The Feast of Trumpets

When the Stars Fall, Vol. 1 ^ | July 2010 | Michael Bugg

[Carry_Okie]

Also the middle of a week was 30 C.E.(3790) interesting to say the least!

Actually, that may not be correct. The information I have suggests that CE 30 was a Sabbath year. It is a quite convincing analysis.

[Buggman]

My own thought is that since this is a "memorial," we have to look for an antecedant where a great sound (which is what teruah literally means; "trumpets" is interpolated) occurred. The only one I know of is the Holy One appearing on Mt. Sinai in fire and a cloud on Sukkot. Ergo, I connect this memorial with the idea of the Holy One appearing visiably to His people--which connects with several threads of both rabbinic and New Testament thought on Yom Teruah's meaning.

Shalom.

[Buggman]

Provide your audience with an accurate portrayal of how a Torah Scroll is constructed.

Fair enough. I was attempting to be brief rather than comprehensive, so I don't doubt that I lost some clarity in the process.

For the record, what I am attempting to do is to take away the whole "Old Law (Torah) vs. New Law of Christ" paradigm that has dominated Christianity since the 2nd or 3rd Century. It is that paradigm which has forcibly removed Jews from their people, their traditions, and even their special relationship to the Covenant and the Torah for the last two millennia. It almost happened to my family.

So my goal in posting this sort of stuff and writing commentary on the book of Revelation is not to convert Jews to Christianity--heck, how would that even work?--but to grow a greater respect for Judaism and the Torah among Christians. Thus, I draw the connections between the Torah and Yeshua on not only a practical level, showing how His teachings were fully consistant with the Torah--and mostly consistant with the consensus of the rabbis, for that matter--but also on a midrashic level, showing Him to be the embodiment of Torah rather than anti-Torah.

L'shannah Tova and Shalom.

[Buggman]

The only requirements for the origin of the AC is that he's from the Roman Empire.

I disagree there. The AC is also the little horn out of Greece typlified in Antiochus Epimanes (Dan. 8). He is also called in various places the Assyrian and the King of Babylon, and I suspect that Gog is another title for the same individual.

He's also described as a "little horn" that uproots three larger horns (Dan. 7). Since the horns represent kings, or nations, this implies that he comes from a small nation--one still out of the Roman Empire, so Kenya wouldn't count--rather than a large one, like the USA.

He comes out of Rome, yes, but Scripture seems to suggest that he'll come out of the eastern leg rather than the West. I'm not saying that you're wrong yet, but I do think there is some other Scriptural data that you haven't incorporated into your theory yet.

Shalom.