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5.  Aaron and his sons  were accountable for a trumpet sound for war (Alarm)
     If you "go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm  
     with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the Lord your God, and ye shall be saved 
     from your enemies." (Num.10:9)
     a.  Alarm / War / Journey
          (1)  When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the  
                 east parts shall go forward. 
          (2)  When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps  
                 that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall  
                 blow an alarm for their journeys." (Num.10:5-7)
     b.  There are times of spiritual alarms and warfare
          (1)  We are on the reality of Israel's journey (Review: Phase Two)
                 (a)  We are at war "for we wrestle..." (Eph.6:11-17)
                 (b)  Our war is a spiritual war. (2Cor.10:4)
                 (c)  Paul told Timothy "This charge I commit unto thee...
                        according to the prophecies (trumpet sound) which
                        went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a  
                        good warfare.(1Tim.1:18)
          (2)  If the trumpet give an "uncertain" sound, who shall prepare  
                 himself to the battle?"
                 (a)  Uncertain - indistinct. 
                 (b)  The accountability is upon leadership to present a clear unmistakable trumpet sound  
                        as Ezra, the priest did. (Note: Neh.8:1-2, 8 / Deut.17:18; 24:8; 31:9-13,  
                        2Chron.15:3; 34:15, Mal.2:7) Review: Priesthood

                        Note: It is no coincident that Erza was giving "the law of God distinctly' and gave the  
                        sense, and caused them to understand the reading," (Neh.8:8) in the "first day of the  
                        seventh month." (Neh.8:1-2, Lev.23:23-24)

6.  Aaron and his sons  were accountable for the sound at Jubilee
     Thou "shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space  
     of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. Then shalt thou cause the  
     trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement  
     shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land." (Lev.25:8-9)

7.  Aaron and his sons  were accountable for a trumpet sound for Feasts and Offerings
     These trumpets were to sound in their "day of...gladness...solemn days...in the beginnings of...
     months...over burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to 
     you for a memorial before your God: I am the Lord your God. (Num 10:9-11) Aaron and his sons
     were responsible for blowing the "correct" sound to open up the 7th. month. "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, (blown by Aaron and his sons - Num.10:1-10) an   
     holy (assembly) convocation. (Lev.23:24-25) 
     a.  Feast days "are a shadow of things to come." 
          Let "no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the     
          new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body 
          is of Christ." (Col 2:16-18) Trumpets were blown at these feast days.
          (1)  Holyday - Festival, feast days. 
                 (a)  The Corinthians were told "...for even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: 
                       Therefore let us keep the feast, (in it's reality) not with old leaven, neither with the 
                       leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and  
                       truth."(1 Cor 5:7-8) Christ is called the firstfruits.
                 (b)  At Pentecost they were keeping the feast in it's reality. (Acts.2:1-2)
                 (c)  The 1st. Century Church did not come to the Feast of Tabernacles. There is no         
                        scriptural record saying, "and when the Feast of Tabernacles had come."
     b.  A Shadow 
          Defined as - "shade" or a shadow (literally or figuratively / adumbration1 [to give a sketchy  
          representation or outline of. To suggest or disclose partially]2  This same word, "shadow" is  
          used when "they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches,  
          that at the least the shadow (or the sketchy outline representing the reality of) Peter passing  
          by might overshadow some of them." (Acts 5:15-16)
          (1)  This 7th month sound committed them towards "the day" of Atonement
                 This sound opened up the seventh month, and committed the "church in the wilderness"  
                 (Acts.7:38) to  experiencing "the day" (Heb.10:25) of atonement.  
          (2)  Have an ear for that sound today
                 In the New Testament reality, the Eph.4:11 ministries, are responsible for this 
                 "certain" 1Cor.14:7-8, sound to bring to the fulfillment of "the day" (Heb.10:25) of  
                 atonement.
          (3)  Don't be like Lot. (Luke.17:26-30) 
                 "For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his  
                 righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds" (2Peter.2:8-9) 
                 (a)  Don't have a deaf ear!
                        Some of Lot's family did not listen. They were entangled (2Tim.2:4, Matt.13:22)
                        to much with Sodom. (Gen.19:13-22) Noah heard. (Gen.6:8-13)
                 (b)  What are we listening for? (Luke.8:8, 18)
                        This is where the pattern (blueprint) crucial because, this tells us what there is yet to  
                        build. Unfortunately many in the Church world today are living like the "Athenians and  
                        strangers which...spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some 
                        new thing." (Acts.17:21) They are not "hearing," because they are "dull of hearing"   
                        and don't know what to listen for. (Matt.13:10-17, Heb.5:11-14)
                 (c)  Today there "many voices" (Review: The Priesthood)
                        There are, "it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is  
                        without signification." (1Cor.14:10-11) There are many in the Church that are blowing  
                        "sounds" that do not qualify (Num.10:8) as "priests," and are "polluting" the true  
                        sound of the Spirit of God. (Neh.7:63-65) 
                 (d)  If you are listening, Jesus said, "My sheep hear my voice." 
                        Jesus would not have said it it it was not possible! (John.10:3, 27, 2Chron.16:9) 
                        The Holy Spirit is speaking to the Churches. (Rev.2:7,11,17; 3:6,13,22)

          This Feast day of trumpets is a shadow [i.e. a sketchy representation, an outline" of the
          real feast of trumpets that the Church is presently experiencing.
  
  
    
The significance of the "seventh" month

Wherever "seven" us used in God's Word, it is always associated with the thought of completeness, fullness, or the end. This Feast was at the feast of ingathering, which is "in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labors out of the field." (Ex 23:16)

1.  God finished His work and rested on the 7th. day.      
     "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day
     God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work
     which he had made." (Gen.2:1-3)

2.  Blood was sprinkled seven times to completely cleanse the leper.      
     "And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall
     pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field." (Lev.16:14)

3.  The Day of Atonement the blood was sprinkled seven times. 
     "And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat
     eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times...
     For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean
     from all your sins before the Lord." (Lev 16:19, 30-31)

4.  On the seventh day and the seventh time around Jericho fell flat. 
     "And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and
     compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city
     seven times." (Josh.6:12-15)

5.  As Naaman dipped seven times in Jordan he was completely healed.
     "Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the
     man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean."
     (2Kings.5:8-15) 

6.  Jesus will return at the seventh trump 
     This is when the mystery of God is finished. (Rev.10:7; 11:15) In the "days of the voice of the  
     seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he  
     hath declared to his servants the prophets." (Rev 10:7-8; 11:15)

To summarize The Feast of Trumpets 

The blowing of Trumpets in the Feast of the seventh month  foreshadows the ministries (the apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor and teacher) opening (announcing) the reality of the final Feast of the year, bringing the last day Church to "the day" (Heb.10:25) of Atonement. (The perfected Church, the glorious Church with spot or blemish, a Church just like Jesus, a Church ready to be the Bride if Christ. (Don't make the mistake of interpreting the Feast of Trumpets to be the Pre-Tribulation Rapture)

        

    
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