Thou Shalt Feast (Part 6): Trumpets // Leviticus 23:23-25
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Leviticus 23:23-25 (NIV)
The Lord said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of sabbath rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts. Do no regular work, but present a food offering to the Lord.’”
Additional texts:
Exodus 19:16-19 (NIV)
On the morning of the third day there was thunder and lightning, with a thick cloud over the mountain, and a very loud trumpet blast. Everyone in the camp trembled. Then Moses led the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. Mount Sinai was covered with smoke, because the Lord descended on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like smoke from a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently. As the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and the voice of God answered him.
Numbers 10:2 (NIV)
Make two trumpets of hammered silver, and use them for calling the community together and for having the camps set out.
Numbers 10:9-10 (NIV)
When you go into battle in your own land against an enemy who is oppressing you, sound a blast on the trumpets… Also at your times of rejoicing—your appointed festivals and New Moon feasts—you are to sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, and they will be a memorial for you before your God. I am the Lord your God.
Joel 2: 1, 12, 15 (NIV)
Blow the trumpet in Zion;
sound the alarm on my holy hill.
…
“Even now,” declares the Lord,
“return to me with all your heart,
with fasting and weeping and mourning.”
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Blow the trumpet in Zion,
declare a holy fast,
call a sacred assembly.
Isaiah 27:13 (NIV)
In that day a great trumpet will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.
Revelation 11:15-17 (NIV)
The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said:
“The kingdom of the world has become
the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah,
and he will reign for ever and ever.”
And the twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying:
“We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty,
the One who is and who was,
because you have taken your great power
and have begun to reign.”
1 Thessalonians 4:14-17 (NIV)
For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
Mark 1:15 (NIV)
“The kingdom of God has come near. Repent and believe the good news!”