1 On the first day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work. It is a day for you to blow the trumpets, 2 and you shall offer a burnt offering, for a pleasing aroma to the Lord: ~ Numbers 29:1-2
Tomorrow evening at sundown marks the beginning of the Feast of Trumpets that will last until Wednesday evening at sundown. The Feast of Trumpets is one of seven God-sanctioned feasts. Passover. Unleavened Bread. Firstfruits. Weeks. Trumpets. The Day of Atonement. Tabernacles. Four of these seven have already been fulfilled.
Passover in the Crucifixion. Unleavened Bread in Christ takes away our sin. Firstfruits in the Resurrection of Christ (the Barley Harvest) & The establishing of the Church (the Wheat Harvest). Weeks in the giving of the Holy Spirit.
There are three feasts left to be fulfilled. Trumpets. The Day of Atonement. Tabernacles. These 3 feasts are fall feasts. In Joel 2 we see the prophecy of the coming of the LORD and then we see a promise of rain. The spring rain brought the promise of salvation. The latter (or autumn) rain will bring the fulfillment of salvation, which starts with the Feast of Trumpets.
The Feast of Trumpets is the first day of the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar, which is the month of Tishri. A holy assembly, which is a holy gathering of a people with a reading or recitation. A burnt offering to the LORD for a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
So, what does it foreshadow? At the last trumpet blast, the dead in Christ will rise and then those of us alive will rise to Christ. We will be caught up to Him in the clouds. This is the Second Coming of Christ. We are gathered to Christ in the air as He comes with the voice of an Archangel and the blowing of the trumpet of God. The Burnt Offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
There’s a belief right now that the Rapture will take place this year during the Feast of Trumpets. It came from a vision from a pastor in Africa. While I do believe in visions, I don’t believe in shaping my beliefs around someone else’s visions without first checking their visions with the Word of God. When Jesus was asked what would be the sign of His coming, He said the last sign would be the Great Tribulation. In fact, He tells His disciples that His coming will take place immediately AFTER the Tribulation of those days.
In recent years, we’ve used the book of Revelation to attempt to prove the Rapture by quoting Revelation 3:10. This is Jesus speaking to the 6th of the 7 Churches in the book of Revelation. The Church of Philadelphia. They claim that because Jesus says He will keep them from the hour of trial that is coming on the whole world, this proves the Rapture, but if you notice it says the He will keep them from the hour of trial, not take them out of the hour of trial. In other words, the hour of trial has been pushed back for them, not that they are taken out of it.
The other very important part of this is that they are not the last Church. There is one more Church after them. The Church of Laodicea. If you remove the Church, then that would mean that there is not a church left. The claim is that these are those who will be saved during the Tribulation, but Jesus tells this Church that He will spit them out of His mouth. That they will be spit out of His mouth because they refuse to choose. They refuse to be either hot or cold. First and foremost, they are the Church that doesn’t find God but gets rejected by God. They don’t seek God because they’ve missed the Rapture, but they are spit out of the mouth of Jesus because they refuse to choose. To be either hot or cold.
Which honestly describes the Church today. We’re the Church that doesn’t want to speak out because they’re afraid of offending someone. They don’t want to tell others about Jesus because we don’t want to push our religion on others.
The Church of Laodicea isn’t a church that is on fire for God because of Tribulation. It’s a Church that believes that it’s good. That it doesn’t need anything from God, when it’s in fact not good. When in fact it ushers in the Tribulation itself. Tribulation isn’t God’s wrath; that’s seven bowls described in Revelation 16. Tribulation is the world’s wrath on the Church who refuses to keep it in check.
Don’t take my word for it. This Feast of Trumpets takes some time to search the Scriptures for yourself. Never just take the word of someone telling you, this is so, but search as the Bereans did with Paul when he taught them.
Peace. Love. Go Forth and Prepare For The Trumpets.