What distinguishes Gods fourth festival, the Feast of Trumpets?
“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” (Leviticus 23:24). The Feast of Trumpets is observed on the first day of the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar—falling in the autumn in the northern hemisphere, in September or October. This festival, today known as Rosh Hashanah by Jews, also begins the Jewish civil year. In ancient times Israel celebrated it with an emphasis on the blowing of trumpets, the primary method of announcing a gathering of the people or warning them of impending danger or war. Significantly, the bulk of the prophecies of the book of Revelation are represented by the blowing of seven trumpets that symbolize the main progression of events in the catastrophic time known as the Day of the Lord in many prophecies relating to the last days. The sounding of trumpets in Revelation warns of impending disasters just as did the blowing
