Blood Moons–Feast of Trumpets–Grace Revisited

Part 3 of Grace and the Law Series

• • Day 27 of the 6th Biblical Month, also known as the month of Elul in Jewish circles. Creator’s Calendar versus the Jewish Calculated Calendar. Choose your calendar. About 3-days or less out from Yom Teruah or the Day of the Blowing of Trumpets
  • Fall Feasts and Yom Teruah approaching–Rosh Hashanah (beginning of the Jewish New Year) vs. the Month of the Aviv (beginning of the Hebrew New Year)–Jewish vs. Hebrew. No, this is not the New Year. It may be the beginning of the Jewish New Year. But the Hebraic New Year–the beginning as established by Yahovah, occurs on the 1st day of the Month of the Aviv

• • Exodus 12:1,2– And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,  ² This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. (Exo 12:1-2 KJV)
  • But we were told to honor and observe this coming Feast Day by Yahovah–Leviticus 23: ²⁴ “Tell the people of Isra’el, ‘In the seventh month, the first of the month is to be for you a day of complete rest for remembering, a holy convocation announced with blasts on the shofar.  ²⁵ Do not do any kind of ordinary work, and bring an offering made by fire to ADONAI.'” (Lev 23:24-25 CJB)
  • And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you. (Num 29:1 KJV)
  • The Fall Feasts, as we know, portray prophetic shadow pictures of good things to come–For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. (Heb 10:1 KJV). 
  • Yom Teruah means “Day of the Blowing.” It is the beginning of the Fall Feasts of Yahovah and is the 4th of the mandated feasts
  • Yom Teruah also begins the 10-days of Awe. We begin a 10-day count to Yom Kippur or the Day of Atonement. These two High Holy Days are of significance in that the focus is upon the believer conducting a self-examination of themselves with repentance over the course of these 10-days. It is during these 10-days that we make amends for the people that we’ve hurt, the wrong that we’ve done, and to get ourselves right before Yahovah–done before the judgment day which is Atonement
  • Judaism teaches that Rosh HaShanah celebrates the creation of Adam and Eve which they believe happened on Yom Teruah. They contend that labeling Rosh HaShanah as the New Year Day is but that of a civil New Year for the Jew. Hogwash!
  • The Day of the Blowing of Trumpets has its obvious start at Mount Sinai on that fateful day when Yahovah camed down to establish His covenant with in the midst of the smoke and flame that engulfed the holy mountain, there was a deafening blaring of trumpets (Exo. 19:16). Later, this event was commemorated into it’s own feast day that has become known as Yom Teruah or the Day of the Blowing of Trumpets
  • Some teach that Yom Teruah is a shadow picture of Y’shua’s second coming and the saints being taken to the marriage support of the lamb and then Yom Kippur (aka The Day of Atonement) will be a time when Mashiyach will judge the world. The Feast of Trumpets has been described as a Day when no man knows the day or hour of its occurrence as we must rely exclusively on the sighting of the renewed moon. So then in like manner will be the return of Y’shua to gather His elect from the 4-corners of the world to be with Him in the clouds in anticipation of His coronation and return to this earth to establish His kingdom and reign. It will only be those who are prepared at the advent of our Mashiyach who will be taken to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb–just as we had to prepare at the base of Mount Sinai, awaiting the Father’s appearing. 
  • Some have viewed Yom Teruah and the succeeding 10-Days of Awe as a time when Yahovah will judge the modern nation of Israel as she will enter war with nations who seek her destruction. It will be during these 10-days of Awe that the Father will miraculously rescue the nation from the brink of utter and total destruction. It will be as a result of this rescue that could not otherwise have been accomplished but by the mighty hand of Yahovah that the nation will turn back to Yahovah and re-establish their relationship with Father and acknowledge and accept Y’shua as their Mashiyach

• News–the Iran Nuclear Deal–the threat to Israel

• • Back in July, 2015, a 6-nation (U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China) nuclear accord with Iran was reached after 20-months of negotiations. This accord or treaty would allow Iran to (1) eventually possess a nuclear weapon or nuclear weapons and (2) receive billions in frozen assets, frozen during sanctions in response to Iran’s nuclear ambitions, that she will use to fund terror-groups that Tehran supports
  • Verifications and inspection components of this accord are, according to many experts, are insufficient to dissuade cheating on the part of Tehran
  • Last week, Senate Democrats blocked a Republican resolution to reject this accord. These Senate Democrats voted in favor of upholding the accord with Iran. They believe that the accord will stabilize the Mideast, stop Iran from rushing to develop a nuclear bomb, and end the stand-off with Iran diplomatically.
    • We know, however, that this accord will provide for Iran becoming a nuclear state in about 10-years. So instead of Iran operating in the dark to develop nuclear weapons, she will now be afforded openness to develop her program, although at a much reduced speed
  • According to the AP, the Republican-led house voted against the Iran nuclear deal and made efforts to restrict the President’s authority to lift existing sanction against Tehran
  • This accord and the actions of Congress have essentially signed Israel’s death warrant. According to an article in HotAir.com, dated September 9, 2015, Iran’s so-called supreme leader, Ali Khameini, declared that Israel will cease to exist in less than 25-years and pledged to commit Jihad against the Israelis everyday between now and then. What of the United States who was the lead broker of this deal? Khameini contends that there will be no new negotiations with the Satan or the United States
  • The article goes on to quote the following:  “After nuclear negotiations, the Zionist regime said that they will not be worried about Iran in the next 25 years,” Ayatollah Khamenei wrote. “I am telling you, first, you will not be around in 25 years’ time, and God willing, there will be no Zionist regime in 25 years. Second, during this period, the spirit of fighting, heroism and jihad will keep you worried every moment.”
  • What can one say? Is America (that is her Congress and her Executive Branch) a fool for pandering to the world’s leading sponsor of Islamic Terror and a self-professing enemy of both Israel and America? Or are there more insidious reasons our nation’s leaders have fallen for this ruse? I’ve mentioned to you in other posting on this website that I don’t trust our government as far as I can throw them and this deal smells to high-heaven as a deal made with the devil himself. Time will tell my friends. It’s time for us to pray for the nation of Israel. Regardless what you or I may think about the nation of Israel in its current secular state, these are still people with a heritage that links back to ancient times and the God of Israel. Are these God’s chosen people. I believe some of them all, certainly nowhere near all of them. The vast majority will deny the true God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and will vehemently deny Y’shua as the Mashiyach. But there is a remnant who do honor and cling to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and who know Y’shua as their Mashiyach. These are the ones whom we must keep in mind when we pray for the peace of Jerusalem. (Psalms 122:6) Not to mention, many thousands will receive the latter day outpouring of the Ruach Kodesh and come to a saving knowledge of Y’shua Mashiyach. These too are ones of whom we must remember in our prayers.

•  Michael Rood’s and Keith Johnson’s Teachings on Blood Moons and the Great Day of Yahovah— https://bfainternational.com/audioblog-13-day-of-the-lord/
  • Reference the notes from Michael Rood’s and Keith Johnson’s teachings on the subject
  • We look and sound like idiots to the secular world when we get caught up in these controversies
• Syrian refugees trying to escape ISIS and the Syrian civil war and the murder of Christians by ISIS are heart-wrenching stories that are plastering the boards of conventional and internet-based news media. There appears to be no solution to the problem. Those in the world who have the power to end this evil are standing on the side-lines watch this part of the world implode and the lives of hundreds of thousands wasted. Truly, the world is at a crossroads. Worldwide economic collapse is seemingly just around the corner. Again, those with the power to prevent such a collapse, are not just sitting back and watching the this coming train-wreck, but are believed to even be causing it. Are the economic woes and the violence that is ongoing in this world being instigated by individuals whose names  99%+ of this world’s population will never ever know? I believe that the world is accelerating to some end–how that end will look and the sequence of events it will take, I have no idea. Many have attempted to come up with scenarios that they contend are biblically based. I think any of those scenarios are possible…but we can not possibly know which or a combination of which will actually occur. The bottom line, dear saints, is: ¹² For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.^1  13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.^1  14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;  ¹⁵ And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;  ¹⁶ Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.  ¹⁷ And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:  ¹⁸ Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; (Eph 6:12-18 KJV) So if you’re feeling down and can’t really put a finger on why you’re feeling down, it’s probably because we operating in great part in the Spirit, sense the things of the spirit–be they holy or evil. Today, on this planet, there’s a lot of evil being doled out. Shaul has given us the solution: let’s put on the whole armour of God that we may be able to withstand in the evil day and to stand.