In this teaching from “God Honest Truth,” we delve into the biblical significance of Yom Teruah. This solemn day, commanded by Yahweh in Vayiqra (Leviticus) 23, is one of the seven appointed times (Mo’edim) and is marked by the sounding of the shofar.
Drawing upon both the Tanakh and the Apostolic Writings, this video explores the prophetic and spiritual meaning behind this day of blowing trumpets. Far more than just another Holy Day, Yom Teruah is a moed (appointed time) established by Yahweh in Leviticus 23. This study aims to provide clarity, context, and a deeper appreciation of this sacred appointment, bridging its ancient observance with its Messianic fulfillment.
If you desire to grow in understanding of Yahweh’s appointed times and how they illuminate the life and ministry of Yahushua (Jesus), this teaching will serve as a valuable resource. Whether you are new to the biblical feasts or seeking deeper theological insight, this video offers a balanced and scholarly perspective. So join us as we learn the God Honest Truth about Yom Teruah, otherwise known as Rosh Hoshannah.
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Transcript
Teaching Introduction
In this video, we’re going to conduct a focused examination on one of Yahweh’s appointed times. Yuma, sometimes anachronistically referred to as Rosh Hashana. In scripture, Yom Teru’ah is not described as a New Year celebration, but as a day of blasting, a day marked by the sound of a shofar. Together, we’ll explore and see what the Bible actually says about this particular moedim or feast day. So join us for this exegetical study. Open your scriptures and let’s uncover the God-honest truth about Yom Teru’ah.
Video Start
So this teaching or draw is going to be all about the moedim or feast day of yom Teru’ah otherwise known as Rosh Hashanah. So make sure to have your notes ready. And if you want more notes than what we can go through here and more notes than what we’ve got included here, you can get that through our website at godhonesttruth.com. Click on the post for this particular episode and there in the article post you’ll be able to see the on demand video that you see here on your screen. You’ll be able to see the draw slides that are up here on the screen and be able to go through them at your own pace. In addition to that, we also have the notes that we took for this particular episode so that you can get even more information about this particular subject than we included in this teaching. And there’s also going to be the transcript once that becomes available if that is something of benefit to you. And you can find all that in the article post right there on our website at godhonestruth.com. Now, if you would like an easier way to get there, you can go down below in the description and we’ve placed a convenient link down there. Simply click on that link and it’ll take you directly to the article post. And that link should be down there regardless of whether you’re watching on a video platform or whether you’re listening through an audio podcasting platform. That link should be down there in the description all the same.
Yom Teruah
Like I said, this teaching is going to be all about the feast or the moedim of Yom Teru’ah. We start out by looking at the very foundation of our belief and our doctrine, which is scripture. And we look in Numbers 29:E1. And in the seventh new moon, on the first day of the new moon, you have a set apart gathering. You do no servile work. It is yum Teru’ah. Now this word, this phrase yom tera is two different Hebrew words. Yom and tera. Obviously yom means well pretty much what you think it means. As in every other instance of yom, it means day. And this could have multiple means depending on what it is, but usually means somewhere about the same thing. Can mean day as in daylight as opposed to dark or night. It can mean day as in a 24-hour period from sunset to sunset as it were or as it’s defined and laid out in Genesis. The second word, Teru’ah, if you look on your screen here, you can see it has multiple meanings as well, but it usually means something like a loud glamour, a loud shout or a loud sound such as that from a shofar or a trumpet, which is why this day or this moedim is generally translated as the day of trumpets. Teru’ah can mean alarm or signal, alarm of war, war cry or battle cry. And that’s used a lot of times in scripture to move the camp for a battle cry etc etc. Think of the walls of Jericho for instance. You got a blast for marching usually in military. A shout of joy. Keep that in mind too because the prophetic meaning of Yom Teru’ah could play into that whole shout of joy and the whole alarm thing as well. But more on that coming up later. For those of you who are nerdy like I am, here is your lexicon and dictionary entries for these particular words.
Yom
We’re going to start out with the first one, and that is yom. And that is going to be Strong’s H3117 for yom. Here is your outline of biblical usage from blueletterbible.com. And it’s usually used according to them as day, time, year, etc. And blue letterbible.com is one of those more traditional kind of sites. So they tend to lean more towards the King James. So anytime you see things like outline of biblical usage or anything from BlueLetterBible.org, it probably comes from the King James translation. Next, we look at our Strong’s definition and our Brown Driver Briggs entry for the Hebrew word yom. And here in Strongs, you got it defined as a day from sunrise to sunset, from one sunset to the next, a space of time defined by an associated term. And there’s your Brown Driver Briggs entry. And of course, there’s various nuances that get into this when you use it in a phrase and various different things. So, like I said, if you want more information, go check out our notes that we’ve got. And here’s the Justinus’ Hebrew lexicon entry for the word yom. And pretty much define it as the same thing. But like I said, if you’re a nerd like I am, you love this kind of stuff. Anyways, these entries that we’re putting up for the lexicons and the dictionaries, we had to cut them down greatly and immensely to get them to fit on these particular slides. So, if you like the full entry, you’re more than welcome to go look them up yourselves. Everything we put up here is freely available to find on the internet. And we’ve also provided the entries, copy and paste, in the notes file. So once again, go check out the notes file if you’d like to see the entire entry. Say for instance, from Justin’s Hebrew lexicon. And finally, here is your Jastrow’s dictionary of the Targums Klein dictionary entry and Hebrew Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament entry for the Hebrew word yom. Finally, this has got defined much like the other ones as light as day meaning opposed to night or day as in 24-hour period. sunset to sunset as it were, etc., etc.
Teru’ah
And now here is the Hebrew word Teru’ah from Strongs H8643. And again, that’s Strong’s H8643. Teru’ah. And here’s your outline of biblical usage from blueletterbible.org, meaning alarm, signal, sound of tempest, shout, shout, or blast of war, or alarm of joy. And here’s your Strongs entry. And they’ve got it defined as clamor, acclamation of joy, battle cry, clanganger of trumpets, alarm, loud noise, shouting, etc., etc. And here’s your brown driver Briggs and Gesenius’ Hebrew lexicon entry for Teru’ah. And here is your Jerrell’s dictionary of the Targums and Klein dictionary entry for Teru’ah. And finally, last but not least, here is your Hebrew and Aramaic lexicon of the Old Testament entry for Teru’ah. Now, surprisingly, like I said, I cut it down a lot just to get fit on the slides, but the Hebrew and Aramaic lexicon of the Old Testament or HALOT, it’s very, very, how should I say this? Cluttered with a lot of stuff that you’d have to be like super nerdy to get all that. So, this is actually an improvement from what you see in the actual HALOT. So, you’re welcome for that. But if you’d like to see the actual entry, like I said, you can go look it up yourselves or go look in our notes and it’s going to read not nearly as easy as you see it here on your screen.
Scripture
But anyways, let’s go ahead and move right into the meat of the matter and that is from our scriptures itself. We look at the very first instance we find of the command for Yom Teru’ah and that comes from Leviticus 23 23-2. And Yahweh spoke to Moshe saying speak to the children of Israel saying in the seventh new moon on the first day of the new moon you have a rest, a remembrance of Teru’ah. You do no servile work and you shall bring an offering made by fire to Yahweh. So here, this is the very first instance we have of tero, I’m sorry, yom Teru’ah being commanded in scripture by Yahweh himself. This is one of the seven feast days throughout the year that’s commanded in the Torah. And it’s one of the fall feast days which we’re now starting to get into. And we go on to look at numbers 10 verse 10. And this is talking about using horns, trumpets, shofars, etc., etc. for various things. And you can see that when you read throughout scripture, you can see these horns used for different things. But here is just one example in Numbers 10:10. And in the day of your gladness and in your appointed times and at the beginning of your new moons, you shall blow the trumpets over your ascending offerings and over your slaughterings of peace offerings. And they shall be a remembrance for you before your Elohim. I am Yahweh your Elohim. So here it’s telling you to blow the trumpets or make Teru’ah at various times throughout the year. You can see at the day of your gladness, if you’re happy, joyful, make a joyful shout, make a joyful sound with the trumpet or shofar in your appointed times in the moedim. And this is things like Passover, First Fruits, Shavuot, Yom Teru’ah, Yom Kippurim, Sukkot, etc., etc. And also another appointed time is going to be the new moons or the beginning of the month. And this happens 12 different times according to the scriptures. There’s 12 months in the biblical calendar at the beginning of your new moons. Like I said, beginning of the months, and you shall blow the trumpets over your ascending offerings as well. So these trumpets, these horns, these shofars, they were used for various different things, not just yum tero. So trumpets play, I don’t know if say if it’s an important part, but definitely a distinct part all throughout scripture all the way up even into the book of revelation, which we’ll probably get into a little bit later on in the end times. So from just about beginning to the very end, trumpets, shofars, etc., etc., play a distinct and visible part in our history. Moving on to Numbers 29:es 1-6. And here is the second commandment to celebrate Yom Teru’ah with a little more detail given about the day itself. Numbers 29:es 1-6. And in the seventh new moon, on the first day of the new moon, you have a set apart gathering. You do no servile work. It is Yom Teru’ah. And you shall prepare an ascending offering as a sweet fragrance to Yahweh. One young bull, one ram, seven lambs a year old, perfect ones, and their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil, 3/10 of an epha for the bull, 2/10 for the ram, and 1/10enth for each of the seven lambs, and one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you. besides the ascending offering with its grain offering for the new moon. The continual ascending offering with its grain offering and their drink offerings according to their right ruling as a sweet fragrance made an offering made by fire to Yahweh. So, you’ve got a lot more added here than you saw back in Leviticus. So, let’s kind of break this down a little bit. It says here in the seventh new moon. So, what is this seventh new moon? Well, the new moon begins the month according to scripture. So the seventh new moon is the beginning of the seventh month, the first day of the seventh month. And here it says seventh new moon on the first day of the new moon. So first day of the seventh month, you have a set apart gathering. Get together somehow and perform this. You do no servile work. Here’s what is commonly referred to as a shabatton. Maybe you’ve never heard that. That’s just kind of how I’ve always heard it. There’s two different words for Shabbat that’s used for various things that I’ve personally heard throughout the years. Shabbat is the regular weekly Shabbat day of rest. That’s where you do no survival work and no work at all. No cleaning, no carrying wood, no going out to a job, etc., etc., right? But a Shabbaton where you do no servile work is pretty much the same as a regular weekly Shabbat. But on a Shabbaton, you’re allowed to actually make and prepare food. No working a job or anything like that. No carrying big boulders or whatnot, but you can make food. And that’s the one distinction between a Shabbaton and the regular weekly Shabbat. It goes on. It says it is Yom Teru’ah, the name for this particular moedim. And once again, for those of you who may not be familiar, the word moedim means appointed time. And you shall prepare an ascending offering. It goes through the various offerings that go through as well. So you get together on the first day of the seventh month. You do no servile work. You call it yola and you prepare these offerings. Now these offerings are something that we currently cannot do because there is no temple standing. Now if the temple gets rebuilt appropriately and get rid of that big zit on the temple mound that’s currently there now then these kinds of sacrifices will go back into play. And scripture even tells us that in the end days the sacrifices will resume. So we’re not there yet. We don’t have no temple currently. So we cannot do these ascending offerings or the grain offerings or ex any other kind of offerings because there’s no temple. There’s no active priesthood serving at the temple either. But just so you know that is part of one of the things it’s commanded to do on Yom Teru’ah, the moedim of Yom Teru’ah. Now Yom Teru’ah like I intimated before is known by a couple of different names. Yom Teru’ah is the name used in scripture. It’s also called Rosh Hashanah by a lot of those within Judaism actually, especially the Orthodox Jews. And Rosh Hashanah literally means head of the year. More about that coming up. It’s also referred to as Yom Hazicharon and that means a day of remembrance. Remember earlier when we was reading the scriptures it said to have this day as a remembrance to Yahweh. Well, it’s also called Yom Hazicharon as a day of remembrance. Another name it’s also called is Yom Harat HaOlam and that means birthday of the world. So let’s stop right here and examine that for just a little bit. This whole belief that Yom Teru’ah is when creation actually happened is actually a tradition within Judaism. It’s not something that comes from scripture itself. So can we prove from scripture that yum Teru’ah is the birthday of the world when creation actually started? No, we cannot prove that from scripture. However, we still cannot disprove it either. And this whole tradition of believing that Yom Teru’ah is the birthday of the world. Well, it’s just that it’s a belief. It’s a tradition. As far as I know, it doesn’t come from any pagan sources. So, it’s in that gray area. If you want to believe it, you’re okay to go for it. But if you don’t, you’re also okay cuz we can’t prove it and we can’t disprove it. And the only people I know of that believe that Yom Teru’ah is the beginning or the birthday of the world is those within Judaism.
Concerning Month Names
Now, speaking of various names for things, especially Yom Teru’ah, there are also misunderstandings and things that aren’t understood about names of other things, especially the names of months. And this is where we kind of, how should I say this professionally? Anyways, there’s a different way of saying things in Judaism. There’s a different way of saying things here between those of us who are of a messianic mindset and and names of months are one of those things that comes down to and the tradition versus scripture kind of debate as well. But let’s go ahead and talk a little bit about the names of months. Now, I used to believe and I used to think that scripture did not name months, but it actually does. And a viewer like you out there watching it actually brought this up in one of the comments in a YouTube video and you know who you are. So, thank you so so much for that. I think it was like maybe two years ago and corrected us. So, we really do appreciate that. But scripture actually does give a name for four of the months throughout the year. And here, let’s look at the name of the first month from scripture and what scripture calls the first month. Exodus 23 verse 1-15 guard the festival of matzo 7 days you eat unleavened bread as I commanded you at the time appointed in the new moon of Aviv for in it you came out of Mitsrayim (Egypt) and do not appear before me emptyhanded. So here scripture itself is referring to the first month meaning the first new moon as by the name of Eve going on to first kings 6:1 and it came to be in the 480th year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Mitsrayim (Egypt) in the fourth year of the reign of Shelomoh (Solomon) over Israel in the new moon of Zeve which is the second new moon that he began to build the house of Yahweh. So here scripture is referring to the second month by the name of Zeve. So we got Aviv and Zeve or Zeve. First Kings 8:2. And all the men of Israel assembled to sovereign Shelomoh (Solomon) at the festival in the month of Ethanim, which is the seventh new moon. Now, this really hits home according to the teaching or the draw that we’re doing tonight on Yom Teru’ah. Yum Teru’ah is in the seventh month, the seventh new moon. And what is the seventh month referred to by in scripture? Ethanim. Ethanim. Now remember that name because it’s going to appear again here in just a little bit. But at least now you know what it’s referring to when it says ethanim. And finally, we read First Kings 6:38. And in the 11th year, in the month Bull, the 8th new moon, the house was completed in all its matters and according to all its plans. Thus he built it for seven years. So here we’ve got the name of the eighth month and according to scripture not any denomination’s particular tradition but according to scripture the eighth month is named bul as long as I’m pronouncing that correctly. So now the names that we’re used to is of the names of the months are probably come from what you’ve heard from Judaism. Things like Nissan or Tree, things like that. Those aren’t actual scriptural names. Those names actually come from Babylon. Now a lot of times you’ve heard a lot during this ministry and a lot of our teachings will talk about the traditions and things that come from mainstream Christianity. But there are also things like with mainstream Christianity, there are things within Judaism that were brought in from outside sources as well. One of those things are the names of the months that those within Judaism still use up to this day. For instance, we look in the Talmud, and this is written somewhere, I’m actually thinking 200C. Could be wrong. Don’t quote me on that. Anyways, we see here in this quote from the Talmud in one line it says, “As Rabbi or Rebi Hanina said, the names of the months ascended with them from Babylonia.” So when they came from Babylon, there’s a lot of different things that changed and they brought with them. One of the things was the names of the months. Here in this one particular quote you can see they use the Babylonian names for months like Tish, Nissan etc etc but it also uses the scriptural names like Ethanim, Bull and Ziv that we just went over. So here at this particular point in history, the Jews are starting to swap and move things around. And eventually these Babylonian names came to be the predominant usage and what was commonly used. And nowadays those within Judaism just use the Babylonian names for the months of the year. Here’s a chart comparing the Hebrew names, I’m sorry, the scriptural names with those of the Babylonian names. here in the first month. Even though scripture calls it Aviv or Abib, those within Judaism call it Nissan from the Babylonian name for the first month which is Nissanu. Look at the seventh month there. And even though scripture calls the seventh month by the name of Ethanim, those within Judaism call it Tishri or Tish from the Babylonian name Tashitu. So you can see how this is going and the various names. On the left hand side where it says Hebrew name, that’s actually the name that used within Judaism. On the right is the Babylonian name and the yellow in parenthesis is what the scriptures actually refer to these months as. But I’ll remind you once again, remember that name Ethanim. It’s going to come into play here pretty shortly.
Concerning Rosh Hashanah
Now let’s go ahead and look at that name Rosh Hashana. Rosh, where does that come from? Why do people use it? Well, Rosh Hashanah, as we said, the literal translation of that phrase is head of the year. If it’s done in the seventh month, that’s not the head of the year. That the first month is ahead of the year. So why do they call it Rosh Hashanah? Well, this is something else that comes from Babylon as well. We’ll get to in just a moment. But the actual head of the year is the first month. And what is the name of the first month? If you’ll remember, scripture calls the name of the first month Aviv or Abib. But in the Judaism way of saying it nowadays, it’s going to be Nissan from the Babylonian Nissanu. According to Flavius Josephus or just plainly Josephus, this comes from the antiquities of the Jews. Quote, “But Moses appointed that Nissan should be the first month for their festivals because he brought them out of Egypt in that month, so that this month began the year as to all the solemnities that they observed to the honor of God.” End quote. So during Josephus’s time they were using the first month of Aviv or Nissan as the first month as the Rosh Hashana the head of the year to start counting out for new moons for moedim for feast days etc etc and one of the things that Josephus is referring to here goes all the way back to Exodus 12:2 this new moon is the beginning of new moons for you. It is the first new moon of the year for you. Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, “On the 10th day of this new moon, each one of them is to take for himself a lamb according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household.” Now, here I’ve provided various different other translations for you. So, you can see that what they’re referring to here as the beginning of new moons is actually the beginning of months or the first month of the year. This is talking about the first month and the first month of course is the head of the year. So that is the actual Rosh Hashanah and what people in scripture actually refer to as Rosh Hashanah even though it’s rarely used that term. It’s usually like beginning of new moons, beginning of the months etc etc. And for context also included another verse there just so you know this is talking about the first month when Pesach actually happens. We go on and look at Esther chapter 3 and it says here in the first new moon which is the new moon of Nissan in the 12th year of sovereign Ahashwerosh someone cast purr that is the lot before Haman from day to day and from new moon to new moon until it fell on the 12th month which is the new moon of Adar. Once again the first new moon the first month is what here they refer to it as Nissan. Now, of course, at this time during the book of Esther, they are in Babylonian captivity. They don’t call it Aviv, they call it Nissan, but it’s referring to the first month, the Rosh Hashanah of the actual Hebrew calendar, a biblical calendar. And they were talking it went to the 12th month. They were casting purr into the 12th month, which is the new moon of Adar. Now, this is something that we don’t include in this particular teaching, but if you read the story of Solomon, you’ll see that in biblical times, there was 12 months. Later on, it changed. It got all kinds of messed up, but there are 12 months. So, the 12th month, Adar, would actually be the end of the year. So, once again, proving that Nissan or Aviv more accurately, is the first month or the Rosh Hashana of the year. So compare this verse here also to other verses like we did before and you’ll see that yeah all these English translations and just about everyone else go ask a rabbi go ask someone within Judaism and was talking about new moon that means the beginning of a month and the first new moon is the first month and that’s going to be aviv. Now, let’s go on and look at Ezekiel 40:E1. And so far, this is the only spot in scripture where I’ve actually found the phrase, the way we use it as Rosh Hashana. And here in Ezekiel 40:1, in the 25th year of our exile at Rosh Hashanah on the 10th of the new moon, in the 14th year after the city was stricken, on that same day, the hand of Yahweh came upon me and he brought me there. Now, for those of you who are super nerds, I’ve also included the Hebrew here. So, you can see where it actually says in Hebrew, Rosh Hashab. Now, we know this is not speaking of the seventh month. We know it’s not speaking of Yom Teru’ah for various different things. The whole meaning and symbolism that Ezekiel is talking about here is that kind of symbolism and meaning and metaphor that aligns more with the moedim of Pesach (Passover) than it does with Yom Teru’ah. But besides that, the Septuagint, the LXX, the Greek translation that was done by Hebrews actually has it as the first month instead of Rosh Shana, head of the year, they actually meant back in those times and the people who were writing scripture, first of the month, they actually meant Rosh Shana, the head of the year, the very first of the year. Like I said, we comment a lot of times we talk about the syncretism that happens with mainstream Christianity throughout the past 2,000 years, but like we said earlier, Judaism is no exception. They have actually syncretized various things. One of the things that you may have heard of before is the Hanukkah bush during Hanukkah, which is completely from paganism and syncretized. But we’re not getting on that. We’re going to stick with various things with yum Teru’ah etc etc and let’s move on and look at a quote from the universal Jewish encyclopedia and this is for the day of yom kippur but it says here quote when the new year’s day became the day of god’s judgment no doubt under Babylonian influence the atoning character of yom kippur became still stronger here they’re referring to the new year’s day as the day of god’s judgment. So, do they think the first day of the first month is the day of God’s judgment? No. What they’re actually referring to here is the seventh month. They’re talking about the new year being in the seventh month, which people nowadays or those within Judaism think of Rosh Hashanah as the first day of the seventh month. And that is the new year. And a whole new year’s theme. We’ll be talking about that all throughout this teaching. Just know it’s not the new year. But according to Jewish the universal Jewish encyclopedia, this came about due to Babylonian influence. This is something that Judaism brought forth with them out of the Babylonian captivity. It’s a form of syncretism within Judaism. Shouldn’t have happened, but it did. And that’s what is going on here. Looking at the Jewish Encyclopedia for the entry on atonement. And here it says, quote, “But under the influence of Babylonian mythology, which spoke of the beginning of the year, Zagmuk on the first day of Nissan as the time when the gods decided the destiny of life. The idea developed also in Jewish circles that on the first of Tishri, the sacred New Year’s Day and the anniversary of creation, man’s doings were judged and his destiny was decided and that on the 10th of Tish, the decree of heaven was sealed. a view still unknown to Pho and disputed by some rabbis. End quote. So here once again, we got this whole Babylonian mythology influence coming in and influencing those within Judaism. Now remember, they spent decades in exile in Babylon. No doubt they probably was around stuff like this all the time and they picked it up. But it doesn’t mean they had to bring it with them. It doesn’t mean they had to accept it and start doing it themselves. But they did. Here it’s talking about spoke at the beginning of the year on the first day of Nissan. Okay. So far so good. First day of the year is the first day of Nissan. That is the actual biblical calendar. Okay. Doing good so far. But then it gets off the tracks. The idea developed also in Jewish circles that on the first of the the sacred New Year’s Day. It only talks about one New Year’s Day in scripture and that’s the first of Nissan, not the first of the seventh month. Seventh month is halfway through the year, so it can’t be New Year’s Day. Again, scripture only talks about one New Year’s Day and not two and not four. We’ve actually got a quote in the notes if you go look it up from the Talmud talking about four different New Years. because that’s Talmud, but it’s not scripture. Keep that in mind. They picked up this whole concept of multiple New Years from the Babylonians, and now they’re considering the first of Tishre as New Year’s Day and they’re also considering the anniversary of creation. Does that come from Babylonian influence as well? Don’t know. I haven’t had seen anything definitive about that particular aspect. But we do know that they did not get multiple new years from scripture. That definitely had to come from somewhere else. And more than likely came from Babylonian influence. And everything you can see here, we’ve read multiple different entries from Jewish encyclopedias themselves saying things that intimated that it was due to Babylonian influence.
Trumpets
Let’s go on and look at some more about trumpets within scripture and how trumpets play a distinct and visible role throughout scripture from almost the very beginning to definitely the very end and the end times. We look at numbers 10:2-6 and I should have quoted this for you but I didn’t. You can look it up. That’s numbers 10:2-6. And here the trumpets are used for to call for meeting or to move the camp. So remember in numbers they’re still in the wilderness. So they’ve got these hundreds of thousands if not millions of people that are moving through the wilderness under the guidance of Moshe. But you know how sometimes it’s a struggle to really get 20 or 30 people organized and doing the same thing. Now try to think about moving and organizing and getting hundreds of thousands if not millions of people to do something. Yeah, Moses had broke down, but it’s still a logistical obstacle to get through. But one of the ways they got through that and one of the things they organized people was by the use of trumpets. They would play a certain sound, a certain trumpet, and one section would move and then they do another sound and another section would move, etc. etc. And it’s actually very interesting how they did that. If you go look that up in Numbers 10, you can see the trumpets are used for the organizing and moving of the camp while they were in the wilderness. Also in Numbers 10:9-10 and Psalms 81:3, trumpets are used in wartime and also for feast days like we saw earlier and at the start of months like we also saw earlier. And speaking of war, if you go back and read in the book of Joshua about the fall of Jericho and the battle of Jericho, trumpets also played a very prominent role there as well. Now, something to kind of get off on a little bit of a tangent. Most people when they think of Yom Teru’ah or they think of trumpets, stuff like that, they think of shofars. They think of rams horns, kudu horns, etc., etc. But that’s not all that scripture talks about. Scripture actually mentions silver trumpets and metal trumpets, metal horns and stuff like that way back in the Torah even. So when it talks about trumpets, it doesn’t always mean shofars. It can mean an animal horn or it can also be a metal horn. But that’s just a little bit of a tangent. Went on to Joel 2:es 1-2. Blow a shofar in Zion, and sound an alarm in my set apart mountain. Let all the inhabitants of the earth tremble, for the day of Yahweh is coming, for it is near, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness, like the morning clouds spread over the mountains, a people many and strong, the like of whom has never been, nor shall there ever be again after them to the years of many generations. So, here is a blowing of a shofar this time and it’s to sound an alarm and so that way everyone knows where it’s coming from and what to expect. We move on to Matthew 24 29-31. And immediately after the the distress of those days, the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give its light and the stars shall fall from the heaven and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. And then the sign of the son of Adam shall appear in the heaven. And then all the tribes of the earth shall mourn. And they shall see the son of Adam coming on the clouds of the heaven with power and much esteem. And he shall send his messengers with a great sound of a trumpet. And they shall gather together his chosen ones from the four winds from one end of the heavens to the other. End quote. So here in the book of Matthew, our Messiah Yeshua is telling us about the end times and what’s going on. And one of the things that he mentions during these end times is the use of a trumpet, the use of a horn to say it generically. All the way up to the end times, these trumpets, these horns play a distinct and visible role. going into 1 Corinthians chapter 15 verse 52. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet, for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. So various things that could go into this one particular verse, but just go ahead and point out again trumpets and the sound of a trumpet or horn is going to play a distinct and visible role even in the end times. And this is according to the apostle Paul. Now you can also see that the dead shall be raised incorruptible. This going back to our what happens when we die video and teaching. Again, this is hinting back to the fact that when we die, we are unconscious. We are dead. We’re not singing, playing harps, flying around, wearing cloth diapers all the time. No, we’re just unconscious until we are raised again at that sound of the trumpet to be with Yeshua at the resurrection of the just. or if you’re watching this video and you’re not saved, you’re not part of the righteous, it’ll be the second resurrection for you. But yeah, just going back showing this is how trumpets still play a distinct invisible role even in the end times. Now, just if you’re watching this right now and you are not saved, you’re not born again, you do not know Yeshua, then by all means write to us somehow. Get through our email at teamgodonesttruth.com. write to us in a comment through one of our social media or networking pages. Get with us and we can answer any questions you might have. But definitely you need to start thinking about what’s going to happen to you after you die because once you die, that’s it. You have no more chance at redemption or salvation. So now is the time to do it. You’re not guaranteed another breath. And if you would like to live forever in the kingdom of heaven, you need to come to Yeshua and be saved. So get with us, get with a local pastor or something like that and yeah, get your life straightened out and turned the right way the way it should. Like I said, feel free to contact us if you’d like. Moving on to First Thessalonians 4:1 16. because the master himself shall come down from heaven with a shout, with a voice of a chief messenger, and with the trumpet of Elohim, and the dead in Messiah shall rise first. So here, not only is a trumpet or a horn playing a distinct invisible role in the end times again, but here it’s even called the trumpet of Elohim, the trumpet or horn of Yahweh. It’s almost as if you could say that Yahweh himself has a horn, has a trumpet. I don’t want to say it definitively, but that is the way it’s worded, at least here in this particular translation. So, yeah, trumpets and horns and shofars, etc., etc., play a distinct and visible role in all throughout scripture, even up and through to the end times. Now, you’ve learned what Yom Teru’ah is. You learned about the different names. you learn about the traditions and the syncretism and where it comes from in scripture, etc., etc.
Yom Teruah Celebration
So, now you’re thinking, “Okay, well, the Torah commands it. I want to live the way Yahweh told me to live. I want to celebrate it. But, hey, brother, I’ve never celebrated it before. How do I celebrate it? How do I do it this year? How do my family How does my family celebrate it?” Things like that. Well, I’m glad you asked because we’re going to get into that right now. If you line up, if you want to celebrate Yom Teru’ah according to scripture, here are the scriptural requirements and commandments for celebrating Yom Teru’ah. Number one, only one day is mentioned in scripture for the moedim of Yom Teru’ah. Now, it doesn’t say it’s only one day, but we’re getting kind of nitpicky. A lot of those within Judaism will actually celebrate it for two days, and there’s reasons for that. Uh, back in the day before they had cellular communication, before they had radios that like the military radios, you walk walkie-talkie, CB, stuff like that. Before they had television, satellite, etc., etc. They had to convey by word of mouth or through messenger, stuff like that. And that took a lot longer than it does now when we send an email halfway across the world. So they want to verify when Yom Teru’ah is by more than just one sighting. So they wait for another sighting verification to come in and that might take a day or two. So that’s they started making it two days. And a lot of times those who are referred to as being in the diaspora have different lengths for the various moedim. But that’s all according to Judaism. And this is one that has no exception within Judaism. Those who are in the quote unquote diaspora celebrate yum terra for two days. But unlike the other feast days in Moedim, they also celebrate yum Teru’ah for two days in Israel as well. And again, this all goes back to the tradition of waiting for verification from more than just one source. But just so you know for your notes, Yom Teru’ah in scripture is only referred to as one day. You may be asking yourself right now, well, what if I celebrate it for two days like the rest of the Jews do? Well, that’s fine. I don’t see anything wrong with it. Doesn’t really come from a pagan source, the length of days that I can see. So, you want to do two days, do two days. But keep in mind that if you do, do it for two days or even if you do it for one day, that the first day is a Shabbaton. That’s where you do no servile work. And the only thing you are allowed to do as far as work goes in contrast to the weekly Shabbat is preparing a meal. Now the only stipulation to that or the only um exception to that would be if the first day of Yom Teru’ah which is supposed to be a Shabbaton lands on a weekly Shabbat. At that point it’s also a Shabbat. So no preparation of food either. Also another way to celebrate Yom Teru’ah nowadays according to scripture is to blow a trumpet or a shofar some kind of animal horn make a joyful shout on this particular day and this could mean this could go about a couple different ways. Like we said, Teru’ah and yum Teru’ah is defined as a day of trumpets or a day of shouting. And Teru’ah can mean a shouting or joy or a sound of alarm. And we said it also played a role even up into the end times. And these trumpets in the end times when they play at the first resurrection that is going to be a sound of joy, a trumpet blast, a shofar blast of joy. However, at the second resurrection, when they hear those trumpets, the unrighteous, the unsaved, who are going to burn up in the fires of Gehenna, the lake of fire, that sound is going to be a sound of alarm. So, you’re kind of seeing how all this kind of fits together now. But if you’re celebrating yourself, make a joyful shout, blow a shofar, blow an animal horn, blow a trumpet, etc., etc., Because after all it is yum Teru’ah the day of trumpets or the day of shouting. This is also supposed to be a day of remembrance. Remember what? Remember various things. There’s no specific thing mentioned in scripture when it talks about Yom Teruah. It just says a day of remembrance. Remember the commandments especially the ten commandments but all the commandments. They’re all good. We should obey all of them. Right? So remember the commandments. Remember scripture. Remember the covenant with Yahweh. Remember what our Messiah did for our sins and our salvation. Remember all these various things and the good things you have in your life. Sit down and count your blessings and see how good your life is. Just remember the important things and the good things that you should be remembering. Make it a day of remembrance. Also, make sure you have a set apart or holy gathering. This is something that we’re told to do in scripture itself. Get with your family. Get with a local congregation. Go online if you can to get together with brothers and sisters in the faith and have a gathering together. And finally, the other thing that’s told to us in scripture that’s commanded on Yom Teru’ah is to present a burnt offering to Yahweh. Now, like we said before, we are unable to do that nowadays. Now, if you remember, the reason for that is because there is no temple and there is no active priesthood service going on in the temple either. So currently, once again, until they get that big zit off the temple mount and raise the temple again, we cannot do a burnt offering. So we’re unable to do that last one. But the rest of them we can do nowadays. However, there are some other things too that Judaism does in celebration of Yom Teru’ah. And some of these things you can actually adopt into your celebration of Yom Teru’ah at home. For instance, the Jews, like I said, they think of this as, well, pretty much the new year, but definitely a new year. In that context, they reflect on the past year they’ve had, and reflect on what they’ve done right. They reflect on what they’ve done wrong, who they’ve done wrong to. They try to make amends. They think about how they can do better in the next year, etc., etc. They this also includes personal reflection on things you can improve in yourself. They think about how you want to grow and better yourself in the next upcoming year cuz again they think that this is a new year even though it’s not. They have what’s called a tash leak service. And this tashlick service is if you’ve never been to one, it’s I don’t know how to describe it or descript with an adjective anyways. But basically a tashlic service is where people usually those within Judaism will get together near a flowing stream of water like a creek or a river something like that and they’ll take these tiny pieces of bread and they will take that actually have like a chunk of bread but they take tiny pieces off and toss them into the river or the creek or what have you and as it carries it down the stream that’s like symbolic of taking the sins away from that past year because again going back to that whole New Year’s theme. Now, this is something I would advise not doing. I just included this here as a description of how Jews celebrate. But one reason I would say that we should not do this whole tashlic service is because well, we have Messiah now. The Messiah from scripture that was foretold in the Torah, in the Tanakh, who died for our sins and took away our sins. So those of us who are saved and born again, we have no need for water to take away bread. to symbolize taking away of our sins because our sins have already been taken away by Yeshua himself. So, this is almost I don’t know how to put this professionally so I just won’t say it, but it almost seems like going somewhat against the sacrifice of Yeshua, but I’ll leave it there and you decide for yourselves. Once again, you men out there, you are the head of your families. You will answer for your own families. You make your own mind up. But yeah, that’s the cash leak service. Now something else that Jews do or those within Judaism do is they eat sweet foods. And the reason they do this is so that it’s with the intention of having a sweet year coming up. So they’ll eat all kinds of various sweet foods such as honey and apples which is always good any time of the year. So it would also be good during Yom Teru’ah as well. But other things they eat that are sweet are different fruits that have a sweet taste to them. And a lot of times people actually try new foods, new fruits they haven’t tried before. And again, this all goes back to the concept of having a sweet new upcoming new year. And yeah, someone in chat brought up a good point. This whole Yom Teru’ah is the beginning or the start of the 10 days of awe leading up to Yom Kippurim, which we’re doing a teaching on next week as well. As far as food goes, those within Judaism want a sweet year coming up. So, they eat sweet foods a lot of times. And if you’re going to have a feast day, you’re gonna have food and you’re going to eat, you got to have Challah, right? Always Challah. And why not? Challah is good. I don’t care how you make it. Challah is good. Anyways, on Yom Teru’ah, they actually make Challah in a different way. A lot of times they will add things like honey and raisins to their Challah in order to make it sweet. Again, going back to that sweet theme to have a sweet New Year’s coming up. Another thing, too, is that those within Judaism will make their Challah in a round or circular shape as well. And this is different for Yom Teru’ah than it is the other Challah that they make throughout the year. So if you’re looking for food for a feast on Yom Teru’ah, think about these various things like honey and fruit and new fruit especially. But if you want to stick with the traditional theme that those within Judaism do, do sweet stuff. That would be kind of the theme for yam Teru’ah. Whereas in Hanukkah, you do fried stuff. Eat kind of healthy now. Then we get to Hanukkah and we’ll eat all the fried stuff.
Summary
Finally, in summary, we see that
- Yom Teruah is the scripturally commanded day of trumpets or shouting, the making of a joyful noise.
- The first day of the seventh month is the feast or the moedim of Yom Teru’ah. The first day of the seventh month, and that month is named Ethanim in scripture.
- Anyways, the first day of yum Teru’ah is a shabbaton where you do no servile work. However, you’re allowed to prepare your meals.
- Rosh Hashanah is the first first month which scripturally named Aviv. Again, the head of the year is the first month of the year and that is Aviv. So, Rosh Hashanah is the first month, not the seventh month.
- Scripture calls this particular moedim, this particular feast day by the name of Yom Teru’ah, not Rosh Hashana.
And that’s just the god honest truth.
