Author: David Keith

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Conversations…

From time to time I am confronted with the work of anti-missionaries. While there are a number of variants of this phenomena, it usually goes something like this:
Person discovers that what is taught in church doesn’t come from Scripture. Person begins seeking out other knowledge, using familiar methodologies that said person used in church.
Person latches on to titillating, sensational teacher(s) who teach many truths from Scripture that the christian was unfamiliar  with.
Teacher(s) fail to teach person that person is responsible for self-education in Scripture, History, Hebrew language studies, archaeological studies, and learning to walk in a personal relationship with the real Creator of Heaven and Earth – you know, the one defined and revealed solely in Scripture.
Person runs with this new found knowledge for a time, but doesn’t reform the deficient, irresponsible approach to faith in Messiah and the Father.
Person gets bored, hasn’t developed the mature ‘nonsense filter’ that comes from a faith-centric functional relationship with their Creator, and starts listening to anti-missionary drivel. Drivel comes from many sources, including judasim, messianic judaism, christianity, atheists, secularists etc.
Person doesn’t have the discernment nor wisdom that comes from that faith-centric, obedient, functional relationship with their Creator, and begins to entertain doubts about their recently new-found knowledge.
Person is unaware that there is a problem, with their approach and with their heart. Person follows the usual Greco-Roman pattern of seeking to share their doubts with others of perceived greater faith than themselves.
And the conversation begins….
I’ve had a few of these over the years; depending on the level of humility of said person – or perhaps more appropriately their stubbornness and lack of humility – the conversation usually goes down hill rather quickly, as the person who has the functional faith-and-obedience-centered relationship with their Creator gives appropriate warning to person who is now doubting what they once believed.
Here is a modified version of one such conversation. Names have been removed for the sake of privacy.

********Person********

This was a bit of an eye-opener for me; any thoughts?

Jesus and the Historian <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd7Lanms-gY>

********First response********
Hope this response finds you well.I listened – with much difficulty – to the first half hour. At that point I had to turn it off.

This gentleman has fallen prey to the same long running disinformation campaign that we all have at one time or another. He is but a tool in the hand of the master destroyer.

His knowledge of history, his contextual awareness of Scripture, along with his misguided sense of authority, are all signs of your typical spirit-less christian seminarian.

I wouldn’t waste your precious study time on this sort of material. It will only lead to your misdirection.

A good place for you to learn about the differences between the gospels is from Michael Rood’s The Chronological Gospels. He details the differences and why they exist.

This ‘professor’/seminarian is so poorly researched that his ‘evidence’ of the origins of the texts of the Brit Chadasha is purely anecdotal! He doesn’t even appear to be versant on the writings of the church fathers on the topic! As a seminarian!

I’ve learned far more about Messiah Yehoshua’s history from Nehemiah Gordon than from all of the church ‘historians’ combined. And he is not even pretending to be a believer in Messiah!

Anyway, stay focused on Yah’s perfect ways, achi. It always leads us to the unleavened Messiah.

Stay in touch, good to hear from you.

Shalom u’vrachot,

********Person’s rebuttal********
I have a different take on the video and found him informative to the very end.  I knew that seminary students were being taught more than just ‘inside the box’ theology.  Protestants, Roman Catholics, Baptists, Messianics, et Al., have their different takes on the Councils of Nicaea, Marcion, and even Martin Luther, but —- few consider why the Gospels were written 40 years after JC didn’t ‘soon’ return –or that Paul’s letters came first. This video adds insight to the NT that the Church hides.Like many Messianics, I found it puzzling in the Church as to why the Father was secondary to JC and rarely mentioned – especially in song.  How could the biblical path, Tanakh & NT, be one and the same?  YHVH said in Deuteronomy 13, that He gave us one path and anyone teaching a different path was a dreamer or false prophet – even with signs & wonders.

Then there’s Paul, with his misquotes and twisted conclusions.  I bought into Avi ben Mordechai’s Galatians Commentary, in hopes of salvaging Paul from the Church’s antinomian theology.  Sadly, Paul shows himself unable to rightly-divide or parse-out Tanakh, in his attempt to expound on JC.  Some say Paul used the Septuagint, which is no different then Joseph Smith using the 1611 KJV, for his prophetic enlightenment.  Translations are always an inferior text, in light of the original and Paul, being a student of Gamaliel would have used the authentic Hebrew — or he was less than a ‘B’ student.

Then, I revisited the front pages of each book of the NT, in my Study Bible.  It gives approximate dates of the writing, author and location, among other details of the book.  I was amazed that the Gospels were written so late, especially for the “journal” format presented- as though written in JC’s day.  John was written near the turn of the century, with “Revelation”.

I started reading Tanakh for what is says, without superficially inserting JC where he’s never mentioned.  Granted, it’s English translations, but I can parse-out some of the Hebrew.  Elohim is not ubiquitous in Tanakh, as some translations imply.

I think its time to teach the history of the NT.  Why are the Gospels presented in a “journal” style, as if written during the life of JC, when they were written 40+ years later?  Why were Paul’s letters, 20 years earlier, a stimulus for Mark, Matthew & Luke?  Why wasn’t the Gospel of John up front about its timing & the destruction of the Temple?

Rome, the home of many gods, gave us the NT laid-out as it choose, but not chronologically as it was written.  The Gospels are taught from within the NT.  Even the Tanakh is taught from within the NT.  Christendom cannot know YHVH except through JC and Paul.  Theology has clouded our reading of YHVH’s words; we’re given a mindset to see JC where he is not in the text.

The Church & NT have given me so many questions, that beg to know how the NT and Church were formed.  If we’re afraid to look outside, like we do with other belief systems, to know our history – what does that say of our faith?

If the NT is the pinnacle of Tanakh, we must be able to arrive there with a firm understanding of Tanakh, without NT theology clouding it, first — as the Church teaches it.

Its where I’m at in my walk.

********Second response********
I didn’t say that I didn’t find the speaker informative. It’s just that like almost all Christians, he’s completely ignorant of the vast majority of the subject matter to which he professes to be knowledgeable in.

Didn’t I warn you about becoming misdirected by the master destroyer? I said that because I have seen it too many times.

The matters that you seem to be taking issue with all revolve around the church’s misrepresentation of Messiah. And where do 99% of messianics come from? You guessed it – the church. Do you think that maybe, just maybe they brought their church thinking with them?

I pointed out that the seminarian in this video doesn’t know history nor does he have a contextual view of Scripture. To those of us who slave laboriously to learn the context and history of Scripture it is patently obvious that the professor in the video is at best a former Christian pastor and at worst the object of his own worship. Whatever the case, he is not knowledgeable in even the most fundamental of historical truths. As for his Scripture knowledge, take the level of Scripture and historical knowledge of the average Christian pastor, add in a rebellious heart & a slavish dedication to self worship, and you will arrive at the speaker’s knowledge level.

You need to separate out the issues, start doing your own research, and turn off the anti-missionary nonsense. You’ll get the truth of the matter from NEITHER Christianity nor from these. They are merely agendized men who – in the final analysis – are opposite sides of the same coin.

In other words they are all competing religionists. Whether they be Jewish, Christian or Secularist they don’t care what Scripture says – unless, of course, it appears to prop up their agenda.

Messiah Yehoshua repeatedly pointed men to the Father, deferred to His will – even unto death! – and refused to esteem himself above the Father.

That’s Scripture!

I seldom teach about the pictures and shadows of Messiah in the tanak – even though they are clearly there – because I am a talmid of Messiah. Therefore my mission must be his mission – that is, to turn the hearts of men back to the Father and His ways. If I can do that I will have demonstrated that I was tuned in to him and his purpose for my life. As opposed to sitting in the seat of scorners and mockers.

These anti-missionaries have all swallowed the poison pill. Well did Yehoshua characterize them when he said ’13  “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for you do not go in, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.’

The same can be said for the secularists of course.

You can always tell a good servant from a wicked one. The good servant will always be about his masters business.

Some – like Yehoshua and his talmidim – are in the business of turning the hearts of men back to the Father.

The rest seem to be focused on turning men into twice the son of gehenna that they are.

Please be careful achi. You appear to be swimming in a toxic pool. From an eternal life perspective, this doesn’t end well…

Blessings my dear brother.

********END OF INTERLOGUE********
Anyone who doesn’t think that the talmidim of Yehoshua have an adversary who is diligently seeking to destroy the faith of the mishpocha of Yehovah are asleep.
The workmen of the evil one come in many forms, from every culture, from every religion, from every background, every age group, and both genders.
If you take the time to study the patterns of behavior you can easily distinguish the wheat from the chaff.
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles?
So, every sound tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears evil fruit.
A sound tree cannot bear evil fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.
Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.
Thus you will know them by their fruits. [Mat 7:15-20 RSV]
We have been warned….
Let’s get this discussion started. Please share your thoughts; we’ll all learn from each other and grow stronger and more able to resist the wiles, tricks and traps of the evil one.
Shalom.
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Yom T’ruah

יום תרועה


Yom T’ruah – Day of Resounding!

H8643
תרועה
terû‛âh
BDB Definition:
1) alarm, signal, sound of tempest, shout, shout or blast of war or alarm or joy
1a) alarm of war, war-cry, battle-cry
1b) blast (for march)
1c) shout of joy (with religious impulse)
1d) shout of joy (in general)
Part of Speech: noun feminine

The coming of YHWH into the camp is preceded by trumpet blasts!

Sh’muel Alef (1 Samuel) 4:5
And when the ark of the covenant of יהוה came into the camp, all Yisra’ĕl shouted so loudly that the earth shook.

Sh’muel Bet (2 Samuel) 6:15
Thus Dawiḏ and all the house of Yisra’ĕl brought up the ark of יהוה with shouting and with the sound of the ram’s horn.

Dibre ha Yamim Alef (1 Chronicles) 15:28
So all Yisra’ĕl brought up the ark of the covenant of יהוה with shouting and with the sound of the horn, with trumpets and with cymbals, sounding with harps and lyres.

When victory or deliverance is needed from YHWH, the trumpet is sounded!

Dibre ha Yamim Bet (2 Chronicles) 13:1-16
In the eighteenth year of Sovereign Yarobʽam, Abiyah began to reign over Yehudah. He reigned three years in Yerushalayim. And his mother’s name was Mikayahu the daughter of Uri’ĕl of Gibʽah. And there was fighting between Abiyah and Yarobʽam. And Abiyah joined battle with an army of mighty men of battle, four hundred thousand choice men. And Yarobʽam drew up in battle formation against him with eight hundred thousand choice men, mighty brave men. And Abiyah stood on Mount Tsemarayim, which is in the mountains of Ephrayim, and said, “Hear me, Yarobʽam and all Yisra’ĕl: “Do you not know that יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl has given the reign over Yisra’ĕl to Dawid forever, to him and his sons, by a covenant of salt? “Yet Yarobʽam son of Nebat, the servant of Shelomoh son of Dawid, rose up and rebelled against his master. “And vain men gathered to him, sons of Beliyaʽal, and strengthened themselves against Rehabʽam son of Shelomoh, when Rehabʽam was young and tender of heart and could not stand against them. “And now you think to stand against the reign of יהוה, which is in the hand of the sons of Dawid. And you are a large crowd, and with you are the gold calves which Yarobʽam made for you as mighty ones. “Have you not thrown out the priests of יהוה, the sons of Aharon, and the Lĕwites, and made for yourselves priests, like the peoples of the lands, so that whoever comes to ordain himself with a young bull and seven rams then becomes a priest of what are not mighty ones? “But as for us, יהוה is our Elohim, and we have not forsaken Him, and priests are serving יהוה, the sons of Aharon and the Lĕwites, in the work, and are burning to יהוה every morning and every evening burnt offerings and sweet incense, and the showbread is set on the clean table, and the lampstand of gold with its lamps to burn every evening, for we are guarding the Charge of יהוה our Elohim. But you have forsaken Him. “And see, with us as Head is Elohim Himself, and His priests with sounding trumpets to sound the alarm against you. O children of Yisra’ĕl, do not fight against יהוה Elohim of your fathers, for you are not going to prosper!” But Yarobʽam sent round an ambush to go behind them, so they were in front of Yehudah, and the ambush was behind them. And Yehudah turned and saw the battle was both in front and behind them. Then they cried out to יהוה, and the priests sounded the trumpets. And the men of Yehudah gave a shout. And it came to be, as the men of Yehudah shouted, that Elohim smote Yarobʽam and all Yisra’ĕl before Abiyah and Yehudah. And the children of Yisra’ĕl fled before Yehudah, and Elohim gave them into their hand.

When entering into covenant with YHWH, the people RESOUND!

Dibre ha Yamim Bet (2 Chronicles) 15
And the Spirit of Elohim came upon Azaryahu son of Odĕd. And he went out to face Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Yehudah and Binyamin. יהוה is with you while you are with Him. And if you seek Him, He is found by you, but if you forsake Him, He forsakes you. “And for many days Yisra’ĕl has been without the true Elohim, and without a Torah priest, and without Torah. “But in their distress they turned to יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, and they sought Him, and He was found by them. “And in those days there was no peace to the one who went out, nor to the one who came in, for great disturbances were on all the inhabitants of the lands, and they were beaten down, nation by nation, and city by city, for Elohim troubled them with every distress. “But you, be strong and do not let your hands be feeble, for there is a reward for your work!” And when Asa heard these words and the prophecy of Odĕd the prophet, he took courage, and removed the abominations from all the land of Yehudah and Binyamin and from the cities which he had taken in the mountains of Ephrayim, and restored the altar of יהוה that was before the porch of יהוה, and gathered all Yehudah and Binyamin, and those who sojourned with them from Ephrayim, and Menashsheh, and Shimʽon, for they came over to him in great numbers from Yisra’ĕl when they saw that יהוה his Elohim was with him. And they gathered together at Yerushalayim in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa, and offered to יהוה on that day seven hundred bulls and seven thousand sheep from the spoil which they had brought. And they entered into a covenant to seek יהוה Elohim of their fathers with all their heart and with all their being; and whoever would not seek יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl would be put to death, from small to great, from man to woman. And they swore to יהוה with a loud voice, with shouting and with trumpets and with rams’ horns. And all Yehudah rejoiced concerning the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and sought Him with all their being. And He was found by them, and יהוה gave them rest all around. And he also removed Maʽakah, the mother of Asa the sovereign, from being sovereigness mother, because she had made an abominable image of Ashĕrah. And Asa cut down her abominable image, and crushed it, and burned it by the wadi Qidron. Yet the high places were not removed from Yisra’ĕl. However, the heart of Asa was perfect all his days. And he brought into the House of Elohim the set-apart items of his father and his own set-apart items: silver and gold and utensils. And there was no more fighting until the thirty-fifth year of the reign of Asa.

When the temple foundation is laid and the temple is rededicated the Priests and the People resound with joy and weeping!

Ezra 3
Now when the seventh month came, and the children of Yisra’ĕl were in the cities, the people gathered as one man to Yerushalayim. And Yĕshua son of Yotsadaq and his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel son of She’alti’ĕl and his brothers, arose and built the altar of the Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Torah of Mosheh, the man of Elohim. So they set the altar on its stands, being afraid of the peoples of the lands. And they offered burnt offerings on it to יהוה, both the morning and evening burnt offerings. And they performed the Festival of Booths, as it is written, and the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the right-ruling for each day, and afterward the continual burnt offering, and those for New Moons and for all the appointed times of יהוה that were set-apart, also for everyone who volunteered a voluntary offering to יהוה. From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to יהוה. But the foundation of the Hĕkal of יהוה had not been laid. And they gave silver to the stonemasons and the carpenters, and food, and drink, and oil to the people of Tsidon and Tsor to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to the sea at Yapho, according to the permission which they had from Koresh sovereign of Persia. And in the second month of the second year of their coming to the House of Elohim, to Yerushalayim, Zerubbabel son of She’alti’ĕl, and Yĕshua son of Yotsadaq, and the rest of their brothers the priests and the Lĕwites, and all those who had come out of the captivity to Yerushalayim, began, and they appointed the Lĕwites from twenty years old and above to oversee the work of the House of יהוה. And Yĕshua stood up, his sons and his brothers, Qadmi’ĕl with his sons, the sons of Yehudah together, to oversee those working on the House of Elohim: the sons of Hĕnadad with their sons and their brothers the Lĕwites. And when the builders laid the foundation of the Hĕkal of יהוה, they appointed the priests in their robes, with trumpets, and the Lĕwites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise יהוה, after the order of Dawid sovereign of Yisra’ĕl. And they responded by praising and giving thanks to יהוה, “For He is good, for His kindness towards Yisra’ĕl is forever.” And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised יהוה, because the foundation of the House of יהוה was laid. And many of the priests and Lĕwites and heads of the fathers’ houses, the old men who had seen the first House, wept with a loud voice when the foundation of this House was laid before their eyes, and many shouted aloud for joy, and the people could not distinguish the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people, for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the sound was heard far away.

When we bring offerings to YHWH we RESOUND!

Tehil (Psalm) 27
יהוה is my light and my deliverance; Whom should I fear? יהוה is the refuge of my life; Whom should I dread? When evil-doers come against me To eat up my flesh, My adversaries and my enemies, They shall stumble and fall. Though an army encamps against me, My heart does not fear; Though battle comes up against me, Even then I would be trusting. One matter I asked of יהוה – this I seek: To dwell in the House of יהוה All the days of my life, To see the pleasantness of יהוה, And to inquire in His Hĕkal. For in the day of evil He hides me in His booth; In the covering of His Tent He hides me; On a rock He raises me up. And now my head is lifted up above my enemies all around me; And I offer in His Tent with shouts of joy; I sing, yea, I sing praises to יהוה. Hear, O יהוה, when I cry with my voice! And show me favour, and answer me. To my heart You have said, “Seek My face.” Your face, יהוה, I seek. Do not hide Your face from me; Do not turn Your servant away in displeasure; You have been my help; Do not leave me nor forsake me, O Elohim of my deliverance. When my father and my mother have forsaken me, Then יהוה does take me in. Teach me Your way, O יהוה, And lead me in a smooth path, because of my enemies. Do not give me over To the desire of my adversaries; For false witnesses have risen against me, And they breathe out cruelty to me. What if I had not believed To see the goodness of יהוה In the land of the living! Wait on יהוה, be strong, And let Him strengthen your heart! Wait, I say, on יהוה!

When we praise YHWH we RESOUND!

Tehil (Psalm) 33:1-5 (Everybody read)
1 Shout for joy in יהוה, you righteous! Praise is fitting for the straight!
2 Praise יהוה with the lyre; Sing to Him with an instrument of ten strings.
3 Sing to Him a new song; Play sweetly with a shout of joy.
4 For the Word of יהוה is straight, And all His works are in truth,
5 Loving righteousness and right-ruling; The earth is filled with the kindness of יהוה.

Tehil (Psalm) 150 (Everybody read)
Praise Yah! Praise Ěl in His set-apart place; Praise Him in His mighty expanse! Praise Him for His mighty acts; Praise Him according to His excellent greatness! Praise Him with the blowing of the ram’s horn; Praise Him with the harp and lyre! Praise Him with tambourine and dance; Praise Him with stringed instruments and flutes! Praise Him with sounding cymbals; Praise Him with resounding cymbals! Let all that have breath praise Yah. Praise Yah!

Our Elohim ascends to the throne with RESOUNDING!

Tehil (Psalm) 47:5
5 Elohim shall go up with a shout, יהוה with the sound of a ram’s horn.

We are blessed when we recognize the sound of the Festival Shofar blast!

Tehil (Psalm) 89:15-16
15 Blessed are the people Who know the festal trumpet-call! They walk, O יהוה, in the light of Your face.
16 In Your Name they rejoice all day long, And they are exalted in Your righteousness .

The RESOUNDING of the shofar strikes fear into the heart of the besieged!

Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 4:19
19 O my inward parts, my inward parts! I am in pain! O the walls of my heart! My heart pounds in me, I am not silent. For you have heard, O my being, the sound of the ram’s horn, a shout of battle!

Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 20:13-18
13 Sing to יהוה! Praise יהוה! For He has delivered the being of the poor from the hand of evil ones.
14 Cursed be the day in which I was born! Let the day not be blessed in which my mother bore me!
15 Let the man be cursed who brought news to my father, saying, “A male child has been born to you,” making him very glad.
16 And let that man be like the cities which יהוה overthrew, and repented not. Let him hear the cry in the morning and the shouting at noon,
17 because I was not slain from the womb, so that my mother should have been my grave and her womb forever great.
18 Why did I come forth from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame?

Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 49:2
2 “Therefore see, the days are coming,” declares יהוה, “when I shall sound a battle cry in Rabbah of the Ammonites. And it shall be a heap, a wasteland, and her villages shall be burned with fire. Then Yisra’ĕl shall dispossess those who dispossessed him,” declares יהוה.

The judgment of YHWH is preceded and announced by the RESOUNDING of the Shofar!

Yoel (Joel) 2:11-32
And יהוה shall give forth His voice before His army, for His camp is very great, for mighty is the doer of His word. For the day of יהוה is great and very awesome, and who does bear it? “Yet even now,” declares יהוה, “turn to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.” And tear your heart and not your garments, and turn back to יהוה your Elohim, for He shows favour and is compassionate, patient, and of great kindness, and He shall relent concerning the evil. Who knows – He might turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind Him, a grain offering and a drink offering for יהוה your Elohim? Blow a ram’s horn in Tsiyon, set apart a fast, call an assembly. Gather the people, set the assembly apart, assemble the elders, gather the children and nursing babes. Let a bridegroom come out from his room, and a bride from her dressing room. Let the priests, servants of יהוה, weep between the porch and the altar. And let them say, “Spare Your people, O יהוה, and do not give Your inheritance to reproach, for the gentiles to rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their Elohim?’ ” And let יהוה be jealous for His land, and spare His people. And let יהוה answer and say to His people, “See, I am sending you the grain and the new wine and the oil, and you shall be satisfied by them. And no longer do I make you a reproach among the gentiles. “And the Northerner I shall remove far from you, and drive him away into a dry and deserted land, with his face toward the eastern sea and his rear toward the western sea. And his stench shall come up and his smell rise, for he has done greatly.” Do not fear, O soil, be glad and rejoice, for יהוה has done greatly! Do not fear, you beasts of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness shall spring forth, and the tree shall bear its fruit, the fig tree and the vine shall yield their strength. And you children of Tsiyon, be glad and rejoice in יהוה your Elohim, for He shall give you the Teacher of Righteousness, and cause the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before. And the threshing-floors shall be filled with grain, and the vats shall overflow with new wine and oil. “Then I shall repay you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the crawling locust, and the consuming locust, and the gnawing locust, My great army which I sent among you. “Then you shall eat – eat and be satisfied – and shall praise the Name of יהוה your Elohim, who has done with you so wondrously. And My people shall never be put to shame. “And you shall know that I am in the midst of Yisra’ĕl, and that I am יהוה your Elohim and there is no one else. And My people shall never be put to shame. “And after this it shall be that I pour out My Spirit on all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men dream dreams, your young men see visions. “And also on the male servants and on the female servants I shall pour out My Spirit in those days. “And I shall give signs in the heavens and upon the earth: blood and fire and columns of smoke, the sun is turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and awesome day of יהוה. “And it shall be that everyone who calls on the Name of יהוה shall be delivered. For on Mount Tsiyon and in Yerushalayim there shall be an escape as יהוה has said, and among the survivors whom יהוה calls.

Zekaryah (Zekariah) 9:9-17
“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Tsiyon! Shout, O daughter of Yerushalayim! See, your Sovereign is coming to you, He is righteous and endowed with deliverance, humble and riding on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey. “And I shall cut off the chariot from Ephrayim and the horse from Yerushalayim. And the battle bow shall be cut off. And He shall speak peace to the nations, and His rule is from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth. “Also you, because of the blood of your covenant, I shall send your prisoners out of the pit. “Return to the stronghold, you prisoners of the expectation. Even today I declare that I return double to you. “For I shall bend Yehudah for Me, I shall fill the bow with Ephrayim, and I shall stir up your sons, O Tsiyon, against your sons, O Greece, and I shall make you like the sword of a mighty man.” And יהוה shall appear for them, and His arrow go forth like lightning, and the Master יהוה sound the ram’s horn. And He shall go with whirlwinds from the south, יהוה of hosts shall shield them. And they shall devour and trample on sling stones. And they shall drink, roar as if with wine, and they shall be filled like basins, like the corners of the altar. And יהוה their Elohim shall save them in that day, as the flock of His people, for the stones of a diadem, sparkling over His land. For what goodness is His, and what comeliness is His. Grain make the young men thrive, and new wine the maidens!

Yom ha YHWH has trumpet blasts (Everyone read)(RESOUND!)

First Trumpet

And the first messenger sounded…

(sound the shofar )

…and there came to be hail and fire mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. And a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up. (Revelation 8:7)

Second Trumpet

And the second messenger sounded…

(sound the shofar )

…and what looked like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood, and a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed. (Revelation 8:8-9)

Third Trumpet

And the third messenger sounded…

(sound the shofar )

…and a great star fell from the heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the fountains of water, and the name of the star is called Wormwood. And a third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter. (Revelation 8:10-11)

Fourth Trumpet

And the fourth messenger sounded…

(sound the shofar )

…and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened. And a third of the day did not shine, and likewise the night. (Revelation 8:12)

Fifth Trumpet

And the fifth messenger sounded…

(sound the shofar )

…and I saw a star from the heaven which had fallen to the earth. And the key to the pit of the deep was given to it. (Revelation 9:1)

Sixth Trumpet

And the sixth messenger sounded…

(sound the shofar )

…and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before Elohim, saying to the sixth messenger who had the trumpet, “Release the four messengers, those having been bound at the great river Euphrates.”
(Revelation 9:13-14)

Seventh Trumpet

And the seventh messenger sounded…

(sound the shofar )

…and there came to be loud voices in the heaven, saying, “The reign of this world has become the reign of our Master, and of His Messiah, and He shall reign forever and ever!” And the twenty-four elders sitting before Elohim on their thrones fell on their faces and worshipped Elohim, saying, “We give You thanks, O יהוה Ěl Shaddai, the One who is and who was and who is coming, because You have taken Your great power and reigned. (Revelation 11:15-17)

Our Redemption is heralded by the blast of the Trumpet!

1st Corinthians 15:51-52
See, I speak a secret to you: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 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.

Mattithyahu (Matthew) 24:30-31

“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.

Chag Sameach T’ruah!!