THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS AND THE HARPAZŌ!

THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS! 

The Rapture! / By Keegan 

The Feast of Trumpets points to the Rapture – the last great harvest! Leviticus 23:23-25: The Lord said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of sabbath rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts. 

Beginning in the spring, the seven Jewish feasts are Passover (Pesach), the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Firstfruits, the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost), the Feast of Trumpets (Rosh HaShanah), the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), and the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot). 

 The Jewish feasts are closely related to Israel’s spring and fall harvests and agricultural seasons. They were to remind the Israelites each year of God’s ongoing protection and provision. But, even more importantly, they foreshadowed the redemptive work of Jesus Christ. Not only did they play significant roles in Christ’s earthly ministry but they also symbolize the complete redemptive story of Christ, beginning with His death on the cross as the Passover Lamb and ending with His second coming after which He will “tabernacle” or dwell with His people forever. 

While the four spring feasts look back at what Christ fulfilled at His first coming, the three fall feasts point us toward the glory of the second coming. The spring feasts are the source of our hope in Christ — His finished work of atonement for sins—and the fall feasts are the promise of what is to come —eternity with Christ. Understanding the significance of these God-appointed Jewish festivals helps us to better see and understand the complete picture and plan of redemption found in Scripture. 

The next unfulfilled feast is the Feast of Trumpets! Numbers 29:1: 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. Jewish names and themes for this feast include: 

1. Rosh HaShanah – ‘Head of the year’ / Tishrei 1 is the first day of the Jewish new year in their civil calendar. It is the anniversary of the creation of Adam and Eve. 

2. Yom Teruah – ‘Day of Awakening Blast’ / Jewish belief is that the resurrection of the dead will occur on the feast of Trumpets. 

3. The Last Trumpet – On this day, there are 100 trumpet blasts. The final, long, and most significant trumpet blast is called ‘the last trump’. 

4.Yom Zikaron – ‘Day of Remembrance’ / A day on which the chosen people remember God, and God remembers them. 

5.Yom Hadin – ‘Day of Judgment’ / God opens the books on that day and judges the righteous and the wicked according to what they had done. 

6.Yom HaMelech – the Day of the Coronation of the King. 

7. The time of Jacob’s trouble – There shall be great tribulation in Israel such as never was since there was a nation. 

8.Yom Hakeseh – The Hidden Day / It was ‘hidden’ because they didn’t know the exact day it would begin due to the fact that it is the only feast that starts on a new moon. Thus it was a two-day feast because they didn’t want to celebrate it on the wrong day. Concerning Rosh HaShanah, the Jews would typically say “Of that day and hour no one knows.” 

9. The Opening of the Gates of Heaven / The Gate of Heaven is opened on Rosh HaShanah so the righteous nation may enter. 

10. The Wedding of Messiah / The blowing of the heavenly trumpet is a call for the entire, true, bride of God to assemble together. 

 Now, let’s review some scripture that corresponds to these names of the Feast of Trumpets…. 

1.Rosh HaShanah – ‘Head of the year’ Psalm 89:15-18: Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound! They walk, O Lord, in the light of Your countenance. In Your name, they rejoice all day long, And in Your righteousness they are exalted. For You are the glory of their strength, And in Your favor our horn is exalted. For our shield belongs to the Lord, And our king to the Holy One of Israel. 

2.Yom Teruah – ‘Day of Awakening Blast’ Ephesians 5:14: Therefore it is said: Get up, sleeper, and rise up from the dead, and the Messiah will shine on you. Isaiah 26:19: Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For you will be covered with the morning dew, and the earth will bring out the departed spirits. 

3. The Last Trumpet 1 Corinthians 15:50-52 : I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 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. 

4. Yom Zikaron – ‘Day of Remembrance’ Malachi 3:16-17: Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another, And the Lord listened and heard them; So a book of remembrance was written before Him For those who fear the Lord And who meditate on His name. “They shall be Mine,” says the Lord of hosts, “On the day that I make them My jewels. And I will spare them As a man spares his own son who serves him.” 

5. Yom Hadin – ‘Day of Judgment’ Revelation 17:8: The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up from the abyss and go to destruction. Those who live on the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast that was, and is not, and will be present again. 

6. Yom Hamelech – the Day of the Coronation of the King Revelation 5 

7. The time of Jacob’s trouble Matthew 24:3-8 

8. Yom Hakeseh – The Hidden Day Psalm 27:5: For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; In the secret place of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me high upon a rock. 

9. The Opening of the Gates of Heaven Psalm 118:19-20: Open the gates of righteousness for me; I will enter through them and give thanks to the Lord. This is the gate of the Lord; the righteous will enter through it. After this I looked, and there in heaven was an open door. The first voice that I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.” Revelation 4:1-3 Immediately I was in the Spirit, and a throne was set there in heaven. One was seated on the throne, and the One seated looked like jasper and carnelian stone. A rainbow that looked like an emerald surrounded the throne. 

10. The Wedding of Messiah 1 Thessalonians 4:15-18: According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that 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 Christ 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. Therefore encourage one another with these words. 

The Feast of Trumpets points to the Rapture – the last great harvest! Are we approaching the time when the heavenly trumpet will be heard?