What Is the Shofar? (click here)

The following are excerpts from "Do You Know God's Will For Your Life?" by Jim Barbarossa of Step-By-Step Ministries, Valparaiso, Indiana.

October 1999, Ohio - A young man had severe pain in his knees.  When the trumpet was sounded, he jumped up and down without pain.

September 1999, New York - A man had pain from a pinched sciatic nerve for two years.  When the trumpet was sounded, pain left.

August 1999, Connecticut - A lady had pain in her knees.  When the trumpet sounded, pain left.

March 1999, Alabama - A lady had a blood clot in her leg.  After the trumpet was sounded, the blood clot was gone.

January 1999, Boy Healed - "I had a lump on my chest and was in pain.  When the trumpet was sounded, the pain and the lump left."

September 1999, F.G.B.M.F.I. Holland Michigan - Brother Ray: "I have had pain in my right shoulder for a long time.  I could not lift my arm above my shoulder.  When you blew the Shofar, the pain left!  I can lift my arm without pain.  I am healed."

March 1998 - A man needed rotator cuff surgery for his shoulder.  He said, "When the trumpet was sounded, something hit my shoulder.  Pain left."  He never had to have the surgery.

February 1997,  Cold Water, Michigan - "Woman set free."  She said, "I have been bound by fear for over fifteen years.  When the Shofar was sounded that fear left me.  I have been set free.  I feel so good, I'm free!"

There are two types of Shofars, the Ram's Horn which is a shorter curved horn of a ram, and the Yemenite Shofar, larger of the two that usually has two or three twists and is three to four feet in length and usually comes from an antelope.

The Ram's Horn sounds like an animal crying.  It is a repentant-type sound.  The Yemenite sounds more like a modern trumpet.  It has a jubilee sound, a celebration sound.  (Do You Know God's Will For Your Life?  Jim Barbarossa; page 114)

The devil is the prince and power of the air.  OK!  Now what happens when you blow a Shofar?  You release into the air (the devil's camp) the sound of the trumpet, which is like the voice of God.  Each time you sound it, you are hammering the enemy's camp with the voice of God.  that is why the atmosphere of a room changes when the trumpet is sounded.  You are clearing the air between you and heaven.  You drive back the enemy with each blast of the trumpet.  (Do You Know God's Will For Your Life?  Jim Barbarossa; page117)

God said, God spoke, God created with His voice.  When you blow a Shofar, you are releasing that which is like the voice of God.  You are releasing God's power and anointing into the atmosphere.

Why are people healed when the trumpet is sounded?

God's Will:
     And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the Lord your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.                                             Numbers 10:9


Sickness is of the enemy that oppresseth you.  When we blow the Shofar in obedience to the ordinance, God delivers people from the enemies that oppress them (pain, sickness).

What effect does the blowing of the Shofar have on the enemy?

God's Will:

     And they stood every man in his place round about the camp; and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.  And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the Lord set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Beth-shittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath.                 Judges 7:21-22

The enemy's camp went into confusion, and they turned on each other with the sword.  Blow the Shofar in your city and send the enemy running.