The Feast of Trumpets 2021

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So with that, we'll go into today's message. Because the title is Shock Shock! The Face of Trump is 2021! Where were you 20 years ago? Where were you 20 years ago? Were you waiting for a trumpet to be sound? Did you think it would come within 20 years? Well, Stacy, you're here. That's what you were telling me. Huh, sorry, Stacy. Couldn't tell with your mask.

It's great to have you here, and you are in our prayers every single day, many times. So it's great to have you here as we will keep working with you and God in prayer. So 20 years ago today, which today is what, September the 7th? 6th? 7th. You still think you're in school. September the 7th. We never knew what was going to happen September the 11th, did we, 20 years ago? None of us thought about that. We do now.

What's going to happen in four more days? Is it something we will remember, or will it just go on by? I hope it just goes on by. But I want to remember this feast. Why do we keep this feast? Well, God tells us too. There's a monic reference there.

But for a different reason than people might say, well, you're Jewish. So I looked it up and went to a couple Jewish websites to see why they keep this day. So they're waiting for the return of the... they're waiting for the Messiah. We're waiting for the return of the Messiah. We do have that in common. But the blowing on the trumpet is observed for three purposes. One is a call to repentance. We all need that. But the other is a reminder of Israel's covenant relationship with God, as they are keeping this what they call Rosh Hashanah. And the third is a sound to confuse Satan on the day he accuses Israel.

Okay. No comment there. Understand that. But what was always difficult for me to understand is why the Jewish people of today who observe Rosh Hashanah keep it for two days. And I wondered why? Because they keep it two days because they're not sure of when the new moon, being the new moon, it's dark.

And so for centuries they have kept two days to make sure that they are keeping the right day. Because this seventh month is very important, and they think it is, they consider it the starting of the time. They believe it is the starting of the year. And they actually believe that God started creation on the first day of the seventh month. I won't know until he gets back here. I'm going to ask him whether that's true, but that's what they keep.

But they have kept two days. Why don't we keep two days? Because we want to make sure we're keeping the right day. But God doesn't say keep two days, does he? I don't keep Saturday and Sunday as a holy day just so I make sure I get it right. You don't either. For centuries they have kept their tradition because hundreds of years ago they could not tell the priests, the rabbis, could not tell when the new moon, because it might be too dark so it might be in between this and sunset, and when the new moon came out, they said keep two.

But my question would be, why would they keep it now when all you have to do is go to a website, all you have to do is go to NASA, Google NASA, and they'll take you right to a site showing the moon as it is at this very second. It is at midnight, it'll show you every time the whole moon is shining when it comes out, when the new moon, they can get it to the very second. I have done that before. So why they continue to do this? Today's tradition. Is that perhaps why Jesus Christ said, in vain do they worship Me, teaching His doctrine, the commandments of men?

We don't need to. We know this is the Feast of Trumpets, or as they want to say, Rosh Hashanah. No doubt about it. There's no doubt. The blowing of the shofar. Blowing of the shofar. It's one of the trumpets they would blow.

There's also a metal trumpet that they would blow. And both meant the same thing, but they had different ways of blowing it. One short blow, one long blow, two blows, three blows, different things. We'll look at a little bit of that today. But it all meant the same thing, basically, when you would hear it. It meant, wake up! Attention! For you see, for thousands of years, they didn't have one of these.

They didn't have watch. They didn't have cell phones. They could look on and find the exact time. So they used trumpets. It was a call to assemble. There are various things I won't go into today in detail, as Janae reminded me of all the various sounds that came there. But it was a call to assemble, as you would see. Many times they blew this trumpet. When they actually had this trumpet, when they didn't, they'd have to have this one.

Maurice, can you bring me that up here? A shofar. He's our resident leader, and shofar man. We don't have to do this. We do. I know if you can... That is a shofar. It's not as big as this one. Where did we go? Somebody went with me.

Oh, I guess it was Jeff went with me and we went in the store and they had them all like this for $400, $300. For once a time a year, we don't have that kind of budget. So we got our resident Deacon here. You want to try to blow it? Sure. Thank you, sir. Man of many talents. He fit right in 3,000 years ago. But the shofar was more used later when they had the metal trumpets because of the sound, the different sounds, according to historians, not according to Chuck Smith, according to historians, that the shofar was used more for war.

It was a sound of war. When you heard the shofar, and now the other ones, it was time to pay attention. It was time to wake up. But there was another blowing of a trumpet that took place. It even does today. It has for hundreds and hundreds of years, if not thousands of years, there was a blowing of the trumpet for the introduction as the introduction to royalty.

Maybe you've seen it on movies where they used to blow the trumpets to sound as someone of royalty was coming before the king. Perhaps it was at the time of Solomon that the queen of Sheba just didn't come in and, I'm here. I don't think she did. She brought six million dollars worth of gifts to him in today's money. So I think that would be rather important with her entourage. And so it is a way to introduce royalty as it will be when the seventh trumpet sounds.

Yes, there's going to be seven trumpets, which we'll talk about today. And the seventh trumpet, as we heard, is a big one because it's time we meet Christ in the air. He's coming at the seventh trumpet.

Now, in this country, we don't sound trumpets when the president's there, but they play this music, Hail to the Chief! We're all hailing to the Chief! I don't know what out goes, but that's what they play when the president comes on. It's usually the music. I don't know if there's words. I just made that up because the title is Hail to the Chief. But there's going to be a trumpet sound. There was a trumpet sound at the introduction of even the essence of God.

3,000 years ago. Let's go back. If you'll join me in 2 Chronicles 5. 2 Chronicles 5, verse 7. As Solomon is now, he's built the temple. He's dedicating it now to God. They're bringing in the Ark of the Covenant. And so here we get a glimpse of what happened at that incredible day. Psalm said it took place on the Feast of Trumpets, others more. And I believe what this other expert said closer to the Feast of Tabernacles because of the time when you can read the scriptures and come up with your own. It's not nailed down. But it's this time of the year. This happened. So let's go. From the New King James Version. Then the priest brought in the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord to its place into the inner sanctuary of the temple to the most holy of holies under the wings of the caribim. The caribim were this huge gold depiction of these angels in the mercy seat of what it looks like to God. And these huge wings come all the way out here and there's a space in between those wings. And that's holy of holies. That's in the holy of holies. That's where God is sitting on His throne now between those. And this is a forerunner, a picture, a foretaste of what is like up there. And we'll go through that in Hebrews at another time as a writing there. But for the caribim spread their wings over the place of the Ark and the caribim overshadowed the Ark and its poles. They carried this thing on poles. You weren't carried any other way. The poles extended so that the ends of the poles of the Ark could be seen from the holy place in front of the inter-sanctuary. But they could not be seen from outside. And they are there to this day. Whoever's writing this, it's debatable. But here it was hundreds of years later and it was still there when whoever was writing this, when he was describing what happened there. Because we know it lasted for about 500 years before something happened to the Ark. They don't know. We don't know to this day. But we will find out. Nothing was in the Ark except the two tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, which made me go, what?

So what happened? Is something missing? Mm-hmm. There's a pot of manna. Where is it? How about Aaron's rod? Lost? Don't know. That's just what me made go. What? Because they're not there at that time, according to this. Except the two tablets of stone were put there at Horeb, or Mount Sinai.

When the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel when they had come out of Egypt. And it came to pass when the priest came out of the most holy place for all the priests who were present there had sanctified themselves without keeping to their divisions. Which the divisions basically meant they had a certain time. They were everybody had to show up at a certain time. You would have served at the temple at the certain time. So they divided the Levites and they divided the priests.

Everybody had to serve their time. But during this time, they were all there. This is a big deal.

As most of them would come together for the holy days anyway and serve. There were so many lambs and so many fools to sacrifice. But they wanted to make sure they weren't just here, those small group of Levites. But this was a major deal. In verse 12, the Levites, who were the singers of the temple, who were singers, all those of Esau, who was a major composer and basically the music leader at the time. He did it for David and he did it for Solomon. And he, man, and yet you've done, with their sons and their brethren stood at the east end of the altar, clothed in white linen, having cymbals, strained instruments, and harps, and with them 120 priests sounding the trumpets. And you'll imagine that. 120! And how did they do it? Indeed, it came to pass when the trumpets and the singers were as one to make one sound. They're all on the same key pitch. Everything's it sounds like it's just one big sound, making one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord. And when they lifted up their voices with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, they praised the Lord saying, for he is good, for his mercy endures forever.

Don't we have a song like that? His mercy never fails. Right? We sing that because it came out of there. That's what they're singing. For God is good, his mercy never fails. Where did they get it?

I think Asa, or even Solomon himself, said, let's put this one in. Because David wrote it. Solomon's father wrote this song. The last ones, it's thought, maybe one of the last ones he ever wrote.

As he, well, he wrote it actually at the time when they brought the Ark of the Covenant into just the tent, when they brought it home. You remember when he was dancing and everything else, and they were so excited, and he wrote this song.

The presence of God. So, let's go down.

That the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud. So, they're playing this music. You have hundreds and hundreds of Levites singing and playing this music as they're dedicating this temple. And it says, the house of the Lord was filled with a cloud, so that the priest could not continue ministering because of the cloud for the, what, glory of the Lord, filled the house of God. It was his presence just like it was when they were in the wilderness. And you had the cloud by day and the fire by night. God was showing, I'm going to be present here. Just even the essence of him made the entire thing holy. Can you imagine that day? Oh, how I would love to see that. I've seen a lot of TV shows, tried to see something on this, and everything pales into just reading this story. What an incredible day that must have been.

But just because the essence is there, you had trumpet sounding, 120.

It's quite an event, held only once.

Didn't happen when Nehemiah and Ezra got the temple, started working on it, didn't happen then.

No, this is an event.

But there's another event, another event, which you buy today that will be held only once.

Only one time will this event take place.

And it involves a temple and a trumpet.

It involves a temple and a trumpet. Let's go. Let's go examine this other event, like this one, that I can't be back there. I wish I could have been there. I wish somebody would have put somebody, I wish I could have seen that. But I can't. I can't go back.

But I can go forward. And so can you. So can you.

1 Corinthians 3. 1 Corinthians 3 and verse 16. Paul is telling the church at Corinth.

He says, Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy. Which temple you what are?

Why? The Holy Spirit. Just like it showed up in that temple and made that temple holy.

3000 years ago, we are holy. And only holy. Because the Spirit is in us.

Go to 1 Corinthians 16. 1 Corinthians 6. 1 Corinthians 6. Verse 19. Here he says it again. Why does he say it again? By the mouth of two or three witnesses.

By two or three scriptures is a matter established in the Bible.

He says, Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, whom a witch is in you?

Whom you have from God, and you are not your own. For you are bought at a price.

Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

There we are. We are the temple of God.

And we, as the temple of God, have a trumpet to listen for. The seventh trumpet.

As the temple of God. As the people of God. As the sons and daughters of God.

Waiting for the revealing of our Lord and Savior.

It was mentioned earlier. Let's go to 1 Thessalonians 4. 1 Thessalonians 4. Paul is telling the people of Thessalonians in Thessalonica.

Verse 13, But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. We know! We have hope! We know what's going to happen.

Nobody's going to be sitting there with a pitchfork, ready to run us down, run us around hot coals.

We're not in limbo, as other churches teach.

We know! And He's saying, you know what's going to happen.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus. For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep.

They're going to rise first. The dead in Christ will rise first.

Is it their reward? I think so. I think they'll be changed. They'll be spirit. They'll be coming up.

They can actually look down on those of us who will be changed. The quickening.

What a blessing for those families to be able to see.

As they're now spirit beings meeting Christ in the air, waiting for us.

I hope my father, I hope Mary's father, who both died the last five years, are there and they can see. I say, I want to be there. I know many of you do. I know Mary does. Her father would love to see her changed from the physical to a spirit being.

To actually part of the God family. Verse 16, For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. We're going to hear that seventh trumpet, that last trumpet. That's when Christ returns. Look on your sheets that you have, and we'll go through it here in just a few minutes. And the dead in Christ will rise first, then we who are alive and remain let's not leave that out, remain close to God. Not only remain alive, remain close to God.

Will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore, comfort one another with these words. That's comforting words! Let's go back to 1 Corinthians, if you will. Touch on these.

1 Corinthians 15, that was referenced earlier. So important. 1 Corinthians 15, verse 50. Now, this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption. I can't be in the kingdom of God, my state, as flesh and blood.

I can't inherit the kingdom. Not just be there, there will be humans that are there, but I can't, you can't, for us to inherit everything, everything. All that's promised in Revelation. We're not flesh and blood. Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. I'd like some change. I'm looking forward to some change.

I don't know if I have to live with gray hair the rest of my life. I kind of liked it back when I had brown hair. I liked it when I didn't get up and have a back issue. I'd like to see a time when I look forward to getting this eye fixed that I lost 25% of my vision with. It's frustrating me today, even when I had shingles a few years ago before my cancer. I lost it. I can't get it back.

It's frustrating.

There's a lot of things I'd like changed. I'd like to not have to be worried about being tempted anymore. I'd like to have that character that only God can give me. Perfect, holy, righteous character that I've been working on and working on and failing too many times. I look forward to that change. How about you? I could change where the very essence of me is about one thing, love, love for God, love for His people and everything about Him. What are you looking forward to the change for? Eat anything I want and I have to worry about gaining weight. Wouldn't that be great? Yeah, you talk to God every day. Talk to Moses. Talk to whoever you want. It's just like, okay.

This change is a big change. In a moment, in a twinkling light, at the last trumpet. See, this trumpet is sounding because Christ is in the air. That's where we're going to meet Him. And the dead will rise for this 53, must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptor was put on incorruption, its mortal is put on immortality, then we shall be brought to pass the saying that death is swallowed up in victory. There eventually comes a time there's no death. You'll hear that on the last day of the eighth day of the Feast of Tabernacles as somebody goes into that a little more. When God finally comes down after the thousand years and there will be no more death and more sorrow. Let's go to 1 Corinthians 15 verse 22. As you said earlier, for as in Adam all die, even so in Christ we shall all be made alive. Isn't that empowering?

If I'm in Christ, I will be back.

But everybody's going to get the new and improved model, not this frail human model.

I may even be able to tell them, why don't you make me look like Brad Pitt this time? I don't know. Probably not.

But I don't have to look like this. I don't have to act like this and I don't have to be sore ever again. I can fly from one end of this country to the other and never have to go through TSA. There's so much. Man, that's going to be so good.

23. But each in his own order, Christ the first fruit, which he is the first of the first fruits.

He was first. Afterward, those who are Christ at his coming. Will that be us? 24. Only you determine that. Only you. Only me.

I hold the keys to that door. You do, too.

25. Then comes the end when he delivers the kingdom of God to the Father, to God the Father, when he puts an end to all rule and all authority and power, the end of the millennium. In relation 21-22. Beautiful, beautiful verses. Looking forward to that time.

26. He must reign till he has put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that will be destroyed is death. He mentions that quite a bit. He wants death to be done. God was never about death. He said, one another scripture said, he doesn't delight. He doesn't delight in the death of the wicked. But it's all to a purpose. All to this incredible purpose. 27. So I can see from my time today that this is going to be a part two.

This Sabbath, I'm going to have to finish it there. It's something I was wanting to go to there, too, but we'll be able to do part of that, too. But I think what is important is we meet, as we've read here, 1 Corinthians 15, 1 Thessalonians 4.

I think it's crystal clear we meet Christ in the air, whether we're dead and we get up there, or whether we're changed, the quickening and we change, and then we meet Him in the air.

But what now? Okay, what happens after that? What happens after that?

2. Rapture Rapture? I mean, many people talk about rapture, right? We're going to be raptured otherwise, right? Waiting for the rapture sitting in my car, traffic two-hour wait. Why don't you go and rapture me, God? Rapture me, Lord. Well, you know, the rapture word has been around a very long time.

But it's only been in the last couple hundred years that it got hijacked.

Well, why all of you are here, you can look at your drawing. Don't miss that.

Look at this chart.

So, where am I now in my message?

You go to Revelation 11, you find that the two witnesses are killed, lay three and a half days out on the street, and then they're raised. They're raised back to life, and then they hear a voice that says, come up here.

Then there's an earthquake, and it says, then, then the seventh trump is sounded.

So, they're just a little bit before us.

Where are we right now on this chart? Anybody?

I was saying beforehand, we're in the false prophet era and the place.

Well, the four horsemen have been riding. We've had false prophets all this time.

Since Christ's two thousand years, we've had wars. We've had famines.

We've had pestilence, and those will only increase as we get closer to time.

We've had some bit of tribulation, as people call themselves Christians, have been killed.

But that is part of what is called the great tribulation when we began to, when the church of God gets such persecution, and it's coming.

So, we're kind of around the fifth seal, just before the fifth seal right now.

You're going to see it intensify.

Then you'll see heavenly signs.

And then the seventh seal actually is open, and that's when the day of the Lord begins. It's when He opens up. That's when He pours out with these trumpet. Each trumpet will sound, and as you see, a third of vegetation is burned up.

Why is He doing only a third of the sea pollute? Why? Why only a third?

He's not pouring this out just so He can beat on you. I'm sure you don't just pull one of these kids out and say, I just want to beat them today. Just because I have it's fun. Right? He's trying to get the world to repent. He's pouring this out, saying turn back to me.

Repent! And He's just doing it, and it's not happening.

And so you see it comes down to finally war in the sixth trump and then the seventh trump of the south. God's had enough. God's had enough. And that's when we are changed. That I want to get. But yeah, everybody who is Christ at this time, the first fruits will all be changed at that one time. The dead and those who are alive. So will there still be people alive on earth? Yes, but they're not His yet. He's still asking, still pleading for people to repent and turn to Him. And yet we see we see that it doesn't happen. And so when it doesn't happen, what has to happen according to this chart? Then He's going to pour out the last plagues. And it's not going to be just a third.

Because He's done that to get repentance. And they won't repent. They won't change. They won't turn.

And so then the first plague is poured out.

And mankind has sores.

Then all the sea shall die.

All the fresh water ruined. Extreme heat. Darkness.

How long do you think that's going to take? Yes. Can it happen in one day? Is it likely to happen in one day?

Some people think that all these are poured out. But the impact is more if it's time. Because He's still wanting people to repent.

So when you get sores on you, guess what? You wake up at eight in the morning and you've got sores. And then all the sea die at nine. And then, I mean, it's very hard for all that to happen. But the impact on the entire world? It will show.

We're at a time, so I will pick this sermon up. Hopefully you will still have these.

But I'd like you to reach... I'd like those who are here, because I can do this another time, as I'll finish up here at this point. And we'll pick it up next time.

We'll pick it up next Sabbath. But that incredible sound of the trumpet...

And I'm amazed if people say rapture. Because, as I said before, rapture is a word that's been hijacked over time, because it was always known. I'd like to give you now the definition of rapture. If you go online, or you go anywhere else. Okay? But this is what the word means. Not what has been hijacked. We go up and we get to spend all this time with him, and we're just floating around, and then all this. Yes. The definition of rapture, according to religious teachings, is transport from earth to heaven at the second coming of Christ. Do you agree with that?

Transport from earth to heaven at the second coming of Christ. That's what we just read. We will meet Christ in the air, right? We'll come from here.

We do. We meet him in the air. How many levels of heaven is there? Three. When we meet him in the air, are we meeting him in heaven? Yes. Heaven that we see here? Not the third heaven, not what we're throwing at. But this, if I just go by this, it is correct. Where it says, according to religious teachings, transport from earth to heaven at the second coming of Christ. That's what I hope happens.

Webster's dictionary. A mystical, or mystery, experience in which the Spirit is exalted to a knowledge of divine things. Is that wrong? But I'd like the people here to, if you go to Britannica, Rapture says the belief that both living and dead believers will ascend into heaven to meet Jesus Christ at his second coming. Is that correct? Yes. Yes, it's correct. According to the Bible, it's correct. But the thing is, like I said, it's been hijacked to where Rapture, you know, you're sitting there in a car and, sorry, that's not going to be. And you never know when this Rapture is going to happen. So, people have believed for thousands of years that Christ is coming back.

He is coming back. And it tells them what's going to happen at that time. So, I will pick this up on Sabbath, where we meet Christ in the air, because I'd like to go through this. I'd like to go through Revelation. I want to do that. Revelation 19, because we need to know what's going to happen after. Do we just meet him in the air? We just hang out playing volleyball or something? No. What does a scripture say afterwards? The scriptures tell us, as Christ told so many times about what? The marriage supper, right? When does a marriage supper take place?

Who's there at the marriage supper? I hope I am. What about you?

So, when does a marriage supper take place?

Is it after we meet him in the air?

Next Sabbath. We'll discuss that. But between now and then, let's finish celebrating the Feast of Trumpets.