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Saturday, September 19 2009
When the LORD came down upon the earth at Mount Sinai, He did so with "the trumpet exceeding loud":
"19:16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled. 19:17 And Moses [see The Master's Messenger and The Education Of Moses] brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. 19:18 And mount Sinai [see Why Did Paul Say That Sinai Was In Arabia?] was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. 19:19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice." (Exodus 19:16-19 KJV)
And just Who was "the LORD" Who led the Israelites to Sinai, before He gave them His Ten Commandments?
"10:1 Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; 10:2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 10:3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat; 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ [see also 'Before Abraham Was, I AM']" (1 Corinthians 10:1-4 KJV)
"The mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established"
Later, when Jesus Christ gave instructions for His only true Christian Holy Days (see the Fact finder question below), the Feast of Trumpets was specified as one of them.
"23:23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 23:24 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." (Leviticus 23:23-24 KJV)
The Feast of Trumpets is an observed prophecy of Christ's coming to rule the earth.
"15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 15:51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep [see What Happens When You Die?], but we shall all be changed, 15:52 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 [see When Will You Be Judged?]. 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 15:54 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. 15:55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [see Through The Gates Of Hell]" (1 Corinthians 15:50-55 KJV)"4:13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him [see Could Christ Return Tonight?]. 4:15 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. 4:16 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: 4:17 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. 4:18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words." (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 KJV)
As alluded to in the opening paragraphs, the return of Jesus Christ will mark the time when God's Law, as summarized by His Ten Commandments, will be delivered unto all the earth. The Feast of Trumpets portrays the coming of the Messiah, Who will rule the Kingdom of God from "the mountain."
"4:1 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. 4:2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion [see Zionism], and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 4:3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." (Micah 4:1-3 KJV)
Fact Finder: How are all of the annual Holy Days of the Scriptures about Christ?
The True Christian Holy Days: Lesson 1
The True Christian Holy Days: Lesson 2
The True Christian Holy Days: Lesson 3
The True Christian Holy Days: Lesson 4
The True Christian Holy Days: Lesson 5
The True Christian Holy Days: Lesson 6
The True Christian Holy Days: Lesson 7
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This Day In History, September 19
1356: During the Hundred Years War, the English under Prince Edward defeated French forces under John II at Poitiers. The French king was captured in the battle and released 4 years later.
1665: In London, England, the official death toll from the plague was reported to be 10,000 people per week.
1777: The first Battle of Saratoga during the American Revolutionary War.
1783: After their first-in-history unmanned balloon flight 3 months earlier, Joseph and Etienne Montgolfier of Versailles, France, launched the first balloon flight with "passengers" - a sheep, a rooster and a duck.
1870: During the Franco-Prussian War, the Prussians began their siege of Paris.
1881: U.S. President James Garfield died at age 50 from gunshot wounds inflicted by an assassin on July 2. The 20th president was succeeded by Chester Arthur.
1918: Near the end of World War 1, British General Edmund Allenby won a crucial battle over the Ottoman Turks at the Battle of Megiddo (Armageddon) in what was then northern "Palestine."
1934: Bruno Hauptmann was arrested in New York and charged with the kidnap and murder of the infant son of Charles Lindbergh.
1939: Adolf Hitler decided to incorporate much of Poland into Germany, move 600,000 Jews from there (and those in Germany as well) into a Polish rump called the "General Government", and ghetto all Jews within it at convenient points along the railways. This brought into the coming holocaust the huge German railway system, the Reichsbahn.
1957: In Nevada, the U.S. conducted the first of its underground nuclear bomb tests, in the Nevada desert.
1971: William F. Albright died at age 81. The American professor and archaeologist wrote extensively of the Bible lands and conducted research digs at numerous locations including Bethel and Gibeah in Israel and Petra in Jordan.
