Since we moved to Passau, I have made it a point to regularly go into Austria in the mornings after Bible study (which starts right behind our house) and go for extensive prayer walks on the hills of Upper Austria. This has expanded more and more and since the Holy Spirit told me to be active for Him full time, I sometimes spend whole mornings with God on hills and meadows and fields, worshipping Him, singing to Him and praying in tongues.

During these prayer walks and worship times in nature, I have received instructions from God again and again about what I should do, how, when and where. The Holy Spirit speaks very clearly to me when it is important to Him that I do something for Him. He does not let up until I do it exactly the way He wants me to do it. And so it was in October 2021. I was in worship on the hill and enjoying the togetherness with God, when this time I did not hear the voice of God, but received an immensely strong impression that I should get a shofar horn and blow it. It was such a massive impression that I immediately thought it was coming from the adversary. I was quite sure that it was not from the Lord. Quite sure.

I must preface this by saying that I had never been involved with shofar horns since I was saved by Jesus Christ in the winter of 2008. I have read in the Bible about people blowing shofar horns (Gideon, etc.) and have heard from time to time through acquaintances that there are Christian people who still do it today, but for me it was just as interesting as wearing women's clothing on my own body. Until that time I even considered these shofar horn blowers as an esoteric branch of Christianity and thought they should rather evangelize and heal people and raise the dead than activate such strange noise horns. Esoteric Christians, therefore, I called them in my oh so "advanced, sober and biblically based faith". Therefore, this impression during worship could not be from God at all! Never! A shofar horn! Me and a shofar horn! Right. It can only be from the other side. This is a feint of the devil, he just wants to distract me, I thought to myself.

So I continued to worship, but this previous impression, concerning the shofar horn, came again and again and became even stronger. How can such a flat esoteric attack of the devil penetrate at all during a worship of God and in addition still be so penetrating! I began to think during the worship incidentally, what all this now is supposed to.

When I arrived back home from the prayer walk that day and wanted to show my wife Ann something on the Internet, suddenly there were videos of shofar horn blowers on the YouTube pages. That had not been the case before. And these videos piled up over the next few days. Strange. But I started to watch some of these videos (of course secretly in front of my wife, because I thought she would think I was on an esoteric trip) and found the whole thing not so bad. But I still found no connection and was not quite sure whether this really came from God.

After a few days, I was again in the same place on the hill in worship, this impression that I should get such a shofar horn came again very intensely and this time I had heard an inner voice that clearly said that I should get a shofar horn. Now I was sure that it must be from God, but I still did not know what to do with it. What am I supposed to do with a horn like that? I am as musical as a flower pot and have no idea how to make such a thing sound. A shofar horn! God knows I was always one of the worst in music, instruments and singing. My brain was on fire and my heart was in doubt....

And then came the announcement of God:

"You have always worshipped Me here on the hills until now, and also you have faithfully proclaimed My dominion here over Germany and Austria in recent years. I have seen and heard it and I know that you are serious about Me and about the Bible verses that you always proclaim up here to the heavens. Go and buy yourself a shofar horn and from now on emphasize your proclamations with the shofar horn. Proclaim My word, My dominion and My warnings with the shofar horn. I have chosen you for this purpose. Buy yourself a shofar horn and blow it on the evening of October 31 as a sign of My reign. Proclaim My dominion over the earth and warn people of their doings. They must turn back from their evil ways; time is running out. The second coming of Jesus Christ is near! Warn the people!"

Wow! Then everything was clear. My body was shaking and I was completely over-excited! I went home and didn't know what to do first. After all, it was already the middle of October and I was supposed to blow a shofar horn on October 31! How am I supposed to do that? How do I do it? Can I do it? I've never done it before! Where can I get such a horn ...? I didn't know anyone personally who blew such a horn and who could have given me tips. So where do you get something like that? Israel! Sure! That's where it all started. Israel. So I looked at the pages of manufacturers of horns in Israel, and at the same time at those in Europe and Germany. I had no idea what to buy. The price ranges are horrendous! And if everything was just a product of my imagination, then I was throwing money out the window. My thoughts raced back and forth. Until then, I didn't tell my Ann either, she didn't know about my brain salad and heart tumbling. Staying calm, praying and searching. Finding and ordering. Not letting anything show. October 31. October 31!

It was mid-October and I was supposed to blow a shofar horn on October 31! Impossible! I had the impression that God had led me to a website and shown me a shofar horn. It kept coming before my eyes. So I just ordered it and gave the responsibility to God. I saw that delivery would take about two weeks and then there was customs, which also took its time. October 31? No way! This can't be from God! It won't work! And then I should also have practiced blowing beforehand. Somehow an audible and usable sound should come out. When should all this happen, so that I can keep this appointment of God, if it was from God then? I don't know. A last click with the PC mouse and the whole thing went its course. Now it was up to God if it would all come to pass as I apparently heard it would. My wife didn't suspect anything the whole time (until the day the package came) and I was seriously worried about whether I would now also be one of the "esoteric" Christians. Me and a shofar horn! Ridiculous!

October 31, 2021 was approaching. Not a shofar horn in sight! My Ann and I were invited to a prayer meeting that year on October 31 to stay awake that night and proclaim the word of the God of Israel. That would have been the occasion to then blow the shofar horn as well. (If I can blow it at all, I thought to myself, since I had not tried it before then and there was obviously no more time to practice.) We had agreed to be there together as early as Friday, October 29. It is a drive of about 1.5 hours by car. We were supposed to be there by noon, but we somehow didn't finish and the departure was delayed. The shofar horn had not arrived by then. (I knew it wouldn't!). We were finally ready to leave and drove the car off the property and onto the road. After about a hundred meters, I saw the mail truck parked at a neighbor's house. I stopped and asked the postwoman if she had a package for us (it would really be the last possibility before we were then gone for a few days!). She told us that she had a package, but she could not hand it over to us because it came from Israel and I would still have to pay customs and she could not do that personally because of the then current circumstances. So I would have to wait until she returned the rest of the package to the post office and then I could pay customs right there and take the package directly. Wow. If this is really the shofar horn now! That would be incredible! Literally at the last minute! God has everything under control! (He demands absolute trust and faith from us towards Him). So we waited another hour and then drove to the post office and I paid the customs fees there and took the package with me! I put it in the back seat and we drove to the meeting.

1.5 hours of suspense, because I had not yet opened the package and my wife knew until then nothing at all about the new achievement from Israel. She wondered all the time what would be in the package from Israel, but she asked me only once what it was. I told her that it was a surprise and that we would open it at the meeting in the presence of everyone.

Finally we were there! I could not wait any longer. The four of us sat at the table and I finally opened the package! And there it was: the shofar horn! Hallelujah! I had a good two days to practice with it! And what can I say? I could blow the shofar horn right away! Hallelujah! Jesus is good and He stands by His word! And on 31.10.2021 I could sound the Schofahorn officially for the first time from the hill range north of Altötting in the last evening light, with all of us praying, over the stronghold of Altötting idolatry, as a reminder that only Jesus Christ is to be sought, worshipped and adored and that Jesus Christ is already Victor, even over 31.10!

Hallelujah! Thank you Jesus! You are my Savior, my Lord and Savior and my God, who makes everything for the best!

Amen!

(By the way, my wife Ann looked just as incredulous and confused that Friday afternoon, 10/29/2021, when she saw the shofar horn coming out of the bag, as I must have looked when God told me to blow the shofar horn in mid-October! But she understood very quickly and is my best intercessor regarding my blowing the shofar horn! Thank you Jesus!)

... and now you know why I keep making these videos with the shofar horn.

You can find videos about this on our YouTube channel: So far still on the German language channel - but English language ones are coming soon!