The Fall Festivals
Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah)
The Feast of Trumpets, Beginning of the Civil New Year
Description
The first day of the seventh month, marked by trumpet blasts, inaugurated a period of solemn preparation for the Day of Atonement. This feast anticipated Messiah's return, when 'the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible.'The shofar (ram's horn) blasts on this feast served multiple purposes: calling Israel to remembrance, summoning them to judgment, and proclaiming God's kingship. Prophetic passages connect trumpet blasts with both the rapture of the church (1 Thessalonians 4:16) and Christ's second coming (Matthew 24:31).
Key Verses
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.
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.