Shabbat Shalom, everyone. Thank you so much for coming to the meeting today, and I'm grateful to the Lord to be able, in such a meeting as we have on our regular Saturday Shabbat meeting, to be able to open the Word of God, to be able to look into the Scripture and learn from the Scripture of God's plan, both for Israel on the one hand, for the assembly on the other hand, and for the whole world in the program and the plan that God has found in His Word. Today, of course, is our Rosh Hashanah service, the Feast of Trumpet meeting, and I would like us to go through some verses in Scripture to help us better understand, you might say, with the Lord's help through a chapter that is very important.

It's found in Leviticus chapter 23. If you don't mind, if you will turn with me to Leviticus chapter 23, it's one of the most important chapters in the Hebrew Scriptures that gives us, you might say, some light concerning. The plan and the program of God, both for Israel, the assembly, as well as for the world itself. Now, I would like to read some selective verses. We have just heard the shofar, the ram horn being blown. And today or tomorrow evening in Israel, the feast of blowing of the shofar, the feast of trumpets known to us in the English world is being celebrated and kept by the nation of Israel.

Now, this feast was not introduced by men. It was given to us by God. It was given to the people of Israel by God himself. And he commended our forefathers to keep that feasts throughout their generation. Of course, Israel do not know that the Messiah has come as yet as a nation. Israel is waiting in a future day when they will open their eyes to see that Yeshua, that the Lord Yeshua, the Lord Jesus is truly indeed the promised Messiah and the Savior of this world. So I would like to read some selective verses. The first verses I would like to read is found in Leviticus chapter 23, and notice that, verses 23, 24, and 25, and I'm reading, it says here in verse 23, and the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, speak unto the children of Israel.

Saying, in the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a Shabbat, a Sabbath in English, Shabbat in Hebrew, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, and holy convocation. Ye shall do no servile work therein, but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. The second verse I would like to read is found in Numbers chapter 29. Please, If you turn with me now to Numbers chapter 29, there the Lord continues to give instruction to his people Israel, and there he said to them in Numbers chapter 29, the first six verses, he gives an instruction for our forefathers Israel, again in relationship to the Feast of trumpets, and notice what it says there, Numbers 29 verse 1, and in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have a holy convocation, ye shall do no servile work, it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you, and ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet saviour unto the Lord, one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without.

Blemish. Verse 3, and their meal offering shall be of a flower mingled with oil, three-tenths deals for a bullock and two-tenths deals for a ram, and one-tenth deal for one lamb throughout the seven lambs. Verse 5, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering to make an atonement for you beside the burnt offering of the month and his meal offering of the daily burnt offering and his meal offering and their drink offering according unto their manner for a sweet Savior, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord now this is in the Torah in the book of Leviticus and the book of Numbers now if you don't mind please turn with me to the book of Psalms and I like to read a verse or two in the book of Psalms Psalm 81 so we will have the Scripture before us Psalm 81 And there I'm going to read, dear brothers and sisters, the first four verses of Psalm 81.

This is from the writing now. Psalm 81 and verse 1. To the chief musician upon Gittit, Epsom of Asaph, sing aloud unto God our strength, make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. Take a Psalm and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. Notice verse 3, blow up the trumpet. In Hebrew, kik'u b'chodesh shofar. In the new moon, in the time of appointed on our solemn feast day, For this was a status for Israel and a law of the God of Jacob. So I read from the Torah, Leviticus and Numbers. I read from the writing. And now, if you don't mind, turn with me to Isaiah.

And I would like to read a passage from the prophets. Isaiah chapter 27. And there I'm reading verses 12 and 13. Isaiah 27, verses 12 and 13, the last two verses of this 27th chapter. And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt. And ye shall be gathered one by one, all ye children of Israel. Verse 13 said, and it shall come to pass in that day that the great trumpet shall be blown and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria and the outcasts in the land of Egypt and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

So you notice beloved brothers and sisters I read from the Torah I read from the Nevi'im and I read from the Ketuvim the law the prophets and the writings one more verse if you will bear with me I would like to read in the that is the new covenant the new testament and there I would like you to turn with me to Matthew chapter 24 here is the Lord Jesus the Messiah is speaking and he is predicting that which will happen in a future day in relationship to the people of Israel Matthew chapter 24 verses 29 30 and 31 and here is the Lord Yeshua the Messiah himself is speaking he said in verse 29 immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened and the moon shall not.

Give her light and the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of the heaven shall be shaken And then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn. And they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels. Notice verse 31. He shall send angels with a great sound of the shofar, sound of the trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other. And I'm going to stop here with the reading.

I might connect some other verses with these passages that I read. I would like you to look at me today at two charts that I would like you to look at that will help us to understand. Of course, if you notice that we have began by reading today in a book of Leviticus, and as we were reading in the book of Leviticus, we have noticed that a book of Leviticus is speaking about the seven feasts that the Lord have given our people, the people of Israel. Now, I'd like you to look for a moment to help us to kind of understand that here we have the seven feasts of Jehovah.

These seven feasts, in Hebrew we call it Moadim. It's not merely a celebration, but it is an appointed season. The word Moed in Hebrew means an appointed season. When you say Moadim in plural, you say appointed seasons. In other words, God gave his people Israel, the nation of Israel, seven feasts or seven appointed seasons, and they're all found together, you might say, in one package in Leviticus chapter 23. These seasons or these appointed seasons were not a suggestion by God, but it was a command of God. And when God demanded from his people to keep this appointment, he meant it. He wanted Israel, the nation being around him, to enjoy the God of Israel, to celebrate and to keep his feast and to enjoy fellowship with the God of Israel.

Just like believers today, we read in the New Testament, in the Brita Hadashah, the New Covenant, our fellowship is with the Father and with the Son. We have a relationship of fellowship with the Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, and with God the Father. Well, Israel, our people were called to enjoy fellowship with the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. So he gave Israel those seven feasts. Now you will notice, beloved brothers and sisters, that the seven feasts are divided into two parts. You might say two sections. We have the spring feasts and we have the fall feasts. And in between you have about three and a half to four months.

That is, you might say, a break between the first spring feasts and the last fall feasts that the Lord had given Israel. Let me for a moment just give you the name of those seven feasts, which you can read it. The first one is Pesach in Hebrew, Passover in English. The second one is Matzot in Hebrew, unleavened bread in English. The third one is Katsir in Hebrew, in English is firstfruits. The fourth one is Shavuot in Hebrew, and in English it's really weeks or you say Pentecost in the Greek, which means 50. Then you have a break in between, and then the remaining three feasts are the fall feasts.

Number five is the Feast of Trumpets. In Hebrew, we call it the blowing of the Shofar, which we call it, as we know it, Rosh Hashanah, the Feast of Trumpets, or Zikaron Tu'a in Hebrew. Then you have the Solemn Day of Atonement, Yom HaKippurim. And finally, we have the Feast of Tabernacle, which in Hebrew we call a Sukkot. Now, if you will know this, beloved brothers and sisters, Every one of these feasts had been kept by the people of Israel throughout the history of the nation of Israel. Sometimes they couldn't because they were a way out of the land. Sometimes they violated the word of God and they didn't keep the feasts that God had appointed to them.

But God had demanded from our people of all the people of Israel to keep all these seven feasts. If you remember in the time of Passover, Our forefathers came out of Egypt. The blood was shed on the doorposts and the lintel. Then they kept the feast of unleavened bread when they enjoyed to eat the unleavened bread without no sin, without no leaven in it. Then every sheaf that they have received, the first fruit they brought before the Lord as an offering of thanksgiving. Then, of course, we have the feast of Shavuot, the feast of weeks. They have offered two loaves of bread before the Lord and they celebrated before God for all his provision.

Then we have the blowing of the trumpet like Israel will celebrate tomorrow. If you're going to be in Israel tomorrow night, the shofar will be blown. The religious community will be in the Temple Mount area and they will cry to God and they will seek to be restored to him. And then we have, of course, the Day of Atonement in which Aaron, if you remember, biblical days came in one day a year on the 10th day of the month of Tishrei to make atonement for the nation of Israel and finally the feast of Booth where Israel dwell in Booth in Sukkot in Tabernacle looking back at the faithfulness of the God of our fathers.

Now I'm taking you over these charts because I would like you to visualize in your mind the historical setting of these yearly cycle feasts that God have demanded Israel, our people, to keep. But in addition to this, and this is why it is so important to learn from the Word of God, from the Bible, and to get, you might say, spiritually enriched as we learn from the Word of God. Because every feast of these seven, every one of them without exception, has a reference to one man. His name is Yeshua, Jesus. He is the promised Messiah that God had promised our forefathers, the people of Israel.

He's the Savior of this world who came down to this world to become the Redeemer, the Savior of sinners, but the one that God had promised to our forefathers, the people of Israel. So when you look at these feasts, which are kept by our people every year you look at this prophetically and typically you see there on the top line that is all centered in the person and the work of Yeshua Jesus the Messiah of course Passover reminds us of his death he came from heaven beloved brothers and sisters to pay for. The sin not only of the sin of Israel but the sin of the whole world you remember what we read in 1st Corinthians 5 we read the Messiah our Passover had been sacrificed for us but not only that we learn from the feast of unleavened bread that he was the one that was sinless and undefiled and he wants his own people to live in fellowship with him without any practice of ongoing sin he wants us to have a life that is a life that is without leaven because Scripture tells us that leaven represents sin then we have the feast of first fruits and this apply to the resurrection of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah first Corinthians 15 said that he was risen from among the dead and God took him and placed him at the pinnacle of the universe and then beloved brothers and sisters 50 days after, God sent the Holy Spirit of God, and the Holy Spirit of God united believers in the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, into one body.

You remember 1 Corinthians tells us, by one spirit we were all baptized into one body. Whether it is Jews or Gentiles, we were all being placed together into one body, and that happened in the day of Pentecost or Shavuot when the Holy Spirit of God descended. Here, if you notice, the high priest represents the two loaves with leaven, which speaks about Jew and Gentile who still have leaven in them. We all are sinners, but he's represented here the two people and united us together. And since the time when the Holy Spirit of God came until today, the prophetic clock continue to tick until the fall feast of the Lord will come to fruition.

And that's where we find ourselves today, the feast of trumpets. Until then, I just want you to see for a moment, we're going to turn to another chart right now. And I want you to notice that it's a little bit of a different kind of a chart is to help you. You will notice that all the first four feasts have already been fulfilled you notice these all have been already fulfilled in the person of the Lord Jesus the Messiah. And in the coming of the Holy Spirit of God to unite the body of believers you notice Passover, unleavened bread, first fruits and weeks all have been fulfilled and we beloved brothers and sisters live right there in between the fourth feast and the fifth feast.

And let me just read this for you in Leviticus 23, verse 22. It represents the present day age of the ecclesia, the assembly of called out ones, both Jews and Gentiles alike. All true believers in the rejected Lord Jesus, the Messiah, who lived, died, and rose again some 2,000 years ago during his first coming, who said in Matthew 16, verse 18, I will build my assembly. Yeshua the Messiah will come again a second time to restore Israel and the world to himself, according to Daniel 7, 13, Revelation 1, verse 7, where we read, Behold, he come with clouds, and every eye shall see him, And they also which pierced him, and all kinders of the earth shall wail because of him, even so.

Amen. Now you notice, beloved brothers and sisters, that all the first four feasts that are mentioned in Leviticus chapter 23 is a past history. It is done. It is already have gone. If you were going to look at the other chart a little bit more, you might say a little bit clearer and closer. You notice again the first feast, Passover, Matzot, Unleavened Bread, Katsir, First Fruit, Shavuot. All these four feasts are done. They are finished. All of them have been fulfilled and here are the New Testament passages which you can write for yourself and then later on to help you in your study. Now, there are three feasts that even though they are celebrated every week, but as far as the prophetic clock, they are still to be fulfilled in a future day.

And those feasts, of course, are Rosh Hashanah, the Feast of Trumpets, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and Chatz Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacle. All these three fall feasts are still waiting the future day when the Messiah will return. Let me just do one more thing to help us maybe understand. Notice the meaning of the seven feasts. Passover means redemption. First fruits means sanctification. First fruits, I should say, the Feast of Unleavened Bread means sanctification. The Feast of Firstfruits speaks of resurrection. And then the Feast of what we know today, the Feast of Weeks, speaks of the origination where the new covenant had began. Then we have the three fall feasts, which is restoration of Israel, regeneration of Israel, and culmination when the Messianic kingdom will come to fruition.

We will still leave this on for you to see, But I'd like you now to come with me back to the Word of God. And I would like to highlight certain things that we have read in the passages today. We begin in our reading today, brothers and sisters, in Leviticus chapter 23. And notice that it's very interesting. Because in Leviticus chapter 23, verses 23, 24, and 25, God gives to Israel a requirement, but he does not tell them why he requires from them to keep that special feast. This is the Feast of Trumpet. He says to them in verse 23, And the Lord speak unto Moses, speaking to the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, ye shall have a Shabbat, A memorial of the blowing of the trumpet and holy convocation.

Ye shall do no servile work therein, but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. You notice that this feast, this Moed in Hebrew, Moed number five, the Feast of Trumpet, was given to our forefathers, to the people of Israel, but God doesn't give them a reason. He doesn't give Israel even a reason. There's no reason here that God give in this text. When it's come to the Passover, he says, because I brought you out of the land of Egypt. When it's come to the unleavened bread, he says, because you did not have time for the leaven to rise, but you fled and you left the land of Egypt.

But here he doesn't give them any reason. So over the years, they were struggling. The leaders of Israel struggled. What does it mean that God has required from our forefathers to keep this feast of trumpet, but he doesn't give them a reason? And the rabbis over the years have developed, you might say, a way whereby they would keep that feast of the blowing of the trumpet. But they also said that on this occasion, which is the first day of the month of Tishrei, A God is sitting as a judge, and the whole world passed by him, and he is going to judge whoever sinned, whoever did not repent and did not turn to the Lord, turn to God.

He will sit as a judge. Books are open before him. One of them is the book of the living, Sefer HaChayim in Hebrew. The other one is the book of the dead, Sefer HaMetim. And then you have this book that is, because all somehow have sinned, there is one that is neither still alive or going to remain alive, neither shall die. And so from the first day of the month of Tishrei till the day of atonement, ten days later, our own people would desire from the Lord to forgive them. And they began, it began the 10 days of awe. It's called the 10 days of awe. It become known to the Jewish people as the new year, Rosh Hashanah in Hebrew means the head of the year.

And from then on, the Jewish people, they began to turn to God in prayer and of confession and go to one another, ask for forgiveness, Seeking that their names will be inscribed in the book of the living, the book of life. That's why you will notice when you will speak to some of our Jewish people, they will say, What does that mean? May you be inscribed for a good year, and you will be inscribed in the book of the living. And so they will turn around to each other, and they will repent and ask for forgiveness. And you remember as we chanted together Avinu Malkeinu, we just read Our Father, our King, we have no king but thee.

Our Father, our King, deal with us kindly for the sake of thy name. Our Father, our King, renew for us a new year. Our Father, our King, we have sinned before thee. They will begin this new year, you might say, for the Jewish people by repenting. It's so much different that than the nations of the world when December 31st is coming, where you know very well what's going on in the world in which we live in, that the world will celebrate the beginning of the new year by midnight with drinking, with all sorts of ways that are not becoming to the Lord. They will be unsober when they will begin the new year in general, I'm speaking, But the conservative Jewish people, for them, Rosh Hashanah, the head of the year, the Feast of Trumpet, is a solemn day.

They will dress in white. I still remember my grandfather will dress in white garment when he goes to the synagogue. He will wear shoes that are not made out of leather. Instead of having pleasure, you are humbling yourself. And you are coming to the synagogue with a sense of confession and repentance before the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. But again, it is not found in Leviticus 23, verses 23, 24, and 25. But it was in 10 days before the Day of Atonement where God would make atonement for Israel. So Israel will prepare themselves for the Day of Atonement where God will seal them whether they will be inscribed in the book of life or inscribed in the book of death.

Whether they will live or whether they will die. So they repent and confess their sins for these 10 days. Ask forgiveness from one another and ask that the Lord will somehow restore our fellowship and relationship with one another. By the way, we should do it as believers as well because oftentimes our relationships with each other are not healthy and we know very well that we need to do this ourselves in our personal life today as believers. Israel, the Jewish community, is preparing for the Day of Atonement. You notice another thing that is very interesting, that God demanded from them to blow the shofar. And you notice this, we read in verse 24, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying in the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a Shabbat, a memorial of the blowing of the trumpet.

In Hebrew it's called zikaron, the word memorial is a reminder, to remember. And again, we don't have a reason what to remember, but over the generation, our people have developed what is to remember. And you notice that one of the things that they believe, or we are being taught, that God is to remember the covenant that he made with Abraham, Isaac, and with Jacob. The people of Israel, to remember that they are a people that have been chosen by God. They need to be restored and live in fellowship with God and not to live a life of sin. So the shofar is being heard. Some even suggest that it is to confound Satan and not to allow him to attack the people of God.

You know what Satan is called? The accuser of the brethren in Revelation chapter 12. And so those reasons have been developed over the years by our forefathers. But God has clearly gave the command for the people of Israel that they ought to remember to blow the shofar on the first day of the month of Tishrei, which is beginning tomorrow evening in the Jewish, in the Hebrew calendar. One more thing to remember here in this passage. In verse 25, the people of Israel are not to do any servile work therein. It is a high Shabbat. You have the ordinary Shabbat, the seventh day of the week, but the first day of the month of Tishrei become like a high holiday, a high Shabbat.

And that's why you will notice that Israel was told no servile work will happen on that particular day because that day is to be devoted to the Lord himself. And Israel is not to do any servile work. And finally, God tells them in verse 25, you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. That means that in order for sin to be forgiven, an offering, sacrifices must be offered. And every time, beloved brothers and sisters, in the biblical history from Genesis chapter 3, When sin entered into this world, until the Lord Jesus, Yeshua the Messiah, came, many, many animal sacrifices have been offered by our forefathers.

But all these sacrifices serve to be object lesson, the pointing Israel unto the coming of the Messiah. And in order for them to receive forgiveness of sins and atonement for their sins, That sacrifices must be killed. An innocent animal, whether it is a lamb or a ram, or whether it is a calf, an animal that is sinless, without any blemish, and it had to be killed. Its blood had to be shed and applied to the altar. And that reminds us so vividly of the precious blood of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah when he came from heaven down to this earth, he laid down his life, he shed his precious blood, and he gave himself to become a ransom for many.

And so the feast of a trumpet remind us of the fact that Israel is to remember the responsibility before God and the need to turn back to the Lord. And look with me one more time. It's got these charts that we have. Either one will be fine. You will notice that, beloved brothers and sisters, that here you will notice that the blowing of the trumpet, Yom Tu'ah in Hebrew, Rosh Hashanah, the Feast of Trumpets, we read in Leviticus 23, verses 23 to 25, it is happened on the Hebrew month of Tishrei, the first day of the month of Tishrei, which is in September, October, and it speaks of Israel's physical restoration back to the land as we look at the chart itself.

Now, I want to dwell a little bit about the prophetic aspect of this passage. And for this, I would like you to turn with me to some of the passages we have already read. Turn with me to Isaiah chapter 27 let me read one more time these verses in that passage Isaiah chapter 27 and I love that beloved brothers and sisters because we know that the Lord Jesus the Messiah came once he died on a Roman cross he was buried and he rose again on the third day and he sent Ruach HaKodesh, the Holy Spirit of God to unite the body of Messiah to unite believers into one body can you imagine we now live in the year 2019 about 2000 years or more have passed by since the Lord Yeshua the Messiah died, was buried and rose again now he promised that he's going to return he promised that one day he's going to come and he's going to restore Israel back to himself and he's going to of course rapture take away the assembly back to heaven and come and establish a kingdom that he had promised to the forefathers of the people of Israel well Isaiah and other prophets have already spoken about the promises of God concerning the restoration of the people of Israel.

Look at Isaiah 27. We read it, and I'm just going to reread it once again. Notice what Isaiah, by the word of the Lord, is predicting in relationship to the people of Israel. To remind you that when Isaiah wrote, it's about 750 BC. The truth of the assembly was not known to Isaiah. In fact, it was not revealed to the Old Testament saints. It was a mystery hidden in God, as Ephesians 3 teaches us. But God in his providence, in his wisdom, teaching his people of Israel, the Messiah is going to come, the Messiah will die, Passover. But the Messiah is going to come again, and he's going to restore the people of Israel.

This is the Feast of Trumpet, the Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Booths. And so in Isaiah chapter 27, before he sent Israel to Babylon, he said in chapter 27, he gave Israel a promise. And I think it's so precious. He never left his people Israel without a hope, without a promise. He never, because he is anticipating to restore them. I know that in this church age, many have no longer believed in this truth. In fact, many have already taught that the church replaced Israel. That Israel does not have any hope. That God has cast Israel away because Israel failed, but now he took us. But God thinks and God teaches otherwise.

He has a plan of restoration for the earthly people, the people of Israel whom he has chosen by divine design. And so we read in Isaiah chapter 27, he said, and it shall come to pass, notice it says here, in that day. That day has to do with a day that is coming in the future. It's actually a seven-year tribulation period which will culminate in the second coming of the Messiah. And he said in that day that the Lord will beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt. And notice what he says to Israel. He speaks directly to the people of Israel.

He said to them in verse 12, and ye shall be gathered. Now again, I want you to look at this chart because the gathering of the people of Israel back to the land is essential. And you will notice that this is the blowing of the shofar, the Feast of Trumpets. The heavenly company have been taken to heaven. The Jewish people will begin their restoration, their physical restoration to the land, yet in unbelief. As a nation, they will not yet come to know the Messiah until the end of the tribulation. But before even the tribulation began, And God will begin to bring the people of Israel back to the land.

Let me just quote to you the national anthem of our people Israel as it is sung today. Listen to that for a moment. It sounds like that. As long as within our hearts the Jewish soul sings, As long as forward to the east, to Zion, look the eye, our hope is not yet lost. It is 2,000 years old to be free people in our land, the land of Zion and Jerusalem. These are the words of the national anthem of our people, the people of Israel. Already 2,000 years, notice they are mentioning 2,000 years, and remember that we said since Yeshua the Messiah came in a Passover and he died, until the time in which you and I live in today, more than 2,000 years, just about 2,000 years passed by.

And just now, about 71, 72 years now that Israel have its own state and the Jewish people are somehow, some of them back in the land. There's about 7 million Jewish people who are in the land of Israel today and you can see this returning back to the land yet in unbelief. It speaks about physical restoration to the promised land. The vast majority do not still accept Yeshua the Messiah. They are waiting the end of the tribulation where they will finally accept Him. But you notice it is fascinating that the Jewish people, as long as within our hearts the Jewish soul sings, as long as forward to the east, to Zion looks the eye.

Our hope is not yet lost. It is 2,000 years old. Since the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, Our people of Israel are waiting for the day of restoration, first of all, to the land. My grandfather immigrated from Yemen, a Jewish man who lived in Yemen in the city of Samar. His name is Yosef Tam, Yosef Levi Tam. He immigrated to the land of Israel and he was one of those that had been, you might say descendants of those that have been taken captive by the Babylonian in 586 BC. Immigrating to Israel in the late 1800s and coming and dwelling in the city of Jerusalem and form a family in the city of Jerusalem.

Why? Because he believed that Israel has to go back, the Jewish people has to go back to the land. Because God had promised the people to go. But notice how Isaiah is saying. In Isaiah chapter 27, he says, And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall beat off from the channel of the rivers unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered. Ye shall, notice this expression, ye shall be gathered. And he specifically mentioned who? He says, one by one, O ye children of Israel. Now, brothers and sisters, this is a God-given prophecy through the prophet Isaiah, speaking about the restoration of the nation of Israel back to the land.

And notice he's using the word one by one. I just watched a documentary just a few days ago of some of the Hasidic Jewish people who are traveling all over the world, even today, Looking if there are some Jewish people in Australia, in New Zealand, in China, in India, all over the world, they go to little towns, to little cities, yet you would think that there would be no Jews whatsoever there. And they're approaching the people and he said to them, are there any Jewish people in your community? Most of the time they say no, but in some places, oh yes, I found, I know that Mr.

So-and-so said that his mother was Jewish. And they go to this Jewish family or Jewish people. They give them a talit. They give them some sort of something to help them to, you might say, to realize that they are Jewish. They belong to the people of Israel. And seeking for them to return back to that which God had promised that he will gather them one by one, all ye children of Israel. And how wonderful to know that God predicted that and he promised the restoration of Israel back to the land. Notice in Isaiah 27 and verse 13, it says in that very same verse, he says in verse 13, and it shall come to pass in that day, Isaiah is saying, notice that a great trumpet shall be blown.

Here is how we connect the Feast of Trumpets, Yom To'ah, to the restoration of Israel back to the Promised Land. And it shall come to pass in that day that a great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish. You know, this always speaks to my heart. When you look at the history of our own nation, the Jewish people, It is mind-boggling how God had preserved our forefathers from generation to generation. Everywhere where the people of Israel, the Jewish people have been, there always rose a man who wanted to destroy God's chosen people, the people of Israel. We had Pharaohs.

He did not succeed. We had Haman. He did not succeed. We had Hitler, he did not succeed. We have today those who desire to destroy the Jewish people and they will not succeed. Why? Because God says, It shall come to pass in that day that a great trumpet shall be blown and they shall come which were ready to perish. Notice he said, In the land of Assyria and the outcasts of the land of Egypt and shall worship the Lord in the holy mountain in Jerusalem. God has a plan for the people of Israel in which he is going to gather them first of all back to the land.

And what's happening today out of about 15 million Jewish people in the world in which we live in today nearly half of them are today living in the land of Israel. There are thousands all over the world still, in the United States of America, in Canada, in Europe, and all over the world today. But half, you might say almost 50% of the Jewish people, the Jewish community, are now already in the land, still in unbelief, waiting the day when they will eventually be restored spiritually to the Lord. Again, I would like to point to that because the Feast of Trumpet doesn't yet speak of the, you might say, spiritual regeneration.

Not yet. That's going to happen at the end of the Day of Atonement, which speaks about the tribulation period. But the Feast of Trumpet is the physical regathering of the people of Israel to the land, yet in unbelief, awaiting the day when there will be spiritual regeneration and Israel as a nation shall be saved. As a Romans, Paul said in Romans chapter 11, verse 25 and 26, and so all Israel shall be saved. Romans chapter 11 and verse 25 and 26. Now, please for a moment, turn with me to the book of Matthew, please. And just to conclude that, the ministry today in connection with the Feast of Trumpets. In Matthew chapter 24, Yeshua himself coming to the land in his first coming.

At his first coming, he knew very well that he will not be accepted by the nation. You remember what Isaiah already quoted in Isaiah 53? Isaiah quoted what Israel will say, All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way, but the Lord laid upon him the iniquities of us all. Isaiah 53 and verse 6. Yeshua knew very well that Israel will not accept him as a nation at his first coming. Though all the early church saints were all Jewish. From the Apostle Paul to Peter and James and John and Jude and on and on, the first believers here were all Jewish believers who have accepted Yeshua the Messiah and formed the foundation, the footing of the assembly.

But here we find out what the Lord is saying when he spoke to the disciples on the Sermon Olivet Discourse and he said to them look what he said to them he says listen there will be a tribulation coming there will be a terrible time that he's approaching here this world in verse 29 but he said immediately after the tribulation he said of these days the sun shall be darkened this is verse 29 it says the sun shall be darkened and the moon shall not give her light and the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of the heaven shall be shaken and then listen beloved brothers and sisters he's speaking about the second coming of the Messiah now in connection with the regathering of the people of Israel back to himself he said that then shall appear the sign of the son of man in heaven and then shall all the tribes of the earth shall mourn and they shall see the son of men coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

This is a messianic title. The son of man in Hebrew, Ben Ha'Adam, is one of the messianic titles that are already found by the prophet Daniel, who wrote about him in Daniel chapter 7. So he continued, and he said, they shall see the sign of the son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory and look at that verse 31 and he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds from the one end of heaven to the other. Here we can see the Lord himself using this expression the sound of the shofar, the sound of the trumpet.

And his reference, of course, is to the second coming of the Messiah at the end of the tribulation where there will be a final gathering of the nation of Israel. Physical gathering back to the land in anticipation to be a reborn nation, a nation that will be born again as a nation, as a totality of the nation of Israel. He will send his angels with a great sound of the trumpet, and they shall gather them together, his elect from the four winds. What an amazing expectation it is for the national regeneration of the people of Israel. Now, I'm going to close with this. Let's look one more time, beloved brothers and sisters, at the chart that I have prepared for us all.

You notice if the plan of God had been fulfilled at the first coming of the Messiah, the plan of God must be fulfilled at the second coming of the Messiah to come here and establish what He had promised in the Scripture. All the first spring feasts have been fulfilled. We live today right here in the middle, in the present day age in which we sow the message of the gospel and we reap. We sow, we preach the message and people come to know the Messiah and become part of the assembly. The moment the assembly will be taken out of here at the rapture, then God will continue his direct dealing with our forefathers, the Jewish people, and he will begin to bring them back to the land of Israel in preparation for the Day of Atonement in which they will be persecuted.

The Antichrist will come against Israel. There will be terrible days in those days of the Tribulation Age but it will culminate with the Messianic Kingdom when Israel is restored and Yeshua the Messiah reigning as the King of the Jews. Melech ha-Yehudim, where Israel will acknowledge him as King of Kings and Lord of lords. Now, this is just a general overview for today's meeting on the Feast of Trumpet. The trumpet will sound is a representation of awakening the people of Israel with the necessity to be restored back to the land until finally Israel will turn to Yeshua the Messiah and accept him as king of Israel, as a Savior and Lord and Messiah.

So we are wishing, we long for that day when Israel will accept the Messiah. But until then, beloved brothers and sisters, we need to pray. We need to learn from the Apostle Paul. The Apostle Paul said something to the Romans. He says, my heart, desire, and prayer to God for Israel that they might be saved. Shaul Paul loved his people, loved his brethren. And his heart was going out for his brethren and he sought the salvation of Israel. You and I need to learn from the Apostle Paul, not to neglect the promises of God for Israel, not to forget that God has his people whom he has chosen, and he has planned for them.

In a meanwhile, every one of us that have come to know the Lord will be part of the heavenly company, the assembly of the Lord Jesus the Messiah, who will be privileged to be taken to be with him to glory and to reign and rule with him over the land in a future day. Well, may the Lord bless his word and may he encourage us all as we continue on to follow him. Can we say Amen to that?