34 - Feast of Trumpets

34 - Feast of Trumpets

Author: Exploring Bible Words in Greek and Hebrew September 16, 2025 Duration: 15:02

Ancient Israelites used alarms for the same reason you set an alarm on your cell phone, to wake up, or to remember something or to be alerted to a danger.

So the Feast of Trumpets was all about blowing shofars to wake the people up for the fall feasts, to remember, to reflect and to be ready.

But beyond that, the Feast of Trumpets is also connected to ancient Jewish wedding customs and also all the symbology that Jesus, Paul and John used about Jesus’ Second Coming.

The Feast of Trumpets, Yom Teru’ah, is still celebrated but it has been somewhat subsumed by Rosh Hashannah, which is now the modern Jewish New Year.

This episode digs deeper into “teru'ah” (תְּרוּעָה meaning ‘shofar, trumpet’) in Lev. 23:24.

Leviticus 23:24 - “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of sabbath rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts.” (NIV)

Mentioned:

1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 - “For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command [a loud shout], with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words.” (NIV)

1 Corinthians 15:51-52 - “Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.” (NIV)

Revelations 4:1 - “After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, “Come up here!” (NIV)

Leviticus 23:23 - “‘When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner residing among you. I am the Lord your God.’” (NIV)

My Links:

Bammerhab Site: www.bammerhab.com

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SDG Morgan’s Substack: sdgmorgan.substack.com

Thanks to:

• Aaron Woodard for Graphic Design

• Dave Allam of Allam House for advanced audio techniques: sound.allamhouse.com

• Bible Hub for Greek / Hebrew hypertext links

• Pixabay for sound effects (h/t jimena contreras & playsound)



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