Transcript SHOFAR

The Mystery of the
SHOFAR
SHOFAR
A Rams
Horn
Teruah – the blowing
• ALARM
• Nine staccato ( short) Blasts (X3)
• The sound of Rachel crying for her
children!
• SIGNALS AN ATTACK BY THE
ENEMY
• Sends the Army on attack –
“CHARGE”
Shevarim
• A broken sighing sound of three calls
• Usually a short note followed by a
higher longer note.
• A more urgent call to assemble quickly
Spirit of G-d
• Shifts & Change
• Releasing a sound
• Opening portals
Heavenly Realms
• Open on Earth
• Opens way
• People on earth move
in the Heavenlies
Awesome things happen
•Walls fall down
•Enemies overcome
•Presence of G-d
•Cycle of blessing
Tekiah
• A long blast with a clear tone
• LOUD
• Sometimes a short note followed by a
higher long note followed by a shriek at
the end
• THE CALL TO ASSEMBLE
Tekiah Gedolah
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Grand or Great Tekiah
Single loud unbroken blast
Held as long as possible
As long & as loud as
the trumpeter has breath
Why a rams horn?
• Genesis 22:13. And Abraham lifted up his
eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a
ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and
Abraham went and took the ram, and offered
him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his
son.
• The ram for a sacrifice is a symbol of the
sacrifice that Messiah made for us so the
rams horn points the way to the messiah.
Why not a cows horn?
•Because the people
of Israel worshiped
the golden calf.
When did G-D blow the Shofar?
• Exodus 19:16. And it came to
pass on the third day in the
morning, that there were
thunders and lightnings, and a
thick cloud upon the mount,
and the voice of the trumpet
exceeding loud; so that all the
people that was in the camp
trembled.
Exodus 19:19
• and the sound of the
trumpet grew louder and
louder. Then Moses spoke
and the voice of God
answered him.
Only G-d was on the mountain!
• Rabbi Horseman says that
the shofar must have
been blown by G-d
himself. It is the closest
thing we have to the voice
of G-d.
When will he blow it again?
• I Thessalonians 4:16. 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:
• G-D will blow the trumpet at Messiah’s
return.
Zechariah 9:14
• Then the LORD will be seen over them,
And His arrow will go forth like
• lightning.
The Lord GOD will blow the trumpet,
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And go with whirlwinds from the south.
• This is the Final Battle!
What does it do?
• It puts the Devil to confusion
because
• he thinks that G-d is about to
speak
• or Messiah is about to return
• or the battle is about to begin.
YOM TERUAH
• Literally – Day of blowing
• Feast of Trumpets
• 23 The LORD said to Moses, 24 "Say to
the Israelites: 'On the first day of the
seventh month you are to have a day of
rest, a sacred assembly
commemorated with trumpet blasts. 25
Do no regular work, but present an
offering made to the LORD by fire.' "
The day that no man knows!
• The first day of the seventh month is
determined by the appearance of the
new moon.
• This could be any one of several days
of that month (lunar cycle).
• It cannot be determined until the new
moon is sighted from the temple in
Jerusalem
The Year of Jubilee
• Lev 25:8 " 'Count off seven sabbaths of
years—seven times seven years—so
that the seven sabbaths of years
amount to a period of forty-nine years.
9 Then have the trumpet sounded
everywhere on the tenth day of the
seventh month; on the Day of
Atonement sound the trumpet
throughout your land.
•THIS HAS
NEVER BEEN
DONE!!!
The Silver Trumpets
• Number 10:1 The LORD
said to Moses: 2 "Make two
trumpets of hammered
silver, and use them for
calling the community
together and for having the
camps set out.
ASSEMBLY
• 3 When both are sounded, the
whole community is to
assemble before you at the
entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
4 If only one is sounded, the
leaders—the heads of the clans
of Israel—are to assemble
before you.
Sound of moving out
• 5 When a trumpet blast is
sounded, the tribes camping on
the east are to set out. 6 At the
sounding of a second blast, the
camps on the south are to set
out. The blast will be the signal
for setting out.
Different signals
•7 To gather the
assembly, blow the
trumpets, but not
with the same signal.
Who blows the silver trumpets?
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8 "The sons of Aaron, the
priests, are to blow the
trumpets. This is to be a
lasting ordinance for you
and the generations to
come.
Who are priests today?
• Rev 5:10 For he has made
us Kings and Priests to the
most high God!!!
• WE ARE (both men &
women) !!!
Effect in Battle
• 9 When you go into battle in
your own land against an
enemy who is oppressing you,
sound a blast on the trumpets.
Then you will be remembered
by the LORD your God and
rescued from your enemies.
A MEMORIAL
• 10 Also at your times of rejoicing—
your appointed feasts and New
Moon festivals—you are to sound
the trumpets over your burnt
offerings and fellowship offerings,
and they will be a memorial for you
before your God. I am the LORD
your God."
Jericho
Joshua 6
• 2 Then the LORD said to Joshua, "See, I
have delivered Jericho into your hands,
along with its king and its fighting men. 3
March around the city once with all the
armed men. Do this for six days. 4 Have
seven priests carry trumpets of rams' horns
in front of the ark. On the seventh day, march
around the city seven times, with the priests
blowing the trumpets. 5 When you hear them
sound a long blast on the trumpets, have all
the people give a loud shout; then the wall of
the city will collapse and the people will go
up, every man straight in."
Gideon’s Army
• 300 Vs 10,000
• They needed a miracle
• Gideon heard them express
their fear
Judges 7
• " 16 Dividing the three hundred men into three
companies, he placed trumpets and empty jars
in the hands of all of them, with torches inside.
• 17 "Watch me," he told them. "Follow my lead.
When I get to the edge of the camp, do exactly
as I do. 18 When I and all who are with me blow
our trumpets, then from all around the camp
blow yours and shout, 'For the LORD and for
Gideon.' "
Judges 7:22
• When the three hundred trumpets
sounded, the LORD caused the men
throughout the camp to turn on each
other with their swords. The army fled
to Beth Shittah toward Zererah as far as
the border of Abel Meholah near
Tabbath.
Dedication of the Temple
• 2 Chronicles 5:13
The trumpeters and singers joined in
unison, as with one voice, to give
praise and thanks to the LORD.
Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals
and other instruments, they raised their
voices in praise to the LORD and sang:
"He is good; his love endures forever."
Then the temple of the LORD was filled
with a cloud,
Victory in Battle-2 Chronicles 13
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13 Now Jeroboam had sent troops around to the
rear, so that while he was in front of Judah the
ambush was behind them. 14 Judah turned and saw
that they were being attacked at both front and rear.
Then they cried out to the LORD. The priests blew
their trumpets 15 and the men of Judah raised the
battle cry. At the sound of their battle cry, God routed
Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. 16
The Israelites fled before Judah, and God delivered
them into their hands. 17 Abijah and his men
inflicted heavy losses on them, so that there were
five hundred thousand casualties among Israel's
able men. 18 The men of Israel were subdued on that
occasion, and the men of Judah were victorious
because they relied on the LORD, the God of their
fathers.
Coronation
• 2 Chronicles 23
• 12 When Athaliah heard the noise of the
people running and cheering the king, she
went to them at the temple of the LORD. 13
She looked, and there was the king, standing
by his pillar at the entrance. The officers and
the trumpeters were beside the king, and all
the people of the land were rejoicing and
blowing trumpets, and singers with musical
instruments were leading the praises.
2 Chronicles 29
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25 He stationed the Levites in the temple of the LORD
with cymbals, harps and lyres in the way prescribed by
David and Gad the king's seer and Nathan the prophet;
this was commanded by the LORD through his prophets.
26 So the Levites stood ready with David's instruments,
and the priests with their trumpets.
• 27 Hezekiah gave the order to sacrifice the burnt
offering on the altar. As the offering began, singing to the
LORD began also, accompanied by trumpets and the
instruments of David king of Israel. 28 The whole
assembly bowed in worship, while the singers sang and
the trumpeters played. All this continued until the
sacrifice of the burnt offering was completed.
• 29 When the offerings were finished, the king
and everyone present with him knelt down
and worshiped. 30 King Hezekiah and his
officials ordered the Levites to praise the
LORD with the words of David and of Asaph
the seer. So they sang praises with gladness
and bowed their heads and worshiped.
• 31 Then Hezekiah said, "You have now
dedicated yourselves to the LORD. Come
and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to
the temple of the LORD." So the assembly
brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and
all whose hearts were willing brought burnt
offerings.
Psalm 47
•5 God has ascended
amid shouts of joy,
the LORD amid
the sounding of
trumpets.
Psalm 98
• 4 Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth,
burst into jubilant song with music;
• 5 make music to the LORD with the harp,
with the harp and the sound of singing,
• 6 with trumpets and the blast of the ram's
horn—
shout for joy before the LORD, the King.
• 7 Let the sea resound, and everything in it,
the world, and all who live in it.
Tekiah
• A long blast with a clear tone
• LOUD
• Sometimes a short note followed by a
higher long note followed by a shriek at
the end
• THE CALL TO ASSEMBLE
Shevarim
• A broken sighing sound of three calls
• Usually a short note followed by a
higher longer note.
• A more urgent call to assemble quickly
Teruah – the blowing
• ALARM
• Nine staccato ( short) Blasts
• The sound of Rachel crying for her
children!
• SIGNALS AN ATTACK BY THE
ENEMY
• Sends the Army on attack –
“CHARGE”
Tekiah Gedolah
•
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•
Grand or Great Tekiah
Single loud unbroken blast
Held as long as possible
As long & as loud as
the trumpeter has breath
TEKIAH,SHEVARIM,TERUAH
GRAND TEKIAH
• The usual series of blowing.
• Each one may be repeated
several times before the next.
• The person officiating may call
out the sequence for the
trumpeters to follow
Revelation 4
The Throne Room of Heaven
• 1 After these things I looked,
and behold, a door standing
open in heaven. And the first
voice which I heard was like a
trumpet speaking with me,
saying, “Come up here, and I
will show you things which
must take place after this.”
The Mystery of the SHOFAR!!!
• THE SOUND OF THE SHOFAR
• G-d inhabits
• G-d Speaks
• G-d Acts
• G-d scatters the enemy