Blowing the trumpet is important.
The sound of the shofar will be heard on Tishrei 1 this year like every year because it is the day of Trumpets, aka Yom Teruah.
For those that may not be familiar with it or the Hebrew words, "Yom" is day and “Teruah” is a loud trumpet blast. So, Yom Teruah literally translates to "Day of Blowing" and traditionally refers to blowing the shofar.
Many people today call it “Rosh Hashanah” and it's celebrated as the beginning of the new year in the Jewish calendar. Rosh Hashanah is a Hebrew term that translates to "Head of the Year."
If we go back to the Bible and the Biblical calendar, Yom Teruah is the first day of the seventh month.
In other words, it's the set apart new moon start of the second half of the Biblical year declared at Mount Sinai and it starts with the shout of a shofar (ram's horn) blast.
For 3,500 years, this set apart day aka "holy" day has remained one of the most significant in the Bible.
In 2025, the time to shout about is September 23, 2025, yet like all days in the Bible that doesn't start at midnight. On God's calendar, each day begins in the evening as the sun sets and darkness arrives.
This Trumpet's Day will kick off with a shout on the evening of September 22nd and like all days on God's calendar, trumpets will continue through the following day until sunset September 23rd that just so happens to coincide with the UN's General Debate calendar. More important info on that later with a prayer request and a list of nations that seek to divide Israel...
The day of Yom Teruah is special, it's set apart and starts with a sign above.
What is it?
The sighting of the new moon of the 7th month is in heaven above for that appointed day.
To understand the day and our Creator's calendar takes a mind bending adjustment from Greek thinking and the twilight zone of a Pope's Roman calendar with days and months that are named after pagan idols to the reality of the Bible's calendar.
Since the Exodus, faithful Jewish people around the world have celebrated Yom Teruah with a shofar and since about 1967, Christians and others who study the Bible and believe in Israel's unchanging importance from the voice of God have awakened to the holy, set apart appointments (moedim) of the LORD.
Many like me, have even bought a shofar because in the Bible, the 7th month starts with a trumpet shout becuase the big day is outlined in Leviticus 23:23-25. People that read and believe the Bible say Yom Teruah is a time for reflection and repentance because it marks the beginning of ten days of repentance leading up to Yom Kippur that is followed five days later by Sukkot or Tabernacles.
Whether Christian or Jew, both celebrate and honor the Feats of the LORD do so in anticipation of the coming of the Messiah.
The only difference is which trip is it?
Leviticus 23:24-25 is simple to remember, just looks at the chapter and verse sequence that says this about Yom Teruah:
"Speak to the people of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work, and you shall present a food offering to the LORD."
Psalm 81:3-4 goes on to say this about the trumpet blast ordained with each new month marked by the sliver of a new moon sighting. The Psalm has a reference to the Passover full moon as well:
"Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day. He made it a decree in Joseph when he went out over the land of Egypt..."
The thing to remember is that each new moon month, a trumpet is to be blown because its a day of gladness, a day to be happy and celebrate. You can find that instruction in the book of Numbers. The blowing of trumpets on the new moon is found in Numbers 10:10. This verse states:
"On the day of your gladness and at 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. They shall be a reminder of you before your God: I am the LORD your God."
This verse reinforces the practice of blowing trumpets during significant times, including the new moon each month on God's calendar as a way to commemorate and call attention to the importance of the forever Creator's calendar we all need to know.
Isaiah 18:3 prophetically describes the trumpet as a signal to everyone:
"All you inhabitants of the world, you who dwell on the earth, when a signal is raised on the mountains, look! When a trumpet is blown, hear!"
The book of Revelation, written by John on the isle of Patmos describes seven trumpets that will be heard that impact the planet. The narrative begins in chapter 8 and as each trumpet sounds the alarm for a series of catastrophes to unfold on all inhabitants of the world.
Since the days at Mount Sinai that started with a trumpet blast the timespan from the Spring month of Passover, Unleavened Bread and First Fruits to the Fall Feasts days of Trumpets, Yom Kippur and Tabernacles, each of the seven months are to be announced with a trumpet blast.
Revelation chapter 10 makes a special note that the mystery of God announced to his prophets would be fulfilled.
And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, that there would be no more delay, but that in the days of the trumpet call to be sounded by the seventh angel, the mystery of God would be fulfilled, just as he announced to his servants the prophets. Revelation 10:5-7
What mystery?
The restoration of the Kingdom of God and His Messiah King and believe to or not, the revealing of the Ark of the Covenant...
"Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he shall reign forever and ever." And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying,
"We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, who is and who was, for you have taken your great power and begun to reign.
The nations raged, but your wrath came, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for rewarding your servants, the prophets and saints, and those who fear your name, both small and great, and for destroying the destroyers of the earth."
Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail." Revelation 11:15-19
Today, many nations are raging against Israel.
They seek to divide it, so the problem before the planet right now is that the nations are actually raging against the restoration of God's Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.
The facts are the nations that rage want to divide the very place that God promised that He would restore the covenant Kingdom of God and His Messiah.
That place is Israel, the Kingdom capitol is Jerusalem and believe it or not the Messiah is not only Jewish, He is the Master Rabbi that teaches Torah just as it was written by the Jewish prophets to be the light for the nations.
The problem is the nations don't read the Bible, and if they do they don't believe the Bible thinking it's an Old Testament that's been done away with. They don't want to see the light of day before us, that the Jewish people have been restored to the Promised Land of Israel to prepare the place for Messiah. Whether they think its the first trip or the second don't matter, they have an assignment and a promise.
Instead, the United Nations are scorched earth uniting against God's gospel garden plan for the land of Israel. The nations are lining up in darkness against the Jewish people and against the Bible's title deed for the eretz land of Israel this year on Yom Teruah.
Bottomline, the nations are setting themselves up one day to hear the seventh month trumpet of divine judgment, perhaps thinking that the Bible is old and done away with or it's just a religious myth.
It's not, and if you ask me the destroyers of the "earth" noted in Revelation is not talking about the planet earth as everyone thinks, that Greek gē word γῆν for earth in Revelation means "eretz" which is land, ground, country.
The land, the country is Israel's ground and the Jewish people are back where they belong living in the Bible's title deed whether they know it or not to prepare the place for Messiah's return.
For year's I've been shouting out to anyone that ignores the Bible and to those that oppose the Bible as they seek to divide Israel and the Bible because when you ignore what Almighty God has promised and replace the gospel of God with your own plan of peace and security, you destroy the planet.
God's plan is to restore the planet and its people to live in the image of God as it was intended from the beginning. That's what the big story of the Torah and the Prophets is all about and it's why Jesus aka Yeshua said do not think.
In Matthew 5:17-19, Yeshua addresses the Torah and the Prophets, and He begins with the phrase "Do not think." Here 's what He said that the nations ignore:
"Don't think that I came to destroy the Torah or the Prophets. I didn't come to destroy, but to fulfill. For most assuredly, I tell you, until heaven and eretz pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the Torah, until all things are accomplished."
In these verses, Jesus emphasizes the importance of the Torah we call Law and clarifies His purpose in it. So, what up next after the shofar blows this year on Trumpet's Day?
It's hard to beleive the so-called United Nations will convene on Trumpet's day, just ten days before Yom Kippur, the day of judgment that will one day follow those that seek to divide Israel and Jerusalem like a burdensome stone.
That's not my warning, it's the word from Almighty God though the prophets Joel and Zechariah.
The prophet Joel delivers a powerful warning to the nations regarding God's land, specifically focusing on ultimate divine judgment for those who divide Israel's territory. The key verse is Joel 3:2 which states:
"I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning My people, My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations as they divided up My land."
I've been blowing my shofar if you will with two posts after I read that Zechariah declares this:
And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. Zechariah 12:3
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. Zechariah 12:9
My first post was about a likely perspective on Zechariah's Vision is long and extensive because I've been tracking and documents key headlines about the nations that want to divide Israel here since February 7, 2010. The second is A Wake Up Call and the third is titled The Truth About the West Bank and Gaza.
Now, both the UK and France have announced they are onboard as they recently stated their intentions to recognize a Palestinian State and Canada has jumped on the band wagon for the next UN General Assembly high level debate that starts on none other than Yom Teruah September 23, 2025, just ten days before Yom Kippur this year.
September 23rd will be 717 days after October 7, 2023, the eight day known as Shmini Atzeret following Sukkot or the week of Tabernacles when Hamas' death and violence raged on a Sabbath against the Jewish innocents abroad.
Traditionally, The UN General Sessions kicks off with a minute of silent prayer or meditation, which is observed immediately after the opening of the first plenary meeting of each session. I wonder who's God they will pray to?
I 'm afraid it will not be the Most Holy Almighty God of Israel.
According to excerpts below borrowed from an August 11, 2025 report from JNS Australia has also joined the list to recognize a Palestinian State at The UN General Session...
"Australia will recognize a Palestinian state at the U.N. General Assembly annual general debate in September, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Monday.
“Australia will recognize the right of the Palestinian people to a state of their own. We will work with the international community to make this right a reality,” Albanese told reporters in Canberra."
Albanese claimed that a two-state solution for the Arab-Israeli conflict is “humanity’s best hope to break the cycle of violence in the Middle East and to bring an end to the conflict, suffering and starvation in Gaza,” AFP reported.
Canberra’s announcement follows similar initiatives by the U.K., France and Canada to recognize “Palestine,” a move Hamas has hailed as “the fruits” of its Oct. 7, 2023, mass slaughter of civilians in Israel.
Speaking at a press conference hours earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters that “the Palestinians are not about creating a state—they’re about destroying a state.
“It defies imagination or understanding how intelligent people around the world, including seasoned diplomats, government leaders and journalists fall for this absurdity,” the prime minister continued.
Netanyahu said that while Hamas terrorists seek to destroy the Jewish state through “forcefully and direct military and terrorist moves,” the P.A. is working to reduce Israel to “indefensible boundaries” at the United Nations and the International Criminal Court in The Hague."
What you need to know and do is pray about this:
According to many sources of the 193 members of the United Nations (against Israel), nearly 150 have already recognized Palestinian statehood, some dating back as far as 1988.
A 2018 report posted at the P.A.'s Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs lists 149 nations. For some odd reason the list is difficult to assemble, but I have found 144 so far and listed them below. Not surprise, the Haman nation of Iran was the first to do so in 1988.
Not only that, two of the nations on the list recognizing a Palestinian State are none other than Russia and Ukraine.
Does it not seem bizarre and mind bending that despite their agreement to divide Israel, the two nations are on the center stage of land conflict of war killing each other over land division with perhaps 1,000,000 casualties (killed or wounded) so far according to a Belfer Center estimate.
There's more about those on the list to recognize a Palestinian state. A devastating civil war between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighting for control of territory has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced over 12 million people in Africa.
Other significant conflicts with casualties over land that are on the list below include the Syrian Conflict with years of ongoing land rights fighting between militias and government troops with over 650,000 deaths according to the The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) and more than 12.5 million Syrians have been displaced since the start of the conflict.
Some say it has ended, but Turkey has continued killing Kurds in northern Syria saying they have no rights to exist on the land they live on in Syria or Turkey.
There's more, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has had multiple localized conflicts focused on land, resources, and power, which has displaced nearly 7 million people. Then there's the Ethiopian conflicts as the country continues to face murder and mayhem affecting millions of people.
While some in the West say tribulation's in the distant future, there's horrific Christian tribulation in Nigeria that's arisen from the abyss as the Boko Haram Islamic beast destroys villages, churches, homes and innocent people that I've been sadly reporting on here since 2012.
Nigeria has seen a total of approximately 350,000 deaths so far due to the radical Islamic violence against the Christians there that has displaced over 2 million people from their homeland in the country's northeastern region. In 2025, Boko Haram and its splinter group, the Islamic State in West Africa Province (ISWAP), have escalated their attacks on Christian civilians as well as security forces trying to protect them in their Caliphate goal to take over Nigeria.
Ask yourself are Joel and Zechariah warning the nations on the list below?
I think so, this is my prayer alert list is for a change of heart to hear Genesis 12:1-3 which says:
"Now the LORD said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you, and make your name great. You will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."
And America must continue to bless "from the top" even as we serve as the UN host of the Trumpet's Day meeting.
What to I mean, "from the top?"
I'm referencing our United States Congress and our President that does not want to line up with the United Nations against Israel. Leaders like Lindsey Graham have to continue to stand up and speak out. Two days ago Honorable Graham spoke out and said: "A word of warning, if America pulls the plug on Israel, God will pull the plug on us."
If America pulls the plug on Israel, God will pull the plug on us.⁰
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) August 13, 2025
I’m not going to let that happen. pic.twitter.com/4pboBftQlO
| No. | Country | Date of Palestinian State Recognition |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Iran | February 4, 1988 |
| 2 | Algeria | November 15, 1988 |
| 3 | Bahrain | November 15, 1988 |
| 4 | Indonesia | November 15, 1988 |
| 5 | Iraq | November 15, 1988 |
| 6 | Kuwait | November 15, 1988 |
| 7 | Libya | November 15, 1988 |
| 8 | Malaysia | November 15, 1988 |
| 9 | Mauritania | November 15, 1988 |
| 10 | Morocco | November 15, 1988 |
| 11 | Somalia | November 15, 1988 |
| 12 | Tunisia | November 15, 1988 |
| 13 | Turkey | November 15, 1988 |
| 14 | Yemen | November 15, 1988 |
| 15 | Afghanistan | November 16, 1988 |
| 16 | Bangladesh | November 16, 1988 |
| 17 | Cuba | November 16, 1988 |
| 18 | Jordan | November 16, 1988 |
| 19 | Madagascar | November 16, 1988 |
| 20 | Malta | November 16, 1988 |
| 21 | Nicaragua | November 16, 1988 |
| 22 | Pakistan | November 16, 1988 |
| 23 | Qatar | November 16, 1988 |
| 24 | Saudi Arabia | November 16, 1988 |
| 25 | Serbia | November 16, 1988 |
| 26 | United Arab Emirates | November 16, 1988 |
| 27 | Zambia | November 16, 1988 |
| 28 | Albania | November 17, 1988 |
| 29 | Brunei | November 17, 1988 |
| 30 | Djibouti | November 17, 1988 |
| 31 | Mauritius | November 17, 1988 |
| 32 | Sudan | November 17, 1988 |
| 33 | Egypt | November 18, 1988 |
| 34 | Gambia | November 18, 1988 |
| 35 | India | November 18, 1988 |
| 36 | Nigeria | November 18, 1988 |
| 37 | Cyprus | November 18, 1988 |
| 38 | Czech Republic | November 18, 1988 |
| 39 | Slovakia | November 18, 1988 |
| 40 | Seychelles | November 18, 1988 |
| 41 | Sri Lanka | November 18, 1988 |
| 42 | Belarus | November 19, 1988 |
| 43 | Namibia | November 19, 1988 |
| 44 | Russia | November 19, 1988 |
| 45 | Ukraine | November 19, 1988 |
| 46 | Vietnam | November 19, 1988 |
| 47 | China | November 20, 1988 |
| 48 | Burkina Faso | November 21, 1988 |
| 49 | Cambodia | November 21, 1988 |
| 50 | Comoros | November 21, 1988 |
| 51 | Guinea | November 21, 1988 |
| 52 | Guinea-Bissau | November 21, 1988 |
| 53 | Mali | November 21, 1988 |
| 54 | Mongolia | November 22, 1988 |
| 55 | Senegal | November 22, 1988 |
| 56 | Hungary | November 23, 1988 |
| 57 | Cape Verde | November 24, 1988 |
| 58 | North Korea | November 24, 1988 |
| 59 | Niger | November 24, 1988 |
| 60 | Romania | November 24, 1988 |
| 61 | Tanzania | November 24, 1988 |
| 62 | Bulgaria | November 25, 1988 |
| 63 | Ghana | November 29, 1988 |
| 64 | Zimbabwe | November 29, 1988 |
| 65 | Togo | November 29, 1988 |
| 66 | Chad | December 1, 1988 |
| 67 | Laos | December 2, 1988 |
| 68 | Brazil | December 3, 2010 |
| 69 | Sierra Leone | December 3, 1988 |
| 70 | Uganda | December 3, 1988 |
| 71 | Angola | December 6, 1988 |
| 72 | Mozambique | December 8, 1988 |
| 73 | São Tomé and Príncipe | December 10, 1988 |
| 74 | Gabon | December 12, 1988 |
| 75 | Oman | December 13, 1988 |
| 76 | Poland | December 14, 1988 |
| 77 | Democratic Republic of Congo | December 18, 1988 |
| 78 | Botswana | December 19, 1988 |
| 79 | Nepal | December 19, 1988 |
| 80 | Burundi | December 22, 1988 |
| 81 | Central African Republic | December 23, 1988 |
| 82 | Bhutan | December 25, 1988 |
| 83 | Rwanda | January 2, 1989 |
| 84 | Ethiopia | February 4, 1989 |
| 85 | Benin | May 1989 |
| 86 | Equatorial Guinea | May 1989 |
| 87 | Philippines | September 1989 |
| 88 | Vanuatu | August 21, 1989 |
| 89 | Eswatini | July 1991 |
| 90 | Azerbaijan | April 15, 1992 |
| 91 | Georgia | April 25, 1992 |
| 92 | Kazakhstan | April 6, 1992 |
| 93 | Turkmenistan | April 17, 1992 |
| 94 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | May 27, 1992 |
| 95 | Tajikistan | April 2, 1994 |
| 96 | Uzbekistan | September 25, 1994 |
| 97 | Papua New Guinea | January 13, 1995 |
| 98 | South Africa | February 15, 1995 |
| 99 | Kyrgyzstan | November 1995 |
| 100 | Malawi | October 23, 1998 |
| 101 | Timor-Leste | March 1, 2004 |
| 102 | Montenegro | July 24, 2006 |
| 103 | Costa Rica | February 5, 2008 |
| 104 | Lebanon | November 30, 2008 |
| 105 | Venezuela | April 27, 2009 |
| 106 | Dominican Republic | July 15, 2009 |
| 107 | Argentina | December 6, 2010 |
| 108 | Bolivia | December 17, 2010 |
| 109 | Ecuador | December 27, 2010 |
| 110 | Chile | January 7, 2011 |
| 111 | Guyana | January 13, 2011 |
| 112 | Peru | January 24, 2011 |
| 113 | Suriname | January 26, 2011 |
| 114 | Uruguay | March 16, 2011 |
| 115 | Lesotho | May 3, 2011 |
| 116 | Liberia | July 2011 |
| 117 | Syria | July 18, 2011 |
| 118 | South Sudan | July 14, 2011 |
| 119 | El Salvador | August 25, 2011 |
| 120 | Honduras | August 26, 2011 |
| 121 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | August 29, 2011 |
| 122 | Belize | September 9, 2011 |
| 123 | Dominica | September 19, 2011 |
| 124 | Antigua and Barbuda | September 22, 2011 |
| 125 | Grenada | September 25, 2011 |
| 126 | Iceland | December 15, 2011 |
| 127 | Thailand | January 18, 2012 |
| 128 | Guatemala | April 9, 2013 |
| 129 | Haiti | September 27, 2013 |
| 130 | Sweden | October 30, 2014 |
| 131 | Holy See | June 26, 2015 |
| 132 | Saint Lucia | September 14, 2015 |
| 133 | Colombia | August 3, 2018 |
| 134 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | July 29, 2019 |
| 135 | Barbados | April 20, 2024 |
| 136 | Jamaica | April 24, 2024 |
| 137 | Trinidad and Tobago | May 3, 2024 |
| 138 | Bahamas | May 8, 2024 |
| 139 | Ireland | May 22, 2024 |
| 140 | Norway | May 22, 2024 |
| 141 | Spain | May 28, 2024 |
| 142 | Slovenia | June 4, 2024 |
| 143 | Armenia | June 21, 2024 |
| 144 | Mexico | March 20, 2025 |
