The Feasts of the Lord Lesson 3

 

 

The Feasts As Prophecy

There is a way of viewing all the feasts in their entirety and in order as an overview of the God prophetic plan for the ages. In this view the following feast would correspond with a redemptive or prophetic event.

Passover – The Crucifixion (Jesus was the lamb of God crucified on Passover.)

Unleavened Bread – Jesus sinless life offered to the Father First Fruits – The Resurrection, Jesus our first fruit

Pentecost – The empowering of the church, the two loaves representing two people, Jew and Gentiles, presented before God.

Trumpets – The return of the King and resurrection of the dead. 

Tabernacles - The Millenial Kingdom, Israel dwells with the Messiah on earth.  

The Summer Interval

Between the last feast of Pentecost and the next feast, Trumpets were the long months of summer. During this time, the people would plant, water, work the fields, preparing for the harvest. The days were filled with work and preparation for the coming months when the labor was ended. Prophetically, in this interval we see a type of our own time, the Church Age.

This is our time when we as the church of Jesus Christ are to be working, planting and preparing for the coming final harvest that will be announced with the sound of a trumpet. With each passing generation this interval, the prophetic summer, of the Church Age is drawing closer and closer to and end and we must work and plan as though even tomorrow the trumpet could sound.

Kingdom Parable of the Wheat and Tares

Matthew 13:24-30 24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: 25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. 26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also. 27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares? 28  He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? 29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.

 One day we will realize that the summer of the Church Age, the Age of Grace is over and there will be those who are not saved. Work, that it may not be because we failed in our task of planting and nourishing the Gospel in the fields of the lost. We must work in this prophetic summer of grace, because the harvest of both the wheat and the tares is coming.

Jeremiah 8: 20 The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

The Feast of Trumpets

Leviticus 23:24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.

The Feast of Trumpets, a Call to Assembly

Its First Purpose

In Hebrew, Rosh Hashanah. The holy day, takes place in the fall on the first day of the seventh month of Tishri.

Now that the harvest had been taken in, the people would make their way to the tabernacle or the temple in Jerusalem, as they got closer, they would hear the trumpets calling them to assemble.

The trumpets of Exodus - Numbers 10:1-3 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps. And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

The Fulfillment of the Feast

The shadow of the Feast of Trumpets will be fulfilled by two final trumpet calls of God, signaling the end of this Church age and the Tribulation.

One trumpet will blow for the end of this age.

1 Corinthians 15:51-53 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.  O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? 

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

The Second Trumpet will blow for the return of the Jews to Israel

Matthew 24:29-31 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And 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.

Two trumpets to call all of God’s people home. Just as there were two silver trumpets made for gathering God’s people to the Tabernacle in Moses time, there awaits two heavenly trumpets, one to sound for God’s Old Testament people and one for his New Testament people.

Conclusion

Revelation 4:1 After this I looked, and behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither…

Only those who have believed and by that faith are part of God’s family will respond to that trumpet. Only those who believe that Jesus is the Messiah and is coming again. Only those who believe He is truly Lord of Lords and King of Kings. Only those who have accepted Him as their Savior. These will hear the trumpet meant for only them and will rejoice at the sound. But for those who refuse to believe and refuse to repent the Lord’s return will cause them to flee in terror, begging the mountains and rocks to fall upon them, but there will be no place to hide from the wrath and the power of God.

Revelation 6:12-17 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?