that verse, the joy of Yahweh is our strength brother, read in context. When you keep the festival of Yom Teruah, the joy of Yahweh is your strength!
When we keep the feast that Yahweh declares us to do and when we hear the Torah that is when his joy is our strength. It empowers us to face our problems. It empowers us to face the end times. Whether it is just a bad day, rebellious teenagers or the tribulation that lays in hand, the joy Yahweh is our strength and we are to celebrate Yom Teruah and His set apart days with simcha and rejoicing looking forward to his soon return. Amen.
Father, we bless you, we thank you, we praise you, you are good and we just thank you right now father for Yahshua's soon return. Father, we pray that we would prepare our hearts, we would be watchful, we would be joyful and Father we would serve you in gladness of heart and with joy. Father, we thank you for opening our eyes to your Torah, we thank you for showing us your plan for man and that Yahshua's return is soon that the sides are being drawn, the beast of revelation is coming against Israel on all the front, Israel is scattered all throughout to the world is having to fight this terror and yet you have promised us that if we remain that we should eat from the tree of life. You have told us that he who overcomes in the book of Revelation would be given these crowns and would be able to be a pillar of Yahweh in the house of Yahweh. Father, we pray that would give us the strength overcome and no matter what we face, no matter what troubles we face, what trials we face that we would hold on to your joy and we would read you Torah and not weep, we would read it and not weep because oh! these are laws I cannot do or weep because oh! this is stuff that I have never known before, but we would celebrate and rejoice that Yahshua, you have set us free, you have given us the law of liberty, your word says if Yahshua set your free then you are free indeed to stand firm then in the perfect law of liberty that is what you have given us, to celebrate it, to rejoice it, to have joy. Father, we thank you. May we rejoice this coming Yom Teruah like never before, may we dance before you, may we shout and may we proclaim the Day of Yahweh is at hand. We give you praise. Baruch Ha'Shem Yahweh BaShem Yahshua Our Messiah.
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