Yom Teruah
Yom Teruah is on the first day of the 7th month. Tishrei is the name of this month. Ofcourse it’s a sabbath. We suppose not to work and have a service at the start of this celebration day.
We are going to read 2 bible texts about this celebration.:
Leviticus 23:23-25
Again Yahweh, the Lord, spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month on the first of the month you shall have a rest, a reminder by blowing of trumpets , a holy convocation. You shall not do any laborious work, but you shall present an offering by fire to Yahweh, the Lord. ’ ”
Numbers 29:1-5
‘Now in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall also have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work. It will be to you a day for blowing trumpets. You shall offer a burnt offering as a soothing aroma to Yahweh, the Lord: one bull, one ram, and seven male lambs one year old without defect; also their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the ram, and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs. Offer one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you.
I already explained to you that Yom Teruah is on the first day of the 7th month Tishrei. Yom Teruah means day of Shouts.
The priests were blowing on trumpets this day while they were offering, like they do on every new moon and on the appointed times and on days of gladness.
Numbers 10:1-2, 8, 10
Yahweh spoke further to Moses, saying, “Make yourself two trumpets of silver, of hammered work you shall make them; and you shall use them for summoning the congregation and for having the camps set out. The priestly sons of Aaron, moreover, shall blow the trumpets; and this shall be for you a perpetual statute throughout your generations. Also in the day of your gladness and in your appointed feasts, and on the first days of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be as a reminder of you before your God. I am the Lord your God.”
The normal people blow the shofar. The shofar is a ram’s horn. On this day we blow on ram’s horns. This time the blowing is there to express our joy. Other people are shouting. Because teruah literally means to make a loud noise. This word can describe the noise made by a trumpet or a sjofar but it also describes the noise made by a large gathering of people shouting in unison. It’s a day of very joyful worship.
A lot of people only know the name Rosh Hashanah. This means head of the year. The transformation of Yom Teruah into Rosh Hashanah is the result of pagan Babylonian influence upon the Jewish nation. We’re not celebrating new year in the 7th month. We celebrate new year in the month Nissan. Because that one is the first month.
The Jews celebrate on this day the day that Yahweh created the earth. And this day is for them the start of the 10 days of awe. They’re thinking about what they did wrong, ask forgiveness and correct what they did wrong if it’s possible to correct it. It’s the preparation for Yom Kippur, the day of judgement.
For us as followers of Yeshua has this day a extra meaning:
Believers in Messiah Yeshua understand that the Spring Feasts (Passover, Unleavened Bread and Shavuot) had their prophetic fulfillment in Yeshua nearly 2000 years ago. We anticipate the prophetic fulfillment of the Fall Feasts (Yom Teruah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret) at Yeshua’s second coming. These begin with the sounding of the “awakening blast” on Yom Teruah.
The 2 trumpets of the priests are a symbol of the tribe of Judah and the lost 10 tribes of Israel. This celebration foreshadows the day that Yahweh is going to gather his people from all around the world. Yahweh will call His people, like a shepherd calls his sheep. He will gather them so that they can become one nation again.
In a Jewish traditional marriage the bride is waiting for the bridegroom. He is building together with his father a house for us. When the house is ready he will go with his friends to the house of the bride. He send his friends first to the bride while he waits. His friends warn the bride so that she can make herself ready for the wedding. She and her virgins will wait together till the bridegroom comes. The virgins will welcome the bridegroom with their lights. They’re going all to the fathers house where the wedding is. The lights are also burning while they are walking. The bride is always taken deep in the night. How long she has to wait is unknown. It depends on the bridegroom.
This celebration will be in the future the day that it is announced that our bride groom Yeshua will come. His friends are shouting to us that the bridegroom will come very soon and that we have to make ourselves ready. We’re the virgins who are waiting with the bride. The bride is Yahweh’s Kingdom. Every year we wait on Yeshua to come. We don’t know how long we have to wait but we know that He will come. Ofcourse we are not waiting silently. We celebrate already that He is on His way.
In Revelation we read that 7 times a trumpet is shouting. After the 7th trumpet Yeshua is on mount Sion with the 144.000 people who has the name of His Father written on their foreheads. Yeshua came for His bride.
And a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven starts to speak:
Revelation 19:1
After these things I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying, “Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to Yahweh.
Revelation 19:7-9
Let us rejoice and be glad and give the glory to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and His bride has made herself ready.” It was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen, bright and clean; for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. Then he *said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.’ ” And he *said to me, “These are true words of Yahweh.”
Let’s us be joyful on this celebration day and think of the promise Yeshua made: He will come back for us. Let the trumpets shout. Let the shofar shouts. Let us shout. Let us wait in joyful expectation on this moment. He will certainly come. Amen.