This year during our festival of trumpets celebration at our Church, I was struck with the realization that this festival is the only one not tied to a specific event within the Tanach. What I mean by this is that out of the five high holy days found within the Scriptures, the festival of trumpets is the only one that is not celebrating or commemorating an event that has happened.
Passover is a celebration of the exodus from Egypt as well as the remembrance of our Lord’s death, resurrection, and ascension. Weeks is the celebration of the giving of the Torah at Sinai after Israel had come out from bondage to Pharoah as well as the commemoration of the giving of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost to enable the believers to take the good news of salvation through the blood of Jesus to the nations. The day of atonement was the day the nation of Israel came before the Lord each year to ask for forgiveness for national sins. It was the one day the priest entered the holy of holies to sprinkle blood on the ark of the covenant. It is also the remembrance that Christ entered the holy of holies within the heavenly temple to present His blood as payment for the sins of the elect. The festival of booths is a remembrance of Israel wandering in the wilderness and living in booths. It is also for us to remember that through the blood of Jesus we have assurance that this life is temporary but our life with the Almighty will continue in the life to come. But what about the festival of trumpets? There is much we could say about this festival. The trumpet sound was a way for the nation of Israel to communicate. Numbers 10:9-10 tells us that the trumpet blast was to make God remember His people, and this was done ten days before the festival of atonement.
“For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.”
(1 Thessalonians 4:16–18 ESV)
There are many different meanings we could give or significance that can be attached to the Festival of Trumpets, but at its foundation is the celebration of the King of Kings returning to this earth to judge the wicked and rule over His people. This biblical feast looks forward to an event we have yet to fully experience.
May we find joy and comfort in the celebration of this festival as it celebrates the joyous day we look forward to as believers.
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