Lets take a look at the Word of God and find out... Num 10:1-10
1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:
2 "Make two silver trumpets for yourself; you shall make them
of hammered work; you shall use them for calling the assembly and for directing
the movement of the camps.
3 "When they blow both of them, all the assembly shall gather before
you at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.
4 "But if they blow only one, then the leaders, the heads of the divisions
of Israel, shall gather to you.
5 "When you sound the advance, the camps that lie on the east side
shall then begin their journey.
6 "When you sound the advance the second time, then the camps that
lie on the south side shall begin their journey; they shall sound the call
for them to begin their journeys.
7 "And when the congregation is to be gathered together, you shall
blow, but not sound the advance.
8 "The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets;
and these shall be to you as an ordinance forever throughout your
generations.
9 "When you go to war in your land against the enemy who oppresses
you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, and you
will be remembered before the LORD your God, and you will be saved
from your enemies.
10 "Also in the day of your gladness, in your appointed feasts, and
at the beginning of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your
burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they
shall be a memorial for you before your God: I am the LORD your God."
(NKJ)
Now, before you read any further, having just read
that only the priests, the sons of Aaron of the tribe of Levi,
were the only ones allowed to blow the Jewish trumpets, how is it that
you also, male and female, Jew and Gentile, New Covenant believers, have
been given this special privilege and responsibility by God to be
His Priests and to be allowed to perform the many duties of the Priesthood,
including the sounding of the trumpets, in the many applications in which
the Jewish trumpets are biblically used?
It all began when Melchi-Zedek blessed Abram
with bread and wine. (Genesis 14:18) It says that He (Melchi-Zedek)
is Priest of God Most High, and that He is King of Salem (Peace).
MelchiZedek is two Hebrew words; melchi means king and zedek means righteousness.
After that God changed Abram’s name to Abraham,
and Abraham passed this priestly blessing on to Isaac, and Isaac passed
this priestly blessing on to Jacob, who became Israel. Israel
had twelve sons, and one of them, Joseph, who was sold into slavery and
went down into Egypt. Then Israel with his other eleven sons, a family
of about seventy, went down into Egypt because of the famine in Israel,
where his family remained for 430 years. There God enlarged Israel’s family
to perhaps three million members, belonging to twelve tribes of Israel.
When God brought them all out of Egypt, God expressed His Heart in Exodus
19:5,6, and said the following to Israel:
‘if you will obey My voice indeed, and keep My Covenant, then you shall
be a peculiar treasure to Me above all people: for all the earth is Mine.
And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’
John (Yochanan) was standing in the Jordan River, baptizing sons and daughters of Israel. When he looked up and saw his cousin Jesus (Yeshua) approaching him. Yochanan said to his cousin Yeshua: ‘I need to be baptized by you, and are you coming to me?’ Yeshua answered and said to him:
What I have written will be a new insight and
new information for most of you, as it was also for me only
a short time ago, so rejoice in it! We are rapidly heading into
the days when each of us needs to be as whole
as possible, and in our proper Priesthood positions, to do those things
that God will be calling us to, that only
the priests of the Old Testament were allowed to do, in order for each
of us to have the power and authority we will need for what lies
ahead, confronting the works of evil that will soon take over humanity,
with a one world dictatorial government.
1 Cor. 15:50-58
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall
all be changed--
52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible,
and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must
put on immortality.
54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal
has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is
written: "Death is swallowed up in victory."
55 "O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?"
56 The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always
abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain
in the Lord. (NKJ)
In order for Paul to have talked and written about
the last trumpet, there had to be a first trumpet.
The first trumpet sounded is the first time that the Trumpet (shofar) is
blown in the Bible.
Exodus 19:1-20
1 In the third month after the children of Israel had gone out of the
land of Egypt, on the same day, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai.
2 For they had departed from Rephidim, had come to the Wilderness of
Sinai, and camped in the wilderness. So Israel camped there before the
mountain.
3 And Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain,
saying, "Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children
of Israel:
4 'You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on
eagles' wings and brought you to Myself.
5 'Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant,
then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the
earth is Mine.
6 'And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.'
These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."
7 So Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before
them all these words which the LORD commanded him.
8 Then all the people answered together and said, "All that the LORD
has spoken we will do." So Moses brought back the words of the people to
the LORD.
9 And the LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I come to you in the thick cloud,
that the people may hear when I speak with you, and believe you forever."
So Moses told the words of the people to the LORD.
10 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go to the people and consecrate them
today and tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes.
11 "And let them be ready for the third day. For on the third day the
LORD will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
12 "You shall set bounds for the people all around, saying, 'Take heed
to yourselves that you do not go up to the mountain or touch its base.
Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.
13 'Not a hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot
with an arrow; whether man or beast, he shall not live.' When the trumpet
sounds long (when the yowbel or jubilee sounds), they shall come near
the mountain."
14 So Moses went down from the mountain to the people and sanctified
the people, and they washed their clothes.
15 And he said to the people, "Be ready for the third day; do not come
near your wives."
16 Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there
were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and
the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were
in the camp trembled.
17 And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and
they stood at the foot of the mountain.
18 Now Mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because the LORD descended
upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the
whole mountain quaked greatly.
19 And when the blast of the trumpet sounded long and became louder
and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by voice.
20 Then the LORD came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain.
And the LORD called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.
(NKJ) (feast of Shavuot [Pentecost])
Exodus 20:18-19
18 Now all the people witnessed the thunderings, the lightning flashes,
the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people
saw it, they trembled and stood afar off.
19 Then they said to Moses, "You speak with us, and we will hear; but
let not God speak with us, lest we die."
(NKJ)
Who blew that first shofar blast from heaven at Mount
Sinai, on Shavuot, and what did it signify? Was that shofar call
from heaven Gods own voice? It was God Himself who blew that
first Shofar, the first trumpet, to announce something special to Israel,
and to the Gentiles gathered in Israel’s camp.
Was that first shofar that made the people tremble
also the voice of God? We see in Revelation 1:10 and 4:5, that Gods
voice is like a trumpet, and in Zechariah 9:14, that God sounds
the shofar at His soon return!
With the sounding of this first shofar at
Mount Sinai, God began a marriage betrothal covenant with Israel.
Israel became God's Wife!
In Jeremiah 3:8, God divorced Israel
for idolatry, but it was not a total divorce, for as you read Jeremiah
3:14, God says: turn O backsliding children, for I am married to you. And
in Hosea 2:19, God promises to betroth Israel to Himself ... Forever!
A little less than 1500 years later, again
on the feast of Shavuot, in an upper room in Jerusalem, God re-botrothed
Himself to Israel. This time He wrote His New Covenant on the
inside of the hearts of a group of 120 born-again Jewish believers in the
Messiah Yeshua, the Living Son of God.
There is only One God, and God Himself had come
to earth as a man, to die for the sins of the whole world, to purchase
with His own life and blood His own special Body and Bride, the Ecclesia,
the Called-Out-Ones, from both Israel and nations, those who would choose
to return to God.
There are many trumpet calls blown in the bible,
but there are only two trumpet calls blown by God, Himself. God
first revealed this mystery to us when Abraham was obedient to God to offer
up his son Isaac, and God spared Isaac with a ram caught in the thicket
by two horns, which God used to spare the first son of promise from
being sacrificed. That ram given in place of Isaac was the beginning of
the nation of Israel; the first horn represented the beginning of Gods
plan for Israel, and the second or last horn represented the conclusion
of Gods plan for Israel and for the nations of the world. This would
be a plan that would take six days of Creation
to complete; God would rest on the seventh day with His Wife Israel,
His Eternal Bride, His great mystery.
Genesis 22:7-18
7 But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, "My father!" And
he said, "Here I am, my son." Then he said, "Look, the fire and the wood,
but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
8 And Abraham said, "My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb
for a burnt offering." So the two of them went together.
9 Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham
built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his
son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.
10 And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his
son.
11 But the Angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham,
Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am."
12 And He said, "Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to
him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your
son, your only son, from Me."
13 Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was
a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took
the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
14 And Abraham called the name of the place, THE-LORD-WILL-PROVIDE;
as it is said to this day, "In the Mount of The LORD it shall be provided."
15 Then the Angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time out of
heaven,
16 and said: "By Myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you
have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son--
17 "blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply
your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on
the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.
18 "In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,
because you have obeyed My voice." (NKJ)
We see many things in this passage of scripture;
I choose to point out a few of them:
1) This ram represented Gods provision.
2) This ram was caught by both (two) horns, representing the fulfillment
or complete picture of Gods redemption
plan for both Israel and the nation.
3) The ram's horn represents the voice of God who spoke aloud from
heaven to Abraham, providing this ram.
God revealed His presence through His spoken voice,
through His identity as the Angel of the LORD, who
is the spoken Word of God, who would later become
flesh, and dwell among us as the Son of man, to bring
mankind back into true relationship with their Creator
God and real Father.
One of God's eternal Names is 'Father', only because the One and Only God is a Father. His Name, Father, is an Eternal Name, for it was His title even before He created His Creation. The One God has always been Father, only because He is a Father, and only because He has a Son, all part of the One God.
Rev 1:10-18
10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, and I heard behind me
a loud voice, as of a trumpet,
11 saying, "I am the Alpha and the Omega (the Aleph and the Tav),
the First and the Last," and, "What you see, write in a book and send it
to the seven churches which are in Asia: to Ephesus, to Smyrna, to Pergamos,
to Thyatira, to Sardis, to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea."
12 Then I turned to see the voice that spoke with me. And having turned
I saw seven golden lampstands,
13 and in the midst of the seven lampstands One like the Son of
Man, clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest
with a golden band.
14 His head and hair were white like wool, as white as snow, and
His eyes like a flame of fire;
15 His feet were like fine brass, as if refined in a furnace, and
His voice as the sound of many waters;
16 He had in His right hand seven stars, out of His mouth went a sharp
two-edged sword, and His countenance was like the sun shining in
its strength.
17 And when I saw Him, I fell at His feet as dead. But He laid His
right hand on me, saying to me, "Do not be afraid; I am the First and the
Last.
18 "I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore.
Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death. (NKJ)
Rev 4:1-2
1 After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in
heaven. And
Rev 10:7
7 but in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel, when
he is about to sound, the mystery of God would be finished, as He
declared to His servants the prophets.
(NKJ)
Rev 19:6-9
6 And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, as the sound
of many waters and as the sound of mighty thunderings, saying, "Alleluia!
For the Lord God Omnipotent reigns!
7 "Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage
of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready."
8 And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and
bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.
9 Then he said to me, "Write: 'Blessed are those (the Guests, Yeshua's
friends) who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb!'" And
he said to me, "These are the true sayings of God." (NKJ)
There is a great difference between the Marriage
of Yeshua to His Wife, His Bride, and the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
These are two different Feasts of the LORD; the Marriage will be held in
heaven on the Feast of Yom Teruah, better known as Rosh HaShanah, and the
Marriage Supper of the Lamb will be held back down on earth, in Jerusalem,
on the greatest Feast of all, the Feast of Succoth or Tabernacles.
Their are also two different groups of saved believers. They are both a
part of God's own Body, and they are both Priests of God. The difference
is that His Wife is the Heart of the Body, and She will be His High Priests.
The Guests are not just guests, but to qualify to be a Guest at the Marriage
Supper of the Lamb, you will qualify only if you have been found to be
a Friend of God. (see Matthew 22:11-14 and John 15:12-15)
Isaiah 25:6-9
6 And in this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all people a
feast of choice pieces, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full
of marrow, of well-refined wines on the lees.
7 And He will destroy on this mountain the surface of the covering
cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations.
8 He will swallow up death forever, and the Lord GOD will wipe away
tears from all faces; the rebuke of His people he will take away from all
the earth; for the LORD has spoken.
9 And it will be said in that day: "Behold, this is our God; we have
waited for Him, and He will save us (Yeshua means Salvation). This
is the LORD; we have waited for Him; we will be glad and rejoice in His
salvation." (NKJ)
What is the answer to the mystery of Yeshua’s Bride, who is She? When is She taken out of here? When and where is the Wedding held? Who are the Guests at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb? Where and when is this Great Feast held?
The answers to these and many other mysteries about
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