The Feast of Trumpets
Today we begin our look into the last three feasts in the Jewish calendar. What sets these fall feasts apart from the others that we have discussed is something that is very important for believers today to understand. It is the fact that Jesus has not completed these feasts as of yet, but something that He will do in the future to come. These last three feasts represent a hope that we as born-again believers have in the promises of God.
The first of these uncompleted feasts is the Feast of Trumpets. This feast gets its name from the command to blow trumpets and signal the beginning of the Jewish civil calendar. “29 “‘On the first day of the seventh month hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. It is a day for you to sound the trumpets. 2 As an aroma pleasing to the Lord, offer a burnt offering of one young bull, one ram and seven male lambs a year old, all without defect.3 With the bull offer a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with olive oil; with the ram, two-tenths; 4 and with each of the seven lambs, one-tenth. 5 Include one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you. 6 These are in addition to the monthly and daily burnt offerings with their grain offerings and drink offerings as specified. They are food offerings presented to the Lord, a pleasing aroma.” Numbers 29:1-6. This feast commemorated the end of the agricultural and festival year. It also announced the preparation for the Day of Atonement, which we will discuss next week.
As I stated at the beginning, this is the first feast that Jesus has not fulfilled, at least not yet. However, just as the other feasts have foreshadowed events that were completed by Christ, so does the Feast of Trumpets. The Bible is full of trumpets being used to signal change, or identify something that is happening. For the Old Testament, trumpets were for an arrival of someone important, war, and even a wedding. For born-again believers in the Church age, the New Testament is clear that the rapture of the church will be accompanied by the sound of a trumpet. “16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.” 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17. However, it is not just for the Church age believers that a trumpet signals an event. When you read through Revelation 8-9, you will see that each of the judgments are signaled by a trumpet. Tribulation saints will witness the Revelation trumpet events. Nevertheless, for the Feast of Trumpets, this is something that marks an event that will happen with Christ fulfilling.
While the Jewish nation celebrate the Feast of Trumpets to prepare for the Day of Atonement, there will come a day when a trumpet will be heard calling the believers to God and signaling a time of judgement on the earth for those who have not placed their faith in Jesus Christ.
Seek the truth and encourage one another,
Alex