Trumpets: The Calling of God's People PT-1 (Lev. 23:23-25)

10/29/2008 8:51 AM

SPIRITUAL DIARY

My Worship Time                    Focus:  Trumpets:  The calling of God’s people

Bible Reading & Meditation                        Reference:  Leviticus 23:23-25

            Message of the verses:  “23 ¶  Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

24  "Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month on the first of the month you shall have a rest, a reminder by blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.

25  ‘You shall not do any laborious work, but you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD.’”

            I think that I wrote in a previous SD that there were two calendars that the nation of Israel used, one was the religious calendar, which is what is being looked at now, and one is the civil calendar.  During this feast, the feast of Trumpets, the two come together for the feast of Trumpets comes in the seventh month of the religious calendar, but it also marks the beginning of the “New Year” of the civil calendar that is known as “Rosh Hashanah, the head of the year,” and all of this happens in September or October or the calendar used by most of the world. 

            Seven is an important number for Israel, as the “word comes from a root word that means ‘to be full, to be satisfied.’  It is also related to the word meaning ‘to swear, to make an oath.’”  In the book of Daniel chapter nine, and verses 20-27 there is what many people call the greatest prophecy in all of the Scriptures and it has the word seven and seventy in it as a main point to understanding the prophecy. 

            The blowing of the trumpets was a reminder of gathering the people of Israel together, and this can be seen in Numbers 10:1-10. 

To be continued tomorrow.