Torah
Parashah for Yom Teruah
B’re’shiyt (Genesis) 21:1-34,
B’midbar (Numbers) 29:1-6,
I Samuel 1:1-2:10
Yom
Teruah
Who
is Yisra’el?
Torah
Parashah
B’midbar
29:1-6
p 130
Mattityahu
24:32-44
p 700
24:36 p 700 “But of that yom
and hour knows no man, no, not even the heavenly malachim, but My Abba only.”
We grew up in a culture that taught
that it was just a random day that Mashiach would return... but let’s look at
some Scripture.
Let’s
use Scripture to explain Scripture.
Let’s
go to Daniel. ... and as we turn to 9:27 , let me remind you that Daniel
backwards in Hebrew makes total sense... without any editing.... and it is all
about the 2nd coming of Mashiach!
Daniel
9:27 p 445
The RSTNE says ...
“And
he shall confirm the brit with many for one week: and in the middle of the week
he shall cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease, and on
the wing corner of abominations shall be the one who makes it desolate,
even until the complete end of the olam hazeh, which has been determined and
shall be poured upon the one who lays waste.”
Better
translated - this is not about offerings to cease... but it is about the
abomination of desolation starting...
= Which is offering sacrifice again
- and offering it as a SIN OFFERING.
Daniel
9:27
could be read as
“He
will confirm a covenant with many during that week, but in the middle of that
week he will be cut off and cause the sacrifice and offering to “cease” or “confirm covenant in the middle of the
SEVEN.” And he could also mean the 7th
month’s full moon!
“CEASE”
= Strong’s 7673 - could be cease, but it
could also be “keep” or “observe”
“DESOLATE”
= Strong’s 8074 - “appalled”, “stunned”,
“causing horror”
“OFFERING”
= Strong’s 4503 - “meat offering”, “sacrificial offering”, and “sacrifice”.
“LAYS
WASTE” = “deserted”, “awe struck”, appalled”, and “horror struck”
And
as we have talked about before... This
is about the RESTARTING of the sin -
sacrificial offerings!!!!
A
key thing is - WHEN IS THIS??
Daniel
9:20-27
p 444
Clearly
Daniel is explaining the end of days....
pretty specifically.
But
it says - “Nobody knows...”
Mattityahu
24:1-31
p 698
Again
- about the abomination of desolation.
Again - pretty clear markers to guide us as we come
into that time.
So
nobody knows?
Mattityahu
24:3 p 698
“...When
shall these things be? And what shall be
the sign of Your coming, and of the end of this age?”
Mattityahu
24: 4-15
p 699
Yahusha’s
answer tells of a very specific event - the abomination of desolation.
So
it is telling us very specifically and clearly when this will be!
“No
one knows the day and the hour” = a Hebrew idiom
When
Yahusha said this - he was using a common Hebraic figure of speech referring to
a specific Biblical Holiday!
Yochanan
(John) 1:47-48 p 755
Yahusha
told Natan’el in a strong figure of speech - that is a widely taught Jewish
expectation concerning the resurrection and the millennium.
“I
saw you while you were still under the fig tree” - refers to life and study of
Torah in the millennium.”
The
phrase “Here is a true Yisra’elite, in whom there is nothing false.” ==Yahusha
is telling Natan’el that he is like righteous Avraham who received his reward
for trusting Yah.
The
millennial concept of the fig tree is found throughout
the Tanach including:
Z'kharyah
3:10 p 485
“In
that yom, says YHUH tzevaoth, shall you call everyman his neighbor under the
vine and under the fig eytz.”
This
is the reason Natan'el responded emphatically to Yahusha
and
His words, saying: "Rabbi, you are the Son of YHUH; You are the King of
Israel!"
**
Yochanan
5 p 758
is about Yom Teruah !
It
is said that this chapter shows that Yom Teruah is not only the start of “The
day of YHUH”
but
it is also the day of the resurrection of the people in the graves.
It
has to do with the moon and it’s 29 day cycle of renewal.
In
this period the moon goes from darkness to light and back to darkness again.
This
is not a random accident!
YHUH
planned it for many reasons =
1.
a
picture of resurrection and renewal.
Each
cycle of the moon the rabbis thought of this as the moon being “reborn” or
“born again”
~
NEW
MOON
Qolesayah
(Colossians)2:16
p 893 Shaul says...
“Let
no individual man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a
moed, or in the Chodesh, or in the Shabbat days:”
Shmu’el
Alef (1 Samuel) 20:5
p 218 David is sort of taunting King Saul...”
“And Dawid said to Yonathan, See
tomorrow is the Chodesh, and I should be sitting with the melech to eat: but
let me go, that I may hide myself int eh field until the third yom at evening.”
Yechezkel
(Ezekiel) 46:1 p 432
“This
says the Master YHUH; The gate of the
inner courtyard that looks toward the east shall be shut the six working days;
but on the Shabbat it shall be opened,
and in the yom of the Chodesh it shall
be opened.”
Yeshayahu
(Isaiah) 66: 23 p 348
“And
it shall come to pass, that from one Chodesh to another, and from on shabbat to
another, all flesh shall come to worship before Me, says YHUH.”
~
Mattityahu
24:25 p
700 - in the context of the Day of Trouble, the destruction of the Temple, the
rise and fall of false messiahs etc.
“See,
I have told you before it occurs.”
So
if he knows the future here... what happens .....
Then
why does he say this..... ?????
Mattityahu
24:36
p 700
“But
that day and hour knows no man, no, not even the heavenly malachim, but My Abba
only.”
**
Yom
Teruah is the only HIGH SHABBAT that is on a NEW moon.
We
Natsarim do not keep “full moons”...
AND
apparently the world can’t be for certain when the new moon is - give or take a
day... until very close to it.
“How could they plan for a festival that they did not know at what day or hour it would be publicly announced and thus begin?”
Once
proclaimed, the Feast of Trumpets
Until
that public announcement by the Priest, everyone had to wait before they could
begin the observance of the festival.
No
one could begin the festival beforehand!
Thus,
we can more clearly see the analogy Yahusha made with His words:
“no
man knows the day and the hour, not the angels of heaven, but just YHUH”
This
is about Yom Teruah!
“NO
MAN KNOWS” = a Hebrew idiom, about Yom
Teruah!
Our Messiah was speaking in the language of Feast of Trumpets typology -
the same words....
“I must do the works of Him that sent Me, while it is yom; the night comes, when no man can do works.”
Yochanan 9:4 p 764
When the Feast / Moed of Yom Teruah was announced....
it is said that...
Those who were working in the fields had to run towards the
temple before the doors were shut.
The person who was alert and listening for the sound of the
shofar was “taken” by the
sound of the trumpet; this was his signal to run towards the temple.
But the person who was not alert and not watching, would not
hear the sound of the trumpet,
and they would be “left” in
the field or grinding at the mill, unaware that the day had come.
*
Mattithyahu 24:43-51 p 701
The Thief in the Night
What does this metaphor mean???
In order to understand this metaphor, we must know historically
where this term came from.
In ancient Jerusalem, the High Priest in the temple (Kohen
ha'Gadowl) would make his rounds each night to make sure that the other priests
were doing their duty of keeping the fire burning on the brazen altar.
The commandment in the Torah was to never allow this fire on the
altar to go out (Leviticus 6:13).
If a priest was on duty to watch the fire by night, he was not
allowed to fall asleep on the job.
If he fell asleep, the
fire would not stay stoked with wood, and it would go out, thereby bringing
judgment on the entire nation of Yisra’el.
The priests were also
commanded not to have wine or strong drink while serving in the temple
(Leviticus 10:9).
Alcohol in their blood stream would defile their worship and
cause them to become drunk, lazy and sleepy.
Because the Kohen haGadol
(High Priest) came at an hour when they were least expecting him to show
up, the priests began to nick-name him “the thief in the night.”
If the priest on duty fell asleep and was not watching the fire
on the brazen altar, the High Priest would show up and find him sleeping on the
job.
The High Priest would then take some hot coals from the altar,
and scoop them up with a shovel. He would then dump some of these hot coals
onto the priest’s garment who had fallen asleep.
The priest who had fallen asleep would be suddenly awakened by
the smell of hot burning coals and his garment on fire.
He would immediately strip off his clothes as fast as he could
in order to prevent from being burned.
At the end of his shift, the other priests would see him naked
without his garment, and he would be ashamed. This is because all the other
priests would know that he was caught falling asleep on the job.
Yahusha is our High Priest after the order of Melchizedek
(Hebrews 7:17-21) and his true followers are his royal priesthood (1st Peter
2:9).
We are told not to be like those priests who fell asleep on the
job.
We are given a command to watch, and keep our garments so that
we will not be ashamed when our Messiah returns.
Now we can better understand his warning to us in the book of
Revelation:
Gilyahna
(Revelation) 16:15 p 922
“See, I come as a
thief. Blessed is he that watches, and
keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.”
**
Gilyahna 19:11-16 p 925
Yahusha is coming with the trumpet... and great fan-fare and
ceremony! :)
He destroys the enemies of His bride. :)
This is what the prophets call “the great and terrible day of
Yahuah
Yoel 2:11, and 31 p 459
Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 61:2 p 343
Jeremiah 46:10 p 386
Luke 21:22 p 749
Another term that is used to describe the same day is “the
day of wrath”
Job 21:30
Psalms 110:5
Proverbs 11:4
On this day, Yahusha becomes the “King of Kings” over
all the kingdoms of this world as seen in:
Gilyahna 11:15-19; 19:16;
Daniel 7:9-27
Gilyahna1:7
He also becomes “Master of Masters” as the High
Priest,Melchizedek.
On the wedding day, the bridegroom and the bride are
called King & Queen as seen in
Tehilliym (Psalm) 45:3
“Gird Your sword upon Your thigh, O most might one, wiht Your
tifereth and Your majesty.”
**
Like
the 10 virgins in Mattityahu 25:14 - 17 p 700
**
Last
week we talked about “with all your heart”
So
who is Yisra’el?? The Binai Alohiym - the Children of YHUH ....
Let’s
go to Galutyah... the book that is so so mistranslated and misunderstood in
English....
But
let’s go there anyway - we need to see something...
Galutyah
3:19 -26
p 877
Yisra’el
= children by faith in Mashiach Yahusha ... the zerah (seed) of Avraham.
Yom Teruah... you have to pay attention!....
Sh’ma Yisra’el!!
Romans
14:11
p 848
For
it is written, As I live, says the Master YHUH, every knee shall bow to Me, and
every tongue shall confess to the Master YHUH.
Phylypsiyah
(Philippians) 2:10 p 890
“That
at The Name of Yahusha eery knee should ow of the things in the shamayim, and
things on earth, and the things under
the earth:
11And
that every tongue should confess that Yahusha ha Moshiach is The Master YHUH,
to the glory of Aloah His Abba.”
Yoel
2:1
p 459
Mattityahu
24:31
p 700
“And
he shall send His heavenly malachim with a great sound of a shofar, and they
shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the
heavens to the other.”
Gilyahna
8
-
=
7 trumpets....
The
thief comes in the night.... will you be ready?
Do
you have oil??
Sh’ma
Yisra’el
Amein
