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"Feast Of Trumpets"
(September 25, 2008)
Feast of Trumpets: September 30, 2008
Day of Atonement:
October 9, 2008
Feast of
Tabernacles: October 13-21, 2008
God gave Israel the
Law through Moses. At that time, God commanded His people to
recognize and celebrate seven yearly feasts/events: three "major"
feasts and four "minor feasts/events". The three major feasts were,
and still are:
(1)
Passover: Israel
left her bondage to Egypt; and approximately 1400-1500 years later,
Christ was crucified and resurrected during Passover, thus setting
mankind free from bondage to satan and evil.
(2)
Pentecost: Fifty
days after leaving Egypt, Israel received the spoken, and then
written, Law at Mt Sinai, and fifty days after Jesus was
resurrected, all who waited in the upper room in Jerusalem were
baptized in the Holy Spirit and began to speak in tongues, while all
bystanders heard them in their own language, or as God "prophesied"
through them. From that time forward God’s Law is written in His
heart in you. As you are baptized in the Holy Spirit you literally
receive God’s nature and character within <Lk 17:21>.
(3)
Feast of
Tabernacles: In remembrance of the booths/tabernacles that Israel
lived in during their forty years in the wilderness. This feast is,
as yet, unmarked by any spectacular event within Christianity. There
are two minor feasts that accompany the major feast, the
Feast of Tabernacles: Feast of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement.
The dates of
Israel's Feasts change from year to year. ‘Tishri' is the Hebrew
name of the seventh month on the Jewish calendar. This month
corresponds to our months of September and October, and lasts 30
days. There are three connected events during this month. The first
event is called "Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah)"; the second is called
"Day of Atonement (Yom Kipper)". Yom Kippur, or the Day Of
Atonement, is/was the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. The third
event is "Tabernacles (Booths or INGATHERING)". This event,
TABERNACLES or INGATHERING, is also the last of the three "major"
feasts; and all males were required to attend the three "major"
Feasts at the main tabernacle/Temple. After the stationary temple
was built in Jerusalem, all males had to attend these three feasts
in Jerusalem.
Jesus was in
Jerusalem for the Passover Feast when He was crucified; and fifty
days later, the Hebrew males were present in Jerusalem, from the
various countries, to celebrate Pentecost when God’s people were
given His Holy Spirit. All three feasts are celebrated by Jews
today. I believe that Christ Jesus is most likely to return for His
people, and/or the Wedding Feast, during this time. Please read "The
Feast of Tabernacles and Christ’s Ingathering", by Chris
Williams, for more details as to why I believe this.
The New Unger's
Bible Dictionary informs us, under Festivals, "The Seventh New Moon,
or Feast of Trumpets (Heb. yom teru`a, "day of blowing," Num 29:1).
The feast of the New Moon, which fell on the seventh month, or
Tishri. This differed from the ordinary festivals of the new moon
because of the symbolic meaning of the seventh or sabbatical month
and partly, perhaps, because it marked the beginning of the civil
year. This month was distinguished above all the other months of the
year by the multitude of ordinances connected with it, the first
day being consecrated to sacred rest and spiritual employment,
the tenth being the Day of Atonement, whereas the fifteenth began
the feast of Booths (Tabernacles, KJV)...
This day was
observed as a feast day, in the strict sense, by resting from all
work, and as a holy (a)convocation, by the blowing of horns. In
later times, while the drink offering of the sacrifice was being
poured out, the priests and Levites chanted (b)Ps 81, whereas in the
evening sacrifice they sang (b)Ps 29.
Throughout the day trumpets
were blown at Jerusalem from morning to evening. In the Temple
it was done even on a Sabbath, but not outside its walls...
{see Heb13:11-13} This significance of the seventh month is
indicated by the sounding of trumpets, whereby the congregation
present a memorial of themselves loudly and strongly BEFORE
{in the presence of} Jehovah, calling on him to vouchsafe the
promised blessings of grace {Spirit of Grace} in fulfillment of his
covenant" (Keil, Arch., 2:10). The fact that Tishri was the great
month for sowing might easily have suggested the thought of
commemorating on this day the finished work of creation, and thus
the feast of Trumpets came to be regarded as the anniversary of the
beginning of the world. The rabbis believed that on this day
God judges all men, and that they pass before Him as a flock of
sheep passes before a shepherd." (from. Originally published by
Moody Press of Chicago, Illinois. Copyright © 1988.)
(a) Convocation:
"something called
out, i.e. a public
meeting (the act,
the persons, or the
place); also a
rehearsal:- (KJV)
assembly, calling,
convocation,
reading".
(b) Suggested
Reading: Psalms 81 and 29;
"China Pushes The World Into The Deep
("Vision" and "Prophecy").
Old Testament
TRUMPETS:
Dake's Bible notes
say, that in the Old Testament, "trumpets" were used for several
reasons: (two trumpets made of silver were used):
(1) "to call
assemblies, for war, for journeying, and for making camps : "When they shall blow them, all the assembly shall assemble
themselves to thee at the DOOR OF THE TABERNACLE {TEMPLE} OF THE
CONGREGATION." (Num 10:3)
(2) When both
trumpets were blown all Israel shall assemble at the door of the
outer court.
(3) When one is
used, then the princes of Israel shall gather {the princes which
{were the heads of thousands over the nation of Israel}.
(4-5) When you
blow an alarm the three camps on the south ...shall take
their journey. (5) When you blow the 2nd time, the three camps
on the north... shall take their journey {east and west
etc.}
(6) If you go to
war, then you shall blow an alarm.
(7) In the day
of gladness, in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your
months, you shall blow with your trumpets over your burnt
offerings, and over peace offerings AS A MEMORIAL TO {IN
REMEMBRANCE OF} THE LORD {Jesus’/our Father}."
We know that
Jerusalem will be replaced with NEW Jerusalem, Christ’s Bride <Rev
21:2>; and that the physical temple is replaced with Jesus Christ
and God (our Father) <Rev 21:22>.
Trumpets were blown
to announce a new King...
(1 King 1:32)
"King David said, ‘Call in Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet
and Benaiah son of Jehoiada.’ When they came before the king, he
said to them: ‘Take your lord's servants with you and set
Solomon my son on my own mule and take him down to Gihon.
There have Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him
king over Israel. Blow the trumpet and shout, "Long live King
Solomon!" Then you are to go up with him, and he is to
come and sit on my throne and reign in my place. I have
appointed him ruler over Israel and Judah {tribe thru which
Jesus was born}... And Zadok the priest took an horn of
{anointing} oil {always symbolic of the Holy
Spirit} out of the TABERNACLE, and anointed Solomon. And
they blew the
trumpet; and all the people said, Long live King Solomon.
And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with
pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent
with the sound of them. (KJV)
(II Ki 9:13)
"Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it
under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets,
saying, Jehu is king." (KJV)
This time of year,
(a)began the
harvest of crops, in Israel. The Feast of Trumpets precedes (in
time) the Feast of Atonement and The Feast of Tabernacles, also
called the INGATHEING and the New Moon Feast.
(a) "began
the harvest of crops": Suggested Reading:
January 16, 2007 "3 ½
Years Are ... The Final Harvest As You Know It"
(Lev 23:23) "And
the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of
Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the
month, shall ye have a Sabbath, A MEMORIAL OF BLOWING OF
TRUMPETS, an holy convocation {Rehearsal}" (KJV).
Grant Jeffrey in
"Armageddon Appointment With Destiny", says the following regarding
the Feast Of Trumpets: "As soon as the new moon was sighted in
eastern Israel, the watchers would trumpet the signal from hill to
hill until the signal finally reached the Temple. Then the high
Priest {Christ Jesus is our High Priest} would blow the ram's horn
(the Shofar) and announce the beginning of the New Year.
Rosh Ha'shanah, the
ancient New Years day for Israel as well as most of the middle
eastern cultures, is celebrated on the first day of Tishri. Jewish
tradition reveals its four-fold meaning:
(1) NEW YEAR's day
(2) the day of REMEMBRANCE
(3) the day of
JUDGEMENT
(4) the day of
BLOWING THE SHOFAR (THE RAM'S HORN)
On this day
(a)Isaiah,
chapters 60 and 61, teaches of that long awaited day when the Lord
is revealed as King and He will be accepted as the ruler of the
world..."
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(a) Suggested
Reading: Is 60 and 61
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Mr. Grant states,
"the Feast of trumpets, marked a new beginning for Israel as
they accepted once again God's Covenant." For us, who have received
the FULLNESS of God's Covenant, who is His Son Jesus Christ, it is a
day of celebration.
Jesus teaches us in
Matthew 24:29-31, "IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE TRIBULATION of those days
the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the
stars will fall from heaven, and (a)the powers of the heavens will
be shaken. Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven,
and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see
the Son of Man coming on the clouds {heavenly host} of heaven with
power and great glory. 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. (NKJ)
(a)
"TRIBULATION": Sometime between September 17-24, 2008 God said,
while I was in prayer: "You are in Tribulation". Suggested
Reading: "3 ½ Years Are ... The Final Harvest As You Know It".
(b) "the powers
of the heavens will be shaken": Suggested Reading:
January 5, 2008 "This
Generation Will Be Shaken" &
"The Earth Quakes and SHAKES"
(2001)
God will use the
trumpet to announce the day of the Lord: "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" (Joel 2:1; NKJ)
In Zechariah 9:8-17
we are told:
"I will camp
around My house because of the army, because of him who passes
by and him who returns. No more shall an oppressor pass through
them {Christ’s army, people}, for now I have seen with My eyes.
Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout, O daughter of
Jerusalem! Behold, your King is coming to you; he is just and
having salvation, lowly and riding on a donkey, a colt, the foal
of a donkey. I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim and the
horse from Jerusalem; the battle bow shall be cut off. He shall
speak peace to the nations; his dominion shall be 'from sea to
sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.'
As for you also,
because of the blood of your covenant, I will set your prisoners
free from the waterless pit. Return to the stronghold, you
prisoners of hope. Even today I declare that I will restore
double to you. For I have bent Judah, My bow, fitted the bow
with Ephraim, and raised up your sons, O Zion, against your
sons, O Greece {pagans}, and made you like the sword of a mighty
man. Then the LORD will be seen over them, and His arrow will go
forth like lightning. THE LORD GOD WILL BLOW THE TRUMPET, AND GO
WITH WHIRLWINDS {Spirit; Strong’s Concordance} from the south.
The LORD of hosts will defend them; they shall devour and subdue
with slingstones. They shall drink and (a)roar as if
with wine; they shall be filled with blood {Christ’s
communion blood} like basins, like the corners of the altar.
The LORD their God will save them in that day, as the flock of
His people. (b)For they shall be like the jewels of a crown,
lifted like a banner over His land— For how great is its
goodness and how great its beauty! Grain {communion: flesh of
Christ} shall make the young men thrive, and new wine
{communion: blood of Christ} the young women." (NKJ).
(a) "roar as if
with wine": Acts 2:13: all of Acts 2: Pentecost
(b) "For
they shall be like the jewels of a crown, lifted like a
banner over His land": Suggested Reading:
February 3, 2008 "Jewels Of Our
Father's Flesh"
AND MY FAVORITE
(1 Cor 15:42)
"So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in
corruption, it is raised in incorruption. It is sown in
dishonor, it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is
raised in power. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a
spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a
spiritual body. And so it is written, "The first man Adam became
a living being." The last Adam {Jesus} became a life-giving
spirit. However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural,
and afterward the spiritual. The first man was of the earth,
made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven. As was the
man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and as is
the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly. And as we
have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the
image of the heavenly Man. Now this I say, brethren, that
flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does
corruption inherit incorruption.
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 (a)the dead will
be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this
corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put
on immortality. So when this corruptible has put on
incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall
be brought to pass the saying that is written: ‘Death is
swallowed up in victory’. But thanks be to God, who gives us the
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ" (NKJ).
(a) "the
dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed":
[Matt 27:51-53] "Then, behold, the veil of the temple was
torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and
the rocks were split, and the graves were opened; and many
bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; and
coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went
into the holy city and appeared to many." NKJV
Jesus sounded like a
trumpet in Revelations, when He summoned John to His presence:
(Rev 1:10) "I
was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, and I heard behind me a
loud voice, as of a trumpet, saying, "I am the Alpha and the
Omega, the First and the Last"..." (NKJ)
I believe Jesus
Christ will call us into ONE ACCORD, in ONE PLACE, at
ONE TIME with
a blast of His Voice, which will sound like the silver trumpets!
This is the time of the ULTIMATE COMMUNION in REMEMBRANCE of Him,
and with Him. It is the Eternal INGATHERING.
Our article "FEAST
OF THE TABERNACLES and CHRIST'S INGATHERING" states: "the
Ingathering Feast is closely associated with the Wedding ceremony
between the Groom (Jesus Christ) and His Bride (all believers, past,
present and future). The Ingathering will be the REAPING of the firstfruits of our Lord, into the ONE PLACE, at ONE TIME; and WE
WILL ALL BE IN ONE ACCORD through the Holy Spirit. Some believe the
church will be raptured, or taken up. It may be, however, I'm not
sure that these two events are one.
God will bring His
Beloveds into ONE ACCORD, at ONE TIME, in ONE PLACE. The TABERNACLE
is the Holy of Holies, or the core/center of the Temple, who is
Jesus Christ and our Father.
God’s goal is to
GATHER us back INTO HIMSELF. In order to teach us what He desires,
He has set before us a physical image, called the TABERNACLE. This
message is particularly important every year between September and
October, and gives every believer a better understanding of what God
has promised us in eternity. Praise God!
Rev 21:9-22:1
"Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with
the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, ‘Come,
I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife.’ And he carried me
away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and
showed me the great city, the holy {New} Jerusalem, descending out
of heaven from God, having the glory of God. Her light
was like a most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as
crystal...
The construction of its wall was of jasper; and
the city was pure gold, like clear glass. The foundations of the
wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of precious stones
{jewels}: the first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the
third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, the fifth sardonyx, the sixth
sardius, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz,
the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth
amethyst. The twelve gates were twelve pearls: each individual gate
was of one pearl. And the street of the city was pure gold, like
transparent glass.
But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God
Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The city had no need of the
sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated
it. The Lamb is its light. And the nations of those who are
saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring
their glory and honor into it. Its gates shall not be shut at all by
day (there shall be no night there). And they shall bring the glory
and the honor of the nations into it. But there shall by no means
enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie,
but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life. NKJV
{Suggested Read:
February 3, 2008 "Jewels Of Our Father's
Flesh"}
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Also Read:
"Feast
Of Tabernacles and Christ's Ingathering" &
"Day Of Atonement
(Christ's HARVEST)".
You will be thrilled at the coming events. This article teaches many
things concerning our future with God.
Suggested Reading:
"Prepare My People A Banquet"; "The Wedding Feast
and The Bridegroom Comes";
"Who Is The Bride"; "I Have Seen The Promised Land";
"All Consuming Love
(Jesus' Love For His Bride)"; "Roses Of Sharon"; "The Body and Bride Of Christ"; "Feast Of tabernacles (Updates)"
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