You Are the Shofar

As we enter the time of what is called the Feast of Trumpets and the period known as Tabernacles, a few thoughts are worthy of mention.

The Old Testament is known as the book of "types and shadows". The events and observances that happened during these times were to be as a shadow of things to come. Even Paul in the book of Phillippians speaks about the days of the Old Testament, and that it was a shadow of things to come, upon us whom the ends of the ages have fallen. The Children of Israel were commanded to observe various feasts and convocations instituted by Moses. The Feast of Passover, also known as the Feast of Weeks; the Feast of Pentecost, also known as the Feast of the Ingathering; and the Feast of Trumpets and Feast of Tabernacles. Each feast, as we have known in our personal studies, have represented various experiences that would become available to the believer in the days of the future; albeit the deliverance instituted thru Christ on the Cross; the Feast of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit fell, and Tabernacles, speaking of the day when God would so incarnate in man, that you see a Tabernacling experience of God's presence, with a glory that would never fade.

All of these feasts were but a shadow, a type of what God was going to do. There was no fulfillment in the "act" of the observance of these feasts, it is only "what" they represented. It has been said that both the Feast of Passover and the Feast of Pentecost have been fulfilled, and the experience is available to the ardent believer, but, the Feast of Tabernacles has been an observance which has not been fulfilled, at least in the minds of those who still observe it, in hopes to someday see the reality of it.

The Feast of Trumpets is the same. Once a year the elders would gather and sound the "shofar", represented by the blowing of the ram's horn. This blowing of the ram's horn signified the prophetic utterance that would come forth in another day. It signified a time when you would see the prophetic level of the word of God spoken thru earthen vessels that would create with the power of God. It signified a state when the believer would truly be God's voice.

Even at this time people everywhere celebrate these Feasts. Some of these are born again believers who observe these feasts, yet somehow, in their mind's eye, they look to a given day or time to "be" those prophetic voices, not realizing, that the anointing has come to usher in the believer to a "state" of fully being that shofar trumpet.

I do not look to a feast to be my fulfillment, when I realize that we have become that fulfillment. The sounding of the trumpets is a state of being, a melded part of what and who each one is. You are the shofar. You are the trumpet that ever lives to sound forth the judgements and the mercies of the Living God. We do not look for a season, or a time; when we realize that all of the Old Testament was only meant to be a precursor to a people that would be the manifestation of that, continually.

We walk as the Shofar and Trumpet of this New Day. Every minute we breathe - we are the shofar. It is not a time, nor a date, nor a season of the year; but it is a state of being that is here.

The Feast of Tabernacles quickly approaches us, and once again, there are many who look to times, seasons and dates to see something released; when what needs to be done is to lift one's eyes up and see what has already come. Tabernacles is the last experience of the great feasts that on a global scale has not been partaken of. However, that is not to say that at this point in history, there are not a people, at this time, who have become the housing of the Tabernacle experience. As the Holy Spirit overshadowed the womb of Mary, so the Holy Spirit overshadows each of us, until, we find that we walk about carrying within us the reality of the promise of the tabernacle experience, if we could just be aware. The Feast of Tabernacles will not be experienced at the drone of some clock chiming a given hour; Tabernacles points to a relationship with man and God that is more than present and in our midst, for it has "come of age". Tabernacles is a state of abiding that is here and available to all of those who believe. We are the fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles. We must accept this.

There is a much deeper application of the provision, which has long been released and waiting for us, to be taken. We must rid ourselves of our unawareness, and our unbelief. Too long have we evaluated ourselves by how we have perceived ourselves.. We must let go of our perceptions, which at best, still limit God. We let go of our conditioned unbelief and our conditioned unawareness. If you want to know the truth, there is no excuse for unawareness. Perhaps there could have been a time, in our immaturity, that we could feign unawareness. But now, if we have unawareness it really is a sin before Him, because He has made it all available to us; and we have chosen to but stay in a level of unawareness.

We set aside that sin tonight. We choose not to live in a protracted state of infancy. We choose to be pleasing to Him, and in being pleasing, we cease to question the fact that God has made it all available to us. We cease to question who we are. We change our modus operandi; we become the most aware, most spiritual people who have walked the face of the earth, and in so doing, we will be pleasing to Him.