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Gideon & his army blowing the shofars!
Shofar-Blowing
Throughout the United States!
2008 For
Shofars Online to Ron
Dear Friends of the Kingdom
and fellow shofar blowers,
Let God's will be established in the United
States! Let God's will be established in Israel! “Father, I pray that as
each of your people; lift their horns to their lips; that there will be released
from Heaven, a fresh anointing of Your Spirit; into the earth, that you would be
glorified in each one of us! We call for the Spirit of Elijah to rise up;
bringing the husbands and father's to return back to their homes and families,
that each household would become a house of prayer for the nations!”
After a series of events which led me to Jim Barbarossa, I write this letter to
you with great excitement and anticipation concerning the weeks and months to
come. My name is Ron Coffin, and God has divinely commissioned my wife, Karen
and myself, to establish
prophetic
worship and intercession inside the capitol
buildings of every state of our nation. We have been in Sacramento for over four
years, Salt Lake City over a year, we are working on Carson City, NV and expect
others to fall in place soon.
However, in the midst of our journey, God added to this mandate, and this is why
I have sent out a call to shofar blowers across our land.
In the year 2005, God opened the door for Karen and I to go to Jerusalem, the
Capitol City of Heaven and earth. We spent 21 days in Israel with God leading
every step of the way, opening one opportunity after another to lead God's
people to worship Him in so many strategic locations.
Then, the day before we left to return to the United States, God made very clear
to me I was to purchase a shofar and bring it back to America. I did so, and as
we returned, the very first place He had me blow it on American soil was on the
steps of the State Capitol in Providence, Rhode Island.
Since then, He had me blow the shofar in many locations across our nation. Then,
in January of 2007, God had Karen and I drive on Hwy "50" from Ocean City,
Maryland to Sacramento, California blowing the shofar throughout the journey,
declaring Jubilee and liberty throught out land and over the inhabitants of it.
Then He took us to Israel again!
After we reached California, we eventually headed back east and it was then that
God showed me to establish Men of God who would blow the shofar in every Capitol
City of America, Washington, DC and Jerusalem.
He showed me that He desired for His Presence, the Ruach or Breath of the Holy
Spirit, to be made manifest in our nation and in His Church once again, allowing
Him to have full reign in our land. As we drove across America, the Lord showed
us that He wanted to turn the hearts of the father's back to the children, later
revealing to us that this is why these shofar blowers are to be "men" of God.
We are to see as many of these put in position as possible before November of
2008, but especially, we are to fully establish the twelve states across Hwy 50
immediately. We now have Sacramento, California, Carson City, Nevada, Salt Lake
City, Utah, Denver, Colorado and Jerusalem.
Something I want to clarify here is that as we are focused on getting men in
each capitol city established, this is not to exclude those who live outside of
the capitol cities by any means. We must see an army of many arise in our land,
and we need as many as possible!
These
"Blast's" of the shofar are to take place every Friday simultaneously with
Jerusalem being blown at 6pm, just before Shabbat begins. LET GOD ARISE IN
JERUSALEM!!! Pray for those in authority over you, that things will go well with
you. Therefore, when the shofar is being sounded in Jerusalem at 6pm, it is
being sounded in California at 8am that morning, 10am Mountain Time, etc.
We are blowing twelve blasts, calling for the perfection of Government in our
land and in the land of Israel, unless the Holy Spirit leads differently on any
given Friday.
When God arises in His people, His enemies will flee. Let God arise in America,
and Let His enemies flee! Let God arise in Israel and let His enemies flee!
It takes approximately one minute to sound the shofar 12 times. We are calling
for as many as possible to pray in the Holy Spirit, each Friday during this
minute, while these men sound the Trumpets across the land.
There is so much I could add to this, but at this point, I am just to invite you
to join me in this Kingdom Endeavor. I would ask, in consideration to Brother
Jim, that instead of responding to his email address, you contact me directly at
ron@capitolprays.com. Once we have made contact, I will be able to share more.
I want to thank you so much for your faithfulness to the Father and for your
obedience in responding to His calling you unto Himself with the ministry of the
shofars.
The
Lord bless thee, and keep thee: The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and
be gracious unto thee: The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give
thee peace!
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A
Shofar-blow - A powerful catalyst to bring the glory of God!"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) ←Click
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Praiseye the Lord. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the
firmament of his power. Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him
according to his excellent greatness. Praise him with the sound of the
trumpet (Shofar!): praise him with the psaltery and harp. Praise him with the
timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the
Lord. (Psalm 150:1-6)
(See also the site of Percussions)
A
Shofar
an instrument made from the horn of a ram!
A
Shofar is an
instrument made from the horn of a ram or other kosher animal. It was
used in ancient Israel to announce the New Moon (Rosh
Chodesh) and call people together. It was also blown on
Rosh Hashanah, marking the beginning of the New Year, signifying
both need to wake up to the call to
repentance, and in connection with the portion read on the second
day of Rosh Hashanah, the Binding of Isaac (Genesis 22) in which
Abraham sacrifices a ram in place of his son,
Isaac.
(Source:
Jewish virtual Library)
The Shofar or ram's horn is mentioned over 100 times in the Scripture as either a ram’s horn or trumpet. The second most commonly used
horn is the Yemenite shofar taken from an African antelope called the
Kudu, taking the place of the silver trumpet.
The first time the shofar is mentioned is in Exodus 19:16-19
when the Israelites had gathered at Mt. Sinai. “The voice of the trumpet
(shofar) sounded exceeding loud” and “waxed louder and louder”.
According to the Torah in Exodus 20:18 the sound was so penetrating that the people could actually “see
the sounds”!
There is a great deal of
symbolism tied in with the legal requirements for what constitutes a
proper
Shofar.
The
Shofar of
Rosh Hashanah, whose purpose it is to rouse the Divine in the listener,
may not be constructed of an artificial instrument. It must be an
instrument in its
natural form and naturally hollow, through whom sound
is produced by human breath, which God breathes into human beings. This
pure, and natural sound, symbolizes the lives it calls Jews to lead.
What is more, the most desirable
Shofar is the
bent horn of a ram. The ram reminds one of Abraham's willing sacrifice
of that which was most precious to him. The curve in the horn mirrors
the contrition of the one who repents.
(Source: Jewish virtual Library)
(In the
Talmud, we read: Rabbi Abbahu said:)
Why do we sound the
Shofar?
Because the Holy One, blessed be God, said: Blow me a ram's horn that I
may remember to your credit the binding of Isaac, the son of Abraham,
and I shall account it to you as a binding of yourselves before Me.
The Torah tells us: And Abraham
( !picture!)
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)
The ram as an example of substitution! (Source: Jewish virtual
Library)
As the ram was an example of substitution
for Isaac, so Yeshua Messiah
became a substitute for all men, dying for them that they might go free
from eternal death in hell—if
they accept Him
as their sacrifice! The Old Testament animal sacrifices portrayed
the Messiah, the Christ;
paying the sin penalty
in our stead. That the experience of
Abraham with Isaac and the ram prefigured the work of
Yeshua Messiah
is clear from(Hebrews
11:17-19)
This teaches us that God showed the
patriarch Abraham the ram
tearing himself free from one thicket and becoming entangled in
another. God's declaration to Abraham: Thus are your
children destined to be caught in iniquities and entangled in
misfortunes, but in the end they will be redeemed by the horns of
a ram. Therefore the
prophet Zechariah said of the time
of redemption:
And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as
the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the Shofar, and shall go with
whirlwinds of the south. (Zechariah 9:14)
“The bend in the
Shofar
is supposed to represent how a human heart, in true repentance, bends
before the Lord. The ram's horn serves to remind the pious how Abraham,
offering his son Isaac in sacrifice, was reprieved when God decided that
Abraham could sacrifice a ram instead. Picture: Blowing the shofar
and two silver trumpets at:
Beit-Tehila
Shofar
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This will be a new dimension
to intercessory prayer and spiritual warfare! The Lord has revealed and
still is revealing today to our generation the spiritual dynamic and
tremendous power by using properly the Shofar (Ram’s Horn) as it was
used by the ancient Israelites!
Today, the
Shofar is
featured most prominently in the Rosh Hashanah morning services. It is
considered a commandment to hear the
Shofar blown.
The man who blows the
Shofar is
required to be of blameless character and conspicuous devotion; he must
blow blasts of different timbre, some deep, some high, some quavering!
From all of the truths that have been stolen by
the
enemy over the last 2000 years
the Lord now is
restoring our generation of His people! If the
enemy made a
point of taking it, then we can be sure there is power in it -
he doesn’t bother
with trivialities! We have in the
Shofar a powerful tool &
weapon for our worship and our spiritual warfare. In the
Scriptures, the blowing of the
Shofar was first heard
when God called Moses to the summit of Mt. Sinai to receive the tablets of
the Law. And, it will be sounded at the end of days to announce the Return of
the Messiah
and the Rapture of His
Bride. (1 Thessalonians 4:16 )
Scriptural
blowing of the Shofar
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The ram's horn, the shofar, is a reminder of Abraham's
sacrifice of Isaac and God's provision of a ram as a substitute. (Genesis 22:13)
(Isaac:
who at Yom Kippur is the "Akedah" in the binding of Isaac story about
substitutionary 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 God's people
at Mt. Sinai.
(Exodus 9:16-17) The time in the Scripture that the shofar is used! (Exodus 19:16)
And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were
thunders and lightning's, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the
voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in
the camp trembled. 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) 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! (Leviticus
25:9-10) 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 trumpets over your
burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that
they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the Lord your
God. (Numbers 10:10) God Himself blows it!"Then the
Lord will appear over them, and His arrow will go forth like lightning;
and the Lord God will blow the Shofar, and will march in the storm winds
of the south." (Zechariah 9:14) They
took an oath before the Lord…..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 Lord (1 Samuel 13:3)
The shofar
is a reminder that God 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 Lord with shouting and the sound of the
Shofar" (2 Samuel 6:15) A powerful catalyst to bring the glory of God!"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 Lord. And
he set the Levites in the house of the Lord 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 Lord 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 God 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 Lord your God, 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 Lord 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) Overcomethe 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 Lord, 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 Lord, 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 God.(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 Lord 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 Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a
shout, with the voice of the archangel, with the Shofars of God and the
dead in 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 God’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 God judges the earth during the
tribulation.
(Revelation 8-9) Seven
shofars were blown before the ark of God.(1 Chronicles 15:24, 2 Samuel
6:15)
This is also partly a gathering of
information from different Ministries. With thanks to:
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Dominick Zangla; A
ministry dedicated to sounding the clarion call of the shofar
to awaken the whole house of Israel out of its slumber, bringing them
back to the truth of the Lord’s Torah and his promised
Mashiach Yahshua. (Jesus Christ)
Providing God’s watchman with the ancient weapons of warfare, so that we
may destroy satan's influence
and bring in God’s glory to fill the whole earth through the voice of
the
shofar!
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Author: Dominick Zangla; Web-site's:
http://www.shofars.org/
http://www.aleftavjudaica.com/default.asp
* This part is
also with help of
www.out-of-zion.com
Messianic Jew David Silver; Haifa; Israel.
Opening the Gates
of Heaven!
Coming soon!
When real devoted
worship becomes reality!
Coming
soon!
The Shofar-sounds tuned in with the sounds of God's Shekinah presence!
We will blow the Shofar only for to release the heavenly sounds
from God's Shekinah presence!
Because the sound of music in any kind or form like the Shofar, were originally created as a powerful spiritual force
in the form of a sound of repentance; to come back and to
restore the worship of the Father around His Divine Throne and have the power to move men's
hearts. In this case to release a sound for worship, repentance, gathering
or open the gates of Heaven! Good sounds of the Shofar is a form of music-sounds
that only belongs to God! Depending on our personal motivation
to blow the Shofar in obedience to God will release the sounds that is
causing to move the very heart of God! Because it is being a well-pleasing
sound from His Throne of God Himself, it will also release His Shekinah
presence! By using it wrongly it will create pride & self-center attitude, which is evil or self idol worship! (Isaiah
1:10, 18)
It's is in God’s will to share with those people, with hearts of
devotion only for Him, who are prepared to handle responsibility over the
Shofar as a
powerful tool! Sounds in the form of music as the Shofar-blows are also a form of expression
and language, in the view of the Gospel, to reach, touch and bless
Christians or people who still live worldly! It causes them to repent of
their sins and will bring them to salvation, so that they become new born
Christians! We can choose to align our Shofar-sounds with the sounds of Heaven!
The blowing of the Shofar or more Shofars together
with their specific sounds are spiritual, and a powerful media for communication. The
Churches have to discern the voice and will of God and must learn to use
the blow of the Shofar in this form of communication skillfully!
There is
a place where Ever-changing Heavenly musical melodies in endless scales of
indescribable beauty are like a Spontaneous
Well
of Living Waters
gushing forth from
His Throne that will flow for your refreshment!
There are
just a few
people who impact the inner-most chamber of the heart of mankind, and they are
individuals who understand worship in a most intimate and
non-self-serving way!
The sounds that we produce
through the Shofar!
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Traditionally there are
certain patterns of sounds that are used in blowing the shofar. These
have been handed down through various sources in Judaism and vary
according to local customs and interpretations. Do not be bound by
these patterns as the only way to sound the shofar. Simply be aware of
them and use them if that is what the Ruach haKodesh (Holy
Spirit) leads
you to sound.
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1. The first sound
is called the Tekyiah (T’kiyah). It can consist of one note (or
blast) or it can be a low note near the fundamental tone of the horn
that raises quickly about 3 notes higher. Finally, it can even be
finished by a note that is a full octave higher.
Contrary to what is expected, it does not take a great deal of air to
blow a shofar. The secret is the vibration of the lips (a minimum of 16
vibrations per second) that creates the vibration of air in the horn.
The higher notes are obtained by tightening the lips.
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2. The second sound
is called the Shevarim (Sh’varim). It consists of three blasts
that are from the fundamental low to the next note up. Great playing
shofars are ones that will produce three notes with relative ease. Some
shofars (for various reasons) may produce only two notes and poor ones
only one note. Each horn will have its own “voice” and sound in many
keys. The texture of the finish, size, length and the diameter of the
mouthpiece opening will vary the sound of the horn.
It suggests saying: 'Sleeping ones! Awaken from your
sleep! Slumbering ones! Awaken from your slumber! Examine your deeds.
Remember your Creator and return to your God! "Repentance"! (See also
"Hidden Message")
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3. The third
sound is
called the Teruah (T’ruah, teruwah).
Acclamation of joy or a battle-cry; especially clangor of trumpets, as
an alarum: alarm, blowing of the trumpets; joy, jubilee, loud-noise,
rejoicing, shout (high, joyful) sounds! The same word is used for the
“Shout” that is made with the voice! It was the “shout” of the shofars
combined with the “shout” of the people that brought down the walls of
Jericho!
The Teruah as the “short blasts of alarm” is specified in (Numbers 10:9) And if ye
go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresses you, then ye
shall blow an alarm with the trumpets (Shofars); and ye shall be
remembered before the Lord your God, and ye shall be saved from your
enemies.
4.
(?)
There is another blast called the Tekyiah Gadollah (Great Tekyiah). Some
consider a fourth sound but it is simply a tekyiah held as long as
breath lasts or is appropriate. Some shofar blowers can hold a note
for over a minute!
There is a difference of opinion in the Talmud as to whether the Teruah
or the Shevarim was sounded in the Temple. As usual, the Rabbis
compromised and both were considered valid. On Rosh Hashanah the shofar
is sounded 100 times with all the traditional forms. This is done to
make sure that the shofar is blown often enough and with the proper
sounds to satisfy God! How easy to be caught up in legalisms! Be
sensitive to the inspiration of
the Ruach (Spirit)
and use the horn as you would use your voice as an instrument of praise! (Source:
Author: Dominick Zangla; http://www.shofars.org/)
*The Hidden Message
There is a hidden message we are supposed to infer by listening to the
shofar. It suggests saying: 'Sleeping ones! Awaken from your sleep!
Slumbering ones! Awaken from your slumber! Examine your deeds. Remember
your Creator and return to your God!
The call of the shofar is the call to teshuva. Teshuva, often poorly
translated as "repentance," literally means "return," and refers to
"returning" to the path of ethics and spirituality outlined in the
Torah. It isn't just proposing that the shofar beckons us to undertake
an external "returning". It is an "our returning" that leads us to
"remember our Creator!
Sometimes we can return and repent on particular wrongdoings and not
really get to the root of the problem. As long as we attend only the
symptoms but neglect the central cause, we will continually find
ourselves fixing secondary problems. The shofar reminds us to address
the core: to remember our Creator! Every failing is ultimately a
type of forgetting that we live in the presence of God. Doing “teshuva”
means getting to the root of the problem and deepening our awareness of
God.
Testimony from Israel...
The blow the Shofar for to release the
heavenly sounds; a powerful spiritual force from God's Shekinah presence! Because the sound of the Shofar
confused and scattered the enemy!
Gideonand his army confused and scattered the enemy with the
shofar.
(Joshua 7:15-22) This picture is a short testimony of what happen
on the Israeli/Lebanon - border 2006! (Source: Israel; lost info -
unknown) Still we like to give you this picture of what the sound of the
Shofar can perform!
Feast of Trumpets - Rosh haShanah
And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have
an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of
blowing the trumpets unto you. (Numbers 29:1) On the first day of the
seventh month you shall have a holy convocation—a day of blowing
of trumpets, in which no servile work shall be done.
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the
first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of
blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. (Leviticus 23:24) The
kind of trumpets and their use are referred to in (Numbers 10:1-10).
They were silver
and there were
two of
them.
The blowing was not throughout all Israel, but only over the sacrifices
at the tabernacle.
On Rosh haShanah, this was different. The shofar is the primary
trumpet!
According to
Leviticus 23:24
and
Numbers 29,
Rosh HaShanah is the day of the blowing of the trumpets. The
original name is Yom (Day) Teruah (The staccato sound of the horn, which
also means “Shout”). According to the Mishnah (Rosh
HaShanah 16a, 3:3), the trumpet used for this purpose is the ram's
horn, not trumpets made of metal as in Numbers 10.
On Rosh HaShanah, a Shofar delivers the first blast, a silver trumpet
the second, and then the shofar the third.
Today, since the temple does not exist, the use of the silver trumpet
is almost unknown. In its place, the Yemenite horn is used
in many congregations as a call to worship. The only evidence we
can present that God honors its use is that He visits us with His
presence when the Yemenite shofars are blown!
Practical information to maintain the Shofar!
Cleaning:
Run thru with hot water & brush
Soak with vinegar or
disinfectant
Run thru with lots of plain
water
When dry, soak with
scented oil
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Global Shofar Army
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Global Sounds of spiritual warfare!
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By Art Wolfenson
"I
have a section that is entitled, "Global Shofar Army". This is a
call to blow the Shofar 24hours a day, much like the intercessors and
worship teams are doing. Perhaps you will be more influential in getting
others to join with you...
The idea is
that the shofar is blown continually, so the author of confusion
will stay confused. Hence, all those people that serve him, from the
presidents of the nations to the senators, representatives, and so on
will know that they are no longer welcome on planet earth...either
repent or face the consequences! I am not the judge, but YAHWEH
(G-D) is...
It is time for "global Revival"!
I believe
the Shofar is Yahweh's voice! I believe He is waiting for a world
wide commitment, 24- hours a day, 7days a week! I believe that we are to
sound the alarm and pulverize the atmosphere with continual blowing. If
we don't heed to this call, many people will remain in a balance with
bondages, heartache, and sadness, and their only
hope is that somehow, death will change their situations!
The
Shofar is is a powerful weapon, more than we even can image. It will
scatter the Heavens. It will confuse the enemy!
It will be used when Messiah
come with the great Shofar sounds!
I believe that you and I can have a part
in the tearing down of wicked rulers
and visibly seeing the Messiah
in all of His Glory!
If you or a group want to
block out a certain amount of time to be used for intercession and
Shofar blowing, please let me know!
" Art Wolfenson
((770) 306-8623
As you pray
and seek intervention, petition Yahweh for the use of weapons that have
not been in our modern area, miracles from ancient times! If we don't sound the alarm,
with blowing the Shofar, who will?
Because the 'leaders' and the 'false priest' of certain Churches; the
money-hungry religious leaders on television are more into their own
thing; own agenda; own program, could it not be plausible that
men, women and children, armed with faith
in Yahweh and a pure heart, consecrated and holy, will go out to the
four corners of the Earth, with Shofars in their hands with a Divine
plan? The Earth will be shaken and the Religious
and Political walls that are false
will come down, and the Earth will be a dwelling place of G-D? The
Shofar is not only just an instrument, but a powerful weapon of war!
(Picture
↑:
Nehemiah 4:18, 20)
People in nowadays Churches are hungry
for victory, but it is in the most cases a victory of the
flesh and not from
diligently seeking after G-ds Face and following wholeheartedly after
Him. It is no wonder that in the Churches today, the people go through
their shortened of 'praise and worship' and the presence of G-d is not
in their midst?
The Shofar Man was birthed during a trip to Israel in 1996. This
occurred when Jim and Carla Barbarossa visited the Holy Land. While Jim
and Carla were shopping in the City of Jerusalem, Jim purchased a Giant
Yemenite Shofar to bring home. To Jim's surprise, G-d spoke to him to
blow the Shofar as He would lead him. In October 1996, Carla had a dream
that she was pregnant, and Jim was taking her to the hospital in a small
car. Jim reached under the seat and pulled out a Jumbo Yemenite Shofar
and said, "I will blow this during the birthing process”. During that
same month, Jim and Carla went to Africa with the Shofar in hand. Jim
blew the Shofar as G-d directed, and deliverances, healings, and
miracles followed.
Since then, Jim has been teaching nationally and internationally on
the Ancient Hebrew Instrument of Praise, Worship, and Warfare. During
these teachings, Jim was tagged with the nickname "The Shofar Man!"
Today, “The Shofar Man” is a retail and wholesale supplier of Yemenite a
Rams Horn Shofars, as well as Taleism (Prayer Shawls) and a full line of
Judaica products. All horns are imported directly from Israel, where
they are handcrafted to meet all Kosher standards. All Shofars have a
very distinct, clear, crisp sound. During January 2000, Jim wrote a
book about the Shofar. The following are a couple of scripture
references found in the book.
Jim & Carla Barbarossa are founders of
Step by Step Ministries. Since 1994, they have been proclaiming the
Gospel of Jesus Christ across the United States and around the world
through their weekly TV Program, Equipping The Saints Teaching Seminars,
Mission Trips and their newsletter "Equipping the Saints for the Work of
the Ministry". Jim has been blessed with a powerful testimony and he
loves to teach by example. Jim's desire is to help you find God's will
for your life, while at the same time perfecting you to do the work of
the Ministry.
"And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and
they shall be to you for an ordinance forever throughout your
generations. And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that
oppressed you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye
shall be remembered before the L-rd your G-d; and ye shall be saved from
your enemies." (Numbers 10:8-9)
"And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and
louder, Moses spoke, and G-d answered him by a voice." (Exodus 19:19)
Attention Shofar
Blowers! Blowing the Shofar around the world?
It
is our desire to have Shofar blowers in attendance from every nation on
earth. We know that some Shofar blowers would like to be with us but for
various reasons may not be able to come. For those that cannot come, we
invite you to join us at set times throughout the gathering in sending
forth a Shofar blast that will be heard around the world. If you
would like to join this worldwide sounding of the Shofars:
E-mail us your Name, Phone number jim@step-by-step.org
The Shofar Man's
The Most Effective, Proven Way to Teach Christians How to Share Their
Faith
The Most Effective, Proven Tools for Christians to Use to Reach the Lost
What is God Saying to the Church Today?
A clip of a recording of the
Shofar blowing is coming very soon on this site!
If we don't sound the alarm,
with blowing the Shofar, who
will? Mike will blow the Shofar for to release the
heavenly sounds from God's Shekinah presence! Because the sound of music
in any kind or form like the Shofar, were originally created as a
powerful spiritual force in the form of sound! Mike has a tremendous
anointed talent to blow the shofars and many other horns (Except of a
cow!) with such a power and a awesome voice. You will get trilled! I
personally, Paul van Beek, had experience this. I never heard the sound
of a Shofar so beautiful!
Very soon we will receive
from Mike's blowing his shofar at Christian Retreat! We will put this
awesome "voice of God" in audio. So you will be able to hear this from
this web-site very soon.
Paul is devoted to
release the prophetic message
of encouragement, repentance, and
Revival to the Churches, to the lost souls throughout numerous foreign
countries. As a recognized minister, with authority to preach the Gospel
of Messiah Yeshua, Jesus the
Christ, by churches
and also by the US-official authorities, he has established the
Ministry-base in the Lakeland-area; Florida; USA. It is his answer to
the call of God. (See also: His
personal testimony 1-2-3)
The
Lord bless thee, and keep thee: The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and
be gracious unto thee: The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give
thee peace!
(Numbers
6:24-26)
Testimony from Israel...
It
is our desire to have Shofar blowers in attendance from every nation on
earth. We know that some Shofar blowers would like to be with us but for
various reasons may not be able to come. For those that cannot come, we
invite you to join us at set times throughout the gathering in sending
forth a Shofar blast that will be heard around the world. If you
would like to join this worldwide sounding of the Shofars: 
Global
Shofar Army -
Art
Wolfenson!
A
Shofar is an
instrument made from the horn of a ram or other kosher animal. It was
used in ancient Israel to announce the New Moon (
natural form and naturally hollow, through whom sound
is produced by human breath, which God breathes into human beings. This
pure, and natural sound, symbolizes the lives it calls Jews to lead.
What is more, the most desirable
Shofar is the
bent horn of a ram. The ram reminds one of Abraham's willing sacrifice
of that which was most precious to him. The curve in the horn mirrors
the contrition of the one who repents.
(Source: Jewish virtual Library)
This
Ministry Teaching’s web site about "Shofars", with many of Biblical
references is
always freely available for everyone! It is written on “Neutral Site",
which you can link to your site as well! (Please, inform us?) As such, these
detailed teaching’s site’s cost a lot of precious time and financial
commitment for the author's* and the publisher as well! Every study, that
takes you only minutes to read, and few the pictures according the story,
takes many hours of work to write, to edit, to design, to format and
technically make available & maintain on the web server. That is the
simple reality of the situation!
The
Ministry of the Shofar
Jewish
Roots
The
Cry of the Watchman
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