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The Feast of Trumpets

This morning we will look at the instructions that the Lord tells Moses to give to the people regarding this fifth of the seven festivals. But before doing so, let us remember the pattern that is being used and the biblical significance of these festivals up until this point.

First, each festival has represented significant biblical events in the historical timeline of God’s kingdom plan. Also, He has been using a metaphor of a season of an agricultural crop with terms like planting, seeing the first fruits of the early spring season (with many more

to come), and then the full growing season of the harvest with instructions of how to proceed all along the way.

Today’s festival takes place at the end of the summer when the harvest is complete. The King James version of the bible specifically describes this festival as taking

place in the seventh month of the Jewish calendar year (modern translations just refer to it as the fall). The key point is that this festival represents the end of the harvest. Based on the metaphor that has been used to this point where the resurrection of Jesus represented the

first fruits, I believe that this harvest represents the church age in God’s kingdom plan. This fall festival celebrates the end of the harvesting of the church (gentile believers being saved according to the number that God foreknew).

In today’s verses that describe this fifth

festival, the Lord doesn’t say or explain much about it. He just tells them to celebrate it as a Sabbath day of rest and to blow trumpets. That’s all He says when telling the people to celebrate this festival. However, if we search throughout the bible and its history, we find

that trumpets had some very interesting instructions, significance and uses. At times they were used to alert the people during times of war, getting their attention so that they would take certain actions. More often than not, in the Old Testament they were used by the priests

to announce or herald in the presence of the God going before His holy tabernacle.

But in the New Testament the sound of seven trumpets is well known in the 8th chapter of Revelation where seven angels are blowing them to bring God’s judgment as the new kingdom era is ushered

in. Jesus describes this scene to His disciples in Matthew 24:31 when He says “And he will send out his angels with the mighty blast of a trumpet, and they will gather his chosen ones from all over the world—from the farthest ends of the earth and heaven.” Jesus then goes on to

finish that chapter by explaining that no one will know exactly what moment this will be, but that everyone will know when that season of THE harvest is close at hand.

So even though the Lord doesn’t tell Moses to say much about this fifth festival, it appears to still be very

important and He tells them to observe it as a memorial every year. Now, let’s see what He says here in Leviticus 23:

The Feast of Trumpets
23 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.’ ” - Leviticus 23:23-25 (NKJV)
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