Yom Teruah - Feast of Trumpets
A Day of Reflection
For many Yom Teruah, the day of blowing, or Feast of Trumpets is a time of reflection. It is a time to symbolically cast off sins, and plead before the “heavenly court” Both Jews and Christians alike, consider the Feast of Trumpets, an important time to seek and receive deliverance and forgiveness. In searching the scriptures there are few dramatic historic events that are linked to this Holy Day. However, there are many prophecies that link the blowing of trumpets to a special future time. It is the “day of the Lord” and many events will occur, “in that day” that will touch the lives of all humanity.
Christ Brings Deliverance
The Feast of Trumpets looks forward to the coming of the Messiah and dramatic changes in the world. Living waters will flow from Jerusalem bringing healing and life. Christ will come to deliver his people from those who hate them. And he will settle accounts with those enemies who will fight against him. The Lord will rule ushering in a time of justice and the restoration of God’s law. Jerusalem will be rebuilt and the earth will be restored.
The Last Trump
When Messiah comes in his glory he will not come alone. All nations will be astonished to see the prophecies unfold before their eyes. Christ will return and all ears will hear the blast of the trumpet announcing his arrival. For some it will be a time of fear and dread. But, for others, it will be a time of great rejoicing. For Christ will return with his saints, who will rise to meet him in the air. Are we heeding the message of the Feast of Trumpets? Are we preparing to be among the saints who will rule as kingly priests with Christ? God’s promises are sure to all who love God, and walk faithfully in covenant with him.
Here are some verses to study in context:
Pearls for the Feast of Trumpets
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On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred
assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts.
Leviticus 23
If anyone hears the trumpet but does not take warning and the sword comes
and takes his life, his blood will be on his own head.
Ezekiel 33
I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose
rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war.
Revelation 19
Then the LORD will go out and fight against those nations, as he fights in the
day of battle. On that day his feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of
Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from east to west,
forming a great valley…
Zechariah 14
And in that day a great trumpet will sound. Those who were perishing in
Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will come and worship the LORD
on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
Isaiah 27
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.
1 Corinthians 15
The nations were angry; and your wrath has come. The time has come for
judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your
saints and those who reverence your name, both small and great--and for
destroying those who destroy the earth."
Revelation 11
But the saints of the Most High will receive the kingdom and will possess it
for ever--yes, for ever and ever.
Daniel 7
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.
1 Thessalonians 4
There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in
anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea.
At that time they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and
great glory.
Luke 21