As we come to the Day of Trumpets this year, let us cry out to the Lord in our intercession. But let us follow the pattern in His Word. When we shout and lift our voice like a trumpet, let it be done according to the Lord’s guidelines and instructions so that we may get the answers we need.
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This month we will celebrate a new year—not the New Year of the Gregorian calendar, but the biblical new year of Rosh Hashanah, which begins on Yom T’ruah, the Day of Trumpets. The Hebrew word t’ruah means “the blowing of trumpets,” which we read in the Scriptures was used to call the congregation together for a meeting or for going to war. T’ruah can also mean “shouting or expressing joy.” These expressions are something we can apply today.
At Jericho the Lord gave the children of Israel specific instructions that involved t’ruah. They had to spend seven days blowing trumpets and shouting until the walls of Jericho fell. The Lord had promised them the land and told them that He had given Jericho into their hands. Yet to take what belonged to them, they had to follow exactly the pattern of the Lord. In a real sense our intercession is like t’ruah, and if we want to be as effective as the Israelites were at Jericho, then we too need to be obedient to the Lord’s pattern.
That is why our intercession should be guided biblically by what the Lord has said—by what He has promised and by what He has given us through prophecy. How do we pray for Israel and the Jewish people today when the entire world seems determined to destroy them? We read the prophecies in the Scriptures of everything God has said He will do for His people in these end days. Then we cry out to the Lord and shout t’ruah and believe for the walls that stand against His Word to come down.
Key Verses:
- Leviticus 23:23–24. “You shall have a rest, a reminder by blowing of trumpets.”
- Numbers 29:1. “It will be to you a day for blowing trumpets.”
- Exodus 12:1–2. “This month shall be the beginning of months for you.”
- Joshua 6:1–5. “When you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout.”
- Joshua 6:15–20. “The people shouted, and priests blew the trumpets; … and they took the city.”
- 2 Chronicles 7:12–16. “I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”
- Daniel 9:2–22. “O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and take action!”
- Matthew 6:5–15. “When you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret.”
Quotes:
- “God doesn’t just tell us to pray for something. He doesn’t just promise us things. He really directs us in how we should go about receiving those promised events that the Lord is giving.”
- “While we’re in these days of great intercession that the Lord is bringing to us, we must recognize that we have real instructions about how we’re to approach the Lord and how we’re to pray.”
- “If we follow the pattern of how He taught us to pray, how He gave us instruction in His Word to pray and approach Him, then it will happen. Keep walking around the walls until you’re instructed to shout in the day of victory, and those walls will come down and it will be given into your hands.”
Takeaways:
- The concept of a new year in the Scriptures is not the same as our concept according to the Gregorian calendar. Rosh Hashanah, which begins in the seventh month, is the beginning of the ordinary calendar year. The ecclesiastical year begins in the month of Nisan. There are also new years for the tithing of animals and trees.
- The word t’ruah in Yom T’ruah, the Day of Trumpets, has various meanings such as “the sound of a trumpet, clamor or loud noise, a battle cry or alarm, rejoicing, and shouting.”
- The Lord gave specific instructions to the children of Israel for the use of t’ruah in the taking of Jericho. Israel had to follow exactly the pattern of the Lord to take the land He had promised them. The pattern and instructions for our intercession are also laid out for us in the Scriptures.
- We pray according to the scriptural promises and prophecies, according to the repentance and returning to the Lord that God revealed to Solomon, and according to the instructions that we have from Yeshua (Jesus).