Feast of Trumpets; Day of Atonement (Num. 29:1-11)

2/19/2009 8:13 AM

 

SPIRITUAL DIARY

 

My Worship Time           Focus:  The Feast of Trumpets; The Day of Atonement

 

Bible Reading & Meditation                        Reference: Numbers 29:1-6; 7-11

 

            Message of the verses:  “1 ¶  ‘Now in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall also have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work. It will be to you a day for blowing trumpets.  2  ‘You shall offer a burnt offering as a soothing aroma to the LORD: one bull, one ram, and seven male lambs one year old without defect; 3  also their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the ram, 4  and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs.  5  ‘Offer one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you, 6  besides the burnt offering of the new moon and its grain offering, and the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the LORD.”  “7  ‘Then on the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall humble yourselves; you shall not do any work.  8  ‘You shall present a burnt offering to the LORD as a soothing aroma: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs one year old, having them without defect; 9  and their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the one ram, 10  a tenth for each of the seven lambs; 11  one male goat for a sin offering, besides the sin offering of atonement and the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offerings.”

            These verses cover two sections in Warren Wiersbe’s book, “Be Counted” and they are about two more feasts that Israel was to keep during their year.  The first day of the seventh religious month is the first day of the civil calendar.  I think that I am correct in calling this Rosh Hashanah.  The feast of trumpets was meant that Israel should not do any work and there were specific offerings to be offered.  There were different times when the trumpet was to sound in Israel, but this time it was for a gathering of Israel to come to the feast.  There was a great deal of time between this feast and the last feast, which was Pentecost and now all of the harvest would have been in.  Some believe that the rapture of the Church could come on this feast day as the trumpet will sound when that happens and the rapture is the end of the Church age as all believers, dead and alive will have their bodies changed to new glorious bodies and will all meet the Lord in the air and then be transported to heaven.

            The Day of Atonement follows close behind the feast of trumpets and this was the day when the high priest would go into the holy of holies and would take with him burning incense and also sacrificial blood.  It has been said that there would be a rope tied around his ankle in case he would die their and since no one was allowed to go into the holy of holies they would have to pull him out.  This offering is a picture of Jesus Christ dying on the cross for my sins as He offered up His own body for payment of my sins that day on the cross.

 

            Spiritual meaning for my life today:  In a way these two feast signify the Lord’s Table or Communion, for in the communion service I am to confess any sins that have not been confessed and I am to look back at the sacrifice of Jesus on my behalf on the cross and am also to look forward to the coming of the Lord for me in the rapture of the Church. 

 

My Steps of Faith for Today:

 

1. Offer myself as a living sacrifice to the Lord today.
2. Have my mind renewed.
3. Put on the spiritual armor.
4. Learn more about the Lord.
5. Learn contentment.

 

2/19/2009 8:37 AM