In the month of Tishri, the 7th month of the Jewish calendar, the Fall Feasts are celebrated. On the 1st day of the month is the Day of Trumpets (Lev. 23:23). This is also when the Jewish New Year known as Rosh Hashanah is celebrated. On this day begins the blowing of trumpets, or ram horns known as Shofar, announcing to all the coming Day of Atonement.
“...In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you are to have a day of complete rest, commemoration, and trumpet blasts — a sacred assembly. You must not do any daily work, but you must present a fire offering to the LORD.” Lev. 23:24-25
"You are to hold a sacred assembly in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, and you are not to do any daily work. This will be a day of trumpet blasts for you. "Offer a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old -- all unblemished -- "with their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, six quarts with the bull, four quarts with the ram, "and two quarts with each of the seven male lambs. "Also offer one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for yourselves. "These are in addition to the monthly and regular burnt offerings with their prescribed grain offerings and drink offerings. They are a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the LORD.
Numbers 29:1-6
On the 10th day of the month is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement (Lev. 23:26). This is the day when the blood of the perfect sacrifice was sprinkled on the Mercy Seat of the Ark of the Covenant for the covering of the sins of the people. This action provided a way for Israel to once again be reunited with God.
On the 15th day is the Feast of Booths (Sukkot) for a period of seven days (Lev. 23:33). This is an autumn harvest celebration which involves constructing a temporary dwelling outside, a “booth”, and eating and sleeping in it for seven days. It commemorates the forty years of wandering in the wilderness for the Children of Israel, and God dwelling with them in the Tabernacle during this time. During the Israelite's forty years of wandering in the wilderness, God instructed them to build a Tabernacle and institute the sacrificial system. The shedding of blood through animal sacrifices was the means by which the sins of the people were covered. This allowed God to dwell with them, with His Shekinah Glory filling the Holy of Holies.
The Spring Feasts of Passover, Unleavened Bread, and First Fruits are prophetic, detailing the Messiah's death and resurrection. The Feast of Weeks (Shavuot) is also prophetic. It details the church age, lasting for 2000 years, beginning at Pentecost with the giving of the Holy Spirit to the Church and ending at the rapture of the Church when the Holy Spirit is removed from the world (I Cor. 15:52, I Thess. 4:16). I also believe that both of these events occur on the actual day of the Feast of Weeks.
The Fall Feasts are a prophetic type that is yet to be fulfilled. The Fall Feasts are also prophetic, detailing the Tribulation period, return of the Lord, and the Millennial reign of the Messiah from Jerusalem. We are living in the time of silence between the Feast of Weeks and the last group of Feasts to be fulfilled which is the Fall Feasts, beginning with the Day of Trumpets.
The Day, or Feast, of Trumpets is peculiar in that there is no real background or purpose given to explain the feast day. It is a day of commemoration and remembrance, but the Bible never makes it clear what is being remembered. Much of what the Jews currently do during the holiday actually came about during the Babylonian captivity and were customs "borrowed" from the Babylonians. The name of the month, "Tishrei" is even a Babylonian word meaning "beginning" referring to the start of the Jewish new year. The Jewish people are simply told to make it a Sabbath, have trumpet blasts during it, and offer up various burnt offerings to the Lord. The trumpet blasts are actually more correctly simply “blowing, shouting, alarm”, and may be done by trumpet, shofar, or voice. There were two silver trumpets constructed along with the tabernacle to be used in conjunction with tabernacle offerings and worship, movement of the camp, or assembly. The “trumpet blasts” were also used during battle as in the stories of the defeat of Jericho and Gideon’s battle plan against a larger army.
The Day of Trumpets appears to me to be prophetic, and applies directly to the Jews. As mentioned, I believe that Christians will be removed during the rapture, which may occur on the Feast of Weeks. With the start of the Fall Feasts, and particularly the Day of Trumpets, the focus now turns back to the Jews. This feast day involves a call to battle, a cry to assemble, and a call to worship and present offerings to the Lord. It symbolizes I believe an event that brings the Jewish Nation to a unified place where God can once again begin working with them. I believe that this event may be a war, possibly even the Ezekiel 38 war. We are told in the Bible that God will miraculously deliver and preserve the nation of Israel from attack by overwhelming numbers and strength. There will be no doubt that God has delivered Israel. I believe that this event will be the trumpet call to gather Israel once again for battle, assembly, and worship. This will occur just before the start of the Tribulation, which we will see in the next Fall Feast to be observed in 10 days...The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). Yom Kippur is prophetically symbolic I believe of the start of the 7 year tribulation period.
“I will display my greatness and holiness, and will reveal myself in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.” Ez. 38:23
