This study series is about Paul’s eschatology found in his two epistles to the Thessalonians, with particular attention to what he claims in 1Thessalonians 4:13-18. There, he tells us that the dead shall rise at the coming of the Lord, who comes at the sound of the trumpet. At that time “we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord” (i.e. believers in the 1st century AD; verse-15) will be taken or gathered with the raised dead to meet the Lord (1Thessalonians 4:16-17). We need to keep in mind, as we read Paul’s letters to the Thessalonians that he preached nothing but what is written in the Old Covenant text (Acts 26:22-23). So, if this is true, what would the coming of Christ, the raising of the dead, and the gathering of the elect, “who are alive and remain,” mean in terms of Jewish thought as found in the Old Covenant text?
Briefly, there were seven annual Holy Days or Feast Days in the Jewish calendar, according to Leviticus 23. They were: the Passover, the Days of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, Pentecost, the Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah – the coming of the King), Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur – judgment), and the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkoth; i.e. harvest – gathering – resurrection). Jesus alluded to this calendar in the Gospel of John: “Do you not say, ‘It is yet four months, and the harvest comes?’ Behold, I say to you, ‘Lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are white to harvest already!’” (John 4:35). In other words, Pentecost had already past and they were in the midst of the four-month period between the spring festivals and the fall festivals.
The point in bringing the festivals up is that Jesus claimed all things under the Old Covenant concerning him must be fulfilled (Luke 24:44). The festivals were shadows of things to come (Colossians 2:16-17). The first four Feast days: Passover (crucifixion), Unleavened Bread (cleansing of sin), Feast of Weeks (Jesus’ resurrection) and Pentecost (coming of the Holy Spirit), had been fulfilled. The four-month period between the spring festivals and the fall festivals symbolized the waiting for judgment. When Paul wrote his epistle to the Colossians he was in the midst of that period—waiting for the coming of Christ, judgment and resurrection, and he said of the Holy Day Feasts that they: “are a shadow of things about to come” (G3195 – mello; literally “about to”), about to be (ECB), soon to come (WNT), coming things (YLT). In other words, Paul was alluding to the fact that the last four festivals were about to be fulfilled (Colossians 2:16-17). In other words, about to (G3195 – mello) be fulfilled does not mean about to be delayed for 2000 years or more.
James tells us that the Judge was already standing at the door (James 5:9), and Peter wrote that the time of the judgment had already come (1Peter 4:17), and Paul wrote to the Thessalonians that in their expected lifetime, the Lord would come, and the dead would be rise, and they who were alive would be gathered with the raised dead to be with the Lord (1Thessalonians 4:13-17), and judgment would fall upon the evildoers (1Thessalonians 5:1-3).
Remember, Jesus had told his disciples that, until all was fulfilled, not even the slightest component of the Law would lose its authority (Matthew 5:17-18). Therefore, the whole Law stood or fell together. In other words, then, the Law was still in force at the time of Paul’s writing to the Colossians, because there still remained parts of the Law to be fulfilled (Colossians 2:17). If the Law is still unfulfilled today, then the Old Covenant is still in force, and the New Covenant has yet to be established. However, Paul wrote to the Hebrews that the Old Covenant was soon to pass away and give way for the New Covenant to be established (Hebrews 8:13). So, if, indeed, the New Covenant is the covenant, through which the Lord deals with mankind, then the Old Covenant has been abolished. If the Old Covenant is abolished, then all things have been fulfilled, including the Feast of Trumpets (the coming of the King), the Day of Atonement (judgment) and the Feast of Tabernacles (resurrection / gathering to the King).
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15 responses to “The Feast of Trumpets!”
Hi Eddie:
Isho died on the middle of the week, that day was not called Wednesday at that time, at the ninth hour that we now call it 3:00 PM and you agree with what is written in the WORD.
You do not need to agree with me, because as a sinner, I (first person personal pronoun) may be wrong BUT the TRUE Word should be correct.
If what Isho (Jesus) said about the sign of Jonah of going to the center of the earth for three days and three nights, then our Savior went there for 12+12+12=36 hours equal to 3 days plus 12+12+12=36 more hours equal to 3 nights for a grand total of exactly 72 hours, not a second more, not a second less.
24 hours (a complete day =12+12=24) from 3PM on the middle of the week we are at 3PM on the 5th day of the week. Another 24 hours and it will be the 6th day of the week and another 24 hours for a total of 72 is the 7th day or the Day of Rest, the regular sabbath and not a High Holy Day that are moving holidays always celebrated on a particular day of the month.
That day of rest is the seventh day of the week that we call now Saturday paying respect to Saturn and not the Lord.
Isho (Jesus) was resurrected on a regular sabbath at exactly 3:00 PM, the ninth our by the standard of those days.
We need to believe Isho on what He said, not what other people might say or interpret the Word in an erroneous manner.
The MATHEMATICAL calculations and the proper definitions are very clear and we SHOULDN’T make the wrong assumptions of what many may believe, their ideas, in a manner different to what He himself said.
May our Lord bless us all with His wisdom so we could get to know and understand His ONLY TRUTH.
Eddie:
It seems you did not read the writing of the days of the first month such as day 1, day 14, day 15, day 16, day 17, day 21 and the 50th day. There is a day in Exodus 19 when the Lord gave Moses the Law. It was the 3rd day of the 3rd month mentioned 4 times.
Because the Jews are using their lunar calendar of Nisan 30 days, Iyar 29 days and Sivan 30 days etc… day 50 counted from their 16th day falls on the 6th of Sivan and not on the day as commanded by the Lord on Exodus 19.
Also our Savior should be a singular first fruit and not a plural firsfruits. Those fruits that the High Priest needed to wave a sheaf before the Lord is found on Leviticus 23 verses 9 through 14. This was to be done when entering the Promised Land and reaping the first fruits.
Verse 11, second part mentions WHEN it should be done such as:
“… on the morrow after the SABBATH the priest shall wave it.”
So we need to ask, Which sabbath is the Lord specifying in that verse?
A regular day of rest as the 7th day of the week? Or, Is it after a High Holy Day such as the 1st day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread to be day 15 of the month of Abib?
That day is day 16 of Abib. When the count of 50 days is finished it should be the 3rd day of the 3rd month. And this day is a moving Holiday, Shavuot as called by the Jews celebrated on the 6th of Sivan and it moves through the week.
According to christianity, it is always celebrated on Sunday. Because christianity uses funny mathematics and does not follow what our Savior said or what His Father instructed the Israelites to celebrate.
The Truth will set us free, not something else created by the Lord’s adversary.
What should we believe?
Dear Eddie:
You said that the 3rd day is mistery and you show us that is a mistery to you.
I didn’t pick the 3rd day, the Lord did as it is written on Exodus 19 four times. He wanted to make it clear of when the nation should gather for that important day.
I don’t want to criticize, I know you hate that. But you come up with very strange assumptions.
I hope you are using the Lord’s wisdom and not somebody else.
Peace brother and may the Lord bless us all.
Dear Eddie:
I forgot to mention another detail, those that people consider “little” and are not taken into the equation.
Day 15 is the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread to be celebrated 7 days which the first and 7th day (day 21 of Abib) are High Holy days, days of REST and they should gather on a holy convocation.
So when the chosen nation entered the promised land rested on the 15th day of that first month of that year, as commanded by the Lord. They could have NOT gather any barley but they did the next day, day 16th of the month.
The week that Isho died, it was the 6th day of that week and the ladies had the chance to BUY sweet spices as mentioned by Mark 16:1.
That sabbath that Mark mentions is day 15, the 1st day of Unleavened Bread and the next day was a regular day and the stores were open so the ladies could buy those spices that they brought to the tomb early on the first day of the week. It was day 18 of Abib and day 3 of the Feast of Weeks.
Choosing the proper sabbath, a piece of the jigsaw puzzle that is the Bible. The answer are right IN the book, not on what we may believe or assume.
We should search and find the right pieces so we could see the only truth.
The pieces fit only one way.
Let’s search and find those pieces, those little details that make such a big difference.
Don’t get deceived by the biggest liar of all.
So be it.
Chameleon, either you speed read my reply or you missed the point I was making.
First of all, three days and three nights is not a question, while your seconds and 72 hours may be. Did Jesus have a watch? How were hours measured? …to the second? Just how much of the 21st century do you wish to read into the first century AD?
Assuming we are in agreement for the 3 days and 3 nights, Jesus was crucified on the fourth day of the week and died a few hours before sunset. According to the word of God, they barely got him in the tomb before the Holy Day Sabbath began (Luke 23:53-54; John 19:38-42). According to Jesus (but apparently not according to Chameleon) the body of Jesus would lay in the tomb for three days and three nights, not from 3 PM on the fourth day to 3 PM on the seventh day. Rather, the count would begin **not** at Jesus’ death, but at Jesus’ burial (Matthew 12:40). This puts the resurrection into the 18th day of the month on the first day of the week. Chameleon, counts seconds and hours, but the Lord counts days and nights.