Trumpets.

[rdclmn7]

Nu 10 will establish the use of two ceremonial trumpets made from hammered metal.
The specified uses are;
1. assembling the multitude.
2. calling forth the leaders.
3. establishing the camp.
4. breaking camp.
5. sounding the alarm.
6. announcing ritual observations.

The use of ram's horns;
1. Josuah would make use of seven when marching on Jericho.
2. Ehud would use one to summon troops from the mt of Ephraim.
3. Joab would call back his troops and retire from a battlefield.

When you look at how to interpret prophecy, you have a choice on whether to follow the law and its specified use, or use non-ritual examples.
The doctrinal impact is the following;
The law is biblical, the bible states that not even a period or comma will ever pass from the law. Everthing in it must pass.
The documented use of ram's horns is documented but not doctrinal.
The use of seven rams horns by Joshua is a precedent, but results in the chronological problems present in Revelations.
If you can stay within the law and at the same time obtain workable chronologies, its worth looking at.

The positive side to ritual interpretion is the following;
1. The church identifies with being assembled.
2. The leadership created within the church also responds to the call.
3. The multitude is organized for both movement and camping for the night.
4. The call for movement is a possiblity at every sunrise.
5. The role of prophecy within the church allows for messages in the context of warning and deliverence.
6. The church responds to the calls that direct the church both throughout the year and through the prophetic calender which is obtained by superimposing the ritual year on the long term design established by God.

 

[Bick]

Hi rdclmn7: I'm not sure what you're getting at. Are you saying the church/body of Christ should be attuned to the ceremonial trumpets used in Israel's religious festivals? And be guided by them?

 

[rdclmn7]

Each number referred to as being in the law is responded to as it applies to the new testament.
As to how the church responds to the Hebrew ritual year, the topics and events that each celebration refers to is a matter of preaching on these subjects as part of a churchs activity.

There is no intention to impose any mindset on the religious year, only to state that the use of metallic trumpets is specified and is a matter of choice when it comes to choosing which interpretation to use in determining how to interpret the last trumpet.

 

[Vic C.]

I'd like to add this from Eddie Chumney's book The Seven Festivals of the Messiah, as it was put down here:

http://members.aol.com/zimlechem/trump.html (you all should read this link, it's got some very useful info)

TWO KINDS OF TRUMPETS IN THE BIBLE

The shofar was blown at the temple during the days of the temple to begin the sabbath each week. There are two types of trumpets used in the Bible:

1) The silver trumpet

2) The shofar (ram's horn)

According to (Lev 23:24 and Numbers 29:1), Rosh HaShanah is the day of the blowing of the trumpets. According to the Mishnah (Oral Teachings of Judaism) in (Rosh HaShanah 16a, 3:3), the trumpet used for this purpose is the ram's horn not the silver trumpets mentioned in Numbers 10.

THE USE OF THE SHOFAR IN THE BIBLE

The shofar or ram's horn has always held a prominent role in the history of God's people in the Bible.

1) The Torah was given to Israel with the sound of the shofar (Exodus 19:19)
2) Israel conquered in the battle of Jericho with the blast of the shofar (Joshua 6:20)
3) Israel will be advised of the advent of the Messiah with the sound of the shofar (Zech 9:14, 16)
4) The shofar will be blown to signal the assembly of the Israelites during war (Judges 3:27, II Samuel 20:1)
5) The shofar will be blown at the time of the ingathering of the exiles of Israel back to the land of Israel (Isaiah 27:13)
6) The watchman who stood upon Jerusalem's walls blew the shofar (Ezekiel 33:3-6)
7) The shofar was blown at the start of the jubilee year (Lev 25:9)
8) The shofar is a reminder that God is sovereign (Psalm 47:5)
9) The ram's horn is a reminder of Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac and God's provision of a ram as a substitute (Genesis 22:13)
10) The shofar was blown to announce the beginning of festivals (Numbers 10:10). The shofar was blown to celebrate the new moon on Rosh HaShanah (Psalm 81:1-3)
11) The blowing of the shofar is a signal for the call of repentance (Isaiah 58:1)
12) The blowing of the shofar ushers in the day of the Lord (Joel 2:1)
13) The blowing of the shofar is sounded at the resurrection of the dead (I Thess 4:16)
14) John was taken up to Heaven with the sound of a shofar (Rev 4:1)
15) Seven Shofarim are sounded when God judges the earth during the tribulation period (Rev 8-9)
16) The shofar was used for the coronation of kings (I Kings 1:34, 39)

 

[rdclmn7]

I've added somemore details to the original post, I'll be looking for more details on the chronology set for the seventh month.

 

[Bick]

Hi rdclmn7: Certainly, the OT scriptures are very important in interpreting prophecy. IMO, this fact is especially brought out by E.W. Bullinger's commentary on Revelation, entitled "The Apocalypse."

The link for this is, http://philologos.org/__eb-ta/default.htm.

Since Revelation is concerned with Israel and the nations, there are many, many references to the OT.

And it is especially important to know OT history, since the Seven past phases of Israel's history
are referred to in these Epistles to the seven churches: and the literary order in Revelation corresponds with, and answers to, the historical order in the Old Testament.

It is obviously a long commentary, but individual subjects can be looked at. To me, it was very enlightening. I'll be interested in your comments.

Bick

 

[rdclmn7]

Sooo many details!
Thanks for the link, it's been the first time that I have heard of a connection between the messages and their association with Israel's history.
I can only wonder how long it took him to gather so many details.
Now that I have seen it for myself, its now part of my perspective, thank you.