THE SHOFAR Newsletter of Bet Yeshurun Messianic Assembly

Good News for the Assembly of Bet Yeshurun

No. 1706 / September 14, 2025

2025 Gatherings (services start at 3:00 pm; doors open an hour earlier. )

9/17                  Yom Peguim (Leap Day services for the autumn season)
9/18                  Yom Teruah (a Day of Shouting and Trumpets) *                                                                                                 

9/20                  Praise & Worship                                                                                               
9/21                  Sabbath
9/27                  Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) **                                                                   
9/28                  Sabbath                                                            
10/2                  Chag Sukkoth (Day 1 of the Festival of Tabernacles) **      
10/3                  Chag Sukkoth (Day 2 of the Festival of Tabernacles) **                               
10/4                  Chag Sukkoth (Day 3 of the Festival of Tabernacles) **                               
10/5                  Chag Sukkoth (Day 4 of the Festival of Tabernacles) **                               
10/6                  Chag Sukkoth (Day 5 of the Festival of Tabernacles) **                               
10/7                  Chag Sukkoth (Day 6 of the Festival of Tabernacles) **                               
10/8                  Chag Sukkoth (Day 7 of the Festival of Tabernacles) **                               
10/9                  Shemeni Atzaret * (The Last Great Day Feast) **                                          
10/11                 Praise & Worship                                                                                               
10/12                Sabbath
*   A Holy Day like Sabbaths (a day for no work)
** A Holy Feast (details about this gathering to be announced later)

2025 Schedule for Reading the Bible in One-Year

Ketuvim; Ezra (Help) Writings of Ezra                         
9/14 - Chapters 1 – 5              9/15 - Chapters 6 – 10
Ketuvim; Nechemiah (Consolation of Yah) Writings of Nehemiah                              
9/16 - Chapters 1 – 4               9/17 - Chapters 5 – 8             9/18 – Chapters 9 – 11             
9/19 – Chapters 12 – 13
Ketuvim; Divrey ha’Yamim 1 (The Annals of Time) First Book of Chronicles            
9/20 - Chapters 1 – 3               9/21 - Chapters 4 – 6              9/22 - Chapters 7 – 10
9/23 - Chapters 11 – 14           9/24 - Chapters 15 – 18          9/25 - Chapters 19 – 22
9/26 - Chapters 23 – 26           9/27 - Chapters 27 – 29
Ketuvim; Divrey ha’Yamim 2 (The Annals of Time) Second Book of Chronicles        
9/28 - Chapters 1 – 4               9/29 - Chapters 5 – 8              9/30 - Chapters 9 – 12
10/1 - Chapters 13 – 16           10/2 - Chapters 17 – 20          10/3 - Chapters 21 – 24
10/4 - Chapters 25 – 28           10/5 - Chapters 29 – 32          10/6 - Chapters 33 – 36
1st Book of Enoch (Dedicated) R. H. Charles Translation                                          
10/7 - Chapters 1 – 20             10/8 - Chapters 21 – 47          10/9 - Chapters 48 – 62
10/10 - Chapters 63 – 74         10/11 - Chapters 75 – 88        10/12 - Chapters 89 – 95
10/13 - Chapters 96 – 108

Tabernacle Invitation

Interested in joining Bet Yeshurun Assembly? Please contact Pastor ObadiYah by email, telephone, mail, or in person at a gathering of Yahushuah’s Body.

A Day for Shouting and Trumpets

 

(Numbers 29:1) In the seventh month, on the first day of the month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no servile work. It is a day of blowing the trumpets to you.

The opening verse translates the Hebrew tᵉrûwʻâh (ter-oo-aw'; H8643) as “of blowing the trumpets.” According to Strong's Concordance it also means “clamor, i.e. acclamation of joy, or a battle-cry; especially a clangor of trumpets as an alarm.” Thus, YAHUAH’s Feast of Yom Teruah is also known by some at Bet Yeshurun Assembly (BYA) as aday for shouting and blowing shofars. In the Announcements section, read of more good news about the coming Feasts at BYA: (Psalm 98:6) With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before YAHUAH, the King.

Not all are blessed with musical instrument talents, but each of us can shout HalleluYAH! Furthermore, the Scriptures refer to voices of Believers as trumpets. On this Day of Shouting and Trumpets, let’s also plan to use vocal cords to blow our own horn for Elohim: (Rev. 1:10)I was in the Spirit on the Adonai’s day and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, (Isaiah 58:1) Cry loudly! Do not hold back! Raise your voice like a trumpet!

Whether you prefer to call this Feast, Yom Teruah or a Day of Shouting and Trumpets, one name that doesn't fit is rosh ha'shanah (the new year).Hidden under a label of Israel’s new year amid blaring horns much like a New Year’s Eve party, some miss the purpose of Yom Teruah. Besides, a Divine Calendar year begins with the first month in the spring, not the seventh month in the fall as revealed to Moses and Aaron when Israel was soon to leave worldly bondage in Egypt: (Exodus 12:2) YAHUAH spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, “This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.”

In Greek, “keleusma” means “a cry of incitement, a shout.” (Strong's)Thus, BYA shouts and trumpets on Yom Teruah, as a warning signal for the wrath that’s coming upon Messiah’s return. Hence, this Feast also pictures a call to repent and the reward for doing so: (1 Thessalonians 4:14-16) For if we believe that Yahushuah died and rose again, even so them who also sleep in Yahushuah will Elohim bring with Him. For this we say by the Word of Adonai, that we who are alive and remain unto the coming of Adonai shall not prevent them who are asleep for Adonai Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout (keleusma), with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of Elohim and the dead in Messiah shall rise first.

Indeed, Yom Teruah includes joyous shouts from those looking forward to the Son of Man’s return. While Yahushuah’s arrival is a time of rejoicing for the righteous, it will also be a time of great sorrow for the wicked as their worldly power and control ends. Hence, we sound an alarm to repent! (Matthew 24:30-31) Then the sign of the Son of Man in heaven shall appear. Then shall all the tribes of earth mourn. They shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet.

Further consider these instructions of YAHUAH to gather like a Sabbath on the first day of the seventh month of the Divine Calendar: (Leviticus 23:23-25) YAHUAH spoke to Moses saying, “Speak to the children of Israel saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, you shall have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. You shall do no servile work therein, but you shall offer an offering made by fire to YAHUAH.”

All of YAH's Feasts picture special times in HIS Plan of Salvation for humanity. Indeed, these are blessings for those with ears that hear and hearts that receive: (Leviticus 23:1-2) YAHUAH spoke to Moses saying, “Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, 'Concerning the Feasts of YAHUAH, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are My Feasts.'”

One thing is certain! When Yahushuah returns it will be a glorious time for those blessed to be at His Wedding Party. Sadly, not all will get ready by repenting. The consequences of the wrong choice can be found in Yahushuah’s Parable about ten bride maids that await their Bride Groom’s arrival. (see Matthew 25:1-13)

Saying, “Yes!” to Yah’s proposal of “Follow Me!” is a step toward becoming His Bride. Another step involves turning from the traditions of organized religions and striving to follow the righteousness in Yah’s teachings, sayings and commands. As we return to the Father’s Way of Torah by saying “I do, Yah!”, anidentifying mark will be our faith in Messiah no matter the cost. (Revelation 22:14) Blessed are they that do His commandments that they may have right to the tree of life and may enter in through the gates into the city. (Revelation 14:12) Here is the patience of the saints. Here are they who keep the commandments of Elohim and the faith of Yahushuah.

Further consider the Way of YAHUAH’s Family as Israel kept Yom Teruah upon returning from Babylon, a land of confusion. Selah! (Ezra 3:1) When the seventh month was come and the children of Israel were in the cities, people gathered together as one man to Jerusalem. (Nehemiah 8:2) Ezra the priest brought the Law (Torah) before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.

As BYA comes together as a spiritual family on Yom Teruah, we’ll shout for joy in celebrating a day when heaven and earth will shake as Yah uplifts His saints. We’ll also blow shofars to warn the time for repentance is growing short! (Joel 2:1) Blow the trumpet in Zion! Sound an alarm in My Holy Mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble as the Day of YAHUAH comes for it is nigh at hand.

May our shouts and shofars of Yom Teruah serve as a warning and an invitation to choose the path of life, not death, in coming to worship Elohim as our Messiah gets closer to returning: (Isaiah 27:13) It shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown. They shall come who were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship YAHUAH in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

One day everyone will hear and obey the Father’s Torah and the Son’s teachings, sayings and commands! Is this your time? (Micah 4:1-2) In the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the House of YAHUAH shall be established in the top of the mountains. It shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. Many nations shall come and say, “Come! Let us go up to the mountain of YAHUAH and to the House of the Elohim of Jacob. He will teach us of His Way, and we will walk in His Paths. For Torah shall go forth of Zion, and the Word of YAHUAH from Jerusalem.

Are you ready for a Day of Shouting and Trumpets? (Zechariah 8:20-23) Thus says YAHUAH of hosts (Tzavuot); “It shall yet come to pass, that there shall come people and the inhabitants of many cities: And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another saying, 'Let us go speedily to pray before YAHUAH and to seek YAHUAH Tzavuot. I will go also.'' Yea, many people and strong nations shall come to seek YAHUAH Tzavuot in Jerusalem, and to pray before the LORD. Thus says YAHUAH Tzavuot; “In those days [it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Yahudim saying, 'We will go with you for we have heard Elohim is with you.'”

May BYA experience a wonderful day of shouting and trumpets at Yom Teruah. And may YAHUAH's grace be with us all! Shalom, Elder Curt

Announcements

2025 Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) Please join BYA as we refrain from water and food starting at sunset on 9/26/25 and break that fast at sunset 9/27/25 after Praise and Worship services. If you're unable to physically fast, please join us spiritually as we praise, glorifyand thank YAHUAH Elohim according to HIS Word: (Jeremiah 36:6-7) Go and read in the roll, which you have written from my mouth, the words of YAHUAH in the ears of the people in YAHUAH’s House on the fasting day. Also, you shall read them in the ears of all Judah who come out of their cities. It may be they will present their supplication before YAHUAH and will return every one from his evil way.

2025 Chag Sukkoth (Festival of Tabernacles) Please join BYA in temporary dwelling places (tents) beginning 10/1/25. For directions to our camp, please call 248.850.3480. This Festival ends at Shemeni Atzaret (Last Great Feast Day) on 10/8/25. This annual fall family reunion is a tradition of YAHUAH: (Leviticus 23:34-35) The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days unto YAHUAH. On the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no servile work therein.

 

Thoughts for Meditation

Isaac Newton, mathematician and physicist in the 17th century - “I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.”

Galileo Galilei (1564 -1642 astronomer) - “When I reflect on so many profoundly marvelous things that persons have grasped, sought, and done, I recognize even more clearly that human intelligence is a work of God, and one of the most excellent.”

Martin Luther - “A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.”