Feast of Trumpets

But to return to our chapter. The next feast in order took place in “the seventh month, in the first day of the month.” It is commonly called the “feast of trumpets.” Directions were given more completely in Numbers 29:1-6. It signaled a new beginning, a calling together by the trumpets. The feast has not yet had its typical fulfillment; it and the next two are still future. It signifies the time when Christ will return to the earth with His heavenly saints and recall His earthly people, the Jews, to their promised land. When the Son of man appears in power and great glory, “He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other” (Matt. 24:31). “And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown” (Isa. 27:13). The Jews are now going back to Palestine in unbelief to accept the antichrist; but then their Messiah will call them back to settle them in their own land with His blessing.