NEW YEAR 5777 & TRUMPETS

I have written severally about the FEAST OF TRUMPETS (CHAG ROSH HASHANAH in the Hebrew) in:
- THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS | https://madukovich.wordpress.com/2015/09/06/the-feast-of-trumpets/, and
- ROSH HASHANAH AND IT'S CONNOTATIONS | https://madukovich.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/rosh-hashanah-and-what-it-connotes/, also in
- THE  APOCALYPTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS | http://madukovich.blogspot.com.ng/search/label/Feast%20of%20Trumpet?m=0, and would like to veer off a little into a related subject that many take for granted, but I feel is worthy of consideration to fully understand the import of this feast, as we celebrate the beginning of the Jewish Year 5777, today the 3rd of October, the celebration of which commenced yesterday evening, to end this evening.


We learned in social studies how back in the day communication worked amongst the ancients without as much as uttering a sound. A neighboring village could tell that the other is under attack when they see plumes of smoke, when people heard the sound of the gong or wooden hollow contraption called the "Ekwe" in Igboland (in southeastern Nigeria) they simply walked to the village square understanding that they are been summoned for an important meeting. To bridge the communication gap between the people and their leaders when Israelites were in the wilderness, on their way from Egypt to THE PROMISED LAND, especially in times of emergency, YAHWEH asked Moses to make "... two trumpets of silver,.... for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps" (Numbers 10:2).

SILVER TRUMPETS MUCH LIKE YAHWEH INSTRUCTED MOSES TO MAKE.

Blowing the trumpets in a certain way, meant the people "....will assemble themselves to (Moses) at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation" (vs.3).
If only one trumpet is blown, only '... the princes, which are heads of thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves into (Moses)' (vs.4).
"The camps that lie on the east part goes forward", when an alarm is blown and if it's blown a second time the southern camp "... shall take their journey"  (vs 5&6). If you continue down the verses, you'll find that trumpets are to be blown during wars, such that the trumpet blown by levites was at some point used as the only weapon of war in bringing down the walls of Jerico, "... in the day of (y)our gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginning of your months," and indeed over just about anything that you may consider an event.

A JEWISH CHILD BLOWS THE SHOFAR

In essence, the trumpet plays an important role in the life of a Jew, as not just a means of communication amongst fellow Jews, but even between YAHWEH and his people, as you'd find in my other treatises before this where I went as far as mentioning the trumpets that will herald the end of days as vividly elucidated in the visions of John in the Book of Revelations. You may find commemorations of the blowing of the SHOFAR (Ram's horn), the metal trumpets, even the plastic Vuvuzela (popular in South Africa) today, in celebrating the feast and the New Year, but beyond all this is the message that's behind the celebration.

A SOUTH AFRICAN BLOWING THE VUVUZELA 

The feast reminds us to be conscious of our time. To understand our path and role in YAHWEH's great design, that predates us and will eclipse us. Like I was telling a friend recently, that though truly the hour nor the day, no one knows, but for the children of YAHWEH, just like Yahshua predicted, they will not be like the hypocrites who "... can discern the face of the sky" (Matthew 16:3) but can't discern the signs of the times. The discerning mind will understand for instance that though "... ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet" (Matthew 24:6), and will be unperturbed by the din of wars regardless of the destructive nature of the arsenals on display to be deployed. Knowing that only when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape" (1 Thessalonians 5:3), but will regardless not be complacent knowing that everyone's end is at death, and thereafter  judgment. It's why Yahshua didn't ask his disciples just to pray, but to WATCH AND PRAY, to have  understanding about events around them, so as to know exactly the direction in which to channel their prayer.


The trumpets are sounding today, more frequently than in our past, to herald epoch making events that will shape our future and many will fail to hear it, nay heed the message they bear, but only those with ears attuned to hear them will pick the messages emanating from them, to know when to "assemble or when to move", like how only TVs connected to decoders can receive coded signals from cable TV stations. It is why, when the last trump shall sound, only a section of the dead will rise at the sound of the trump announcing Yahshua's second coming, to eternal bliss (1 Thessalonians 4:16) while the rest will stay behind. It is the ears that have been tuned to hear this trump that while alive will change and the ".... corruptible must put on  incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality" (1 Corinthians 15:53). See how deep a simple trumpet goes to determine our existence, and understand why celebrating a feast devoted to its importance in our life is imperative if we must live holy and acceptable lives to YAHWEH our Creator and Rewarder. Have a fun-filled Rosh Hashanah!


'kovich


PICTURE CREDIT:
- http://www.biblestudyoutlines.org
- http://www.myinstants.com
- http://www.timesofisrael.com

THE APOCALYPTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES

From last night and for the next one week, Jews worldwide will be celebrating the FEAST OF TABERNACLES | madukovich's cogitations https://madukovich.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/feast-of-tabernacles/, but it might interest you to know what significance this feast has especially as regards YAHWEH's calendar, as I have always stated that this feast is part of.

A perusal of my post mentioned above will impress upon you on the why it behooves on us to continue to observe this feast, if not for anything else but because YAHWEH instructs us to do so as a Statute FOREVER.  As an indication of the "everlastingness" of this feast, the prophet Zachariah foretells of events (during the one thousand year reign of Yahshua, after the FIRST RESURRECTION in which the dead in Yahshua shall rise, while the believers alive will have their CORRUPTIBLE body change for INCORRUPTIBLE -1 Corinthians 15:53-  to rule with Him) of those days in which, "... the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem (in the last war before the end) and lost to become subservient, will go up year after year to worship the King, YAHWEH Almighty, and to celebrate the Festival of TABERNACLES" (Zachariah 14:16) and goes on further to state in verse 17 that "if any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, YAHWEH Almighty, they will have no rain."

This One thousand year reign will be such that while Satan is locked up in the bottomless pit (Revelations 20:2-3), the non-believers who were alive at the time of the Second Coming of Yahshua will have that period on earth to ruminate over how they had lived their lives before His coming and will have a chance to turn a new leaf with admonitions coming off the mouths of saints (the dead in Yahshua who had resurrected and the living whose bodies have changed, both to become immortals at His second coming) from Jerusalem (Yah-Ru-Shalayim in Hebrew, where they will Rule with Yahshua) till the one thousand years "of Grace" is over and Satan is once again released.

Not many of the unbelievers at the time of Yahshua's second coming will be convinced to change their ways and turn to YAHWEH within that of one thousand year period, and these will be allied with Satan at the time of his release, to wage war against Jerusalem (Revelations 20:9) but will be roundly defeated (with his large army) and cast into the LAKE OF FIRE and brimstone. This event will be followed by the SECOND RESURRECTION involving those who had died without the knowledge of YAHWEH or Yahshua or the Good News (Revelations 20:12), these ones will be judged "..according to their WORKS (of good and evil)" only, "And whosoever was not found written in the BOOK OF LIFE was cast into the lake of fire".

After the Devil and Death would've been defeated, a New Heaven and a New Earth will replace the old (Revelations 21:1), and according to John a New Jerusalem will come down out of Heaven, accompanied with a great voice saying, "...Behold, the TABERNACLE of YAHWEH is with men, and HE will dwell with

them, and they shall be his people, and YAHWEH himself shall be with them, and be their MIGHTY ONE" (Revelations 21:3), and so it shall be restored, that relationship YAHWEH once had with Man (Adam) before THE FALL.

This is the main essence of which we celebrate or observe the Feast of Tabernacles for Seven Days (seen by not a few people to signify the SIX THOUSAND YEARS allocated to man and the ONE THOUSAND YEAR reign of Yahshua at his second coming) and the LAST GREAT DAY, after the feast of Tabernacle described as the Eighth Day - "And I appointed the eighth day also, that the eighth day should be the first-created after my work, and that the first seven revolve in the form of the seventh thousand, and that at the beginning of the eighth thousand there should be a time of not counting, endless with neither years nor months nor weeks nor days nor hours" (Secrets of Enoch Chapter 23 verse 1)- even in Leviticus 23:39 (which is also a Sabbath and Holy Convocation) signifying the descent of YAHWEH's Tabernacle to dwell amongst Men. HALLELU-YAH!
 
'kovich

REFERENCE:
- THE WORD OF YAHWEH, © 2000
- THE LOST BOOKS OF THE BIBLE AND THE FORGOTTEN BOOKS OF EDEN, Copyright 1926 by Alpha House, Inc.

PICTURE CREDIT:
- http://www.agapegeek.com

THE APOCALYPTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS

The FEAST OF TRUMPETS (CHAG ROSH HASHANAH in the Hebrew) has come and gone, and I suppose that Jewry worldwide marked it with great pomp, even as the Jewish New Year of 5776 is welcomed. At no time has the spiritual blowing of the trumpet (YOM TERUAH in the Hebrew) become more pertinent than now, especially in accordance with the instructions in Leviticus 23 : 24 that this feast be "...a MEMORIAL of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation", not the mere physical blowing of trumpets without taking into cognizance the connotations.

Yahshua's directive for us to "WATCH and PRAY" (Matthew 26:14) couldn't be more timely, especially when the feast of Trumpets is viewed in the light of it's APOCALYPTIC SIGNIFICANCE, as regards the prophetic writings of John in the Book of Revelations while on the Island of Patmos. I had written about other aspects of the Feast of Trumpets last week in "THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS | madukovich's cogitations https://madukovich.wordpress.com/2015/09/06/the-feast-of-trumpets/", in case you will like to furnish yourself about the origins of the feast, as prelude to this missive. In that, as with the one I had written years ago about the feast, I had made mention of the use of the trumpet as an object of alarm, to alert the children of YAHWEH to events of the time.

As it was in the past, so we are told it shall be in time to come, only that there is high likelihood that the trumpets sound of the time to come will be inaudible not only to the ears, but even to the hearts and mind not attuned to it. John speaks about seven angels been handed seven trumpets in his vision in Revelations Chapter 8, this after the seventh seal (meant to herald events for the end time, in Chapter 7) was opened. The sounding of each trumpet signaling events of an apocalyptic nature, like

that about the wiping out of a third of trees and plants, of animals, of aquatic life, even of humanity following events such as meteors (described by John as a great mountain burning with fire - Revelations 8:8) cast into the sea (of which a third of it became blood) even disrupting international trade via the seas, or of a star falling upon the third part of rivers and fountains of waters (or better still, "potable water source") leaving the water "bitter", more appropriately "poisonous", such that those who drank of it died; or the smiting of the sun and moon such that a third of them became darkened, leading to longer nights and less than eight hours of day.

John spoke yet of another star falling onto the earth and rather than creating a "crater" (the likes of which we are familiar with, and relate to events that occurred on earth millenia ago), he described as having "the key to the bottomless pit" (Revelations 9:1), in that it bore a hole into the earth so deep that it appeared like it made an endless pit out of which proceeded smoke as with what we experienced in 2010 when the Eyjafjallajokull volcano erupted in Iceland and disrupted air travel for days on end, only that in this case beyond the smoke a creature like a scorpion came out of the smoke and tormented men (except those who have YAHWEH's seal on their foreheads - Revelations 9:4) for five months without killing them, of which men sought death but death fled from them (Revelations 9:6).

The description of the terror continues even unto Chapter 10 of Revelations, with John foretelling that all of this calamity will not change the mind of the people towards their creator, as like now they will find a natural cause, even science to describe all that is happening, but YAHWEH's people will know, as though the events might be similar to the natural events we are familiar with today, the scale of destruction will be monumental in scope, such as has never been neither will be. Interestingly, Christendom conjured "RAPTURE" out of the blues (of which there is no single mention of anything of the sort anywhere in the scriptures) to "make" Christians disappear and be sequestered somewhere in the skies till these things pass.

As for the believability of what may appear to many as ridiculous and "COCK & BULL", my take is this- Daniel's prophecies where thought of in much the same way, but only a few verses of his visions are yet to come to pass, while the much of it has come to pass over time, as we continue to live in the time he described in his prophecies (a topic for another day). Such was the accuracy of Daniels' prophecies that even the minutiae of the details he mentioned especially as regards the empires that will rule this world have all come to pass, amongst other prophecies, even when I doubt he (like John)understood many of the things he saw and wrote. What we should now do, after the feast is not to be tired of getting ourselves prepared by reading between the lines of world events and how the words of scripture we have heard fit in, so we won't be caught unawares by happenings that will suggest that a trumpet has just sounded, and to know how to appropriately respond. Shalom!

'kovich

REFERENCE:
- "THE WORD OF YAHWEH" Copyright 2000

PICTURE CREDIT:
- http://www.thetruthandthetruthalone.blogspot.com