Ancient Israel tracked the months from Abib (the first month) to Tishri (the seventh month) by sounding the trumpet on each new moon. The last trumpet blown announced the new moon of Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruah) and the seventh month’s holydays. Ten days after the Yom Teruah commemoration was the Day of Atonements (Yom Kippur), followed by…

Before studying more about the Feast of Trumpets, it will be helpful to examine the four Hebrew words for “trumpet.” Significantly, “trumpet” first appears in the Scriptures as yobel, calling Israel to draw near Mount Sinai. The term also signified “jubilee” when all land was returned to the individual/descendants YHWH originally had given it, guaranteeing…

Numbers 10:1-10, “And YHWH spoke to Moses, saying: “Make two silver trumpets for yourself; you shall make them of hammered work; you shall use them for calling the congregation and for directing the movement of the camps. When they blow both of them, all the congregation shall gather before you at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. But if they blow only one, then…

The Genesis 1 creation story is a powerful narrative of deliverance from all things anti-life (v. 2) through the wisdom of His judgments (dividing). The Creator is a conquering King, ordering the chaos and commanding its perpetrators with the power of His voice, and creating a beautiful, life-supporting environment in which He…

The Feast of Trumpets is fixed on the seventh New Moon, emphasizing a demarcation of time in the Hebrew lunar calendar. Seven months from Abib to Tishri contain more light hours than darkness, distinct from months where night predominates, and thus, they house the Feasts of YHWH as Festivals of Light (See Blog 3: Festivals of…

Surrounded by King Sennacherib’s Assyrian armies, Jerusalem groaned under “the King of Terror’s” death sentence (2Ki 20:8–11, Isa. 36–39). Judah’s King Hezekiah fell sick and neared death. In answer to his prayer, God moved his father Ahaz’s sundial back ten degrees as a sign that He would do as He had said. On the third day…

When God called Abram out of Ur of the Chaldees to the Land of Canaan, He promised that his descendants would inherit the land He would give them after four hundred years of affliction by foreign people. His identity as the creating deity lay in bringing Israel out from foreign oppression at a precise moment (see Blog 36’s Appendix 44 attachment). That YHWH…

John’s fifth sign (Jhn. 6:15-25) follows directly from and concludes the fourth sign’s feeding of the five thousand (Jhn. 6:1-14). The crowd perceived Yeshua as like Moses, who freed them from oppression, fed them in the wilderness, and taught them YHWH statutes and judgments at Mount Sinai. Yearning to be free from Roman domination, the people began putting hope in…

The fifth sign’s discourse¹ begins, “But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives” (Jhn. 8:1), establishing the tenor for the entire address: YHWH is our Judge and His justice. It stands distinct from “every man went to his own house” (Jhn. 7:53) in confusion over Yeshua’s identity. The latter hints at putting aside the matters of God in favor of…