The Ministry of The Shofar

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What Is The Shofar?

What is the ministry of the shofar? The shofar is a Jewish instrument of praise and worship used in Jewish synagogues during holiday services such as Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

The shofar is an instrument made from the horn of a animal that’s crafted and prepared to be used as an instrument. The horns come from the ram, wild goats gazelle antelopes or a kudu.

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The shofar is mentioned several times in the Bible and was used for many different reasons. Every time the trumpet is sounded under the anointing of God, it sends the enemy and his camp into confusion. The rams horn is such a powerful and even mysterious instrument when used in battle.  It also brings forth the fire of healing, delivers people from bondage and oppression and sends the enemy running.

The Ministry of The Shofar Is Many Things:

• It’s a sound that we listen for in the spirit. We may hear it with our natural ears but we have to tune our spiritual ears to the frequency of God to really hear what He is saying to our spiritman.

• It’s the voice of the Lord speaking

• When we sound the shofar It’s a proclaiming and declaring of God’s word into the atmosphere

• It is an instrument of worship

2 Chronicles 29:27-29
Then Hezekiah ordered the burnt offering to be placed upon the altar, and as the sacrifice began, the instruments of music began to play the songs of the Lord, accompanied by the trumpets. Throughout the entire ceremony everyone worshiped the Lord as the singers sang and the trumpets blew. Afterwards the king and his aides bowed low before the Lord in worship.

Who Ministers The Shofar

• The Believer – Judges 7:18
• Priest {We are a royal priesthood} – Number 10:8
• Angels – Revelation 8:6
• Jesus – 1 Thessalonians 4:16
• God The Father – Exodus 19:16-19

The Voice of God Is Like The Sound of the Trumpet

The sound of the shofar is like the wind and breath of Holy Spirit that covers the people like a blanket. When this happens healing takes place and the wondrous miracles of God have an atmosphere to work in. We learn about the shofar in the Book of Exodus when God tells Moses to gather the Israelites together at the foot of Mount Sinai to meet with Him. These were His instructions to Moses to warn the people.

The Lord Trumpets In The Old Testament

Exodus 19:13-19
You must tell the people to stay away from the mountain. Make a line and don’t let them cross it. Any person or animal that touches the mountain must be killed with stones or shot with arrows. But don’t let anyone touch them. The people must wait until the trumpet blows. Only then can they go up the mountain.”

So Moses climbed down the mountain and went to the people. He got them ready for the special meeting and they washed their clothes.

Then Moses said to the people, “Be ready for the meeting with God in three days. Until that time do not have sexual relations.”

On the morning of the third day, a thick cloud came down onto the mountain. There was thunder and lightning and a very loud sound from a trumpet. All the people in the camp were frightened. Then Moses led the people out of the camp to a place near the mountain to meet God. Mount Sinai was covered with smoke.

Smoke rose off the mountain like smoke from a furnace. This happened because the Lord came down to the mountain in fire. Also the whole mountain began to shake. The noise from the trumpet became louder and louder. Every time Moses spoke to God, God answered him with a voice like thunder.

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The Lord Trumpets In The New Testament

Revelation 4:1
Then I looked, and there before me was an open door in heaven. And I heard the same voice that spoke to me before. It was the voice that sounded like a trumpet. It said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after this.” Immediately the Spirit took control of me, and there in heaven was a throne with someone sitting on it.

These are some of the purposes that the rams horn trumpet/shofar was used for in the Bible and is still for today.

Dangers of The Ministry of The Shofar:

• When ministering the shofar your spirit must be right! Just like any other instrument that’s used to worship God, the vessel through which it comes through MUST BE CLEAN! Whatever is in  your spirit, you blow out over the people and into the atmosphere. Whether we sing, play drums, the keys, the strings or minister by preaching God’s Word, we MUST have clean hands and a pure heart.

• Another danger is that the shofar is not to be worshiped or turned into an idol. Just like us, the shofar is an instrument that God uses to worship Him and speak through. In the same manner that we DON’T worship one another, we don’t ever try to replace the CREATOR with the created.

God Responds To The Shofar Call

The shofar is a rather mysterious type instrument in that when it is blown it penetrates the atmosphere, sends a signal to God and causes the enemy to flee. You can blow the shofar in your city and send the enemy fleeing. What a powerful tool to have in your spiritual warfare arsenal that when you sound the alarm, the Lord Himself will respond and deliver you from trouble.

Numbers 10:9
“If you are fighting an enemy in your own land, blow loudly on the trumpets before you go to fight them. The Lord your God will hear you, and he will save you from your enemies.

Your Jericho Walls Will Fall

In Joshua 6, we read about the walls of Jericho falling. In this story we see that The Lord instructed Joshua and the children of Isreal to conquer their enemies with the help of the shofar. Through their obedience to follow the directions of the Lord and their faith, the conquered their enemies and took the land.

Instructions For The Ministry of the Shofar

Joshua 6:1-5
The gates of Jericho were kept tightly shut because the people were afraid of the Israelis; no one was allowed to go in or out.

But the Lord said to Joshua, “Jericho and its king and all its mighty warriors are already defeated, for I have given them to you! Your entire army is to walk around the city once a day for six days, followed by seven priests walking ahead of the Ark, each carrying a trumpet made from a ram’s horn.

On the seventh day you are to walk around the city seven times, with the priests blowing their trumpets. Then, when they give one long, loud blast, all the people are to give a mighty shout, and the walls of the city will fall down; then move in upon the city from every direction.”

The Prophetic Act of Faith & Obedience

Joshua 6:15-20
On the seventh day, they got up at dawn and marched around the city seven times. They marched in the same way they had marched on the days before, but on that day they marched around the city seven times. The seventh time they marched around the city, the priests blew their trumpets.

Then Joshua gave the command: “Now, shout! The Lord is giving you this city! The city and everything is to be destroyed as an offering to the Lord. Only Rahab the prostitute and everyone in her house will be left alive. These people must not be killed because she helped the two spies.

Remember, we must destroy everything else. Don’t take anything. If you take anything and bring it into our camp, you yourselves will be destroyed, and you will cause trouble for the rest of our people.  All the things made from silver, gold, bronze, and iron belong to the Lord. They must be put in the Lord’s treasury.”

So then the priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the trumpets, they began shouting. The walls fell down, and the people ran up into the city. So the Israelites defeated that city.

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What Is The Ministry of The Shofar Used For

• Deliverance

  Joshua 6:1-5
  Now the gates of Jericho were tightly shut because the people were afraid of the Israelites. No one was allowed to go out or in.  But the Lord said to Joshua, “I have given you Jericho, its king, and all its strong warriors. You and your fighting men should march around the town once a day for six days.

  Seven priests will walk ahead of the Ark, each carrying a ram’s horn. On the seventh day you are to march around the town seven times, with the priests blowing the horns.  When you hear the priests give one long blast on the rams’ horns, have all the people shout as loud as they can. Then the walls of the town will collapse, and the people can charge straight into the town.”

• Call To Repentance

  Isaiah 58:1
  Shout with the voice of a trumpet blast. Shout aloud! Don’t be timid. Tell my people Israelof their sins!

• Call To Praise

  Psalm 150:3
  Praise him with a blast of the ram’s horn; and with the lyre and harp!

• Proclaiming Liberty

  Leviticus 25:9-10
  Then on the Day of Atonement in the fiftieth year, blow the ram’s horn loud and long throughout the land. Set this year apart as holy, a time to proclaim freedom throughout the land for all who live there. It will be a jubilee year for you, when each of you may return to the land that belonged to your ancestors and return to your own clan.

• Calling Of The Assembly

  Joel 2:15
  Blow the ram’s horn in Jerusalem! Announce a time of fasting;call the people together for a solemn meeting.

• Gathering Of God’s People

  Exodus 19:16-17
  On the morning of the third day, thunder roared and lightning flashed, and a dense cloud came down on the mountain. There was a long, loud blast from a ram’s horn, and all the people trembled.  Moses led them out from the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

• Declaring Victory

  1 Samuel 13:3
  Soon after this, Jonathan attacked and defeated the garrison of Philistines at Geba. The news spread quickly among the Philistines. So Saul blew the ram’s horn throughout the land, saying, “Hebrews, hear this! Rise up in revolt!”

• Indicating God Will Fight For Us

  Nehemiah 4:20
  When you hear the blast of the trumpet, rush to wherever it is sounding. Then our God will fight for us!”

• Scattering The Enemy

  Amos 2:2
  So I will send down fire on the land of Moab, and all the fortresses in Kerioth will be destroyed. The people will fall in the noise of battle,
  as the warriors shout and the ram’s horn sounds.

• Announcement of The Presence Of God

  2 Samuel 6:15
  So David and all the people of Israel brought up the Ark of the Lord with shouts of joy and the blowing of rams’ horns.

• The Sending Of Angels

  Matthew 24:31
  And he will send out his angels with the mighty blast of a trumpet, and they will gather his chosen ones from all over the world—from the farthest ends of the earth and heaven.

• Call To Arms

  Judges 6:34
  Then the Spirit of the Lord took possession of Gideon. He blew a ram’s horn as a call to arms, and the men of the clan of Abiezer came to him.

• Stopping A Battle

  2 Samuel 2:28
  So Joab blew the ram’s horn, and his men stopped chasing the troops of Israel.

• New Moon and Calling a Festival Celebration

  Psalm 81:1-3
  Sing praises to God, our strength.
  And to the God of Jacob.
  Sing! Beat the tambourine.
  Play the sweet lyre and the harp.
  Blow the ram’s horn at new moon,
  And again at full moon to call a festival!

• Jesus Ascends

  Psalm 47:5
  God has ascended with a mighty shout. The Lord has ascended with trumpets blaring.

• Anointing A King

  1 Kings 1:34
  There Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet are to anoint him king over Israel. Blow the ram’s horn and shout, ‘Long live King Solomon!’

• Warning of Judgement

  Ezekiel 33:2-6
  “Son of man, speak to the children of your people. Say to them, ‘If I bring a sword upon a land, and the people of the land choose one of their men to keep watch for them,  and he sees the sword coming upon the land and sounds the horn to tell the people of the danger,  then if anyone hears the horn and does not take care, and a sword comes and kills him, he will be to blame for his own death.

  He heard the sound of the horn, but did not worry about the danger. He will be to blame for his own death. If he had been careful, he would have saved his life.  But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the horn, and the people are not told of the danger, and a sword comes and kills one of them, that man will be taken away because of his sin. But the blood of the watchman must be given.’

• Resurrection Life

  1 Thessalonians 4:16
  For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God . First, the Christians who have died will rise from their graves.

• The Lord God Blows The Trumpet

  Zechariah 9:14-16
  The Lord will appear above his people; his arrows will fly like lightning!The Sovereign Lord will sound the ram’s horn and attack like a whirlwind from the southern desert. The Lord of Heaven’s Armies will protect his people,and they will defeat their enemies by hurling great stones.They will shout in battle as though drunk with wine.They will be filled with blood like a bowl,drenched with blood like the corners of the altar. On that day the Lord their God will rescue his people, just as a shepherd rescues his sheep.They will sparkle in his land like jewels in a crown.

• The Last Trumpet Sound

  1 Corinthians 15:51-52
  But let me reveal to you a wonderful secret. We will not all die, but we will all be transformed!  It will happen in a moment, in the blink of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown. For when the trumpet sounds, those who have died will be raised to live forever. And we who are living will also be transformed.

The Ministry Of The Shofar

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So None Of Us Are Without Excuse To Sound Our Trumpets… Hallelujah Glory Be To God!!

Isaiah 58:1
The Lord says, “Shout out loud. Don’t hold back. Shout out loud Raise and lift up your voice like a trumpet. Tell my people what they have done against their God, show them their transgression. Tell the family of Jacob about their sins.

The Last Trumpet Sounded

Get ready to go up church and be transformed. Jesus is calling for His bride and only those who have an ear to hear will hear the sound of the trumpet and go up.  We are living in the end times and the Lord is soon to return for the church which is His bride. We must always be in expectancy and watching for His return.

1 Corinthians 15:51-57
But listen, I tell you this secret: We will not all die, but we will all be changed. It will only take the time of a second. We will be changed as quickly as an eye blinks. This will happen when the last trumpet blows. The trumpet will blow and those who have died will be raised to live forever. And we will all be changed.

This body that ruins must clothe itself with something that will never ruin. And this body that dies must clothe itself with something that will never die. So this body that ruins will clothe itself with that which never ruins. And this body that dies will clothe itself with that which never dies. When this happens, the Scriptures will be made true:

Death’s power to hurt is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
But we thank God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!

Get In Tune And On The Frequency of Holy Spirit

Pray that your spiritual senses will be activated that you may have eyes to see in the spirit, ears to hear in the spirit, smell the sweet anointing perfumes of His presence, hands to touch the things by faith in the spirit and the ability to taste and see that the Lord is good. Feed on the Word of God continuouly and abide in His presence. Partake of the word and digest it so your spirit man does not faint and die.

If you believe God has called you to minister the blowing of the shofar, always be led by the Spirit.  Ask God to anoint you for the ministry and wait on Him to lead you and direct you.

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Joel 2:1
Blow the ram’s horn in Zion. Sound the alarm on my holy mountain. Everyone who lives in the land should tremble, because the day of the Lord is coming. Certainly, it is near.

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