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Lesson 16 Hope of Israel Ministries BIBLE Correspondence Course 7

feast is indicated by the fact that the Judeans Return and Enthronement!
ANTICIPATED ITS ARRIVAL on the first day
of each month (NEW MOON) through SHORT 1. Read, once again, Revelation 11:15.
BLASTS of the shofar (Numbers 10:10; Psalm What does it say about the “kingdoms of this
81:3). These short blasts were an anticipation of world”?
the LONG ALARM BLASTS to be sounded on COMMENT: The SEVENTH trumpet
the new moon of the SEVENTH MONTH (shofar) is depicted quite differently from the
(Tishri). preceding six. While the blowing of the first six

Outline of YEHOVAH’s Trumpet Warnings

1) NISAN 1 -- first trumpet -- warning to repent and prepare for the Judgment Day

2) IYAR 1 -- second trumpet -- warning to repent and prepare for the Judgment Day

3) SIVAN 1 -- third trumpet -- warning to repent and prepare for the Judgment Day

4) TAMMUZ 1 -- fourth trumpet -- warning to repent and prepare for the Judgment Day

5) AB 1 -- fifth trumpet -- warning to repent and prepare for the Judgment Day

6) ELUL 1 -- sixth trumpet -- warning to repent and prepare for the Judgment Day --
30 days to examine ourselves and come to deeper repentance

7) FEAST OF TRUMPETS (Tishri 1) -- Day of Blowing -- pictures FINAL WARNING of
YEHOVAH God symbolized by the seventh trumpet of Revelation -- call to repentance
-- RETURN OF THE MESSIAH

8) DAYS OF AWE or REPENTANCE -- final warnings to prepare for the Day of
Judgment

For the Judeans the FINAL trumpets unleash WARNING judgments on the
JUDGMENT that determines the destiny of earth, the blowing of the seventh trumpet
every human being OPENED on the Feast of ANNOUNCES THE MESSIAH’S RETURN
Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah) with the blowing of AND ENTHRONEMENT and his soon-coming
trumpets and closed TEN DAYS LATER on the judgment upon the inhabitants of the earth!
Day of Atonement. For this reason, these ten 2. In the Old Testament, does the
days are still called by the “Jews,” “DAYS OF blowing of a trumpet announce the enthrone-
AWE” or “DAYS OF REPENTANCE.” It is ment of a new king? I Kings 1:34 and 39.
important for us to note that the Feast of COMMENT: This was the exact day on
Trumpets was viewed as the BEGINNING of a which many of the ancient kings and rulers of
judgment process that lasted TEN DAYS until Judah reckoned as their INAUGURATION
the Day of Atonement. DAY OF RULE. This procedure was followed
consistently in the time of Solomon, Jeremiah
and Ezra. The Day of Trumpets was

The Feast of Trumpets -- Return and Enthronement of YEHOVAH God and His Messiah!