HAPPY NEW YEAR 5768
"LASHANA TOVAH TIKETAVU"
MAY YOU BE INSCRIBED IN THE(LAMB'S)BOOK OF LIFE
Come quickly Lord Jesus
STEPHEN
 

FEAST OF TRUMPETS-ROSH HASHANAH -JEWISH NEW YEAR OF 5768

FEASTS LEVITICUS 23
FIRST FOUR ARE SYMBOLIC OF LORD'S FIRST COMING
PASSOVER-DEATH OF LORD
UNLEAVENED BREAD-BURIAL
FIRST FRUITS-RESURRECTION
PENTECOST-HOLY SPIRIT

LAST THREE ARE SYMBOLIC OF HIS SECOND COMING
FEAST OF TRUMPETS-RAPTURE, WEDDING,
DAY OF ATONEMENT=SECOND COMING
FEAST OF TABERNACLES-WEDDING SUPPER OF THE LAMB

SUNDOWN OF WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 12 TILL SUNDOWN OF FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 14 FESTIVAL
OF
FEAST OF TRUMPETS. IT ONLY BEGAN ON NEW MOON WHEN TWO WITNESSES SAID SO AND
THE HEAD OF THE SANHEDRIN AGREED THUS EACH YEAR NOBODY KNEW THE EXACT DAY OR
HOUR (MATTHEW 24:36).
LEVITICUS 23:24-32 "FIRST DAY OF THE SEVENTH MOTH, TISHRI, WILL BE A DAY OF
REST, REMINDER, AND BLOWING OF THE SHOFAR-A HOLY CONVOCATION.

SEASON OF TESHUVAH, RETURN OR REPENTANCE BEGINS 30 DAYS BEFORE ON THE FIRST OF
ELUL AND ENDS 40 DAYS LATER ON THE 1OTH OF TISHRI OR SUNDOWN -YOM KIPPUR THE
DAY OF ATONEMENT. LAST 10 DAYS BETWEEN ROSH HASHANAH AND YOM KIPPUR ARE CALLED
THE DAYS OF AWE. EACH MORNING FOR THESE 40 DAYS THE SHOFAR IS BLOWN AT THE
MORNING PRAYER SERVICE TO CALL EVERYONE TO REPENT AND RETURN TO GOD. PSALM 27
IS RECITED AFTER EACH MORNING AND EVENING SERVICE. "THEN LORD IS MY LIGHT AND
MY SALVATION; WHOM SHALL I FEAR?"

ROSH HASHANAH IS THE HEAD OF THE YEAR IN THE CIVIL CALENDAR (NISSAN IS THE NEW
YEAR IN THE RELIGIOUS CALENDAR- PASSOVER). IT IS THE BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD.
EARLY RABBIS SAID, AND THIS WAS AGREED UPON BY EARLY CHURCH FATHERS, THAT
THERE WOULD BE 6000 YEARS OR SIX DAYS OF CREATION AND THEN THE SEVENTH DAY OF
MILLENNIUM PEACE WOULD COME. ACCORDING TO SCRIPTURE THERE WERE APPROXIMATELY
4000 YEARS FROM ADAM TO YESHUA. ADD 2000 YEARS AND WE SHOULD BE COMING TO THE
TIME OF THE MILLENNIUM!
BTW THE RABBIS WERE LOOKING FOR THE MESSIAH AFTER 4000 YEARS AND YESHUA CAME
RIGHT ON SCHEDULE (SEE DANIEL 9:25). AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE THE
JEWS CHANGED THE DATE OF THE CREATION OF THE WORLD FROM 4OO4 TO 3761BCE
3761+2007=5768! INSTEAD OF 6011! WE ARE VERY NEAR THE SEVENTH DAY OF
MILLENNIAL PEACE. VERY NEAR THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE ON
THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS WHEN THE LAST TRUMP SOUNDS . NO ONE CAN KNOW THE EXACT
DAY OR HOUR, AS ONE CANNOT KNOW THE EXACT DAY OR HOUR OF THE NEW MOON
SIGNALING THE BEGINNING OF THE FESTIVAL, BUT ONE CAN KNOW THE SEASON!
1CORINTHIANS 13:9 FOR WE KNOW IN PART AND PROPHESY IN PART
1CORINTHIANS 13:12 FOR NOW WE SEE IN A MIRROR DIMLY

ROSH HASHANAH ALSO CALLED YOM HAZIKARON-DAY OF REMEMBRANCE YOM TERUAH DAY OF
AWAKENING.
"AWAKE YOU SLEEPERS FROM YOUR SLEEP! RAISE YOURSELVES YOU SLUMBERERS! EXAMINE
YOUR DEEDS AND UNTO GOD IN REPENTANCE ABANDON YOUR EVIL WAYS, YOUR UNWORTHY
SCHEMING EVERYONE OF YOU."
 WHO SAID THIS?
WAS IT PAUL? HE DID SAY TO THE CHURCH AT EPHESUS "AWAKE, SLEEPER AND ARISE
FROM THE DEAD" EPHESIANS 5:14?
WAS IT PAUL TO THE CHURCH IN ROME?"AWAKEN FROM SLEEP FOR SALVATION IS
NEAR"ROMANS 13:11!
NO! IT IS FROM THE GATES OF REPENTANCE A ROSH HASHANAH PRAYERBOOK THAT CITES
MAIMONIDES "CALL TO AWAKENING"!!!

ACCORDING TO JUDAISM, ON ROSH HASHANAH THE BOOKS OF LIFE AND DEATH  ARE OPENED
BY GOD IN HEAVEN. THEY ARE SHUT BY HIM ON YOM KIPPUR 10 DAYS LATER. IT IS ALSO
BELIEVED THAT THE GATES OF HEAVEN ARE OPENED ON ROSH HASHANAH AND CLOSED ON
YOM KIPPUR.
"OPEN TO ME THE GATES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. I SHALL ENTER THROUGH THEM. I SHALL
GIVE THANKS TO THE LORD. THIS IS THE GATE OF THE LORD. THE RIGHTEOUS WILL
ENTER THROUGH IT." PSALM 118:19-20, ISAIAH 26:2

DURING THIS PERIOD JEWS SEEK FORGIVENESS FOR THEIR SINS SO THAT THEY MAY BE
WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE FOR THE COMING YEAR.
POPULAR GREETING IS "LASHANA TOVAH TIKETAVU". MAY YOU BE INSCRIBED (IN THE
BOOK OF LIFE) FOR A GOOD YEAR.
EACH PERSON IS ACCOUNTABLE FOR SINS COMMITTED FIRST AGAINST FELLOW MAN (GUILT
OFFERING IN TEMPLE) AND THEN TO GOD (SIN OFFERING).
MATTHEW 5:23-24 "IF THEREFORE YOU ARE PRESENTING YOUR OFFERING AT THE ALTAR,
AND THERE REMEMBER THAT YOUR BROTHER HAS SOMETHING AGAINST YOU, LEAVE YOUR
OFFERING THERE BEFORE THE ALTAR AND GO YOUR WAY; FIRST BE RECONCILED TO YOUR
BROTHER AND THEN COME AND PRESENT YOUR OFFERING."

THE PROBLEM IS THAT IT SAYS IN LEVITICUS 17:11 THAT THE LIFE IS IN THE BLOOD
AND ONLY THROUGH SHEDDING OF BLOOD IS THEIR REMISSION OF SIN. AS LONG AS THE
TEMPLE SACRIFICES EXISTED THEY COULD DO BLOOD SACRIFICES BUT WITH THE
DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE WHAT COULD THEY DO? RABBIS SAID DO 'PRAYERS, FASTING
AND CHARITY'

Part II-THE RAPTURE

MOSES MAIMONIDES STATED THAT THE THIRTEENTH ARTICLE OF THE JEWISH FAITH WAS,
"I BELIEVE WITH PERFECT FAITH THAT THERE WILL BE A RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD."

THE TALMUD STATES THAT THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD WILL TAKE PLACE ON ROSH
HASHANAH WHICH BEGINS NEXT WEDNESDAY NIGHT
MANY JEWS THEREFORE PUT SHOFARIM (TRUMPETS-RAMS HORNS) ON THEIR TOMBSTONES

"YOUR DEAD WILL LIVE THEIR CORPSES WILL RISE. YOU WHO LIVE IN THE DUST AWAKE
AND SHOUT FOR JOY...THE EARTH WILL GIVE BIRTH TO THE DEPARTED SPIRITS" ISAIAH
26:19
 

"THE MESSIANIC HOPE, RESURRECTION AND IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL ARE INTERTWINED
WITH THE SHOFAR ON ROSH HASHANAH." FROM MACHTZUR, JEWISH PRAYER BOOK FOR HIGH
HOLY DAYS.

THE BLOWING OF THE FIRST TRUMP OR SHOFAR, WAS THE LEFT HORN OF THE RAM ABRAHAM
SACRIFICED INSTEAD OF ISAAC, AT SINAI EXODUS 19:19
THE LAST TRUMP, THE RIGHT HORN OF THE RAM SACRIFICED AT SINAI, AND SPOKEN OF
IN 1CORINTHIANS 15:52 WILL BE BLOWN AT THE RAPTURE OF THE BODY OF MESSIAH AND
THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD.

JEWS READ THE 27 PSALM AND EZEKIEL 33 ON ROSH HASHANAH
"FOR IN THE DAY OF TROUBLE (THE TRIBULATION, JACOB'S TROUBLE), HE WILL CONCEAL
ME IN HIS TABERNACLE; IN THE SECRET PLACE OF HIS TENT, HE WILL HIDE ME." PSALM
27:5
EZEKIEL 33 SPEAKS OF SWORD COMING UPON THE LAND AND THE BLOWING OF THE TRUMPET
TO WARN THE PEOPLE TO REPENT OF THEIR SINS.

YET ANOTHER NAME FOR ROSH HASHANAH IS YOM HAKESH "THE DAY OF HIDING OR THE
"HIDDEN DAY". ROSH HASHANAH IS CALLED YOM HAKESH OR THE DAY OF HIDING BECAUSE
IT WAS HIDDEN FROM SATAN THE ADVERSARY.  SATAN COMES TO ROB AND STEAL JOHN
10:10 AND TO CONFUSE 1CORINTHIANS 14:33. SATAN DID NOT KNOW OR UNDERSTAND THE
PLAN OF THE CROSS 1CORINTHIANS 2:7-8  IT WAS HIDDEN FROM HIM AS WELL. THUS
SATAN IS NOT TO BE GIVEN NOTICE ABOUT THE ARRIVAL OF ROSH HASHANAH EITHER. IT
IS TO BE THE HIDDEN DAY.

BESIDES PSALM 27:5 OTHER SCRIPTURES SHOWING A PRETRIB RAPTURE
ZEPHANIAH 2:3 "PERHAPS YOU WILL BE HIDDEN IN THE DAY OF THE LORDS ANGER"
ISAIAH 26:20 "COME, MY PEOPLE, ENTER INTO YOUR ROOMS AND CLOSE THE DOORS
BEHIND YOU; HIDE FOR A LITTLE WHILE UNTIL THE INDIGNATION RUNS ITS COURSE."
ISAIAH 26:2 "OPEN THE GATES THAT THE RIGHTEOUS MAY ENTER".
ITHESSALONIANS 1:10 "WHO DELIVERS US FROM THE WRATH TO COME."
1THESSALONIANS 5:9 "FOR GOD HAS NOT DESTINED US FOR WRATH".
REVELATION 3:10 "I ALSO WILL KEEP YOU FROM THE HOUR OF TESTING"

"IN A MOMENT, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, AT  THE LAST SHOFAR(TRUMP), FOR THE
SHOFAR WILL SOUND AND THE DEAD WILL BE RAISED IMPERISHABLE AND WE SHALL BE
CHANGED" 1CORINTHIANS 15:52

"FOR THE LORD HIMSELF WILL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT, WITH THE VOICE OF
THE ARCHANGEL, AND WITH THE SHOFAR (TRUMPET OF GOD; AND THE DEAD IN CHRIST
SHALL RISE FIRST. THEN WE WHO ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN SHALL BE CAUGHT UP TOGETHER
WITH THEM IN THE CLOUDS TO MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR AND THUS WE SHALL ALWAYS
BE WITH THE LORD." 1THESSALONIANS 4:16-18.

I WROTE A NOVEL, THE GREAT HARPAZO DECEPTION WHERE I DEVELOPED THE IDEA THAT
THOSE LEFT BEHIND WOULD RATHER BELIEVE THAT WE WERE ABDUCTED BY SO CALLED
EXTRATERRESTRIALS THAN THAT WE ARE IN HEAVEN WITH JESUS.
"GOD WILL SEND UPON THEM A DELUDING INFLUENCE SO THAT THEY MIGHT BELIEVE WHAT
IS FALSE" II THESSALONIANS 2:11

WEDDING OF MESSIAH AND HIS BRIDE
SHAVUOT(PENTECOST) WAS TO BE THE MARRIAGE OF ISRAEL AND GOD
JEREMIAH 2:1-3 THE LOVE OF YOUR BETROTHALS
HOSEA 2 :19 "I WILL BETROTH YOU TO ME FOREVER".
THE KETUBAH, THE JEWISH  WEDDING CONTRACT WERE THE TABLETS OF STONE
ISRAEL ACCEPTED EXODUS 24:3
ISRAEL SINS WITH GOLDEN CALF. MOSES SMASHED TABLETS WEDDING OFF! EXODUS 32:19

BODY OF MESSIAH NOW BRIDE-BUT STILL FOLLOWS JEWISH WEDDING TRADITION.
EPHESIANS 5:22-23 "AS CHRIST IS THE HEAD(HUSBAND) OF THE CHURCH."
IICORINTHIANS 11:2 "FOR I BETROTHED YOU TO ONE HUSBAND...CHRIST".

WE LOVE BRIDEGROOM EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE NEVER SEEN HIM
 1PETER 1:8 "THOUGH YOU HAVE NOT SEEN HIM YOU LOVE HIM"
BRIDE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE
"KNOWING THAT YOU WERE NOT REDEEMED WITH PERISHABLE THINGS LIKE SILVER OR
GOLD...BUT WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD AS OF A LAMB UNBLEMISHED AND SPOTLESS, THE
BLOOD OF CHRIST"1PETER 1:18-19
1CORINTHIANS 6:20 "YOU HAVE BEEN BOUGHT WITH A PRICE"(CHRIST'S DEATH ON THE
CROSS).

WHEN YOU ACCEPT MESSIAH INTO YOUR HEART YOU BECOME BETROTHED TO HIM. THIS IS
PRIOR TO THE WEDDING. KETUBAH OR MARRIAGE CONTRACT HAS ALL PROMISES GOD HAS
PROMISED FOR BELIEVERS
2CORINTHIANS 1:20 "FOR AS MANY AS MAY BE THE PROMISES OF GOD IN HIM THEY ARE
YES."
BUT BRIDE HAS TO SAY YES TO BETROTHAL. TO GIVE HER CONSENT
"THE WORD IS IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART..IF YOU CONFESS WITH YOUR MOUTH
JESUS AS LORD AND BELIEVE IN YOUR HEART THAT GOD RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD YOU
SHALL BE SAVED" ROMANS 10:8-9
 THEN BRIDEGROOM GIVES FREE GIFTS TO THE BRIDE OF ETERNAL LIFE, AND THE HOLY
SPIRIT TO RESIDE IN US.
1CORINTHIANS 12:4 VARIETIES OF GIFTS BUT THE SAME SPIRIT
 
 

BRIDE NEEDS TO BE PURIFIED BY IMMERSION AS GOD DID ISRAEL
"I (LORD GOD) ENTERED INTO A COVENANT WITH YOU (ISRAEL) SO THAT YOU BECAME
MINE...THEN I BATHED YOU WITH WATER WASHED OFF YOUR BLOOD" EZEKIEL 16:8-9.
WE ARE BAPTIZED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT ACTS 1:5

JOHN 14:2-3 "I GO AND PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU IN MY FATHERS HOUSE"
WHEN FATHER APPROVED OF NEW QUARTERS BRIDEGROOM COULD CLAIM THE BRIDE AT ANY
TIME USUALLY AT NIGHT WITH A SHOUT AND BLOWING OF SHOFAR. MATTHEW 25:6,
REVELATION 4:1
BUT ONLY THE FATHER KNOWS THE TIME MATTHEW 24:36
ISAIAH 62:5 "AS THE BRIDEGROOM REJOICES OVER THE BRIDE, SO YOUR GOD WILL
REJOICE OVER YOU."
EPHESIANS 5:27 "HAVING NO SPOT OR WRINKLE...HOLY AND BLAMELESS."
ON DAY OF A JEWISH WEDDING ALL SINS ARE FORGOTTEN-STAND PURE WITHOUT SPOT OR
BLEMISH AS THEY ARE UNITED.

REVELATION 19:7 FOR THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB HAS COME AND HIS BRIDE HAS MADE
HERSELF READY." ALSO MATTHEW 22:2
BIBLICAL JEWISH COUPLE(YESHUA AND HIS BRIDE) CELEBRATE MARRIAGE FOR 7 DAYS IN
HIS FATHERS HOUSE WHILE 7 YEARS OF THE TRIBULATION RAGE ON EARTH. NOAH AND
FAMILY TOLD TO GET INTO ARK SEVEN DAYS BEFORE THE DOORS CLOSED GENESIS 7:10
MATTHEW 24:37.
FRIEND OF BRIDEGROOM AT THE DOOR LISTENING FOR CONSUMMATION OF THE MARRIAGE
JOHN 3:29 (JEWISH TRADITION ALSO).
AFTER 7 YEARS (DAYS) IN FATHERS HOUSE THE BRIDE(THE CHURCH) AND THE BRIDEGROOM
(JESUS) WILL LEAVE THE FATHERS HOUSE AND RETURN TO EARTH.
JOEL 2:15 "BLOW A SHOFAR IN ZION, CONSECRATE A FAST, PROCLAIM A SOLEMN
ASSEMBLY"
JOEL 2:16 "LET THE BRIDEGROOM COME OUT OF HIS ROOM AND THE BRIDE OUT OF HER
BRIDAL CHAMBER.!
THE GATES OF HEAVEN WILL BE CLOSED.

IT WILL BE YOM KIPPUR. THE DAY OF ATONEMENT. THE DAY OF JUDGMENT
THE DAY OF THE GREAT FAST. THE DAY WHEN YESHUA RETURNS TO EARTH TO RULE AND
REIGN WITH AN IRON ROD!
MARANA,TA! (MARANATHA)" OUR LORD, COME!