Sound the Shofar

Shofar and the Significance of Rosh Hashanah (Feast of Trumpets) and what it means to me.

The time of Rosh Hashanah is a time that all believers in Yeshua (Jew and Gentile) reflect on the calling of God to come to attention with the sound blasted from the Shofar. This is a significant sound because it allows us to know the King of Kings is calling us back to repentance and to come to him with a broken and contrite heart so Yeshua can change us and make us whole as we were before the fall of Adam in the garden of Eden, in the perfect fellowship with our creator once again. The call is the re-gathering of the People of God.

I honor Yeshua the Messiah as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

The Feast of Trumpets is a time of in-gathering and spiritual preparation. A future preparation is also spoken about of the re-gathering of believers in Messiah with the return of the Lord.

We see this spoken in 1 Thessalonians 4:16, where is says: “For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a rousing cry, with a call from one of the ruling angels, and with God’s Shofar.

The word-rousing cry or shout refers to the Hebrew word “teruah” it is the alarm blast of the Shofar of God. So you can see it is meant to wake us up and get our attention. There are other references of the Shofar found in 1 Corinthians 15:50-58

50. I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51. Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52. in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. 53. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:

“Death is swallowed up in victory.” 55. “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”

56. The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

58. Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

Once again we see the Shofar talking to John while he is taken to Heaven and shown the Throne Room of God! The shofar here is the voice of God. I believe it is one of the many ways the Lord reveals Himself to us.

See Revelations 4:1

Revelations 4:1. 1After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.”

We further read in Matthew 24: 30-31, 29“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

The sound of the Shofar is a reminder of the hope we possess to enter the Messiah’s presence at any time into the Holy of Holies through the blood of Yeshua the Messiah who paid the price once and for all to come to him in repentance and receive Yeshua as the Lord of their life. This is another word for Rosh Hashanah (Repentance).

The Lord is sounding his Shofar even today to call us to him, walking closer than we ever have to keep ourselves clean and pure so while the shaking of the earth is going on we will be found protected in Yeshua and when he calls us home one day to our new home we will be ready.

The Lord encourages us 1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. Sound the Shofar with our voices YESHUA proclaiming your Word of Truth to the world.

Shabbat Shalom, Dear brothers and sisters in Yeshua the Messiah.

Terry Scott