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DPI #35 Yom Teruah "Day of Blowing" aka Feast of Trumpets
Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 02:08:44
Publish Date: 2009-09-13 16:59:20
Description: Matthew 24:36-37 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Many of us have read the famous quote of our Messiah in the four gospels when he declared that his second coming would come at a time "that no man knows." But how many of us knew that he was actually making a reference to the Feast of Trumpets? The Feast of Trumpets is known by Jews as "The Day That No Man Knows." And why is it called this? Because it is the feast that can only be determined by the sighting of the new moon, and so "no man" can calculate the exact day or hour of when this feast day will begin. In ancient Jerusalem, two witnesses were to stand on the walls of Jerusalem and "watch" for the first sighting of the new moon. When the Father in heaven decided to allow the new moon to appear in the sky, then the "two witnesses" would sound the shofar (trumpet) and all the people in the city would immediately drop what they were doing, and they would run to the temple for the celebration of the Day of Blowing (in Hebrew Yom Teruah). The temple doors were only open for a short period of time, and if they failed to make it to the temple before the doors were shut, those who were slack in running to the temple were left out of the feast because the "doors were shut" and once they were shut, no man could get in. Because this feast was to begin at sundown, they had to make sure that their oil lamps were filled so that they could find their way in the dark towards the temple. In those days, there were no street lights, and so they had to carry their oil lamps to help them find their way. In Matthew 25, Yeshua gave us a parable of ten virgins. Only five of the virgins were wise and had their oil lamps filled when the bridegroom came. But the other five foolish virgins had not prepared themselves by filling their lamps with oil. When the "Day That No Man Knows" had arrived, the two witnesses sounded the "last trump" and the five wise virgins were ready to go into the marriage. But the foolish virgins had no oil in their lamps so that they could see their way around in the dark.
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