Shofar

Sources:

Cahn, Jonathan. The Josiah Manifesto. Christma Media. Kindle Edition

• The power, of course, came from God. But the Shofar is given in Scripture as a sign and vessel of that power.

• THE SHOFAR IS given in Scripture as an instrument to mark the changing of times, the beginning and end of epochs.
• In ancient Israel the shofar had marked the holy days, the beginning of months, the reign of kings and their end.
• It would be called Yom Teruah, or the Day of the Trumpet Blast. It would become known as the Feast of Trumpets. Later on it would also be called Rosh Ha Shannah, the Jewish New Year. But it was not the New Year—it was the opening of the seventh month, the final month of the sacred calendar. The sounding of the trumpet or shofar was in this case a spiritual alarm, a reminder that judgment was coming and that each must be prepared to stand before God. It was a wake-up call to get right, to repent, to return.