Trumpets
2 Chronicles 5:13 & 14
It came
even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to
be heard in praising and thanking Yahweh; and when they lifted up their voice
with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised Yahweh,
saying, For He is good; for His mercy endureth for ever: that then the house
was filled with a cloud, even the house of Yahweh; So that the priests could
not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the honour of Yahweh had
filled the house of Elohim.
(2
Chronicles 5:13-14)
Col 2:16,17 Therefore
do not let anyone (outside the body) judge among you about eating, or drinking,
or in how you keep the feast days, or the new moon, or the Shabbath day, which
remain shadows of coming things, but the body of Messiah. HRB
The Feast days or the appointed times of Yahweh are
still to this day remain as shadows of things yet to come.
We
need to begin our look at this feast of trumpets and its meanings, of what it
is a shadow of, and how it will affect you and I and all of mankind and the
earth and all of the creation here on earth.
Leviticus 23:23,24 “And
Yahweh spoke unto Moses, saying, speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In
the 7th month, in the 1st day of the month, shall you have a Shabbath, a
memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy (set apart) convocation.”
The word month in this verse in the original Hebrew
is the word which means the new moon or better said, the “renewed moon.” The
true new moon is most likely the first crescent moon that is visible after the
moon has been in conjunction. Therefore it is being “renewed.”
So on the 1st day of the new crescent
moon they were commanded to have a Shabbath.
To be observed just like a weekly Shabbath, we are to rest from our
labors and spend time in worship and prayer and fellowship with the Elohim and
others of like mindedness.
But this Shabbath here in Leviticus was an annual Shabbath
only coming once in a year and it was to be a memorial of something that had
already taken place. We shall see what
that memorial is in a moment.
But to commemorate this memorial they were to blow
trumpets or the shofar, the horns of a clean creature.
The phrase “blowing of trumpets,” is a Hebrew term
known as Teruah. Teruah means to make a
loud noise of rejoicing. It is to be a
day of rejoicing. In Hebrew it is known
as the Yom Teruah, the day of rejoicing or a day of shouting. Before
we are done, we shall see why we were to be rejoicing this day.
But
it says in the King James version that this day is to be a “holy convocation.” The word “holy” is actually a paganized term
dealing with the halo of the sun. In the
original Hebrew it is the term Kodesh which means to be set apart as clean, pure
and undefiled.
But
it said there in our verse that this was to be a kodesh convocation. The word convocation in the Hebrew is the
word Mikraw which means to assemble. And
since it is commanded, this is a commanded assembly. It is as though we are being summoned to
appear before Yahweh. We do not have a
choice in the matter.
The
word convocation also means to rehearse.
So every one of Yahweh’s Shabbaths, whether weekly or annual are like a
rehearsal. What do we do during a rehearsal, but we are getting ourselves ready
and prepared for the real thing. Before
we are done with this writing, you will see what we are rehearsing for.
So
on the 1st day of the 7th month or 7th new moon we are commanded to
observe a Shabbath. Just like the weekly
Shabbath, we are commanded of Yahweh to assemble and to hear His Word spoken so
that we can be prepared in advance for a future event that each Shabbath is a
shadow of. That is what we are doing
right now.
Now
this 7th month is not the month of July as we see on the Roman calendar. This is the 7th new moon sighting since the
biblical year begins in the Spring. This
7th month will always coincide with parts of our September and or October and
sometimes will nip early November.
Now
we have talked in previous messages with Yahweh’s preoccupation with the number
7. It is the number of perfection unto
our Yahweh.
We
have the cycle of 7 days in a week. The
weekly Shabbath comes on the 7th day of that 7 day cycle. There are 7 periods of Appointed days
throughout the year. The days of
unleavened bread lasts for 7 days. The
Feast of Tabernacles last for 7 days.
There are 7 seals, 7 trumpets and 7 plagues of the book of Revelation.
Among
other uses of the number 7 in the scriptures, we see here that the feast of
trumpets is to take place in the 7th month.
We
read here in Leviticus 23:24 that this is to be a memorial of
blowing of trumpets. In other words to
be a memorial is something that we are to bring into remembrance of a past
event.
Turn
to Exodus chapter 19.
Ancient
Israel was commanded of Yahweh to observe the Feast of Trumpets as a memorial
of the event we are about to read of. So
all throughout their history they along with us were looking back at that
event.
But
we also now look forward to an event that this feast is just a mere shadow
of. During the feast of Trumpets we are
to study and hear messages concerning the future events that Trumpets is
pointed toward.
Exodus 19:9-20 “And the
Yahweh said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people
may hear when I speak with you, and believe you for ever. And Moses told the
words of the people unto Yahweh. And the
Yahweh said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and
tomorrow, and let them wash their clothes, and be ready against the third day:
for the third day, I Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people upon
mount Sinai. And you shall set bounds
unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that you go not
up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever touches the mount shall
be surely put to death:
There
shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through;
whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet
sounds long, they shall come up to the mount.
And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the
people; and they washed their clothes.
And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at
your wives. And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were
thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the
trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the
camp trembled. And Moses brought forth
the people out of the camp to meet with Elohim; and they stood at the nether
part of the mount. And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because Yahweh
descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a
furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed
louder and louder, Moses spoke, and Yahweh answered him by a voice.
And
Yahweh Elohim came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the
Yahweh called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went
up...............”
Well
following this event, the 10 commandments were given. This was a tremendous event. The Elohim in their glorified state came down
upon the mountain. This great event took
place with the sounding of the Trumpet of Yahweh.
Now
as far as I know, this was the only event or instance ever recorded in the
scriptures where this trumpet out of shamayim has ever sounded on earth yet.
The
great significance of this was that Yahweh Himself was coming down in their
presence to deliver the Torah unto Israel.
Israel was commanded to never forget this great event and therefore we
have the feasts of the memorial of blowing of trumpets when Yahweh came down to
His people.
Now
just before Messiah returns at the sounding of the last Trumpet, this old world
is going to endure a time of tribulation and persecution and sorrows and wars
as it has never before seen.
Could
it be then that the Feast of Trumpets is a shadow of the horrendous events that
will occur at the end of this present age and just prior to the return of
Yahshua Messiah? We’ll see.
1st Kings chapter 1.
Now
Messiah is coming back to this earth to rule as the King over all the
earth. Ancient Israel did something a
number of times when they anointed a new king over them.
Let’s
take a look at one of these events in the which you’ll see something taking place
in concurrence with anointing Solomon as the new king in David’s stead.
1st Kings 1:39 “And Zadok the priest took an horn
of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet;
and all the people said, Elohim (G-d) save king Solomon.”
Since
we know that Elohim came down on the scene with the sounding of the trumpets,
and we know that Messiah will return to this earth at the last trumpet to
sound, could blowing of trumpets during the coronation of the kings of Israel
be a shadow of the final trumpets to blow ushering in the great King, the
Master Yahshua Messiah? We’ll see.
The
trumpets of ancient Israel were blown as an alarm to warn the people of
something about to take place, or to gather the people together.
When
Messiah returns, the scriptures plainly state that at the sounding of the
trumpet, Yahweh will gather together His people, dead or alive.
This
will be a time of trembling. The earth
will be shook as never before. The
Trumpet judgments that take place as an ushering in of Messiah as the returning
King to this planet, will be a time unparalleled in history.
Therefore,
we need to begin looking forward in time.
We need to look at what the Feast of Trumpets could be a shadow of
things yet to come and then begin rehearsing for it.
Now
we are not going to go thru all of the trumpet judgments in this writing, but
you can read them on your own as they describe great earthquakes and so great
as never before experienced since the days of Joktan and Peleg in the book of
Genesis. You can read about what looks to be asteroids and or comets hitting
the earth and the great loss of life during these events.
But
while reading each of the trumpet judgments on your own you will notice that
each one grows in intensity and the description longer with each passing
trumpet. Do recall back in our Exodus story that when the first trumpet sounded
it grew longer and louder until the main event took place and that being the
Elohim coming down to the mountain top.
Revelation 10:7 “But in
the days of the voice of the 7th angel, when he shall begin to sound, the
mystery of Yahweh should be finished as he had declared to His servants the
prophets.”
So
we are not yet into the 7th trumpet, but while still under the 6th trumpet of
judgment there is a passing remark about the 7th trumpet yet to sound off.
That
passing remark is that under the 7th trumpet, there will be a mystery that will
be finished. The question is then, just
what is this mystery?
Now
this 7th trumpet that we are looking it is the last trumpet to be recorded in
Scripture. It is the last trumpet to
sound.
Can
we find a scripture declaring that at the time of this last trumpet there will
be a mystery involved other than what we have just read here in Revelation
10:7? And can we also in that
same scripture discover what this mystery actually is? Yes we can.
Let’s
go to the book of 1st Corinthians chapter 15. Remember now that the Feast of Trumpets is a
shadow of something yet to take place.
This
7th and last trumpet is the fulfillment of that shadow. It is the reality of what cast the shadow in
the first place.
Before
we are done with this writing, we’ll come full circle with what that original trumpet
from shamayim pictured in type back there when the Elohim came down upon the
mount to be with His people ancient Israel.
1st Corinthians 15:51,52
“Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall be
changed. In a moment, in the twinkling
of an eye, at the last trump: for
the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and
we shall be changed.”
We
saw back in Revelation 10:7 that at the sounding of the 7th and
last trumpet, a mystery would be finished.
Here
in 1st Corinthian 15 we see what that mystery is. It is the resurrection of the dead and our
changing from being mortal to immortality.
And
this changing takes place at what is called in 1st Corinthians 15 as
the last trump.
The
day of trumpets will be a trying time upon the inhabitants of this old
world. It will bring upon the world a
time of great judgment to the point that one might wonder if anyone would be
left alive.
But
in the final fulfillment of the meaning of the trumpets, an awesome event takes
place. We will become immortal as
Messiah returns to make things right and to begin saving the world.
The
dead throughout the ages who lived and then died in the faith shall come forth
from the grave, and then we who remain together with the risen dead will be
changed.
We
will receive a new body, a body like unto the resurrected Messiah. And we shall reign with the Messiah
forever! And for just the very thought
of such an event, we should all say praise Yahweh!
Praise
Yahweh for He is great and He will justly bring about that which has been
prophesied for thousands of years. He
declared the end from the beginning and He will do all His pleasure. He looks
forward with great anticipation for the completion of His righteous plan. He so desires to give those that He has
chosen the power and the might that the Elohim only now has. He anticipates the day in which He will raise
the dead back to life and we along with them will be changed into and we shall
become members of the Elohim of the Yahweh family!
It
is no wonder then that Yahweh said that we should come together on the day of
trumpets to talk about these things. At
least once a year we should come together and hear the message of what the
Feast of Trumpets is a shadow of.
As
horrendous as the judgments will be under the time of the sounding of these
trumpets for the inhabitants of this old world, we see in the finality of it
all, the mighty return of our Master and Messiah, and the gathering together of
His people unto Him.
Yahweh
is going to save the world. He is not in
the business of destroying men’s lives.
He is not in the business of bringing judgment and plagues and
destruction upon humankind.
No,
it is man’s sins that has brought and will bring these things upon
us. Yahweh is in the business of
salvation. It is a salvaging
operation. He salvages lives and will
one day restore this world to the sinless, perfect paradise this it once was.
As
crazy as this present world is in our day, these events that we have been reading
and studying about are just in their beginning stages of the labor pains.
We
have yet to see the cataclysms of the book of Revelation take place, but they
are at the very door as prophecy is quickly coming to pass.
Let
us now go to Revelation chapter 11.
The
book of Revelation is such a bewildering book, filled with unusual picturistic
words and stories that sometimes overwhelm our mortal minds.
But
it is meant to be a book of revealing not a book for hiding. Our Elohim is revealing the events of the end
of the age and beyond through this book.
But it sometimes takes a deeper study on our part and requires us to
reference other books of scripture to interpret what is being said for us in
symbolism in the book of Revelation.
I
believe that Yahweh meant for this to be this way, so that only those with a
sincere heart and the intent on knowing and understanding and searching out
these things would find the deep meanings of what is being said.
The
rest of the world would not understand, because they wouldn’t have the heart to
search the scriptures which is required in order for the pieces of the puzzle
to begin making sense and the great picture will come into view.
Revelation 11:14-19 “The
second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe comes quickly. And the 7th angel sounded; and there were
great voices in shamayim, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the
kingdoms of Yahweh, and of His Messiah; and He shall reign for ever and
ever. And the four and twenty elders,
which sat before Elohim on their seats, fell upon their faces, and worshipped
Elohim, saying, We give you thanks, O Yahweh Elohim Almighty, which are, and
was, and are to come; because you have
taken to you your great power, and has reigned.
And the nations were angry, and your wrath is come, and the time of the
dead, that they should be judged, and that you should give reward unto your
servants the prophets, and to your kodeshim, and them that fear your name,
small and great; and should destroy them which destroy the earth. And the temple of Elohim was opened in
shamayim, and there was seen in His temple the ark of His testament: and there
were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great
hail.”
There
we have it, the sounding off of this last trumpet. Great voices were heard in shamayim declaring
that Messiah is now come to reign, to take unto Himself the power over the
kingdoms.
This
is the coming of the Messiah mentioned in a number of scriptures. It is a time in which the kingdoms of this
world are going to be officially turned over to Messiah.
Messiah
will be coronated as the King at the sounding of this trumpet, just as the
ancient kings of Israel did at the sounding of the trumpet.
It
is a time in which a member of the Elohim will once again come down to this
earth, this time upon the Mount of Olives as we’ll see shortly. This takes place at the sounding of the trumpet. And not just any trumpet but the last
trumpet, the 7th trumpet.
Just
as took place when that trumpet sounding off in ancient times and Yahweh came
down upon Mount Sinai in the presence of the people.
The
day of trumpets is a memorial of that great event and is a shadow of a similar
event yet in our future, when the King of kings and the Master of masters will
come down out of shamayim to be with His people and to rule the nations.
He’ll
set things right. He will rule by His
righteous laws that mankind has trampled under foot and along with it mankind
has also stomped all over His shed blood that was shed for the transgressions
of that law.
But
it says there in verse 18 that the Master would give rewards unto
His servants. Those servants are His
prophets, whether that is speaking of those who foretell the future or those
who preach His word. Those servants
according to this verse is also the kodeshim, the set apart ones (King James
calls them saints) and to them that fear His name or show honor and respect to
Him thru a loving obedience unto His Messiahship.
This
is speaking of the judgment seat of Messiah wherein at the time of the coming
of Yahshua, we will be judged and rewarded for those things we have done in
this body since coming to the knowledge of our Master and Messiah.
At
this 7th trumpet, the Messiah returns, we rise to meet Him, we go with Him to
the marriage supper of the Lamb and then return to this Earth to rule and reign
with Him forever.
Turn
to the book of Revelation and chapter 19 now and we’ll see a little more of the
picture.
Revelation 19:1-16 “And after
these things I heard a great voice of much people in shamayim, saying, Praise
Yah; Salvation, and esteem, and honor, and power, unto the Yahweh our Elohim:
For true and righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great whore,
which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and has avenged the blood of
his servants at her hand. And again they
said, Praise Yah. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever. And the four and
twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped Elohim that sat on
the throne, saying, Amen; Praise Yah. And a voice came out of the throne,
saying, Praise our Elohim, all you his servants, and you that fear him, both
small and great. And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as
the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying,
Praise Yah: for the Yahweh Elohim omnipotent reigns. Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to
him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife has made herself ready.
And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and
white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of set apart ones. And he said unto me, Write, Baruk are they
which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said unto me,
These are the true sayings of Elohim.
And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See you do
it not: I am your fellowservant, and of your brethren that have the testimony
of Yahshua: worship Elohim: for the testimony of Yahshua is the spirit of
prophecy. And I saw shamayim opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat
upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he does judge and
make war. His eyes were as a flame of
fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man
knew, but he himself. And he was clothed
with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of Yahweh
Elohim. And the armies which were in
shamayim followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and
clean. And out of his mouth goes a sharp
sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a
rod of iron: and he treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of
Almighty Elohim.
And
he had on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND MASTER
OR MASTERS.”
So
at the 7th trumpet, Messiah returns, resurrects the dead, the set apart ones,
then we are caught up and we go to the marriage supper of the Lamb where
Messiah will once again serve us as He did His disciples on that last
Passover.
He
will once again drink of the fruit of the vine that He told His disciples that
night before being betrayed that He would not do this again until He comes into
His Kingdom.
It
will be a great Feast and banquet and the set apart ones will be given their
crowns and their rewards and their positions in the government. Some will be given great and high positions
in that Kingdom government, some will have lesser rewards.
Some
will serve as Kings, others as priests and yet others as judges in the coming
kingdom government. Our rewards and
positions will be based upon how we lived here on this earth after coming into
the knowledge of Messiah and His ways.
After
the time of Great Tribulation, Messiah will return at the sounding of the 7th
trumpet to receive unto Himself those whom He has chosen and to receive His
Kingdom.
We
will go to the great Feast of Trumpets, the marriage supper of the Lamb to
coronate King Yahshua and then He will give us our rewards. We will then immediately return with Messiah
back to the earth riding on white horses, which could be real and true or in
symbolism as John may have not been able to understand or interpret what he was
seeing.
In
John’s day a horse was a mode of transportation. Just as we have Airplanes and automobiles
today.
It
could very well be that we will be traveling in some supernatural mode of
transportation that John could only describe as a means of the type of
transportation of his day. In other
words a horse.
We’ll
just have to wait and experience this for ourselves. Who knows, this may be literal. We may be flying around on supernatural
horses. There are scriptures that show
spacecraft being used by Yahweh, maybe you and I also one day.
But
we along with Messiah will return and crush the Beast system who will be
gathering down below on earth to make war against the Messiah and His army
according to what we read in Revelation 19 and verse 19.
We
will destroy the armies of the Beast and set up the kingdom of Yahweh.
Lets
take up the story line in the book of Zechariah chapter 14. Zechariah is the second to the last book in the
older writings of scripture.
In
Zechariah 14, we are going to see Messiah and the kodeshim coming back from the Marriage supper of the
Lamb and we are going to return to this earth in power to set up the Kingdom
and to crush the armies that will be gathering down below against us while we
are hovering overhead.
Zechariah 14:3-5 “Then shall Yahweh go forth, and
fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. And his
feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before
Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst
thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great
valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it
toward the south. And you shall flee to
the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal:
yes, you shall flee, like as you fled from before the earthquake in the days of
Uzziah king of Judah: and Yahweh my Elohim shall come, and all the chosen set
apart ones with Him.”
Just
like He did in Ancient times when the only other recorded time when the trumpet
out of the shamayim sounded, we shall see the fulfillment of what the Feast of
Trumpets is a shadow of.
Just
like He did back then, He will come down upon a mountain top in the presence of
all mankind. But this time we will come
down with Him.
But
unlike during the days of old, wherein the people were not allowed to look upon
the face of Yahweh, nor even touch the mountain lest they die, we shall have
complete and total access to our Elohim.
We
shall dwell in His presence openly and He with us. For we shall become immortal as He now
is. We will then be members of the
Elohim, as in the family of Yahweh.
We
need to turn now to the book of Matthew and chapter 24. This is a very straight forward and
sequential outline of the end of the age.
Matthew 24:29-31
“Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and
the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from the shamayim,
and the powers of the shamayim shall be shaken……
That
is the description of the effects from the trumpet judgments that we have been
studying. Very similar words that we
have read in the book of Revelation and in Isaiah about the sun and the moon
and the stars being ashamed and not giving their light or stars or as men call
them shooting stars or meteors as they are scientifically called, falling out
of the sky onto the earth.
This
will be a time of great shaking. The
earth and it’s inhabitants will be shaken to their very core.
verse 30 ..............And then shall appear
the sign of the Son of Man in shamayim:
and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and hey shall see the
Son of Man coming in the clouds of shamayim with power and great honor. And He shall send His messengers with a great
sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from the four
winds, from one end of shamayim to the other.”
Remember
back when the original trumpet sounded that we read about back in the book of
Exodus that as the Trumpet began sounding long and louder is when Yahweh came
down.
So
it is each trumpet beginning with the 1st through the 6th are each building up
for the final long trumpet number 7 wherein the Feast of trumpets has been
pointing toward all along.
Turn
to 1st Thessalonians chapter 4.
Let’s see another scripture describing this event before moving on and
bringing this message to a conclusion.
1st Thessalonians 4:13-18 “But
I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are
asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Yahshua died and rose
again, even so them also which sleep in Yahshua will Yahweh Elohim bring with
Him. For this we say unto you by the
word of the Master, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the
Master shall not prevent them which are asleep.
For the Master Himself shall descend from shamayim with a shout, with
the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of Yahweh: and the dead in
Messiah shall rise first: Then we which
are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to
meet the Master in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Master.
Wherefore
comfort one another with these words.”
And
these are most certainly comforting words and even more so when we see and
understand the great shaking that this world is about to undergo.
Brethren
the appointed times and feast days, are still to this day a shadow of things to
come.
The
7th and last trumpet of the book of Revelation means the exact same thing today
or at the ending of this age as the original trumpet did that sounded back in
Exodus on top of Mount Sinai. It
indicates that the Great Creator of the universe is about to make an appearance
on the earth.
When
He came down on top of Mount Sinai, He appeared to give His laws to the nation
of Israel.
When
He appears at the sounding of the last trumpet at the end of the age, He will
show His laws to all the nations of the earth as we’ll discuss when we begin
our study of the Feast of Tabernacles.
If
you and I are one of Yahweh’s
Elect. One of His called out
ones. One of His chosen ones. The Feast of Trumpets represents to you and
I, the day in which the last and final trumpet will sound and you and I will
come before our King, Yahshua the Messiah.
We
will have a new body made of spirit like Yahshua the Messiah now has. If we have died and fallen asleep in Messiah
before that day, we will be awakened by the sound of that great trumpet out of
shamayim and we will be quickened and made alive and alive forever more.
As
we have read, when that 7th angel sounds that last trumpet, the kingdoms of
this world are become the kingdoms of our Elohim, and of His Messiah; and He
shall reign for ever and ever.
Rev
20:4-6 “And I saw thrones, and they sat
on them. And judgment was given to them, and the souls of the ones having been
beheaded because of the witness of Yahshua, and because of the Word of YAHWEH,
and who had not worshiped the beast nor its image, and had not received the
mark on their forehead and on their hand. And they lived and reigned with
Messiah a thousand years. This is the first resurrection. (This resurrection is
what the day of Trumpets represents to us) Baruk and kodesh is the one having
part in the first resurrection. The second death has no authority over these,
but they will be priests of YAHWEH and of His Messiah, and will reign with Him
a thousand years.
1Cor
15:22-24 “for as in Adam all die, so
also in Messiah all will be made alive. But each in his own order: Messiah, the
first-fruit; afterward those of Messiah at His coming. (that is the true
believers the first fruit harvest depicted in the day of Pentecost showing that
there will be an early harvest and a later harvest, True believers are being
called out and harvested first, most likely on a future day of trumpets) Then
at the end, (that is everyone else most likely a thousand years later when they
come out of their graves) when He delivers the kingdom to YAHWEH, even the
Father, when He makes to cease all rule and all authority and power.”
Luke_21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass,
then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
To
lift up your heads is not just so you can look up, but it is an expression of
joy and happiness. Those who have no joy
or hope or are enduring trials and depression and oppression have their heads
hanging low.
But
we are commanded to lift up our heads.
Lift up your heads and be happy and rejoice for the real event with which
trumpets is just a shadow will one day become reality! And as the Apostle John
said, Even so come quickly master Yahshua, even so come.
What
a day it will be when that final trumpet sounds off!
And
I hope that you all can say with me today, we agree!