Shout it From the Heights - "shofar song" free download!

  IT IS NEARING MY FAVORITE TIME OF YEAR…
(scroll to the bottom to skip the story and get the song!)

The fall Feasts of the Lord!  The last 3 of the 7 holy days of YHWH are upon us.  Coming up on the calendar we have:

6.  Yom Teruah/Feast of Trumpets/Rosh Hashanah (commonly known as)
7.  Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)
8.  Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles)

(I know some who celebrate calculated Yom Teruah was earlier this month and are about to celebrate Sukkot...hope you are having a wonderful celebration! This is a little tardy for your Feast of Trumpets, but nonetheless, sing a new song!).  

Don’t get me wrong, the spring feasts are wonderful.  But there’s something about blowing ram’s horns & hanging out in sukkahs (tent-ish structures) that make these last three extra spicy in my book.  OR maybe it’s because they signify the coming Messiah (riding a white horse with sounding horns…on the clouds with fire kinda stuff) & the events leading to the most radical wedding party of all time.

I like parties, ok?

Dream a Little Dream

Now I'm not one to think everything means something, but I had a rather vivid dream a long time ago (this is relevant to the topic I promise).  My husband and I were going somewhere, but a bit lost and concerned about it.  We weren’t frantic, but we were not settled either.  Finally we end up in a parking lot with my best friend and her husband, at night, overlooking a neighborhood, and the ocean.  Like this:

then this happened

and lastly, this:

Sorry for the bad graphics, but I just did that at 11pm on a cheap design app.

THIS IS IT.  THIS IS IT

So anyway, this seeming shooting star explodes.  Captivating and a little terrifying, but you know what made it weird?  TRUMPET BLASTS were reverberating from the SKY and we were trembling in holy FEAR.  In my dream I remember thinking “THIS IS IT.  THIS IS IT”

Now listen, I’m not saying any doomsday/end of the world/etc. event is going to happen like this.  I don't know what to expect really.  This was just a dream.  However, if I had known anything about the Feasts of the Lord or shofar blasts at the time, this wouldn’t be as strange.  But the thing is, this dream was before I knew any of that.  I had only recently become fascinated with Israel and was mildly curious about Passover.  

Shortly after I read a book called “Feasts of the Lord” and came across part of this verse:

Amos 3:6-8

When a trumpet sounds in a city, do not the people tremble? When disaster comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?  Surely the Sovereign LORD does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.  The lion has roared-- who will not fear? The Sovereign LORD has spoken-- who can but prophesy?

So there's that.  It kind of caught my attention.  Quite a wonder those dreams.  

Moral of the Story

Whatever all that is, I think it might be why I have a special fascination and connection to Yom Teruah (the first of the fall feasts) and LOVE blowing our shofar as often as appropriately possible (so does my husband,  love that my kids are going to grow up with shofar blasts being the norm..).  

That being said, we wrote a song a while back.  It’s called “Shout it from the Heights” and there might be a line in there (multiple times) that says “Sound the great shofar.”  

Free Shofar-Blowing Song Download

In the spirit of the season I’ve made our song Shout it from the Heights available for free download.  Now you can sing a new song while you dance & blow your shofar this Feast of Trumpets.  Oh, and if you don't celebrate Yom Teruah (yet) I highly recommend it.  

See "Google" for more info on that.

Here’s the verse that gave Shout it from the Heights it’s original inspiration:

-Ezekiel 33:1-6- 

"The word of the Lord came to me: 2 “Son of man, speak to your people and say to them: ‘When I bring the sword against a land, and the people of the land choose one of their men and make him their watchman, 3 and he sees the sword coming against the land and blows the trumpet to warn the people, 4 then if anyone hears the trumpet but does not heed the warning and the sword comes and takes their life, their blood will be on their own head. 5 Since they heard the sound of the trumpet but did not heed the warning, their blood will be on their own head. If they had heeded the warning, they would have saved themselves. 6 But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet to warn the people and the sword comes and takes someone’s life, that person’s life will be taken because of their sin, but I will hold the watchman accountable for their blood." 

GET "SHOUT IT FROM THE HEIGHTS" HERE

Shaloha!