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On Wednesday August 11th at sundown, (on the Aviv Barley Calendar) begins the forty days of fasting and repentance leading up to the "Day of Atonement" called Yom Kippur. The 5th Month of Av on the Hebrew Calendar is at a close, and we are entering into the month called "Elul" (the 6th month on the Hebrew Calendar) as we are awaiting the New Moon on Wednesday August 11th or Thursday August 12th. On the Rabbinical Calendar the first of Elul will begin two days earlier (Tuesday, August 10th). In ancient Hebrew culture, the month called "Elul" was a time of thirty days of trumpet warnings leading up to the 1st of Tishri (the Feast of Trumpets) as it is called "The Thirty Days of Elul" leading up to the "Feast of Trumpets" called Yom Teruah (Leviticus 23:24). For each of these 30 days there is a trumpet warning leading up to Yom Teruah. We must fast and pray for our nation! There are some serious judgments getting ready to happen to our nation and we must be willing to "humble ourselves and pray" for the sins of America and for Israel. Perhaps we may be forgiven on Yom Kippur as Messiah declares "the Acceptable Year of YHWH." Over the next 40 days leading up to Yom Kippur on the Biblical Aviv Calendar (September 19th), Yah is calling us to fast and pray for our nation! At the beginning of each month, (at the sighting of the New Moon called Rosh Chodesh/Head of the Month), a trumpet/shofar is sounded to usher in the New Month. But then on the 7th month (called Tishri), the 7th Trumpet is sounded, and this is how we know when the Day of our Redemption/Resurrection will be taking place! In Revelation 11:8, the "Two Witnesses" are "caught up" and taken up to God as "the seventh angel" in heaven sounds the trumpet/shofar! This can only mean one thing! The "Catching Away" of the Bride or what is commonly called "Rapture" is going to happen on the Yom Teruah or Day of Blowing. And this happens "after the 1,260 days" of the ministry of the Two Witnesses (immediately after the tribulation, Matthew 24:29-31) and you will note that this all occurs with a "great sound of a trumpet." Matthew 24:29-31 Immediately after the tribulation (1,260 days) of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. In 1st Corinthians 15:50-53 we are told that we are going to be "changed" by putting on incorruption "at the last trumpet" and this is none other than the "seventh trumpet" sounded in Revelation 11:8 as well as the "great sound of a trumpet" in Matthew 24:31 "immediately after the tribulation" (1,260 days)! |