MONTH OF ELUL: September 4 – October 2, 2024

Tribe: GAD (Genesis 30:11; Genesis 49:19)

• Good expectation; Rewards will begin to manifest
• Faithful to their commitment

 

Characteristics: Preparation of Peace

The month of Elul is about preparing for the high and holy days between the Feast of Trumpets and the Feast of Tabernacles. Ephesians 6:15 says, “And having your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.” In biblical times, warfare involved standing your ground. The term “preparation” means foundation. As believers, we stand on the promise of the word of the Living God, not on fables. The foundation of peace keeps your heart and mind secure. Refuse to quit or give in to the enemy’s lies. Stand with faith, ready to march forward, because Jesus, the Prince of Peace, leads you!

 

The Eye of the Needle

Elul is known as “The Eye of the Needle” month in Israel. God doesn’t need much room to work in your life—He can do great things if you give Him just a little space. No area of your life is too small for Jesus to reign. He wants to fill you with grace, mercy, and power. Let Him make you ready for the abundance He is sending. God sees you as mighty and powerful—able to possess the land. Open your heart by faith and rejoice for what He will do!

 

The King Is In The Field

In Israel, during a special time, the king would leave his throne and go into the field to meet the people, allowing them to speak with him. Over 2,000 years ago, King Jesus left heaven to dwell among us (John 1:14). His presence remains on earth, inviting us to come to Him. His throne is a place of help, grace, and mercy. You can speak to Him, touch Him, and He will change your life. Ask Him—“Ask and it will be given.” You can trust the word of the King!

 

• Approach the King for what you need and let Him shine upon you.
• A month of spiritual service, organization, and management.
• A month to find yourself in the company of the Lord.

 

A Month to Fix What Is Broken

During Elul, the king would leave his palace and set up camp in the field, allowing everyone to approach him. Normally, access to the king required a formal summons, palace protocols, and strict guidelines. But in the month of Elul, the king came into the field, inviting people to come just as they were—no dress code, no intimidation. The king received everyone with a smiling face and listened to their concerns. The peasant in the field had the same access to the king as the highest-ranking official.

 

Biblical Examples of Kings in the Field

 

1. King Jehoshaphat (2 Chronicles 19)

Jehoshaphat went out among the people to turn their hearts back to the Lord and establish justice. He saw injustice and oppression, so he appointed judges to bring righteousness and fairness to the people.

2. King Melchizedek (Genesis 14)

Melchizedek met Abram in the field, blessing him with bread and wine after battle, strengthening and refreshing him.

3. King Jesus

Jesus, the greatest King, left His throne to dwell among us in mortal flesh. He came to manifest God’s goodness, love, and righteousness, drawing us into a relationship with the Father.

 

As kings and priests (Revelation 1:6), we are in the field like Christ. We should walk among the people with a smiling face, reconciling them to God with His love and righteousness.

 

“So we are Christ’s ambassadors, God making His appeal through us. We beg you on behalf of Christ to be reconciled to God.” — 2 Corinthians 5:20

 

Hebrew Letter: YUD

Appointed mercy from the hand of God.

 

Constellation: VIRGO (The Virgin)

“I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine.”

 

DECLARATIONS:

1. I DECREE, the foundation of peace is keeping my heart and mind.
2. I DECREE, I am preparing for the Holy Spirit to reveal light and power.
3. I DECREE, I am creating intentional time to meet with God, because the King is in the field!
4. I DECREE, I am walking in God’s favor.
5. I DECREE, faithfulness will manifest a great God reward.

 

Sealed Instructions

Date: 10/13/24

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Leviticus 16: The Day of Atonement

1. The Lord spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron who died when they approached the Lord.
2. The Lord said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron that he is not to come whenever he chooses into the Most Holy Place behind the curtain in front of the atonement cover on the ark, or else he will die. For I will appear in the cloud over the atonement cover.
3. “This is how Aaron is to enter the Most Holy Place: He must first bring a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.
4. He is to put on the sacred linen tunic, with linen undergarments next to his body; he is to tie the linen sash around him and put on the linen turban. These are sacred garments; he must bathe himself with water before he puts them on.
5. From the Israelite community he is to take two male goats for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.
6. “Aaron is to offer the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household.
7. He is to take the two goats and present them before the Lord at the entrance to the tent of meeting.
8. He is to cast lots for the two goats—one lot for the Lord and the other for the scapegoat.
9. Aaron shall bring the goat whose lot falls to the Lord and sacrifice it for a sin offering.
10. But the goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the Lord to be used for making atonement by sending it into the wilderness as a scapegoat.
11. “Aaron shall bring the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household, and he is to slaughter the bull for his own sin offering.
12. He is to take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the Lord and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense and take them behind the curtain.
13. He is to put the incense on the fire before the Lord, and the smoke of the incense will conceal the atonement cover above the tablets of the covenant law, so that he will not die.
14. He is to take some of the bull’s blood and with his finger sprinkle it on the front of the atonement cover; then he shall sprinkle some of it with his finger seven times before the atonement cover.
15. “He shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and take its blood behind the curtain and do with it as he did with the bull’s blood: He shall sprinkle it on the atonement cover and in front of it.
16. In this way he will make atonement for the Most Holy Place because of the uncleanness and rebellion of the Israelites, whatever their sins have been. He is to do the same for the tent of meeting, which is among them in the midst of their uncleanness.
17. No one is to be in the tent of meeting from the time Aaron goes in to make atonement in the Most Holy Place until he comes out, having made atonement for himself, his household, and the whole community of Israel.
18. “Then he shall come out to the altar that is before the Lord and make atonement for it. He shall take some of the bull’s blood and some of the goat’s blood and put it on all the horns of the altar.
19. He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times to cleanse it and to consecrate it from the uncleanness of the Israelites.
20. “When Aaron has finished making atonement for the Most Holy Place, the tent of meeting, and the altar, he shall bring forward the live goat.
21. He is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the wickedness and rebellion of the Israelites—all their sins—and put them on the goat’s head. He shall send the goat away into the wilderness in the care of someone appointed for the task.
22. The goat will carry on itself all their sins to a remote place; and the man shall release it in the wilderness.
23. “Then Aaron is to go into the tent of meeting and take off the linen garments he put on before he entered the Most Holy Place, and he is to leave them there.
24. He shall bathe himself with water in the sanctuary area and put on his regular garments. Then he shall come out and sacrifice the burnt offering for himself and the burnt offering for the people, to make atonement for himself and for the people.
25. He shall also burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar.
26. “The man who releases the goat as a scapegoat must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may come into the camp.
27. The bull and the goat for the sin offerings, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp; their hides, flesh, and intestines are to be burned up.
28. The man who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may come into the camp.

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Day of Atonement

1. “This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month you must deny yourselves and not do any work—whether native-born or a foreigner residing among you— 30 because on this day atonement will be made for you, to cleanse you. Then, before the Lord, you will be clean from all your sins.
2. It is a day of sabbath rest, and you must deny yourselves; it is a lasting ordinance.
3. The priest who is anointed and ordained to succeed his father as high priest is to make atonement. He is to put on the sacred linen garments
4. and make atonement for the Most Holy Place, for the tent of meeting, and the altar, and for the priests and all the members of the community.
5. “This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: Atonement is to be made once a year for all the sins of the Israelites.”

And it was done, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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Disappointment

Disappointment refers to sadness or displeasure caused by the non-fulfillment of one’s hopes or expectations. It comes from the Middle French word “disappointer,” meaning “undo the appointment” or “remove from office.” Disappointment can describe anything that crushes your hopes or ruins your day.

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Re-appointed

Definition: Appoint (someone) once again to a position they have previously held.

Example: “He was reappointed for a second term as chairman.”

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Flesh

Romans 6:

1. Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one’s slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?
2. I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness.
3. When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.
4. What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!
5. But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.
6. For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Romans 7:

1. So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good, evil is right there with me.
2. For in my inner being I delight in God’s law;
3. but I see another law at work in me, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within me.
4. What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body that is subject to death?
5. Thanks be to God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God’s law, but in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

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Romans 8:

1. For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

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The Flesh

Galatians 5:24: And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

Galatians 6:8: For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.

2 Corinthians 1:12: For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.

1 Peter 2:11: Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul.

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Thought

I’m removing from office the flesh and reappointing my spirit to lead.

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2 Chronicles 20

1. It happened after this that the people of Moab with the people of Ammon, and others with them besides the Ammonites, came to battle against Jehoshaphat.
2. Then some came and told Jehoshaphat, saying, “A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea, from Syria; and they are in Hazazon Tamar (which is En Gedi).
3. And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
4. So Judah gathered together to ask help from the Lord; and from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord.
5. Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, before the new court,
6. and said: “O Lord God of our fathers, are You not God in heaven, and do You not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations, and in Your hand is there not power and might, so that no one is able to withstand You?

He got His Focus (emotions) set on God.

1. Are You not our God, who drove out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel, and gave it to the descendants of Abraham Your friend forever?

He got his Mind focused on God’s Faithfulness!

1. And they dwell in it, and have built You a sanctuary in it for Your name, saying,
2. ‘If disaster comes upon us—sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine—we will stand before this temple and in Your presence (for Your name is in this temple), and cry out to You in our affliction, and You will hear and save.’
3. And now, here are the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir—whom You would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them and did not destroy them—
4. here they are, rewarding us by coming to throw us out of Your possession which You have given us to inherit.
5. O our God, will You not judge them? For we have no power against this great multitude that is coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are upon You.”

He got his confession directed toward God’s power.

1. Now all Judah, with their little ones, their wives, and their children, stood before the Lord.
2. Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, in the midst of the assembly.
3. And he said, “Listen, all you of Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you, King Jehoshaphat! Thus says the Lord to you: ‘Do not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God’s.
4. Tomorrow go down against them. They will surely come up by the Ascent of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the brook before the Wilderness of Jeruel.
5. You will not need to fight in this battle. Position yourselves, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, who is with you, O Judah and Jerusalem!’ Do not fear or be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them, for the Lord is with you.”
6. And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem bowed before the Lord, worshiping the Lord.

The Festival of Trumpets

LEV. 23:

23 The Lord said to Moses, 24 “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of sabbath rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts. 25 Do no regular work, but present a food offering to the Lord.’”

1 COR. 15:

51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”[a]

55 

“Where, O death, is your victory?
    Where, O death, is your sting?”[b]

56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Trumpets in scripture

  

• Exodus 19:13- Come Near God
  Not a hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot with an arrow;whether man or beast, he shall not live.’ When the trumpet sounds long, they shall come near the mountain.” 
• Exodus 19:16- -God answered
  Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled. 
• Exodus 19:19
  And when the blast of the trumpet sounded long and became
•  louder and louder, Mosesspoke, and God answered him by voice. 

• Numbers 10:2-10- Movement
  ‘Make two silver trumpets for yourself; you shall make them of hammered work; you shall use them for calling the congregation and for directing the movement of the camps. When they blow both of them, all the congregation shall gather before you at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. But if they blow only one, then the leaders, the heads of the divisions of Israel, shall gather to you. When you sound the advance, the camps that lie on the east side shall then begin their journey. When you sound the advance the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall begin their journey; they shall sound the call for them to begin their journeys. And when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but not sound the advance. The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and these shall be to you as an ordinance forever throughout your generations. ‘When you go to war in your land against the enemy who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the LORD your God, and you will be saved from your enemies. Also in the day of your gladness, in your appointed feasts, and at the beginning of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be a memorial for you before your God: I am the LORD your God.’
    
• Joel 2:1- ALARM
  Blow the trumpet in Zion,
  And sound an alarm in My holy mountain!
  Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble;
  For the day of the LORD is coming,
  For it is at hand:
  
    
• Matthew 24:31- RELEASE ANGELS
  And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
    
• 1 Thessalonians 4:16- Lord descends
  For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
    
• Revelation 11:15-18- Transformation
  Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, ‘The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!’ And the twenty-four elders who sat before God on their thrones fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying:
  ‘ We give You thanks, O Lord God Almighty,
  The One who is and who was and who is to come,
  Because You have taken Your great power and reigned.
  The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come,
  And the time of the dead, that they should be judged,
  And that You should reward Your servants the prophets and the saints,
  And those who fear Your name, small and great,
  And should destroy those who destroy the earth.”
    
• Numbers 29:1-6- Feast
  ‘And in the seventh month, on the first dayof the month, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work. For you it is a day of blowing the trumpets. You shall offer a burnt offering as a sweet aroma to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year, without blemish. Their grain offering shall be fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the ram, and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs; also one kid of the goats as a sin offering, to make atonement for you; besides the burnt offering with its grain offering for the New Moon, the regular burnt offering with its grain offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, as a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.
    
• Leviticus 25:9-10- Return lost items
  Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonementyou shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land. And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family.
    
• Zephaniah 1:16- High Places come down
  A day of trumpet and alarm
  Against the fortified cities
  And against the high towers.
  
    
• Psalm 47:5- God ascends
  God has gone up with a shout,
  The LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
  
    
• Psalm 81:3- Begin Revelation
  Blow the trumpet at the time of the New Moon,
  At the full moon, on our solemn feast day.
  
    
• Psalm 150:3- to Praise
  Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet;
  Praise Him with the lute and harp!
  
    
• Revelation 8:6-8– End Times
  So the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. The first angel sounded: And hail and fire followed, mingled with blood, and they were thrown to the earth. And a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up. Then the second angel sounded: And something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood.
   
    
• Joshua 6:13- The Presence
  Then seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually and blew with the trumpets. And the armed men went before them. But the rear guard came after the ark of the LORD, while the priests continued blowing the trumpets.
    
• Joshua 6:16- SHOUT
  And the seventh time it happened, when the priests blew the trumpets, that Joshua said to the people: “Shout, for the LORD has given you the city!
    
• Joshua 6:20- Walls Fall
  So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets. And it happened when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat. Then the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
    
• Judges 3:27- Lead to Victory
  And it happened, when he arrived, that he blew the trumpet in the mountains of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mountains; and he led them.
    
• Judges 7:16-20- Miracle Deliverance
  Then he divided the three hundred men intothree companies, and he put a trumpet into every man’s hand, with empty pitchers, and torches inside the pitchers. And he said to them, “Look at me and do likewise; watch, and when I come to the edge of the camp you shall do as I do: When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then you also blow the trumpets on every side of the whole camp, and say, ‘The sword of the LORD and of Gideon!’” So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outpost of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just as they had posted the watch; and they blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers that were in their hands. Then the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the pitchers—they held the torches in their left hands and the trumpets in their right hands for blowing—and they cried, “The sword of the LORD and of Gideon!”
    
• Judges 7:22
  When the three hundred blew the trumpets, the LORD set every man’s sword against his companion throughout the whole camp; and the army fled to Beth Acacia, toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath.
   
    
• 2 Samuel 2:28- Froze Enemy
  So Joab blew a trumpet; and all the people stood still and did not pursue Israel anymore, nor did they fight anymore.
   
    
• 1 Kings 1:39- ANOINT
  Then Zadok the priest took a horn of oil from the tabernacle and anointed Solomon. And they blew the horn, and all the people said, “Long live King Solomon!”
   
    
• 1 Chronicles 15:24
  Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, were to blow the trumpets before the ark of God; and Obed-Edom and Jehiah, doorkeepers for the ark.
    
• 1 Chronicles 16:6
  Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests regularly blew the trumpets before the ark of the covenant of God.
    
• 1 Chronicles 16:42
  and with them Heman and Jeduthun, to sound aloud with trumpets and cymbals and the musical instruments of God. Now the sons of Jeduthun were gatekeepers.
    
• 2 Chronicles 5:12-13
  and the Levites who were the singers, all those of Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, stood at the east end of the altar, clothed in white linen, having cymbals, stringed instruments and harps, and with them one hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets’ indeed it came to pass, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD, and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the LORD, saying:
  “For He is good,
  For His mercy endures forever,” that the house, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud,
    
• 2 Chronicles 7:6
  And the priests attended to their services; the Levites also with instruments of the music of the LORD, which King David had made to praise the LORD, saying, “For His mercy endures forever,” whenever David offered praise by their ministry. The priests sounded trumpets opposite them, while all Israel stood.
    
• 2 Chronicles 13:12
  Now look, God Himself is with us as ourhead, and His priests with sounding trumpets to sound the alarm against you. O children of Israel, do not fight against the LORD God of your fathers, for you shall not prosper!’
    
• 2 Chronicles 13:14
  And when Judah looked around, to their surprise the battle line was at both front and rear; and they cried out to the LORD, and the priests sounded the trumpets.
    
• 2 Chronicles 15:14
  Then they took an oath before the LORD with a loud voice, with shouting and trumpets and rams’ horns.
    
• 2 Chronicles 23:13
  When she looked, there was the king standing by his pillar at the entrance; and the leaders and the trumpeters were by the king. All the people of the land were rejoicing and blowing trumpets, also the singers with musical instruments, and those who led in praise. So Athaliah tore her clothes and said, “Treason! Treason!”
    
• 2 Chronicles 29:26
  The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
    
• 2 Chronicles 29:28
  So all the assembly worshiped, the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded; all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.
    
• Job 39:24
  He devours the distance with fierceness and rage;
  Nor does he come to a halt because the trumpet has sounded.
    
• Isaiah 18:3
  All inhabitants of the world and dwellers on the earth:
  When he lifts up a banner on the mountains, you see it;
  And when he blows a trumpet, you hear it.
  
    
• Isaiah 27:13- Call to Worship
  So it shall be in that day:
  The great trumpet will be blown;
  They will come, who are about to perish in the land of Assyria,
  And they who are outcasts in the land of Egypt,
  And shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
    
• Jeremiah 4:5
  Declare in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say:
  “ Blow the trumpet in the land;
  Cry, ‘Gather together,’
  And say, ‘Assemble yourselves,
  And let us go into the fortified cities.’
  
    
• Jeremiah 51:27
  Set up a banner in the land,
  Blow the trumpet among the nations!
  Prepare the nations against her,
  Call the kingdoms together against her:
  Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz.
  Appoint a general against her;
  Cause the horses to come up like the bristling locusts.
  
   
    
• Ezekiel 33:6- Warning
  But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.”
   
    
• Joel 2:15- A fast
  Blow the trumpet in Zion,
  Consecrate a fast,
  Call a sacred assembly;
  
   
    
• Psalm 98:6-JOY
  With trumpets and the sound of a horn;
  Shout joyfully before the LORD, the King.
   
   
    
• Zechariah 9:14
  Then the LORD will be seen over them,
  And His arrow will go forth like lightning.
  The Lord GOD will blow the trumpet,
  And go with whirlwinds from the south.
  
  
    

Related Scriptures

• Psalm 47:1
  Oh, clap your hands, all you peoples!
  Shout to God with the voice of triumph!
  
    
• 1 Corinthians 15:52
  in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
    
• Revelation 11:19
  Then the temple of God was opened in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple. And there were lightnings, noises, thunderings, an earthquake, and great hail.
    
• Psalm 81:1
  To the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm of Asaph.
  Sing aloud to God our strength;
  Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob.

SHANA TOVA- HAPPY NEW YEAR:

• It is customary to eat sweet foods like apples, honey and chocolate, and to give such gifts for a sweet new year. 
• There is a concept of your good and bad deeds being weighed on the scales to see if you’re good enough to be written in the book of life at this time leading up to Yom Kippur, the day of. 
• The meaning of complete forgiveness and atonement for sin do the sacrifice of a sinless other has been lost somewhere down the line. 
• The trumpets signal the sacrifice for atonement was Jesus fulfilled. They convey the preaching of the word and victory over death. 
• The sacrifice has been paid. The battle has been won. We can freely enter into his precious rest and feast with the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 
• Now that’s worth blowing a trumpet about!

GOD PART: 

JOHN 15

1 “I am the true grapevine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch of mine that doesn’t produce fruit, and he prunes the branches that do bear fruit so they will produce even more.3 You have already been pruned and purified by the message I have given you. 4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me. 5 “Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing. 6 Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned. 7 But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted! 8 When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father. 9 “I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. 10 When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. 11 I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow! 

ISAIAH 30:

15 For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel:

“In returning-(shoo-baw’)

Definition: retirement, withdrawal 

and rest – (nakh’-ath- quiet attitude, rest of death)

you shall be saved; (Niph`al:

 to deliver , be capacious, make wide, spacious, make sufficient, be or live in abundance)

In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.”-(gheb-oo-raw’)

Definition: strength, might

But you would not,

18 Therefore the Lord will wait, that He may be gracious to you;

And therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you.

For the Lord is a God of justice;

Blessed are all those who wait for Him.

23 Then He will give the rain for your seed
With which you sow the ground,
And bread of the increase of the earth;
It will be [g]fat and plentiful.
In that day your cattle will feed
In large pastures.

24 Likewise the oxen and the young donkeys that work the ground
Will eat cured fodder,
Which has been winnowed with the shovel and fan.

25 There will be on every high mountain
And on every high hill
Rivers and streams of waters,
In the day of the great slaughter,
When the towers fall.

26 Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun,
And the light of the sun will be sevenfold,
As the light of seven days,
In the day that the Lord binds up the bruise of His people
And heals the stroke of their wound.

ASCEND

Every time an ascension happened in Scripture, something greater was released from heaven and came back to earth.

Enoch was one of the first mentioned in the Bible who ascended to be with God. “Enoch lived sixty-five years, and begot Methuselah. After he begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters. So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him” (Genesis 5:21-24). 

Enoch walked with God at such a level of communion that he and the Lord were just walking and talking in the spiritual realm, and they went the rest of the way together.

The ascension was awesome, but here’s the most incredible part: Enoch did all that while he had kids. Some say, “My kids occupy so much of my time that I don’t really have time to have that high level of walking with the Lord.” 

If you ask the Lord, He’ll help you live in two realms at the same time. Nothing is impossible with God. 

A true prophetic person is someone who can see two realms at once.

 

Moses: Moses ascended up Mount Sinai, spent several days with the Lord, and watched the fiery finger of God write His law upon the Ten Commandments. 

He got so soaked in glory that he had to veil his face to prevent people from looking at him. Moses came back with the Ten Commandments and the Torah.

      

Isaiah– ascended to the throne room, had his lips cleansed, and received a prophetic commissioning (see Isaiah 6). 

He ascended and then descended to give us the rest of the book of Isaiah, which spoke of Jesus some 700 years before He was born. 

In chapter 66, he wrote about the new heavens and the new earth, which we have not yet experienced.

All three of those demonstrate what can happen when God grants access to ascension and allows you to see into eternity. 

That’s the power of a throne room encounter. Spend more time in the secret place than you do in the public space. 

JESUS– When one of God’s children ascends, something gets released—new levels, new dimensions. We saw this happen multiple times with Jesus. 

When Jesus ascended for the last time, until the second coming, something greater descended ten days later: Pentecost. 

When Jesus ascended into heaven, He sent to believers the same Spirit that raised Him from the dead, giving them the power to preach the gospel and perform signs, wonders, and miracles.

      

Jesus said, “Hereafter you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending” (see John 1:51). 

There is coming a time—the kingdom age—when messengers of God will be given access to ascend and descend. And it will not just be angels as we know them, but also God’s human messengers. 

• When they ascend and descend, they’re going to come back with the power and message of the kingdom.
• They’re going to bring back healing, deliverance, and prophetic words.
• They’re going to carry the demonstration of the Spirit and His power.
• That’s the ascending and descending to which we’re being called.

“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you” (Matthew 6:33).

 

ABIDES

Abide in Jesus So You Can Bear Good Fruit

God loves you so much and He wants to do great things in you and through you. He wants to teach and train you to be kind and gentle, peaceful and patient, loving and forgiving like Him. 

But you can’t develop that “fruit” on your own. 

John 15:4, Jesus says, Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me.

In other words, we need to spend time with God.

He wants a close, personal, intimate relationship with each of us. 

When we stay connected to God through meaningful Bible study and prayer, we’re abiding in Jesus. 

God wants us to be so rooted and grounded in His love that nothing can shake us—so we’re able to bear good fruit in even the hardest, most difficult seasons of life. 

ADVANCE

Keep Your Eye on the Prize

Philippians 3:13-14, the apostle Paul said, …One thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 

Make a determined decision to let go of the past and press on to experience a fuller, richer, more abundant life in Christ. 

Pray today: “God, I’m tired of dragging this heavy load around with me. I’m ready to let it go so I can get on with my life and experience a closer relationship with You. 

JAMES 1

Trials and Temptations

2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 

3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 

4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

TESTING:

Cognate: 1383 dokímion– what is found approved (genuine) after testing, focusing on the inevitable results of thiS.

FAITH:

Faith (4102/pistis) is always a gift from God, and never something that can be produced by people. In short, 4102/pistis (“faith”) for the believer is “God’s divine persuasion” – and therefore distinct from human belief (confidence), yet involving it. The Lord continuously births faith in the yielded believer so they can know what He prefers, i.e. the persuasion of His will (1 Jn 5:4).

PRODUCES:

2716 katergázomai (from 2596 /katá, “down, exactly according to,” intensifying 2038 /ergázomai, “work, accomplish”) – literally, “work down to the end-point,” i.e. to an exact, definite conclusion.

ENDURANCE:

5281 hypomonḗ (from 5259 /hypó, “under” and 3306 /ménō, “remain, endure”) – properly, remaining under, endurance; steadfastness, especially as God enables the believer to “remain (endure) under” the challenges He allots in life

HEBREWS 11

By Faith We Understand

1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. 

Original language:

Is now Faith of hoped for assurance, of things the conviction not being seen.

2 For by it the elders obtained a good testimony.

3 By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.

FAITH:

4102 pístis (from 3982/peithô, “persuade, be persuaded”) – properly, persuasion (be persuaded, come to trust); faith.

Faith (4102/pistis) is always a gift from God, and never something that can be produced by people. In short, 4102/pistis (“faith”) for the believer is “God’s divine persuasion” – and therefore distinct from human belief (confidence), yet involving it. The Lord continuously births faith in the yielded believer so they can know what He prefers, i.e. the persuasion of His will (1 Jn 5:4).

HOPED:

1679 elpízō (from 1680 /elpís, “hope”) – to hope, actively waiting for God’s fulfillment about the faith He has inbirted through the power of His love (cf. Gal 5:6 with Heb 11:1)

ASSURANCE:

5287 hypóstasis(from 5259 /hypó, “under” and 2476 /hístēmi, “to stand”) – properly, (to possess) standing under a guaranteed agreement (“title-deed”); (figuratively) “title” to a promise or property, i.e. a legitimate claim (because it literally is, “under a legal-standing“) – entitling someone to what is guaranteed under the particular agreement.

CONVICTION:

Cognate: 1650 élegxos (a masculine noun) – inner conviction focuses on God confirming His inbirthing of faith (“the internal persuasion from Him,” see 4102 /pístis). See 1651 (elegxō)1. a proof, that by which a thing is proved or tested.

SEEN:

991 blépō – properly, to see, be observant (watchful). 991 (blépō) suggests “to see something physical, with spiritual results (perception).” That is, it carries what is seen into the non-physical (immaterial) realm so a person can take the needed action (respond, beware, be alert)

The Parable of the Sower

MATTHEW 13 

1 On the same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the sea. 

2 And great multitudes were gathered together to Him, so that He got into a boat and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.

3 Then He spoke many things to them in parables, saying: “Behold, a sower went out to sow. 

4 And as he sowed, some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds came and devoured them. 

5 Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth. 

6 But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away. 

7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them. 

8 But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. 

9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

The Parable of the Sower Explained

18 “Therefore hear the parable of the sower: 

19 When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside. 

20 But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; 

21 yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles. 

22 Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. 

23 But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”

UNDERSTANDS:

4920 syníēmi (from 4862 /sýn, “together with” and hiēmi, “put, send”) – properly, put together, i.e. join facts (ideas) into a comprehensive (inter-locking) whole; synthesize.

4920 /syníēmi (“put facts together”) means to arrive at a summary or final understanding (complete with life-applications). Accordingly, 4920 (syníēmi) is closely connected with discerning and doing “the preferred-will of God” (2307 /thélēma)