Trumpets 2024
Tonight begins the new Year
5785 on the Jewish calendar.
Why is it called a new year? I thought the first month was in spring? Well, it is.
The Bible calls today Yom Teruah - day of shouting/blasting. It is a day of trumpet blowing.
Numbers 29:1 And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.
Indeed, the trumpet is blown every month. Num 10:10
Leviticus 23:23–25 And the LORD spake unto 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.
However, you might also hear this day called Rosh Hashana, which means “Head of the Year”
Exd 34:22 - “And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.”
Lev 25:9 - The beginning of the jubilee is proclaimed in the 7th month on the day of atonement.
7 - completion
Just like we have calendar years Jan -Dec and fiscal years, the Jewish people have an agricultural year and a civil year.
It is also called a memorial of trumpet blowing. So what is this about it being a memorial? It does not say specifically what it is a memorial of.
Perhaps Mt Sinai, where they heard thunder and trumpet blasts as God declared to them the 10 commandments.
In regards to this being the New Year, Jewish and Christian scholars believe that this is the time when the earth was created, with Rosh Hashanah being the day that God created Adam and Eve.
[Job 38:6-7 KJV] 6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; 7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
[Psa 104:7 KJV] 7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away, speaking of the waters at creation.
The trumpet sound alerts us to something. Generally speaking, it indicates a change of some kind, either one that has taken place or needs to take place.
Think about how a trumpet is used. A trumpet alerts a town of invaders, the people transition from their every-day lives to a state of battle-readiness. The shofar can indicate a new kingship - Andy will discuss that. It can also alert us spiritually, and can represent a call to repentance, a change of ways. It can indicate a new month, or as it does today, a new year.
Just like the trumpet blast signals that a month or year is coming to an end and a new is beginning, it will one day alert us of a change from one era to another.
The era of sin, of the curse, and separation from God, to the new Messianic Era where Christ will rule and reign from Jerusalem. An era in which Israel is scattered across the face of the earth, to one where they are gathered to her true King, Messiah Yesha.
[Isa 27:13 KJV] 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
There will also be a gathering of those who put their faith in Yeshua unto himself in the clouds.
[Mat 24:31 KJV] 31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
[1Co 15:52 KJV] 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.
[1Th 4:16 KJV] 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:
That is what the Feast of Trumpets points us to.