The Mystery of the

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The Mystery of the

• SHOFAR

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SHOFAR

• A Rams Horn

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Teruah the blowing

• ALARM
• Nine staccato ( short) Blasts (X3)
• The sound of Rachel crying for her children!
• SIGNALS AN ATTACK BY THE ENEMY
• Sends the Army on attack CHARGE

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Shevarim

• A broken sighing sound of three calls
• Usually a short note followed by a higher longer
  note.
• A more urgent call to assemble quickly

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Spirit of G-d

• Shifts Change
• Releasing a sound
• Opening portals

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Heavenly Realms

• Open on Earth
• Opens way
• People on earth move in the Heavenlies

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Awesome things happen

• Walls fall down
• Enemies overcome
• Presence of G-d
• Cycle of blessing

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Tekiah

• A long blast with a clear tone
• LOUD
• Sometimes a short note followed by a higher long
  note followed by a shriek at the end
• THE CALL TO ASSEMBLE

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Tekiah Gedolah

• Grand or Great Tekiah
• Single loud unbroken blast
• Held as long as possible
• As long as loud as
• the trumpeter has breath

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Why a rams horn?

• Genesis 2213. And Abraham lifted up his eyes,
  and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in
  a thicket by his horns and Abraham went and took
  the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering
  in the stead of his son.
• The ram for a sacrifice is a symbol of the
  sacrifice that Messiah made for us so the rams
  horn points the way to the messiah.

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Why not a cows horn?

• Because the people of Israel worshiped the golden
  calf.

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When did G-D blow the Shofar?

• Exodus 1916. 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.

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Exodus 1919

• and the sound of the trumpet grew louder and
  louder. Then Moses spoke and the voice of God
  answered him.

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Only G-d was on the mountain!

• Rabbi Horseman says that the shofar must have
  been blown by G-d himself. It is the closest
  thing we have to the voice of G-d.

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When will he blow it again?

• I Thessalonians 416. For the Lord himself shall
  descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice
  of the archangel, and with the trump of God and
  the dead in Christ shall rise first
• G-D will blow the trumpet at Messiahs return.

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Zechariah 914

• Then the LORD will be seen over them,       And
  His arrow will go forth like
• lightning.       The Lord GOD will blow the
  trumpet,
•       And go with whirlwinds from the south.
• This is the Final Battle!

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What does it do?

• It puts the Devil to confusion because
• he thinks that G-d is about to speak
• or Messiah is about to return
• or the battle is about to begin.

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YOM TERUAH

• Literally Day of blowing
• Feast of Trumpets
•  23 The LORD said to Moses, 24 "Say to the
  Israelites 'On the first day of the seventh
  month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred
  assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts. 25 Do
  no regular work, but present an offering made to
  the LORD by fire.' "

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The day that no man knows!

• The first day of the seventh month is determined
  by the appearance of the new moon.
• This could be any one of several days of that
  month (lunar cycle).
• It cannot be determined until the new moon is
  sighted from the temple in Jerusalem

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The Year of Jubilee

•  Lev 258 " 'Count off seven sabbaths of
  yearsseven times seven yearsso that the seven
  sabbaths of years amount to a period of
  forty-nine years. 9 Then have the trumpet sounded
  everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month
  on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet
  throughout your land.

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• THIS HAS NEVER BEEN DONE!!!

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The Silver Trumpets

•  Number 101 The LORD said to Moses 2 "Make two
  trumpets of hammered silver, and use them for
  calling the community together and for having the
  camps set out.

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ASSEMBLY

• 3 When both are sounded, the whole community is
  to assemble before you at the entrance to the
  Tent of Meeting. 4 If only one is sounded, the
  leadersthe heads of the clans of Israelare to
  assemble before you.

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Sound of moving out

• 5 When a trumpet blast is sounded, the tribes
  camping on the east are to set out. 6 At the
  sounding of a second blast, the camps on the
  south are to set out. The blast will be the
  signal for setting out.

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Different signals

• 7 To gather the assembly, blow the trumpets, but
  not with the same signal.

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Who blows the silver trumpets?

•  8 "The sons of Aaron, the priests, are to blow
  the trumpets. This is to be a lasting ordinance
  for you and the generations to come.

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Who are priests today?

• Rev 510 For he has made us Kings and Priests to
  the most high God!!!
• WE ARE (both men women) !!!

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Effect in Battle

• 9 When you go into battle in your own land
  against an enemy who is oppressing you, sound a
  blast on the trumpets. Then you will be
  remembered by the LORD your God and rescued from
  your enemies.

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A MEMORIAL

• 10 Also at your times of rejoicingyour appointed
  feasts and New Moon festivalsyou are to sound
  the trumpets over your burnt offerings and
  fellowship offerings, and they will be a memorial
  for you before your God. I am the LORD your God."

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Jericho
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Joshua 6

•  2 Then the LORD said to Joshua, "See, I have
  delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its
  king and its fighting men. 3 March around the
  city once with all the armed men. Do this for six
  days. 4 Have seven priests carry trumpets of
  rams' horns in front of the ark. On the seventh
  day, march around the city seven times, with the
  priests blowing the trumpets. 5 When you hear
  them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have all
  the people give a loud shout then the wall of
  the city will collapse and the people will go up,
  every man straight in."

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Gideons Army

• 300 Vs 10,000
• They needed a miracle
• Gideon heard them express their fear

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Judges 7

• " 16 Dividing the three hundred men into three
  companies, he placed trumpets and empty jars in
  the hands of all of them, with torches inside.
•  17 "Watch me," he told them. "Follow my lead.
  When I get to the edge of the camp, do exactly as
  I do. 18 When I and all who are with me blow our
  trumpets, then from all around the camp blow
  yours and shout, 'For the LORD and for Gideon.' "

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Judges 722

• When the three hundred trumpets sounded, the LORD
  caused the men throughout the camp to turn on
  each other with their swords. The army fled to
  Beth Shittah toward Zererah as far as the border
  of Abel Meholah near Tabbath.

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Dedication of the Temple

• 2 Chronicles 513The trumpeters and singers
  joined in unison, as with one voice, to give
  praise and thanks to the LORD. Accompanied by
  trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, they
  raised their voices in praise to the LORD and
  sang "He is good his love endures forever."
  Then the temple of the LORD was filled with a
  cloud,

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Victory in Battle-2 Chronicles 13

•  13 Now Jeroboam had sent troops around to the
  rear, so that while he was in front of Judah the
  ambush was behind them. 14 Judah turned and saw
  that they were being attacked at both front and
  rear. Then they cried out to the LORD. The
  priests blew their trumpets 15 and the men of
  Judah raised the battle cry. At the sound of
  their battle cry, God routed Jeroboam and all
  Israel before Abijah and Judah. 16 The Israelites
  fled before Judah, and God delivered them into
  their hands. 17 Abijah and his men inflicted
  heavy losses on them, so that there were five
  hundred thousand casualties among Israel's able
  men. 18 The men of Israel were subdued on that
  occasion, and the men of Judah were victorious
  because they relied on the LORD, the God of their
  fathers.

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Coronation

•  2 Chronicles 23
• 12 When Athaliah heard the noise of the people
  running and cheering the king, she went to them
  at the temple of the LORD. 13 She looked, and
  there was the king, standing by his pillar at the
  entrance. The officers and the trumpeters were
  beside the king, and all the people of the land
  were rejoicing and blowing trumpets, and singers
  with musical instruments were leading the
  praises.

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2 Chronicles 29

•  25 He stationed the Levites in the temple of the
  LORD with cymbals, harps and lyres in the way
  prescribed by David and Gad the king's seer and
  Nathan the prophet this was commanded by the
  LORD through his prophets. 26 So the Levites
  stood ready with David's instruments, and the
  priests with their trumpets.
•  27 Hezekiah gave the order to sacrifice the
  burnt offering on the altar. As the offering
  began, singing to the LORD began also,
  accompanied by trumpets and the instruments of
  David king of Israel. 28 The whole assembly bowed
  in worship, while the singers sang and the
  trumpeters played. All this continued until the
  sacrifice of the burnt offering was completed.

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• 29 When the offerings were finished, the king and
  everyone present with him knelt down and
  worshiped. 30 King Hezekiah and his officials
  ordered the Levites to praise the LORD with the
  words of David and of Asaph the seer. So they
  sang praises with gladness and bowed their heads
  and worshiped.
•  31 Then Hezekiah said, "You have now dedicated
  yourselves to the LORD. Come and bring sacrifices
  and thank offerings to the temple of the LORD."
  So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank
  offerings, and all whose hearts were willing
  brought burnt offerings.

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Psalm 47

• 5 God has ascended amid shouts of joy,       
  the LORD amid the sounding of trumpets.

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Psalm 98

•  4 Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth,
         burst into jubilant song with music
•  5 make music to the LORD with the harp,       
  with the harp and the sound of singing,
•  6 with trumpets and the blast of the ram's horn
         shout for joy before the LORD, the King.
•  7 Let the sea resound, and everything in it,
         the world, and all who live in it.

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Tekiah

• A long blast with a clear tone
• LOUD
• Sometimes a short note followed by a higher long
  note followed by a shriek at the end
• THE CALL TO ASSEMBLE

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Shevarim

• A broken sighing sound of three calls
• Usually a short note followed by a higher longer
  note.
• A more urgent call to assemble quickly

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Teruah the blowing

• ALARM
• Nine staccato ( short) Blasts
• The sound of Rachel crying for her children!
• SIGNALS AN ATTACK BY THE ENEMY
• Sends the Army on attack CHARGE

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Tekiah Gedolah

• Grand or Great Tekiah
• Single loud unbroken blast
• Held as long as possible
• As long as loud as
• the trumpeter has breath

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TEKIAH,SHEVARIM,TERUAHGRAND TEKIAH

• The usual series of blowing.
• Each one may be repeated several times before the
  next.
• The person officiating may call out the sequence
  for the trumpeters to follow

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Revelation 4The Throne Room of Heaven

•  1 After these things I looked, and behold, a
  door standing open in heaven. And the first voice
  which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with
  me, saying, Come up here, and I will show you
  things which must take place after this.

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The Mystery of the SHOFAR!!!

• THE SOUND OF THE SHOFAR
• G-d inhabits
• G-d Speaks
• G-d Acts
• G-d scatters the enemy