By Maria Merola אריאל
© Copyright Double Portion Inheritance, September 2008
Mattithyahuw (Matthew) 24:36-37 But of that day and hour knows no man, no, not the malak (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 gospels when he declared that his second coming would be at a time that “no man knows.” Yet, how many of us knew that he was actually making a reference to “The Feast of Trumpets” when he spoke this Hebrew Idiom?
What is an idiom? An idiom is an expression that does not make sense in other languages, other than the one being spoken. Here is an example of an idiom in English: “Its raining cats and dogs outside!”
Everyone knows when this expression is being used, there are not actually cats and dogs falling out of the sky. It is an expression that means it is raining very heavily, and only those who speak English would understand this. However in any other language, it does not make sense. And such is the case with the Hebrew Idiom for the Feast of Trumpets.
The Feast of Trumpets was known by those in ancient Jerusalem as “The Day That No Man Knows.” And why was this feast nick-named by this Hebrew Idiom? It is because it is the only feast that is determined by the sighting of the new moon, therefore, “no man” can calculate the exact day, nor the hour of when it begins.
What is an idiom? An idiom is an expression that does not make sense in other languages, other than the one being spoken. Here is an example of an idiom in English: “Its raining cats and dogs outside!”
Everyone knows when this expression is being used, there are not actually cats and dogs falling out of the sky. It is an expression that means it is raining very heavily, and only those who speak English would understand this. However in any other language, it does not make sense. And such is the case with the Hebrew Idiom for the Feast of Trumpets.
The Feast of Trumpets was known by those in ancient Jerusalem as “The Day That No Man Knows.” And why was this feast nick-named by this Hebrew Idiom? It is because it is the only feast that is determined by the sighting of the new moon, therefore, “no man” can calculate the exact day, nor the hour of when it begins.
To find out more about the how to determine a biblical new moon, see the my other blog: What Constitutes a Biblical New Moon?
In ancient Jerusalem, there would be “two witnesses” who would stand on the walls of Jerusalem and “watch” for the first sliver (crescent) of the new moon. When the Father in heaven decided to allow the new moon to appear in the sky, then these “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 towards the temple for the celebration of “The Day of Blowing” or in Hebrew, “Yom Teruw’ah.”
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. Once the “doors were shut,” nobody 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, so they had to carry their oil lamps to help them find their way once it grew dark. In Matthew 25, our Messiah told us a parable about ten virgins. Only five of these virgins were wise and had their oil lamps filled when the bridegroom came. However, the five foolish virgins had not prepared themselves by filling their lamps with oil.
Many of these inhabitants of Jerusalem would be working in the fields or grinding at the mill (Matthew 24:40-42), and when they heard the sound of the shofar (trumpet) they knew that their work was finished.
Our Messiah was speaking in the language of Feast of Trumpets typology when he said that we must “Work while it is yet day, for the night comes when no man can work” (John 9:24). Those who were working in the fields had to run towards the temple before the doors were shut. The person who was alert and listening for the trumpet would be “taken” by the alarm; this was his signal to run towards the temple. However, those who were not alert and not watching, would not hear the sound of the trumpet, and they would be “left” in the field or grinding at the mill, unaware that the day had come. To read more about the concept of who is “taken” and who is “left” see my article entitled: “Remember Lot’s Wife: Taken or Left?”
Yahuwshuwa likened himself to “The thief in the night” who would come at an hour “That no man knows.” For these people who were not watching with their oil lamps filled, “sudden destruction” will come upon them as a woman in travail and it would be too late for them to escape the wrath of YaHuWaH (1st Thessalonians 5:3).
The Thief in the Night
In order to understand this metaphor, we must know historically where this term came from. In ancient Jerusalem, the High Priest in the temple (Kohen ha’Gadowl) would make his rounds each night to make sure that the other priests were doing their duty of keeping the fire burning on the brazen altar.
The commandment in the Towrah was to never allow this fire on the altar to go out (Leviticus 6:13).
If a priest was on duty to watch the fire by night, he was not allowed to fall asleep on the job. If he fell asleep, the fire would not stay stoked with wood, and it would go out, thereby bringing judgment on the entire nation of Yisra’el. The priests were also commanded not to have wine or strong drink while serving in the temple (Leviticus 10:9).
Alcohol in their blood stream would defile their worship and cause them to become drunk, lazy and sleepy. Because the Kohen ha’Gadowl (High Priest) came at an hour when they were least expecting him to show up, the priests began to nick-name him “The thief in the night.”
The priest who had fallen asleep would be suddenly awakened by the smell of hot burning coals and his garment on fire. He would immediately strip off his clothes as fast as he could in order to prevent from being burned. At the end of his shift, the other priests would see him naked without his garment, and he would be ashamed. This is because all the other priests would know that he was caught falling asleep on the job.
Yahuwshuwa is our High Priest after the order of Melchizedek (Hebrews 7:17-21) and his true followers are his royal priesthood (1st Peter 2:9). We are admonished not to be like those priests who fell asleep on the job. We are given a command to watch, and keep our garments so that we will not be ashamed when our Messiah returns. Now we can better understand his warning to us in the book of Revelation:
Chazown (Revelation) 16:15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
In his letter to the Renewed Covenant believers in Messiah, the Apostle Sha’uwl (Paul) wrote to them: “You have no need that I write to you concerning the times and the seasons” (1st Thessalonians 5:1).
What did he mean by this statement? In order to understand what Sha’uwl (Paul) was saying here, we must understand that the Hebrew word for “times and seasons” is “mowediym.” The word
What did he mean by this statement? In order to understand what Sha’uwl (Paul) was saying here, we must understand that the Hebrew word for “times and seasons” is “mowediym.” The word
#4150 mow’ed mo-ade’ or moled {mo-ad’}; or (feminine) moweadah (2nd Chronicles 8:13) {mo-aw-daw’}; from 3259; properly, an appointment, i.e. a fixed time or season; specifically, a festival; conventionally a year; by implication, an assembly (as convened for a definite purpose); technically the congregation; by extension, the place of meeting; also a signal (as appointed beforehand):--appointed (sign, time), (place of, solemn) assembly, congregation, (set, solemn) feast, (appointed, due) season, solemn(-ity), synogogue, (set) time (appointed).
Why did Sha’uwl (Paul) have no need to write to them about these things? Because they were all keeping the “Sabbaths” and Feast Days of YaHuWaH!
1st Tas’loniqiym (Thessalonians) 5:
1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write unto you.
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of YHWH so comes as a thief in the night.
Shau’wl (Paul) and the Thessalonians were well aware of this metaphor concerning the High Priest and the thief in the night. They practiced these things in the temple year after year and there was no need to explain it to them. If they continued to keep the appointed “mowediym” of YaHuWaH as he had commanded them to do forever, they would not be taken by surprise.
1st Tas’loniqiym (Thessalonians) 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Shau’wl (Paul) knew that these followers of Messiah were not in darkness because they were keeping their “oil lamps filled” and ready for the day when it arrived. They would not be overtaken by “the day that no man knows” without oil in their lamps. Their High Priest, Yahuwshuwa would come not as a thief in the night for them, because they would not be in darkness!
1st Tas’loniqiym (Thessalonians) 5:
4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
5 You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
The Hebrew word for “day” is “yom” which means the following:
#3117 yowm: yome from an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset), continually, everlasting, season.
The Hebrew word for “light” is seen in the Strong’s Hebrew Concordance as #216 owr which means the following: light, light of day, light of heavenly luminaries (moon, sun, stars); day-break, dawn, morning light; light of lamp; light of life; light of prosperity; light of instruction.
As priests in the order of Melchizedek, we must not be like those priests who would be found drinking alcohol on the job, getting drunk and falling asleep. We are given clear warning here to “watch and be sober.” The Greek word here for “sober” is “nepho” which literally means “to abstain from wine.”
1st Tas’loniqiym (Thessalonians) 5:
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
7 For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
9 For Elohiym has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Master Yahuwshuwa Mashiyach (Messiah).
The breastplate being spoken of here is an allusion to the Choshen (the priest’s breastplate) that he wore for the twelve tribes of Yisra’el. Those of us who are ready will be made “kings and priests” in the New Millennial Kingdom of our Mashiyach (Messiah) as seen in Revelation 1:6, 5:10. For the bride who is walking in the light and the truth of Scripture, she must go through tribulation as part of the purifying process to be made ready without spot or wrinkle (Daniel 12:10, Revelation 3:8; 7:14).
The Hebrew word for “tribulation” is as follows in the Strong’s Concordance:
#6862 tsar tsar or tsar {tsawr}; from 6887; narrow; (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble); also a pebble (as in 6864); (transitive) an opponent (as crowding):--adversary, afflicted(-tion), anguish, close, distress, enemy, flint, foe, narrow, small, sorrow, strait, tribulation, trouble.
#6869 tsarah tsaw-raw' feminine of 6862; tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble); transitively, a female rival:--adversary, adversity, affliction, anguish, distress, tribulation, trouble.
This means that the bride must go through the “birth canal” to be birthed into immortality (incorruption). Rachel and Leah were sisters who were rivals because they both loved the same man, Ya’aqob (Jacob). Rachel represents the House of Judah and Leah represents the House of Ephrayim. Both groups (Jews & Gentiles) must go through a time of “sister rivalry” in order to provoke one another to jealousy and thus be purified to meet the bridegroom.
The bride is not appointed for the day of YaHuWaH’s wrath, for she will be changed (birthed) as she puts in incorruption (1st Corinthians 15:52).
As children of the light, the bride honors the Holy Feast Days that YaHuWaH has commanded her to keep forever because they are called “holy convocations.” The Strong’s Hebrew Concordance defines the word for “convocation” as follows:
#4744 miqra’ mik-raw’ from 7121; something called out, i.e. a public meeting (the act, the persons, or the place); also a rehearsal:--assembly, calling, convocation, reading.
As you can see, the Feasts of YaHuWaH are called “a rehearsal.” What are we rehearsing for when we keep the feasts? When we keep his feasts, we are memorializing and rehearsing all aspects of the bethrothal (engagement) and the future Marriage Supper of the Lamb!
When YaHuWaH established an everlasting covenant with Yisra’el, he gave us a “sign” that he alone was our Elohiym. What exactly is this “sign” that he has given to “ALL YISRA’EL” for ALL GENERATIONS, FOREVER?
The sign that our Creator has given us of our everlasting covenant with him are his “Sabbaths.” The verses below are describing not only seventh day of the week, but also, the seven annual Sabbaths, or festivals outlined in Leviticus 23. Elohiym declares that through these “Sabbaths” we might know that he is YaHuWaH who sanctifies us and sets us apart:
When YaHuWaH established an everlasting covenant with Yisra’el, he gave us a “sign” that he alone was our Elohiym. What exactly is this “sign” that he has given to “ALL YISRA’EL” for ALL GENERATIONS, FOREVER?
The sign that our Creator has given us of our everlasting covenant with him are his “Sabbaths.” The verses below are describing not only seventh day of the week, but also, the seven annual Sabbaths, or festivals outlined in Leviticus 23. Elohiym declares that through these “Sabbaths” we might know that he is YaHuWaH who sanctifies us and sets us apart:
Yechezqel (Ezekiel) 20:12 Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am YHWH that sanctify them.
Yechezqel (Ezekiel) 20:20 And hallow my Sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am YHWH your Elohiym.
Wayyiqra (Leviticus) 23:
23 And YHWH spoke unto Mosheh (Moses), saying,
24 Speak unto the children of Yisra’el, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall you have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
25 You shall do no servile work therein: but you shall offer an offering made by fire unto YHWH.
In the above verses, we see that YaHuWaH is commanding us to have a memorial of blowing trumpets every year on the first day of the seventh month of Tishri, and he calls it a “holy convocation.” In other words, a wedding rehearsal! The offering that we make to him on this day is an offering by “fire.”
In other words, our own lives are presented to him as “a living sacrifice” (Romans 12:1). We allow the fire of the Ruwach ha’Qodesh (Holy Spirit) to purge and purify our lives so that we will be ready for the day when he returns to catch away his bride. Yahuwshuwa is coming for a bride without spot or blemish. We must be purified by suffering trials and tribulation in order to be ready for “The Day That No Man Knows!”
At the conclusion of the 1,260-day ministry of the “Two Witnesses,” the “seventh angel” will sound (Revelation 11:15) and then the bride shall be changed in the twinkling of an eye at “The last trump.”
Chazown (Revelation) 11:12-15 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them....And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Master, and of his Mashiyach (Messiah); and he shall reign for ever and ever.
There are four different trumpet blasts sounded on the Feast of Trumpets, and the number “4” represents “The four corners of the earth,” (the harvest field) and the “four angels” from the “four winds of heaven.”
Chazown (Revelation) 7:1 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.
Trumpet #1.) The Tekiah - A pure unbroken sound that calls man to search his heart, forsake his wrong ways, and seek forgiveness through repentance.
Trumpet #2.) The Shebarim - A broken, staccato, trembling sound. It typifies the sorrow that comes to man when he realizes his misconduct and desires to change his ways. It sounds like a man moaning in repentance.
Trumpet #3.) The Teruw’ah - A wave-like sound of alarm calling upon man to stand by the banner of Elohiym.
Trumpet #4.) The Tekiah Gedolah - The prolonged, unbroken sound typifying a final appeal to sincere repentance and atonement.
This 4th Trumpet is “The last trumpet” sound made on the Feast of Trumpets and this represents “The four angels from the four winds of heaven and the four corners of the earth” as they gather the elect (Matthew 24:29-31).
The Ancient Hebrew Wedding Ceremony: How Does it Picture Mashiyach Yahuwshuwa & His Bride?
Behold I Stand at the Door & Knock
A Hebrew betrothal supper was the culmination of often years of already established relationship, haggling and planning between both of the families of the bride and groom. The bride had the final say in whether or not she desired to marry the groom and this was played out in the first step of the betrothal ceremony.
Revelation 3:20 reflects the beginning of the Hebrew betrothal process when Yahuwshuwa says: “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with me.”
Mattithyahuw (Matthew) 24:36-44: “But of the day and hour knows no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.... Therefore, be also ready: for in such an hour as you think not, the Son of man comes.”
Mattithyahuw (Matthew) 25:10
“…the bridegroom came: and they that were ready went in with Him to the marriage and the door was shut.”
“…the bridegroom came: and they that were ready went in with Him to the marriage and the door was shut.”
Chazown (Revelation) 19:7-8: “Let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to Him, for the marriage of the Lamb is come and his wife has made herself ready. And to her was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white, for the fine linen is the righteousness of set-apart ones (saints).”
In Yahuwchanon (John) 3:29, John the Immerser (Baptist), referring to himself as the “friend of the bridegroom” and to Yahuwshuwa as “the bridegroom” said: “He that has the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatest because of the bridegroom’s voice. This, my joy, therefore is fulfilled.”
Tehilliym (Psalm) 45:9 “Upon Your Right Hand (Yahuwshuwa) did stand the Queen, in gold of Ophir.”
Mattithyahuw (Matthew) 20:23 And he says unto them, You shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.
In Matthew 22:8-14 we read the parable of the gathering of the guests to the wedding. They must be invited, and must have on a “wedding garment.” The wedding garment is made of pure white linen, which is the “righteousness of the qodeshiym.”
The word of Elohiym is basically the story of a wedding, from start to finish. It is a love story of a loving Father, seeking the perfect bride for his son, Yahuwshuwa. He is searching for a bride who is totally devoted, pure of heart, in love only with him, submitted and perfect in his sight. Such a picture of this is found in Genesis 24:1-67 with Abraham sending out his servant Eliezer (a type of the Holy Spirit) to find the perfect bride for his son, Yitzchaq (Isaac). Interestingly, the name Eliezer (also spelled Eleazar) means “Eloah is my helper.”
In the basic structure of the Ancient Hebrew Wedding Ceremony, you will see the Heavenly Father, and the bridegroom, Yahuwshuwa sending the “servant” which is the Ruwach ha’Qodesh (Holy Spirit). The attendant of the bride is Mosheh/Moses (representing the Towrah), and the attendant of the groom is Eliyahuw/Elijah (representing the spirit of prophesy). And then there are the guests who are redeemed people, but they are not the bride.
In most weddings, there are 3 groups of people:
1.) The guests, forming the largest group.
2.) The attendants of the bride and the groom, usually a small group.
3.) The bride & her bridegroom.
All are content and happy within their situation. But, only the bride gets to go into the “chuppah” (bridal chamber) with the bridegroom in the New Jerusalem on Mount Tziyown (Zion) and live in his house forever. She has an intimacy with him that no one else has. The bride goes away with him for a “seven-day” wedding just like Leah and Ya’aqob (Jacob) as seen in Genesis 29:27-28. Their wedding lasted for seven days, and at the end of seven days, Ya’aqob (Jacob) was also given Rachel as a wife. Leah represents the “Ten Northern Tribes of Yisra’el” for Leah had “ten children.”
*Note: Leah had six of her own sons naturally (Genesis 35:26) and she also had two sons born to her by her handmaiden Zilphah (Genesis 30:10-12). This was a total of eight sons. However, after Rachel died giving birth to Benjamin, Leah then became the mother of Benjamin and Joseph, and so they were also considered the sons of Leah. This is how we arrive at the idea that Leah had ten sons. The two sons of Rachel born to her by her handmaiden Bilhah were still considered the sons of Rachel because they had their own mother Bilhah to take care of them. This is how we arrive at the fact that Rachel had two sons.
These “Ten Northern Tribes” later on became known as “The House of Ephrayim” and they have “Gentile companions” that are joined to them as “born-again” believers (Ezekiel 37:16). Rachel represents the “Two Southern Tribes of Yahuwdah” (Judah) or the Jewish people because Rachel had two sons.
And so the bride who is typified in Leah will be “caught up” to meet him in the air on Yom Teruw’ah (1st Thessalonians 4:17), and then she will be taken into the “chuppah” (bridal chamber) for seven days. In Revelation 11:11, the “Two Witnesses” will be killed and their bodies will lie in the streets for “three and a half days.”
*Note: Leah had six of her own sons naturally (Genesis 35:26) and she also had two sons born to her by her handmaiden Zilphah (Genesis 30:10-12). This was a total of eight sons. However, after Rachel died giving birth to Benjamin, Leah then became the mother of Benjamin and Joseph, and so they were also considered the sons of Leah. This is how we arrive at the idea that Leah had ten sons. The two sons of Rachel born to her by her handmaiden Bilhah were still considered the sons of Rachel because they had their own mother Bilhah to take care of them. This is how we arrive at the fact that Rachel had two sons.
These “Ten Northern Tribes” later on became known as “The House of Ephrayim” and they have “Gentile companions” that are joined to them as “born-again” believers (Ezekiel 37:16). Rachel represents the “Two Southern Tribes of Yahuwdah” (Judah) or the Jewish people because Rachel had two sons.
And so the bride who is typified in Leah will be “caught up” to meet him in the air on Yom Teruw’ah (1st Thessalonians 4:17), and then she will be taken into the “chuppah” (bridal chamber) for seven days. In Revelation 11:11, the “Two Witnesses” will be killed and their bodies will lie in the streets for “three and a half days.”
I believe that this is in keeping with the pattern of their Messiah who was also “Three days and three nights in the heart of the earth” (Matthew 12:40). During the “ten days” between the two feasts of Trumpets & Atonement, the first three of these days are when the bride follows the same pattern as her bridegroom. She must die to her old sinful body and then be raised up on the third day.
*Note: Nehemia Gordon explains in his New Moon Report in July 2012, why the Feast of Trumpets is celebrated for two days traditionally taking us to the third day of Tishri:
Then for the next seven days, she will be in the bridal chamber with her bridegroom, and at the end of seven days, she will return on the Day of Atonement aka Yom Kippur. This is when Messiah will also be married to the other bride typified in Rachel. This is when the Jews who were “sealed” will finally see their Messiah “face-to-face” and they will “look upon him whom they have pierced and they will mourn for him as one mourns for his only son” (Zechariah 12:10).
*Note: Nehemia Gordon explains in his New Moon Report in July 2012, why the Feast of Trumpets is celebrated for two days traditionally taking us to the third day of Tishri:
“…No one knows for sure the day or the hour of the beginning of the Hebrew month until it happens and in some instances until a day after the fact! This is why rabbinical tradition teaches that every Yom Teruah (which they also call Rosh Hashanah) must be kept for two consecutive days.
In ancient times, a negative sighting (non-sighting) of the moon could only be confirmed on the third day of the month because they had to wait for potential new moon witnesses to arrive from the north of the country (also the new moon court was not allowed to meet on a holiday).
Every year they would observe Yom Teruah on two consecutive days, but then fix the dates of Yom Kippur and Sukkot based on the testimony of the witnesses. The modern rabbinical calendar fixes the beginning of Yom Teruah based on average lunar conjunction (no-moon) but still preserves the tradition of observing it on two consecutive days, a practice that obviously goes back to the time when they still sighted the moon with the naked eye.”---- Karaite Korner Newsletter #558, New Moon Report July 2012
Then for the next seven days, she will be in the bridal chamber with her bridegroom, and at the end of seven days, she will return on the Day of Atonement aka Yom Kippur. This is when Messiah will also be married to the other bride typified in Rachel. This is when the Jews who were “sealed” will finally see their Messiah “face-to-face” and they will “look upon him whom they have pierced and they will mourn for him as one mourns for his only son” (Zechariah 12:10).
During the ten days between Yom Teruw’ah & Yom Kippur, the Jewish people refer to this as “The Ten Days of Awe.” These “ten days” between the Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruw’ah) and the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) are also referred to as “ten days of tribulation” for the Congregation at Smyrna (Revelation 2:10).
Smyrna represents the bride who will not be converted until he returns. This is why she must “suffer tribulation for ten days.”
Smyrna represents the bride who will not be converted until he returns. This is why she must “suffer tribulation for ten days.”
After the “seven-day” wedding with the first bride typified in Leah, the bridegroom will then return and he will marry the other bride typified in Rachel. Rachel represents the Jews who have not yet recognized Yahuwshuwa as their Messiah until he returns. But they will be “sealed” in advance in the foreheads because they will not take the “Mark of the Beast” nor will they worship his image (Ezekiel 9:4, Revelation 7:3). When Messiah comes back on a white horse, his army is also his bride typified in Leah who is also riding on white horses and she is clothed in white linen, fine and clean (Revelation 19:7-14).
The bride typified in Rachel must suffer “ten days of tribulation” during what is called “The Ten Days of Awe.” The Hebrew word for “awe” is #7264 in the Hebrew Strong’s Concordance and it is the word “ragaz” which means: “trouble, to provoke.”
During these ten days, the other bride typified in Rachel will be “provoked to jealousy” (Romans 11:11) as she realizes that her sister has been taken into the “chuppah” ahead of her with the bridegroom. In Leviticus 16, we read the instructions for the High Priest each year as we find out that he was commanded to mingle the blood of a bull with the blood of a goat:
The bride typified in Rachel must suffer “ten days of tribulation” during what is called “The Ten Days of Awe.” The Hebrew word for “awe” is #7264 in the Hebrew Strong’s Concordance and it is the word “ragaz” which means: “trouble, to provoke.”
During these ten days, the other bride typified in Rachel will be “provoked to jealousy” (Romans 11:11) as she realizes that her sister has been taken into the “chuppah” ahead of her with the bridegroom. In Leviticus 16, we read the instructions for the High Priest each year as we find out that he was commanded to mingle the blood of a bull with the blood of a goat:
Wayyiqra (Leviticus) 16:15 Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat.
Wayyiqra (Leviticus) 16:18 And he shall go out unto the altar that is before YHWH, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about.
What is interesting is that Leah’s name means “cow” (bullock) and Rachel’s name means “lamb” (goat). What does this typology mean? It means that on that final day of Yom Kippur, our Messiah will act as the High Priest (Kohen Gadowl) who will mix the blood of these two families (two brides) together and he will make them “one bride” or “one stick” in his hand!
16 Moreover, you son of man, take you one stick (tree), and write upon it, For Yahuwdah (Judah), and for the children of Yisra’el his companions: then take another stick (tree), and write upon it, For Yahuwceph (Joseph), the stick (tree) of Ephrayim and for all the house of Yisra’el his companions:
17 And join them one to another into one stick (tree); and they shall become one in your hand.
18 And when the children of your people shall speak unto you, saying, Will you not show us what you mean by these?
19 Say unto them, Thus says YHWH Elohiym; Behold, I will take the stick (tree) of Yahuwceph (Joseph), which is in the hand of Ephrayim, and the tribes of Yisra’el his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick (tree) of Yahuwdah (Judah), and make them one stick (tree), and they shall be one in my hand.
As you can see from the above prophecy, the Two Houses of Yisra’el will be made one stick or one bride on that day!
At the end of the Millennium, there will be a New Heaven and a New Earth (Revelation 21:1), which will come down out of Heaven. There will also be a “New Jerusalem” who will be “adorned as a bride” for her husband.
The bride is the one who “overcomes” and she is mentioned in Revelation 3:7-13 in the letter to the Congregation at Philadelphia. She is marked, she is submissive and yielded to her bridegroom, guarding and obeying the terms of his marriage covenant, (the Towrah). The bride loves her bridegroom with a perfect love, and she follows him (the Lamb) wherever he goes (Revelation 14:4).
She has made herself ready by washing her garments in the blood of the Lamb, and she has purified herself (separated herself totally unto him). She belongs to him, and her relationship with him is intimate. He knows her, and she knows him, and their fellowship is sweet.
She has an
She has made herself ready by washing her garments in the blood of the Lamb, and she has purified herself (separated herself totally unto him). She belongs to him, and her relationship with him is intimate. He knows her, and she knows him, and their fellowship is sweet.
She has an
The Coronation
The Jews call it the New Year because this is the birthday of the world (creation). However, the redemption of the nation of Yisra’el marks the spiritual New Year in the month called “Abib” (Exodus 12:2 &13:4) which is the first month of the year. The month Abib usually falls around March or April on the Gregorian calendar in the spring, fourteen days before Passover. On the first day of the 7th month of Tishri is the day of his coming--at the Feast of Trumpets, this is “Coronation Day.”
Why do the Jewish people refer to this day as “Rosh Ha’Shanah?” To put it simply, there are two different “New Year’s.” The first “New Year” is mentioned in Exodus 12:2 & 13:4 as “The month Abib,” and it commemorates the time when YaHuWaH took Yisra’el out of Egypt. It is the first of the year for the seven feasts annually. This calendar runs it’s course for seven months and it measures the seven months of feasts as well as the “four harvests” in Yisra’el (barley, first wheat, second wheat, grapes).
The other “New Year” measures “linear time” itself and this is when the “seven year sabbatical cycles” are measured called “shmitta” as well as the “fifty year” Jubilee cycles. At the “end” of these “seven months” of feasts is the “ingathering” of the harvest and every fifty years on Yom Kippur (the tenth day of the seventh month) is a cancellation of debts where slaves are freed and people who owed money were able to redeem their land or their inheritance.
Wayyiqra (Leviticus) 25:9 Then shall you cause the shofar (trumpet) of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the Day of Atonement shall you make the shofar (trumpet) sound throughout all your land.
Shemoth (Exodus) 23:16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of your labours, which you have sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labours out of the field.
Shemoth (Exodus) 34:22 And you shall observe the feast of weeks (Pentecost or Shabuwoth), of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.
As you can see, the “first-fruits” of the wheat harvest is in the spring at the time of Pentecost, fifty days following the “first-fruits” of the barley. And then at the “years end,” at the final wheat harvest is the end of the agricultural year, and also the end of the year for the seven annual Feasts of YaHuWaH.
To learn more about the two different calendars (agricultural and linear), see my other article entitled: “Times, Seasons & the Thief in the Night: When is the Real New Year?”
Also see my article entitled: “Messiah’s Forty Days of Fasting Leading Up to Yom Kippur!”
The Feast of Trumpets aka Yom Teruw’ah usually occurs during the Gregorian month of September or October, depending on the sighting of the new moon at the beginning of the New Year in the spring in the month Abib. On this day, the bridegroom comes for his bride, and at their wedding day, he is crowned the King, and she is crowned the Queen. Thus marriage day is the day of coronation for both of them:
Chazown (Revelation) 1:6 And has made us kings and priests unto Elohiym and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Awmane.
Chazown (Revelation) 5:10 And has made us unto our Elohiym kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
Yahuwshuwa will come for his bride on Yom Teruw’ah—the 1st day of the 7th month of Tishri on the Hebrew calendar. The essential message of this feast is the reaffirmation of the “kingship” of Elohiym.
Messiah will be crowned on Yom Teruw’ah and he will be given the heathen for his inheritance, as well as receiving his kingdom (Daniel 7:13-14 and Psalm 2:6).
Scriptures that are used for this day are: Genesis 49:10 and Zechariah 9:9:
Bereshiyth (Genesis) 49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Yahuwdah (Judah), nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Zecharyahuw (Zechariah) 9:9 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Tziyown (Zion); shout, O daughter of Yerushalayim (Jerusalem): behold, your King comes unto you: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an donkey, and upon a colt the foal of a donkey.
In Revelation 19:11-16, Yahuwshuwa is seen coming with the sound of the trumpet and with much fan-fare and ceremony. He comes as the trumpet sounds loudly, with his angels, in the wrath of YaHuWaH, to destroy his enemies and the enemies of his bride.
He comes as a victorious king to deliver his bride from the evil one. This is what the prophets call “The great and terrible day of YaHuWaH” (Joel 2:11 & 31) or “The day of vengeance of our Elohiym” (Isaiah 61:2, Jeremiah 46:10, Luke 21:22). Another term that is used to describe the same day is “The day of wrath” (Job 21:30, Psalms 110:5, Proverbs 11:4).
He comes as a victorious king to deliver his bride from the evil one. This is what the prophets call “The great and terrible day of YaHuWaH” (Joel 2:11 & 31) or “The day of vengeance of our Elohiym” (Isaiah 61:2, Jeremiah 46:10, Luke 21:22). Another term that is used to describe the same day is “The day of wrath” (Job 21:30, Psalms 110:5, Proverbs 11:4).
On this day, Yahuwshuwa becomes the “King of Kings” over all the kingdoms of this world as seen in Revelation 11:15-19; 19:16; Daniel 7:9-27; Revelation 1:7. He also becomes
On the wedding day, the bridegroom and the bride are called King & Queen as seen in Tehilliym (Psalm) 45:
3 Gird your sword upon your thigh, O most mighty, with your glory and your majesty.
4 And in your majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and your right hand shall teach you terrible things.
5 Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under you.
6 Your throne, O Elohiym, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of your kingdom is a right sceptre.
7 You love righteousness, and hate wickedness: therefore Elohiym, your Elohiym, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.
8 All your garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made you glad.
9 The King’s daughters were among your honourable women: upon your right hand did stand the Queen in gold of Ophir.
10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear; forget also your own people, and your father’s house;
11 So shall the king greatly desire your beauty: for he is your Master; and worship you him.
12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat your favour.
13 The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto you.
The Ancient Hebrew Wedding in Chronological Order:
#1.) The father arranges the wedding as Samson’s father did, or:
a.) The father sends an agent in his place, as Abraham sent Eleazer (YaHuWaH sent the Holy Spirit to prepare the bride).
b.) The young man comes by himself to the girl’s father to arrange the marriage between the two of them.
#2.) If the young man goes to the house of the girl, he initially must carry these three things:
a.) A large sum of money (or many expensive items) to pay the price for the bride (Yahuwshuwa has purchased his bride with his own blood).
b.) A betrothal contract with his promises to the bride written on it. This is the same Towrah given to Yisra’el at Mount Horeb and deposited into the ark.
c.) A skin of wine (this represents our Messiah’s blood) and the skin is the fact that he came in a mortal body (in the flesh).
*Note: In 1st Yahuwchanon (1st John) 5:8 it says: “For there are three that bear witness in earth: the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.”
In prophetic typology, the wine represents the Ruwach ha’Qodesh (Holy Spirit), the water represents the Word—the marriage contract or covenant--the Towrah given at Mount Sinai and then renewed again at Mount Horeb. And then finally, the blood represents the price paid for our salvation. It is called “The bride price” (Ruth 4:10, Psalm 74:2).
In Acts 20:28, Sha’uwl speaking to Pastors says: “Take heed to yourselves, to feed the assembly of Elohiym, which he has purchased with his own blood.”
In Ephesians 1:14 he tells us that the Ruwach’s presence with us is the “Down-payment of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession.” His bride was the purchased possession, and he is coming to fully redeem her unto himself:
Eph’siym (Ephesians) 1:
13 In whom you also trusted, after that you heard the word of truth, the besowrah (gospel) of your salvation: in whom also after that you believed, you were sealed with that Ruwach ha’Qodesh (Holy Spirit) of promise,
14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.
1st Qorin’tiym (Corinthians) 6:20 & 1st Qorin’tiym (Corinthians) 7:23: “For you are bought with a price.”
#3.) If the father approves of the marriage, the girl is called in and they all drink the wine together. In the drinking of the wine, she commits herself to the young man.
Yirmeyahuw (Jeremiah) 31:31: “I will make a Renewed (Chadash) Covenant with the House of Yisra’el and the House of Yahuwdah (Judah).”
Thus, he renewed his covenant in his own blood, with his remnant bride who would be taken from among the whole believing House of Yisra’el.
Cup #1.) The Cup of Sanctification (Luke 22:17; 1st Corinthians 10:16,1st Peter 1:2, 2nd Thessalonians 2:13). This cup is called the Cup of Sanctification, or the Kiddush.
Cup #2.) The Cup of Wrath (Luke 22:42-44). This cup is not to be drank of, but is poured out on the table as the plagues of Egypt are recited. Yahuwshuwa drank of this cup for us in the Garden of Gethsemane and when he died on the tree (Revelation 14:10, 16:19).
Cup #3.) The Cup of Blessing (1st Corinthians 10:16) & The Cup of Salvation, (Psalms 116:13) or Redemption. This cup is filled to overflowing, symbolizing an overflowing salvation.
Cup #4.) The Cup of the Kingdom (Matthew 26:28-29, Mark 14:25, Luke 22:18).
Yahuwshuwa ha’Mashiyach spoke of eating and drinking this fourth cup in the Messianic Kingdom with his disciples because this is the final cup that the bride and the groom drink on their wedding day! This is the only cup that he did not drink of, because it is reserved for the wedding day!
*Note: can you see how these four cups correlate to the four trumpets on the Feast of Trumpets?
*Note: can you see how these four cups correlate to the four trumpets on the Feast of Trumpets?
#4.) At this point, the two are considered husband and wife. Their union can only be dissolved by divorce, but their state is still called “a betrothal,” (engagement) just as with Miryam & Yahuwceph (Mary & Joseph) while she became pregnant by the Holy Spirit.
#5.) After the drinking of the wine, the young man says these words:
Yahuwchanon (John) 14:
2 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also.
He will go away and prepare a room for them--adding on a room to his father’s house. He promises that when the room is finished, he would come back for her, and she would forever be with him. She belongs to him now, for she has been “bought with a price,” and this purchase has been witnessed and confirmed.
Tehilliym (Psalm) 19:5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber (chuppah), and rejoice as a strong man to run a race.
#7.) The girl must now spend her time learning how to be a wife and mother, and to learn how to please her husband. He may be gone for as long as two years or more. In 2nd Peter 3:8 it says that “One day is a like a thousand years with YaHuWaH,” therefore, if the bridegroom is gone for “two days” (linear time), the bridegroom will be gone for 2,000 years preparing a place for her before he returns!
The young man, if asked when the day of his wedding will be, often gets rid of nosy inquirers by saying: “No man knows the day nor the hour, only my Father knows” (Matthew 24:36; Mark 13:32). Thus he puts the responsibility of dealing with nosy friends and family off on his father. It is a personal thing with him, and he only talks about the timing of his coming for his bride with his father. He may communicate with his bride, in secret by messenger (represented by the Ruwach ha’Qodesh).
Four trumpets are blown during that two-day time period, and, everyone waits for the “last trump,” when according to Hebrew Wedding Custom, the gates of heaven open and the righteous ascend to heaven, while the fate of the wicked is sealed.
Four trumpets are blown during that two-day time period, and, everyone waits for the “last trump,” when according to Hebrew Wedding Custom, the gates of heaven open and the righteous ascend to heaven, while the fate of the wicked is sealed.
#8.) The groom designates two close friends to assist him and to assist the bride during the ceremony. They are called “The Two Witnesses.” These two witnesses were seen at “The Mount of Transfiguration” with our Messiah (Matthew 17:3-4). They are Mosheh & Eliyahuw (Moses & Elijah) who represents two elements of: Law & Prophets or Spirit & Truth.
The two witnesses in Revelation 11 are not literally Moses & Elijah coming back in reincarnated form to be killed by the Anti-Messiah. These two witnesses are actually “four groups” of people called “The Two Olive Trees & the Two Candlesticks” (Revelation 11:4). The Two Olive Trees are the “Two Houses of Yisrael” (Ephrayim & Judah). And the Two Candlesticks are the Congregation of Smyrna & Philadelphia (Revelation 1:20).
These four groups will be consolidated into two groups of people who represent Mosheh & Eliyahuw (Moses & Elijah) or “Law & Prophets.” These two corporate groups operate in the anointing of Mosheh (Moses) because they obey Towrah. But they also operate in the anointing of Eliyahuw (Elijah) because they are filled with the Ruwach (Spirit).
These four groups will be consolidated into two groups of people who represent Mosheh & Eliyahuw (Moses & Elijah) or “Law & Prophets.” These two corporate groups operate in the anointing of Mosheh (Moses) because they obey Towrah. But they also operate in the anointing of Eliyahuw (Elijah) because they are filled with the Ruwach (Spirit).
During the ceremony, the contract containing the groom’s promises are then turned over to the parents of the bride. At the Mount of Transfiguration, Yahuwshuwa was seen with these two witnesses: Mosheh & Eliyahuw (Moses & Elijah).
According to Revelation 11:6, it will be two men and also two corporate groups of people who do the same exploits as Mosheh & Eliyahuw (Moses & Elijah) and so they come “In the spirit and the power of Elijah & Moses” just as Yahuwchanon (John) the Baptist came in “The Spirit and power of Elijah.” However, John himself was not Elijah (Luke 1:17, John 1:21).
#9.) In the same way that the father threw a big party when the prodigal son came home, the Heavenly Father will throw a big party for his Son and his bride with music and dancing (Luke 15:25). The prodigal son repented as he received “A white robe of righteousness” (wedding garment) and a signet ring (his father’s name). The fatted calf was killed because “atonement” was made (Luke 15:22-23).
Our Messiah came as a substitute for the nation of Yisra’el. The term “scapegoat” literally means “the innocent party who takes the blame for the guilty party.” Yahuwshuwa came “In the likeness of sinful flesh” (Romans 8:3-4), even though he never sinned. When he was sent into the wilderness to fast and pray for forty days, he was “Tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin” (Hebrews 4:15). The Son will come for his bride with great fanfare, trumpets, his servants, friends and family. It is a joyful day when he comes to receive his bride for the wedding ceremony.
Our Messiah came as a substitute for the nation of Yisra’el. The term “scapegoat” literally means “the innocent party who takes the blame for the guilty party.” Yahuwshuwa came “In the likeness of sinful flesh” (Romans 8:3-4), even though he never sinned. When he was sent into the wilderness to fast and pray for forty days, he was “Tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin” (Hebrews 4:15). The Son will come for his bride with great fanfare, trumpets, his servants, friends and family. It is a joyful day when he comes to receive his bride for the wedding ceremony.
#10.) On their wedding day they are called the King & Queen. On this day, they both stand without spot or blemish as they are united. For two years or more (for us, 2000 years approximately since our bridegroom went back to his Father’s house) the servant, represented for us by the Ruwach ha’Qodesh, works to prepare the bride to perfection for her marriage to the perfect bridegroom, Yahuwshuwa.
1st Qorin’tiym (Corinthians) 1:4 “I thank Elohiym always concerning that you are not lacking in any gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Master Yahuwshuwa Mashiyach…”
1st Tas’loniqiym (Thessalonians) 5:23: “And the Elohiym of peace Himself set you completely apart, and your entire spirit, and soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of Our Master Yahuwshuwa Mashiyach.”
Eph’siym (Ephesians) 5:
25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Mashiyach also loved the Kehillah (Congregation), and gave himself for it;
26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
27 That he might present it to himself a glorious Kehillah (Congregation), not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
#11). The words of the wedding ceremony are from Psalm 45, and Isaiah 61:10-62:5 “…as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall Elohiym rejoice over you.”
#12). Once the ceremony is over, the two go into the bridal chamber (chuppah) for seven days. There are portions of the Song of Solomon read during Passover, which give the details of the intimacy between Messiah and his bride.
#13). The seven days in the chamber correspond to the seven days between the end of the Feast of Trumpets (the third day of Tishri), and the Day of Atonement, when the High Priest takes the blood before the altar of YaHuWaH, and the sins of the nation of Yisra’el are forgiven. On the Day of Atonement, Messiah will judge all the nations that came against Jerusalem, and separate out the sheep and goat nations, as well as pronouncing the remnant of the Whole House of Ya’aqob (Jacob-Yisra’el)--all 12 Tribes--to be saved, redeemed, and restored (Joel 3:1-12; Matthew 25:31-46; Romans 11:26-27; Isaiah 59:20-21; 60:11-22; Jeremiah 31 and 33; Ezekiel 36:24-38; 37).
#14.) The Spirit of Eliyahuw (Elijah) typified in Yahuwchanon (John) the Immerser is the “best man” who is also called “The Friend of the Bridegroom” in John 3:29, or his “witness,” who waits at the chamber door. At the end of the seven days, the guests will then arrive and are waiting for the door to be opened, and the wedding banquet to begin.
When the groom is ready, he knocks from the inside of the door of the chamber, indicating that they are ready to make their public appearance before everyone. The friend opens the door, and the guests cheer. This will take place on Yom Kippur when the “veil” is removed and the bride and groom are revealed to the guests. The House of Judah (the remnant Jews who are sealed in advance) will then see him “face-to-face,” and they finally recognize him as their Messiah whom they pierced (Zechariah 12:10).
When the groom is ready, he knocks from the inside of the door of the chamber, indicating that they are ready to make their public appearance before everyone. The friend opens the door, and the guests cheer. This will take place on Yom Kippur when the “veil” is removed and the bride and groom are revealed to the guests. The House of Judah (the remnant Jews who are sealed in advance) will then see him “face-to-face,” and they finally recognize him as their Messiah whom they pierced (Zechariah 12:10).
#15.) In Revelation 11, the two witnesses have been in the earth witnessing and preparing for 3 ½ years. At the voice of the bridegroom calling them up, Messiah ,Yahuwshuwa comes out of heaven with a trumpet blast, accompanied by the set-apart ones who have died, to gather his bride for the wedding, and the seven days in the chuppah (during the ten days of awe between trumpets and atonement).
The door of heaven opens and he proceeds out for the “bride has made herself ready” (Revelation 19:7) He picks up his bride who is alive and waiting for him on the earth. Then after his glorious entrance into Yerushalayim (Jerusalem), they proceed to the wedding feast which is called “The Marriage Supper of the Lamb” (Revelation 19:9). However, before the wedding feast, he first takes vengeance on the enemies of his bride and the enemies of Yisra’el & Yerushalayim!
After his display of wrath on Yom Kippur, then they proceed to the wedding banquet during the seven days of The Feast of Tabernacles with all of the guests and the wedding party. Thus we can see that the first seven days correlate to the seven-day wedding of Leah & Ya’aqob (Jacob) and this is between the Feast of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement (Yom Teruw’ah & Yom Kippur).
And then there is yet another seven days during the Feast of Tabernacles aka Sukkot for the other bride typified in Rachel and this is when both brides (Leah & Rachel) symbolizing Ephrayim & Judah will be made “one stick” in the hand of YaHuWaH at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
The door of heaven opens and he proceeds out for the “bride has made herself ready” (Revelation 19:7) He picks up his bride who is alive and waiting for him on the earth. Then after his glorious entrance into Yerushalayim (Jerusalem), they proceed to the wedding feast which is called “The Marriage Supper of the Lamb” (Revelation 19:9). However, before the wedding feast, he first takes vengeance on the enemies of his bride and the enemies of Yisra’el & Yerushalayim!
After his display of wrath on Yom Kippur, then they proceed to the wedding banquet during the seven days of The Feast of Tabernacles with all of the guests and the wedding party. Thus we can see that the first seven days correlate to the seven-day wedding of Leah & Ya’aqob (Jacob) and this is between the Feast of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement (Yom Teruw’ah & Yom Kippur).
And then there is yet another seven days during the Feast of Tabernacles aka Sukkot for the other bride typified in Rachel and this is when both brides (Leah & Rachel) symbolizing Ephrayim & Judah will be made “one stick” in the hand of YaHuWaH at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
In Exodus 19:10-12, Mosheh commanded the people of Yisra’el to “wash their wedding garments” and to be ready “unto the third day” to hear the “voice of the bridegroom” (Jeremiah 33:11, John 3:29, Revelation 18:23).
There are some who believe that the wedding feast will occur at Mount Sinai, since that is where the terms of the marriage covenant were given to the bride originally. There is a strong similarity between the language in Revelation 19 & Exodus 19 pertaining to The Marriage of the Lamb & The Marriage of Yisra’el at Mount Sinai.
After the third day at Mount Sinai, the glory of YaHuWaH “covered” Mount Sinai for “six days” and on the “seventh day” Mosheh was called up to receive the marriage contract (the two tables of testimony). Here we see the pattern being established for a “seven day marriage.” In the parable of the wise virgins, in Matthew 25:1-11, we are shown that only the prepared bride gets to go into the chuppah with him. The guests are shut out.
There are some who believe that the wedding feast will occur at Mount Sinai, since that is where the terms of the marriage covenant were given to the bride originally. There is a strong similarity between the language in Revelation 19 & Exodus 19 pertaining to The Marriage of the Lamb & The Marriage of Yisra’el at Mount Sinai.
After the third day at Mount Sinai, the glory of YaHuWaH “covered” Mount Sinai for “six days” and on the “seventh day” Mosheh was called up to receive the marriage contract (the two tables of testimony). Here we see the pattern being established for a “seven day marriage.” In the parable of the wise virgins, in Matthew 25:1-11, we are shown that only the prepared bride gets to go into the chuppah with him. The guests are shut out.
While some believe that the bride will be gathered again at Mount Sinai, I believe that the bride will be gathered at Mount Tziyown (Zion) which in Hebrew means “a parched place.” It represents the burning mountain where YaHuWaH first wanted Yisra’el to hear his voice, yet they refused. It represents those who have been purified by his consuming fire. Mount Sinai is likened unto “bondage” and Hagar (Galatians 4:22-26), because it memorializes the place where Yisra’el committed harlotry with the golden calf.
Mount Sinai literally means “Babylonian moon god,” however, Mount Tziyown (Zion) is in the New Yerushalayim (Jerusalem). In Galatians chapter 4:21-26, Sha’uwl (Paul) explained that Jerusalem is “The mother of us all,” and she is typified in Sarah (the free woman). Mountain Tziyown (Zion) is another name for the city of Yerushalayim---the city of our the great King David who typifies our Messiah at his second coming.
The Bride of Messiah Will Be Taken to Heaven on the Feast of Trumpets
Ibriym (Hebrews) 11:16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: wherefore Elohiym is not ashamed to be called their Elohiym: for he has prepared for them a city.
Ibriym (Hebrews) 12:18 For you are not come unto the Mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
Ibriym (Hebrews) 12:19 And the sound of a shofar, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them anymore:
Ibriym (Hebrews) 12:20 (For they could not endure את that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
Ibriym (Hebrews) 12:21 And so terrible was the sight, that Mosheh said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
Ibriym (Hebrews) 12:22 But YOU ARE COME TO MOUNT TZIYOWN [ZION], and UNTO THE CITY OF THE LIVING ELOHIYM, THE HEAVENLY Yerushalayim (Jerusalem), and to AN INNUMERABLE COMPANY of MALAKIYM (angels).
Ibriym (Hebrews 12:23 To the general assembly and congregation of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to Elohiym the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Ibriym (Hebrews) 12:24 And to Yahuwshuwa the mediator of the Renewed Covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel.
Ibriym (Hebrews) 12:25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaks from heaven:
Qorintiym Aleph (1st Corinthians) 15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
Qorintiym Aleph (1st Corinthians 15:49) And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
Chazown (Revelation) 11:11 And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from Elohiym entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.
Chazown (Revelation) 11:12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up here. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.
Chazown (Revelation) 12:5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto Elohiym, and TO HIS THRONE.
Chazown (Revelation) 14:1 And I looked, and, lo, A LAMB STOOD ON MOUNT TZIYOWN, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.
Chazown (Revelation) 14:2 And I heard A VOICE FROM HEAVEN, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
Chazown (Revelation) 14:3 And they sung as it were A NEW SONG BEFORE THE THRONE, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
Chazown (Revelation) 19:7 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB IS COME, and HIS WIFE HAS MADE HERSELF READY.
Chazown (Revelation) 19:8 And TO HER WAS GRANTED THAT SHE SHOULD BE ARRAYED IN FINE LINEN, CLEAN AND WHITE: FOR THE FINE LINEN IS THE RIGHTREOUSNESS OF THE QODESHIYM (saints).
Chazown (Revelation) 19:9 And he said unto me, Write, BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH ARE CALLED UNTO THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB. And he says unto me, These are the true sayings of Elohiym.
Chazown (Revelation) 19:14 And THE ARMIES WHICH WERE IN HEAVEN FOLLOWED HIM UPON WHITE HORSES, CLOTHED IN FINE LINEN, WHITE AND CLEAN.
Chazown (Revelation) 19:19 And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together TO MAKE WAR AGAINST HIM THAT SAT ON THE HORSE, AND AGAINST HIS ARMY.
Yechezqel (Ezekiel) 37:9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus says YHWH Elohiym; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
Yechezqel (Ezekiel) 37:10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, AN EXCEEDING GREAT ARMY.
Yechezqel (Ezekiel) 37:11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, THESE BONES ARE THE WHOLE HOUSE OF YISRA’EL: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
Yechezqel (Ezekiel) 37:12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus says YHWH Elohiym; Behold, O MY PEOPLE, I WILL OPEN YOUR GRAVES, and CAUSE YOU TO COME OUT OF YOUR GRAVES, AND BRING YOU INTO THE LAND OF YISRA’EL.
Yechezqel (Ezekiel) 37:13 And you shall know that I am YHWH, when I HAVE OPENED YOUR GRAVES, O my people, and BROUGHT YOU UP OUT OF YOUR GRAVES,
Yechezqel (Ezekiel) 37:14 And SHALL PUT MY SPIRIT IN YOU, AND YOU SHALL LIVE, and I SHALL PLACE YOU IN YOUR OWN LAND: then shall you know that I YHWH have spoken it, and performed it, says YHWH.
Luqas (Luke) 23:43 And Yahuwshuwa said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, Today shall thou be with me in PARADISE.
Qorintiym Beyt (2nd Corinthians) 12:2 I knew a man in Messiah above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: Elohiym knows;) such a one CAUGHT UP TO THE THIRD HEAVEN.
Qorintiym Beyt (2nd Corinthians) 12:4 How that he was caught up into PARADISE, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
Chazown (Revelation) 2:7 He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the assembly; To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the PARADISE of Elohiym.
To those who claim “There is no catching away of the bride to heaven,” you have over-corrected from the erroneous Pre-Trib Rapture doctrine!
There are only TEN DAYS (Revelation 2:10) between the elopement of the bride & groom on the Feast of Trumpets (to the Father’s House, John 14:1-2) & their return to earth on the Day of Atonement at the Mount of Olives!
The entire scenario can be properly understood by revisiting the story of Jacob’s wedding to his two brides: Leah & Rachel (Genesis 29:20-30).
Jacob did not have to wait 14 years to marry Rachel, as many have falsely believed. Scripture tells us that Jacob married both brides within FOURTEEN DAYS, IN THE MIDDLE OF FOURTEEN YEARS!
First he married Leah (after working seven years). Laban then promised to let him have Rachel, after his “week” (seven days) of honeymoon with Leah was finished. However, Jacob still verbally agreed to work an additional seven years for Rachel, after he took both brides back-to-back within the same 14-days!
See the chronology of end-time events in this blog:
Those who come out of the fire of affliction and tribulation are found to be like pure gold (refined in the fire) like the free woman (Sarah). Mount Tziyown is the place of our spiritual destiny (1st Peter 2:6, Hebrews 12:22, Revelation 14:1, Romans 11:26, Isaiah 37:32, Isaiah 2:3).
#16.) Yahuwchanon (John) the Immerser (Baptist) saw himself as the groom’s “friend” (John 3:28-30). Hebrew tradition says that Eliyahuw (Elijah) attends the groom, and John was called “Eliyahuw,” by our Messiah (Matthew 11:13-14). Eliyahuw’s message is one of preparation for the coming Messiah. He stands and waits for the bridegroom’s knock on the door. Matthew 17:3 shows the glorified, radiant Messiah standing with Mosheh & Eliyahuw as his “Two Witnesses.” In Revelation 11:3-7, the two witnesses carry the same anointing and do the same exploits as Elijah and Moses.
#17.) The bride’s attendant according to Hebrew tradition is Mosheh (symbolic of the Towrah). His function is to escort the bride to the bridegroom, as Mosheh escorted the children of Yisra’el to Sinai to be wed to Elohiym there. Mosheh typifies the Towrah (law) which is also the “schoolmaster” that escorts us to Messiah (Galatians 3:24).
Unlike the Mosaic Covenant, the bride will not be taken to Mount Sinai (which is a picture of her old sinful nature, which kept her in bondage). She will be escorted to Mount Tziyown (Zion) in the New Jerusalem. Because the bride has not been presented to the bridegroom yet, this means that the Towrah & Prophets cannot be done away with (Matthew 5:17-19).
At the end of Messiah’s one thousand-year reign, the bride will be transformed into the New Jerusalem, and this is when the first heaven and the first earth will “pass away.” Our Messiah told us that the Mosaic Law (Towrah) will not “pass away” until heaven and earth are passed away.
#18.) After the wedding ceremony, the bride goes to live with her bridegroom as his Queen, and he will be the King of Yisra’el. A perfect picture of this can be seen in Esther 8:4. The bride remains with the bridegroom by his side during the Millennium as she “rules and reigns” with him for a thousand years (Revelation 20:6).
#19.) After the 1,000 years are finished, the first heaven and earth pass away, and the “New Heaven & Earth” will descend. The bride will become the “New Yerushalayim,” as she is prepared and adorned for her husband (Revelation 21:1-2). YaHuWaH Almighty, and the Lamb will also be “The Temple,” and there will no longer be a brick-and-mortar Temple. There will be no more sun, and no moon, nor seas, for the Lamb himself will shine as the sun and the moon, and he himself will be the “river of living water” (Revelation 21:1-23; 22:1).
The first and the last time that the word “trumpet” is used in the Bible, it is used in the context of the bride “coming up” to meet her bridegroom:
Shemoth (Exodus) 19:13 “…when the trumpet (shofar) sounds long, they shall come up to the mount.
Chazown (Revelation) 9:14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet (shofar), Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
It is no small coincidence that the first time the word “trumpet” is mentioned in scripture is in Exodus 19:13, when Yisra’el, the bride was being “called up” to meet YaHuWaH at Mount Sinai. The word here is “yowbel” #3104 in the Strong’s Concordance, and it means “a ram’s horn.”
This word also means “Jubilee” and it comes from the root word “yabal” #2986 which means “to bring forth, to carry.” Jubilee signifies the time when then bride is redeemed and her land and her inheritance is restored to her by her bridegroom, the kinsman redeemer.
In the 6th chapter of Joshua, the seven priests are a picture of the seven congregations (the bride) and they are commanded to sound seven trumpets seven times on the seventh day in order to see the walls of Yerichow (Jericho) fall down. Interestingly, the word Yerichow in Hebrew comes from a root word yareach which means the moon! This is pointing to the new moon of the seventh month of Tishri!
This word also means “Jubilee” and it comes from the root word “yabal” #2986 which means “to bring forth, to carry.” Jubilee signifies the time when then bride is redeemed and her land and her inheritance is restored to her by her bridegroom, the kinsman redeemer.
In the 6th chapter of Joshua, the seven priests are a picture of the seven congregations (the bride) and they are commanded to sound seven trumpets seven times on the seventh day in order to see the walls of Yerichow (Jericho) fall down. Interestingly, the word Yerichow in Hebrew comes from a root word yareach which means the moon! This is pointing to the new moon of the seventh month of Tishri!
Yahuwshuwa (Joshua) 6:4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams horns: and the seventh day you shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.
On the 7th day, when the walls of Yerichow (Jericho) fell, this correlates to the seven-day wedding following the Feast of Trumpets. When the seven priests compassed the wicked city of Yerichow (Jericho) seven times on the seventh day with seven trumpets what happened?
As you can see, the children of Yisra’el had to be the ones to sound the shofar so that the walls of Yerichow (Jericho) would fall, and it will be the same thing in the end of days when the “Two Witnesses” sound the “shofar” as they prophesy for 1,260 days until “Mystery Babylon” falls down:
Chazown (Revelation) 18:21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
In the same way that the Yisraelites received their land and their inheritance when the walls of Jericho fell in the book of Joshua, so the bride will also receive her land and her inheritance when Mystery Babylon falls!
The first time YaHuWaH established covenant with Abraham in Genesis 15:9, a three-year old ram was killed (symbolic of the three year ministry of Messiah). When Abraham offered up his son Yitzchaq (Isaac) to YaHuWaH, a ram was seen with his horns “caught” in the thicket as a substitute offering.
Once again, this was about redemption! And thus we can see that the “trumpet” or the “ram’s horn” is prophetically connected to covenant, redemption, freedom and deliverance!
Messiah Born on a Day When No Man Knows
Dr. Martin painstakingly goes into much detail pinpointing the exact day, year, and hour our Messiah was born, based on the constellations. I highly recommend that you read his book.
The entire book can be downloaded free at the link below:
From the research of Dr. Martin, (and many other proofs that I discovered on my own), we can be certain that the Messiah of Yisra’el named “Yahuwshuwa” was born on September 11th in 3 B.C. on “Yom Teruw’ah,” aka “The Feast of Trumpets.” I want to also recommend reading my blog entitled “When Was the Messiah of Israel Born?”
This constellation was visible over Bethlehem on that famous night, as it was prophesied about in Revelation 12:
1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:
2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
5 And she brought forth a man-child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto Elohiym, and to his throne.
On September 11th in 3 B.C., just before sundown, this planetary alignment was taking place, as a “one-time-event” in history. On this date, and never before this date, nor ever again afterwards, has this same configuration of the planets and stars been seen.
The Hebrew word for “virgin” is “bethuwlah,” which is what this constellation is named after. The pagans renamed these constellations after pagan deities, and they assimilated this “virgin” to their false mother goddess, Gaia, the planetary mother. However, its origin has always pointed to only one “mother” which is Jerusalem, “The mother of us all” (Galatians 4:26).
The constellation was renamed in Latin “Virgo the Virgin,” and she has twelve stars around her head (for the twelve tribes of Yisra’el). She also had the first crescent moon underneath her feet. The sun was “mid-body,” because she was pregnant with the Sun of Righteousness (Malachi 4:2), and this is why she was “clothed with the sun.” She was also giving birth to “Ariel,” the Lion of the Tribe of Yahuwdah (Judah).
The planet Jupiter was also seen inside this constellation, which is called Malkiy-Tzedeq (King of Righteousness) or in English, Melchizedek. The pagans renamed this planet after the pagan deity from Greece (Zeus) or Jupiter (Roman).
During child-birth, “No man knows” when the head of the baby will “crown” or become visible from the birth canal. So it is with the sighting of the first crescent moon, and this is why it is fitting that our Messiah was born on “The Day that No Man Knows!”
The planet Jupiter was also seen inside this constellation, which is called Malkiy-Tzedeq (King of Righteousness) or in English, Melchizedek. The pagans renamed this planet after the pagan deity from Greece (Zeus) or Jupiter (Roman).
Similarly, “No man knows the day, nor the hour” when the bride of Messiah will be “born” into immortality, and when he will catch her away to meet him in the heavenly chuppah! (1st Thessalonians 4:17; 1st Corinthians 15:51-52).
The Feast of Trumpets is when all the Kings of Yisra’el were “birthed” into their new office, and coronated (crowned) as kings! Interestingly, the word “rosh” in “Rosh ha’Shanah” means “head,” for the Jewish people call the Feast of Trumpets “The Head of the Year” on the Civil Calendar. It is the time of year when all the “heads,” (kings) were “crowned,” just as our Messiah was coming through the birth canal, and his head (rosh) crowned!
Similarly, the bride of Messiah, will also be “birthed” into her new resurrected body, and given the title “kings & priests” (Revelation 1:6; 5:10).
The Feast of Trumpets is also called “The Day of Blowing” when YaHuWaH breathed (blew) into Adam “the breath of life,” and thus Adam was also born on this feast day!
Our Messiah is called “The Last Adam” (1st Corinthians 15:45), and therefore, in keeping with the pattern, it is fitting that our Messiah was also born on the Feast of Trumpets, as also will his bride be born-again into her new resurrected body on the Feast of Trumpets!
Our Messiah was being trumpeted into the world as the “Righteous King,” and his head was “crowning” at that precise moment when the “last trumpet” sounded, and his mother, Miriam (Mary) “gave one last shout!” (on “The Day of Shouting”) then, she gave a push, and the king was born!
As with his first coming, our Messiah told us that his second coming would also be when “No man knows the day nor the hour!” (Matthew 24:36-Mark 13:32). And so it follows that with any pregnancy, we are given a “due date,” but only the Heavenly Father knows when the baby will come. Hence, the baby comes at a time when “No man knows!”
Interestingly, for the past 2,000 years, nobody seemed to “know” when our Messiah was born. Constantine the Roman Emperor established the Winter Solstice (December 25th) as the birth of Messiah, thus lumping him in with all the impostors who came before him. However, in these last days, Yahuwshuwa ha’Mashiyach (known as Jesus Christ to the Gentiles) is revealing hidden things about himself, such as his true name, and his true date of birth!
Just like Yahuwceph (Joseph), the “suffering servant,” who hid himself from his lost brothers until the appointed time, our Messiah is now revealing his true identity to those of us who were lost in paganism!
Our Messiah’s date of birth, and his true name is important in order to differentiate him from all the impostors who were supposedly reincarnated on December 25th.
Our Messiah’s date of birth, and his true name is important in order to differentiate him from all the impostors who were supposedly reincarnated on December 25th.
Many have failed to understand the prophetic significance of the Feast of Trumpets, because it’s meaning has evaded most people for centuries. However, it was meant to be better understood by those of this final generation, as these events are about to culminate. The theme of the Feast of Trumpets, is about birth, rebirth and putting off the old man, and thus putting on the new. It is one of the most exciting feasts, filled with anticipation, suspense, and rejoicing.
Excellent and encouraging! I found myself constantly saying: "this must be written by a senior messianic rabbi"....are you?
ReplyDeleteShalom Jim, no, I am not a Messianic Rabbi, but I am 61 years old, so I guess you can call me a "senior." Our Messiah said that we have no need to be taught by humans, because the anointing of the Ruwach ha'Qodesh (Holy Spirit) will teach us all things.
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