Yom Teruah is a God appointed holy day of shouting and trumpet blowing.

Most people call it the the Feast of Trumpets.

Yom Teruah comes to mind when we read these rapture verses:

It’s pretty clear now that Christ won’t be gathering His bride on a Yom Teruah. But, it’s been a high watch date every year. For more on that part of ‘the day no men knew’ discussion see the bottom of this post.

A Pretty Comprehensive Analysis of Yom Teruah:

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Yom Teruah, which was traditionally observed with 100 trumpet blows, with the first and last soundings being special long blows, had traditionally been called the, ‘the day that no man knows.’ It’s a Hebrew idiom:

https://isaiahsixtyoneseven.blogspot.com/2020/09/feast-of-trumpets-day-that-no-man-knows.html . . .

It was the only Torah appointed-day that began exactly when the ‘new moon’ was sighted by two eye witnesses from Jerusalem.

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It can be difficult to determine the first sliver of the month when the sky isn’t clear.

Some months have two invisible moons in a row, and also in certain months, the first sliver’s very thin. The first sliver is also challenging to see because it appears low on the horizon. Modern astronomers call the unseen moon a ‘new moon,’ but for the Israelites, the first sliver was the new moon. It wouldn’t have been very festive to sight an invisible moon!

Contrary to what some Bible expositors believe, there’s no mention of equinoxes in the Torah. God’s Torah calendar used a different way to prevent the first month, Nisan, from slipping into Winter, over time. They added an intercalary month called ‘Adar II’ in the years when Spring hadn’t yet sprung and barley heads hadn’t turned green at ‘Winter’s end’.

That was how it was supposed to be, but the Israelites greatly corrupted the calendar God’s gave them, by changing their New Year to the Fall.

Today, Yom Teruah is called Rosh Hashanah, which means ‘head-of-the-year,’ But God’s head of the year is the first day of Spring.

God’s ‘head-of-the-year’ was meant to bring forth memories of when God gave Moses His calendar and first set of instructions for Passover and the Exodus. And it was supposed to turn their focus toward getting ready for Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread and First Fruits, their Spring holy convocations with God, in the temple.

The meaning of Yom Teruah has been mysterious; and even that was lost on them over the centuries as it became a silly confetti throwing, noisy, meaningless secular event, even a parade of rebellion. But, the barley ripening method of determining when Spring began, continued to be used to readjust the moon cycles with the sun cycles.

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The determination of the exact day upon which their corrupted Yom Teruah was observed, on their corrupted calendar, was delegated to a civil authority’s discretion. Such may’ve been acceptable on rare conditions such as war or intolerable weather, but they lost the accurate meaning of the naked eye moon sightings when they habitually adjusted it for their own convenience or as an excuse to add an extra day between the end of the previous civil year, for reasons such as an out of sync, unnecessary fine tuning of the time differences between the lunar and solar cycles.

As mentioned above, the Winter’s end leap-months were an attribute of God’s Torah calendar that they maintained, because the scribes and priesthood continued to struggle to keep track of the Torah calendar, until the 2nd temple was destroyed; But it was difficult, partly because their population was doing their own thing, celebrating Rosh Hashanah in the Fall! Even the priesthood eventually became Hellenized: But, when Jesus Christ walked the streets of Jerusalem, leap months were still being used between Winter and Summer; It worked, because it’s an amazingly good calendar. Yet, all this must be why there’s no record of Jesus attending Rosh Hashanah in the Gospels. Sadly, most modern Jews won’t even know what you’re talking about if you mention the terms ‘Yom Teruah’ or ‘Feast of Trumpets’.

The Hebrew Calendar of the Second Temple Era https://biblearchaeology.org/abr-projects/the-daniel-9-24-27-project-2/5035-the-hebrew-calendar-of-the-secon

Fall Festivity

After God had the the 2nd temple destroyed, Yom Teruah/Feast of Trumpets, became nothing but a falsity, even with the spirit of celebration of rebellion, although trumpets are still blown.

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Yom Teruah, which means day of shouting and trumpet blowing was commanded by YHWH in Leviticus 23:24 and Numbers 29:1:

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It was commanded to be observed by Hebrew Israel as one holy day. And it’s the only holy convocation for which God gave no clear reason for its observance. That’s part of what makes it so mysterious! I believe it was always foreshadowing the urgent warnings that will take place in and around the final years of the Daniel 9 prophesies. The fact that it precedes the ten solemn days of repentance leading up to the Day of Atonement gives us an ominous clue that that Yom Teruah will be used as harbinger in the end times to alert us that the Time of Jacob’s Trouble is drawing near.

It’s become well known that it was also a common phrase among the participants of Yom Teruah to utter ‘no one knows the hour’ regarding when the last trumpet will be blown. That was part of the intrigue as the festival approached the dark night.

Solemnity

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Trumpets as Mysterious Harbingers

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According to the Gregorian calendar, yet still based on the imperfect Rabbinical Hebrew Calendar, the date/time for the conclusion of the observation of the Feast of Trumpets 2023 was Sept. 17, the second day of the Rabbinical calendar new year. And something very notable occurred that I call Jesus’s Midnight Portent, a foreshadowing of His Midnight Cry.

The trumpets were blown the day before the UN SDG 2030 Agenda Summit began and the next day, the major agreement was ratified. see

3. Midnight Cry Portent 

https://alephtav.blog/2024/08/30/3-the-cry/

On October 7, 2023, 21 days after those trumpets were blown, and 19 days after the SDG 2030 Agenda was ratified, Hamas brutally attacked Israel at the Nova concert.

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Regarding the Sept. 17, 2023 date I gave above for the Midnight Portent, I said it happened on the ‘conclusion of’ Yom Teruah? Why? Wasn’t it commanded by YHWH as one appointed day? Wasn’t the last trumpet of Yom Teruah supposed to be blown only on the first day of the month?

Ancient traditions developed, for Jews outside Israel, to extend nearly all Torah holy convocations by a day, because of great difficulty keeping track of a Jerusalem-centric lunar calendar from afar; They didn’t want to inadvertently miss the actual day that God commanded. That’s why our calendars for 2023 show both Sept. 16 and Sept. 17 as Feast of Trumpets/Rosh Hashanah. Also, no trumpets at all were blown on Sept. 16 that year because it fell on a weekly Sabbath.

Strangely not blowing trumpets when the Feast of Trumpets falls on a weekly Sabbath came to be the tradition, despite the fact that Feast of Trumpets itself is a High Sabbath, in which trumpet blowing was commanded!

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Although Hebrew days begin at sunset . . .

. . . when we refer to Hebrew days by the Gregorian calendar, we go by the date that corresponds to its ‘daylight portion’ otherwise it gets confusing. Example, when we refer to ‘Sept 16’ as the first day of the Hebrew month of Tishri, it’s understood that Tishri 1 actually began, not at midnight, but about six hours before that, at sunset (literally on Sept 15.)

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A very good thing is that at the time Jesus walked the Earth in the flesh, they still hadn’t considered the Metonic calendar to be completely reliable, and so they were continuing to add leap year months at the end of Winter when necessary. The information in the following link was very difficult to come by and may prove important for estimating the date upon which Christ was crucified:

The Hebrew Calendar of the Second Temple Era

https://biblearchaeology.org/abr-projects/the-daniel-9-24-27-project-2/5035-the-hebrew-calendar-of-the-secon

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Not until the fourth century did Rabbinical Judaism fully institute the Metonic calendar, which is bad. It corrupted the perfect fractal symmetry that God Almighty built His holy convocations upon. When they did it, Rabbinical authorities had to invent statutes to artificially constrain the days upon which the Feast of Trumpets could start, to Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays or Saturdays, in order to keep other high holy days of that month from falling on ‘undesirable’ days. This does not please God.

https://daily.jstor.org/how-does-the-jewish-calendar-work/

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The Rebirth of National Israel in 1948. . .

Regarding calendars, if that’s not enough, and there’s actually a lot more, including missing years on the Anno Mundi rabbinical calendar. One thing that really demonstrates the degradation of Torah holy convocation time keeping, is that since the Fig Tree Generation put forth its tender shoots and leaves, when the Nation of Israel was re-established in 1948, the Feast of Trumpets continues to be celebrated for two days, even IN ISRAEL!

1 Corinthians 15: 51-52, Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will 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 imperishable, and we will be changed.

Matthew 14:31, And He will send His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

Beyond Yom Teruah, shofars and trumpets were blown in ancient Israel to announce monthly new moons, festivals, coronations of kings, military mobilization, and battle signals. The trumpet was used to signal assembly to march the camps in the wilderness, as a memorial before God during sacrifices, and times of war.

Spillover of ‘the day no men knew’

https://alephtav.blog/unknownday/

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