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Scriptural significance
of blowing the Shofar!
 The ram's horn, the Shofar, is a reminder of Abraham's
sacrifice of Isaac and G-d's provision of a ram as a substitute. (Isaac:
who at Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) is the "Akedah" in the binding of Isaac story about
sub-situnary sacrifice!)
And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold
behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham
went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the
stead of his son. (Genesis 22:13)
Gather G-d's people
at Mt. Sinai.
(Exodus 9:16-17)
The time in the Scripture that the Shofar is used!
(Exodus 19:16- OJB;
SHEMOT 19:16)
And it came to pass on
the Yom HaShelishi when the boker was breaking, that there were
thundering's and lightning's, and a heavy cloud upon HaHar, and
the blast of the Shofar exceeding loud; so
that kol HaAm that was in the machaneh trembled with terror.
{Source:
THE ORTHODOX JEWISH BIBLE}
At the giving the two tablets of stones with the 10 Commandments
through Moses. The
Torah
was given to Israel with the sound of the Shofar from heaven.
(Exodus 19:19)
(Joshua 6:4-20) (Joel 2:1) (Jeremiah 4:19, 2; 6:1, 17) ...And when
the sound of the Shofar was moving
[closer], and grew louder and louder, Moshe spoke, and HaElohim answered
him in thunder.
{Source:
THE ORTHODOX JEWISH BIBLE}
The
Shofar was blown at the start of the year of Jubilee on Yom Teruah.
For announcing and ushering in the Sabbath and yearly festivals!
Then shalt thou cause the
Shofar to sound a broken blast on the tenth day of the seventh
month, in the Yom HaKippurim shall ye make the
Shofar sound
throughout all your land.
(Leviticus 25:9 OJB; VAYIKRA 25:9)
{Source:
THE ORTHODOX JEWISH BIBLE}
The
trumpet was blown to announce the beginning of the festivals.
Rejoice and
give thanks!
(Numbers 10:10; Nehemiah 12:35-38)
Also
in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the
beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the
[silver] trumpets
over your
burnt offerings, and over the
sacrifices of your
peace offerings; that
they may be to you for a memorial before your G-d: I am the L-rd your
G-d. (Numbers 10:10)
 And
YHWH
(יהוה)
'spoke' unto Mosheh {Moses}, saying: ...Also
in the day of your simcha {gladness},
and in your moadim {solemn
days},
and in the Rosh-Chodesh {beginnings
of your months},
ye shall sound a blast on the
tzotzerot* over your olot {burnt offerings},
and over the zevakhim {sacrifices}of
your shelamim; {peace offerings}that
they may be to you for a memorial reminder before
Eloheichem: I am Hashem Eloheichem.
{The G-D of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob; "I am Who I am"!}
(Numbers 10:10 OJB; BAMIDBAR
10:10)
{Source:
THE ORTHODOX JEWISH BIBLE}
{*"tzotzerot"
(trumpets) kesef
(silver); of a whole piece
shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the
assembly, and for the journeying of the camps.}
{Also:
http://www.messianic-torah-truth-seeker.org/Scriptures/Tenakh/Bamidbar/Bamidbar10.htm}
Silver Trumpets
speaks of Redemption.
Two Trumpets
speaks of the two witnesses!
How is it to be made?
Two Trumpets of Silver, of hammered work (Whole pierce) length 48 inches long!
To Call Together
(Numbers 10:3)
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To be used to call an assembly
together!
{The assembly of the uncompromising righteous saints!}
To establish the relatedness,
The oneness, of the fellowship together of Hashem's
people.
Having a unifying effect on our
fellow believers!
To strengthen relationships and consolidate fellowship!
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To be blow by Benai Aharon ha Kohenim -
(Numbers 10:8)
How is it blown?
According to
Jewish tradition, long blasts were used
to assemble the people to Moshe, to the
tent of meeting and for worship!
Short staccato blasts were used in battle
and to order the camps to move off.”
Be to you a chukkat Olam (everlasting
ordinances)
(Numbers 10:8)
To Order Movement
(Numbers 10:5)
used
for the ordering of the life!
Movement of Israel.
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Come next to the cloud of
Shekinah Glory which rested upon the
mishkan. worked together.
A pillar of cloud and fire provided guidance for
Hashem's people, Hashem go before us -
vs 34
To
have right relationship with Him,
Time for the people to move forward, time rise up and
time to return - vs 35-36
Sounded
to give direction to the march!
To move on to His eternal purpose for them in Moshiach
{Moses}, governs Hashem's people in relation to ultimate
fullness!
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To Call to War!
(Numbers 10:9)
To Express Praise!
(Numbers 10:10)
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To blow when times of rejoicing, such as the celebrate
the Moedim Feast of YHVH, beginning of the months and
sacrifices becoming a memorial!
Hashem will use the sound of a{silver}
trumpet
to gather His people for the
ultimate assembling together - the caught up of the Assemble, to
meet
Adonay {Adonai} in the air
(1 Thesalonika 4:16-18).
{The assembly of the uncompromising righteous saints!}
G-d Himself blows it!
"Then the
Lord will appear over them, and His arrow will go forth like lightning;
and the Lord G-d will blow the Shofar, and will march in the storm winds
of the south." (Zechariah 9:14)
They
took an oath before the L-rd…..with trumpets and rams’ horns. (2
Chronicles 15:14)
Priestly instrument of praise & worship!
"And the Levites stood with the musical instruments of David,
and the priests with the Shofars." (Chronicles 29:26)
A
call for worship "While the whole
assembly worshipped, the singers also sang and the
Shofars sounded; all
this continued until the burnt offering was finished." (2 Chronicles
29:28)
Gather
people to worship
"It will come about also in that day that a great
Shofar will be
blown; and those who were perishing and scattered will come and
worship
the Lord in the Holy mountain..." (Isaiah
27:13) (2 Chronicles 29:26-28) (Psalms 98:6; 150:3) (2
Samuel 6:15) (1 Chronicles 15:14)
Ushers in the presence of the L-rd
(1 Samuel 13:3)
The Shofar
is a reminder that G-d is sovereign. (Psalm
47:5)
The Shofar
was blown to celebrate the new moon each month. (Psalm
81:1-3)
The
Shofar will be blown at the time of the ingathering of the exiles
to Israel.
(Isaiah 27:13)
Warn of judgment
for sin. (Isaiah
58:1; Ezekiel 33:3-4)
The
blowing of the Shofar is a signal for the call to repentance!
(Isaiah
58:1, Hosea 8:1)
The
Shofar was used to accompany other musical instruments during temple
ceremonies in Jerusalem and in praise and worship. (Psalm
98:6, 150)
"Praise
Him with the Shofar sound; praise Him with harp and lyre."
(Psalm
150:3)
Making proclamation
(Leviticus 25:9 & 10)
David:
"With
Shofars and the sound of the horn
shout joyfully before the King,
the Lord." (Psalms 98:6)
David:
Announce the Ark of the Lord. "So David and all the house of Israel
were bringing up the ark of the L-rd with shouting and the sound of the
Shofar"
(2 Samuel 6:15)
A powerful catalyst to bring the glory of G-d!
"In unison when the
Shofarers and the
singers were to make themselves heard with one voice to praise and to
glorify the Lord, and when they lifted up their voice
accompanied by Shofars and cymbals and instruments of
music, and when they praised the Lord saying, 'He indeed is good for His
loving-kindness is everlasting,' then the house of the Lord, was filled
with a cloud..." (2 Chronicles 5:13)
Bring the
song of the L-rd. And
he set the Levites in the house of the L-rd with cymbals, with
psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and
of Gad the king's seer, and
Nathan the prophet:
for so was the commandment of the Lord by his
prophets.
And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests
with the trumpets. And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt
offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began,
the song
of the L-rd began also with the trumpets, and with the
instruments ordained by David king of Israel.
(2 Chronicles 29:25-27)
David:
Instrument used during
great celebration!
"And David and all Israel were celebrating before G-d with all
their might, even with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals,
and with Shofars." (1 Chronicles 13:8)
The
Shofar was used for the coronation of kings & announce
kings.
(I
Kings 1:34, 39; II Kings 11:12, 14)
(King Solomon)
The Shofar is blown to call the sacred assembly. (Numbers
10:3, Joel 2:15)
Essential in going to War! Sounds the alarm for war!
The
Shofars were blown as
a warning.
(Ezekiel
33:3-6) (Isaiah 18:3)
(1 Kings 1:34) (Numbers 10:9) (Judges 7:22)"And when
you go to war in your land against the adversary who attacks you, then you
shall sound an alarm with the Shofars, that you may be remembered before
the L-rd your G-d, and be saved from your enemies."
(Numbers 10:9)
Joshua:
To be
blown constantly in battle;
Israel conquered in the battle of Jericho with the
blast of the Shofar
"And it was so, that when
Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven
Shofars of
rams' horns before the Lord went forward and blew the
Shofars; and the ark
of the covenant of the L-rd followed them. And the armed men went before
the priests who blew the Shofars, and the rear guard came after the ark,
while they continued to blow the Shofars."
(Joshua 6:8-9)
Gideon and his army confused and scattered the enemy with the
shofar. (Joshua 7:15-22)
Overcome
the enemy.
(Amos
2:2; Judges 7:19)
Halt fighting.
(II Samuel
2:28)
Declare Victory in
War.
(I
Samuel 13:3)
Symbolizing freedom and liberty
(Exodus
19:16 & 19; 20:18)
Gideon:
Corporate blowing is powerful!
"So
the 300 men took the people's provisions and their
Shofars into their
hands. And Gideon sent all the other men of Israel, each to his tent, but
retained the 300 men; and the camp of Midian was below him in the
valley"! (Judges 7:8)
Gideon; victory over
the enemy:
When I blow with a
Shofar, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the shofars also on
every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the L-rd, and of
Gideon. So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the
outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had
but newly set the watch: and they blew the
Shofars, and brake the
pitchers that were in their hands. And the three companies blew
the
Shofars, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left
hands, and the Shofars in their right hands to blow withal: and
they cried, The sword of the L-rd, and of Gideon. And they stood every
man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried,
and fled. And the three hundred blew
the Shofars, and the
Lord set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the
host: and the host fled to Beth-shittah in Zererath, and to the border
of Abel-meholah, unto Tabbath And the men of Israel gathered themselves
together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and
pursued after the Midianites. (Judges 7:18-23)
Gideon: To induce fear & confusion in the
enemy!
"And when they blew 300 Shofars, the Lord set
the sword of one against another even throughout the whole army
& the army fled.." (Judges 7:20)
The Shofar was blown to signal the assembly of the Israelites during
war. (Judges 3:27, 6:34, II Samuel 20:1, Jeremiah 4:19, 51:27, Nehemiah 4:20,
Amos 3:6)
Seven Shofars were blown before the ark of G-d.
(1 Chronicles 15:24, 2 Samuel
6:15)
The Messiah:
Heralds the Day of the Lord!
(Zachariah
9:14-16)
"Blow a
Shofar in Zion, And sound an alarm on My
Holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the
day of the L-rd is coming; surely it is near."
(Joel 2:1)
The Messiah:
A Shofar will announce the 2nd Coming of
the Messiah!
Israel will
be advised of the advent of
the Messiah
with the sound of the
Shofar.
(Zechariah 9:14, 16)
"For the L-rd Himself will descend from heaven with a
shout, with the voice of the archangel, with the
Shofars of G-d and the
dead in {Yeshua} Christ shall rise “ (1 Thessalonians 4:16)
The Messiah:
A Shofar will be blown before the dead
rise!
"in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye,
at the last Shofars; for the
Shofars will sound, and the dead
will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed."
(1 Corinthians 15:52)
Gives commands to angelic hosts!
"And He will send forth His angels with a great
Shofar and they will
gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to
the other." (Matthew 24:31)
The Shofar (trumpet) is the sound of G-d’s voice! (Revelation
1:10)
John was taken up to Heaven in the Book of Revelation by the sound
of the Shofar.
(Revelation 4:1)
Seven (trumpets)
Shofars are sounded when G-d judges the earth during the
tribulation.
(Revelation 8-9)
Seven
Shofars were blown before the ark of G-d.
(1 Chronicles 15:24, 2 Samuel
6:15)
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