Last week, we celebrated the Feast of Trumpets, also
known as Yom Teruah. It was an awesome celebration.
The Bible doesn’t say a lot about the Feast of
Trumpets.
Lev 23:23-25
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 24 "Speak to
the children of Israel, saying: 'In the seventh month, on the first day of the
month, you shall have a sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy
convocation. 25 You shall do no customary work on it; and you shall offer an
offering made by fire to the LORD.'"
From this we know it’s a day of rest or a Sabbath. We also see that we are supposed to blow
trumpets and meet together with other believers (holy convocation).
Num 29:1-6
'And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month,
you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work. For you it
is a day of blowing the trumpets. 2 You shall offer a burnt offering as a sweet
aroma to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, and seven lambs in their first
year, without blemish. 3 Their grain offering shall be 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 also one kid of the goats as a sin offering, to
make atonement for you; 6 besides the burnt offering with its grain offering
for the New Moon, the regular burnt offering with its grain offering, and their
drink offerings, according to their ordinance, as a sweet aroma, an offering
made by fire to the LORD.
Here, we see a little more detail on the offerings to be
made on that day. Really, God doesn’t give
us a whole lot more detail. Each of the
holy days have prophetic meaning. Some
of those have already been fulfilled. Many
people have ideas of what the day represents. But, the fall holy days have not
yet been fulfilled, so we get to look forward to the day that God reveals their
meaning.
We are so blessed to meet with God on these appointed
times that He has set aside for us. So,
taking the information that we have, we joyfully celebrated Yom Teruah.
We enjoyed a festive meal with about 50 people. After the meal, we made a teruah. Lev 23:24 says it is a “memorial blowing of
trumpets”. The word translated as “blowing of trumpets” is teruah. The
definition of teruah is clamor, i.e. acclamation of joy or a battle-cry;
especially clangor of trumpets, as an alarm. So, in our backyard we did just
that. We made a lot of noise – with shofars,
voices, noise makers, etc. And we made a
noise for quite some time. It was
awesome J
We have no temple in which to offer sacrifices. But, we can bring a sacrifice of praise (Heb
13:15) So, that was what we did for the rest of the evening. We sang praises and danced and rejoiced in
Him.
It was such a blessed evening. And,
I am so thankful to have wonderful people to celebrate with.
