Feast of Trumpets Meaning October 3, 2016
Sound the Alarm, literally "day of shouting and blasting,"
2 different trumpets.
1st: Jesus Christ returns to the earth as King and
sets up His Kingdom by replacing every human government and 2nd: changes
His bride at the twinkling of an eye to a Spirit being at the sounding of a
great trumpet blast.
The Father will send His Son, Jesus the
Messiah, to the earth to save mankind from nuclear mass destruction, to end
human misery and suffering, to usher in peace, happiness and joy for all
mankind.
Jesus will rule over and judge all nations
and will establish a New Civilization.
That is what this day is all about, the salvation of all mankind.
Jesus allows individuals 6000 years to rule
the earth based on the way of Satan and see what it is like. Jesus will end Satan rule when He returns to
the earth and will begin 1000 years based on the Law of God to bring peace,
happiness and prosperity to all. The world
today sees the Law of God as Bad or the Words of the Bible not for them.
Now let’ look at the
first of the Holy Days that come in the fall of the year. It is the Feast of Trumpets. It falls on a different day each year,
usually in late September or the first part of October. The Feast would always fall on the first day
of the seventh month, the month called Tishri.
(not to be confused with Rosh HaShanna, the
civil New Year, occurring on the same day – Believe silver trumpets)
Feast of Trumpets, Yom Terurah
Numbers 29:1 and in the seventh month, on the first day of the
month, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work. For
you it is a day of blowing the trumpets.
Leviticus 23:23-25 Then the LORD
spoke to Moses, saying, (24) "Speak to the children of Israel,
saying: 'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall
have a Sabbath-rest, a memorial
of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
(25) You shall do no customary
work on it; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.'
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Convocation just means a "meeting" or "assembly."
This feast uses an interesting symbol—the
blowing of trumpets.
On this day the high priest was to blow a trumpet.
Not just an ordinary trumpet,
but a special one made
out of a large ram's horn. It was called a shofar. You could not play a tune on
it – all it could do was giving out one piercing blast.
Shofar: hollowed-out curved ram’s horn
trumpet, signified a warning, an alarm of war
The shofar was used in ancient times to sound the alarm in case of war. The watchman would blow it to alert people if he
saw an invading army approaching. But why did God have the shofar blown on the Day of Trumpets?
Both the ram’s horn and silver trumpets are blown on this day.
Contrast with the silver trumpets (on first day of the new year)
Numbers
10:2
"Make two silver trumpets for yourself; you shall make them of hammered
work; you shall use them for calling the congregation and for directing the
movement of the camps.
Last Trump, “Trumpet of God” when Jesus returns to the earth. Are the silver trumpets for calling His bride
to the Wedding Supper and the ram’s horn call to battle the nations, on this
day?
The New Testament clearly shows this is
called the first resurrection, and we will be changed to a glorified spirit
life, becoming spirit beings in the family of God with the blowing of a great
trumpet.
Firstfruits harvested at the Last Trumpet.
The Feast of Trumpets pictures the time when Jesus Christ steps into our
world and imposes His Kingdom in place of every human government. It also
pictures the resurrection of what is called in the Bible the "dead in
Christ"
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Thessalonians 4:13-18 But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren,
concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no
hope. (14) For if we believe that Jesus died and rose
again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus. (15)
For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and
remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are
asleep. (16) For the Lord Himself will
descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with
the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. (17)
Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with
them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be
with the Lord. (18) Therefore comfort one another with these
words.
This is an amazing
miracle as Jesus Christ comes in the air (not to the surface of the earth), and
with a commanding voice of an archangel and the trumpet of God the dead in
Christ will arise from their graves. He
then commands the dead saints to ARISE! At the same time to announce this
resurrection the trumpet of God will sound. At that instant the dead saints
will be resurrected and receive their new immortal bodies in the twinkling of
the eye. Then both the dead and alive in
Christ will arise to the heavens to meet the Lord in the air.
Members of God's Church,
body who are still living and died when Christ returns will be changed on
that day.
1 Corinthians 15:51-52 Behold, I
tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed— (52)
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be
raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Matthew 24:31 And He will send
His angels with a great sound of a
trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from
one end of heaven to the other.
Another key Scripture
Revelation 11:15 Then the seventh
angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdoms
of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ,
and He shall reign forever and ever!"
Jesus will rule as the King of kings and Lord
of Lords. Then those who have received
God’s Holy Spirit during their life time will be resurrected to Spirit Beings
and will inherit Christ world-ruling Kingdom and become priests and kings under
our Elder Brother. Jesus Himself said,
He would raise us, His followers, at this future time to Spirit Beings and be
change to a glorified spirit life—becoming spirit beings in the family of
God.
John 6:44 No one can come
to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.
Jesus return will not be welcomed by the
armies and the leaders of this world. In fact, the coming of Christ is
accompanied by a time of war. The
"kingdom of the world" will not willingly yield to nor submit to
Jesus Christ and Jesus will have to make war.
Revelation 11:18 The nations were angry, and Your wrath has
come, And the time of the dead, that they should be judged, And that You should
reward Your servants the prophets and the saints, And those who fear Your name,
small and great, And should destroy those who destroy the earth."
The Feast of Trumpets foreshadowed certain
aspects of the ministry of Jesus Christ, one aspect is the blowing of trumpets
to the future Day of Judgment.
Joel 2:1 Blow
the trumpet in Zion, And sound an alarm in My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble;
For the day of the LORD is coming, For it is at hand:
Jesus our Lord will return to the earth,
literally touching down on the Mount of Olives across from the Temple Mound in
Jerusalem. He will instantly destroy all the armies gathered to fight at the
Jezreel Valley in what is referred to as the “Battle of Armageddon.”
Zechariah 14:4 And
in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, Which faces Jerusalem
on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, From east to west, Making
a very large valley; Half of the mountain shall move toward the north And half
of it toward the south.
This is the reason Jesus robe is dipped in
blood and wielding a sword will “strike the nations.
Revelation 19:13-15 He was
clothed with a robe dipped in blood,
and His name is called The Word of God.
(14) And the armies in heaven,
clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed Him on white horses. (15)
Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He
Himself will rule them with a rod of
iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of
Almighty God.
Isaiah 63:1-4 Who is this who comes from Edom,
With dyed garments from Bozrah, This
One who is glorious in His
apparel, Traveling in the greatness of His strength?— "I who speak in
righteousness, mighty to save."
(2) Why is Your apparel
red, And Your garments like one who treads in the winepress? (3)
"I have trodden the winepress alone, And from the peoples no one was
with Me. For I have trodden them in My
anger, And trampled them in My fury; Their blood is sprinkled upon My
garments, And I have stained all My robes.
(4) For the day of vengeance is in My heart, And the year of My redeemed
has come.
Bozrah in Hebrew; Petra in Greek:
“Sheepfold.” A protected enclosure, with a narrow entrance. Place of Safety? Jesus goes here first, before landing on the
Mount of Olives.
Only one man has the power that is “mighty to
save”: Jesus, the Messiah. “Day of Vengeance”
The kingdoms of the world are currently
controlled by a powerful spirit being called Satan the devil, who has deceived
this world for nearly 6000 years. He has
convinced individuals that God’s Way of Life is wrong and his way of death is
right. The world will believe that Jesus is the enemy
and they will fight against him. This
evil being is the real power behind the scenes of all human folly.
2 Corinthians 4:4 In their case, the god of this world has blinded the minds
of those who do not believe to keep them from seeing the light of the glorious
gospel of the Messiah, who is the image of God.
Satan has blinded and deceived the world. This day pictures Jesus Christ returning as a conquering King to
rule the earth in peace. Because of rebellion and it is ashamed, He will
have to make war!
All of these purposes find their ultimate
fulfillment in the New Testament teaching that Jesus Christ will return to
earth as King and assemble His people, you and me, His Holy Saints, together at
the sounding of a great trumpet blast.
The Feast of Trumpets gives us hope that
Jesus will return and set all things the way it should be.
We
are receiving a warning of impending national disaster through His Word, the
Holy Scriptures and His ministers.
Ezekiel 33:6 But if the
watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people
are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among
them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the
watchman's hand.'
These two events: the return
of Jesus Christ to rule the people of the earth and to the
resurrected of those
who have obeyed God (the first harvest), are what the Feast of Trumpets pictures. It looks forward
to the beginning of the New World - the World Tomorrow!
We, as His Body and brothers of His, rejoice
on the Feast of Trumpets because we look forward to the return of Jesus, the Messiah
when we are changed to immortal.
Before the righteous reign of Jesus Christ
can begin on this earth, Satan himself must be dealt with. This next step in
God's plan is told through the next High Day, the Day of Atonement. We will continue
The Two Silver Trumpets
of the Levite Priests
These Silver Trumpets were
only able to produce, like the shofar, one primary tone.
From both the Scriptural and historical texts we find that there were two basic calls associated with the silver trumpets, the tekiah (a short blast) and the teruah (a series of rapid, staccato blasts).
The short, rapid tones of the teruah were apparently the tones that would signal the various families surrounding the Tabernacle compound to set out and break camp. (Numbers 10:5,6).
Shofar or Ram’s Horn
Jeremiah 4:19 O my soul, my soul! I am
pained in my very heart! My heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace,
Because you have heard, O my soul, The sound of the trumpet (Shofar), The alarm
of war.
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