Trumpets shall blow

This is a quickie about the Feast of Trumpets, Yom Teruah, a sabbath that started tonight at sunset. It is the first of the three fall convocations. Next is the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, then the eight days of the Feast of Tabernacles, Sukkot.

In Lev. 23:23-27, God was speaking to Moses when He told him to tell the people to observe this feast, saying it was a "memorial of blowing of trumpets." The spiritual event that they were to remember, the only one that accompanied trumpet blowing in their history, must have been when Moses went up on the mount to receive the Ten Commandments and other instructions from God that he was to share with the people.

The sounds of the trumpet were loud, as trumpets tend to be, and were accompanied with thunder, lightning, and an earthquake:

"When the ram's horn sounds a long blast, they shall come up to the mountain... So it came about on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunder and lightning flashes and a thick cloud upon the mountain and a very loud trumpet sound, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled. And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God and they stood at the foot of the mountain. Now Mount Sinai was all in smoke because the Lord descended upon it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently. When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him with thunder." Exodus 19:13, 16-19

God invited His people to covenant with Him, and they promised to do everything that the Lord commanded. In a short time they broke this covenant. But still, God said, "Let them make me a tabernacle, that I may dwell among them."

When Jesus came, He was God With Us in the flesh, and a tabernacle was no longer necessary, because He promised to be with us and desired to live in us. He reaffirmed the covenant, a better one. Soon we will hear the trumpet sound and be living with Him eternally.

That's what Trumpets is about -- the heralding of Jesus' soon return to be with us.