יום תרועה (Feast of Trumpets) – May It Be a Good Year (L’shanah Tovah)

The Feast of Trumpets, Yom Teruah (יום תרועה) in Hebrew, is estimated to begin at sunset tomorrow Israel Standard Time (IST), on September 6, 2021 (the start will not be official until a sliver of the moon is spotted, signifying the new moon). It is one of seven feasts God commanded the children of Israel to observe (Leviticus 23). Some also refer to the Feast of Trumpets as the “mystery feast,” because the Lord didn’t tell Moses, at least it isn’t specifically stated in Leviticus 23, why they should blow trumpets and observe that day, except that it was a “memorial” of blowing trumpets.

The only time “trumpet” is mentioned in scriptures prior to the Feast of Trumpets in Leviticus 23, is in Exodus 19, when God told Moses that when the people heard the “trumpet sound long” they were to come up to Mount Sinai to “meet with God” (Exodus 19-20); so this is the only event that He could have been referring to: when the people gathered to meet God, and God came down to the top of Mount Sinai to meet with Moses, at the sound of the trumpet. This is the event we are to remember, memorialize, on the Feast of Trumpets.

There is also a day coming which coincides with this memorial, which is referred to in the Holy Word of God as a meeting in the air with our Savior Jesus Christ:

“For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ will rise first, then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus shall we ever be with the Lord. Therefore, comfort one another with these words” 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 (ET – Elim אֵילִם Translation)

The dead shall be raised at the sound of God’s trumpet and those remaining on the earth who are Christians will be caught up together to meet them and they will meet Jesus our Savior in the air!

God came down at the sound of the trumpet on Mount Sinai. Jesus will return for His people at the sound of a trumpet before the great tribulation begins, to save them from His wrath, which shall come upon the wicked:

“And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus, Who delivered us from the wrath to come” 1 Thessalonians 1:10 (ET – Elim אֵילִם Translation)

“The nations were angry and Your wrath has come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged and that You should give reward to Your servants, the prophets, the saints and those who fear Your name, small and great; and should destroy those who destroy the earth” Revelation 11:18 (ET – Elim אֵילִם Translation)

We should celebrate Yom Teruah in memory of God’s descent to meet with Moses on Mount Sinai; but we should also celebrate Yom Teruah because it is a type and shadow of the Lord’s return to meet with His people in the air (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18).

Jesus was crucified at Passover (Luke 22:15); He was raised from the dead at Firstfruits (1 Corinthians 15:20); and the Holy Spirit, which He promised to His disciples, came upon them at Pentecost (Acts 2:1-4).

In the same manner of fulfillment, I believe Jesus will catch up (or “rapture” – Latin Vulgate translation, “rapiemur”) His saints (1 Thessalonians 4:16-18) on Yom Teruah, or the Feast of Trumpets. We don’t know which year, nor do we know the day or hour (Jesus said we would not know the day or hour of His return [Matthew 25:13]), because the actual day of the Feast of Trumpets is not known until the sliver of the moon appears, marking the new moon. It is a mystery until the very day arrives!

Jesus could very well come this year on the Feast of Trumpets!

Are you ready?

Salvation is offered to everyone who repents of sin and receives Jesus as their Lord and Savior, unless a person crosses a line with God, to the point of becoming reprobate, having no conscience (Romans 1:21-32; Hebrews 6:4-6). Now is the time of salvation for everyone; tomorrow, or even the next hour, could be too late.

Hundreds of Bible prophecies have been fulfilled and those remaining shall surely come to pass. Are you prepared to stand before God and give an account of the life you have lived on this earth (Revelation 20:12-15)? If not, salvation is only a prayer away. Please visit the How Can I Be Saved page – your eternal destiny depends on it. God bless you.

“The Spirit and the bride say, Come; and let him who hears say, Come; and let him that is athirst come, and whosoever will, let him take of the water of life freely” Revelation 22:17

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“I Sought Him Whom My Soul Loveth” Song of Solomon 3:1

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Are you searching for God today? We are living in such time as the prophets and Jesus Christ spoke of, a time of decision (Joel 3:14), with distress of nations (Luke 21:25), in perilous times (2 Timothy 3), and it is a defining time for the people of God.

Now is the time to settle in our hearts just how much we love the Lord God, our Creator, and whether we are willing to lay our very lives down on the fact that He is our Savior. Many are dying throughout the Middle East, and some other nations, simply because they lay hold to their faith that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior.

I am ashamed to admit that there was a time when I told the Lord I wasn’t sure I could die for Him, if it came to that, but I prayed that He would place that much love and commitment inside of me, that He would give me the great love that I need to have for Him. God answered that prayer.

Jesus said,

“He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me” Matthew 10:37.

This was always a very hard saying for me, especially since I have always loved my son more than myself, more than my own life. Albeit, I prayed for a “heart after God’s own heart” (1 Samuel 13:14) and the love I needed for the Lord.

God promises to take care of all the rest, as we put Him first in our lives.

The Word of God tells us,

“Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you” Matthew 6:33.

In other words, we don’t have to worry about anything we place second to Christ, because He will take care of all the rest! It is His promise to us; He is so wonderful!

The Apostle Paul wrote,

“I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service” Romans 12:1.

In return, our Lord and Savior has promised us eternal life,

“Whosoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Believest thou this?” John 11:26.

Not many people realize it, but the Song of Solomon is a letter from God to the Jews and a letter from Christ to His bride. As I wrote the Song of Solomon during my study of the precious book, the Holy Spirit revealed to me that Christ was speaking to me, to the bride of Christ, through these writings in the Song of Solomon. I later discovered that Jewish rabbis have understood throughout the ages that God is speaking to His elect through the Song of Solomon.

The Song of Solomon contains scriptures which have plural interpretations. Plural interpretations are accepted by Bible theologians and they are significant in the laws of interpretation of God’s Word (hermeneutics). Just as the Jewish feasts are relevant to the Jews and their history, the feasts also have very significant meaning concerning: the sinless Lamb of God, who is Jesus Christ – John 1:29 (Passover); living a sanctified life – Hebrews 13:12 (Unleavened Bread); Christ’s resurrection – John 11:25 and 1 Corinthians 15:20 (Firstfruits); the outpouring of the Holy Ghost – Acts 2 (Pentecost); the resurrection of the dead and catching up of the saints – 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 (Feast of Trumpets); Christ’s sacrificial blood offered on the altar for the remission of our sins (Day of Atonement); and the final reign of Christ on earth with His saints – Revelation 20:4-6 (Feast of Tabernacles). These are all examples of plural definitions of the scriptures, the Old Testament being a type and shadow of the New Testament.

The Song of Solomon speaks of the bride of Christ, who is looking for her bridegroom during the last days, but she cannot find Him (Song of Solomon 3:1). Notice that when she meets up with the “watchmen” (Song of Solomon 3:3), shortly after that, she finds her love and she will not let Him go (Song of Solomon 3:4). 

As children of God, are we not looking for Christ’s return? Nevertheless, many are tired of the wait and some have fallen asleep, but notice that when the “Shulamite bride” hears from the “watchmen,” those proclaiming the prophecies of Christ’s return, she, the bride of Christ, finds Him and “she will not let Him go.”

Have you long awaited the return of Christ? Have you grown weary in this life looking for God, but not finding Him, possibly falling asleep spiritually?

It is imperative to remember the parable of the 10 virgins (Matthew 25), which fits right into the theme of the Song of Solomon. We are being told in this love story that the “bride of Christ” needs to listen to the “watchmen,” and prepare for the Lord’s return by faith, understanding the signs of the times, as did the sons of Issachar.

If you are searching for Him, you will not find God in the last days, if you do not listen to His watchmen. God has prepared “watchmen” for the last days, whose loins are girt about (prepared) “with Truth” (Ephesians 6:15). It is imperative that God’s people not listen to those whose words do not line up entirely with God’s Holy Word. Jesus warned not once, not twice, but three times in Matthew 24 to beware of false teachers, false Christs and false prophets. Listen to the true “watchmen,” who rightly divide the Word of Truth (2 Timothy 2:15), understanding it by having studied it thoroughly with prayer and fasting, comparing scripture with scripture, “precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line,  here a little, and there a little, (Isaiah 28:10),” while looking to God for the interpretation. As you hear a man of God preach, or teach, open the Word of God and make certain that what he is saying lines up with God’s Holy Word. It is also imperative to study the Word daily and know it thoroughly for yourself. 

As you listen to the truth, and tithe your time to prayer and the reading of God’s Holy Word yourself, you will find the “Bridegroom” and you will “not let Him go” (Song of Solomon 3:4).

Jesus said,

“Watch therefore and pray always, that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass (tribulation), and to stand before the Son of man” Luke 21:36.

In summary, if we love the Lord with our whole heart, if we watch and pray always and listen to the anointed “watchmen,” we will find our “Bridegroom” and “not let Him go.”

God bless you.

Hundreds of Bible prophecies have been fulfilled and those remaining will surely come to pass. Are you prepared to stand before God and give an account of the life you have lived on this earth? If not, salvation is only a prayer away. Please visit the How Can I Be Saved page – your eternal destiny depends on it. God bless you.

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The Sound of the Last Trump

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THE SOUND OF THE LAST TRUMP

When Christians speak of the “last trump,” we refer to the resurrection of the dead and the catching up of the saints to meet Christ in the air.

The Word of God describes this event:

“For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first, then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Therefore, comfort one another with these words” 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18.

Recently, I wrote about the prophecies of Rabbi Judah Ben Samuel, who gave three prophecies in the 12^th Century, which were all based on Jubilee cycles (every 50 years), and which have all came to pass precisely as he predicted.

I was amazed when I read about Rabbi Ben Samuel’s prophecies last year, not only because they had all come to pass, but especially because the last prophecy includes his prediction that in 1967, when Israel regained Jerusalem during the Six Day War, it would be the beginning of the Messianic end times, which Jubilee cycle ends this year, 2017. Something very significant prophetically will occur in 2017.

In 2010, six years before I heard about the rabbi’s prophecies, I had a series of spiritual experiences that led me to believe the Lord would “catch up” (or rapture) the saints in 2017.

The Word of God clearly tells us that no one knows the day or the hour that the Lord will come (Matthew 25:13), and I believe this. Many false prophets have made predictions about when the Lord would return and they have been wrong. The Lord didn’t say we wouldn’t know the year, however; He only referred to the day and the hour.

In fact, the Lord said we would know when His return is near, “even at the door.”

“And when He sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, Tell us when shall these things be, and what shall be the sign of Your coming and of the end of the world (age – original Greek)?…So, likewise, when you shall see all these things (described in Matthew 24), know that it is near, even at the doors” Matthew 24:3,33.

The Word of God tells us,

“In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed” 1 Corinthians 15:52.

Perhaps the fact that the last name of the President Elect of the United States of America is Trump, who will take office in 2017, is a subtle reminder that we need to watch and pray.

“Watch, therefore, and pray always that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of man (Jesus-Yeshua)” Luke 21:36.

Hundreds of Bible prophecies have been fulfilled and those remaining shall surely come to pass. Are you prepared to stand before God and give an account of the life you have lived on this earth? If not, salvation is only a prayer away. Please visit the How Can I Be Saved page – your eternal destiny depends on it. God bless you.