Day of Trumpets coming up

[houston]

Originally Posted by Monterrey

LOL! You haven't heard that one?

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by Esaias

The day of Trumpets is expected this year to be on Oct 3 (actual date depends on the visible new moon).

The day or Trumpets is the day that heralds the seventh month of God's calendar, announcing the arrival of the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles.

It is known that Christ was not born on December 25. If you did not know that, guess what? There's no tooth fairy, either.

It is believed by most scholars and serious students of the Bible that Christ was born sometime in the seventh month. And how fitting: Trumpets, announcing the arrival of the King, and Tabernacles prophesying of the time when God would 'tabernacle' among His people, as the Word became flesh and 'tabernacled' among us.

So basically, if you want to celebrate Christ's birth, this next month is the Biblical time to do it.

Do you guys actually have a formal observance? If so, what do you guys do? Do you just gather and discuss the meaning of the feast day or do you actually have some traditions?

I was looking at the feasts earlier this week wherein there was an emphasis on prophesy and how the Feast of Trumpets are believed by some to be a shadow of the Rapture or the Tribulation period itself.

I've never really been very interested in the feasts in the past, but recently I've felt drawn to study them.

Here are two charts that I've found that look like they might be valuable to the study of the feasts.

[Aquila]

I don't think Christians have to observe the Jewish Feast Days. However, I do believe that whenever we discuss the various doctrines relating to salvation, we are walking in the spiritual realities each Feast Day was designed to teach the Jewish people. For example, when we teach on being ready to meet the Lord or on the Rapture of the church we are walking in the light of Rosh Hashanah's (Feast of Trumpets) spiritual reality. Maybe we could take some time on October 3rd to discuss searching the heart in preparation for the Lord's Coming.

Just as the pattern and design of the Tabernacle outlined various spiritual realities as it relates to salvation, in like fashion the Feast Days teach us doctrinal realities relating to: The Death of Jesus & Justification (Passover), Burial of Jesus & Sanctification (Unleavened Bread), the Resurrection of Jesus & Glorification (First Fruits), Gathering & The Rapture (Trumpets), The Second Coming & Israel's Salvation (Atonement), and the Coming Kingdom & the Millennium (Tabernacles).

Christian doctrine is patterned in the Jewish types and shadows throughout the Old Testament. Perhaps we don't observe these rituals, days, or customs.... but we do walk in the spiritual realities they that were designed to teach God's people.... every day.