There is a further
apocalypse/revealing,
in
this trump,
this shofar,
because each of the letters in the Hebrew Alef-bet, also represent numbers.
(Alef=1 etc., See Modern and Paleo Alef bet charts below which are included for convenient visual reference.)
The letters that make up the word
שׁוֹפָר – Shofar are:
Sheen/Shin +Vav +Fey/Pey + Resh/Reysh
(read the (pictographs from right to left)
They have numerical values of
200+80+6+300
Taking each letters numerical value and revealing the meaning:
The letter Sheen/shin value of 300 signifies the final blood sacrifice made by the only perfect One, the Lamb of God Himself, Messiah Jesus/Yeshua.
The letter Vav value of 6 indicates human weakness in our hostility, and antagonism, our enmity toward God.
The letter Pey/Fey value of 80 which is also 10×8 stands for a new beginning. This new beginning can also be a new birth which has been ordained in His presence/heaven: (being spiritually reborn into the realm of His heavens/ shamayim.)
The letter Resh/reysh has a value of 200 which has a meaning that reminds us of our human insignificancy when compared to the all sufficiency of God.
The name we associate with all sufficiency is El Shaddai:
It is God as El who helps, and it is God as Shaddai who abundantly blesses with all manner of blessings.
As Nathan Stone wrote: “…the idea of One who is all-powerful and all-mighty is implied . . . for only an all-powerful One could be all-sufficient and all-bountiful.
When all these are put together, we have a meaning that could be said as:
God wants to meet with and talk to each of us and to make this possible He has not only provided the (300) perfect sacrifice for each one of us but He provided as Jehovah Jireh, the perfect lamb of God in Messiah; which was necessary because of our (6) enmity toward Him. And by this (300) sacrifice, we can receive (the 80), the new birth, ordained in the heavens. That which we are unable and incapable of doing for ourselves in our insufficiency; that which He was able to do as (200) El Shaddai by His all sufficiency.
Another possible meaning of El Shaddai is
The God of the Mountain.
Some Messianic teachers say shaddai comes from the Akkadian word:
shaddu, meaning mountain.
Gods’ presence in heaven, but He also inhabited a mountain top—Mount Sinai.
It was on this mountain Moses met with God and received the Ten Commandments.
The Hebrew root word shadad (meaning to overpower or to destroy) suggests absolute power.
While Elohim is the God who creates, in the name Shaddai, God reveals Himself as the God who compels nature to do what is contrary to itself.
He is able to triumph over every obstacle and all opposition; He is able to subdue all things to Himself.
In the Babylonian (Akkadian) language that Abram spoke, Shaddai comes from sadu, a word meaning mountain and so El Shaddai would be
El Of The Mountain, or
El of the Gathering.
According to Exodus 6:2-3, it was the primary name by which God was known to the founders of Israel (the Name YHVH given to Moses suggests God’s absolute self-sufficiency).
The word Shaddai (by itself) was used later by the prophets (e.g., Num. 24:4; Isa. 13:6, Ezek. 1:24) as well as in the books of Job, Ruth, and in the Psalms.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English Eph.2:8
For it is by his grace that we have been saved through faith, and this faith was not from you, but it is the gift of God,
and
2Cor.9:8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed
In Part 1 we saw that Gods’ presence was symbolically manifest with rams horns at the moment of provision and substitute for Isaac. Just as He was the substitute for all, at the same location millennia later.
Jehovah Jireh God will provide Himself, a lamb.
Through Jesus/Yeshua, God did for us what we could not do: which is, atone for our sin (Romans 5:6-11, 8:1-5, Ephesians 2:1-18).
So Abraham was correct in that God would provide Himself – the lamb for an offering. That Lamb would come to earth 2,000 years later and die for all sin, including those of Abraham and Isaac.
Gen. 22:8 is another e.g. of His goodness in the ascent of Abraham and Isaac up Mt. Moriah, (vrs. 13 – 14).
Abraham lifted up his eyes and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by its horns.
This Hebrew word is usually translated as a ram, but also as an oak tree!
Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance:
mighty man, lintel, oak, post, ram, tree.
From the same as ‘uwl ; properly, strength; hence, anything strong; specifically a chief (politically); also a ram (from his strength); a pilaster (as a strong support); an oak or other strong tree — mighty (man), lintel, oak, post, ram, tree.
There are 6 Hebrew words in Scripture rendered oak.
The word used in Isaiah 61:3 is ayil, which is most often translated ram.
Its’ root word refers to strength and power.
Recall from previous posts that, because our modern western minds associate an object with an image, we cannot understand how the Ancient Hebrew/Eastern mind saw these two objects as being similar.
In our minds we would never relate an oak tree to a ram, or view them as the same. The reason being is that we relate to features and appearances. However, the Hebrews relate to the function; and in the case of the oak and the ram, in their thinking, they function in the same way because:
an oak tree is a very hard wood and
the horns and skull of a ram are equally as hard.
That the Ancient Hebrews associated an object with its function, rather than its appearance, is a Mindset; and much of our western thinking is based on a Greek mind set/way of thinking.
Ram – אַיִל
Strongs # 352
ayil: ram
Phonetic – ah’-yil
The functional meaning of ayil is a strong one;
the ram is the strong one of the herd and
the oak, the hardest of woods,
is the strong one of the forest.
A ram or stag deer (the strong leader of the flock or herd),
chief (strong leader of the tribe),
pillar (as the strong support of a building), oak tree (one of the strongest of the woods).
l i a (איל AYL)
Strong One: Anyone or thing that functions with strength like an ox.
in the
mount
of the lord it shall be seen.
From Yhovah and ra’ah;
Jehovah will see (to it);
Jehovah-Jireh,
a symbolical name for Mount Moriah.
This is the same mount in Jerusalem where Jesus/Yeshua was THE sacrificial lamb!!
A detail we may have missed is that, the only reason they were able to sacrifice this animal, was because it was caught by its horns.
Therefore the shofars/horns were the instruments of declaring and enabling the sons’ deliverance, thus saving his life/chaim, by forfeiting its’ own as an innocent substitutionary sacrifice.
As we have noted, the shofar is a rams horn. This is the very thing which announces the presence of God when it is sounded; and in which, the letters tell us that:
God is connected to that sacrifice which was both provided and given for our benefit.
So the shofar, which is a ram’s horn, reminds us of the ram that Abraham offered as a sacrifice in place of his son Isaac; and of the faith of those who trusted in obedience, to the point of death. They demonstrated to us the highest devotion of which man is capable of giving to God.
קֶרֶן
Horn – qeren
Strongs # 7161
Save me from the lion’s mouth; Yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen thou hast answered me. (Psalm 22:21)
The horns of animals were very versatile objects. They were used as trumpets and even as a weapon in war. Horns were used to store liquids such as olive oil, foods and medicine. In many ancient cultures, (Vikings), kings wore horns as a sign of their power; in fact, the points on modern day crowns are really a leftover representation of horns and, in addition, our word crown comes from the Hebrew word qeren.
When Abraham lifted up his eyes and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by its horns.
The thicket with spikes like the thorns on His Crown and the horns on the ram.
Jehovah Jireh
Yhvh Yireh
Phonetic Spelling:
(yeh-ho-vaw’ yir-eh’)
Strongs #3070
Original Word: Yireh
Modern & Paleo letters for Yireh:
Y 
Yud – Hand: The Yud/Yood in pictograph form shows an arm and a hand. The picture can mean to work, throw, worship, or it can simply mean an arm or hand.
R 
Resh – Head: The Resh symbolizes a head, man, chief, highest, top, beginning, or first.
Alef is the e part of the eh sound, always a vowel sound.
H 
Hey – Behold: The Hey pictograph represents a man with his hands in the air trying to get someone’s attention. It suggests look, reveal, behold.
Jehovah,
in this compound name of God represented by the
Yud-Hey-Vav-Hey,
indicates
I EXIST!
God’s presence is followed by Jireh/Yireh that declares:
Through the work of an arm, man will be sustained.
Together these names tell us that:
The work is accomplished by Jehovah. Behold, it is the hand of God who provides for man by His work.
Jehovah Jireh is typically translated as God our Provider.
Abraham said, God will provide HIMSELF, the lamb for a burnt offering, my son. So they both went together. (22:8)
God will provide for Himself the lamb.
The Hebrew word, for, has a range of meanings, including:
of, by, that, and from.
Take a moment and read verse 8 with each of those words substituted in the place of the quite common translation for; the meaning changes dramatically.
God will provide for Himself the Lamb. (Hebrew seh). for a burnt offering.
God will provide
יִרְאֶה: To see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative) provide,
HIMSELF a lamb…
הַשֶּׂ֛ה: A member of a flock, i.e., a sheep or goat:
himself lamb for a burnt offering: לְעֹלָ֖ה
He HIMSELF
IS
the Lamb provided.
The name JIREH is a Hebrew word which means: See and Provide.
It is a transliteration of a Hebrew word which means:
to see, or
to foresee, or
to appear.
The four letter name of God comes first but the
יִרְאֶה (yireh) part,
comes from Hebrew verb
לִרְאוֹת (lirot)
which means:
to see, to perceive, to look.
This same root is used to describe someone who has, an ability to see things others cannot,
a רֹאֶה (roeh)
and it is often used to refer to certain people who could foresee like the prophets.
The term Jehovah-Jireh is more appropriately transliterated, Yahweh-Yireh,
The Hebrew word jireh is usually pronounced jai rah.
It means that God is the provider of all the good things.
The name YHWH-jireh, (or Jehovah-jireh) occurs in only one location in the Bible, but the phrase is repeated once (or twice). This is when Abraham is about to sacrifice his son Isaac on Mount Moriah. The angel of YHWH calls out to him and stops him (Genesis 22:11-12). Then Abraham raises his eyes and sees a ram in the thicket.
This ram became the substitute and was sacrificed in place of Isaac, even as Jesus/Yeshua the Messiah became the substitute for us and provided Lifes/Chaim, for us through His death.
In Pirke deR’Eliezer, (a rabbinic work,)
the left Horn (first- trump) was blown on Mount Sinai when the Torah was given
and it’s right horn (the last trump) will be blown to herald the coming Messiah/Moshiach.
The midrash claims that the two horns of the ram became the two trumpets, that is in Hebrew the shofarot, of God.
The right horn was larger than the left, and thus concerning the days of Moshicah it is written,
‘on that day, a great shofar will be blown.’
(Tz’enah Urenah)
The Akeida Genesis 22
The Binding of Isaac (Hebrew: עֲקֵידַת יִצְחַק) Aqedat Yitzhaq,
in Hebrew also simply “The Binding”, הָעֲקֵידָה Ha-Aqedah, -Aqeidah
Rav/Rabbi Zadok HaCohen Lublin alludes to the afore mentioned idea that the ram had two unequal horns and says the larger horn symbolizes the power to permeate
(hitpashtut).
Hitpashtut hagashmiut
is a method of not just quieting thoughts but of mastering them.
The practice is simple.
First choose something as the focus of your meditation (which could be a verse, a name of God, a holy word, or a prayer).
Next, try to hold your mind on that focus for ten minutes or more. When our attention wanders, which it surely will, return to our focus and let the distraction go.
Don’t suppress it or condemn ourselves for its presence, just shift our attention back to our focus, letting the distractions go and so reinforcing our independence from them. Each time we dismiss the distraction and return to our focus, we strengthen the muscle of self-determination.
Hitpashtut hagashmiut breaks the link between reactivity and action. When an impulse arises we can choose not to let it distract us. This muscle develops through daily meditation and strengthens year after year.
Redemption is the message of the shofar permeating completely. The idea that complete redemption comes when the universe is filled with the sound, and our personal redemption is completed when we are immersed in it.
Because God cannot look upon sin and since all of us are sinners (1 John 1:8; Romans 3:23), based on our own merits, our only expectation, is to receive the punishment as a result of sins; however, the Lord provided a lamb for us as well.
Once the horn has been cut off and taken through a cleansing process; it is then an instrument separated /set apart/holy; from any other purpose than responding to breath passing through the length of its chamber. We, the servants of the King, are maturing in a similar process, in the school of Ruach HaKodesh/Holy Spirit.
The patterns of sound released from this instrument in faith and understanding; and at the direction of Ruach HaKodesh, are one of the most powerful agents of change in the earth.
Each sound is the product of breath and spirit combined.
Spiritual forces in the heavens understand fully and must respond to such set apart/holy sounds.
Portals/Dalets in the heavens are opened and the earthly atmosphere becomes charged with the power and presence of the most high.
Spiritual forces and obstacles resisting His kingdom are removed, the heavens shift, walls fall down and His people move forward to possess their inheritance and fulfill their destinies.
Scripture says the whole of creation longs for the mature saints of God to awake and appropriate the sound of the victory which is already won. His kingdom must now come, on earth, as it is in heaven.
The connection between breath and knowledge of God, is so deep that it is even rooted in our languages and we don’t even notice it.
In the English respiration and SPIRitual share the same root.
In Hebrew, neshamah (soul) and neshemah (breath);
Pronounced nesh-aw-maw’,
share the same root, while ruach can mean either wind or spirit.
A sound that walks?
The sound of the neshamah?
Is this the voice of God?
https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-voice-kol-
The sound that dissipates harsh judgment.
This is the sounded in the synagogue to call the Jewish people to a spiritual reawakening as the religious New Year always begins on Tishri 1.
MOEDIM
The shofar is also sounded on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, as a call for repentance and sacrifice and for love of the Torah.
For more on these Appointed Times click link below:
https://www.minimannamoments.com/midweek-mannabite-the-sound-of-the-trumpet/
A Hebrew meaning of the shofar:
A sense of incising; a cornet or curved horn; cornet or trumpet.
Furthermore, Shofar is a Hebrew word that comes from a root meaning beauty.
Through tradition however, the word shofar, came to mean almost solely ram’s horn.
As we saw in part 1; the shofar was used in biblical times for various occasions, ranging from calling the armies together, to signaling death.
This last meaning of shofar, is also literally translated as a sense of incising. It’s a curious point because, incising means: to cut or burn into.
So obviously the sound of the shofar meant far more to the ancient Hebrews, than a mere horn blast notably when it was known by a name that signified, a cutting or burning into the lev/heart and soul of the people.
This understanding with this definition is confirmed in Strong’s#7782: (Renoted here for convenience.)
showphar, sho-far’; or shophar, sho-far’; from 8231 in the orig. sense of incising; a cornet (as giving a clear sound) or curved horn:-cornet, shofar.
8231 shaphar, shaw-far’; a prim. root; to glisten, i.e. (fig.) be (caus. make) fair:-X goodly.
The shofar is the most spoken of musical instrument in the Bible, together with the harp.
While the harp is used to calm and soothe the spirit and soul; the shofar is constantly used to grab hold of the attention and spirit of the people.
The shofar is a preparer whereas the harp is a consoler.
There is more to this simple musical instrument than meets the eye!
The shofar produces some very mystical sounds, which have some very unusual properties. One of its properties is the ability to stir a heart to repentance.
What is it about the sound of the shofar that calls us to return to HaShem? To answer this question we must return to Gan Eden, that garden wherein we have the beginnings of everything and a sound that walks
After the first sin we find:
Bereshit (Genesis) 3:8
And they heard the voice (kol) of HaShem God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of haShem God amongst the trees of the garden.
How does
a voice/ a kol,
go walking?
This particular Hebrew word for sound or voice, kol, resonates with another kol, the sound (kol) of the shofar:
Shemot (Exodus) 19:16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders (kol) and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice (kol) of the shofar exceeding loud; so that all the people that [was] in the camp trembled.
This kol that we hear of at Sinai, is the same kol that went walking in Gan Eden right after the first sin.
The kol that walked had a question:
Bereshit (Genesis) 3:9
And HaShem God called unto Adam, and said unto him,
Where are you?
This question: Where are you (Ayekah)? was obviously not concerned with Adam’s physical location.
A redundant question because, how can anyone hide from The One who is everywhere?
This question must be asking a more profound question:
Ayekah?
Meaning..
Where are you? Where do you stand morally and spiritually? To what place are you directing your efforts?
The kol of HaShem in Gan Eden is very significant because the shofar blessing on Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur, which one would have thought could have placed greater emphasis on the blowing of the shofar, instead, emphasizes the sound or voice,
lishmoah kol hashofar,
to hear (or internalize)
the sound of the shofar.
The action is defined as one of HEARING the shofar,
rather than BLOWING.
This then is
the KOL/VOICE that walks.
This kol comes, seeking the condition of the soul of His beloved.
This same kol approaches us at this time of judgment.
https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-voice-kol
This kol from the shofar – walks to us, His beloved,
and asks:
Where are you?
The question, AYEKAH?.. is directed at each one of us every day, just as it was asked in Eden and in the cool of the day was probably early morning, around the same Jesus/Yeshua did rose early to pray.
In the morning He rose early, while it was still quite dark, and leaving the house He went away to a solitary place and there prayed. Mark 1:35
As is often the case, once again there is always more… and Part 3 will follow shortly! Concluding the sound of the Neshama, The Breath of God.
Make that life-saving decision – time is running out. Don’t miss the day of your visitation!
The Shofars Voice/Kol is Calling for you today!
Shalom
Mishpachah/Family.
משפחה
Mish-pa-KHa
Tell someone today, this life is NOT all there is!
You are not here by chance!
If you’re not certain you are ready for His return, don’t leave this site without being sure.
SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW…Don’t put it off one more moment…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’ name. Amen.
You are now Born Again by the Holy Spirit of the Living God and you are part of the ever growing family of believers. You will never be the same again!