The Book of Revelation - Chapter 20 - The Millennial Kingdom; Yeshua's 1,000-Year Reign

Shalom, everybody. my name is Chadwick Harvey, and you've reached Faithful Performance. We'd like to wish you a very happy Feast of Trumpets, or Rosh Hashanah — the head of the Civil calendar, which begins 5783. That is very prophetic, so we wish you a very happy New Year and a very happy Feast of Trumpets. The new month and the new year begin on a new moon, so we also wish you a very happy new moon as we enter into the month of Tishri.

It's so great to be with you. We are all excited as we see this major transition in God's prophetic calendar. We have also entered into a new Shemita cycle, or seven-year cycle, on the biblical calendar. We have entered into some very, very amazing and fascinating times, and we're going to see what God does through these feast days, this upcoming year, and this seven-year cycle. It is phenomenal. It's a great time to be alive.

It is exciting to see what's going on around the world as the biblical prophecies come to fruition — in the Middle East and North Africa and around the world. We're seeing wars and rumors of war. We're seeing many things being fulfilled that are mentioned by the biblical prophets. And I know you're excited, just as I am, for the Lord's return — which is why we celebrate the Feast of Trumpets. Rosh Hashanah, or Yom Teruah, is what it's called in Hebrew, meaning "to shout," meaning "to blow." This feast day, this Divine appointment, is when our Messiah, our King, is going to have the decree made in favor of the saints (Daniel 7), and he is going to return at his second coming on this very day. It's pretty phenomenal.

We want to give all credit, glory, and honor to the Lord of Lords, the King of Kings, Yeshua, the blessed Holy Spirit, and of course Abba Father. We just want to lift him up forevermore and give him all the credit, all honor, and all glory.

I really appreciate everybody taking time on their Sunday nights to understand the Feast of Trumpets and what it means to us — both regarding the King's return and also personally, as we go through these next ten days to Yom Kippur. What does it mean personally to repent, to get our lives and our mindset right with the Lord, our hearts and souls and spirits right with the Lord, as we hope for those righteous rendered verdicts on Yom Kippur? I hope you stay with us as we continue our journey — the cross to the crown — a spiritual purification journey through God's Divine appointments.

This is really where the book begins: on the Feast of Trumpets, Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the Civil calendar, which we've discussed in the prerequisite section. The purification journey, the refinement journey, begins on the Feast of Trumpets. We'll then go through all twenty-two letters, including the final form of five of them, which brings us to twenty-seven, throughout the year. We'll also go through the new months and new moons throughout the year.

I've been receiving many great emails from people looking forward to this journey of purifying and refining what God has been giving them, which is always a great inspiration and edification to me. Please keep sending those emails. I'm looking forward to this journey not only for myself but also to see what the Lord does. I guarantee you that this time next year, if we stay tuned, if we stay on board, if we purify and refine, we're going to be completely different people. We're going to have ascended spiritually like we've never ascended before. Is this the only way? No, it's not. But it is the way I have found that really builds intimacy with the Lord. My friends and family members who have been on this journey the last four or five years can attest — it is an amazing journey of purification through the things he has ordained.

A couple of announcements before we get started. We're going to go through the new moon teaching first, celebrate and sanctify the new moon, say the prayers for the new month, and then we'll get into Rosh Hashanah and the Feast of Trumpets. This is the next feast day, or Divine appointment, that Yeshua is going to fulfill. Remember, he fulfilled the first four at his first coming: Passover — he was crucified; Unleavened Bread — he was laid in the tomb; First Fruits — he was resurrected, and he's called the firstfruits of mankind; and then he poured out his Holy Spirit on Pentecost, on Shavuot, the same day the Torah was given 1,500 years earlier. The Feast of Trumpets is the next Divine appointment he's going to fulfill at his second coming. We're going to see that throughout the scriptures and throughout the agricultural symbolism of scripture — the winepress, the grapes — it's beautiful imagery that correlates to it.

All of the videos will be on YouTube for replay, so if you're not able to join live during this year-long journey, you can find them there. You can also go through the book — it's a free book available at my website, faithfulperformance.com, or you can email me at [email protected] and I'll send you a copy.

The prerequisites covered over the last two nights are very important as the foundation — not only for the book but for the foundation of theology itself: his calendar, being set apart, the Divine appointments, all of these beautiful things. I hope you spend time with those prerequisites during the next ten days and really ask the Holy Spirit to lead you in all of it.

Now we'll go through the new month of Tishri and the new moon. If you have a copy of the book, I'll be going through it in order. This month runs from September 26th to October 25th. As we've discussed before, the calendars don't align perfectly, so we understand the Hebrew date — God's date — and then we can place it on the Gregorian calendar. This month begins tonight and goes to October 25th.

It's called the month of Tishri. Some people get confused about why we still use the Babylonian names. Well, the Babylonian names appear in the Bible as well. You can go to Zechariah 1 and find the month of Shevat. You can go to the Book of Esther and other books and find these Babylonian month names. Why did God allow that? He wanted them to remember their exile, their captivity — just as he wanted them to remember the Exodus. He wouldn't have them pass over that; he wants them to remember their liberation, their freedom from slavery. In the same way, regarding the Babylonian captivity of seventy years, he wanted them to remember it — and thus he allowed the use of Babylonian names in his holy scriptures, inspired by the Holy Spirit.

Psalms 81:3–4 says: "Blow the trumpet at the time of the new moon, at the full moon, on a solemn feast day. This is a statute for Israel, a law of the God of Jacob." It says to blow the trumpet, blow the shofar, at the time of the new moon — which is tonight — at the full moon, which is the middle of a biblical month (that is Passover, that is the Feast of Tabernacles, coming up in fourteen days) — and on a solemn feast day, which some refer to Yom Kippur. Then it says: "This is a statute for Israel, a law of the God of Jacob."

Most Christians or Gentile Christians will look at this and say this is for the Jewish people only and not for them. I disagree, because in Ephesians 2, Paul says in the New Testament that we were once strangers — Gentiles, strangers of the covenant, aliens from the Commonwealth of Israel — but through the blood of the Lamb we are grafted into the Commonwealth of Israel, into the Kingdom of Israel, and we are part of the covenants, as we discussed over the last two nights. If we are part of Israel, then we need to understand how Israel celebrates. I'm not talking about what the high priest does with the sacrifices and offerings — we have to separate that. I'm talking about being good human beings: keeping the Ten Commandments, celebrating the feast days, honoring God's holy days rather than mankind's holy days or mankind's traditions, which modern-day Christianity largely observes. Those are simply the facts.

We should all be celebrating God's creation. He doesn't just want the Jewish people to celebrate the new moon — he wants all people who love him to celebrate what he has ordained in these certain times and seasons. The new moon sets the standard, sets the calendar, for all the other events of the month. Without the new moon, you would not know when Rosh Hashanah was, when the Feast of Trumpets was, when Yom Kippur was, when the Feast of Tabernacles was. The new moon was actually the first commandment given in Exodus — in Exodus 12:2, before they had even reached Mount Sinai. The Lord already told them: this is your first commandment, which is to sanctify the new moon, to honor the new moon, just as we're doing tonight.

Psalms 89 calls the moon his faithful witness in the sky. We do not worship the moon — we worship the Creator. We are simply following his ordained statutes, which are beautiful and not burdensome, so that we can be intimate with him through these beautiful things he has created.

We have entered into the year 5783, which is phenomenal. Again, the Civil calendar is the one that counts time — not the biblical calendar, which is the spiritual calendar. The Civil calendar counts time from Adam to Yeshua's second coming events. This year is 5783. (They have not included the years of Exodus in the calendar, and we'll get to that later in the teaching.) Looking at the last two numbers: eighty-three is very important. When we stepped into this new decade, the number eighty is the number associated with the Hebrew letter pey, which means "mouth" — which means to speak, to speak out a matter. It's very interesting that we are at the end of the age. He wants us to speak out the true gospel, the truth of the gospel — not the watered-down version, not the pagan version. There are many different versions of Jesus being proclaimed today, and we want to worship the Jewish one. We don't want to worship the Roman one or the American one or the worldly one — we want to worship the

Jesus is the Jewish Messiah, and there is a significant theological difference in understanding him within his proper context — as a Jewish man, the God of the seed of Abraham, the seed of David, from the tribe of Judah. He is one hundred percent Jewish, and he will be the Jew who rules the world, as author Joe Richardson titled one of his books.

Regarding the current year: the Hebrew letter associated with it is the gimmel, which represents the Holy Spirit. The number three, the gimmel, is telling us this is a major year for the Holy Spirit to provoke all of us to speak the truth of the Gospel. This is the year to use our mouths and proclaim the whole truth. Let the Holy Spirit provoke us into all of these things we are discussing. It is a powerful year, a powerful decade, and it will be a powerful next seven years. When you look back seven years from now, you will remember this — the Feast of Trumpets — because biblical prophecy, personally and professionally, you are going to see amazing things happen. That is simply where we are on God's prophetic timeline, and you are already seeing it, if we have the right understanding of biblical prophecy and the right understanding of the nations that are the major players.

Now let us turn to the prophetic significance of the transition from the month of Elul to the month of Tishri. The month of Elul is when they say "the king is in the field." The associated constellation is Virgo — a virgin. This speaks of the virgin birth, and when we look at the biblical prophets, there is extensive imagery of a travailing pregnant woman representing Israel, who will be delivered at the Second Coming on the Feast of Trumpets. So there is a major transition in God's alignment of his months: the transition from Elul to Tishri represents a new birth — the beginning of the Millennial Kingdom.

The Millennial Kingdom will begin on the Feast of Trumpets. The first ten days will be war, as Messiah comes to war alone, as described in Isaiah 63. Then on Yom Kippur, we come down with him as depicted in Revelation 19. Five days after that, the celebration begins — the Feast of Tabernacles — and that is when the Millennial Kingdom will truly begin in peace. But his return will be on Tishri One, the Feast of Trumpets, marking the transition from the end of the Antichrist's reign in the twinkling of an eye, as Paul describes. It will be a new Shemitah cycle, a new month, a new millennium — the seventh day, the seven-thousandth year.

The transition from the twelfth month to the first month on the civil calendar is paramount to understanding the Second Coming events of the Messiah. It is what is called a divine appointment. The Hebrew letter associated with Tishri is the lamed. The lamed is pictured as a rod or a staff, and it is the only Hebrew letter that rises above the baseline. While all other Hebrew letters rest consistently on the baseline, the lamed stands above them all — symbolizing Yeshua, Jesus, the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, the name above every other name. He is the lamed. He is the one who stands above the baseline for all of us, and we follow him.

The lamed is profoundly important symbolically. When we pray and meditate on the shape of this letter, we receive great understanding of what God wants us to do, and we receive great purification. The lamed is the twelfth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, which is remarkable, because the number twelve represents governmental perfection — the perfection of order. This aligns directly with the Second Coming: Yeshua will return and set everything in order — righteousness and justice. Think of the twelve tribes of Israel, think of the twelve apostles. That number is perfection, and when he returns, it will be a perfect government.

God has orchestrated and positioned these letters exactly where they are for a purpose — prophetic meaning and personal meaning alike. The lamed in Tishri, the first month of the civil calendar and the seventh month on the biblical Exodus calendar, is phenomenal to meditate on. That transition from Elul to Tishri — in the twinkling of an eye — the Antichrist's reign ends, three and a half years exactly as Scripture states. That ends the sixth day and begins the seventh day, the Day of the Lord. Our King wars for ten days, and on Yom Kippur — Revelation 19 — we all come down dressed in white, which is exactly the garment worn on Yom Kippur. Then five days later, we celebrate the honeymoon on the Feast of Tabernacles. Jesus will fulfill these divine appointments to the exact day, hour, and detail of the ceremony, just as he fulfilled the first four spring feasts.

The numerical value of the lamed is thirty. Breaking that down: three represents divine perfection of order, and ten represents the conclusion of a matter — perfect divine order. Together, thirty signifies the perfection of divine order. The examples in Scripture are unmistakable. Joseph was elevated from prisoner to second-in-command in a single day — on a Feast of Trumpets, at the opening of a new Shemitah cycle. That is the perfection of divine order, the number thirty. And King David was thirty years old when he became king of Israel. No coincidence — both of these great men of God rose to power at the age of thirty, carrying the profound prophetic implication of that number.

The pictograph of the lamed is a staff, a rod — evoking the story of the Good Shepherd. He is our Shepherd who guides, directs, and protects us. The root word of lamed means "to teach" or "to learn." Just as a shepherd leads and guides his sheep into safety, Yeshua leads us into his Word, which sets us apart. His sheep know his name, as he says in John 10.

An acronym for lamed is the Hebrew phrase *lev navon da'at* — "a heart that understands knowledge." We must understand knowledge. Proverbs says that God's people perish for lack of knowledge. If we are not reading the Holy Bible, not studying it, not asking the Holy Spirit to lead us, correct our theology, and purify our understanding, then we are not doing what we should be doing as Bereans. As Paul says, work out your salvation — show yourself approved. Study the Holy Bible and spend time with these beautiful things.

Let the Holy Spirit lead you. There are many layers to these truths — the new moon, the Hebrew letters, the constellations — and he will show you things specific to what you need. Get intimate with the Lord and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal these things to you for what you are trying to accomplish — purification, knowledge, the whole of it. Proverbs 2:10 says, *"For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul."* It is all about wisdom and knowledge, the understanding that purifies us. We cannot ascend without a deep relationship with the Holy Spirit and with the great Word of God — the two great witnesses that will purify and elevate all of us. These are part of the seven spirits of the Lord: wisdom, knowledge, understanding, counsel, might, the fear of the Lord, and the Holy Spirit himself.

The ancient pictograph of the lamed — a staff — prods and goads, giving direction to the sheep, leading them in the right way. This is deeply symbolic of what Yeshua does as the Good Shepherd described in John 10:7–18:

*Then Yeshua said to them again, "Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who ever came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. I am the Good Shepherd — the Lamed. The Good Shepherd gives his life for the sheep. But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep. I am the Good Shepherd; and I know my sheep, and am known by my own. As the Father knows me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep — the Lamed. And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear my voice; and there will be one flock and one Shepherd."*

He is telling us plainly that he is the Lamed, the Shepherd of both Jew and Gentile. He has another flock — the Gentiles — and he must bring them in as well.

Jesus spoke of Israel as his flock, but he also has another flock — the Gentiles — and he said it will be one flock and one Shepherd. This connects to Exodus 12:49: there is one Torah for the citizen and the stranger, Jew and Gentile alike. As Paul tells us in Ephesians 2, you were once strangers from the Covenant, aliens from the Commonwealth, but through the blood of the Lamb you are no longer strangers — you are citizens. There is one way to worship, not two: Jews this way, Gentiles that way. That was never the intent, and it will not be that way in the Millennial Kingdom or throughout eternity. There is one Torah for the citizen and the stranger, and no one came after to change God's holy word — not Jesus, not Paul, no one. According to Galatians 3:26, you are a seed of Christ, a seed of Abraham, and therefore part of Israel and part of the Abrahamic Covenant. Romans 11, which every Jew and Gentile needs to read carefully, makes clear that everyone is grafted into the Kingdom of God — Jew and Gentile alike.

The letter *lamad* is one of the most meaningful letters, not only for what we have discussed, but because it is deeply symbolic in our own lives. He leads us, guides us, protects us, and leads us on a journey of intimacy with him. He guides us through his Spirit to his Word. He abides in us and we abide in him — John 14 through 17 are beautiful chapters on this divine union. Spend time with the lamad: with its value, with its ordinal number 12, and with the number 30. These numbers point back to the scriptures. Consider King David and Joseph — both began their ministries at age 30. The number 30 speaks of the perfection of governmental order, and 12 of complete governmental structure. Both will certainly be on display when he returns on the Feast of Trumpets, on the new moon, beginning a new millennium and a new seven-year shemitah cycle.

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Now, the constellation of the month of Tishri is Libra. Libra fits this month perfectly, because God ordained it that way. But first we must understand that the constellations are from God — he created them. Mankind has polluted them through astrology, horoscopes, tarot cards, and witchcraft, which is nothing but sorcery — worshiping for themselves rather than worshiping the Creator. As long as we understand that distinction, we will not fall into error. Genesis 1:14–16 tells us that he created the stars, as he made the sun and the moon. Psalm 19:1 declares that the heavens proclaim the glory of God and the firmament shows his handiwork. He called the stars by name and orchestrated the constellations for us to read the gospel in the heavenlies. That is how the great men of the ancient biblical world navigated and understood the times — consider the wise men, who knew how to read the constellations. There is nothing wrong with biblical astronomy. What leads us into error is pagan astrology. Revelation 4:11 states: "You are worthy, O Lord, to receive honor, glory, and power, for you created all things, and by your will they exist and were created." These constellations are for his will, for his creation, for us to understand what he has anointed each month to reveal. Psalm 147:4 confirms: "He determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name."

Libra is a constellation that defines and develops the manner and object of the death of the seed spoken of in Virgo. Last month, Virgo represented the virgin birth; at the second coming, the virgin gives birth again — to the Millennial Kingdom and all who have inherited it. So Virgo flowing into Libra signifies birth: the birth tied to the one who was crucified for us and who will be victorious for us at the second coming, when he redeems the nation of Israel on the Feast of Yom Kippur.

The book goes into the astronomy in detail, so I will read a portion of it here. Virgo — its name, its three decans, and the names of its stars — provides the complete picture of divine redemption. The brightest star means "the purchase or price which is deficient," because man is weighed in the balances and found wanting. Remember, the books are opened on Trumpets and closed on Yom Kippur — we will see this confirmed in the scriptures in the Feast of Trumpets section of tonight's teaching. The second brightest star means "the price which covers it," pointing to Messiah — its other name means "heaped up" or "on high," and Jesus is the one who is on high. The third brightest star means "the price of the conflict," and we know who paid the price of the conflict — Yeshua. It is completely astonishing. Libra transitions from the birth signified by Virgo to the weighing of all in the balance on the day of judgment — in a twinkling of an eye, as Paul says.

In Hebrew, Libra means "weighing." In Arabic it is defined as "redemption" or "to purchase." In Akkadian, an ancient language, it means "the sacred mound of the holy altar," which points directly to Messiah's crucifixion on the holy anointed altar. The symbolic meaning of Libra indicates that Yeshua would pay the ultimate price for all of mankind, because we all fall short when weighed in the scales without the blood of the Lamb. That is critically important to understand, especially as we come to the prayer: with the blood of the Lamb, we prevail. After we repent, we plead the blood of the Lamb for grace — not taking advantage of it, but when we fail, we repent, we cover ourselves with the blood of the Lamb, and we will be victorious. The summary of all this is simply: there was a price to be paid by Yeshua for a purchased possession — you and me. As it is written, there is no greater love than to lay down one's life for his friends, and Yeshua is the one who did exactly that for all of us.

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Let us look at a few scriptural examples that confirm what the books being opened on the Feast of Trumpets and closed on Yom Kippur means in practice — connecting these to the constellation Libra and the weighing in the balance.

First, consider Joseph in Genesis 41. We know his story: imprisoned, then elevated to second-in-command over all Egypt. Genesis 41 begins, "At the end of two full years" — the completion of those full years, reckoned on the civil calendar, since Moses had not yet been born and the book of Exodus had not yet been given. On the Feast of Trumpets, the books were opened, and Joseph was released from prison. Furthermore, what did he tell Pharaoh? There would be seven good years followed by seven bad years. Not only was Joseph released on the Feast of Trumpets — he was released at the beginning of a new seven-year shemitah cycle. That is precisely the position we are in now. This is why this is such a major transitional period for the world, for nations, and for individuals. As long as we are right with the Lord, what is there to fear?

The second example is Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 4. We know this story as well. After Daniel interpreted his dream and warned him, Nebuchadnezzar was walking through his great palace one day and began declaring in arrogance, "Is this not the great Babylon I have built?" The scripture says: "While the words were still in his mouth" — and this was "at the end of twelve months," again a reference to the civil calendar, because decrees and judgments are rendered on the Feast of Trumpets. Nebuchadnezzar was exiled on the Feast of Trumpets at the beginning of a shemitah cycle, and he remained in that state for seven years.

Then in Daniel 5 we come to his grandson Belshazzar, who brought out the holy vessels of the Lord and used them in a pagan feast. The handwriting appeared on the wall, and Daniel was called to interpret it. The phrase "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin" means: God has numbered your kingdom and finished it; you have been weighed in the balance and found wanting; your kingdom will be divided and given to the Medes and the Persians. That very night it was fulfilled. And which night was it? On the Feast of Trumpets, on the shemitah cycle — because Israel had gone into Babylonian captivity on a shemitah cycle, and exactly seventy years later, Babylon fell on a shemitah cycle and the Medo-Persians took over. All three examples line up with stunning mathematical precision: the constellation Libra, the weighing in the balance, and the decrees rendered on Tishri 1 — the Feast of Trumpets — followed ten days later by Yom Kippur.

Each year is sealed like a chapter in the book of life. If you live a hundred years on this earth, you have a hundred chapters. Some of those chapters overlap — prayers prayed on the Feast of Trumpets in one year may begin coming to pass the next year, or two years later, or three. I'm still seeing some of those remnants now. We have to understand what God is showing each of us individually.

For me, I believe He wanted me to go through four or five years of these things in order to understand them, because I had no idea how they operated. I wasn't going to write a book or speak about them publicly until I had experienced them myself. So I speak from personal experience. Ask the Holy Spirit to lead you — keep whatever is good and set aside whatever doesn't witness to you. That goes for me and for anyone else you listen to. Always do that.

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**Daniel 7 and the Feast of Trumpets**

When we look at Daniel 7, we see confirmation of the Feast of Trumpets before we close out the new moon for the tribe of the month. Daniel 7 is, in my understanding, an End of the Age prophecy about four kingdoms that will rise to power, after which the Messiah will come and establish the Kingdom of Israel.

Daniel 7 describes the four kingdoms and then presents a beautiful Courts of Heaven scene. Right after the fourth kingdom — the Antichrist kingdom, which culminates at the Feast of Trumpets — a heavenly court is convened. A decree is made for the saints. The judgment is rendered on the Feast of Trumpets. That is when He returns, at the last trump. Everything ties together.

Daniel 7:21–22 reads: *"I was watching, and the same horn was making war against the saints and prevailing against them, until the time came for the saints to possess the kingdom."* Then the angel Gabriel continues: *"But the court shall be seated, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and destroy it forever. Then the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people, the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey Him."*

The decrees and declarations are given once a year — on the Feast of Trumpets. He will return on the last trump. That is literal, not symbolic. The decree will be made for the saints to inherit the Kingdom of Israel. That will begin the Millennium, the seventh day, the seven-thousandth year. It will begin a new moon in history, a new seven-year cycle. Every example — Joseph, Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, and Messiah Himself — points not only to the Feast of Trumpets but to a new seven-year cycle beginning at that moment.

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**The Tribe of the Month: Ephraim**

Now we come to the tribe of the month, which is Ephraim — the tribe assigned to the month of Tishri on the Hebrew civil calendar. Ephraim was one of Joseph's two sons, the other being Manasseh. What is remarkable is that on the civil calendar, Ephraim comes first, just as Jacob prophesied, and next month Heshvan belongs to Manasseh — in the exact order of the blessings God ordained.

Joseph was the eleventh son of Jacob, born of Rachel along with Benjamin. He was in Egypt when both Ephraim and Manasseh were born. He named his second son Ephraim, saying, *"God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction."* That is a powerful anointing for this month. If you have been in a situation similar to Joseph — not necessarily in prison, but in your own kind of prison — pray this scripture. Let God cause you to be fruitful in the land of your affliction.

Just as we see repeatedly in Scripture — Isaac over Ishmael, Jacob over Esau — the younger brother received the firstborn blessing. The same pattern holds here. Ephraim received the double portion over Manasseh, and his name itself means fruitfulness — even a double fruitfulness.

Ephraim's descendants were prophesied to become a multitude of nations, which most understand to represent the born-again Gentile believers coming into the Commonwealth of Israel. Manasseh represents the remnant of the Jewish people. Together, they form one new man.

The story of Jacob blessing the two sons is remarkable. Joseph brought Ephraim and Manasseh — young men, likely in their thirties — to the aging Jacob, whose eyes were dim. Instead of placing his right hand on Manasseh the firstborn, Jacob crossed his hands and laid his right hand on Ephraim. When Joseph tried to correct him, Jacob said, *"I know what I am doing."* He declared that Ephraim would be the greater, a multitude of nations, and said of Ephraim: *"He is mine, just as Simeon and Reuben are mine."*

This shows us that even in Genesis, God always had a plan to bring the Gentiles into salvation. There was an order — He chose the Jewish people first — but He always intended to include the Gentiles. The crossed hands of Jacob are a prophetic picture of exactly that. It is the anointing of this month: double fruitfulness, double portion, double anointing of the Holy Spirit.

I pray that over you — over your finances, your home, your calling — to have that favor with God and with man this month of Tishri.

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**The Blessings of Joseph**

I will read both blessings of Joseph, since Ephraim and Manasseh stand under the covering of their father's anointing.

First, Jacob's blessing in Genesis 49:22–26:

*"Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a well; his branches run over the wall. The archers have bitterly grieved him, shot at him and hated him. But his bow remained in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty God of Jacob — from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel — by the God of your father who will help you, and by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breast and of the womb. The blessings of your father have excelled the blessings of my ancestors, up to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills. They shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him who was separated from his brothers."*

Notice the crown on his head. When do you receive your crown? At the Feast of Trumpets. When did Joseph receive his crown on earth? At the Feast of Trumpets — when he was made second in command over all of Egypt. The prophetic pictures are layered and extraordinary.

Second, Moses's blessing of Joseph in Deuteronomy 33:13–17:

*"Blessed of the Lord is his land, with the precious things of heaven, with the dew, the deep lying beneath, with the precious fruits of the sun, with the precious produce of the months, with the precious things of the earth in its fullness, and the favor of Him who dwelt in the burning bush. Let the blessing come on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him who was separated from his brothers. His glory is like a firstborn bull, and his horns like the horns of a wild ox. Together with them he shall push the peoples to the ends of the earth. They are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh."*

When Messiah returns, He comes with ten thousands of saints and thousands upon thousands. Ephraim and Manasseh — Jew and Gentile — one new body, one new man. We see that in Daniel and in Revelation. That is who Messiah is coming with, and we all want to be a part of that beautiful blessing.

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**Prayer for the New Moon**

Let us sanctify the new moon and set our hearts in tune with the Lord for this month — in the anointing of the Hebrew letter Lamed, the constellation Libra, the tribe of Ephraim, and the beautiful numbers associated with Tishri.

*Blessed are You, O Lord our God, King of the universe, who created the skies with His word and all of Heaven's hosts with the breath of His mouth. He gave them appointed times and roles, and they never miss their cues, doing their Creator's bidding with gladness and joy. He is the true Creator who acts faithfully, and He has told the moon to renew itself. It is a beautiful crown for the people of Israel, carried by God from birth, who will likewise be renewed in the future — at the Feast of Trumpets, at the New Moon, at the Second Coming — in order to proclaim the beauty of their Creator and His glorious Majesty. Praise are You, O Lord, who renews new moons. May it be so.*

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*Opening Prayer*

Our will, Yod-Haveh, Elohim of our fathers — that you begin for us this month for good and for blessing. May you give us long life, a life of substance, a life of physical health, a life in which there is no shame or humiliation, a life of wealth and honor, a life in which we love Torah and fear Elohim, a life in which you fulfill the requests of our hearts for good. Amen.

Blessed are you, Lord our God, King of the universe, who has sanctified us by your commandments and commanded us to be a light to the nations, and who has given us Yeshua our Messiah as the light of the world.

And the priestly blessing: May God bless you. May he keep you. May his face shine upon you and give you his grace. May he lift up his countenance upon you and your family and give you his everlasting shalom.

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*The Feast of Trumpets — Rosh Hashanah*

Now let us begin. Rosh Hashanah — the Feast of Trumpets — is also called Yom Teruah, which is its Hebrew name. We are going to explore the many idioms associated with the Feast of Trumpets, because on some future year we will see those beautiful idioms come to fulfillment. Some of this may seem redundant to those who have followed earlier videos, but for those just joining us, let us lay the foundation.

It all begins with God's calendar. God created his calendar in Genesis 1:14–16 by two great witnesses: the sun and the moon. That calendar today is the Hebrew calendar. Even though it carries that name, it is still God's calendar, because he is the one who created the sun and the moon — not mankind. The sun and the moon dictate the calendar. In Genesis 1:14, we find that these lights were created for "signs and seasons." The Hebrew word for "seasons" in that passage is *moed*, which means a divine appointment, a fixed time, a set point in time.

So the calendar itself is for divine appointments. And when we turn to Leviticus 23, we find the feast days of the Lord — seven feast days, plus the Sabbath. The Hebrew word for "feast" in Leviticus 23 is also *moed* — the same word: a divine appointment, a fixed time. What is God telling us? He is telling us that his calendar is for divine appointments, and that his feast days are divine appointments — and that these things correlate together because they share the same term. He is telling us that his Son, Yeshua, is going to intersect with human history on these seven divine appointments on his calendar.

We must understand the calendar to understand when he will fulfill these appointments. Yeshua cannot return on just any day of the year. Biblically speaking, he can only return on the divine appointments of the Lord. That may be a radical statement, but according to the Word of God, breathed on by the Holy Spirit, there are seven divine appointments that Yeshua will fulfill.

He has already fulfilled the first four. He died on Passover — not Good Friday, but Passover. This is in the Gospels, and it correlates perfectly with Leviticus 23 and Exodus 12. He is the Passover Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. He was laid in the tomb on Unleavened Bread. He rose on the Feast of First Fruits — work the math: three days and three nights. He is not Easter; he is the First Fruits of mankind, the first fruit of the dead, the first fruit of God. Then on the Feast of Shavuot, he poured out his Holy Spirit in Acts 2, just as the Torah had been given on that same feast. He fulfilled the first four feast days to the exact day, hour, and detail of the ceremony. It is absolutely phenomenal, and we will go through that in depth when we reach the spring feasts.

Now, if we believe that Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever — that there is no shadow of turning with him — then we must believe he will also fulfill the remaining three appointments with the same precision. Just as he fulfilled the first four spring feasts to the exact day, hour, and detail, he will fulfill the Feast of Trumpets, the Feast of Yom Kippur, and the Feast of Tabernacles to the exact date, hour, and detail of their celebration. And tonight, my friends, is the Feast of Trumpets — the feast on which he will return.

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*Leviticus 23 — The Divine Appointments*

Let us look at Leviticus 23:1–2:

*"And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, the feasts of the Lord which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations — these are my feasts."*

Note the language: the Lord spoke to Moses. He said, "These are my feasts." So often, whenever the feast days come up, the first thing people say is, "Those are the Jewish feasts." And yes, they are observed by the Jewish people — but we must get our terminology correct. Many Gentile believers assume they are not obligated to keep these days because they say, "Those are for the Jews." In my view, that is an error. These are the feasts of the Lord.

I say this with no disrespect to the Jewish people whatsoever — many of my closest friends are Jewish, both believers and non-believers. But God is the one who created the sun and the moon. God is the one who ordained these feast days in his Holy Bible. They are for his people. And consider this: in the millennial Kingdom, the Jewish people will not be worshiping one way while Gentile believers celebrate Easter. That is not going to happen. We will be worshiping on Passover, because he is the Passover Lamb for all of us. If he died on Passover, I would highly recommend giving him honor and glory on the day he died for you — not on a date ordained by Constantine or church tradition.

Now, two key Hebrew words from Leviticus 23 are essential. We have already covered *moed* — a divine appointment. The second word is from the phrase "holy convocations." In Hebrew, convocation is *mikra*, which means a dress rehearsal. So reading the passage with its full Hebrew meaning, it says: *"The divine appointments of the Lord which you shall proclaim to be dress rehearsals — these are my divine appointments."* God wants us to rehearse these every year, so that when the real event arrives, we will recognize it.

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*The Time of Visitation — Luke 19:41–44*

Look at what happened with Passover. The Jewish people were performing the Passover sacrifice for a thousand years — yet when the Lamb of God stood right in front of them, they did not recognize the time of their visitation. Luke 19:41–44 records this:

*"Now as Yeshua drew near, he saw the city and wept over it, saying, 'If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your shalom! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you, and close you in on every side, and level you and your children within you to the ground, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another — because you did not know the time of your visitation.'"*

He is sitting there weeping over Jerusalem — and then it turns to judgment. He is speaking of 70 A.D., but also of the ultimate fulfillment under the Antichrist. And the reason is: *you did not know the time of your visitation.* They had been rehearsing Passover for a thousand years and still did not recognize the Passover Lamb when he came. Just as Messiah said, even the elect can be deceived.

This is where the "thief in the night" concept originates. The church is in danger of being caught off guard — like a thief in the night — if we do not understand God's calendar and his feast days. You can study biblical prophecy all you want, but if you do not put God's calendar into it, if you do not factor in the feast days, if you do not align the covenants with them, you may be able to identify the Ten Kings or speculate about the Antichrist — but you will not understand the time of your visitation. You will not know when it occurs.

I say this in total love: it is supremely important to the Lord that we be on his calendar, on his divine appointments. If we are, I promise you — you will not be caught as a thief in the night. You will understand when the resurrection will occur. You will understand when the Antichrist makes the covenant. Before we begin plugging in the players of the end times, we must first understand the kingdoms, understand Israel, understand God's prophetic timeline, the calendar, and the feast days. Then we look at the world through that lens and understand where we are on God's prophetic timeline. Without that foundation, we are simply shooting in the wind.

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Many people have been preoccupied with setting dates, and that is why it is so important to understand that the Feast of Trumpets is the next divine appointment to be fulfilled on God's prophetic calendar. The Feast of Shavuot — the fourth divine appointment — was already fulfilled when He poured out His Holy Spirit. The fifth feast day is the Feast of Trumpets, which carries great symbolism in the Holy Bible connected to the grape harvest.

God is deeply rooted in agricultural imagery throughout the Bible. He relates Passover to the barley harvest, Shavuot to the wheat harvest, and His fall feast days to the grape harvest. That is why you see the symbolism in Scripture of the winepress of the Lord — blood splattered on His garments. He is telling you that His return will be in the fall, at the time of the grape harvest. You can find the great winepress of the wrath of God in Revelation 14, Isaiah 63, Joel 3, and Revelation 19:11–16. All of these passages speak of blood on His garments — the winepress of the Lord — pointing to a fall return on these beautiful divine appointments.

Before getting into the commandment of the Feast of Trumpets and its associated idioms, it is worth explaining God's prophetic seven-day creation plan. As we know, God worked six days and rested on the seventh, establishing a pattern of working six and resting on the seventh. Leviticus 25 extends this same pattern to the land: work it six years, then let it rest on the seventh. This principle of working six and resting on the seventh runs consistently through Scripture.

When we look at 2 Peter 3:8 and Psalm 90, we have two witnesses — Peter and Moses — both declaring that a day is as a thousand years with the Lord, and a thousand years is as a day. This can only be understood in light of God's creation plan. If He worked six days and rested on the seventh, and a day equals a thousand years, then prophetically this world will work six days — or six thousand years — and on the seventh day, the seven-thousandth year, that is the Day of the Lord. That is when Messiah will reign in His Millennial Kingdom.

Most scholars confirm that from Adam to Yeshua was four completed days, or four thousand completed years. From Messiah until now is nearly two completed days, or two thousand years, depending on where you place His crucifixion and resurrection. This is not about setting dates — it is about understanding the season we are in and what God has ordained in His Word. We are nearing the end of six completed days. When that time comes, it will be marked by the Feast of Trumpets, which will serve as the doorway from the sixth day to the seventh day — the twinkling of an eye, so to speak.

Again, this is not date-setting. It is preparation. Looking at the Middle East and North Africa through the correct biblical lens — watching Israel and the surrounding Islamic nations that Yeshua literally comes to fight against when He returns — you can already see things beginning to form. In this new Shemitah cycle, those formations will likely become much more visible.

Even Hosea speaks to this. In Hosea 6:1–2 the prophet says: *"After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His sight."* Hosea is pointing from Messiah's first coming to His second coming, using two days and a third rather than six and seven. After two thousand years, He will revive us; on the third day — which corresponds to the seventh day of the prophetic calendar, the Millennial Kingdom — He will raise us up and we will live in His sight. This is how the prophets are calculating these timelines, always pointing to the Millennial reign of Messiah.

The psalmist declares in Psalm 89:15–16: *"Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! They walk, O Lord, in the light of Your countenance. In Your name they rejoice all day long, and in Your righteousness they are exalted."* Blessed are those who know the trumpet sound — and I believe that connects to the day of the Awakening Blast, which most people call the Rapture.

Now let us read the commandment itself. Leviticus 23:23–24 says: *"Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 'Speak to the children of Israel, saying: In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a Sabbath rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work on it; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord.'"*

The seventh month here is Tishri on the biblical calendar, which is also the first month of the Civil calendar — they are speaking of the same date. A holy convocation, as we have discussed, is a dress rehearsal. God is telling you to rehearse blowing the trumpets and to observe a Sabbath rest. When we are blowing trumpets down here, you can be sure they are rehearsing up in heaven as well, because it is a commandment for the angels too — practicing for the arrival of the King. It is a dress rehearsal for the wedding of the Messiah.

He is telling you to get ready, to prepare yourself, to be a wise virgin — to blow trumpets, to shout, to understand the scriptures that show He is going to return on the last trump, which is literal, not symbolic, on the Feast of Trumpets. His wrath will begin for ten days, He will then redeem the nation of Israel on Yom Kippur, and all of these beautiful commandments point forward to that fulfillment.

For those asking how to celebrate the Feast of Trumpets: follow the commandment. There are many beautiful oral traditions, and there is nothing wrong with them, but do not let them become a burden — especially if you are new to the feasts. Follow what is written. For Passover that means eating lamb, bitter herbs, unleavened bread, and taking communion. For the Feast of Trumpets it means a Sabbath rest, blowing a trumpet or shouting, and making an offering to the Lord. If you do not have a shofar, shout, or listen to someone blow one. Spend quiet time in prayer, study the prophetic scriptures surrounding the second coming, and give — whether that is a tithe to a ministry or wherever the Lord leads you. The offering by fire in the text was performed only by the high priest in Israel at the temple, and since we currently have no temple, no high priest, and most of us do not live in Israel, we take that commandment in its proper context.

Now let us consider the events — the idioms — associated with the Feast of Trumpets during the end of the age. There are six major events that I believe will occur on this feast day:

1. The Time of Jacob's Trouble — what most people call the seven-year tribulation period

2. The Day of the Awakening Blast — what most people call the Rapture

3. The Day of Judgment, when the books are opened

4. The Hidden Day — a mystery associated with this feast

5. The Wedding of the Messiah

6. The Coronation of the Messiah

Six major events on a single feast day. If we do not understand the calendar and the divine appointments of the Lord, we will not understand any of this — because it is a dress rehearsal.

Consider: if you are invited to a wedding but never attend the rehearsals, you will not know what to do. You will look foolish while everyone else who was at the rehearsals moves through the ceremony with understanding. The same principle applies here. If you do not understand the time of your visitation, you will not be prepared for the wedding feast. Read Matthew 22 — it is a very strong warning. In that parable, the king sends out invitations to the feast and people refuse to come, too busy with their own lives, much like the days of Noah. He came not to bring peace but a sword, dividing His set-apart people from those who are not — the wise virgins from the foolish. And remember: they were all believers. They were all virgins.

To understand what time it is, you must understand God's calendar and His divine appointments. That is the only way, because that is what He is working through.

**The Time of Jacob's Trouble**

The first event we discover on the Feast of Trumpets is the Time of Jacob's Trouble — what many know as the seven-year tribulation period. So many people are talking about the Rapture, and that is beautiful; it is our blessed hope. But we have to understand how all of that fits together with the prophecy.

The last seven years of the age will be a shemitah cycle. God operates on these patterns: a seven-day week, a seven-year plan, a seven-millennial plan, and in between all of that, fifty-year Jubilees. That is how He calculates time in the Holy Bible — by seven days, seven years, seven millennia, and the fifty-year Jubilees in between. We must understand the Seventieth Week of Daniel.

The tribulation is a block of seven years that cannot be interrupted. It did not start this year because no agreement has been made between Israel, the Antichrist, and the nations. In my opinion, it will not start until either 2029 or 2036 — keep doing the math. It cannot start in 2025. God is on His shemitah cycles, His Jubilee cycles, His seven-thousand-year millennial cycles.

First and foremost, we must understand that the Antichrist cannot rise, according to Daniel 7, until the Ten Kings are in place. Ten Kings must be established — then the little horn rises and conquers three of them. Four will come out of Turkey; three will come from North Africa — Libya, Sudan, and Egypt, as described in Daniel 11:43. Until those Ten Kings are in place in the Middle East and North Africa, there is no point speculating about who the Antichrist is. It is not Trump, not Obama, not Putin, not Erdogan, not any world leader currently on the scene. The Ten Kings must come first, and then the one who conquers Egypt, Libya, and Sudan will be unmistakable.

The last shemitah — the seven-year tribulation — will begin on the Feast of Trumpets and end on the Feast of Trumpets. We know this because if Messiah is returning on the Feast of Trumpets, you simply do the math: back exactly seven years and you arrive at another Feast of Trumpets. On that opening Feast of Trumpets, an agreement will be made between the Antichrist, Israel, and other nations (Daniel 9:26–27). He will break that agreement at the midpoint of the tribulation, just as Messiah says in Matthew 24.

The prophet Jeremiah gives us a vivid picture of the Time of Jacob's Trouble in Jeremiah 30:

> *Thus says the Lord: "We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear and not of peace. Ask now and see whether a man is ever in labor with child. So why do I see every man with his hands on his loins like a woman in labor, and all faces turned pale? Behold, for the day is great, so that none is like it; and it is the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it."*

Notice the symbolism: Jeremiah connects this event to a pregnancy and delivery — the nation of Israel born in one day, as Isaiah 66 describes, occurring on the Feast of Trumpets. Seven years begins on the Feast of Trumpets and ends on the Feast of Trumpets. The midpoint, during Passover, is when the two witnesses will be killed; they will be resurrected on the Feast of First Fruits. This is why understanding the calendar and the feast days is essential.

Jeremiah continues: *"For it shall come to pass in that day — the day of the Lord — that I will break his yoke from your neck and will burst your bonds. Foreigners shall no more enslave them, but they shall serve the Lord their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them."* David will serve as prince in the Millennial Kingdom, as described in Ezekiel 43–48.

When you read Jeremiah 30 and 31 together — removing the chapter break, because it is one continuous prophecy — you see that as the tribulation is occurring, God declares: *"I will be the God of the families of Israel, and they shall be my people."* That is New Covenant language from Jeremiah 31. So Jeremiah 30–31 moves from the seven-year tribulation and the Antichrist directly into the New Covenant reality: Yeshua will be God over the children of Israel, they will receive Him, He will be their God, and they will be His people.

The New Covenant is found in Jeremiah 31 and Ezekiel 36, and it is made with the Jewish people — the house of Israel and the house of Judah. We born Gentiles are grafted into these covenants: the Abrahamic, the Davidic, and the New Covenant. That is why Paul says in Galatians that if you are a seed of Christ, you are a seed of Abraham and an heir according to the promise. We are all saved by the blood of the New Covenant because of what Messiah did at Passover.

However, we are not yet living fully in the New Covenant in the sense that Jeremiah envisioned — not until the Jewish people accept Him as their Savior as a corporate nation, which will occur during the tribulation and at the Second Coming. Yeshua said in Matthew 23:39: *"You will see Me no more until you say, 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.'"* Until that moment, we are not living in the New Covenant in its complete fulfillment. The Millennial Kingdom is that fulfillment, because that is when the Jewish people as a corporate nation receive Him as Messiah and King.

Joel 2:1–11 gives us another powerful picture of the Time of Jacob's Trouble beginning on the Feast of Trumpets:

> *"Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for the day of the Lord is coming, for it is at hand: a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, like the morning clouds spread over the mountains. A people come, great and strong, the like of whom has never been; nor will there ever be any such after them, even for many successive generations. A fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns; the land is like the Garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness. Surely nothing shall escape them. Their appearance is like the appearance of horses; and like swift steeds, so they run. With a noise like chariots over mountaintops they leap, like the noise of a flaming fire that devours the stubble, like a strong people set in battle array. Before them the people writhe in pain; all faces are drained of color."*

Notice — Jeremiah said all faces turned pale; Joel says all faces are drained of color. These are speaking of the same event. Joel continues:

> *"They run like mighty men, they climb the wall like men of war; everyone marches in formation and they do not break ranks. They do not push one another; everyone marches in his own column. Though they lunge between the weapons, they are not cut down. They run to and fro in the city, they run on the wall; they climb into the houses, they enter at the windows like a thief. The earth quakes before them, the heavens tremble; the sun and moon grow dark, and the stars diminish their brightness. The Lord gives voice before His army, for His camp is very great; for strong is the One who executes His word. For the day of the Lord is great and very terrible; who can endure it?"*

This is the Time of Jacob's Trouble. It begins on the Feast of Trumpets — *"Blow the trumpet in Zion"* — and it is during this time, as they look forward to the King returning, that they will call on the Messiah to deliver them.

The prophet Zephaniah closes out this theme in Zephaniah 1:14–16:

> *"The great day of the Lord is near; it is near and hastens quickly. The noise of the day of the Lord is bitter; there the mighty men shall cry out. That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of devastation and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of trumpet and alarm — Yom Teruah — against the fortified cities and against the high towers."*

Zephaniah is telling you: the tribulation begins on a day of trumpet and alarm — the Feast of Trumpets. And when Messiah returns on the Feast of Trumpets, it is a day of wrath and a day of war. As any truly victorious king throughout history demonstrates, there must be war before there is peace. Messiah is coming to war for ten days — alone, as Isaiah 63 describes — and then we will join Him at Revelation 19 on Yom Kippur. This is why understanding the feast days is so critical: that is how all of these events align.

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**The Day of the Awakening Blast — The Rapture**

The second of the six idioms we discover on the Feast of Trumpets is the Day of the Awakening Blast, which is called the Rapture. It is probably the most discussed event among believers, and for good reason — it is our blessed hope, our deliverance from this world to the next, our salvation from the Antichrist and all that is coming.

It is also one of the most debated topics in the body of Christ, and I do not think that is a bad thing. We are all trying to understand what the Word of God says. Wherever you stand — pre-trib, post-trib, pre-wrath, post-wrath — let us focus on the event itself, because it will occur on the Feast of Trumpets regardless of the exact timing position. I will say it is not mid-trib, because the midpoint of the tribulation falls at Passover, not the Feast of Trumpets — so that one can be ruled out. But as for the rest, may God lead all of us into the correct understanding.

The Feast of Trumpets is called Yom Teruah — and that word *teruah* means to shout...

The word *teruah* means an alarm, a blast — you can find that in Strong's 8643. This is a memorial of blowing of trumpets every year, because one day it will blow away what we know as science. That is certain. Just as Yeshua ascended with a shout, as mentioned in Psalms 47:5 — "God has gone up with a shout, a teruah, an alarm, a blow; the Lord with the sound of a trumpet" — he will also return on the sound of the trumpet.

First Thessalonians 4:16–18 confirms this: "The Lord himself, Yeshua, will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, with the trumpet of God." Every one of those elements points to the Feast of Trumpets. The shout is a teruah — Feast of Trumpets. The voice of an archangel — Feast of Trumpets. And then the trumpet itself. "The dead in Christ will rise first, then we who are alive and remain will be caught together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words."

The Apostle Paul gives us deep understanding of the Feast of Trumpets as it relates to the resurrection — the Rapture, the Day of the Awakening Blast. The shout, the voice of an archangel, the trumpet of God: all of these point to the Feast of Trumpets. The dead in Christ will rise first, and then we who are on this earth will be gathered with them in the clouds.

The prophet Isaiah confirms what Paul wrote in Thessalonians: "Your dead shall live; together with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust, for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead." Paul in Thessalonians is simply pointing us back to Isaiah as a second witness. The phrase "your dead" refers to Messiah — he who was crucified, who rose. This circles back to the Feast of First Fruits: he is the firstfruits, and when the sheaf is waved, it signifies that all of us will follow the first fruit of the resurrection, which is Yeshua Messiah.

First Corinthians 15:20–23 provides yet another confirmation: "But now Christ is risen from the dead and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For since by man came death, by man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ's at his second coming." The Day of the Awakening Blast — the Rapture — will occur on Yom Teruah, on this day, in some year when we are blowing the trumpets. It will happen in the twinkling of an eye.

Now let us understand how the Feast of Trumpets became a two-day feast, because this symbolism in Scripture reveals something important about a phrase we often encounter. The Feast of Trumpets falls on Tishri one, a memorial blowing of trumpets, on the new moon. When the children of Israel were exiled from the promised land following the Babylonian invasion, they were scattered across the region, yet still commanded to keep Torah. The only way dispersed Jewish communities would know that the two witnesses had spotted the new moon — and that the Feast of Trumpets had begun — was through fires lit along the mountaintops. But that communication took time, and by the time the news had spread to all Jewish communities, two days had passed. So the Feast of Trumpets became known as the feast that no one knew the day or the hour, because they had to wait on the two witnesses to declare the new moon spotted.

This is the tradition we must understand. Yeshua was one hundred percent Jewish — Seed of Abraham, Seed of David. He would speak in the idioms and the cultural language of his people. Just as a Southerner uses phrases and slang that other Southerners understand naturally, Yeshua would speak in ways his Jewish disciples immediately recognized. So when he used the phrase "no one knows the day or the hour," his Jewish audience understood exactly what feast he was pointing to. It is in the Scriptures.

Now let us look at Matthew 24 and 25, the Olivet Discourse — Messiah's last prophetic sermon before he was crucified for our sins. When the disciples came to him and asked about the signs of his second coming, his very first response was: "Do not be deceived." That should refine all of us as we enter these times. Matthew 24 is a chronological timeline of the tribulation period, moving through the various signs, through the abomination of desolation at the three-and-a-half-year mark — where he directs us back to Daniel — and then to his coming.

Beginning at verse 29: "Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven shall be shaken." This mirrors exactly what we read in Joel. And notice: he says *immediately after* the tribulation. He continues: "Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the heavens, the tribes of the earth will mourn, and the Son of Man will be coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory."

This shows chronologically that the resurrection — the Rapture — will not occur until the Feast of Trumpets, after the Antichrist's reign. He says immediately *after* the tribulation — after the full seven years — the sign of the Son of Man appears: the blood moon, the darkening of the sun. He comes on the clouds, we meet him in the clouds, there are ten days of awe, and then on Yom Kippur we come down with him. One event, one sequence.

He then continues: "He will send his angels with a great sound of the trumpet, and they will gather together his elect from the four winds." And then: "But of that day no one knows the hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only." There it is again — the tradition. The Feast that no one knows the day or the hour. He is telling you, without telling you, that this event falls on the Feast of Trumpets, because he will return at the last trump on that day.

Then he says: "Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is coming." And: "Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one will be left." That is the resurrection, occurring at the last day — just as he says, "You will be raised on the last day," and as Daniel was told, "Go your way; you will be raised to your inheritance on the last day." That last day is the transition from the sixth day to the seventh day, from the reign of the Antichrist to the reign of the Kingdom of Israel, in the twinkling of an eye.

He goes on: "But know this — if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect." If Messiah intended for us to never understand the timing, he would not have continued speaking in these terms. He would have simply said to stop thinking about it. Instead he keeps urging us to watch, because he does not want us to be caught as a thief in the night. That is another important distinction.

We must also understand that the Wrath of the Lord is not the same as the wrath of the Antichrist. The Wrath of the Lord is the ten days of awe. The wrath of the Antichrist is the tribulation period — and Revelation 12 speaks to this directly. When the Antichrist gains power at the three-and-a-half-year mark, he goes after the children of Israel fleeing to the mountains. A flood is sent to prevent him from destroying them. Then he turns against "the other offspring" — and who would that be, if not the Gentile Believers?

The church will be present through the tribulation. Was Paul taken out? Were the disciples taken out? Read the book of Acts. The church's finest hour will come precisely at the worst time in human history — because that is when the gospel is most needed. The Jewish people fleeing to the mountains are not reading Matthew 24 on their own. It will take the two great witnesses and the body of Believers — The Remnant — to reach them. The Great Commission does not pause during tribulation; if anything, it intensifies.

A pre-tribulation Rapture cannot be reconciled with Matthew 24, because Matthew 24 is in chronological order. That is the bottom line.

Because the Jewish people have rejected the Messiah, it is our job to inform them and make them jealous, just as Romans 11 declares. We should be doing that now. And I believe when the time comes, there will be many Believers who say, "We have to prepare, because we are about to enter into the worst time in human history" — when they see the Antichrist sign that agreement and realize they are still here. Many are calling for it today, but there has been no Rapture, no agreement made. It is not the right time yet. The Rapture cannot happen at any time. It will happen on the Feast of Trumpets, and in my personal opinion, it will occur on the last day of the seven-year tribulation period, at the twinkling of an eye, when Messiah comes back. But that is another study for another time.

One would have to rectify and reconcile what our Savior and Lord said: *immediately after the tribulation*. "Immediately" is the twinkling of an eye. That means the transition from the sixth day to the seventh day is going to happen just like that — at sundown Jerusalem time on the Feast of Trumpets. That transition will occur in an instant. We will be taken out then as the Lord pours out His vengeance, as described in Isaiah 63, upon those who believed in the Antichrist's armies.

The Feast of Trumpets has three shofar sequences. The first is called *Tekiah* — one long blast. The second is *Shevarim* — three short blasts. The third is *Teruah* — nine quick blasts. That sequence is blown eleven times, equaling ninety-nine blasts. Then the final blast, called *Tekiah Gedolah*, is the hundredth blast. This is what is known as the Last Trump. That will occur on the Feast of Trumpets. This is why it is so important to understand God's roots — what some call Hebrew Roots or Jewish Roots. These are God's roots, and He wants us to understand them because they are so prophetic in illuminating scripture.

Now, when we go to 1 Corinthians 15:51–53, it says: *"Behold, I tell you a mystery: we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed — in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall all be changed."*

My question for those who hold to a pre-tribulation Rapture is this: is the Last Trump at the beginning of the tribulation period? I don't think so. There are six more trumpets that blow before the Last Trump — the seventh. How do you reconcile Paul saying it is the *last* trumpet if it occurs at the beginning? It is not symbolic; it is literal. The last trumpet is the day of the Lord. The seventh trumpet is when the Lord returns, and then the bowl judgments are poured out during the ten days of awe that follow. That is how you reconcile it within the Book of Revelation.

Now let's look at the mystery of the thief in the night, because this is another widespread misconception. You hear it everywhere: "He comes as a thief in the night — no one knows the day or the hour." Without the Torah, the Prophets, and the full context of Holy Scripture, this teaching leads to ignorance of what the Bible is actually saying.

So where did the "thief in the night" tradition originate? Back in the days of the Temple, guards were stationed to watch through the night. The high priest would make rounds to ensure the guards were not sleeping. If a guard was found asleep, the priest would take a torch and light the guard's garments on fire. The guard would shed them and run naked to find new clothing. Messiah used this cultural tradition — this slang that the Jewish people would have immediately understood — to communicate a specific truth. Just as a Southerner understands certain expressions that a Northerner might not, Messiah identified with the people He was speaking to through this imagery.

Now let's look at the scriptures to confirm exactly who Messiah comes to as a thief in the night. Revelation 3:1–3, addressing the dead church of Sardis, says: *"These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before God. Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you."*

Messiah is telling us plainly: the dead church — because it does not understand the calendar, because it does not understand the feast days — will be caught off guard. He says, "If you do not watch, if you are not attending the divine appointments, if you are not understanding the prophecies, I will come upon you as a thief." And then He says, "You will not know what hour I will come upon you" — because this is the feast that no man knows the day or the hour. He is pointing you to the Feast of Trumpets.

Now let's look at the lukewarm church in Revelation 3:16–18: *"So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. Because you say, 'I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing' — and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked — I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see."*

He is telling you: both the dead church and the lukewarm church are the ones who will be caught as a thief in the night. Period.

Now let's look at the faithful church. Does He come upon them as a thief in the night? In 1 Thessalonians 5:1–11, Paul writes: *"But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. For when they say, 'Peace and safety!' then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation. For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him. Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing."*

Paul is telling us: the Thessalonian church was a faithful church. They knew the times and the seasons — they knew God's calendar — and that is why he wrote to them the way he did. You need not worry; you know the times and the seasons, unlike the lukewarm and the dead church. You understand God's calendar and His feast days.

Turning to Matthew 25, the parable of the foolish and wise virgins reinforces this. All ten are believers — all ten are virgins. Five are wise and five are foolish. At the midnight cry — "Behold, the bridegroom is coming!" — they all rose and trimmed their lamps. The foolish said to the wise, "Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out." But the wise answered, "No, lest there should not be enough for us and you. Go to those who sell, and buy for yourselves." While they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding feast, and the door was shut — just as in the days of Noah, when the door was shut. Afterward the other virgins came and said, "Lord, Lord, open to us!" But he answered, "Assuredly I say to you, I do not know you. Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming."

He is telling you it will be on the Feast of Trumpets. The bridegroom comes on the last trump, which points directly to the seventh trumpet in the Book of Revelation. In this parable, half of the believers did not understand the time of their visitation. As Luke 19:44 declares, we must understand the time of our visitation — and there is no way to do that without understanding God's calendar, without understanding the Leviticus 23 feast days, His divine appointments. That is the calendar He will follow at His second coming, and it is our job to be worshiping Him on that calendar now.

So the day of the Rapture — the resurrection — will be on the Feast of Trumpets, whether you hold to a pre-trib, post-trib, or any other position. That much is certain. But I would encourage you, if you are pre-trib, to consider the scriptures I have mentioned — I say this in love, and I say it having once been pre-trib myself, until I believe my eyes were opened. One would have to reconcile Matthew 24 — the chronological account of the seven-year tribulation — and explain why, if the Rapture is pre-tribulation, Messiah says He gathers the saints *after* the tribulation. That is where he says the gathering occurs: immediately after. Something to study and consider.

The next event on the Feast of Trumpets is *Yom HaDin* — the Day of Judgment. This is the opening of the books and the gates. This is when we will be judged. When we are resurrected and raptured, we stand before the Lord to receive rewards, good or bad, for what we have done. A great understanding of the Day of Judgment comes from Daniel 7:9–11 and verses 21–22: *"I watched..."*

Daniel's vision continues: "I watched till thrones were put in place, and the Ancient of Days was seated. His garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head was like pure wool. His throne was a fiery flame, his wheels a burning fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him. A thousand thousands ministered to him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The court was seated, and the books were opened."

We have already read the scripture about the judgment — that Messiah comes with the decree. The Feast of Trumpets is the Day of Judgment. That is when we will be judged, or more precisely, when those who are in Christ will receive their rewards according to what they have or have not done. Acts 17:29-31 states: "Because he has appointed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising him from the dead." There is one appointed day — and that day is the Feast of Trumpets, Yom Teruah.

Second Corinthians 5:10 confirms: "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad." First Corinthians 3:12-13 adds: "Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw — each one's work will become clear, for the Day will declare it." The first day of the Day of the Lord is the Feast of Trumpets.

This is why the symbolism of the feasts is so precisely ordered. The Feast of Trumpets represents repentance. Yom Kippur represents redemption — when the nation of Israel will be redeemed and our books will be sealed for the year. The Feast of Tabernacles represents rejoicing. Common sense confirms the order: we must repent to be redeemed, and only then can we rejoice. Repentance, redemption, and then rejoicing at the Feast of Tabernacles.

Psalms 24:7-10 declares: "Lift up your heads, O you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts." That King of glory is Yeshua the Messiah. Psalms 118:19-20 continues: "Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will go through them, I will praise the Lord. This is the gate of the Lord, through which the righteous shall enter." On some Feast of Trumpets, we will enter through that gate — and it will be a beautiful thing.

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Now we come to the fourth idiom fulfilled on the Feast of Trumpets: the Hidden Day, or Yom HaKasseh. The meaning is simple — you want to be hidden in the Day of the Lord. This connects to the resurrection and return of Messiah. When he returns on the clouds, we will meet him in the clouds, and he will hide us for ten days while he wars — as described in Isaiah 63. Then, in Revelation 19, we are seen wearing white, which is the garment of Yom Kippur. The high priest wore white only once a year, and that was on Yom Kippur. We will come down with him for the final victory against the Antichrist, as described in Revelation 19:11-16.

Isaiah 26:20-21 speaks directly to this: "Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment, until the indignation has passed. For behold, the Lord comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth will also disclose her blood and will no more cover her slain." He is telling you plainly about the Hidden Day. Hide yourself — for a little moment, ten days — until the indignation has passed. Then the Lord comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth. He comes on the Feast of Trumpets with wrath, wars alone for ten days as in Isaiah 63, and then redeems his people. That is why in Isaiah 63 his garments are sprinkled in blood, and in Revelation 19 they are the same — he has been warring below while we remain above, pure and white. We come with him on Yom Kippur, ten days after Trumpets, for the final victory.

Psalms 27:5 echoes this: "For in the time of trouble" — the time of Jacob's trouble — "he shall hide me in his pavilion; in the secret place of his tabernacle he shall hide me; he shall set me on a high rock." Zephaniah 2:1-3 adds: "Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, O undesirable nation, before the decree is issued — before the day passes like chaff, before the Lord's fierce anger comes upon you, before the day of the Lord's anger comes upon you. Seek the Lord, all you meek of the earth, who have upheld his justice. Seek righteousness, seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of the Lord's anger." Between Zephaniah 2, Psalms 27:5, and Isaiah 26:20-21, the message is consistent: you want to be hidden in the day of the Lord's wrath — and that is exactly what will happen to all who love the Lord and understand the time of his visitations, his appointed feast days.

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The fifth idiom is Yom HaChuppah — the Wedding of the Messiah. If we want to be at the wedding, we need to be at the dress rehearsal. Just as any wedding guest needs to understand the proceedings so as not to be caught unprepared, Yeshua wants us to understand these appointed times as dress rehearsals — to be intimate with him and to grasp what is coming.

Hosea 2:16, 19-20 says: "And it shall be, in that day" — the Day of the Lord, the Feast of Trumpets — "that you will call me 'My Husband,' and no longer call me 'My Master.' I will betroth you to me forever; yes, I will betroth you to me in righteousness and justice, in loving kindness and mercy. I will betroth you to me in faithfulness, and you shall know the Lord."

Joel 2:15-16, which we have read before, brings it together: "Blow the trumpet in Zion, consecrate a fast, call a sacred assembly. Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children and the nursing babes." And then: "Let the bridegroom go out from his chamber, and the bride from her dressing room." The perfect culmination — bride and bridegroom, betrothed to the Messiah forever on the Feast of Trumpets.

Revelation 19:7-9 declares: "Let us be glad and rejoice and give him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready. And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints." Then he said: "Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. These are the true sayings of God." Blessed are those who know the trumpet sound. Blessed are those who are at the wedding of the Lamb.

This will occur on his Divine appointments — of course it will. His birth was on the Feast of Tabernacles, not December 25th. His crucifixion was on a Divine appointment. His resurrection was on a Divine appointment. The pouring out of the Holy Spirit was on a Divine appointment. His return will be on a Divine appointment. These are the Lord's moedim — his times of visitation — where he intersects human history.

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The sixth and final idiom is the Coronation of the Messiah. He is already King, but there is an order in which he will be crowned before all of us.

Psalms 98:4-9 sets the scene: "Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth! Break forth in song, rejoice and sing praises. Sing to the Lord with the harp and the sound of a psalm, with trumpets and the sound of a horn — shout joyfully before the Lord, the King! Let the sea roar, and all its fullness, the world and those who dwell in it. Let the rivers clap their hands; let the hills be joyful together before the Lord, for he is coming to judge the earth. With righteousness he shall judge the world and the peoples with equity."

Then comes the decree, as recorded in Daniel 7 and Psalms 2. The Father gives the decree for the saints to inherit the Kingdom. Psalms 2:6-9 declares: "Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion. I will declare the decree: The Lord has said to me, 'You are my Son; today I have begotten you. Ask of me, and I will give you the nations for your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron; you shall dash them to pieces like a potter's vessel.'" He has set his King on his holy mount of Zion. He declares the decree. He says, "You are my Son — ask of me, and I will give you the nations." That is what will occur on the Feast of Trumpets.

Some believers imagine this will be instantaneous and peaceful — but this is a war. A literal war. Yeshua comes down with the sickle of fire and the sickle of the sword upon his enemies. That is why his garments are sprinkled in blood in Isaiah 63. He wars and gains the victory, and then he is given the decree and crowned. He comes to redeem the nation of Israel on Yom Kippur — the Day of Atonement.

Genesis 49:10 promises: "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes — and to him shall be the obedience of the people." Hebrews 1:8 completes it, the Father speaking to the Son: "Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of your kingdom."

The kingdom of Judah — just as Genesis says, he loved righteousness and hated lawlessness. What does lawlessness mean? Torah-lessness. If "law" is the translation of Torah in English, then in your English Bible when you see "lawlessness," the text is telling you Torah-lessness. You cannot have it both ways: if law is Torah, then lawlessness is Torah-lessness. Therefore, God your God has anointed you with the oil of gladness more than your companions.

This leads us into the ceremony of taking the throne, found in Revelation 4:1–11. I encourage you to read that passage, and I will read it here as well:

*"After these things I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven. And the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, saying, 'Come up here, and I will show you things which must soon take place.' After this I was immediately in the Spirit, and behold, a throne set in heaven, and One sat on the throne. He who sat there was like a jasper and sardius stone in appearance, and there was a rainbow around the throne, in appearance like an emerald. Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and on the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, clothed in white robes; and they had crowns of gold on their heads. And from the throne proceeded lightnings, thunderings, and voices. Seven lamps of fire were burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. Before the throne there was a sea of glass, like crystal. And in the midst of the throne, and around the throne, were four living creatures full of eyes. The first living creature was like a lion, the second like a calf, the third had a face like a man, and the fourth was like a flying eagle. The four living creatures, each having six wings, were full of eyes around and within. And they do not rest day or night, saying: 'Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!' Whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to Him who sits on the throne, who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders fall down before Him who sits on the throne and worship Him who lives forever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying: 'You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and by Your will they exist and were created.'"*

This is a remarkable passage. It describes what will occur on the Feast of Trumpets — the ceremony of taking the throne, as recorded in Revelation 4:1–11.

Then comes the acclamation — the people's pledge of allegiance — found in Psalm 47. I personally believe we will be singing this Psalm as He is crowned:

*"Oh, clap your hands, all you peoples! Shout to God with the voice of triumph! For the Lord Most High is awesome; He is a great King over all the earth. He will subdue the peoples under us, and the nations under our feet. He will choose our inheritance for us, the excellence of Jacob whom He loves. God has gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet. Sing praises to God, sing praises! Sing praises to our King, sing praises! For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with understanding. God reigns over the nations; God sits on His holy throne. The princes of the people have gathered together, the people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; He is greatly exalted."*

That is what it is all about. The King is returning on the Feast of Trumpets — on Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the Day of the Lord, the beginning of a new seven-year cycle. It will be a beautiful thing. And it all begins with understanding God's calendar: understanding His feast days, and understanding that both the calendar and the feasts align together as divine appointments — for His believers to worship Him, and for our understanding of when He will return. He returns on His divine appointments, and it is all laid out in the Scriptures for us.

I know this has been a long session tonight. We had to go through the new moon, Rosh Hashanah, the Feast of Trumpets, and all of the beautiful things contained in them. I hope this has been encouraging and informative. There is a great deal of information, but the only way through it is to press in and get through it together. The more we come around to these things year after year, the more familiar and even routine they become. If this is your first time — welcome. This is an amazing event; this is the Lord's divine appointment. If you have been with us before and have observed the feast days, then you know what I am talking about. We add layers year upon year. It took me years to understand some of these things, so I want to encourage you: it is okay to work your way through this. We were not taught these things growing up. If you are a Gentile believer, you will almost certainly not have heard about the Feast of Trumpets in church, because most assume it is "Jewish" — when in fact it is about God, and about Yeshua, more than anything else.

Understanding the time of our visitation is paramount. From one believer to another, please dive into these things — on your own, with the Lord, and with the Scriptures. Understand the calendar. These things are so important, so that we are not found unaware, as the Jewish people were when the Messiah came and said what He did in Luke 19:41–44.

Thank you all very much. I know it has been nearly three hours, but there are still people online and I will go through some of the comments for those who want to stay with us.

Happy Feast of Trumpets to you. Happy Rosh Hashanah. Happy New Moon. Dive into the beautiful anointing of the month that we discovered at the beginning of this video. Pray into these scriptures about the Feast of Trumpets and settle in with the Lord on His divine appointments. We have entered a beautiful season: Trumpets now, then ten days later Yom Kippur — the Day of Atonement — and five days after that, the Feast of Tabernacles for eight days. The next twenty-one days are going to be very, very incredible for all of us. Let us all pray into those and receive the revelation God has for us.

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Looking through the comments now — thank you to everyone who has joined us tonight from New York, the Philippines, Canada, Hong Kong, and so many other places. It is amazing what the internet makes possible. So much of it is harmful, but we can also use it for God's glory, and it is a blessing to be gathered together in one accord through the Holy Spirit. Whether through phones or any other means, where two or more are gathered, He is there among us.

Bill quoted the scripture about the sword — that Yeshua did not come to bring peace but a sword, to separate and set apart, to divide the sheep from the goats. That is exactly right. And Manasseh's prayer, which we will go through next month as well, is a beautiful one.

Mike Robinson wrote that he would like to live in Israel one day. My friend, you will live in Israel one day — in the Millennial Kingdom, we will all be there. Sooner rather than later, amen.

Someone asked whether I think the Rapture is soon. I personally believe the Rapture and Resurrection will occur on the last day — the transition from the Antichrist's reign to Messiah's reign, the Day of the Lord. I place the Feast of Trumpets at the end of the seven years, when Messiah returns, as Matthew 24 suggests.

Regarding the broader debate — whether pre-tribulation, mid-tribulation, or post-tribulation — I usually tell people that I am "pan-trib," meaning it will all pan out according to God's plan. As long as you are in the Lord, watching, and keeping track of these things as He commands, you will not be caught like a thief in the night.

That said, there is a responsibility here. If you hold a pre-tribulation view, I would encourage you to ask yourself: if I am wrong, am I prepared — spiritually, emotionally, perhaps physically — to endure the worst time in human history? The concern with an exclusively pre-trib mindset is that it can lead believers to disengage from biblical prophecy, from Israel, and from the larger story of what God is doing — focused only on personal escape. The Berean responsibility is not to be dogmatic on any one position, but to remain watchful and prepared.

Amy wrote that she had a conversation with friends about the prophetic significance of the feasts for new believers — that is exactly how it works. We fan the flame wherever we are. The Great Commission says to baptize, yes, but also to teach all things and to observe them — and that certainly includes His divine appointments.

To the viewer from Hong Kong — welcome to the channel. Happy Feast of Trumpets to you and your family. China has one of the largest underground churches in the world, and there is a remarkable revival happening there right now, as well as throughout the Middle East. We must keep the persecuted church in prayer. Those believers live under genuine tribulation because of persecution, in ways that those of us in America, who worship freely, do not.

Grammy wrote: "May I keep my lamb for a pet?" Yes, you may — just do not sacrifice your own Passover lamb. I am only joking, of course.

And Loretta writes about these things becoming a burden. The Apostle John tells us that we love Him and we keep His commandments, and they are not burdensome. These things are not a burden — they are a gift.

These are beautiful, exciting things to look forward to — the Sabbath, the New Moon Festival, the feast days. We do need to be careful with oral traditions. They are beautiful traditions and it's fine to observe them, but don't let them become a burden. Follow the commandment in the Holy Bible. It will tell you exactly how to stay in covenant by celebrating Passover, by celebrating the Feast of Trumpets, by celebrating Yom Kippur. Follow the commandment as written.

For the Feast of Trumpets, it is a Sabbath rest — a rehearsal, a blowing of trumpets, a dress rehearsal to spend with the Lord. We do not have to offer something by fire; that is for the high priest to do, and we don't have a high priest here to do that. So tithe, do whatever the Lord leads you to do, but stay within the commandment in Leviticus 23.

Regarding the Book of Revelation — it is a tough book. But I want to encourage you: the more we read it, the more it makes sense, just as with the biblical prophets. John has a second witness to everything contained within it. If we can identify those witnesses — whether it's the Book of Daniel, or the Book of Leviticus chapter 16 with the incense and the prayers — he is correlating all of those things as another witness. It connects to the Day of Atonement, to all of these things. Eventually we will do a dedicated study on the Book of Revelation, but the great tie-ins with the Torah and the prophets, which serve as a second witness to what John saw, are remarkable.

We are entering some amazing times. I cannot overstate it — the beginning of a new year, the beginning of a new month on the holy days, the beginning of a new shemitah cycle. A lot of beautiful things are prophetically converging right now. I believe these next seven years are going to be totally amazing, and we will all witness the things that are going to occur according to the biblical prophets.

We need to keep Israel in prayer. Scripture tells us to mourn with those who mourn and rejoice with those who rejoice. The Psalms tell us to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. So we need to be praying for Jerusalem, for the Jewish people, for the Muslim people, and for all people to come to salvation, because the time is drawing near.

Regarding whether we can know the timing of the Lord's return — I totally disagree with the view that only God knows and therefore no one can. When Yeshua said "only the Father knows," He was speaking from a Jewish wedding tradition, where the father arranges the wedding and the father is in control, and the father declares the decree. He was telling us the Father is in control of the timing. But He will return on His divine appointments — on the fall feast days: Trumpets, Yom Kippur, the Feast of Tabernacles. That is scriptural. The Rapture is not going to occur on just any random day. The tribulation is not going to begin on just any random day. He is not going to leave us as orphans; He is going to give us the wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of the time of our visitation, just as He warned the Jewish people. I would encourage anyone to read Luke 19:41–44, where He pronounces judgment upon Israel because they did not understand the time of their visitation — those are His exact words. He will return on His divine appointments. That is biblical.

Yes, God's voice is the sound of a trumpet. We read that tonight in Thessalonians and in the Psalms as well — that His voice is the voice of a trumpet, and of the archangel.

Messiah Yeshua, Jesus, was one hundred percent Jewish. It is remarkable that we even have to say this today, but yes — He was. That is why Matthew the Apostle opened his Gospel with "seed of David, seed of Abraham." David was from the tribe of Judah — Judah, Jewish. Daniel, Jewett — these are Jewish people. The New Testament is written by Jewish people. What people don't always realize is that the New Testament is fundamentally for the Jewish people, and we Gentiles are grafted in, just as Paul says in Romans 1:16 — "to the Jew first, and then to the Gentile." Messiah Yeshua will return as a one hundred percent Jewish King who will rule the world from David's everlasting Jewish throne.

Regarding the greater Exodus — yes, there is going to be one. Exodus records six hundred thousand men who left Egypt, not including the women and children. Today there are roughly fifteen to sixteen million Jewish people in the world. Jeremiah 23 says that no longer will the Lord be called the God who brought them out of Egypt, but the God who brought them out from the north and from all surrounding areas. That is what I mean by a greater Exodus — more people exiting the nations to return home to Israel. And you are seeing it happen in front of your eyes right now. For the first time ever, there are more Jewish people living in the nation of Israel than in America. That just happened in the last couple of years. That is prophecy being fulfilled — the return of the Jewish people to the land is one of the signs of the end of the age. Jeremiah 16 goes through this as well with the prophecy of the fishermen and the hunters, and we saw it occurring especially during the shemitah year of 2014–2015. You can read both Jeremiah 16 and Jeremiah 23 for yourself.

Regarding Russia firing a nuclear weapon — that is very significant in our world, of course, involving human life and serious consequences. However, Russia is not in the Holy Bible prophetically. The bear in the Book of Daniel is Iran, not Russia. It is the second kingdom after Babylon — Babylon is the lion, and Iran is the kingdom that follows in sequence. All the countries referenced in Ezekiel 38 and 39, when you look at biblical atlases, are located in what is modern-day Turkey. We have to understand the correct nations as the prophets would have understood them from the Table of Nations in Genesis 9 and 10, and then plug those nations into the correct prophecies. What we are looking at is a Middle Eastern and North African conflict — a family affair between Isaac and Ishmael, Esau and Jacob, more broadly Judeo-Christian versus Islam, over the deed to the land of the Abrahamic Covenant. Russia having difficulty in its war with Ukraine is certainly not a sign of an army about to march through Europe to Jerusalem.

The trigger point of the seven-year tribulation period is the covenant made with Israel as described in Daniel 9:26–27. That covenant has not been made, so the seven years have not begun. That is the marker we are watching for. And I believe that in these next seven years, you are going to see some amazing things lining up with everything we have been discussing concerning the Lord's return.

In my opinion, the key scripture for understanding the Resurrection is Matthew 24. That is the chronological account of Messiah speaking about the Tribulation, the midpoint of the Tribulation with the abomination of desolation, and then his return at the sign of the Son of Man — the sun, the moon, and the gathering of his people. There is an order there. Anyone holding a pre-Tribulation view would have to reconcile Matthew 24, because most biblical scholars and prophecy teachers agree that it is a chronological account of Messiah's second coming, and it places his descent *immediately after* the Tribulation. I encourage you to read Matthew 24 and ask the Holy Spirit to lead you. If there are other scriptures that appear to contradict it, we must bring all of them into unity. I will eventually do a video that lays out every relevant scripture — including the ones pre-Trib teachers use — and lets us see together what the Lord is showing us.

To summarize where I stand: I absolutely believe in the Resurrection, and I believe it will fall on the Feast of Trumpets, just as the scriptures we have studied point so beautifully toward. I simply do not believe it will be pre-Tribulation, and that is my personal conviction based on the scriptures I read and the heart of God I see in the gospel. Consider the book of Acts — God did not remove Stephen from his situation. He did not remove Paul. He did not remove the disciples. We know what happened to each of them, and all of that occurred *after* the Resurrection. So if he did not spare them, why would we assume he will simply remove us and leave the nation of Israel to be slaughtered? To me, that is anti-gospel. I hold that conviction strongly, and I mean no offense to anyone.

I actually believe this could be the church's finest hour. Daniel 8 says that his people will do great exploits. Look also at Revelation 12 — the Antichrist goes after the offspring of the woman during the Tribulation, and that refers not only to Israel but to Gentile believers as well. There are many scriptures the pre-Trib position would need to reconcile in order to be airtight. Every scripture touching the Resurrection must be brought together and made to work as one. We must be Bereans. Some of what the Gentile church has inherited is simply not accurate according to the Bible — these are theories made by men that have spread rapidly. That is a conversation worth having, and it is not a judgment on anyone who holds a pre-Trib view. If it turns out to be pre-Trib, I will be ready on the Feast of Trumpets and say hallelujah. I simply hold a different reading of the scriptures, and I hope that difference does not divide us — because the Rapture should never divide the body of Christ.

The Rapture is, in my opinion, the most debated topic among believers in all of the Holy Bible. It has divided the body of Christ so deeply that I have hesitated to make a dedicated video on it. But let me say this: rather than being consumed with when we get out of here, let us focus on the Great Commission. Let us focus on the work God has called us to do on this earth until he does take us. Going around saying "I just can't wait to be raptured away" is irresponsible for a believer. Our posture should be: *I am ready to make disciples. I am ready to baptize people in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I am ready to spread the good news.* That is our blessed hope in action. Honestly, my own prayer right now is not "Lord, take me out" — it is "Please don't take me out yet, because this is an amazing time to be alive." I want to be part of whatever God is doing, even if that includes the Tribulation. Keep me in the game. Because that seven-year period will likely be the greatest harvest of souls the world has ever seen — greater than the first. Persecution brings salvation. People in China know this. People in the Middle East know this. Through persecution, people come to redemption. That is how it worked for me, a hard-headed person who needed to be leveled before coming to the Lord.

Now, when I speak of the "American Jesus" or the "Roman Jesus," here is what I mean. The Gentile church over time has clothed Yeshua — a Jewish man — in such a way that the Jewish people can no longer recognize him as their Messiah. That is not to say it is entirely our fault that they do not receive him; that is their choice. But Paul tells us to make the Jewish people jealous. We will never do that by celebrating man-made traditions. They cannot recognize their Jewish Messiah in Christmas or Easter. Those festivals are not biblical. From Constantine through the Roman Catholic church and on through modern non-denominational churches, the Gentile church has inherited traditions that are simply not in the scriptures. A Jesus has been presented who is not actually Messiah as the Bible reveals him.

The true Messiah is a Jewish man, a Jewish king, Torah observant, rooted in the feast days, the calendar, and the covenants. He said to the foolish virgins, "I never knew you" — and that is a sobering statement. So we must ask ourselves: who is Yeshua according to the Holy Bible, not according to any tradition or institution? He is a Jewish king. He will return as the King of Israel and reign on David's everlasting throne — from the millennial kingdom through eternity. The twelve gates of the New Jerusalem bear the names of the twelve tribes. The foundations carry the names of the apostles, every one of them Jewish. Gentile believers are going to be astonished at how Jewish the millennial kingdom is, because we are entering the Kingdom of Israel, exactly as Acts 1 describes.

We as Gentiles are born Gentile, but the moment we receive the blood of the Lamb, Ephesians 2 tells us we become part of the Commonwealth of Israel. We are part of the covenants. That is covenant theology. We went through this in a previous session, and it is essential for cutting through the confusion of a Roman or American presentation of Christ. He is the fulfillment of the Abrahamic, the Davidic, and the New Covenant. Everyone focuses on the New Covenant — rightly so, because it is the covenant of the blood of the Lamb that covers all of us — but it is an extension of the Abrahamic and Davidic Covenants. That is exactly why Matthew opens his gospel with "the son of David, the son of Abraham." He is telling you to go back to the covenants, because they have not yet been fully fulfilled.

Israel has not yet ruled over the full extent of the promised land given in the Abrahamic Covenant — but she will when Yeshua returns. No one has sat on David's everlasting throne; Solomon's throne was taken from his line. But when Jesus returns, he will sit on David's Jewish throne forever in Mount Zion and rule over the nations. That is what I mean when I speak of the Jewish Messiah versus the American or Roman one. We must put him back in his proper biblical context as a Jewish man and a Jewish king — the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, not of the tribe of America, not of the tribe of Rome.

Our calling as Gentile believers is to provoke the Jewish people to jealousy, as Paul instructs. You will not accomplish that through Easter or Christmas. Those dates are not in the Bible. The Feast of Trumpets is in the Bible — Tishri 1, today. Passover is in the Bible. First Fruits is in the Bible. Tabernacles is in the Bible. Easter is not. Good Friday is not. December 25th is not, and in fact Jeremiah 10 explicitly warns against bringing a decorated tree into your home. What has happened is called replacement theology — replacing God's appointed festivals with man-made traditions, and along with it, replacing Israel with the church, claiming that the church inherits all the promises while the Jewish people receive only curses. That is an abomination. It is demonic, because it calls God a liar — it says he will not keep his promises to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and David. God is a promise-keeper, and he will fulfill every one of those promises, which is exactly why replacement theology is not only false but anti-Semitic at its root.

I say all of this not to come against anyone, but because we must place Yeshua back in his rightful biblical context — as a Jewish man, a Jewish king, the King of Israel, the Redeemer of Israel, the Holy One of Israel, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah. That is just where I stand on it.

Happy Feast of Trumpets to everyone.

Regarding the question of whether saved believers remain Gentiles — according to the Apostle Paul in Ephesians 2, once you are saved by the blood of the Lamb, you are no longer a Gentile. You are brought into the Commonwealth of Israel. Read Ephesians 2:11–13, Romans 11, and Galatians 3. You are grafted in. We are one new body and one new man, all together in the Commonwealth of Israel — the Kingdom of Israel. The Jewish people are as well; Jew and Gentile grafted in together. The Old Testament gives us great prophetic pictures of Gentiles being included: Jacob's blessing when he crossed his hands in Genesis, and Ruth, who is a wonderful example of a Gentile crossing over to the God of Israel — leaving her Moabite gods behind and embracing the God of Israel. That is a great question and something we all need to understand. You do not want to stand before the Lord as a Gentile. You want to be in the Commonwealth of Israel, which belongs to Him, and the Jewish people are part of it as well.

Regarding tomorrow night's prayer, I was going to do it at 6 PM, but if you prefer 8 PM, let me know. We will get online and I will have a Zoom link so we can have more privacy from some of the trolls we have had lately.

On the question of God's wrath and the Rapture — I totally believe we are not destined for God's wrath. The difference of opinion concerns the distinction between the Antichrist's wrath and God's wrath. I believe we are not appointed to God's wrath, and in my studies I believe His wrath specifically refers to those final days of judgment, while the Antichrist's wrath spans three and a half years. But God knows best and we all simply have to trust Him and see. We need to live in what I call "pan-trib" — trust that it will all pan out — and continue doing our part in God's kingdom. The Rapture is our blessed hope and we look for it, but we cannot be so consumed with wanting to be raptured away that we neglect our responsibilities. We have a job to do in God's kingdom. As Linda Castro rightly said, the Great Commission and soul winning — that is our job. The Rapture will take care of itself. I promise you it will, and it will be on the Feast of Trumpets, because that is the feast associated with the day that no one knows. That is the feast it points to.

Regarding the Feast of Trumpets itself — it is plainly in scripture in Leviticus 23. It has different names: Rosh Hashanah simply means "the head of the civil year," and Yom Teruah is the Hebrew name. Just as Jesus is called by different names, the feast days are called by different names. That does not make them invalid or anti-gospel in any way. Read Leviticus 23. Read Genesis 1 regarding the calendar. These are divine appointments, and that is very important. They are in the Bible, and all the traditions I have mentioned — the priest, the thief in the night, no one knowing the day or the hour — you can confirm all of those online. This feast is certainly not pagan. It is a divine appointment of the Lord.

Now regarding what Paul meant when he said we are no longer under the curse of the Torah — this is an important distinction. We are saved by grace through faith; that is certain. But Jesus himself tells us that if we love Him, we keep His commandments. The New Testament had not yet been written when He said that, so He was pointing us back to the Hebrew scriptures, because those are His commandments. And in fact He added even more to the Torah in the New Testament, so those who want to be rid of the Torah need to ask the Messiah Himself in prayer why He added to it.

To directly answer the question: Paul says we are saved from the curse of the Torah. That does not mean we are saved from the Torah itself. The Torah teaches us how to be good believers — love your neighbor, love the Lord. These are beautiful things. We are saved from the curse of the Torah because when we fall short, when we miss the mark, we have grace. We have the blood of the Lamb. That is not a license to sin; it simply means that none of us can perfectly follow the Torah because we are all sinners. That is why the Lord sent His Son — to save us from our sins, because none of us are consistent enough on our own. Paul is saying you are saved from the curse, not saved from the Torah itself.

For further clarity, look at Romans 3:31. Paul poses the question himself: does our faith nullify the Torah? And he answers with an emphatic no — your faith establishes the Torah. He came to fulfill it, and he came to establish it on the earth. "Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven." He is telling us He wants our ways to mirror His ways in heaven, and that is the original revelation of the Torah.

We are saved from the curse of the Torah because we all fell short — and that is where grace comes in, where the blood of the Lamb covers us, corrects us, and calls us to do better. It all hinges on the two greatest commandments: love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself. Because the entire Torah hangs on those two commandments, if you truly love the Lord with everything in you and truly love your neighbor, you will not have idols, you will not break the Sabbath, you will not dishonor your parents, you will not murder, steal, covet, or bear false witness. You will keep the Ten Commandments. You will understand the feast days. You will follow the Torah as a guideline — as boundary lines for being good human beings and good believers.

The switch of mindset we need is simply this: the Torah is love, because that is exactly what Jesus said it was when He summarized it in those two great commandments. But mankind has proven over and over that he cannot obey the commandments and the ways of the Lord on his own. That does not make them obsolete — it means we all need a Redeemer. We need salvation through Yeshua HaMashiach, Jesus the Messiah.

Think of it this way: if you are a parent, what if your child disobeyed you constantly? Would you simply never correct them because you love them? No — the scriptures actually say that if you spare the rod you hate your child. A good father corrects and purifies out of love. In the same way, our Father in heaven cleanses and purifies us out of love, to bring us into His ways. His ways are not burdensome, as the Apostle John tells us. Messiah Himself says, "If you love Me, keep My commandments." Each person needs to ask himself — what are His commandments? He is the Word of God, from Genesis to Revelation. When He returns, He comes back with the Word of God written on His thigh.

You cannot set aside the Torah, and here is why: those who would do so must reconcile Isaiah 2 and Micah 4. If the Torah were truly invalid, why is He sending it out from Jerusalem during the Millennial Kingdom when He returns? Isaiah 2 and Micah 4 are clear on this. We must understand that if anyone thinks the Torah is done away with —

The Torah was not made invalid. Why would Yeshua send it out to the nations during the Millennial Kingdom? Because these are his ways — perfect ways for all of us to be good human beings. The Torah was crucified and resurrected with Yeshua the Messiah. He came to fulfill it and to establish it on this Earth, and when he returns at the second coming and reigns during the Millennium, he will send it out to the nations.

Consider Isaiah 2 and Deuteronomy 33. What does it say? He comes with a fiery Torah in his right hand. That is a Millennial Kingdom, second coming scripture. Those blessings from Deuteronomy 33 have not yet occurred — Moses never came from Sinai with ten thousand saints as the scripture describes. That will occur at the second coming. So the blessings Moses pronounced over the tribes in Deuteronomy 33 will be fulfilled at his second coming and Millennial reign, with a fiery Torah in his right hand.

Please review these scriptures and let the Holy Spirit lead you. The Holy Spirit is going to confirm the Torah. You cannot separate the Holy Spirit and Torah — they were given on the same day, though years apart. We are safe from the curse of the Torah, not from the Torah itself. How is anyone going to be judged without the Torah? There is no judgment without law, and if "law" is the translation of Torah, then go read Matthew 7, Matthew 24, and Matthew 25, where Yeshua says, "Get away from me, all you who practice lawlessness" — or Torah-lessness. That is critical to understand.

The Torah is freedom. It is liberty when you are under the blood of the Lamb. Yes, there are around 613 laws, but we must understand them both biblically and with common sense. The Torah is not telling you to go sacrifice animals in your backyard — only the high priest does that. No one on Earth today is keeping the Torah completely, because to do so you must have a temple, be in Israel, and have a high priest. Most of us do not live in Israel, we have no temple, and we have no literal high priest today — though we will, and he will perform all these things.

What we must grasp are the principles: the Ten Commandments, the feast days, understanding the covenants. If you are a judge, do not take a bribe. If you are a farmer, let your land rest every seventh year and feed the poor. These are great commandments. If someone wants to throw out the Torah entirely, then when someone steals from you, there should be no justice — there is no law. That makes no sense. The Torah is where justice is. That is where righteousness is found. If we eliminate it, we embrace lawlessness: theft, murder, adultery, idolatry. The Torah is a guide for living — for judges, farmers, priests, whoever you are. If a specific commandment does not apply to your role or station, it does not bind you. A non-priest does not need to sacrifice animals.

The Ten Commandments are beautiful. The feast days are beautiful. They are commandments, but they are wrapped in love. We keep them because we love him, not because we have to. We do not keep them to be saved — we keep them because we are saved. These are not bondage. When you live within them, covered by the blood of the Lamb, it is freedom and liberty. Without that covering, yes, the letter kills — but Paul must be read in context. He says your faith establishes the Torah in Romans 3:31. People must reconcile that with the other scriptures they selectively quote, or else heed Peter's warning: do not take Paul out of context for your own destruction. As Peter wrote, some of what Paul says is hard to understand, and people twist it — "The law is done away with, I've got Jesus, I can do whatever I want." That is not how it works.

Yeshua said, "If you love me, keep my commandments." That is Revelation 22, written after the crucifixion and resurrection. Revelation 22:14 says, "Blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter through the gates into the city." There is a contingency upon entering the New Jerusalem and inheriting the tree of life — it is dependent on keeping the commandments. That is the Apostle John writing in Revelation 22. These are scriptures. Read them for yourself.

This is not only for Jewish people. All of us are required to worship God, honor his divine appointments, and keep the Ten Commandments. People want to make it complicated because they do not like to obey. Mankind loves to worship itself — look at history, look at the man-made traditions that have infiltrated the church. Every other part of creation does exactly what the Lord has ordained: the sun, the moon, the stars, the birds, the trees. The only part of creation that disobeys is mankind — his greatest creation, and the one that lets him down the most.

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I want to express deep appreciation to everyone who has stayed with us through this long broadcast. Even where we disagree, we can all agree on this: Yeshua is King, he is the Messiah, and if you are saved by Jesus the Messiah, you are entering the Kingdom of Heaven — which is ultimately the Kingdom of Israel. We can agree to disagree on things we cannot reconcile, and that is okay. God knows best, and he will correct us all. We are here to edify one another, all trying to reach the same destination.

To Ashish in Nepal — good to see you, my friend; happy Feast of Trumpets to you and your family. To Mark C. — Shalom, my friend.

Regarding upcoming gatherings: we will be doing a prayer tomorrow night. It was scheduled at 6:00 PM, but I feel led to move it to 8:00 PM to keep it on the same time schedule as our other gatherings. I know some of you were ready for 6:00, and I apologize — but 8:00 will serve the West Coast better. If you cannot make it live, it will be on replay, and it is just the same either way. We will also do a prayer right before Yom Kippur, when the books are sealed — likely around October 3rd or 4th. Yom Kippur falls on the evening of October 4th through October 5th, so I will post the schedule on YouTube so everyone knows how to gather.

We are in an important transitional season. The Feast of Trumpets, Rosh Hashanah — it marks the beginning of a new month, the beginning of a biblical year on the civil calendar, and the beginning of a new seven-year cycle, looking ahead to the Jubilee year on Yom Kippur ten days from now. This is a wonderful time of transformation.

Let us focus less on the debates over the Rapture or the Torah and focus instead on the Lord and on this appointed time — the Feast of Trumpets. The books are open right now and will be sealed on Yom Kippur. The stories of Joseph, Nebuchadnezzar, and Belshazzar all point us to this season: when verdicts are decreed, delivered, and sealed. This is an important time to purify, to refine, to cleanse ourselves, to repent, and to seek favor with the Lord for the coming year — for ourselves, our families, and the body of Messiah.

Remember the Hebrew letter and the constellation of Libra — we are waiting for the scales to be balanced during this time. On October 3rd we will begin our devotional series on the Hebrew letter, which launches our purification journey leading into Yom Kippur. Then on Yom Kippur we close out the ten days. Five days later comes the Feast of Tabernacles — the honeymoon — eight days of rejoicing as we enter the new year. Trumpets calls us to repent. Yom Kippur calls us to be redeemed. And Tabernacles is when we rejoice together, filled with love and the grace, mercy, and lovingkindness of the Lord.

Maranatha — come, Lord, come. On the Feast of Trumpets, in some future year — on the last year of the tribulation — our Messiah will return. He will come with a sword, with a circle of fire, and there will be a ten-day war. We will go deeper into that when we reach Yom Kippur — Isaiah 63 and Revelation 19 as we trace those prophetic ten days from Trumpets to Yom Kippur.

Friends, I love you all. Feel free to email me with anything, including prayer requests. For those joining us tomorrow for the Courts of Heaven prayer, we will go through the document and the prayer itself, and when we reach the petitions I will allow approximately fifteen to twenty minutes for personal petition time.

For those of you petitioning your own cases, I will give you an example of how I approach it, though of course each of you will petition in your own way. I want to encourage you: whatever you may be praying about, find two or three scriptures in the Holy Bible to establish the matter in the courts of Heaven. Remember, by the mouth of two or three witnesses it will be established. Whatever topic you plan to bring before the Lord, have two or three scriptures to substantiate it in the courts of Heaven. I promise you, friends, it will move your prayer life — it has for me. This is not the only way to pray; I am simply sharing what I and those close to me have experienced. It is really just the Word of God organized in a courtroom manner, and it has deeply enriched my prayer life and the operation of spiritual gifts.

Tomorrow night at 8 PM we will be congregating again. If you would like to continue any conversation or have questions you would like answered privately, feel free to email me at [email protected]. I would love to network with you, connect on these topics, and explore ideas together. That invitation is open to everyone — prayer requests, testimonies, whatever is on your heart. I have already received a few testimonials and it is simply beautiful. The Lord is moving, the Holy Spirit is moving, and we are living in remarkable times. It is an honor, a privilege, and a blessing to be alive and to pursue these things with the Lord. This is intimacy with Him at its finest.

We will see you tomorrow night at 8 PM on YouTube, and all other broadcasts will follow the table of contents in the book. The dates on the left column are listed in order, and that schedule reflects when the live videos will take place.

Thank you all — it has been a long night, and I know it has been for everyone. Happy Feast of Trumpets. Rosh Hashanah. Yom Teruah. Whatever name you call it, blessings over every one of you.

To download the book, visit faithfulperformance.com. You can also email [email protected] and I will send it to you directly. It is a free book. Do not forget the music as well — many of the songs are already on YouTube, and we are finishing the mastering and mixing of the remaining tracks, which we hope to release around Yom Kippur. Those will be free as well. The songs span different styles — worship, jazz-influenced, Christian rock — but all carry spiritual lyrics and, I pray, genuine inspiration. They were created in collaboration with my good friend Taylor Strickland, who handles the vocals and musicianship. I write the lyrics and arrange the music, content to stay in the background, and I hope the songs truly bless you.

Have a wonderful night. May God bless you and keep you. May His face shine upon you and grant you His grace. May He lift up His countenance upon you and give you His everlasting shalom, forevermore.