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THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS, #5 OF THE SEVEN FEASTS
OF ISRAEL WAS INSTITUTED BY GOD THROUGH MOSES HIS SERVANT AT MOUNT SINAI. LEVITICUS 23:23 “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.’” Thus the Feast of Trumpets began. Moses instituted this feast as the fifth of seven feasts. Feast of Trumpets also called Rosh Shashanah.

We have discussed in previous articles the Spring Feasts of the Lord. We know that Passover pictures the Death of Jesus Christ. The Feast of Unleavened Bread pictures the Burial of Jesus Christ. The Feast of First Fruits pictures the Resurrection of Christ. Pentecost pictures the descent of the Holy Spirit and the Birth of The Church. The Spring Feasts were fulfulled at Christ’s first coming on the exact day. All of the Fall Feasts picture the second advent. The Feast of Trumpets is the first of the Fall Feasts, picturing the rapture. The Feast of Trumpets is when the “Last Thrump” of the rapture of 1 Cor 15: 51-52 is blown. The Feast of Trumpets is known as the Wedding of the Messiah. The Church is the Bride of Christ, and the rapture is when the Church is caught up to heaven to be wed with Christ.

The Feast of Trumpets happens on the “new moon”, which is 29.5 days after the last one, meaning it might occur on the 29th or 30th day, nobody knows for sure. “Of that day or hour no man knows” is an expression referring to this feast, and thus, the rapture. “Of that day or hour no man knows, but my Father only, Matt. 24:36 and Mark 13:32. This expression is also used by a Jewish Groom when asked when his wedding will be. Because it is His Father that will tell him when the preparations and the bridal chamber are complete as to the exact time.

The “Open Door” of the rapture in Matt 25, and Rev 3, & Rev 4:1 is a symbol of the Feast of Trumpets. Ezek 6:1 “Thus says the Lord GOD: The gate of the inner court that faces east shall be shut on the six working days; but on the Sabbath day it shall be opened and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened. We are told that the new moon and the Feasts of the Lord are a shadow of things to come in Col 2:16,17. Since the Feast of Trumpets is the only Feast of the Lord that falls on a new moon, we should take particular note. There are “seven days of awe” between the Feast of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement. These picture the seven years of tribulation. Atonement pictures Satan being defeated and cast away at the end of tribulaion. If you add the two day Trumpets Feast, and the Day of Atonement, the “Seven Days of Awe” you have the 10 days which might be referred to in Rev. 2:10.

In the Jewish Wedding, a marriage takes place over a period of time known as the “bridal week”. During the bridal week, the groom and bride have sex in the bridal chamber. At the end of the week, there is a marriage supper. Compare Judges 14, Rev. 19, and Genesis 29:22-28. This “bridal week” will be the tribulation week on earth, while the bride of Christ is in heaven. In the Jewish Wedding, the groom comes for his bride “like a thief in the night” to take (size / rapture) her away and into the bridal chamber for the bridal week at his father’s house.
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This article has excerpts from the article on the website: Feast of Trumpets & the Rapture.
www.bibleprophesy.org/introtrumpets.htm
and www.endtimepilgrim.org/trumpets.htm

The Shofar Blowers are students of Apostle
Michael Sterling, Church for the Nations,
San Bernadino, Ca.