Apocalypse of the Trump – Part 3- The Sound Of The Neshamah?

In Part 2 we saw where there was a further

apocalypse/revealing,

in

this trump,

this shofar,

because each of the letters in the Hebrew Alef-bet, also represent numbers.

Part 3 concludes The Apocalypse Of The Trump with the sound of the Neshama, (Neshamah/Neshimah), The Breath of God.

 neshama (נְשָׁמָה nəšâmâh – Hebrew from the root nšm or breath).

Neshemah chayyim – breath of life.

Chayyim/Chaim is plural (literally lives/lifes, not life) Elohim is also plural.

The breath of our spirit and soul is combined with the wind, or breath that comes out from our inner selves. That wind or breath is then released out from our bodies.

In reality it is in part, the expelling of the breath of God’s life(chaim) in us. This same breath of God that was breathed into Adam.

God breathed lives/chaim/Chayyim into Adam.

For us as believers, our born again spirit, is further infused by the Ruach/Spirit of God.

The life-force is not a result of organic material, it is from God. The scripture says that spirit returns to Him when it leaves these physical bodies.

Following this thought…… Is it His indwelling Ruach/Spirit/Breath/Life/Chaim, that flows out through us and transferring along the shofar as it it blown/sounded; then it ascends to the realms of the heavens? The chaim, the lifes of God, issuing forth as Ruach/Spirit into the Shamayim/heavens.

Let’s look a little further…

As His presence was there at Sinai, at the Akedah/the binding of Isaac, and as the 2 shofars were ready to step in at the sacrifice and intervene/save/resurrect, the son.

That since God could raise him from the dead to perform his promises, he would sacrifice him to obey God’s command. Heb. 11:9

This faith grew from what God had done, in giving him Isaac from his own dead body, and Sarah’s dead womb.

The Covenant mandate was met; and God Who was the bodily fulfillment of the promise, eventually came. God will provide HIMSELF the Lamb.

He was to become the Lamb and prophetically declared it ahead of time.

Another mystical property of the sounds of the shofar, is the amazing ability to express the inner human neshama in the form of sound. (The shofar is not classed as a musical instrument.) 

Neshimah

Breath: Psalms 150:6

Nun/Noon – Shin/Sheen – Mem – Hey/Heh

Some Sages teach that the sound made by the shofar, IS the sound of the human neshama, the soul itself to which the 5 physical senses are connected.

Hearing is an essential part of the well known Hebrew prayer called the Shema.

Long before Messiahs day, the Israelites recited a daily prayer called the Shema. The prayer comes directly from Deut. 6 and is a way for them to commit themselves to listening to God’s word and obeying it.

Strongs # 8086 shama/shema שְׁמַע Pronounced: shem-ah’

 

Just as there is no single Hebrew word meaning obey, there also is no specific English word for shema. While this Hebrew verb translates as, hear or listen, it means much more than just hearing or listening. It is an excellent example of the mindset difference between Hebrew, which stresses physical action and Greek and Western culture that stresses mental activity.

SHEMA: means HEAR and OBEY or LISTEN and DO.

In Mark 4:9, Jesus/Yeshua said, he who has ears to hear let him hear. And this would have included the understanding of action the same as believe it is an active participation not a mental assent or agreement. If we do not act on what we believe and hear we are not accomplishing what is required of us as believers.

Be a doer not a hearer only!

The individual who has ears to hear is the one who diligently attends to the words of Messiah, that he may ponder and OBEY them. Many heard Him out of curiosity, that they might bear something new, not that they might lay to heart the things which they heard, and endeavor to practice them in their lives.

This indeed is the true meaning of faith without works being dead and James 2:18 Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith apart from thy works, and I by my works will show thee my faith.

Good works are obeying and doing. The action of doing the gospel message.

Blowing the shofar is possibly the raw sound of the neshama.

The bend of the shofar is said to be the transition between this world and the next; like a bridge, a joining, a vav, a portal, a dalet, a door; Jesus/Yeshua of course is THE door!

It is an entering in, through the veil. It’s a point of access into the heavenly places, joining the realm of His throne, to where we are situated, by the power of His Ruach flowing through us. Which is the voice/the kol of God.

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-voice-kol

Is the shofar the depth of, or somehow at the root of speech with its’ connection to the voice of God?

Teshuvah, means to go back, to return.

Look behold return to the cross!

Teshuvah is a compound word consisting of the Hebrew Tashan, meaning Return, and Hey, the last letter of the JHVH/YHWH name for God, also represents the Shekinah/Glory, or manifest presence of God. Thus, Teshuvah is a time to return to the presence of God.

So, in a way, are we (spiritually), going back to the moment of creation, to go back into the womb of eternity, to the moment of conception when everything began?

Do we return to our fetal state, our moment of creation; which is why we say we are born again! and in turn experiencing the understanding of CHAIM/lives?

(In Hebrew thinking it is believed that this teshuvah/return is what is meant by memory/zichronotor remembering as a connecting function of Rosh HaShanah; when the blowing of trumpet/Shofar is sounded. The time of remembering when the Voice of God boomed out from Sinai’s summit.

Meaning of zichronot briefly explained:

There are 3 Basic Prayers said during Rosh HaShanah: Malchuyot, Zichronot, Shofarot. Celebrating God as the incomparable King of The Universe.

These thoughts are inspired by the letters shin, fey/fay, and resh/reysh.

 The goal here, is to enjoy the silence that follows the shofar blast. To forget everything that is not urgently pressing for our immediate attention and to echo and reverberate with the vibrating air of the Shin, fey, resh/reysh which spells shofar. 

Sh f r, the ram’s horn, is a figure of speech for the sound, however is it more than air and breath?

It’s the shofar blower’s own vibrations, those buzzing lips that make the sound.

Is there anything else contained in the sound and in the letters that make up the word for shofar?

Other words with the same letters;

Shin/sheen, pey/pay/fey/fay, resh/reysh are:

shafar שָׁפַר  – to be good, pleasing
shiper שִׁפֵּר – to improve, to beautify
hishtaper הִשְׁתַפֵּר – to become better
shefer שֶׁפֶר – beauty 

This suggests the sound of the shofar may be pleasing to our ears, and have the effect of motivating self-improvement and change. Also that the echoes of the shofar uncover beauty throughout this coming year.
Truly the sounds of the shofar are unsettling and knock things out of kilter, and when placed in a different order, spell other words and different meanings.

Shin, resh, fay –sin, resh, fay or
Saraph שָֹרַף – a troublesome thought, a fiery serpent or angel
Sereipha שְֹרֵפָה – burning, fire, conflagration

Resh, shin, fay
Resheph רֶשֶׁף  – flame, spark, fever

Here we could say that the vibrations of the shofar stir up troublesome thoughts and the friction becomes fire. Our souls are burned by feverish minds and hot headed actions. However, the flames can also have a purifying effect too and burn away that which holds us down, the sin that so easily besets us and becomes a burden.

What happens next?
Rearrange the letters and we get more words:

What’s left after the fire? Is there a new spark bringing illumination to a new angle/aspect of our lives?

Resh, fay, shin
Rephesh רֶפֶשׁ  – mud, dirt, mire
Raphash רָפַשׁ – to trample, to pollute

Pay, shin, resh
Pashar פָּשַׁר – to melt, to be lukewarm

We must also see that the shofar itself is of this world and that the horn came from an animal. It’s not an instrument made in heaven.
In one way we are hearing our own human effort. While in this world we all get muddy, because our way of life tramples on beings around us whether we are aware of it or not.
This gives rise to the question we should regularly ask ourselves. Are we only lukewarm in our desire to change?

Turning the same letters around one last time gives us hope:
Pay, shin, resh
Pisher פִּשֵׁר – to compromise, arbitrate
Pesher פֵּשֶׁר – interpretation, solution

Just as the vibrations of the shofars sounds are unsettling, let us pray that they may reveal to us new perspectives and understanding that will lead to solutions for balance in our spiritual walk embracing only Godly, healthy compromise, which will always bring us full circle back to shefer, beauty and goodness.

So it seems, shofarot may be connected to malchuyot biblically, (blowing of the shofar as part of the coronation at 1 Kings 1:34, 39, 41) even if it isn’t necessarily connected with Rosh Hashanah in the biblical text.

Malchuyot is a means to reaffirm the coronation of The Lord as King of the Universe, on the day that commemorates the beginning, the world’s creation where participants try to capture something of the awe-inspiring nature of the Lord God.

As we teshuvah, do we in some way return to the moment when the memories or seeds, of the parents are given to us?

This same Hebrew concept postulates that the sound heard by Adam HaRishon/the first human, on wakening from his creation, was the sound of a shofar. The sound made by his neshama as it entered him; that is, the presence of the spirit of God flowing into Him.

Was Hearing the 1st of the 5 physical senses activated in Adam?

When we wake someone it’s by sound, by speaking their name or the sound of an alarm clock.

The name Adam originated from the Hebrew word, אָדָם . Pronounced: aw-dawm, which means human, as a species, male and female. The Scriptures use this literal meaning for Adam, meaning simply humans. 

These thoughts suggests that the shofar can also take us back to the very moment when our neshama entered us. 

If indeed the sound of the shofar is the voice of God, why wouldn’t it be able to do so?

neshaMah

nun shin mem hey

 נֶשַׁמַה 

(Strong’s #5397) means: breath and is sometimes used in place of nephesh or rûach, it is derived from: נָשַׁם nâsham meaning: to pant or blow away (Strong’s #5395).

Nefesh, neshama and ruach are Hebrew words for soul… The first is the air, as it is still in the trumpet blower’s cheeks; and this corresponds to the neshamah.

The soul, or neshamah, is the self, the I, that inhabits the body and acts through it. It is believed that everything has a Soul, not just human beings, but every created entity has one also.

Creatures have a voice too.

The understanding is that animals also have souls, as do plants and even inanimate objects;

every blade of grass has a soul, and every grain of sand as part of creation as a whole, has the breath of God’s life in it.

The diagram shows a little of how it is viewed by some.

These concepts are unfamiliar to our western mindset.

We have also limited ourselves by the restrictions of translated texts, which fogs the pictures contained within the Hebrew alef-bet. However, it is revealed to those willing to dig into the very roots of the original language of the God of creation; whose very act of speaking brought forth all that is.

This same conceptual thinking, will help us to understand why a ram was found at the very moment of sacrifice.

There is even an understanding among some scholars that Isaac expired and was resurrected?!

What is certain is at that precise moment a shofar became available. Two rams horns to be exact.

In Hebrew thought:
Just as earthly kings have horns and shofarot blown to celebrate the anniversary of their coronation, so The Lord wants the shofar blown on the anniversary of the Creation- when there came to be a world that God could rule over, as it is said:
In the same way as earthly kings have horns and shofarot blown to announce their decrees – and only after this warning actually enforce the decree, so The Lord wants the shofar blown to announce the beginning of the 10 Days of Return, when all are commanded to turn their lives around.
Just as the shofar blew when The Lord gave the Torah at Mount Sinai, so it blows to remind us each year to do as our forebears said at Sinai.
Just as Yehezekel (Ezekiel) compared the words of the Prophets, calling for the people to change their ways, to a shofar, so we must know that those who hear the shofar and do not take warning and change their lives will be responsible for their own destruction, as it is said: Because the shofar was blown as a war-alarm when the Temple was destroyed, it should remind us of the destruction of the Temple, the disaster that we brought upon ourselves, and thus should warn us to abandon our misdeeds in order to avert disaster, as it is said:
Because The Lord used a ram as a substitute sacrifice for Isaac, the ram’s horn should remind us how Isaac and Abraham were prepared to give up all their hopes and dreams for The Lord’s sake. Bereshit (Genesis) 22.
Since the blowing of a horn causes cities to tremble, so the shofar will make us tremble and fear our Creator, as it is said: Since the shofar will be blown on the great day of the Lord.
Since the shofar will be blown when the tempest-tossed of The Lord ’s people are gathered in harmony to the Land of Israel, we should hear the shofar to stir our longings for that day, as it is said: (Yeshayahu) Isaiah18:3
This reminds us of:
(Matityahu) Matthew 24:29-31
Since the shofar will be blown when Mashiach revives the dead, we hear the shofar in order to revive our faith in that supernatural transformation, the final victory of life and freedom over death, the ultimate oppressor, as it is said: and of another event at Yom Teruah  (Yehezekel) Ezekiel 37:1-14

Another use of the shofar is to bring about the will of The Lord. This instrument is capable of breaking down the greatest of barriers: (Yehoshua) Joshua 6:4-9
The shofar is used to gather the people: (Shoftim) Judges 3:27
The shofar is capable of bringing fear to the heart of even the most hardened man: (Shoftim) Judges 7:16 And he divided the 300  [into] 3 companies,
The shofar can be used to halt actions that are not helpful: (2 Shmuel) Samuel 2:28

The shofar is used to announce the new moon and the Jubilee year.

The Torah provides for the blast of the shofar on Yom Kipppur to mark the start of yovel, Lev. 25:9

In this next verse we see, again, that the shofar is used to indicate the presence of The Lord: (2 Shmuel) Samuel 6:15
The shofar is also used to alert us and to call us to battle against our enemies: Ezra-Nechemiah 4:18

The shofar is used to call all of The Lord’s people to repentance on Yom Teruah Rosh HaShanah Tehillim  Ps.81:3
As a call to return in repentance before The Lord, the shofar has no equal: Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 58:1

 

There are 4 different sounds associated with the blowing of the shofar during the Yom Teruah service:

 

These sounds are interpreted as follows:

TEKIAH – ‫תקיעה

The tekiah is a long blast.

A pure unbroken sound that calls man to search his heart/lev, turn from his wrong ways, and to seek forgiveness through repentance.

In an: It is finished! Proclamation of Gods’ sovereignty, hailing Him as ruler of the world. We, like the heralds trumpets, announce that the authority of the King has come; and at the Name of the Messiah, every knee shall bow.

The object of Yom Teruah/Rosh HaShana is to crown The Lord as our King. Tekiah, the long, straight shofar blast, is the sound of the King’s coronation. In the Garden of Eden/Gan Eden, Adam’s first act was to proclaim God as King; and now, the shofar proclaims to ourselves and to the world: God is our King.

We set our values straight and return to the reality, of God as the One Who runs the world; guiding history, moving mountains, and caring for each and every human being individually and personally.

SHEBARIM – ‫שברים

A broken, staccato, trembling sound. It  typifies the sorrow that comes to man when he realizes his misconduct and desires to change his ways. The shebarim or shevarim is 3 shorter blasts. It is said that Shebarim/Shevarim is the sobbing cry of a Hebrew heart yearning to connect, to grow, to achieve.

TERUAH – ‫תרועה

A wave-like sound of alarm calling upon man to stand by the banner of Ha shem. The teruah is 10 (some say 9) very quick short blasts. The Teruah sound resembles an alarm clock, waking us from our spiritual slumber. Num. 10 (Also in 2Chron., Jer., Joel and Zeph.)

This shofar sound brings clarity, alertness, and focus, to fix what’s broken, open our eyes.

TEKIAH GEDOLAH .  גדולה ‫תקיעה

The prolonged, unbroken sound typifying a final appeal to sincere repentance and atonement. This note concludes each set of blowing during the Rosh HaShanah ceremony. It has been described it as a sign of divine withdrawal, based on the verse: “When the Shofar sounds long, they [the people] shall come up to the mountain…” (Shemot 19:13).

Please click link below to hear the sounds described above: Shofar begins at 00:11 mark.

It has been said that the tekiah blast represents joy, whereas the blasts of the shebarim/shevarim and teruah represent pain and affliction.

Short Hebrew statement spoken as a prayer:

Baruch ata Adonai Eloheinu melech ha-olam, asher kidishanu bemitzvotav vetzivanu lazman hazeh.
Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the universe, Who has kept us alive, sustained us, and brought us to this season.

When we blow the Shofar we are accepting the Kingship of the Master of the World.

‫היום הרת עולם

Hayom harat olam

This day is the birthday of the world !

 

Why is Rosh HaSahanah called the birth-day of the world?

 

Hebrew texts tell us that this life is a corridor to the next life.

Death is a birth to a new existence.

 

This is in line with the meaning of chaim meaning lifes, not just one life, as the IM of chaim means a plural, more than one life.

Just as emergence from the womb/racham constitutes physical birth, and detachment from that body is the birth of the soul into the physical realm of earth. In the same way as the 8 or 9 months in the womb is the time period preceding the earthly birth, the 70 or 80 years on earth are the preparation or gestation period preceding Birth into the heavenly realm.

(Click link bellow to see in the season of our hiding the full apocalypse/revealing)

https://www.minimannamoments.com/the-season-of-our-hiding/

 

It could be said that Rosh HaShananah, is the birth canal of the new year!

 

It is very significant that a shofar with its narrow mouthpiece and wider opening somewhat resembles a birth canal?

In fact, the Bible mentions a great woman with a name of the same etymology/meaning: Shifrah. She was one of 2 named out of the many midwives of the ancient Hebrews who left Egypt.

Apparently the name Shifra comes from a Hebrew root word meaning: the capacity to make something better, or to improve its quality.

And that is what she did: In keeping with this characteristic, and contrary to Pharaoh’s orders, Shifrah ensured that the babies would emerge healthy and viable, then swaddled and massaged them to foster their strength and beauty.

 

The shofar is repleat with birth imagery:

It can be viewed as the birth canal, the air rushing through it to create a plaintive cry, is the breath of life, and the sound that we hear recalls the cries of labor.

Traditionally, we hear 100 blasts of the shofar during Rosh Hashanah. It has been said that the first 99 are the cries of a woman in labor, and the final one, equal to the tekiah gedolah, is the responding cry of the newborn child.

This day is the birthday of the world, or more accurately, this day is the pregnancy of the world.

On Rosh HaShanah our world becomes pregnant with Gods’ presence, and in a way He is pregnant with us, (carrying us).

It is a time of mutual awareness and understanding. It is the time when we enter the inner world, the world of the womb, in order to be reborn into change.

God intervened in the wombs of the matriarchs Sarah, Rachel, and Hannah and made them pregnant. Their stories are punctuated by an act of divine intervention:

God remembers [ז-כ-ר] or takes note [פ-ק-ד] of them; connecting the mysterious name of the day, called a memorial of trumpet blasts [זכרון תרועה; zikhron teruah] (Lev. 23:24),

to God’s remembering these women:

שָׂרָה saw-raw’. Sarah. Gen. 21:1

חַנָּה khan-naw’. Channah. 1 Sam. 1:19

רָחֵל  RAY-chel. Rachel. Gen. 30:22

On Rosh HaShanah, the stories of Sarah, Hannah, and Rachel are read to remind the listeners of the hope for new life.

In the same way He added the Heh/Hey into Abram and Sarai’s physical names.

Heh or Hey means: behold! look!

There is an understanding that Sarah, the mother of the Jewish people, herself was born on this day.

The story of the Akedah, the binding of Isaac, is also read. It describes the moment when Isaac is offered up as a sacrifice by his father Abraham, to let us know that this time of year also signals radical change, a part of us, the self life in enmity with God must die, in order to be reborn into the power of the resurrected life for another year.

We are the ones who inscribe ourselves for life or death by living our lives throughout the year the way we do. We are the ones who give birth to ourselves.

In the next world our birth and the nature of our experience will reflect the choices we, and we alone, made.

In this life we were born into circumstances beyond our control, but in the next life we will emerge from the womb/racham of circumstances we shaped with our daily life choices and actions.

If we are true to our soul here, then our soul will experience a happy birth in the next world. If we succumb to the low impulses of the material body, will we be confused and dismayed when we emerge into the wide space of eternity?

It is true to say that the shofar sounds like a child wailing.

Already mentioned is that Shofar is a Hebrew word that comes from a root meaning BEAUTY.

שָׁפַר

means: to beautify, alluding to the beautification of our ways as we turn to God in teshuvah. In this month (i.e., the seventh month of Tishrei) you shall amend (shapperu) your deeds.

Doing teshuva means getting to the root of the problem and deepening our awareness of God.

The Inner Voice

שׁוֹפָר

Rosh HaShanah is possibly linked to the word shofar to the verse:

Iyov (Job) 26:13 “By His breath the Shamayim/Heavens are spread (shifra).”

This verse refers to the dispersing of the clouds to reveal/apocalypse of the clear blue sky.

That which was clouded over and concealed becomes revealed.

The root of the word shifra also means to beautify,

and true beauty is to see the essence of something, the purpose for which it was created.

Shifra is also the root of the word shofar.

שׁוֹפָר

handsome; trumpet; that does good,

shiphrah, brightness, Ex. 1:15 

שִׁפְרָה

The 11th century Jewish commentary on the passage from Exodus identifies Shiphrah with Jochebed, the mother of Moses, and Puah with Miriam, Moses’ sister, making the 2 midwives mother and daughter respectively. 

As a countermeasure, Pharaoh sent for the midwives named Shifra and Puah, and commanded them to kill every baby boy that was born. 3. The midwives feared God and did not obey. 

Shifra/Shiphrah – from the Hebrew meaning: to beautify or to be beautiful, or translates as improvement, a reference to the way that Yocheved would improve the newborns by cleaning them and straightening their limbs. Puah, means cooing, a reference to how Miriam would make cooing sounds to the babies which soothed them.

The fact is, that all language needs a voice, an utterance, and that requires sound and frequency as its carrier, by which it is expressed. Another language sounds completely foreign and unintelligible to one who cannot speak it, just a jumble of sounds. However to the one who knows that language, it makes perfect sense. This is true of animals, birds and sea creatures, who communicate in their own way and combination of sounds. So why would we not think the sound of the shofar could communicate something to the listener as expelled by the blower?

 Each has its nuances and subtleties, that when we understand them, adds a richness to the Word of God and to the overall meaning of the Appointed Time(s) of the Lord.

The shofar gives us a clarity to see beyond the clouds, to see to the blue sky beyond. It is this clarity that results in fear and trembling:

 

Amos 3:6 “Can the shofar be sounded in the city and the people not tremble?”

 

The shofar is said to be the midwife of the new year. Into its piercing cry, we squeeze all our heartfelt prayers, all our tears. Our whole being resonates with its call until it reaches the very beginning, the cosmic womb and there it touches a kind of switch as the Divine Presence shifts from the strict judgment of Yom ha Din (day of judgment) to the compassion of Rachamim/Mercies.

Click link below for more on Rachamim/Mercies
https://www.minimannamoments.com/mystery-of-rechem-the-secret-of-living-like-royalty/

Shafir in Hebrew means fine, but mey shafir means the amniotic fluid that surrounds the fetus (ubbar) in the womb. (Think mem and waters and the paleo pictograph.)

‫שופר : In the original sense of incising

From the root שפר which means: to be pleasing, be beautiful, be fair, be comely, be bright, glisten, to be beautiful, to improve and to develop.

שפור – Shipur also means: to elevate to a new level,

Messianic Connections

Notice in the following verses that Gabriel is sent in the 6th month of Elul. It’s possible that this is Elul 29 and that Miryam will be remembered on Rosh HaShana, the 1st day of the seventh month:

Luqas/Luke 1:26 And in the 6th month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,
27 To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.
28 And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women.
29 And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be.
30 And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God.
31 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Yeshua.
32 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:
33 And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?
35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
36 And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the 6th month with her, who was called barren.
Gen. 22:8 is another example of His goodness, in the ascent of Abraham and Isaac up Mt. Moriah vrs, 13-14

So not only in the paleo letters but also in the numbers does each one represent and tell the good news of the gospel message of redemption and salvation. And it is also declared in the sound of the shofar every time it is blown as representing the voice of God announcing His presence and His whole plan of redemption and restoration and reconciliation, being released into the air waves with a

breath…. 

the Shin/sheen, sh from shaddai

the pey of the mouth and

the reysh from the head of the person…

blowing – declaring – the end from the beginning…

the alef to the tav

Yeshua/Jesus our Messiah typified in the shofar the rams horn of the sacricifial offering of the son.

The WORD is living and breathing and should be viewed as life not as a story.

We walk in the footsteps of the Hebrews, the meaning of their name: those who have crossed over and their life/chaim walk is cyclical.

It is an annual rehearsal for a forthcoming marriage and likewise our lives/chaim are to be as well. 

By blowing the shofar, we remember the faith of the Matriarchs/Patriarchs and our own capacity for self-sacrifice.

Blowing the shofar declares that the LORD God is the King of the universe, as it says in Psalm 98:6,

“With trumpets and the sound of the shofar (וְקוֹל שׁוֹפָר), shout for joy before the King ADONAI (הַמֶּלֶךְ יְהוָה).”

The Day of Trumpets truly is a rehearsal and celebration of that soon coming day of the Messiah’s return from heaven at the sounding of the great SHOFAR trumpet!

From Part 2…

Salpini is the Greek word for the trumpet

Saino is also associated with another primary Greek root verb, which is seio, meaning to rock or vibrate to and fro, to cause to tremble, or to cause to shake or quake. One of the important uses of this verb in the New Testament includes: Matt. 27:51 Just then the temple curtain was torn in two, from top to bottom!

 

The silver trumpets referred to in part 1

Silver – Kesef – כסף

Kesaph Strongs #3702 כְּסַף    
Phonetic Spelling: (kes-af’)

KAF SAMECH PEI

The Hebrew word for silver can be spelled: Kesaph/kasaph/kessef/kesef.

KAF = lines to follow the pattern and instructions, order, conduct, prescribe, establish, uprightness.

SAMECH = support, structure, the vine, the source, life, code, ideal, model, example,

PEI = open, opening, mouth, declaration-breath.

Meaning: The pattern – lines to follow,the Kodesh instructions of God our ALAHIM;

they are His order of conduct to teach uprightness, the source of our life support, the structure that trains us, according to the model – the ideal; our example is the One who declared it. God/YHVH, who is our deliverer, redeemer and our soon returning King, Messiah Jesus/Yeshua.

The cleansing of the earthly temple on the Day of Atonement was only a rehearsal of that Great Day of Atonement when Elohim will cleanse the earth of all sin. 

This great Judgment Day will see all sin eradicated and HaSatan/Adversary judged and bound.

And lastly, the 1st and 8th days of the Festival of Booths (or Tabernacles) are sacred references, depicting the kingdom age and

rehearsing when the Messiah will tabernacle with His BRIDE after He has wiped sin from all the earth.

Finally

God is interested in the relationship HE has with the user and not the shofar itself.

The shofars have a great purpose.  They were given to keep God’s children in the true memory and worship of Him, by keeping us constantly in the understanding of His great plan of redemption. The annual appointed days are all about the Messiah. 

May this be our prayer today:

we want to be like a shofar in the hand of God, totally emptied out on the inside, emptied of ourselves and our ways of being and doing. We desire to be filled with His Ruach HaKodesh in mind and spirit giving Him the freedom to flow through us and entering in to the ears of the hearers.

May the sounds of the song of our lifes/chaim be music to His hearing.

Shalom shalom!

Please don’t leave this page until you have Made 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!

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!

 

Mysteries Secrets – A Prophetic Plan Revealed

‘Once Upon A Time….’                                                                are often the first words to a made up story. In many ways the end for us as believers is simply, the beginning.

We are at the Beginning of the annual scripture readings followed throughout Israel. They start following the last of the Biblical 7 Appointed Times of God / 7 Feasts of Israel, looked at in previous post.

https://www.minimannamoments.com/sheltering-presence-god/This is a perfect time to remember the first word of our real HIStory is B’RESHITE, or the more familiar GENESIS.It is Pronounced be-re-sheet and means,

In The Beginning.However, it means much more than beginning it means at the start of or ‘at the head of all things’ in the sense that it is the beginning, but also infers

that

the Head Creator planned each step

which

began as a

THOUGHT. 

Here the Mystery of The Gospel is within Genesis.

Also spelled Bereshit, Bereishit, Bereishis, B’reshith, Beresheet, or Bereishees.It is most appropriately the title of the first weekly Bible scripture reading or Torah Portion, which in Hebrew it is called, The Parashah.

Sometimes titled Sefer Rishon – the First Book or Sefer Ben’at Ha’olam – The Book of the Creation of the world.

For readers convenience all the scripture references (Torah Portions) to follow through the Bible in a year are listed on a single page and can be accessed from MMM Homepage or https://www.minimannamoments.com/weekly-readings-to-take-us-through-the-bible-in-a-year/

The first letter B at the Beginning of this word gives revelation.Literally: Son God Destroy Hand Cross!B in the Hebrew alphabet (aleph-bet) is the letter BetBet means house and its shape is composed of three Vav’swhich add up to the number 18 (Every Hebrew letter also has a numerical value see charts and information also available on Home page or click on the links below:)

https://www.minimannamoments.com/alef-bet-alphabet/ 

https://www.minimannamoments.com/ancient-pictographic-hebrew-language/

the same value for the word chai or life.Chai, (living / ḥay) is a Hebrew word that figures prominently in the culture of modern Israel; the Hebrew letters of the word are often used as a visual symbol.

The word is made up of two letters of the Hebrew Alphabet –  forming the word chai –  ח  Chet  and  י Yod , meaning: lifealive, or living.

The most common spelling in Latin script is Chai. (Tea lovers may notice the name of their favorite drink!)

In Hebrew, the related word chaya means living thing or animal, and is derived from the Hebrew word chai (חי), meaning life.

The Jewish toast is l’chaim, to life.

Chaya feminine, Chayim masculine
The house of creation is then the life of the universe. Bet also has a pre-fixative function meaning ‘in’.

Suggesting God’s intention of abiding within the realm of creation.In this first weeks schedule, the portion opens with this statement about the creative activity of God.In the beginning God created the heavens and earth Genesis 1:1

The Scriptures actually begin not from the 1st person perspective of some man’s understanding of God but from an omniscient 3rd person perspective, a voice (קול) (sound, voice, noise pronounced Kol),
that reveals the glorious power that created the entire cosmos by means of His Word. דבריו

John 1:1-3 In the Genesis was the WORD and the Word was with God and the Word was God He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.

John 1:14 The Word Became Flesh and dwelt among us.

Proverbs 3:19  By wisdom the Lord laid the earth’s foundations, by understanding he set the heavens in place;

 The very 1st verse reveals the nature of God as being triune, which is also indicated where the plural form of The Name is used as Elohim with the singular verb used bara. Meaning, He, (God), created.Later in verse 26 we read (Hebrew reads from right to left)and it’s a direct quotation from Elohim that uses plural personal pronouns.

  1. Va•yo•mer Elohim na•a•se a•dam be•tzal•me•noo kid•moo•te•noo ve•yir•doo vid•gat ha•yam oov•of ha•sha•ma•yim oo•va•be•he•ma oov•chol-ha•a•retz oov•chol-ha•re•mes ha•ro•mes al-ha•a•retz.

  2. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

Stopping for a moment to realize what a breathtaking statement this is in the opening line of the Scripture. We also see it is shrouded in mystery as the Bible describes how Elohim created the universeyesh me’ayin יש מעיין    

(ex nililo-) לשעבר

(over a 6 day period,)out of מתוך nothingness האין .Who else can create out of nothingness?
The end of this action was a stunning creation of a human being–

betzelem elohim in the image of Elohim אלוקים Himself.

בצלם אלוקים

The introduction to the 1st day of creation is with a vision of the Earth as להם זכויות tohu vavohu     ווהו טוהו   without form and void,

and the spirit of Elohim is seen hovering over the waters.

Following this we read the first direct quotation of Elohim:– Yehi Or!Let there be light!  We are then told that Elohim saw that the light was good (tuv טוב), and He separated it from the darkness (חושך choshekh), adding that Elohim called the light (אור or), day (יום Yom la or) and the darkness (חושך choshekh), night (לילה lay’lah).This was the ending of the 1st day.

Here is another great mystery – the mystery of the 1st day. It suggests some sort of divine designation of good and evil, light and darkness, connected to the creation and division of time.Before He created the specific Light/Or,
 it was the Shekinah Glory of God The criteria for determining the start of each day is at Sundown / erev rather than at sunrise / boker. In Israel today and everything to do with the Hebraic Jewish calendar is based on this scripture that Elohim declared.

And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. Vaihi erev vaihi voker yom echad. 
It should give us pause to question why it was ever changed, especially if we believe that God always knows best!

A brief overview of the following days:

Genesis 1:1–2:3 

Dividing the upper waters from the lower waters Elohim formed the canopy (חופה) above the Earth.

Some scholars believe that the waters above were in the form of solid ice! We know outer space is freezing cold and even from a commercial plane at 36,000 feet and the outside temperature at that height is -57° C (-71° F)!This may also explain another suggestion that before the flood, the sky above looked more pink than blue from earths surface. The thick layer of ice may have caused the suns rays to reflect through it as a prism altering it.

On the 2nd day and called the physical canopy heaven (שָׁמַיִם Sha•ma•yim).

Va•yik•ra Elohim la•ra•kia Sha•ma•yimOn day 3, He set the boundaries of the land (ארץ eretz) and seas (יםמי Yahm) and called forth trees and seed bearing vegetation from the earth.

Elohim fixed the position of the Sun, Moon and stars on the 4th day as a way to establish both the times and seasons (יםדענמ), (including His 7 Appointed Times/Feasts), and to be a source of illumination to the earth.On the 5th day, the fish birds and reptiles were created and received the first personal blessing from Elohim.
On day 6 Elohim created land animals and finally a human being (betzelem elohim בצלם אלוקים) from the dust of the earth.  Dust (ah-vahk   קבא)His sanctified the 7th day as He ceased His work and designated it as a day of rest.

  1. Vay•chal Elohim ba•yom hash•vi•ee me•lach•to asher asa va•yish•bot ba•yom hash•vi•ee mi•kol-me•lach•to asher asa.

  2. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.

The word Shabbat is derived from this word.

In Genesis 2: we are given a closer look at the creation of Adam and that Elohim also has a personal nameYHVH  הוהי yod hay vav hay  the sacred name of God, that is, the Lord.Literally: Son  God  Destroy  Hand  Cross!

 

For many scholars it is generally believed that Elohim is the name given as the creator of the universe. This name implies justice and power where as His personal name expresses the idea of the Creator’s closeness to us.
This can be better explained where we read that it is YHVH who breathed into Adam’s nostrils the breath of life to become a living soul, (betzelem elohim) formed him from the dust of the earth. 

 Va•yi•tzer Adonai Elohim et-ha•adam afar min-ha•ada•ma va•yi•pach be•a•pav nish•mat cha•yim vay•hi ha•adam le•ne•fesh cha•ya.And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground,and breathed into his nostrils (מ ש) the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

The life-force is not a result of organic material, it is from God. Neshemah chayim = breath of life.

Chayyim is plural (literally lives, not life) Elohim is plural.

Are Soul and Spirit the same thing?

Chayyim hints that God put into Humans more than one kind of life.

From Mary’s physical body she put forth a song of Praise in Luke 1:46-47 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior.

Nephesh = breath. This cannot be the plural of majesty – it must be the plural man? God breathed lives into Adam? Breath and being are a supernatural thing, and they come from God, outside our three dimensional realm. Evolution teaches against this concept, that life is an accident. Microbes, germs, etc – are not included with animals in the animal kingdom.  Food for thought!

Va•yi•ta Adonai Elohim gan-be•Eden mi•ke•dem va•ya•sem sham et-ha•adam asher ya•tzar 

and the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

 In the Garden of Eden (Gan Eden)was 
the tree of life (etz ha-chayim)as well as the tree  of knowledge of good and evil(etz ha-da’at tov vara).Adam’s first responsibility before the Lord, was to work and guard the garden and to refrain from eating from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

He was originally created as a single individual however the Lord, (YHVH הוהי yod hay vav hay /The Name/ Hashem), decided it was not good for him to be alone, so He had all of the animals pass before Adam to see what he would call themAdam’s ability to name them was by divine inspiration, as he incorporated in their name a subtle description of their very essence, characteristics and functions. Example below: 

Genesis 2:19-20 “And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them:

and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field;” … (KJV)

This all happens before the creation of Eve in Genesis 2:22 and before the fall as described in Genesis 3:6

Looking in Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary at a few Biblical Hebrew names for common animals we find;

Thus we see that the names derive from observable physical characteristics of the animals or their observable behaviors. The cormorant is named due to its diving into the water in pursuit of its prey.

Following this amazing feat, none of the animals were a match for Adam so the Lord put him into a very deep sleep
and built a woman from his side so that she would be a helper in front of him. Ezer kenegdo.

According to scripture when he woke up, Adam was very happy and called her Ishah and they became one flesh basar echad as the very first marriage ceremony took place on earth.Shortly after 3:1 we are introduced to the serpent na•chash נָחָשׁ as the shrewdest of animals which the Lord created.The Scripture tells us the first thing the serpent said, was by way of hissing at eve the haunting question –  did God really say you shall not eat of any tree in the garden?

Tree of Life – Etz ChaimShe answered correctly.  Omitting the deadly consequences concerning the fruit of the tree of the knowledge good and evil, the hissing serpent implied that the Lord was keeping from them special insight that would cause them to be as gods.

So began the downward spiral into evil… (which is interesting if spelt backwards, is live! The word evil means literally, out of harmony with God.)

The tactics he used on her have not changed in 6000+ years. First she believed the lie, which involves our mind and our thinking. Second by looking at the fruit, she used her sight and then the action, as she took it from the tree. Lastly, in eating the fruit it resulted in the sin, which was a direct violation of God’s instruction to them. She was not alone as the Scriptures tell, Adam was with her at this time and knowingly ate the fruit offered to him. We often hear this action called the fall of man. It was in fact of enormous consequence, being an act of treason against God’s will, it resulted in them being expelled from the garden immediately and mankind came under God’s curse with the ultimate judgment being – death.The entrance to the garden and access to the tree of life was guarded by Cherubim with flaming swords so they would not eat and live forever in a fallen state.The serpent also had judgment pronounced upon him.  In doing so, the Lord prophesied that a struggle for the fate of the human race would follow. Being represented by the serpent, Satan שטן (from the Hebrew word adversary) now had illegal rights to humanity as they were now under a divine curse. But God had promised to reverse the curse by means of the seed זרע Zera the Messiah משיח the Anointed One who would crush the head of the serpent and restore mankind to his original position. The Bible comprises the complete story of redemption and describes the cosmic war to reverse the curse by means of the seed of the woman who would come and to deliver humanity from the clutches of sin and death.

The story continues citing some of the consequences of sin. How Cain murders his younger brother Abel הבל in a fit of jealous anger and is banished from his family.Abel is a biblical forename which may derive from the Hebrew Hebel, itself derived from hevel (breath or vapour), or from the Assyrian for son.

We are told of some of the descendants of Cain (קין Kayin) who followed in his evil ways, (evil = out of harmony with God), that we also hear of Adam and Eve’s third son Seth, סת meaning, compensation. Their descendants began to call on the name of the Lord and Seth had a son named Enosh ענוסה which means man, and is a clear reference of the coming bar enash / בן אדם or son of man. Daniel 7:13

Notably the 10th generation descendant of Seth was Noah נח Noe or Noach = rest

John 1:1–14  reminds us again that it is very clearly a reference to the opening words of Genesis and John identifies Jesus/Yeshua as the Word (devar מִלָּה ) of God Elohim. (Word of God מילת אלוהים) and points to the fact that He was the creative power whose command cause the entire universe to come into existence. He Jesus/Yeshua is the true light from God,  אור אמיתי מאלוהים

the Promised One who would bring truth to all the nations of the Earth and would be the fulfillment of the mission of Israel by giving birth to the seed of promise. The person of Jesus/Yeshua was the promised seed Jesus/Yeshua ben Yosef /Joseph עישו בן יוסף the Son of the Father full of Grace and Truth, and even though His own people rejected Him… it is only a temporary situation which will end and all Israel will turn to Him and be saved. Romans 9:11.This is the secret plan of YHVH.

Jesus is the mystery of the ages that God set in place, the secret plan and seed He planted in genesis (the first beginning) that He would send Himself as the Redeemer as the seed of the woman Who would crush satans head. The plan of redemption both began and ended when Jesus died over 2000 years ago, the mystery of the gospel, the Word of God, became flesh and died in our place to redeem all mankind from Adams sin, the fall. And as scripture records, if satan had known the outcome he would not have crucified the Lord of Glory. He is outwitted and defeated.Before that happens the opportunity remains for all people to become the children of God by ילדים של אלוהים personally receiving Jesus as their Savior Lord and King. Make sure we and our families have made this important decision, for once an individual accepts this invitation they become grafted into the original covenant blessing that was given to Israel.Another fascinating revelation can be seen in the letters YHVH and their meanings from the paleo Hebrew letters and a prophetic connection to Messiahs future death.because evenWe have been given the Word/Torah of Truth and the life of eternity He has implanted within us. Eternity is in our hearts in the very essence of the spirit He breathed into the red dirt that He had formed into a human soul.

There are many genesis, not just one beginning, and as one phase comes to a conclusion it simply makes way for the new beginning.

The end of His story is the (genesis) beginning, for He is the beginning (genesis) and the end… Are we ready for our next GENESIS?