Blowing the Horns

I enjoy reading about the Biblical Feasts that are listed in Leviticus and Deuteronomy.  We, as Gentile believers don’t pay much attention to these feasts because they were given to the Jewish people but because our Lord celebrated these feasts it should be interesting to us also.

Rosh Hashanah is called the New Year and it is a great a festive celebration.  Rosh Hashanah this year will be celebrated on the 10^th of Sept.  For observant Jews there will be the blast of the shofar (trumpet) with much feasting and celebrating.  However, despite the fact that it is celebrated in September, it is not actually a name given by God,  or for that matter even the date is wrong.

In Leviticus 23:23-25, God tells Moses that on the first day of the seventh month there shall be a holy assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts. So the words Rosh Hashanah are nowhere to be found.  Actually the name is Yom Terah.—–The day of the Blasting Shofars or Feast of Trumpets!  Why is this at all important to us?  What’s going on?

Since  New Testament theology is rooted in the Hebrew Scriptures, we can better understand what the  blowing of the Trumpets means to us.  Matthew speaks clearly about trumpet blasts.

“And He will send His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.” (Mt. 24:31)

And again in 1 Cor.15:52. “In a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable and we will be changed. ”

In the light of these readings it is clear to see that Yom Terah is not about remembering the past but it will be a future event.

The Feast of Trumpets points to the coming of Yeshua, (Jesus) and our being transformed from this body into an incorruptible body.  This will be the beginning of the Messianic Age. It will be the Kingdom of which our Lord spoke.  His time on earth brought the beginning of the Kingdom, of which the church is a part.

No one knows when the Lord will return. However the blowing of the shofar will certainly be a heavenly one signaling the Lord’s arrival and the beginning of His long awaited return. We are told there will be a new heaven and new earth.  Old things will pass away.

“We who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. 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 Messiah will rise first.  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 4:15-17)

Wow……..what excitement for believers.  Are you ready?