The Trumpet, The Goats, and The Booth

Here in the American culture we have celebrations that have meaning. For example, a Birthday means you’re getting older. In the Jewish culture, they have 7 feasts that God created. We will be looking at the last 3. These feasts have a deeper meaning than one thinks. The word feast in Hebrew is “mo-ed” meaning an appointed time and “miqrah” meaning a dress rehearsal. These feasts are a rehearsal of a prophetic event and are found in Leviticus 23:23-44.

The First Fall feats is the Feast of Trumpet or aka: Rosh Hashanah. The Symbol of this celebration is the shofar. So what is is this day about? It is the day to shout and blow the shofar. Rosh Hashanah takes place 10 days before the Day of Atonement. This day is used to remember and repent for the Day of Atonement. Jewish Theology even teaches that God created the world in this time. Since we were talking about a dress rehearsal earlier, this means that there is prophetic significance here. Notice that this event has to do a lot with shofars. In the Bible Paul eludes this to the rapture of the Church. He talks about it in 1 Thes. 4:16- 17. In this scripture, you have a trumpet sounding and the dead resurrecting and the living being taken up to meet the Lord in the air. So every year, this prophetic event is being rehearsed and is waiting to happen.

The second fall feast is called the Day of Atonement or aka: Yom Kippur. This is when the High priest would take two goats and kill one. With that goat’s blood, he’d enter into the Holy of Holies and sprinkle it on the Mercy Seat for Israel’s sin payment for that year. The second goat is tied with a crimson red ribbon and the High Priest prays the sins of Israel over that goat. That goat is then taken to Azazel, a hill, and is killed. The prophetic significance shown through this feast is second coming of Christ at the end of the 7 year tribulation period in Rev. 19:11-21.

The last feast of Israel is called the Festival of Booths aka: Sukkot. It’s when the people would make mini booths and place them outside and hang out in them for 7 days (Image below). God told them to build booths to remind them of where He brought them from. He also, in Exodus 25:8, told them to build a booth for Him to dwell among them. This feast prophetically shows that Jesus will one day return for the second time and set His kingdom here on Earth directly from Jerusalem. He will live among His people again. And if you were not aware, in Zechariah 14: 16-17 it says that everyone will all go up to the Temple to celebrate this festival once a year during the reign of Christ. So all this is showing us our future, at the end Church; WE WIN! JESUS WINS! And as a famous Pastor says "Pack up, look up, cause we are going up!".