yom teruah - yesterday, today, tomorrow

The Finding Emet radio program is focused on understanding and living the truth of the Bible from a Hebrew perspective. It is hosted by Brother Daniel Rindelman of Emet Ministries. The program discusses the Feast of Trumpets, also known as Yom Teruah, which is a significant feast day in the Hebrew calendar. The feast has implications and meaning in the past, present, and future. Yahweh's plan for mankind is revealed through these feasts, and it is important to understand them to better understand Yahweh. The Feast of Trumpets is a day of shouting sounds and is celebrated with the blowing of the shofar. It is a time for worship, remembrance, and gathering. The blowing of the shofar is also a reminder of warfare and coming judgment. The festival is not widely celebrated in Christianity, but it has deep connections to the New Testament and offers valuable lessons. Hello and welcome to the Finding Emet radio program. Emet is the Hebrew word for truth. 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Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, because we're 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. Now, Yom Teruah is Hebrew, is the Hebrew words for festival or the Feast of Trumpets, but more accurately it is the day, Yom, is for day, of shouting sounds. Teruah basically means a shrill cry. It means a high-pitched, shrill cry, like we've heard Indians. That's really what a Teruah is. It's a high-pitched, shrill cry, and we see that this is one of the feast days of Yahweh, found in the Scriptures, that have been kept by our Jewish brothers for thousands of years. And if you turn with me to Leviticus 23, we're going to see these feast days and begin to understand them. It has significance for our lives today, as we live, to what our ancestors experienced in the past, and for future generations. It has prophecy that we're going to see unveiled for us. So, the more we understand, and the better we understand the feast days, the better we can know and understand Yahweh, because this is Yahweh's timetable. This is Yahweh's plan for mankind. So, if you turn to Vayikra, or Leviticus 23, it says, "...and Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying," this is verse 1, "...speak unto the children of Israel, say to them, concerning the feast of Yahweh, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts." These are not Jewish feasts. These are not pagan feasts. These are the feasts of who? Of Yahweh. And he says here, "...these are my feasts you shall keep." So, Yahweh is back there waiting on us to keep the feasts of Leviticus 23. And it begins telling us, first of all, is the Shabbat day, and then it goes on with the rest of the festivals. And we'll discuss those a little bit today as we go about, because this message today is going to help the new beginners. If you've only been studying Torah for a couple weeks, you've only been around this for a couple days, and it's going to help us who've been around the festivals for several years now, because there's always something more to learn and to understand. To Yahweh, time is not a time line, but it's in a circular pattern, but it repeats itself over and over and over again. So, we're going to learn about the Yom Teruah, the Festival of Trumpets, so we can keep it a little better. Amen? Amen. A few years ago, true story, we were getting ready for the Festival of Trumpets, and my son Judah, he was just all excited, just as Judah gets. All excited, getting ready to go to worship, loves to go and worship, and he looked up at me, and he was getting dressed in really nice clothes. He didn't understand why he was wearing really nice clothes this time, and he said, Daddy, why again are we going to worship today? It's not Shabbat, and I said, well, Judah, we're getting ready for the Feast of Trumpets, so I'm excited, we got our shofars. He looked up at me, he looked up at me with confusion, he said, Daddy, we're going to have a feast and eat trumpets? I laughed a little bit, and I tried to explain to him, no, we're not going to eat the trumpets, we're going to blow the trumpets, but we are going to eat, we're going to have a feast, and I explained to him that, I said, you'll learn more when we get there. You know, sometimes learning, especially in Hebraic thought, is experiential. You've got to experience it before you understand it. You've got to do it before you comprehend it and learn it. It's got to be experienced, and so I kind of said that to him, and he's learning and really enjoyed blowing the shofar. So the Feast of Trumpets, it's a strange event. I mean, think about it. We're going to eat a bunch of trumpets. No, it's one of the seven biblical festivals in Leviticus 23, and it's strange to us because, number one, we're not used to doing this. We didn't grow up in, most of us didn't grow up in synagogues where the Feast of Trumpets is, and most churches it's not celebrated, and the other thing that's strange about it is there's not a huge list of commandments of things to do concerning this day. Now, we have Passover that we keep, and Passover's got all these rules of things to do. We've got a Seder. It's a meal. We eat matzah. You know, we don't eat leaven. You know, we've got Easter. Everybody knows how to keep Easter, right? Oy vey. We dye our Easter egg and celebrate the fertility of the Easter bunny. Maybe not. We know about Yom Kippurim, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, because it tells us we are to afflict ourselves that day. However, most of our religious backgrounds do not address Yom Teruah, and it's foreign to us. It's strange to us, and it's really sad that the Christianity does not teach the biblical festivals because there's so much here, and when we begin to study these and really understand this is Yahweh's plan, an outline of the end times, of concerning Yeshua's first coming, it's pretty amazing. There are deep connections and implications to the Newer Testament. I believe that the Feast of Trumpets has more connection to the Newer Testament, really, than any other festival that we keep. So we're going to answer today a couple questions. What is Yom Teruah? How do we celebrate Yom Teruah? What can we learn from it? And we got a lot of scripture to cover. A long way to go. So are you ready? Today's message, Yom Teruah, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Now, if you continue reading in Leviticus 23, looking at verse 23, it says, "...and Yahweh spoke to Moshe, saying, Speak to Benaiah Israel, the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, you shall have a Sabbath, a memorial, a blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation." Or in Hebrew, a Mirchrei Kodesh. So here is 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. Amen? So Yom Teruah. And it's given to us as a Mirchrei Kodesh, or it says a holy convocation. And in other versions, it says a set-apart gathering. Now, the Moadim, or what we call the festivals, the feast, in Hebrew is Moadim, that word tells us that they are rehearsals and they are reminders. We are reminded of what took place in the past, and we are rehearsing something for the future. Amen? So that's what we do. So let's talk about Yom Teruah yesterday. It says, number one, that they are to have a remembrance of blowings of the trumpets, a memorial of blowing trumpets. You ever thought about what are they to remember? You know, and what exactly are they to blow? The word there for trumpets and thinking about what they are to remember. When the trumpet or the shofar of Yahweh, the ram's horn of Yahweh, is blown in the biblical context, in the context, it was done for a couple of reasons. And we see that they were to blow these trumpets and to remember something. Kind of like tying a string around your finger to remember something, or setting your alarm to go off. Time to get up. Time to get up. What do you do like? You do like me? Do you hit the snooze button a couple of times? I know I do. So when it hits, er, er, er, there you go. This is a reminder. But every year, er, er, er, it's going off reminding us of something. So the question is, reminding us of what? You know, sometimes you just have to ask the question. In Numbers chapter 10, it says in verse 9, it says, if you 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. So the trumpet is used when you go out to war. The shofar is used when you go out to war. In Numbers chapter 10, 10, it says, 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. So, um, the, the trumpets were blown as part of worship. Do we see that? And, uh, also in Numbers chapter 10, verse 2 through 4, it talks about a gathering of an assembly together. And when you shall blow them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to be at the door of the tabernacle. So the sounding of the shofar is a reminder to worship. It's a reminder of warfare, to gather the assembly, to sound the alarm of coming judgment. In Yoel, or Joel, chapter 2, it tells us, 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, a day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, as morning spread upon the mountains. A great people and strong, there hath not been ever like before. Neither shall there be hereafter it, the years of many generations. And we see that it's a day of sounding an alarm for coming judgment. And then finally, it tells us in 2 Kings, uh, Melechim Bet, it says in 9, verse 9, chapter 13, it says, Then they hasted and took every man his garment, put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Yehu, or Yehu, is king. So it was to announce the proclamation of a new king. You hear me? So, sounding of a shofar, one of the reasons to sound the shofar, was to announce the coronation of a new king. One of the days 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, the end of an old month. And when we do so, it says that we are to sound the shofar and what's called the silver trumpets. Now, the interesting thing about a new moon is that, um, you almost never know when the new moon's going to be. And there's a lot of controversy right now in different messianic movements and groups, um, about when the new moon is going to be. Should we ask the Karaites when the new moon is? Should we, um, you know, go station ourselves in Israel and look for the new moon? Should we guess when it's going to be? Should we use the Jewish calendar when it's going to be? And what's interesting is that 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 and Yerushalayim. But even today, for the new moon, we don't know if it's going to be on this day or on that day. Now, we teach and we use the traditional Jewish calendar, 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's traditionally a new moon that you don't know whether it's going to be the first day or the second day. And the Jewish rabbis have called it one long day, because they don't know if it's going to be the first day or the second day, 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, okay? All right, good. So, the significance of Yom Teruah. First of all, we're never told not to celebrate it. Here it tells us to celebrate Yom Teruah, where it is the Word, where it is Yeshua, say, oh, you don't need to do that Jewish festival. Hmm, I haven't found it. We are to continue the faith of what was handed down from Moshe and keep the Feast. Now, today, traditionally, this is mostly kept by the Jews, and it's not called Yom Teruah by them. They call it Rosh Hashanah or Shoshuna or whatever. Rosh Hashanah. We've all heard of that, right? Rosh Hashanah. And that Rosh Hashanah in Hebrew means the new year. But didn't we just read it said in the seventh month? So, how can it be the new year if it's the seventh month? They call it Rosh Hashanah. They begin preparation for the next upcoming festivals. They eat apples and honey and say, you know, may you have a good Lashonah Tovah Tikvah. May you have a great new year is the greeting. You pick up the phone near Rosh Hashanah. You answer it. Shalom, Lashonah Tovah Tikvah. May you have a great, I hope you have a good new year. The problem is, that's not what the scriptures say right here. It says this is the seventh month. And if you read a little bit in Leviticus Vayikra 23, it says you shall begin your months, and also in Exodus, 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's not our new year, but it is what's considered the civil new year. Just like many businesses have a fiscal year, then we have a calendar year. In Judaism, there is a civil new year. There is the religious new year. There is even a new year for trees. You know, so there's actually four new years in the scriptures, and it's very confusing. Let's keep it simple, right? This is not the new year, but the civil new year. And if you have a Jewish calendar, 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, Be'er Sheet Aleph, and you turn them around, it says Aleph B'tishre in Hebrew. Go to a Torah scroll, you read it, it's Be'er Sheet Aleph, which means in the beginning Aleph. You turn that around, it means Aleph B'tishre, which means on the first day of Tishre. That's kind of loose, but that's where they get the idea that Adam was created on the first day of Tishre. Now, I like that idea, but that's about as scriptural as it gets, okay? So, we don't want to create a whole big doctrine around it, but I think it's a good idea. And this was the day that Adam was created, and it's the day that the Jewish calendar flips over. So, we are entering into the year 5768. 5768. And with this new year, they say it's 5768 years since Adam was created, give or take about 300 years, I think, their calendars off. Anyway, 250, 300 years, that's for another discussion. We also see significance today that it says in Leviticus 23, in verse 24, it says this shall be a memorial, it shall be a Shabbat, 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 Shabbat, Shabbaton, actually. And this is also considered the first day of the Yimim No-Reim. Yimim No-Reim. Say that with me. Yimim No-Reim. That means the days of all, the ten days of reverence for all. And beginning with this day, the first day of Tishrei, for the next ten days are preparation days for Yom Kippurim, the Day of Atonement. And these are considered to be some of the most holy days out of the year, that what you do during the ten days between the Festival of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement sets the stage, sets your habits and patterns for the whole upcoming year. Pretty amazing. Pretty amazing. So, the ten 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 Feast of Trumpets is the month of Elul, 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 them, hey, we've got the Feast of Trumpets coming up, and I need to get right. I need to make amends. I need to contact the people that I've offended, or that have offended me, and I need to offer forgiveness to them, or let them know that I've forgiven them. And I need to confess my sins before Yahweh, because the Day of Atonement is coming, even to this day. Sadly, they don't have the blood of Yeshua, but at least they try to make peace, or do Tekkun Olam, which is fixing the world. So, as we celebrate, that's kind of it. So, we gather together, we'll gather together, we'll blow the shofars, we'll have some meals, we'll dance, we'll sing, we'll praise Yahweh, and that's about it. That's 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, oh, 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's a prophetic picture of end-time events. Now, in the book of Colossians, chapter 2, there's one of those verses that Jewish 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, let's take a look at that. It says in Colossians, chapter 2, verse 16 and 17, it says, therefore, 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 Shabbat, which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Messiah. A couple 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, number one. Number two, this is very clearly spoken to believers who were already keeping the feast days, and I believe one thing that the writer here was saying, Paul, or Rabbi Shaul, was saying was, you keep the feast days, and you may do it a little differently, and that person keeps the feast days, they may do it a little differently. Don't 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're actually judging themselves. But we can look upon them and say, well, not in judgment, and looking down on them, but we can say, well that person's, you know, they're just not doing it. So that person not doing it can't look upon me and tell me how to do it, right? Just as much as I can't look to my brother who's doing it already, and say, you need to do it this way. Very clear also that it says, 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 have passed away? No. It says these are shadows of something greater that's 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 shadows, and it's not intricately detailed, right? It's like how we eat kosher. It's like how we keep the feast days. We try, and it looks like the real thing, but it's not. And you know what that's called? Chesed, or grace. Because you know what? We can't do it right. We try, but we can't do it. We're gonna fail. We're gonna falter. But by Chesed, or grace, we're living in the shadow of the Almighty Yahweh. That's wonderful, because it's shadows of things to come. Which is the body? Mashiach. So what's coming? Yeshua is. He's coming again, and He's going to show us how to keep the feast in real time, the real way to do it, in the Millennial Kingdom. We'll talk about that in just a little while. But notice it says, not already come. So some people will take this verse, and they'll read it saying, I don't have to keep the holy days, because it says no man should judge me. You got to judge it from a Hebraic perspective. You got to read the verse from a 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, a 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. That's a whole other perspective, isn't it? No man should judge you in how you drink. Does the Bible say, you know, you can't drink, or you do drink, and you know, it's very clear. It says, you know, do not be drunk with wine, but be filled with the raw cacodesh. Amen? Does it tell us we can't drink? No. No. So again here, it's how you read it from a Hebraic perspective. So hopefully that's helping us a little bit. So what's greater? What's the shadow of things to come? We're living in the shadows, so to better understand what's coming, I want to review for a few minutes all the feast days. Is that okay? Real quickly, we want to run through the festivals of Yahweh. Now, in Leviticus 23, and it starts in verse 5, it says, on the 14th 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 with a Passover Seder, we also look ahead to what Yeshua did. Because the feast days give us a better understanding and teach us about Yeshua's life, his coming, his purpose, and his return, and what's going to happen after he returns. So when we celebrate Passover, and we understand Passover, we have a greater understanding of Yeshua's advent, or his first coming. Yeshua came to be the Passover Lamb, as it tells us in 1st Corinthians 5, 7, and 8. Listen to this. It says, purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as you are leavened. For even Messiah, our Passover, is sacrificed for us. Verse 8, therefore, what does it say? Therefore, let us keep the feast. It's telling us right here, to keep the feast of Passover. Therefore, let us keep the feast of Passover. Not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Now 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 Yeshua as the Lamb. We see Yeshua as the Lamb, and it talks about this in Revelation 5, 12. It says, worthy is the Lamb, worthy is the Lamb, that was slain, to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing. Worthy is the Lamb. Praise Yahweh. He is worthy. Yeshua is the Lamb of Yahweh, who took away the sins of the world. So when we keep Passover, we were reminded of that. Remember the blood on the doorpost, and a death angel passes over? When we apply his blood to the doorpost of our life, the death angel has no power. Amen. Praise Yahweh. When we see also in Leviticus 23, it talks about the festival of Hamatzah, which is the seven days of eating matzah, or unleavened bread. This is a picture of us, of Yeshua's sinless life, and during this time, after Yeshua died, he was in the grave. He was unleavened, right? He didn't have any sin, and this is a picture of that. Then we see firstfruits coming up, and it talks about this, and with the festival of firstfruits, this points to Mashiach's, or Messiah's, rising from the dead. It's our promise of resurrection. It tells us in 1st Corinthians 15 20, 1st Corinthians 15 20, that Yeshua is the firstfruits of the dead. So by accepting his Passover blood, his sinless sacrifice, we are promised resurrection. We are promised eternal life. Amen. So that's a reminder of us for that. And then it talks about us in Leviticus 23, talks to us about Shavuot. Shavuot. Now Shavuot is Hebrew for, in gathering, or actually what we would say Pentecost. We all know a bunch of Pentecostals, okay, most of which do not keep the festival of Pentecost, unfortunately. 50 days after Passover is the feast of Shavuot. 50 days after Passover is Pentecost. Now we see the first Shavuot in Exodus chapter 19 when the Torah was given. It says, 1916, it says, it came to pass on the third day in the morning there were thunders and lightnings and thick clouds and the voice of a shofar exceedingly loud, but the people were in the camp and trembled. And Moshe brought them out and they received the Torah, or the law at that time. So we see here this was the first Shavuot, 50 days after Passover. We also see Passover, where, what did Yeshua say? He said, go and tarry where? In Yerushalayim. He didn't tell them to go to Rome and go to the Catholic Church. He told them to go to Yerushalayim. And in Acts chapter 2, it very clearly says, Acts chapter 2 verse 1, when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. Suddenly there came a sound from heaven as a rushing mighty wind. It filled the house where they were sitting. And appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, set upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Ruach HaKodesh, Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. And they were dwelling at Yerushalayim, Jerusalem, Jews, the about men of every nation under heaven. Does it say that they were in the upper room? Did I read the words upper room? Now we've been taught, and we've read before, that there were 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're with Yeshua on a mount. Then it says they go into the upper room. Then Acts chapter 2, it says they're in Jerusalem. It says at the house. In Hebraic thought, the house or the bait is always in reference to the temple, the place of worship. Blows your mind, because we've always been taught they were in the upper room. But nowhere does it say, because how could you get 120 people in a small upper room where about 11 were? Read it, study it for yourself. You know, sometimes we think the things are so chronological, you know, but we all know you read Revelation, it's not chronological. You get a reading Genesis through, you know, it starts in Genesis, and we think it's beginning, and in 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 they were gathered together in one place, in Jerusalem, in the house. Guess what? It's a commandment to go to Jerusalem, to the place of worship, during the festival of Shavuot. 50 days. 50 days after Passover. So here, the Holy Spirit fell, and guess what also happened? It says they stepped out, and they preached, and 3,000 people were born again. There were 3,000 people. That's a big upper room, right? So there they preached, 3,000 people are born again. Go back and read Exodus. How many people were killed when they were worshiping the golden calf during the first Shavuot? 3,000 people. What a correlation there. What a neat picture. So we see that, you know, with Passover, Yeshua is the lamb. We see he is the unleavened bread and doesn't have any leaven or sin in him. We see that he was placed in the tomb, that he resurrected. First fruits is a picture of his resurrection. We see that he said, go in tearing 50 days later. He goes, and the Ruach HaKodesh fills them as they were together. And we see all this happening in Yeshua's Advent. So these are spring festivals or spring feasts that point to Yeshua's first coming. But then what happens? There's a long period of time. Everybody say long. Long period of time from the spring feast days to the fall feast days. Several months, many moons pass between Passover and Sukkot. It's actually six months between that time. So that's prophetic for us. We'll take a look at that. So there's this long time of waiting, which is why 30 days before the Festival of Trumpets begins, the Jews begin sounding the shofar, reminding them, got to get ready. Yom Teruah is coming, or what they call Rosh Hashanah is coming, right? They get ready and they go and do mitvah. 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 Yeshua did. He died, he resurrected, he was sinless. We look ahead to the fall feast days with a couple ideas, with timelines and charts. I mean, we've all seen them, right? You know, every televangelist has their own chart of what's going to happen in the end times. I submit to you today, no charts. A couple pictures, a couple scripture verses, no charts. Hallelujah. So it's clear from Yeshua's prophecies and foretelling that his return will accompany many signs that point us to a future, when I believe, Yom Teruah. That Yeshua 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. Didn't Yeshua 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's one long day. We look at the seasons, we get an idea, we get a picture. Let's look at a couple verses here. It says in Maasei Shoachim or Acts chapter 1 verses 6 and 7 and 9 through 11, it says, when therefore they come together, now we got to see this, this is important. Yeshua is about to ascend into the heavens. Y'all with me? All right. Yeshua is about to ascend into the heavens and they can ask him anything in the world. They can ask him who's going to win the Super Bowl? What's the lucky lotto numbers? They could ask him anything. They want to know what's most important, right? I mean, think about it. If you're going to a dead person who you're never going to see again and you're around their deathbed, they're going to give you some words of wisdom to carry your whole life. That's what happens here in Acts chapter 1. Turn with me and read together. It says, when therefore they come together, they ask him saying, Master, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? They knew that the restoration of Israel was most important in Yeshua's mind. That's powerful. They knew that that was coming and Yeshua said to them, it's not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father has put in his own power, but ye shall receive power after the Ruach HaKodesh has come upon you. You shall be my witnesses both unto me and Yerushalayim in Judea, Samaria, and to the uttermost part of the earth. Verse 9, when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up. A cloud received him out of their sight. While they looked steadfastly toward heaven, as he went up, behold, two men, how many men? How many witnesses? Two. Hallelujah. Two men stood by them in white apparel, which also said, you men of Galilee, why do you stand here gazing up into the Shammai in the heaven? This same Yeshua, which is taken up from you into Shammai in heaven, shall come in like manner as you have seen him go up. Two witnesses proclaiming the return of Yeshua in the same manner. Pretty interesting, huh? We're going to tie a bunch of verses together. In 1 Corinthians chapter 51, it says, listen, chapter 15 verse 51, 1 Corinthians, listen, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed 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 will be changed, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. Now, we hear that a lot at funerals. When is it going to occur? What's going to bring about his return? The sounding of the shofar. In 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 verses 14 through 18, it says, we believe, we believe, this is good, we believe that Yeshua died and rose again. And so we believe that Elohim, Yahweh, will bring with Yeshua those who have died in Him, according to Yahweh's own word. We tell you, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left to the coming of Yahweh, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For Yahweh Himself will come down from the 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 and Messiah will rise first, and after that, we who are still alive and are left, will be called up together with them in the clouds to meet Yahweh in the air. And so we will be with Yahweh forever. Therefore, beat everybody down with these words. No, that's not what it says. It says, therefore, encourage one another with these words. Notice here the picture, the sounding of a shofar, the dead and Messiah will rise first, those who remain will be changed. Y'all with me so far? We see in Luke, Luke chapter 21 verses 27 through 28, it says, at that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power, with great glory. These things begin to take place. Stand and lift up your head, because redemption is drawing nigh. He's speaking to believers. You with me? And he says, redemption draweth nigh. When you see these things occur, prepare your heart. Prepare your heart. Matthew 24, read a few verses here. Turn with me to Matthew 24, 29 through 31. 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 the heaven. The powers of the heavens shall be shaken. And then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And they shall, all the tribes of the earth, mourn. They shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with the great sound of a shofar. And they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, the four corners, from one end of the heaven to the others. So again, we see the shofar being sounded. We see the world realizing they're in trouble. We see some signs in the heavens. Okay? All of this happens at one time. And then the elect are being gathered. We see it actually says that the stars shall fall from the heavens. That's important. The moon shall not give her light. Remember that. Revelation, chapter 12, talks about this also. Verses 12 through 17. Verse 15, it says, And the kings of the earth, the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, every free, hid themselves in the dens of the rocks of the mountains. They know what's 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 Yeshua's coming is the sound of a shofar and wrath. You see that? The stars are falling out of the heavens. In Revelation 11, it says, The seventh angel sounded a shofar. Great voices in heaven sounded. The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Master and Mashiach. And the four and twenty elders sat before Yahweh on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped, saying, We give thanks to thee, O Yahweh Almighty, which art, which was, and who art to come, because you have taken to thee thy great power, and has reigned. Verse 18 of Revelation 11. And the nations were angry, and thy wrath has come. In the time of the dead they should be judged. Thou should give the reward unto the servants and the prophets. And the temple of Yahweh was opened in heaven, and there was seen in this temple the ark of the Testament, lightnings and voices and thunders and earthquake and great hail. That's a lot going on. I'm going to tie all this together. Now, a point of great contention and of great debate in the church today and in Christianity today is the return of Yeshua and the rapture of the church. There is the pre-trib left behind folks making millions of dollars with their books. There's the post-trib. You better get ready because you're going to have to walk through it. There's the mid-trib. There's the preterist view. There's the pre-trib preterist view. There's, you name it, there's a name for it type of understanding of when Yeshua is coming back, when the rapture is going to occur. However, most of these groups teach that the meeting in the sky or the meeting in the sky is one event while the return of Yeshua to fight the Battle of Armageddon is a second event. Okay, that's what most, you know, pre-tribulation TV evangelist eschatology teachers teach. Your Jack VanIppies, your John Hagees, your Tim LaHays, you know, they teach that. My understanding is that Yom Teruah or the Feast of Trumpets is prophetic of both both his second coming and the Yom Yahweh, the day of Yahweh. That his second coming and the catching away of the Saints are not two separate events but one. And I want to show you this in the scriptures. Now, people say, well, do you believe in the rapture? Yes. We'll talk about the Hebrew word for rapture. Natzah is Hebrew for the catching away of the Saints. However, however, I believe in a little different time than what we read from our pre-trib, you know, fiction novels, what we see on the TV. That's great. I say, you know, pray for the pre-trib, plan for the post-trib, okay? And we'll look at that. And I'll show you, actually, I believe in scripture where it makes it very clear, very clear. Today, though, are times of refreshing. Remember we talked about Yeshua and it said when Yeshua's returned, 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, try that again, 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 hit the snooze button anymore, because it's 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? Remember we said there was a long time, many months passed, the summer months, times of drought sometimes? That's prophetic of today. That's the long space of Shavuot, when the Holy Spirit, the Rabbi Qodesh, was given, and when Yeshua returns with the Feast of Trumpets. That's the time we're living in. However, I believe we're in the beginning of the end, that just as the trumpets preceded 30 days of repentance, today people's hearts are turning to Yahweh greater than ever before. Yes, wickedness is just increasing, we see it in the schools, we see in the newspaper, however, we're 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 open to the Hebraic roots of the faith. We see more people being born again now than ever before in the history of man. We see the Internet giving us an ability to teach people all over the world, just as this worldwide ministry does, just as people are hearing the gospel now for the first time, missionaries 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 knows what happened in 1948 when Israel became a nation. That should be key, that should be a clue to all of our brothers and sisters that, hey, something's going on here. Yahweh has not forsaken the Jews. Amen. Okay, 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 in all the world. All the world, we're seeing the sides begin to mount, and people are either bowing down to Islam and cowering to its existence. Speaking to someone this week, she's from Amsterdam, and she was telling me how the Islamic people, how she's 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 imam. I had a conversation with her this week. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. She said her church doesn't even stand anymore. They turned the building into a mosque, and we're seeing that occur. There's an audio teaching on our website, EmetMinistries.com, called End Times Israel and You, and it makes it very clear that we're seeing the sides begin 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 don't know, but we see these things are occurring. That's where we're at today. It's very important that we understand the times. Now, I want you to notice that as the times increase, and as the times get closer, some of the signs that are going to accompany this. So, turn with me to Matthew chapter 24 again. Matthew 24, starting in verse 12. And because lawlessness or Torahlessness abounds, the love of many shall grow cold. That's what's happening today. People don't keep Torah, and their love is growing cold. Verse 13, but he that shall endure to the end, the same shall be saved. He's telling us we got to endure, right? Not get on the rapture bus. And the gospel of the kingdom shall be proclaimed in all the world for a witness to all the nations. Then shall the end come. Verse 15 is key. When therefore shall you see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel Hanavi, Daniel the prophet, in the Beit HaMikdash, or the temple. Then let those who are in Judah flee into the mountains. Let him who was on the housetop not come down to take anything out of his house. Neither let him who was in the field return back to take his clothes. Woe to them that are with child, to them that are nursing children in those days. Make prayer your flight is not in the winter, neither on the Shabbat day. Verse 21, for then, when, then, when, then shall be great tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time. No shall ever be. And except those days were shortened, no flesh would survive. Now notice in verse 15, it says, therefore you shall see the abomination of desolation standing in the temple. Then it tells us this is the catalyst of really the end times events beginning to really start to take place. Notice it says that we shall see it. If we're already in heaven, if the pre-trib rapture is true, how can we see it? Doesn't that make sense? I mean I'm real simple-minded like Forrest Gump, but that makes sense to me. Okay, it says we shall see it. It tells us here that we shall endure until the end. Going down to verse 29, makes it even more clear. Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, the moon shall not give its light, and the stars shall fall from the heavens. And didn't we just read that on a Yom Teruah that the stars were going to fall from the heavens? Here it says that that's going to occur after the tribulation. You follow me here? So Yeshua can't 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 darkened, the moon shall not give its light, verse 30, and then shall appear of a 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 Shemayim with great power and glory. And he, verse 31, and he shall send his heavenly messengers with the great sound of the shofar. They shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other. So when is the so-called rapture, you know, when is the rapture, the Natsal, the catching away? After the tribulation, it says, very clearly. Because it says the stars are going to fall. It says that the moon's going to go away. It says the sun's going to be darkened. The tribes, the people, are going to see whom they have pierced and they shall mourn. And then the trumpet will sound and the elect will be gathered. It's right there. We're reading it right out of the Scriptures. It's very clear to us. Notice that the Sabe see the abomination. They flee to the mountains. It says they make prayer to Yahweh. Are a bunch of unbelievers going to make prayer to Yahweh? No. Well, yeah, and no. It says, when you see this, go out and look for the returning of Yeshua. How can we do all this if we're already in heaven? To me, it's clear that the day of trumpets is a culmination of the end-time events. Let me make this clear. Verse 29, it says, immediately after the tribulation. So Yeshua is returning after tribulation has pretty much already taken place with the sound of a shofar, with the Natsal, the catching away of the saints to fight with him. Now in Revelation chapter 11, it tells us about two witnesses. Two witnesses. Who are there and who preach that the end is coming. We're familiar with the two witnesses of Revelation, right? Notice that it's two witnesses. And what are they saying? They're saying the end is coming, right? They're saying prepare themselves. What are they saying? The new moon is coming. The two witnesses, just like Torah says, I've got to see a new moon, are standing in the temple proclaiming the Rosh Chodesh or the festival of trumpets is coming. You better get ready. That's powerful because we're going, we may see that in our days. It may be our children, our grandchildren, our great-grandchildren, but we may see the two witnesses standing there proclaiming and we're going to know. We're going to know to be ready. Yom Teruah or the Feast of Trumpets is what I believe the beginning of the end. You could say when tribulation has already begun and when the wrath of Yahweh will be fully unleashed. Let me go through a couple verses real quickly. In Revelation 11 3 it says, and I will give power unto my witnesses they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and three score days clothed in sackcloth. We know what happens to them. We're all familiar with that. Well in Amos chapter 5 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. As if a man did flee from a lion and a bear met him and went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall and a serpent bit him. Shall not the day of Yahweh be darkness and not light? Even very dark and no brightness in it. Zephaniah 1 verse 14 through 16. The great day of Yahweh is near. It is near. It hasteth greatly. Even the voices of the day of Yahweh the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble, of 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, the shofar, and alarm against the fence walls against the high towers. That when Yeshua returns it's going to be at the culmination of the wrath or the judgment being poured out and that will usher in the day of Yahweh. It tells us in Isaiah 13. Behold the day of Yahweh comes. Cruel both with wrath and fierce anger to lay the land desolate shall destroy the sinners thereof out of. For the stars of the heaven, listen here, 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? Verse 11, Isaiah 13 11. And I will punish the world for their evil and the wicked of their iniquity. I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. That we see in in the book of Revelation these seven trumpets or shofars being sounded each releasing more judgment 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 bringing about Yeshua's return when we shall meet him in the air and we shall fight with him. That's when the battle of Armageddon occurs. The dead of Mashiach shall rise first we shall meet him in the air and it says that Yeshua he'll just say the word and the enemies of Yahweh will be vanquished and when blood will be as high as the horses reigns. It tells us in Revelation 6 and I beheld when he opened the sixth seal and lo there was a great earthquake the sun became his sackcloth the moon became his blood the stars of the heavens fell out of the heavens even as the fig tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind and the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together and every mountain and every island were moved out of their places. You ever wonder how every eye will see him on that day? It won't be CNN honey it's going to be that scroll it's going to be the sky is going to part hallelujah you know what I'm saying? Now Tim LaHaye says in Left Behind they're going to see it on TV. I don't think so it tells us here but the scroll the sky is going to part. Verse 13 the kings of the earth the great men they're all going to just just fall down and hide themselves great day of wrath. Zechariah 14 this is really good. Zechariah 14 behold the day of Yahweh comes see what happens for I will gather all nations against Yerushalayim Jerusalem to battle and the city shall be taken the house is rifled the women ravished half of the city shall go forth into captivity the residue of the people shall be cut off from the city can't we see that happening then when then shall Yahweh go forth and fight against those nations as when he fought in the day of battle and his feet hallelujah and his feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives which is before Yerushalayim on the east and on the Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and towards the west a great valley and half of the mountain shall remove towards the north and half of it towards the south his recurrent upon the Mount of Olives splitting it. It's powerful and yet this is the beginning you could say this is it this is when the world will be judged because of their lawlessness because of following the anti-mashiach and it tells us in Revelation 11 the seventh angel sounded the shofar and there were great voices in the heavens and 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. Powerful. So Yeshua is going to set up his kingdom. It's going to be the resurrection of the dead and I believe that when Yeshua comes he's going to catch away the Naxal the saints at that time. The day of Yahweh will occur. The battle of Armageddon will occur and at that point Yeshua is going to set up his thousand year millennial reign. Now that's an oxymoron that's 2,000 years. Thousand year millennial reign because how long is a millennial? A thousand years. Okay so he's going to set up his millennial reign. Before Yeshua 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's great repentance. Listen to this. Yoel 2 12 through 14. Therefore also now says Yahweh turn unto me with your heart with fasting and weeping and mourning. Rend your heart 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's powerful. It's powerful. In Isaiah 27 12 it says it shall come to pass in that day Yahweh shall beat off from the channel of the river and to the stream of Egypt. He shall be gathered one by one you children of Israel and it shall come to pass in that day but 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's going to happen? The restoration of Israel in its entirety in its fullness and we're 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's referred to as a time of peace. Doesn't that make sense? For us it's a time of peace. It's 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's a picture of the Yom Yahweh the day of Yahweh when he comes and he executes judgment and this is the regathering of the saints of all Israel. What comes next? What comes next? Let's take a look. It says for Yahweh himself shall ascend from heaven with a shout with the voice of an archangel with the trumpet of Yahweh. The dead and 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 feast day called Yom Kippur. We've said this before earlier we said there were ten days right the ten days of all. Now I believe that the ten days of all are a picture of us of the millennial kingdom of Yeshua. That when Yeshua returns at Yom Teruah he's going to at that point as we read execute judgment the battle of Armageddon is going to occur he's going to set up we're going to meet him in the air we're going to fight with him then we're going to come down and rule and reign with him. It says at that point remember we read in Revelation chapter 11 that the kings of the world will will proclaim and become kings of Yahweh and I believe that that's going to happen at that time and setting up his millennial kingdom and let me read this to you in Revelation 20 this is when it says in Revelation 20 it says and he shall cast them into the bottomless pit talking about Hasatan the adversary will be shut up and set a seal upon him that he should not deceive the nations no more so a thousand years should be fulfilled and after that he must be loosed for a season. That here at this point that the the adversary will be bound for a thousand years what's going to happen during that time? Life's 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 whole world? I don't believe so. I believe it means no man in that area where the full wrath is going to be poured out and because otherwise there would be nobody to live during the millennial kingdom. So during the millennial kingdom during this thousand years during I believe the ten days of all what our picture of us here this is when Yeshua will rule the world with Torah with the rod of iron it says and we're going to teach them Torah. We are going to teach the nations the word. Isn't that powerful? We've been learning it we've been celebrating it we've been doing the reminders and learning Torah so every time we gather on Shabbat is to rehearse a time when we're going to be teaching others. That's powerful. It tells us in Isaiah 63 that from one new moon to another from one Shabbat to another all flesh will come to worship me. When is that going to occur? During the millennial kingdom. We're going to be worshiping him on his days. So if that's the case if this is a picture of a thousand years when Hasatan is bound what comes next? Well after those ten days comes Yom Kippur, Yom Kippurim, the day of atonement. Now this is also told to us to be a day of judgment of what we call the Bema the great white throne judgment but I believe in the in the timeline of end times this will be the day that the books will be opened and the dead will be judged and they will be judged it tells us in Revelation 20. At Yom Kippur first of all there's a shofar sounding saying it's time for Yom Kippur and and that's saying look that the battle is over so that that thousand years is over Hasatan is loosed for season and then Yahweh says alright I've had enough this is it and that's when he judges Hasatan finally and that's when he judges the world. It says he shall go out in Revelation 28 and deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth. Revelation 20 11 and I saw a great white throne and him that sat on it from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away there was found no place for them I saw the dead small and great stand before Yahweh and the books how many books more than one the books were opened and another book was opened so books two were opened 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 and the sea gave up their dead which were in it and the death and hell delivered up their dead which were in them and they were judged every man according to his work and the death and hell were cast into the lake of fire this is the second death verse 15 who whosoever was not found written in thee sefer 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 but on that day from the from the previous ten days you've got a choice where they're going to live in the righteousness or you're going to live in wickedness and what you do in the ten days preceding Yom Kippur set the pattern for your upcoming year well what's done is done for the dead they don't have any more choices and during that thousand-year millennial reign that sets the times for whether they're 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 who was able to open the book and who was worthy the Lamb he was able to open and so I believe that great silence there is a picture of the couple days that are in between Yom Kippur and the next holy day because the last Hall Feast day is a festival of tabernacles Sukkot it's one of my favorites and with Sukkot we see that we are commanded to build a sukkah now what's a sukkah it's a tabernacle it's a tent it's a dwelling so as we get ready to celebrate Sukkot this year we'll build our own tabernacle and we'll have one hopefully at our homes and we'll spend some time in it and we'll worship there it's an amazing picture of what occurs after the return of Yeshua after the thousand years let's read together in Revelation chapter 21 again verse 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 and I Okanan John saw the holy city new Rome no new Yerushalayim coming down from Yahweh out of heavens prepared as a bride hallelujah adorned for her husband and a great voice out of heaven shouting behold a 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 verse 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 through the former things are passed away and he sat upon the throne and said behold I make all things new he said unto them write that these words are true and faithful verse 6 he said unto me it is done I am the Aleph and the Tav the beginning in the end I will give unto him that is a thirsty of a fountain of water freely he that overcomes shall inherit all things I will be his Elohim he will be my son this is a picture the new heavens in 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's it's like we're preparing for that time that's powerful not just up in heaven getting wings and floating around like we see on the white cloud commercials for toilet paper you know not little babies up there but dwelling with him forever even take a look at Revelation 21 16 it says the city lies four square and its length as large as it breath okay so it's four square and it's long four square its length and breadth and the height are equal it's a perfect cube what is the shape of the Sukkah a cube a square so we're commanded in Leviticus 23 to build Sukkot to build our 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 and as for the new heavens in the new earth this is Isaiah 66 as for the new heavens in the new earth which I shall make shall remain before me sayeth Yahweh so shall your seed in your name remain it shall come to pass from one new moon to another from one Shabbat to another all flesh will come and worship before me that's what's coming hallelujah that is what's coming Yahweh's plan is outlined his eternal holy days we're going to be keeping in the Millennial Kingdom they're a picture of what's happening and Yom Teruah is a picture of his return so we are to celebrate and to prepare for his soon coming so here's a question for you got all this knowledge now you got eschatology in less than an hour oh my goodness you got enough to go back and chew on right how now shall we live how now shall we live number one tribulations coming so I encourage you to prepare even if it's your grandchildren be ready my kids go to school they got a letter this year saying prepare your home for a flu influenza outbreak it 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 the influenza outbreak may occur this year am I ready for the great tribulation I got enough to last till the next pay period you know what I'm saying and there the government's telling me to prepare how much more should we prepare and be ready okay so that's important the terror is increasing be ready prepare our hearts even greater it tells us in mark 1332 to be watchful because you do not know when that time is we can have some ideas when we see the abomination of desolation but then it's too late to run to Walmart so be watchful keep watching for a thief in the night we need to be like Ezra and Nehemiah turn with me to Nehemiah Nehemiah 8 for our last verses here this is awesome because it tells us in Nehemiah 8 that this is the first time that Ezra and Nehemiah they have returned from exile this is the first time they're back in Jerusalem and they're 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 and we read together Nehemiah 8 1 I'll give you a minute to find it it's a revolving book you never know where it is it's like my gas tank it's a revolving gas tank I drive up to the gas station on one side it's always on the other Nehemiah's like that so Revelation 8 1 and the people gathered himself together as one man hallelujah their unity unified 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 Nehemiah 8 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 and he read therein before the street before the water gate from morning until midday before the men and the women those that could understand in the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of Torah scoot on down to verse 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 Torah then he said unto them go your way eat the fat drink the sweet send portions unto them with nothing is prepared prepared for this day is holy unto Yahweh neither be sorry but the joy of Yahweh is your strength so the Levites still the people saying hold your peace the day of Yahweh is holy neither be grieved 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 we understand that we've been away for so long we want to weep but what is that Nehemiah who say Nehemiah says don't we celebrate rejoice keep the feast have a you know eat a lot of food because the joy of Yahweh is your strength the return of Yahweh the Yom Yahweh it's a terrible day for the unbelievers but for us it is the joy of Yahweh we love to quote that verse the joy of Yahweh is your strength brother read in context when you keep the festival of Yom Teruah the joy of Yahweh is your strength hallelujah talk it to you that's good right there when we keep the feast that Yahweh declares us to do when we hear of a Torah that's when his joy is our strength that's when his joy is our strength it empowers us to face our problems it empowers us to face the end times whether it's just a bad day rebellious teenagers or the tribulation that lays at hand the joy of 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 amen father we bless you we thank you we praise you you are good and we just thank you right now father for Yeshua'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 Yeshua's return is soon that the sides are being drawn that Islam that the beast of Revelation is coming against Israel on all the fronts Israel scattered all throughout 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 if he who overcomes he who overcomes in the book of Revelation would be would be given these crowns would be able to be a pillar of Yahweh in the house of Yahweh father we pray that you would give us the strength to 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 your Torah and not weep we would read it not weep because oh these are laws I can't do or weep because oh this is stuff that I've never known before but we would celebrate and rejoice that Yeshua you have set us free you've given us the law of liberty your word says if Yeshua set you free then you are free indeed to stand firm then in the perfect law of liberty that's what you've given us to celebrate in to rejoice in 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 Hashem Yahweh B'Shem Yeshua our Messiah thank you again for listening to the finding EMET radio program 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