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The Feast of Trumpets
The Feast of Trumpets is celebrated on the first day of Ethanim (Tishri) the
seventh month in the sacred calendar. (Lev. 23:24)
Trumpets were used by Yahweh's command in ancient Israel:
- To assemble the congregation and to start journeying (Numbers 10:2)
- To call the leaders of Israel together (verse 4)
- To sound the alarm for war and to signal an attack (verse 9, Judges 3:27,
Job 39:25)
- To accompany the praises of Israel at the appointed festivals and the days
of the new moon (Numbers 10:10)
- To proclaim the accession of kings (2 Sam. 15:10, 1 Kings 1:34, 2 Kings
9:13)
- And to announce the Jubilee year of freedom (Lev. 25:9)
The Feast of Trumpets is a memorial Sabbath, a day of special significance,
designed to bring the faithful into remembrance before the Almighty. The two
silver trumpets mentioned in Numbers 10 were types of the great originals in the
heavens - the Trumpets of Yahweh & His Son. Those divine originals are
mentioned several times in the Scriptures and at their sounding events of
awesome importance have and still will take place. We read about the
trumpets past and future used in:
- The giving of the Ten Commandments (Exodus 19:14-19)
- The world wide warning still scheduled for the future when Yahweh
Himself will blow the trumpet. (Zech. 9:14, Isaiah 18:3, Zeph. 1:14-16)
- Signalling the events scheduled for the close of this age. (Revelation
chapters 8 & 9)
- The Second Advent of Jesus Christ; at which the resurrection will take
place. (Matt. 24:31, 1 Cor. 15:51-52)
A study of the texts listed above will show how Yahweh Himself has planned to
use His heavenly trumpets again. He and His Son will blow them to gather
His people as in days gone by; gather them for the climatic events scheduled to
take place at the Messiah's return. Did he not say:
| Isaiah 18:3 |
"All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye,
when He lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when He bloweth a
trumpet, HEAR YE."
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| Zechariah 9:14 |
"And the LORD shall be seen over them, and His arrow shall go
forth as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall
go with the whirlwinds of the south." |
The prophecy of the Revelation tells of the sounding of heavenly trumpets -
possibly starting at a Feast of Trumpets - which will probably coincide with the
gathering of Yahweh's people in the last days and the final war in heaven
between the forces of good and evil. (Rev 12) See
Understand the Revelation, in which the
Seven Trumpets are explained.
No one will doubt but that the Feast to Trumpets has still to find even
partial fulfilment; and it is because of this fact and the many texts which tell
of the use of the Trumpets of God in the future that believers should
beware of ignoring this important feast day.
On some future Feast of Trumpets the mighty Trumpet of the LORD will
sound. It will be heard throughout the world! and will reverberate with
tones as awesome as the rushing sound which filled Jerusalem on the Day of
Pentecost some 2000 years ago (Acts 2:2). All of mankind will hear the
Trumpet, for the Bible says:
| Zechariah 9:14 |
"And the LORD shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth
as the lightning: and the Lord God shall blow the trumpet, and shall
go with the whirlwinds of the south."
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| Isaiah 18:3 |
"All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye,
when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he bloweth a
trumpet, hear ye." |
Only when that event happens can we justifiably say that the Feast of Trumpets
has found fulfilment. For further information see the Shofar; herald of the
coming kingdom
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