The Feast of Trumpets launches the fall festivals and is tied to that agricultural season. Prophetically, it represents the end of this age and the dawn of a new one, ushering in the awaited millennium. We have already touched on the important symbolism of the blowing of trumpets and animal horns in the Pure Convocations video, which we urge you to watch in addition to reading this article. As with all the feasts of Yah, the Feast of Trumpets has a literal, spiritual fulfillment. The substance of this particular feast will see the Messiah return to earth in power and glory with the entire host of heavenly messengers to gather the elect and awaken the righteous dead who rest in the graves, and who hail from various generations and ages.
26And then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. 27And then he will send out the heavenly messengers and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.
—Mark 13:26 – 27
In fact, Matthew 24:31 says those messengers will be sent out “with a loud trumpet call,” which directly ties this future event to the Feast of Trumpets, the day that will also act as the first resurrection. And of that glorious resurrection, The Prophet Isaiah writes:
19Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.
—Isaiah 26:19
The Book of Revelation builds on this, adding:
6Blessed and set apart is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of Elohim and of Mashiach, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
—Revelation 20:6
Many Christians believe that the thousand-year reign will occur in heaven. But, beginning with the Book of Acts, we are shown something quite different. Upon Yeshua’s ascension, the emissaries beheld him returning to heaven, and a brief exchange followed:
9 … as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight. 10And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes, 11and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Yeshua, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”
—Acts 1:9 – 11
“This Yeshua,” said the messengers, “who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.” He will return in no different manner. Well, the Book of Acts also reveals where he ascended from. The very next verse tells us where they were at that very moment:
12Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is near Jerusalem….
—Acts 1:12
So, if he ascended from the Mount of Olives, when he returns to earth, hovering in the sky while the elect and the righteous dead are gathered to him, like vultures to a carcass (see Matthew 24:28), then his feet must touch down on the same Mount of Olives following that gathering. But is this what Scripture reveals? Indeed it does! For this we must turn to the Book of Zechariah:
4On that day his feet shall stand on the Mount of Olives that lies before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two from east to west by a very wide valley, so that one half of the Mount shall move northward, and the other half southward. 5And you shall flee to the valley of my mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal. And you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Then Yah my Elohim will come, and all the set apart ones with him.
—Zechariah 14:4 – 5
Trumpets is the inauguration of the Kingdom in other words. The laws have long been in place. The plan of redemption was deemed an overwhelming success at Golgotha, and upon Yeshua’s resurrection, the keys of this world no longer resided with our enemies. All that remain are the Kingdom’s territory, which is this earth—where Yeshua will reign—and his citizens, who are the elect and the resurrected righteous dead from all ages, who will reign with him here on earth. That is what his return to earth is all about: to establish his promised Kingdom! The Feast of Trumpets sees to this. Revelation also confirms this truth. The number seven represents completeness, and starting in chapter 8, six trumpets are blown in succession which usher in a series of devastating events. After the seventh and final trumpet is blown in chapter 11, we are told:
15Then the seventh messenger blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Master and of his Messiah, and he shall reign forever and ever.”
—Revelation 11:15
After that final trumpet blast, which is not unlike those heard on the Feast of Trumpets, loud voices proclaim: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Master and of his Messiah,” where he will reign forever. The Kingdom of the world becomes his with that final trumpet blast. Not some Kingdom in heaven. It is here on earth, and it always has been, because that is where its citizens are now! But while it is in this world, it is not of it.
As Zechariah 14 reveals in its first three verses, prior to Yeshua’s return, which is marked in verse 4 above, Yah will gather all nations to battle against Jerusalem. This is the very war pictured in Revelation 19:
19And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered to make war against him who was sitting on the horse and against his army.
—Revelation 19:19
Zechariah 14:12 – 16 give further graphic details of that war and its decisive outcome. Following the war, “everyone who survives of all the nations that have come against Jerusalem,” we read in verse 16, “shall go up year after year to worship the King, Yah of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Booths.” These are Gentiles that go up from year to year throughout the millennium to honor the feasts prescribed in the Torah. They will keep the very laws Christianity insists are “done away with.”
According to Leviticus 23:23 – 25, the Feast of Trumpets was a day of rest on which special food offerings were presented to Yah in the form of drink, grain, and meat, in addition to the blowing of trumpets. Numbers 29:1 – 6 gives us specifics as to what was required. Since the sacrifice of Yeshua and the retirement of the earthly temple system, the letter of this law is impossible to fulfill. But its spirit remains with us. As stated in the Pure Convocations video, our voices are to be the true trumpets we lift up to Yah, per Isaiah 58:1:
1 … Raise your voice like a trumpet….
—Isaiah 58:1
This is to be done on the Feast of Trumpets, in the form of prayer and supplication to the Most High, of praise, of thanksgiving, and as a cry for his deliverance. As of old, this cry for help usually bestowed Yah’s mercy. In fact, the trumpets used to usher in Feast of Trumpets, according to the Book of Numbers, were to be made of a certain material and consist of a certain number:
2“Make two silver trumpets. Of hammered work you shall make them….”
—Numbers 10:2
Silver was the representation for the kingdom of Medo-Persia, per Daniel 2:32 and 5:30. It was also the kingdom Yah used to free us from the Babylonian captivity as recorded in Ezra 1. In a sense, those two silver trumpets signify our deliverance from both the physical Babylon, as well as the current spiritual one, which is a measure of Yah’s supreme mercy. The blowing of trumpets then, signifies our deliverance from our enemies.
9And when you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before Yah your Elohim, and you shall be saved from your enemies.
—Numbers 10:9
We lift our voices to sound an alarm these days, but the effect will be no different, particularly when we lift our voices collectively. Let this be at the forefront of your mind when observing the Feast of Trumpets.
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I thought it was interesting. I liked how the Feast of Trumpets was linked to the first resurrection. I also found Zechariah 14:4-5 interesting. I see [a connection between] the parable the Messiah gave about separating the sheep from the goats and the parable about there being a great gulf fixed between the living and the dead. Zechariah is another way of showing the same event. The Mount of Olives is us, both houses of Israel. When he comes back, the righteous will be on the north side and the unrighteousness will be on the south side separated by a great valley or a great gulf. Great article.
—Sabrina S.
