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S. Michael Houdmann
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The Feast of Trumpets marked the beginning of ten days of consecration and repentance before God. It is one of seven Jewish feasts or festivals appointed by the LORD and one of three feasts that oc...
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Guy Gifford
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Yom Teruah : Feast of Trumpets Primarily found in Leviticus 23:23-25 and Numbers 29:1-6. The word “yom” means “day” and about 70% of the ancient Hebrew meanings of the words “teruah” means “blasts” or “blaring” of trumpets, with the remainder meaning “blaring” of shouting. So Yom Teruah is the “Day of Blasting” loosely translated to “The Feast of Trumpets”. During Israel’s Babylonian captivity and exile, Israel adopted the Babylonian holiday name “Rosh HaShanah” meaning “Head of Year”, the Babylonian New Year and teachings to synchronize with their Babylonian captor’s culture, who have their New Year at this same time. This name change and changing the new year is just one of a great many examples of Israel’s priests and teachers changing God’s rules, of which Jesus condemned, and He said they did this alot (Mark 7:1-13). 1) 1st day of 7th month; Sunday; Dark of the New Moon (New Moon); 2) Celebrated with “Blaring” trumpet blasts and “Blaring” yelling; 3) No Laborious Work. Enjoy God’s gift of rest—and remember the ultimate rest we have in our Savior, Yeshua (Matthew 11:28); 4) Food Offering: BBQ Beef, Lamb, Goat; Bread, Wine; plus regular New Moon sacrifices; priests did very few sacrifices. 5) Fore-telling / Pre-symbolic of the second coming of the Messiah, Revelations 4-11 which scholars believe depicts Jesus redeeming creation by opening the deed of ownership with great cataclysmic judgments on the nations “in rebellion against God” (Jeremiah 25, Zephaniah 3). No wonder that this is biblically only a one day event with no Old Testament explanation or likeness in its symbolism; Jesus described in Mt 24:21 as “tribulation such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will”; feast oddly happens at the new moon or dark of the moon symbolizing Jesus teaching in Mt 24:29 of “the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light”. 6) Beyond the biblical requirement of blowing horns, there is no biblical requirement restricting the types of horns to ram’s horns. Thus any horn is acceptable to God, from the popular kudu horn to metal and plastic horns. Let us not get condemned for legalism about this, i.e. no “rule upon rule”; 7) Generally occurs about September 29, about one month before the very end of Israel’s growing season, but after the grain threshing and grape pressing, but well before the end of olive harvest. 8) Feast of Trumpets / Yom Teruah is biblically not related to the other feasts in any way except calendar proximity, and is the fifth of the seven annual festivals, with Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) and Feast of Tabernacles (Booths) coming ten and fifteen days later. [Some people merge the Feast of Passover with The Feast of Unleavened Bread, but they are as different as Jesus Death and Jesus Resurrection, which they in fact fore-tell.] It stands alone by itself, and the Jewish change of linking it mentally to Yom Kippur, although a sin, is logical, since in the Old Testament, God gave no meaning of any kind to attach to the feast, so human nature is to attach it to something. Not until the New Testament book of Revelation do we finally get the linkage to start attaching its meaning, with the many other New Testament and Old Testament passages which refer to it. 9) Neither the Leviticus passage, nor the Numbers passages include the word “trumpet”, but rather only the word “blaring”, with a presumption of “trumpet”, so no make, style, or type of trumpet is even hinted at. The Hebrew word used in the passages is “thruoe” or “Teruah”. 10) The Yom Teruah custom to eat apple slices dipped w honey is nonsensical as its meaning clashes.
Jeffrey Johnson
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Numbers 10:10: And in your day of rejoicing and in your appointed seasons and in the beginnings of your months, then shall ye blow with the trumpets over your ascending-sacrifices, and over your peace-offerings,—so shall they be unto you for a memorial before your God. I—Yahweh, am your God. --Rotherham Bible The Feast of Trumpets marked the beginning of ten days of consecration and repentance before God. It is one of seven Jewish feasts or festivals appointed by the LORD and one of three feasts that occur in the autumn. The Feast of Trumpets began on the first day (at the new moon) of the seventh month. Its name comes from the command to blow trumpets. (Leviticus 23:24; Numbers 29:1-6) According to rabbinic sources, after the exile, the participants in the festival customarily went up to Jerusalem the day previous to its commencement and there prepared everything necessary for its observance. In the evening, the blasts of the trumpets announced the approach of the festival day. (Nu 10:10) The altar of burnt sacrifice was cleansed, and the gates of the temple were opened immediately after midnight for the priests and so that the people who brought the sacrifices for burnt offerings and for thanksgiving offerings to the court could have them examined by the priests. Alfred Edersheim comments: "Before the morning sacrifice, all burnt and peace-offerings which the people proposed to bring at the feast had to be examined by the officiating priesthood. Great as their number was, it must have been a busy time, till the announcement that the morning glow extended to Hebron put an end to all such preparations, by giving the signal for the regular morning sacrifice."—The Temple, 1874, p. 228. Conclusion: God's command to Israel was that, at each new moon — the beginning of the lunar months of the Jewish calendar — trumpets were to be blown over their burnt offerings and communion sacrifices. (Nu 10:10) Special sacrifices were to be offered on these days besides the continual daily sacrifice. The new-moon offering was to consist of a burnt offering of two bulls, one ram, and seven year-old male lambs, with corresponding grain and wine offerings, as well as one kid of the goats for a sin offering.—Nu 28:11-15. The Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruah) is a festival which revolves around hearing the blast of the shofar, connecting with God and repentance. This day is also commonly called Rosh HaShanah (Head of the Year). Of all the feasts, Yom Teruah is the most concealed and shrouded in mystery. FESTIVAL OF TRUMPET BLAST This festival occurred on the first day (or the new moon) of the seventh month, Ethanim (Tishri). It was the beginning of the secular year for the Jews. It stood apart from the Festival of the New Moon in the other 11 months as being more critical. The command states additionally concerning the Festival of Trumpet Blast that it should be set aside as a day of holy convention, on which no sort of laborious work was to be done.
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