The Return of The King

The Day of Trumpets is the 5th of God’s 7 Holy appointed times, also known as Yom Teruah in Hebrew. In modern times, it’s referred to by the Jewish community as Rosh Hashanah. It is observed using the lunar-solar Hebrew calendar. Here are the days that it lands on over the next 4 years:

September 15th, 2023
October 2nd, 2024
September 22nd, 2025
September 11th, 2026

What many don’t realize is that the time around the Day of Trumpets is when most theological scholars believe Christ will come for the second time, resurrect the dead, rapture the righteous, and prepare to pass judgment on the nations.

If you are a Christian, the 7th new moon of the year, marking the 7th Hebrew month Tishrei, should be one of the biggest celebrations of the year. God tells us on this day to do no work, get loud, have a feast, and celebrate with your fellow believers. However, after the first few centuries after Christ, we started replacing God’s Holy Days with our traditions that we now call “holidays”. Even Christ prophesized that we would do this as he was rebuking the pharisees of the day for their traditions.

“You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.” – Mark 7:8

Even though we see in the Bible that Christ and the disciples observed God’s Holy feast and festful days, and we see Paul observing them with new Believers, we somehow over the years decided that God’s Holy Days are just for the Jews. What most Christians do not realize and are usually never taught is that God’s seven Holy appointed times are all prophetic about the first and second coming of Jesus Christ, Yeshua the Messiah!

On Passover, He became the sacrificial lamb for our sins. During Unleavened Bread, he was buried and took the sins out of our lives. On the Feast of First Fruits, which celebrated the first fruits of the harvest, Christ rose on that exact day as referenced by Paul in 1st Corinthians 15:20, “Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.” On the same day of the Feast of Weeks aka Pentecost which celebrated the giving of the commandments to Moses by God on Mount Sinai, God sent His Holy Spirit to the Body of Believers which became His new temple.

We see that Christ fulfilled God’s first 4 appointed times in the Spring during his first coming, and he will fulfill the 3 remaining Fall appointed times during His second coming. Christ will return around the Day of Trumpets. His judgment on the Earth will come on the Day of Atonement. During the Feast of Tabernacles, we will dwell with the King of Kings.

Christ tells us that we will not know the day nor the hour of his return, but he tells us to keep watch, because we will know the season. In Hebrew, the word “seasons” in your Bible is “moadim”. It doesn’t mean seasons like Winter Springs Summer Fall. It means God’s appointed times. And as we see regarding the Messiah, everything happens during his his appointed times.

Interestingly, the Day of Trumpets is the only Holy Day where no one back then knew the day nor the hour, since it starts on a new moon. The start of the new moon had to be spotted by eye, and sometimes it would be below the horizon or under cloud cover. So because of this, traditionally the day is celebrated over a 2-day period. Today, most Jews do not see the day as religious, but call it Rosh Hashanah as their civil New Year. And since most Christians today do not observe the Day of Trumpets, not very many people are keeping a watch on the season when Yeshua himself will return.

FACTS
Here’s some facts that may make you rethink the Day of Trumpets and the rest of God’s Holy Days:

– Horns were blown by the Israelites when going to battle and in victory. Jesus is definitely returning to go to battle in which he will claim victory.

– “And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” – Matthew 24:31

– “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.” – 1 Corinthians 15:52

– “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.” – 1 Thessalonians 4:16

– Christians continued to observe and celebrate the Holy Days in the first few centuries until Passover was banned by Constantine and the Romans at the Council of Nicea in 325. The Easter holiday was created to replace Passover and was called the “Savior’s Passover” at the time. Constantine, being highly anti-Semitic, did not want the church to observe the holy days or worship in general in the manner of the Jews, so the law was instated against anyone celebrating the Passover in any way or different day other then outlined by the Council. All other feast and festivals were considered customs of the Jews, and therefore condemned by Constantine.

– Over time, God’s sacred Holy Days have been replaced with traditions of man, such as our current holidays where we teach our kids to idolize Santa Claus. We were warned about doing this when Christ rebuked the Pharisees for adding laws to the Word and creating traditions not in the Word.

In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men. You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.” – Mark 7:7-8

You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yah your God that I command you. – Deuteronomy 4:2

– The Messiah observed and celebrated God’s Holy Days and never commanded them to stop once he had ascended.

– Paul continued to observe God’s Holy Days with the new gentile believers in honor of the Messiah’s fulfillment of prophecy and in anticipation of his second coming.

1 Corinthians 5:7-8 – For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

– Before the modern era, many Christians didn’t have access to documentation by the Roman empire to see when and why things were added or taken away from the Bible, so churches over the years would select a scripture out of context to justify the actions of the modern Christian. Regarding no longer observing God’s Holy Days, one particular scripture is handpicked out of context from Paul’s letter to the Colossians.

Colossians 2:16-17 — Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.

The modern Church interprets the scriptures to say don’t let the Jews judge you for not observing God’s Holy Days or the Sabbath, because they are about Christ, and he fulfilled them, therefore they are no longer important. The problem is that the scriptures are taken out of context. Paul was warning the new Colossian believers to not be influenced by the Gnostics who made up a large portion of Colossae and were combining pagan, Hebrew, Greek philosophies, and Christian principles and practices to create a new religion. They can be identified in the chapter when Paul mentions to the Colossians to not let their mind be held captive by philosophy and those who worship angels. These were two main characteristics of the Gnostics.

In Colossians 2: 16-17, Paul is telling them to not be influenced by the Gnostics and to not let them be judged for honoring the feast and festival days. Paul is telling them that they are important because they are a foreshadow of Christ. 

–  God said in Exodus to the 12 Israelite tribes which consisted of Hebrews and a mixed multitude of gentiles that followed Moses out of Egypt and were “grafted in” to Israel, “These are my Holy Days that you will keep forever throughout all generations.”  These 7 Holy days or festivals were never meant for just one tribe, Judah aka the Jews.

Exodus 12:49 — There shall be one law for the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you.

Those foreigners out of Egypt grafted into the Israelite tribes was a foreshadow of Believers today. When we become Believers in Christ, we become the seeds of Abraham and one of His chosen people. We are grafted into the Commonwealth of Israel, no longer strangers to the covenants of promise.. (Romans 11, Matthew 3:9, Romans 9:6-8, Galatians 3:28-29, Ephesians 3:6, Ephesian 2:12-19)

Romans 9:6-8  —  For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.” This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.

Modern churches follow the theory of dispensationalism which separates Jews and Believers in the Messiah as two different sets of his Chosen people. They will interpret the above verses about being grafted into Israel by saying that believers become “Spiritual Israel.” But after reading them for yourselves, you will see that Believers in the Messiah are also his chosen people and considered to be Israel. Christians did not replace Israel as his people. We became part of Israel. Romans 11 and the supporting verses above will help you clearly understand your identity as a Believer and understand prophecy on a new level.

– The Bible tells us that after the end of this world, those who make it to the next level will live in the Millennial Kingdom on Earth with the Messiah for 1,000 years. It tells us that during this time, we will still be honoring and celebrating His Holy Days.

Something to think about… If we will be celebrating God’s Holy feast and festivals with Christ during the Millennial Kingdom, why would we stop at the resurrection of Christ?

If you wonder why you have not learned this information before, imagine how much more there is to discover.

When you stop and realize that if the Bible is truly valid, there absolutely has to be only one truth to all doctrines. Christianity has split into a large amount of denominations that all teach different interpretations and doctrine.  If you grew up in a particular denomination, you will usually pridefully feel you are in the denomination that has everything right. But common sense tells us that  every denomination can’t be right.

In reality, each denomination does some things right, but none of them have everything right. This is because theories and interpretations passed down over time become reality eventually in the eyes of the congregation.

How to we discover the real Truth? The key is reading and studying the Bible for yourself with a passion and eyes like a child, and fellowship with others studying the Bible intensely. Ask God for discernment and the Holy Spirit will guide you to the Truth. Let the Bible interpret the Bible.

The Messiah said in John 14:26 ESV — But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

1 John 2:27 ESV — But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.

While there are good teachers out there, there are many that are teaching wrong doctrine. It’s not intentional; it is just how they were taught and how their teacher was taught, and so on. Reading the Bible for yourself with open eyes and in the Spirit will open up the most exciting Truth. The entire Bible is alive today, and He is revealing more and more in these end times.

And don’t believe anything anyone says or the things I have written here until you test everything with the Word.

1 Thessalonians 5:21 ESV — but test everything; hold fast what is good.

May God bless you during this great appointed time, the Day of Trumpets. Bring out the fireworks if you got ’em. It’s a great celebration of watching the season for the return of the Messiah! HalleluYah! (Let’s praise Yah)

Christopher Cain