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The Feast of Trumpets

More commonly known today as Rosh Hashanah, The Feast of Trumpets marks the first day of the seventh month of the calendar that God gave to the Israelites, and is the start of the fall holy day season. Those of us who are commonly called Primitive Apostolic Christians and observe the weekly Sabbath, frequently also keep the holy days to include the Feast of Trumpets. The purpose in our observance is not to extend what are thought of as Jewish practices. We wish our Jewish friend peace as they observe Rosh Hashanah. We observe the same holy day because we use the same scriptures that command us to observe the day.

Leviticus 23:24-25
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.

Some modern Christians who no longer observe these days would object to these days because of the command to make an offering by fire. These types of offerings are no longer required of Christians because of the sacrifice of Jesus, because his sacrifice takes the place of all of these offerings.

Hebrews 10:10
By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

The fact that the early church observed the holy days without the offerings in a society familiar with Jewish holy day observance evidently caused problems, which gave the Holy Spirit reason to lead the Apostle Paul to this conclusion.

Colossians 2:16
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

For our modern Christian cousins who may not understand our reasons for the observance of a holy day, we ask for you to abide with us in honor of Paul's teaching as we will abide with you in honor of Paul's teaching. Moving on to the Feast of Trumpets, trumpets were used to signify a serious impending event, such as military battle.

1 Corinthians 14:8
For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?

In this passage of scripture, Paul was comparing the sounds made by a trumpet in battle to words spoken when explaining scriptures, and this verse does show that trumpets were used as an alarm in battle. The Book of Revelation shows an account of the end of this world as we know it when God establishes his Kingdom, and as this world ends, the trumpet is used to show serious impending events. Revelation 8:1 through Revelation 11:15 show the progression of seven trumpets to end this world and establish the Kingdom of God. It is at the sounding of the last trumpet that Christians who have died in the faith are resurrected and those Christians who are still living are changed.

1 Corinthians 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.

The Feast of Trumpets is a holy day that provides us with a shadow of what is to come, a time in the future that is serious with the impending establishment of the Kingdom of God. It is a day that points to our future spiritual birth beyond our mortal bodies.

All verses are from the King James Version.
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