The Wide Path Dropout Mama
The Wide Path Dropout Mama
The Feast of Trumpets
In this episode, I introduce the first fall feast day, the Feast of Trumpets. This year it starts at sundown on Wednesday, October 2nd, through sundown Friday, October 4th.
The teachings mentioned were Jim Staley at https://passionfortruth.com/ and his YouTube channel with the same title.
The book I mentioned is called A Family Guide to the Biblical Holidays here is link on Amazon. https://a.co/d/3RhBeHA
I pray you will celebrate this HOLYday with joy and shouting ;)
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Hi, my name's Jenny. I'm a wife, a mom, an entrepreneur and, most importantly, a disciple of Yeshua Jesus. I've been a Christian for over a decade, having studied the Bible for at least that long or better. Until about three years ago, I thought I knew Jesus pretty well. Then my world was rocked. I started studying the Bible from its Middle Eastern context and culture, and what I found has completely changed my and my family's lives forever. Join me as I share all that I've learned about our Jewish Messiah and listen to my conversations with other moms on their own journey with Jesus as we discuss the practical ways that we walk out our faith in our everyday lives. This is a conversation for the Christian mom who wants more. This is the Wide Path Dropout Mama podcast.
Speaker 1:Hey everybody, welcome back to the Wide Path Dropout Mama podcast. I am your host, jenny, and today we are going to be talking about the Feast of Trumpets, or Yom Teruah in Hebrew, which means the day of blowing. This is one of the seven feast days of the Lord, and it is the first of the three fall feast days which foreshadow the Lord's second coming, or the Lord's return for his bridegroom. Now, if you're not familiar with these feast days of the Lord. I encourage you to go look into those in Leviticus 23. You can find them all there. I also have a podcast I did where I went over all of the seven feast days of Yahweh and how Jesus perfectly fulfilled the three spring feasts and how he's coming back to fulfill the fall feast when he does return. And so today we're going to get into detail about this feast of trumpets. Now, this feast day is talked about all throughout scripture, even though you wouldn't realize that, that's what it's actually talking about.
Speaker 1:I'm going to read to you a few quotes from the Bible and tell you that they all have to do with this particular feast day and see if you can recognize them. The first one is no one knows the day or the hour. I know that sounds familiar. The next one is he will come like a thief in the night, and then we have, with the shout of the shofar the dead shall rise. And then this last one the Lord will descend from heaven with a shout. So all of those are scriptures and they each are referring to this feast day, the feast of trumpets. Now, this feast day is the day that we are waiting to hear that shofar, that signaling to us that Jesus is coming back, he's going to descend on the clouds and we will be lifted up to be with him forever, right?
Speaker 1:Well, a lot of people don't understand this, and this is why I'm so passionate about studying the Middle Eastern context and culture of the Bible, because all of this is this picture, is associated with a Jewish wedding, and you will know that at the Last Supper, jesus, in John 14, verses 1 and 2, jesus told the disciples at Passover dinner I am going to my father's house to prepare a place for you and I'm going to bring you back to it. Well, that is bridegroom verbiage. That is the language that a bridegroom would use when he is betrothing a potential bride. And in a Jewish wedding, what they would do is the father and the son would approach the betrothal, the potential betrothal, and ask for her hand in marriage, or present a contract going over all of the things that he promises to provide for her, and he would offer her a cup of wine, and if she chose to drink that cup, she was saying yes. And now, when she drank the cup, thus saying yes, that set off the remaining events that would fulfill this whole wedding process. Then the bride or, I'm sorry, the bridegroom and his father would then leave and they would begin to assemble all of the materials needed to build a bridal chamber onto the father's house, and this process could take months and up to a year.
Speaker 1:And so while the bridegroom was building on this bridal chamber onto his father's house, whenever it was finished the father had to inspect the chamber, and only when the father said that it was ready and that it was time could the bridegroom go get his bride. That's why in Matthew 24, 36, the Lord says no one knows the day or the hour, not even the father or the angels in heaven, not the son, not the father, not even the son, not the angels Nobody knows, only the father knows. So only the father could say yes, son, this bridal chamber is ready, you can go get your bride. And then what they would do is all of the wedding party would assemble, they would have a procession it would usually be in the middle of the night and the bridegroom was called a thief in the night going to abduct his bride. And when they got there to get the bride, they would usually lift her up and the bridegroom up and they would be together up in the air.
Speaker 1:And that's where you get those scriptures. That's why I love digging into this stuff, because it just makes the word come alive when you know the hidden meanings behind these idiomatic expressions. And so I want to read to you 1 Thessalonians 4, verse 16, and you'll kind of get that picture of this Jewish wedding in Jesus's coming back. And this is the feast day that this is happening. This is where it all begins.
Speaker 1:This whole process of this wedding starts at the Feast of Trumpets. Okay, here in 1 Thessalonians 4, verse 16, it says For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a rousing cry, a call from one of the ruling angels, and with God's shofar, those who died united with the Messiah will be the first to rise. Then we who are left still alive will be caught up with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we will be always with the Lord. So encourage each other with these words. So you see that that sounds exactly like that wedding that we were just talking about.
Speaker 1:And keep in mind that these feast days have been celebrated by the Jewish people for thousands of years, and so they're also called dress rehearsals, and so they have been rehearsing this plan of redemption that the Lord had planned even before the foundations of the earth, and most of them don't even know that they are all about Jesus. Foundations of the earth, and most of them don't even know that they are all about Jesus. And, as I said at the beginning, Jesus perfectly fulfilled each of the first three spring feasts at his first coming, and he will likely do the same thing with the fall feasts when he returns. But I want to submit to you that there are multiple themes happening, starting at the Feast of Trumpets. So this day is supposed to be a day of blowing. That's what Yom Teruah means. It means a day of blowing. And that is what the Lord says to do when he gives that commandment in Leviticus 23. And I want to read that to you in Leviticus 23,. What exactly it says to do. Okay, it says the Lord said to Moses Tell the people of Israel, in the seventh month, the first of the month is to be for you a day of complete rest for remembering a holy convocation announced with blasts of the shofar. Do not do any kind of ordinary work and bring an offering made by fire to the Lord. So you are supposed to be blasting a shofar. That's what this day is all about and, as we read in 1 Thessalonians, that is what that is going to be the signal that Jesus is coming back. But I want to show you that there are multiple reasons that a shofar was used.
Speaker 1:All throughout scripture, there are four main themes for using a shofar, and I want to show you that all of those themes apply to this fall appointed time season, where we have the Feast of Trumpets, and then, 10 days later, you have the Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur, which is a very somber, sobering day. That's the Day of Judgment. And then, five days later I believe it is somewhere around there you have the most joyful time of the year it's the Feast of Tabernacles, it's the Wedding Supper of the Lamb. That is when the vengeance. It's the Feast of Tabernacles, it's the wedding supper of the Lamb. That is when the vengeance is over, the judgment is over, the Lord has defeated his enemies and now we get to celebrate. This is the joy set before Jesus that he endured the cross for for this day, his wedding day, where he gets to be with us forever, celebrating our wedding.
Speaker 1:And so there are four different things, main themes, happening during this time. And those are all of the reasons that you would blow a shofar, and so I want to run through those really quick. So the first reason that you would blow a shofar would be for celebration. It would be for all of the different feast days in the new moon festivals, and so that would be the first reason that you would blow a shofar. The second reason was for war. They would blow the shofars to signify that it was a time of war, or to alert the troops that the enemy was coming, and things like that. The third reason would be for the coronation of a king, right to announce the king's arrival. And then the fourth reason would be for a wedding, and all of those things are happening in this particular season. So we've got the shout of the shofar to announce our King Jesus coming to sit on his throne, and then we also have it signaling that we are about to have a war. Right, there is a time of judgment. The Lord is going to take vengeance on his enemies. That's the day of atonement, where we will all be judged for the things that we did in our bodies here on earth, and then we also have this really exciting celebration we're going to have that wedding, and so all of these things are happening in this particular time of year, during these three feast days. But this day, the Feast of Trumpets, is the day that kicks all of this off.
Speaker 1:Now, going back to the Lord's calendar, his set apart calendar, he established that back in Exodus 12, when he rescued the Israelites out of Egypt and out of bondage, the first thing he did is he completely sets them apart and gives them a new calendar. In Exodus 12, verse one, he tells Moses and Aaron this is going to be the first day of the first month for you, and this calendar is what is going to establish every single following appointed time out of those seven holy feast days. And Yahweh's calendar is lunar, so it goes by the new moon each month, and that's called Rosh Chodesh and that means head of the month, and so every time you would see the very first tiniest sliver of the new moon that would indicate to the Lord's people that that was a new month for them. And so that's why it says on the first day of the seventh month. And so the first day is signified by that new moon. And that's really important to understand, because this began a phrase known as no one knows the day or the hour, because back in ancient times they would have to stand on a hilltop and watch. There would have to be two witnesses that saw the tiniest sliver of that new moon, and once the second person saw it, they would signal to the rest of the community OK, it's the, it's the first of the seventh month, we can begin our civil calendar, and that's going to establish when all of the rest of the feast days are going to be taking place. That is why today is also known for the Jewish people as Rosh Hashanah, or their new year. People as Rosh Hashanah or their new year. So there are two different holidays going on, because, even though Yahweh says that the first day, or the new year, is established in the spring, right at Passover, their Jewish civil year starts on the first day of the seventh month, and it's Jewish tradition that says that the Lord actually created Adam and Eve on this day and created the world on this day. So that's why they celebrate the new year on the seventh month, on the first day of the seventh month, and it can be really confusing.
Speaker 1:When I first started celebrating these feast days, I kept seeing Rosh Hashanah on the same day as Yom Teruah and I was like, wait a minute, what is it? But then I, the more studying I did, the more I realized okay, there are two different kind of calendars going on, but we always want to go by what the Lord's word says. And his word says that the beginning of the year is in the spring, and it makes sense because that's when everything is blossoming, there's new life beginning, so that it makes sense that he would have that be the head of the new year or the start of the new year. But continuing on with this phrasing right that you have seen over and over in the Bible, that is where they got that phrase no one knows the day or the hour. That was an idiom for the Feast of Trumpets, because when they had to stand on that hill looking for the new moon, they didn't know if it was going to come on the 30, on the 30th of Elul or on the 1st of Tishrei. And those are Hebrew months. Elul is the 6th Hebrew month and Tishrei is the 7th Hebrew month, and so they used to call it the one long day, and that's why it's celebrated over two days.
Speaker 1:But let's move into some of the practical ways of celebrating this holiday, because these are, like I said before, these are all just dress rehearsals. We are rehearsing the time in the future that our King Jesus will come back for his bride, and these are supposed to be times of celebration, right? They're not to replace anything else, right, they're not to replace anything else. They are to add to our understanding of the Lord and how he works in his plan of redemption, and they're also to add intimacy to our relationship with Jesus. And so some of the practical ways that you can celebrate this holiday. This is what my family and I does. We just have a nice dinner.
Speaker 1:There are Jewish traditions where they eat certain things and that's fun to do. I don't even really know what, what all of that is, but usually what we do is we just have a nice meal and then we'll, at sundown, we'll either go to a park nearby on the water, or we'll go to the beach and we blow our shofars, and that's how we do it. It's just as simple as that. And it's supposed to be a Sabbath rest. That's what it says in Leviticus 23 through 25, or verse 23 through 25. He says that it is to be a Sabbath day. You're not supposed to do any ordinary work and remember the biblical day is from sundown to sundown, and so we try to take off that day if it's possible, and usually I'll let the kids stay out of school, which they love, and I try to do something fun for them. You know how on secular holidays like St Paddy's Day and Valentine's Day, my mom used to do something fun for us all the time, like we would have a basket with fun stuff in it, like green for St I like to do for Passover, I do spring baskets for the kids and then at the fall feast days, especially at the Feast of Tabernacles, I like to do like a fall basket, so I'll get them something cute for the Feast of Trumpets and, like I said, we'll go down there and blow the shofars.
Speaker 1:But really it's just about remembering the Lord's appointed times because these are commandments. He established these in Leviticus and he never said to stop doing them and in fact Jesus continues to. I mean, he was Jewish, he was fully immersed in his culture, he celebrated all of these feast days because they're all about him and he knew that. And so it says in Matthew 5, chapter 5, verse 17,. Jesus did not come to abolish the law, but he came to fulfill it, and that word means to fully interpret it. So if you read it like that, it says that Jesus didn't come to abolish the law and the prophets. He came to rightly interpret it, to interpret it the right way, to show you how it was meant to be walked out. And so that's why our family continues to celebrate these feast days. We do it to remember what Jesus did for us and what he's coming to do in the future, and it's just a great way to get closer to the Lord and get to know him better.
Speaker 1:But I will give you I'll link some resources in the show notes. There are so many fun teachings that give you in-depth meaning. I mean, this is just like a short kind of overview of some of the things associated with the Feast of Trumpets, but this stuff goes deep and it's so much fun to learn about. And there's a teacher named Jim Staley with Passion for Truth Ministries. He's an amazing teacher. He gets detailed, he's very gifted. The Lord has given him a gift for teaching, and so I recommend that you check out some of his videos. I always mention those two books about the feast days by Christy Eisner. I highly recommend those books, as always. And then there's some other things that I'll link in the show notes. But you know, again, just pray to the Lord, ask him to reveal these things for you, go through scripture and see if you can find these scriptures that are talking about these feast days that you wouldn't know until you started digging into it a little bit. And, as always, I pray that the Lord blesses you and keeps you, and I look forward to seeing you next time where we will talk about the Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur coming up in the next few days. Thank you so much for listening and we'll see you next time on the Wide Path Dropout Mama podcast.
Speaker 1:Okay, really quick before you go. I didn't mention this in the episode, but I wanted to let you know that the Feast of Trumpets begins today, at sundown on October the 2nd, and it lasts for two days. So I know it's super short notice, but I wanted you to know that. In case you wanted to go ahead and celebrate, and if you don't have a shofar, that's okay. All you have to do is just go outside, go to a park, go to the beach. You can even go in your front yard or your backyard and just give a joyful shout.
Speaker 1:The whole point is just to commemorate this feast day of the Lord and to just show your kids and your family what it's like to follow along with the Lord's calendar and celebrate Jesus, because they all represent him. And I have a beautiful resource that I forgot to mention there is a book that has all of the feast days of the Lord. It's for families and it's got crafts that you can do for the kids. Just the introduction is life changing. It will change your perspective. If you've never gotten into this, if you've never celebrated the feast days, if this is all new to you, I recommend you getting this book and trying it out, and I will link that in the show notes. But I pray that you will have a beautiful Feast of Trumpets and I pray that you are blessed by celebrating this feast day and have Shalom until we meet again.