Unveiling the Messiah in the Fall Feasts: Unveiling the Messiah in Adonai's Feasts, #2

Introduction

Chapter 1

The Feast of Trumpets or Yom Teruah

Part 1

Part 2

Chapter 2

The Day of Atonement or

Yom HaKippurim

Part 1

Part 2

Jacob’s Trouble

Part 3

Part 4

The Scapegoat Offering

Part 5

Chapter 3

The Feast of Tabernacles or Sukkot

Part 1

Part 2

Chapter 4

Eighth Day & The Feast of Chanukah

Closing

Sources

Introduction

Many books have been written with much wisdom concerning the Holy One’s feasts/appointed times. There are multiple blogs and articles on the feasts as well as traditions on how to keep them, from a Jewish and Christian perspective. This book will offer more understanding on the Messiah in each feast day and how to navigate this new knowledge in your life without bondage. I also expound on the coming of the Messiah and both the light and darkness hidden in the Fall Feast Days.

I write concerning the voice of the prophets of old and spend more time and attention on the prophetic passages concerning the seven feasts listed in the Tanakh (Old Testament) and the times we are living in. I believe we are approaching difficult times, but if we look to the heavens concerning the Holy One’s calendar, we can be prepared. Psalm 19 states that the heavens declare our Father’s glory and the heavens have a voice:

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky shows His handiwork. Day to day, they speak, night to night they reveal knowledge. There is no speech, no words, where their voice goes unheard. Their voice has gone out to all the earth and their words to the end of the world. In the heavens He pitched a tent for the sun. It is like a bridegroom coming out of his bridal chamber.

—Psalm 19:2-6, TLV

The Feasts of the Holy One are listed in order in the Book of Leviticus 23. Our Father’s Holy Days are mentioned throughout the Bible, and they are all about Jesus. I like to refer to Jesus by His Hebrew name, Yeshua, which means salvation. One specific feast, The Feast of Trumpets, also called A Day of Blowing, is often described as the season of our Messiah’s return. In the Book of Isaiah, the Holy One explains how He reckons time: I declare the end from the beginning (Isaiah 46:10, BSB). Meditate on the end being hidden in not only the Fall Feasts, but the Spring Feasts as well. The Holy One created the heavens and the earth in six days and then declared the 7th day His Sabbath rest at the end of His creation.  This 7th day represents the longest day of rest, metaphorically, a 1,000 year reign with our Messiah when He returns. Hence, Adonai declared the end from the beginning. On the Feast of Trumpets, shofars are blown continually:

Adonai spoke to Moses, saying:  Speak to Bnei-Yisrael [sons of Israel], saying: In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you are to have a Shabbat rest, a memorial of blowing, a holy convocation.

—Leviticus 23:23-24, TLV

Two silver trumpets were to be used to call the congregation to the tent of meeting and for having the camps set out (Numbers 10:1-10). The silver trumpets were to be blown by the High Priest or his representative. When the Messiah returns, we will hear the Tekiah Gedolah (The Great Shofar). There are four sounds concerning this musical instrument:

·     Tekiah: One long blast, a wake-up.

·     Shevarim: Three medium blasts.

·     Teruah: Nine blasts ending with a long blast.

·     Tekiah Gedolah: One long forceful blast.

The Tekiah Gedolah meaning great is like the Tekiah but with a blast that brings power. In Matthew 24, this sound is called a Great Shofar. Some translations say a loud trumpet call. The shofar is a trumpet—an ancient instrument:

Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the land will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. He will send out His angels with a great shofar, and they will gather together His chosen from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. 

—Matthew 24:30-31, TLV

It is currently 2024, but during the season of 2015, I heard a shofar blowing loudly. I told my husband about the incident as he was out of town, and I pondered it in my heart. At that time, we lived in the middle of the woods, far away from anyone. The sound of it was so loud it resonated in my soul. I wondered what it could mean. Later, I discovered that there were others who had heard the sound of the shofar blast. This trumpet herald made world news. The shofar or trumpet blast sounds were named "strange sounds from the sky and apocalyptic blast. These noises were heard in places such as America, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Denmark, Sweden, England, Ukraine, and France. You can listen to these Strange Sounds in the sky" on YouTube. Many scientists have tried to explain the reasoning behind the noise. One suggestion was that it could have been the shifting of tectonic plates. Still, I believe all these similarities and messages were being spoken to prepare the Body of Messiah for the coming days. Today, the labor pains mentioned in Matthew 24 by Yeshua are becoming harder as wars and great darkness fill the earth. God’s people are told to not be alarmed:

You will hear of wars and rumors of wars but see to it that you are not alarmed. These things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains.

—Matthew 24:6-8, BSB

Much of Matthew 24 came to pass in 70 A.D. The Romans invaded Judea and this war lasted over three years. (See Flavius Josephus, The Wars of the Jews; 67 A.D.-70 A.D). The Romans marched all over Judea, Samaria, Perea, Galilee, and the Negev, leaving paths of destruction and death. Back then they had no CNN or Fox News Channels, but word of mouth, rumors, and reports of the invasion went forth to the surrounding areas. God’s people were enslaved, killed, sent to do slave labor.

Yeshua warned the disciples to flee Judea because the whole land would be under siege not just Jerusalem, and their beloved Temple would be set ablaze in 70 A.D.

Jewish Virtual Library states:

It is estimated that as many as one million Jews died in the Great Revolt against Rome. When people today speak of the almost two-thousand-year span of Jewish homelessness and exile, they are dating it from the failure of the revolt and the destruction of the Temple. Indeed, the Great Revolt of 66-70, followed some sixty years later by the Bar Kokhba revolt, were the greatest calamities in Jewish history prior to the Holocaust. ​[1]

Yeshua, the greatest prophet to ever walk the earth warns us of things to come and explains that when we see troubling events occurring on the earth, we will have an understanding that He is at the door. The Messiah tells us to have our bridal gowns prepared and our lamps burning. By keeping the Father’s feasts days, we learn the season of His return. The Bible explains clearly that no man knows the day or the hour of the Messiah’s return, not even the Son, but only His Father. However, we can know the seasons, and the prophets of old can help prepare us for what lies ahead. Remember, history repeats itself.

How can we keep the Holy One’s feasts today with clean hands and a pure heart? Are these ancient feasts for Christians today? These books, Unveiling The Messiah In The Spring Feasts and Unveiling The Messiah In The Fall Feasts bring unpretentious refinement and knowledge concerning the last days referred to as Jacob’s trouble. It is my heart’s desire that as you journey into the Messianic Kingdom and the Holy One’s seasons that your spirit will be revived and renewed.  

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Feast of Trumpets

Or

Yom Teruah

Chapter 1

The Feast of Trumpets or Yom Teruah

Part 1

The Feast of Trumpets is the fifth feast of Israel, and one that seems to have been hidden on purpose. Just as the Son said, No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father (Matthew 24:36, BSB). Yeshua used a phrase his people would have been familiar with, But of that day and hour no man knows. When the people heard those words, they would immediately have made the association with the Feast of Trumpets. There is only one feast day that begins at the New Moon and that is the Feast of Trumpets. The beginning of the 7th month on the Hebrew calendar is Tishrei 1. The name Tishri is not used in the Bible as it is a Babylonian name. Tishrei usually occurs in September–October on the Gregorian calendar.

Although, the Feast of Trumpets is not listed by name in the Bible. It lies in the shadows unless one is searching for it or enlightened to it. This feast is known to Christians as the Feast of Trumpets but is called Yom Teruah in Hebrew.  The word Teruah is Strong’s Concordance 8643, and it means a shout or blast of war, alarm, or joy.  An old hymn When the Roll is Called up Yonder, I’ll be There speaks of this day of blowing:

When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound and time shall be no more,

And the morning breaks, eternal, bright and fair;

When the saved of earth shall gather over on the other shore,

And the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there.

The Bible speaks of this day repeatedly:

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 the heavens to the other.

—Matthew 24:31, BSB

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; those who died united with the Messiah will be the first to rise.

—I Thessalonians 4:16, CJB

In modern Judaism, it is called Rosh Hashanah or head of the year. However, there are four Jewish New Years on the Hebraic calendar. Do not be confused by this. Rosh Hashanah is the civil new year. The Feast of Trumpets begins a ten-day period leading up to the holiest day of the year, the Day of Atonement, which will be covered in a following chapter.  The days between are called the Days of Awe and are filled with much introspection, reflection, and preparing one's heart. This is the one day of the year when our name is said to