Feast of Trumpets: I'm Coming Home
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Leviticus 23:23-30
Introduction
There is a great deal of tradition associated with the Feast days, and there is a great deal of spiritual insight that can be gained from learning about the tradition of these feasts. But my purpose tonight is to use scripture and communicate what the Lord has put on my heart in this message related to the Feast of Trumpets.
There are a total of 7 feasts 8 if you include the Sabbath, which really we should. The feasts are separated between the Spring feasts and Fall feasts. In the Spring, there were 4, 5 if you include the Sabbath
Sabbath Ex 31:13 a remembrance or distinguishing sign vs the mark of Cain
Abib [Nisan] 14th Passover 1st month new life
Abib [Nisan] 15th Unleavened Bread
On the first Sunday after the Passover was the Feast of First Fruits
50 days later was the Feast of Pentecost
and then 3 Fall feasts which include: Feast of Trumpets, Day of Atonement and Feast of booths or tabernacles.
The Fall feasts take place in what was called originally Abib in the Bible and later named Nisan after the Babylonian captivity. God’s purpose for the feasts was that they would be an annual reminder that Israel was God’s people, and He was their God. Every year a reminder constant reminder that starts with Passover [imagine the Shrimp Fest] Passover reminded them that He delivered them from the slavery of Egypt and released them into the Promised Land where His intention was that they could flourish into a great nation. These feasts were given while they were in the wilderness and they are still celebrated today.
Abib or Nisan was the first month on the religious calendar and Tishri is the 7th month where the Feast of trumpets takes place, also known as Rosh Hashana the Jewish New Year.
Leviticus 23:1-2
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.
I believe that Abib [opinion/ prophetic interpretation…] was the first month religiously because that’s where they received their freedom as a nation from slavery and it represents our new birth in Christ. Tishri which is the 7th month and the number of completion and fulfillment in the word of God is the civil new year for them because I believe that for Israel, this will represent the beginning of their new position amongst the nations as God delivers on His promises that that all other nations will bow to Israel as Messiah rules on earth as King, which will take place during the Millenial Reign.
Sabbath Ex 31:13 a remembrance or distinguishing sign vs the mark of Cain
Abib [Nisan] 14th Passover 1st month new life
Abib [Nisan] 15th Unleavened Bread
On the first Sunday after the Passover was the Feast of First Fruits
50 days later was the Feast of Pentecost
New moon
Leviticus 23:23-30
23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month [[new moon, starts a succession of 7 trumpet blasts that lasts 10d]], shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. 25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Afflict your soul
Chasten self
To be troubled
Humble self
26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 27 Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 28 And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God. 29 For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people. 30 And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
In the 7th month, the number of fulfillment month, on the first day of that month is the blowing of the trumpet. First and foremost, let me say that the feast of the trumpets prophetically signals the rapture. There are at least two scriptures in the New Testament that connect the sound of a trumpet with the rapture of the church and we will look at that in a moment.
it signals the beginning of 10 days until the Day of Atonement. If you remember the Day of Atonement: it’s explained in detail in Leviticus 16 where the blood applied to the mercy seat, changed the Mercy Seat from a place of judgment to a place or mercy. Judgment turns to mercy when recognition of the blood is followed by repentance.
The first trumpet signals a 10 day timeframe known as the days of awe. The words days of awe allows time to repent before the Day of Atonement— judgment on the sacrifice, which should have been you:
Psalms 4:4. Stand in awe, and sin not:
awe- tremble 12, move 7, rage 5, shake 3, disquiet 3, troubled 3, quake 2, afraid
These 10 days represent a time of great introspection. Looking deeply into our own hearts:
Psalms 26:2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
It’s a yearly 10 day reminder of how important it is for the people of God to examine their hearts and allow God to speak to them.
Jeremiah 8:4-7
4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return? 5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. 6 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. 7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Here is a New Testament eye opener
1 John 3:5-7
5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin. 6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him. 7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. 8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
There are 3 specific things that I would like to focus on tonight regarding the blowing of the trumpet:
Coronation of a king 1 Kings 1:39
And Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, God save king Solomon.
Solomon the rightful heir to David’s throne was anointed king and the trumpet (shofar was blown) was blown. The fulfillment of the rightful Davidic king is Jesus. When the final feast of trumpets shofars are blown, the rightful King will begin the process of taking His throne. The rapture of the church will also signal the day of wrath and judgment on the world. This will be the beginning of Jesus literally taking His spot on the throne. The scriptures say that Jesus will rule on earth from David’s throne (Acts 2:30).
2. Rapture connection:
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
1 Corinthians 15:52-55 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
2. Warning
This last thought ties together both the repentance and rapture thoughts
There are 2 passages of scripture that I want to use for the point of warning: one is out of Ezekiel and the other is out of Song of Solomon.
Ezekiel 33:1-6. Spiritually people’s choosing a church are allowing that leadership to be their watchman
1 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: 3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; 4 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. 6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
Song of Songs 5:5-8. 5 I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock. 6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone:my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
Myrrh symbolizes both intimacy and death in the Bible. The context shows which. Myrrh had a sweet fragrance and was used along with other spices and aloes to disguise the scent of death. It was used on Jesus’ body. The Proverbs 7 woman put myrrh aloes and Cinnamon on her bed. The King’s bride in this Song of Solomon story had smelled the fragrance of myrrh and it dripped on the knob of the door, but she waited too long to respond, and He was gone. The sinful woman of Proverbs 7 is disguising the smell of death. Her lover seeks intimacy but this is a death bed
Jesus stands at the door of the Lukewarm Laodicean church and knocks. Who will open? Will it be too late like it was in the dream of the SHULAMITE woman! Or worse, will it be the answer to the 5 foolish virgins
“Open to us”
“I know you not”
In the first dream they weren’t hostile towards her. She was looking for her beloved. heart is right. She wants to find him
7 The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me. 8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
The Feast of trumpets is here. I believe it will be the trumpet sounded before the rapture, but I can’t prove that. It certainly seems to me to be consistent with how God used the feasts in the past. What I absolutely know is that the sound of the trumpet tells me to get ready. It tells me to work out my salvation with fear and trembling. It tells me like Paul said to judge myself so that I do not have to be judged. 1 Corinthians 11:31 For if we searchingly examined ourselves [detecting our shortcomings and recognizing our own condition], we should not be judged and penalty decreed [by the divine judgment].