The Shofar: God’s Ancient Trumpet Is Sounding Again — And Bible-Believing Christians Need to Listen

  I was raised in a little country church where the only trumpet we 99% of us ever heard was the pastor's kid on his slightly-off-key cornet every Easter. Rams’ horns? Those were Old Testament curiosities, something for Messianic congregations or the occasional prophecy conference.

Then I actually started tracing the shofar through Scripture.


What I found shook me so hard I went out and bought a 36-inch Yemenite kudu horn the next week. My wife thought I’d lost my mind. My neighbors definitely did when I started practicing at 5 a.m. But once you see what the Bible actually says about this blood-stained, battle-scarred trumpet, you can’t unsee it.


Here is the scarlet thread of the shofar from Genesis to Revelation — told the way I now preach it to my own fundamentalist, dispensational, KJV-carrying, pre-trib, blood-bought congregation.


1. The First Shofar: A Ram Caught in the Thicket (Genesis 22)

The knife glints above Isaac. Abraham’s hand does not waver — until the Angel stops him. In the thicket behind the altar thrashes a ram, horns entangled in thorns. That ram dies so the promised seed can live.  

Every shofar blown for the past 4,000 years has been a memorial of substitutionary atonement. When the high priest lifted that curved horn to his lips, Israel was hearing Calvary before Calvary happened.


2. The Terrifying Shofar at Sinai (Exodus 19)

The mountain is on fire. Lightning forks endlessly. And then comes “a blast of a horn so loud and prolonged that the people in the camp trembled.” The Hebrew actually says the shofar kept getting louder and louder while God Himself spoke the Ten Commandments.  

That was not a man blowing. That was Jehovah sounding His own holiness. No wonder the people begged Moses, “You speak with us… but let not God speak with us, lest we die!”

3. The Shofar That Flattened Jericho (Joshua 6)

Seven priests. Seven rams’ horns. Seven days. On the seventh day, one long blast — and impregnable walls explode outward like they’d been hit by a nuclear shockwave. The shofar never touched those walls. Obedience touched them. The shofar was simply the sound of radical, Spirit-led obedience.


4. The Shofar of Repentance and Coming Judgment (Joel 2:1, 15)

Joel doesn’t mince words: “Blow the shofar in Zion… sanctify a fast… for the Day of the Lord is coming; it is at hand!” That piercing, broken series of tekiah-teruah-tekiah blasts is still God’s prophetic alarm clock. We are the Laodicean church asleep in the lap of Delilah. We need that cry again.


 5. The Last Shofar: The Trump of God (1 Thess 4:16; 1 Cor 15:52; Matt 24:31)

One day — maybe today — the sky is going to split with a sound no human lungs will produce. The Lord Himself will descend “with the trump of God.” In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, mortality will be swallowed up by life. The same horn that once made Israel fall on their faces in terror will make the Bride leap into the air with joy.


Why the Shofar Belongs in New Testament Churches

We’ve spiritualized away too many things Jesus never abolished. The early church met in the Temple courts where shofars still sounded daily. The apostles never heard a worship service without them.  

I’m not talking about turning your Sunday service into a bar mitzvah. I’m talking about recovering a biblical weapon of warfare, awakening, and prophetic announcement.


- Blow it when you begin a solemn assembly for repentance.  

- Blow it when you anoint the sick and cast out demons.  

- Blow it when you commission missionaries.  

- Blow it on the Feast of Trumpets as a dress rehearsal for the Rapture.  

- And for heaven’s sake, blow it when you feel the Spirit say, “Now.”


Because one day the real Shofar is going to blow, and every blood-bought child of God will recognize the voice of the Shepherd calling us home.


Until then, church, let the watchmen on the walls refuse to hold their peace day or night.


Get a horn. Learn to blow it till your lips bleed if you have to.  

Because the King is coming — and He’s bringing His trumpet with Him.


Maranatha!


DMMC

11-24-25

Location: Peru, IN 46970, USA

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