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Appointments With God Discussions Trumpets

Hearing God’s trumpeted messages via Yom Teruah (Feast of Trumpets)

A dramatic 16:9 digital artwork in a layered paper-origami style illustrates the prophetic theme of Yom Teruah (Feast of Trumpets). The left side of the image is dark and stormy, with towering black clouds, lightning, and large crumbling stone idols breaking apart into fragments, symbolizing judgment and the fall of false worship. On the right, brilliant golden sunlight pours through a dramatic opening in the clouds, illuminating a majestic Jerusalem-like city with walls, towers, and a shining temple. An angelic figure in the upper-right corner blows a long silver trumpet toward the earth. In the foreground, crowds of paper-crafted worshippers raise their hands toward the radiant city, expressing hope, repentance, and celebration. A river winds through the landscape from the darkness into the light, visually connecting judgment with restoration. Large title text on the left reads: “Hearing God’s Trumpeted Messages via Yom Teruah (Feast of Trumpets).” The overall composition contrasts darkness and light, conveying a biblical message of tribulation, divine warning, and ultimate redemption.

The lesson of the Feast of Trumpets is a clarion call to Messiah Yeshua. We, as believers in Yeshua, are waiting to hear and respond to a certain trumpet sound, the last trumpet sound. That is what we wait for.

The Messiah says the last trumpet will be great, powerful sound. There is hope for us that we can rejoice that He is showing us and teaching us that He is the resurrection and the life. We live in the hope that He will restore Israel to her former glory and, according to the book of Acts, He will restore the Gentiles who have joined the House of Ya’akob (Jacob) too.

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Appointments With God Atonement Discussions Tabernacles The Eighth Day Trumpets

Seventh month of God’s calendar: Beginning of the end of the beginning of the end

Studies in Prophets and Writings

This is a 50,000-foot-high view of the fall “feasts to the LORD” (Lev. 23:2) — Yom Teruah (Trumpets, aka Rosh Hashanah), Yom haKippurim (Atonement) and Sukkot (Tabernacles). We’ll look at what they are and what meanings are stacked on top of each other as memorials of the actions of the Messiah past, present and future.

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Discussions Life With God

How do we make the God’s words honorable?

Sean Hilton

How are we living up to God’s instruction to make His words in the Bible “honorable”?

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Apostolic Writings Discussions

Matthew 26:1-16: Anointing of Yeshua for burial

Jeff

We pause before studying Yeshua’s Passover meal with the 12 to consider an account (Mt. 26:1–16; Mk. 14:1–11; Jn. 12:1–11; Lk. 7:36–50) so important that Yeshua said it must be recounted wherever the good news of the Kingdom of God and the role of God’s Mashiakh (Messiah) in healing the gulf between mankind and God is proclaimed.

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Discussions Prophets and Writings

Messianic prophecy in Elisha and four leper ‘saviors’ (2nd Kings 7)

Following on the message of 2nd Kings 6, with leaders of Israel who were supposed to be able to see God’s actions actually being “blind” to them, 2nd Kings 7 through the saving actions of four lepers — the rejected of society — also points us to the actions of Messiah Yeshua, Who was rejected by the people He came to save.

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Apostolic Writings Discussions Life With God

Luke 21:34-22:6: Guard your heart; It’s later than you think

The Spirit of God is our burglar alarm, our crash-detection system. We should be praying for the Spirit of God to show us where we are “asleep” or “drunk,” in other words, weakness. We live as people who are not afraid of death because we are “awake,” in a continual state of alertness.

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Discussions Torah

Leviticus 5: When you’re guilty and you know it, raise your offering

Richard Agee

Leviticus 5 sounds very similar to Leviticus 4 in a lot of ways. Both passages discuss unintentional violations of God’s commandments and sin offerings, but the “guilt offering” we’re looking at today is different.

When you pray to God earnestly, you feel relieved that you can release those things that only God can hear, release them to Him and find relief. We don’t approach our High Priest with animals. We are God’s Temple. When we come to God with our sins, the High Priest brings His sacrifice and our repentance to God and we received God’s forgiveness. Without God’s Spirit increasing in us, we will not grow.