Feast of Trumpets

The Trumpet (the shofar) is blown on the first day of the seventh month in the Jews religious calendar. This is also the date on which their year number changes.

The Shofar is also blown for 30 days all through the sixth month of Elul — though this is part of very old Jewish tradition, there is no scripture anywhere specifying these 30 days.

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The Jews split Exodus, and this, possibly, is quite correctly, into the following four sections:

1. 49 days - 7 weeks - Starting early in the morning, after midnight, on the 15th day of the first month. Coming out of Egypt to arriving at Sinai (in the third month), hearing the 10 commandments and the people then agreeing to become God's people. Exodus 12 - Exodus 24:11 covers Passover to Pentecost e.g. 26th March - 13th May inclusive.

2. 40 days Moses in the mountain by himself with God talking to him, giving him the tablets of the Law while the people gradually get bored and start to party Exodus 24:12 - Exodus 32 e.g. 14th May - 22nd June inclusive. Judgment and destruction follow. These 40 days and 40 nights are specified in Scripture.

3. 40 days God's presence above the tabernacle outside the camp, people worshipping at their tent doors, Moses going daily to the tabernacle outside the camp with various ones, with Joshua actually remaining in the tabernacle. See Exodus 33 e.g. 23rd June - 1st August inclusive. See also Hebrews 13:13

4. 40 days Moses being told to reconstruct those stone tablets that he broke and to go back up Mt Sinai again. When he came down, they had to cover his face, it glowed so. See Exodus 34 e.g. 2nd August - 10th September inclusive.

It is this fourth section that has the tradition of 30 days of the Shofar as a reminder to every one not to do what they did the first time Moses went up the mountain, all through the month of Elul leading up to the Feast of Trumpets at the start of the new month. Culminating with a final blast at the appearance of a sliver of light, i.e. the start of the new month, the month of Tishri.

The Jewish authorities made that day a 48 hour day, just so there would be no missing the start of that new month.

Then, 10 days to Yom Kippur the Day of Atonement (Covering / Reconciliation) reminding the people that there is reconciliation and covering available - providing they have repented - and bringing them into an ongoing relationship with the Lord.

In Leviticus 23, seven feasts are mentioned.

Four feasts were fulfilled 2,000 years ago:

  1. The Sabbath Day: Christ fulfilled the Sabbath and has become our Rest.
  2. The Passover Week: 23rd March 31AD, Friday, Fifteenth day of the Jewish month and First day of unleavened bread, when Christ died on the cross.
  3. The Feast of First Fruits: 25th March 31AD, First Sunday, when Christ rose from the dead.
  4. The Feast of Pentecost: 13th May 31AD, Eighth Sunday, following seven sabbaths. (Saturdays).

There are then three other feasts, the first of which may well have been fulfilled on Rosh Hashanah 2006.

  1. Feast of Trumpets, 1st day of the seventh month, click here for that announcement, recognizing Israel in the world council, the United Nations, following 2000 years of fighting with its accompanying devastation — see Daniel 9:26
  2. Day of Atonement, 10th day of the seventh month. When the sign of the Lord appears in heaven, the Jews see the one they have rejected, and in affliction of their souls, find reconciliation and covering.
  3. Feast of Tabernacles, 15th day of the seventh month. The world during the millenium, as the camp of the saints rules the world (under Christ).