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The Feast Of Trumpets
Rosh HaShana is the first of the three fall holidays – the Feast
Trumpets, the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles. The ten days
between the Feast of Trumpets and Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish
calendar, are called the “Days of Awe”, where people are encouraged to
contemplate their position before God, and it’s a very special time in Israel. Just
as the Spring feasts of Passover, Firstfruits and Shavuot (or Pentecost) are
all prophetically related to the death, resurrection and ascension of Yeshua,
and the sending of the Holy Spirit, the Fall feasts pertain to his second
coming. The Feast of Trumpets relates to the last trumpet that shall sound when
he comes again in glory.
By ONE FOR ISRAEL Staff
On the first day of the Jewish month of Tishri in the Fall, the
Feast of Trumpets blasts its way into the new Jewish year.
Today it is known as Rosh HaShana, the “Head of the Year”, even
though it’s not really the start of the Biblical year at all, according to
Exodus 12:2.
The calendar year was supposed to start in the month of Passover
in the spring, and the Feast of Trumpets comes at the beginning of the seventh
month.
Like all the other “Feasts of the Lord”, it is full of
significance and meaning for us today, as well as prophetic meaning about what
is to come.
Rosh HaShana is the first of the three fall holidays – the Feast
Trumpets, the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles.
The ten days between the Feast of Trumpets and Yom Kippur, the
holiest day of the Jewish calendar, are called the “Days of Awe”, where people
are encouraged to contemplate their position before God, and it’s a very
special time in Israel.
Just as the Spring feasts of Passover,
Firstfruits and Shavuot (or Pentecost) are all prophetically related to the
death, resurrection and ascension of Yeshua, and the sending of the Holy
Spirit, the Fall feasts pertain to his second coming.
The Feast of Trumpets relates to the last
trumpet that shall sound when he comes again in glory.
“Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not
all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an
eye, at the last trumpet.
“For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will
be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
“For this perishable body must put on the
imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.
“When the perishable puts on the imperishable,
and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is
written:
‘Death is swallowed up in victory.’
‘O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?’
‘Death is swallowed up in victory.’
‘O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?’
“The sting of death is sin, and the power of
sin is the law. But
thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” - (1 Corinthians 15:51-57)
Here’s what the Bible instructs about the
Feast of Trumpets:
“And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ‘Speak
to the people of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of
the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed
with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary
work, and you shall present a food offering to the Lord.’” - (Leviticus 23-25)
“On the first day of the seventh month you
shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work. It is a
day for you to blow the trumpets, and you shall offer a burnt offering, for a
pleasing aroma to the Lord.” - (Numbers 29:1-2)
It was intended by God to be a day of rest, a day to blow
trumpets, and to offer sacrifices over and above the usual sacrifices for the
new month for making atonement for the people.
What does blowing a trumpet mean?
Trumpets in Biblical times were either made from rams’ horns
(shofars) or from silver, and could be blown by the priests and leaders.
There were different sounds for different purposes:
·
Time to
pack up camp and move on, when the Israelites were traveling in the desert
·
Time to
gather the people and call an assembly
·
To mark
a sacrifice on a feast day
·
A
warning of war or danger
·
To
praise
·
To
declare a procession or feast
·
Proclaiming
a king
·
Assembling
the troops for battle
·
To be
used in battle
·
To
declare victory
It can be the sound of worship or a battle cry.
A practical device for the twelve tribes on the march, and
markers of special days and times of celebration.
The sound of the trumpet also has other connotations in the
Bible:
·
God’s
power to raise the dead (1
Corinthians 15:52, 1 Thessalonians 4:16)
·
The
proclamation of the gospel (Psalms
89:15)
·
The
bold and faithful preaching of prophets (Isaiah 58:1, Hosea 8:1, Joel 2:1)
·
The
latter day judgments (Revelation
8:2 and 13)
Shana Tova! (Happy New Year!)
As we come into this new Jewish year, everyone will wish each
other “Shana tova!” and that their name would be written in the Book of Life.
It is customary to eat sweet foods like apples, honey and
chocolate, and to give such gifts for a sweet new year.
Modern Judaism has a concept of your good and bad deeds being
weighed on the scales to see if you’re good enough to be written in the Book of
LIfe at this time leading up to Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
I always tell people that I’m sure my name will be in there
because I’m good friends with the author of the Book!
The meaning of complete forgiveness and atonement for sin due
the sacrifice a sinless other has been lost somewhere down the line.
The trumpets signal the sacrifice for atonement which Yeshua
fulfilled. They convey the preaching of the word and victory over death.
The sacrifice has been paid.
The battle has been won.
We can freely enter into his precious rest and feast with the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
The battle has been won.
We can freely enter into his precious rest and feast with the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Now that’s worth blowing a trumpet about.
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