Shalom to my fellow brothers and sisters in YESHUA ha’Mashiach. We are now entering the season of all the Fall Moedim (M0-ed-deem) which means Appointed times, Feasts/Fasts that YHWH ELOHIM commanded us to observe each year.
I’m going to go over each of the Appointed Times/Holy Days separately, ELOHIM willing. However, I want to tell everyone in advance the days you need to take off because they are Holy Days where you are not allowed to work:
September 23rd is Yom Teruah (Evening of September 22nd to evening of 23rd)
October 2nd is Yom Kippur (Evening of October 1st to evening of October 2nd )
October 7th (no work) is Sukkot which runs for 7 days and then no work on October 14th.
As mentioned above the first Holy Day is Yom Teruah/Trumpets which means “The Day of Shouting” is on the 23rd of this month which is equivalent to the 1st day of the 7th month in YHWH’s eyes.
YHWH commands us in Leviticus 23:23-24 saying:
"Speak to the children of Yisra’el, saying, 'In the seventh month (Ethanim), on the first day of the month, you have a REST, a remembrance of blowing of trumpets, a holy gathering.” You DO NO SERVILE WORK, and you shall bring an offering made by fire to YHWH.”
I would just like to reiterate that you are not do any work on September 23rd (From the evening of the September 22nd to the evening of September 23rd.) Make sure you take this day off.
Numbers 10:10
“And in the day of your gladness, and in your Appointed Times, and at the BEGINNING OF YOUR MONTHS, you shall BLOW THE TRUMPETS, over your burnt offerings and over your peace offerings. And they shall be a remembrance for you before your ELOHIM. I am YHWH your ELOHIM.’
This makes a lot sense because Yom Teruah is on 1st day the beginning of the 7th month and it’s an Appointed Time and we will be blowing trumpets/shofars, which matches what YHWH said in Numbers 10:10. We are allowed to prepare food for the celebration and that is all you may do, being that it is a High-Sabbath but not a Shabbat Shabbaton such as the weekly 7th Day Sabbath or Yom Kippur which is a fasting day. Similarly to how cooking is all we can do on Feast of Unleavened Bread which occurs after Passover.
Numbers 29:1-6
“And in the seventh month, on the first of the month, you have a holy gathering, YOU DO NO SERVILE WORK, it is a Yom Teruah for you. And you shall prepare a burnt offering as a sweet fragrance to YHWH: one young bull, one ram, seven lambs a year old, perfect ones, and their grain offering: fine flour mixed with oil, three-tenth parts for the bull, two-tenth parts for the ram, and one-tenth part for each of the seven lambs, and one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you, besides the burnt offering with its grain offering for the New Moon, the continual burnt offering with its grain offering, and their drink offerings, according to their Right-Ruling, as a SWEET FRAGRANCE, an offering made by fire to YHWH.”
YESHUA is the Lamb of YHWH who takes away the sins of the world and offered Himself with His blood and not the blood of bulls and goats. It is important to see what YESHUA’s blood did for us and be thankful for this GIFT. YESHUA fulfills the animal offerings for us with His blood as He serves as High Priest in the heavens for us and His was the sweet fragrance that YHWH mentions in Numbers 29:1-6:
Ephesians 5:2
“And walk in love, as Mashiach (Messiah) also has loved us, and gave Himself for us, a gift and an offering to YHWH for a SWEET-SMELLING FRAGRANCE.”
We too need to offer up ourselves as a living sacrifice in our daily lives:
Romans 12:1
“I call upon you, therefore, brothers, through the compassion of ELOHIM, to present your bodies a LIVING OFFERING-holy, well-pleasing to ELOHIM-your reasonable worship.”
1 Peter 2:4-5
“Drawing near to Him, a living Stone-rejected indeed by men, but chosen by YHWH and precious- you also, as living stones, are being built up, a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up SPIRITUAL SLAUGHTER OFFERINGS acceptable to YHWH through YESHUA ha’Mashiach.”
Fact:
Teruah (Teh-roo-ah) in Hebrew is defined in Strong’s #8643 as:
A shout or blast of war, alarm, joy, battle cry, blowing, blowing trumpets, joyful sound, resounding, shout, shout of alarm, shout of joy, shouted, shouting, shouts of joy, signal, or trumpet blast.
Joshua 6:5-6:
"And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the horn, all the people shall shout with TERUAH (a great shout); and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before him."
2 Chronicles 13:14-15
“And Judah turned and saw the battle was both in front and behind them. Then they cried out to YHWH, and the priests sounded the trumpets. And the men of Judah gave a shout (TERUAH). And it came to be as the men of Judah shouted, that ELOHIM smote Jaroboam and all Yisra’el before Abiyah and Judah
So just like Joshua at Jericho when they shouted to make the walls collapse, so did Abiyah son of Reoboam with Judah and YHWH remembered them.
1 Samuel 4:5-6 says:
"And when the ark of the Covenant of YHWH came into the camp, all of Yisra'el TERUAH (shouted) so loudly that the earth shook." And when the Philistines heard the noise of the Teruah, they said, 'What is the noise of this great Teruah in the camp of the Hebrews?"
Psalms 66:1
"Teruah (shout) with joy to ELOHIM, All the earth!"
Psalms 100:1
Raise a Teruah (shout) for YHWH, All the earth!
There are four primary types of shofar blasts:
1. Tekiah- A long single blast (the sound of the King’s coronation.)
2. Shevarim- Three short wail-like blasts (signifying repentance)
3. Teruah-Nine staccato blasts of alarm (to awaken the soul)
4. Tekiah ha-Galol- a great long blast (for as long as you can blow!)
Numbers 10:9
“And when you go into battle in your land against the enemy that distresses you, then you shall SHOUT (TERUAH) with the trumpets, and you shall be remembered, before YHWH your ELOHIM, and you shall be saved from your enemies.”
Nehemiah 4:18-20
“As for the builders, each one had his sword girded at his side as he built. And the one who sounded the ram’s horn was beside me. And I said to the nobles, and to the deputy rulers, and to the rest of the people, “The work is great and large, and we are separated far from one another on the wall. In whatever place you hear the sound of the ram’s horn, join us there. Our Elohim fights for us.”
Mathew 24:31
“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 shamayim to the other.”
Let us do as David said and TERUAH (SHOUT) all the earth with shouting and blowing the shofar! Does this day apply to Christians? Yes! Just as all YAHWEH’s Holy Days do:
Isaiah 56:6
“Also the sons of the foreigner (gentile/Christian) who JOIN themselves to YHWH, to serve Him, and to love the name of YHWH, to be His servants, ALL WHO GUARD THE SABBATHS, and not profane it, and hold fast to My Covenant.”
So in order for the gentile to join Himself to YHWH and be grafted in; they must keep the commandments just as the Native-born. YHWH has the weekly 7th Day Sabbath and all of His Holy Days/Feast Days are called Sabbaths too, which means they all apply for native-born and gentile.
Blessings to you in YESHUA ha’Mashiach's name,
Damien Powell