Festival of Trumpets

What is the "Festival of Trumpets"? When does it begin? What precisely are we even "commemorating"? Why would we even celebrate it as Believers in Messiah if we are no longer required to make sacrifices? Is it really the Hebrew New Year ("Rosh Hashanah")?

The Festival of Trumpets was not only a day of sacrifice, but also a Set Apart Assembly and a High Sabbath Commemorated with the Blowing of Trumpets to make a "loud noise" on the 1st Day of the 7th Hebrew Month (Levi. 23:23-25). Therefore, as we explore here, it is definitively not a celebration of the Hebrew New Year. Then as some teach, is it a general New Moon Festival for the blowing of trumpets as some teach Psalms 81 to mean?

Although, some mistakingly do believe it is one and the same as the New Moon Festival of the 7th Hebrew Month (Jub. 6:23), based on the practices of the Babylonian Talmudic Lunisolar Calendar of the Hellenized Jews (now referred to as the Hillel II). Because that Calendar Reckoning requires the first sighting of the New Moon after a Dark Moon to begin their Calendar Months (which could be anytime within a 2 day interval due to contrary weather), the Messiah's comments in Math. 24:36 are misinterpreted to be understood as "no man knows precisely when the New Moon will appear", therefore "no man knows precisely when He will return, although we can expect it within a 48 hour window."

However, they fail to realize, He is outside of the atmospheric pressures of the earth (Yahu/John 20:17, Heb. 10:12-13). He was there when the Sun and Moon were set in the courses by the Charge of their Heavenly Messengers (1 Yahu/John 1:1-3), therefore He knows precisely when they will appear. However, if we continue reading the same verse, He says even He does not know the timing of His Second Coming, nor do the Angels of Heaven who lead the Celestial Bodies:

"But concerning that Day and the Hour no one knows, not even the Messengers (Angels) of the Heavens, nor the Son, but My Father only."-MathathYahu/Matthew 24:36

Therefore, this passage cannot mean what Modern Messianic Jews believe it to mean. We have to consider this idiom in context of His Words through the correct lens of the ancient local customs, which references a beautiful tradition of the Galilean Marriage which is wonderfully explored in the documentary called "𝑩𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒉", now available on Youtube and Amazon or free with a Pure Flix subscription.

Just as the Messiah says, "the thief does not come but to kill, steal and destroy",(Yahu/John 10:10), so then the Wise 5 Maidens who prepared their oil before the Groom visits as a "thief in the night" (Matt. 25:1-13, Luke 12:39) so they could find their path to "enter behind safety of the Door of the House of the Groom" to be hidden from the destruction which would soon fall on the City during the "Day of Visitation" (Isaiah 10, Eze. 9).

The 144,000 Pure and Blameless are Sealed and Protected

Therefore, 1 Thessalonians 5 does not state "we can expect Him to Return at the Festival of Trumpets" (as Messianics often teach), or that "all Believers will be Raptured into Heaven before the Tribulation begins" (as Christians often teach), but to encourage those "Natsarym" as described in Acts 24:5, those "Guardians of the Way", "Branches of the Vine", "Watchmen on the Wall", who "obey the commands" of the Father AND have the "Testimony of Messiah" (Rev. 12:17) who "prepared themselves as a Spotless Bride" before the Wrath begins, that they will be Sealed with "His Name and the Name of His Father" (Rev. 7:1-8, Eze. 8-9), so they may be protected from experiencing the plagues of the "Day of His Wrath" because they are "hidden and nourished" in the wilderness of the earth (Rev. 12:10-17).

The Great Multitude are Cleansed and be Humbled

Whereas, He warns the Unwise 5 Maidens who did not prepare themselves are "chastised and sanctified" through the Tribulation, and though many will "fall in the Wilderness" and not be able to "enter in" due to their pride and disobedience (Eze. 20), all those who do choose to "wash their robes" will eventually be gathered together to stand with Him at Mount Zion after the 7th Trumpet of the Tribulation Sounds (1 Thess. 4) on the Day of His Return (Jer. 30, Rev. 7) where they will receive their "Incorruptible Bodies and Spirits" to dwell in New City of Yarushalam which He has "prepared for Her", forever (Yahu/John 14:3, 1 Corin. 15 & Rev. 21).

Therefore, if the Festival of Trumpets is altogether different than the Rosh Hashanah or the New Moon Festival of the 7th Hebrew Solar Month as 1 Enoch and Jubilees clearly states as described in our Testing the Calendar Study, then read the Word together with us as we discover what the Prophets and Apostles understood the Festival of Trumpets to really commemorate:

The Great Tribulation & 7 Trumpets Chastise and Sanctify His Unwise Bride: -YarmYahu/Jeremiah 30 -YashaYahu/Isaiah 27, Isaiah 66, Isaiah 18 -Luke 12 -Revelation 2-3 & Revelation 8-11

The Celebration of the Beginning of the Messiah's Eternal Kingdom & the Destruction of the Kingdom of Babylon: -Revelation 18-19 -Psalm 98

The End of the Great Exodus & Transfiguration of the Resurrected & Gathered Body of Believers into their Incorruptible Bodies and Spirits: -MathathYahu/Matthew 24 -Mark 13 -1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 -1 Corinthians 15:51-58 -Revelation 20-22