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Wednesday, August 26 2009
Sermons for this lesson:
2009 (Sermon 0255): Feast Of Trumpets: Before The Trumpet Sounds
2008 (Sermon 0197): Feast of Trumpets: Christ The King
2007 (Sermon 0137): The Feast of Trumpets: Birthday Of The Church
2006 (Sermon 0081): The Feast of Trumpets
2005 (Sermon 0023): The Feast of Trumpets
The Christian Feast of Trumpets
According to the God-designed Bible Calendar (i.e. Exodus 12:2), the first day of the month of Tishri (which is the seventh month on The Lord's calendar, see Bible Months) is a Holy Day to Jews throughout Israel and the world. They call it Rosh Hashanah. To Christians, it's known as the Feast of Trumpets.
Jewish tradition holds that Rosh Hashanah celebrates the anniversary of the creation of the world (see The Seven Days Of Creation), a day when "God takes stock of all of His Creation," which of course includes all of humanity. Translated from the Hebrew, Rosh Hashanah means "head of the year" - rosh means head, while hashanah means year. Jews believe that God's judgment on this day determines the course of the coming year.
Rosh Hashanah is a Jewish festival in which most work ceases, just as on the weekly Sabbath. It's celebrated both in joy and solemnity. During the daily prayer service a ram's horn, or in the Hebrew, shofar (example shown above) is sounded:
"And The Lord [see YHVH, Adonai, Jehovah, LORD] spake unto Moses [see also The Education Of Moses], saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto The Lord." (Leviticus 23:23-25 KJV)
God does not do things in vain, or without purpose. The Old Testament (see The First Christian Bible) Holy Days were not just some sort of Divine make-work project to keep the Israelites busy while they were out wandering in the desert (see Wilderness Journey). All of the Old Testament
Holy Days (Passover, Unleavened Bread, The Feast of Weeks/Pentecost, The Feast
of Trumpets, The Day Of Atonement, The Feast Of Tabernacles and The Eighth Day - see also Christian Living) were, and continue to be, living symbols of the stages of God's Plan of Salvation for all humanity. Those events are now in progress, and true Christians, who are spiritual Israel (see Physical and Spiritual Israel and Daughter of Zion) are the manifestation of it.
In the Christian world, Rosh Hashanah is known as The Feast Of Trumpets. Many Christians observe this festival for its Christian prophetic application - The Return Of Jesus Christ and the first resurrection (see Resurrections). Just as Christ, the Lamb of God, was sacrificed at Passover (in spring, in the northern hemisphere), for which The Lord instituted Passover to symbolize and foreshadow, it is very likely that His return will be at the time of the Feast of Trumpets (in autumn, in the northern hemisphere), for which The Lord instituted the Feast of Trumpets to symbolize and foreshadow.
"Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 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. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality." (1 Corinthians 15:51-53 KJV) [see "That which is born of the Spirit is spirit"]"For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 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: 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." (1 Thessalonians 4:15-17 KJV) (see also When Will You Be Judged?)
Fact Finder: How did Jesus Christ Himself describe His own future Return, and how will the sounding of a trumpet be involved?
Matthew 24:30-31
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This Day In History, August 26
55 BC: Roman forces under Julius Caesar invaded Britain.
1278: Rudolf I (Hapsburg) defeated Ottocar II, king of Bohemia, at the Battle of Marchfeld Plain, north of Vienna. The victory was a turning point in the history of Central Europe in that it established the Hapsburgs as rulers in the region, from 1278 to 1918, 640 years.
1346: An outnumbered English army of 10,000 under Edward III defeated Philip VI's superior French forces in the battle of Crecy. It was the first battle at which the English used only infantry and longbowmen.
1498: In Rome, Italian artist Michelangelo, 23, was commissioned by Pope Alexander VI to carve the "Pieta" - Mary lamenting over the dead body of Jesus, Whom she holds across her lap. The work was completed in 1501. See also What Would Mary Really Say About Idolatry?
1541: Suleiman I of Turkey captured Buda and annexed Hungary after his dispute with Archduke Ferdinand over claims to the kingdom.
1883: An extremely powerful eruption of a volcano on the island of Krakatoa in the Sundra Strait between Java and Sumatra began. The two-day eruption and associated tidal waves killed some 36,000 people and destroyed two-thirds of the island.
1901: The New Testament of the ASV (American Standard Version) Bible was first published. That U.S. edition of the 1881 English Revised Version (ERV) comprised the first major American Bible translation. The Revised Standard Version (RSV) of 1952 is an update of the American Standard Version of 1901.
1920: The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, giving women the vote.
1936: The Anglo-Egyptian Treaty established Egypt as a sovereign state after 50 years of British administration.
1978: Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice was elected as Pope John Paul I. He served only 33 days before dying of an apparent heart attack on September 28.
