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The Feasts of Trumpets. Leviticus 23:23-25 The Feasts of Trumpets. Leviticus 23:23-25. The Festival of Trumpets The Lord said to Moses, Say to the Israelites: On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of Sabbath rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts. Do no regular work, but present a food offering to the Lord. Rosh Hashanah or Jewish New Year is called the Feast of Trumpets in the Bible because it begins the Jewish High Holy Days and Ten Days of Repentance with the blowing of the ram's horn, the shofar, calling God's people together to repent from their sins. The Feast of Trumpets. Rosh HaShanah or Feast of Trumpets: Rosh HaShanah literally means, "head of the year" and is commonly known as the Jewish New Year. It is observed on the first day of Tishri, the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar. Like Yom Kippur after it, Rosh HaShanah was not linked to the remembrance of any historical event. While traditional Judaism believes that, on Rosh Hashanah, the destiny of all mankind is recorded by God in the Book of Life, the Bible has not expressly specified what this feast represents, simply stating that it was a High Sabbath on which they were to blow the shofar and do no work. Rosh Hashanah heralded the beginning of the period known as the High Holy Days with The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) occurring ten days later, on the tenth of the month. The Feast of Trumpets. The Spring Feasts. The Feast of Passover & Unleavened Bread & the Feast of First Fruits were all fulfilled at Jesus Christ’s first coming. 1 Corinthians 5:6-8. Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 1 Corinthians 15:20,23 . But now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first fruits of them that slept. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order, Christ the first fruits , afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. The Feasts of Israel. The Feast of Pentecost. The Feast of Pentecost runs parallel with the order of the bridegroom making a covenant with his bride called a ketubah. This happened at Mount Sinai when God made a covenant with Israel in the month of Sivan which is the month of Pentecost. Jeremiah 31:31-32. God said, Behold, days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them, declares the LORD. This covenant was a marriage contract written upon tablets and sealed with the sprinkling of blood ( Ex 24:1-8). A contract that could not be fulfilled by Israel therefore God sought for a new covenant not like the one at Sinai. On Pentecost, God sent His Holy Spirit to write this new covenant on our hearts by the Spirit as Paul says, 2 Cor 3:5-6. Our adequacy is from God, who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. The Feast of Pentecost. Heb 8:10. This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. After a bridegroom gave his bride a contract and made a covenant with her he would give her gifts called a mattan and the father would give her gifts as well called the shiluhhim. These gifts sustained his bride for the duration of their separation till their wedding day. The gift given by Jesus Christ and the Father was the gift of the Holy Spirit to sustain us till Jesus returns for His bride. This was fulfilled at Pentecost fifty days after the resurrection of the Messiah. The requirement to bring a first fruit of the wheat harvest was symbolic of those who receive the Spirit of God. Rom 8:23. We ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons. The Feast of Trumpets. We have looked at the 3 spring Feasts which were fulfilled at Jesus 1st coming. Now we will look at the 3 fall Feasts, which will be fulfilled at His 2 nd coming. Feast of Trumpets The 1 st day of the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah) Leviticus 23:23-25. This is the first of the fall feasts. Many believe this day points to the Rapture of the Church when the Messiah Jesus will appear in the heavens as He comes for His bride, the Church. The Rapture is always associated in Scripture with the blowing of a loud trumpet. The history of the Calendar. Prior to the Julian calendar, calendars appeared in many different versions. An Egyptian calendar from approximately the year 3000 B.C. contained 365 days. The ancient Greek civilization used a Metonic calendar "based on the observations of Meton of Athens (ca. 440 BC), which showed that 235 lunar months made up almost exactly 19 solar years. The earliest ancient Roman calendar has been linked to Romulus who founded Rome around the year of 753 B.C. In this ancient calendar, the New Year occurred in March as it was the first month of the original ten month calendar. The ancient Roman calendar was based on lunar and harvest cycles instead of the solar cycle our current calendar is based on. The ten month calendar is where the seemingly awkward names of the last four months of the year comes from (Septem meaning seven, Octem meaning eight, Novem nine and Decem ten). The history of the Calendar. In the year of 46 B.C., the Julian twelve month calendar began. Julius Caesar abolished the use of the lunar year and the intercalary month, and regulated the civil year entirely by the Sun. Caesar created a calendar of 365 days for three sequential years and the following or fourth year would have 366 days. Caesar's calendar was called the Julian calendar. Unfortunately, there was a discrepancy in the Julian calendar, one of which, over the years, became more prominent. Astronomers began to discover the discrepancy between the solar and the civil year; that the vernal equinox did not occupy the place it occupied in the time of Caesar, namely, the 24th of March, but was gradually retrograding toward the beginning of the year, so that at the meeting of the Council of Nice in 325 it fell on the 21st. The calendar was losing days. By the time Gregory became Pope Gregory XIII in 1572, the discrepancy spanned many days. During his years as Pope, he chose to undertake the task of creating a solution to amend the calendar. The history of the Calendar. In March of 1582, Pope Gregory XIII abolished the Julian calendar and replaced it with the Gregorian calendar, named after him. "The edict of the Pope took effect in October [1582] of that year, causing the 5th to be called the 15th of that month, thus suppressing ten days and making the year 1582 to consist of only 355 days. As Pope Gregory XIII was the leader of those specifically in the Catholic religion and not leader of civil governments, most countries of the Catholic faith made the calendar change in 1582. Other Catholic countries, such as Germany, made the change in the following year. Non-Catholic countries refused the change to the new Gregorian calendar. Most of the Protestant countries adhered to the Old Style until after the year 1700. Among the last was Great Britain; she, after having suffered a great deal of inconvenience for nearly two hundred years by using a different date from the most of Europe. Today, there are still many countries who have not adopted the Gregorian calendar. These include Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Nepal, Iran and Afghanistan. Some countries use other calendars alongside the Gregorian calendar: India, Bangladesh, Israel, and Myanmar; other countries use a modified version of the Gregorian calendar: Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Thailand, Japan, North Korea and Taiwan. http://www.holidayscalendar.com/newyears/historyofthecalendar.html The Three Annual Festivals. Exodus 23:14-16. Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me. Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in that month you came out of Egypt. No one is to appear before me empty-handed. Celebrate the Festival of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field. Celebrate the Festival of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field. The Autumn Feasts relate to Kingdom/political issues rather than the High Priestly/religious matters that we saw Jesus address in the spring feasts during His first coming 2,000 years ago.
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