FEAST OF TRUMPETS—CHRIST’S GLORIOUS RETURN
Fourth of eight devotions in What God’s Festivals Teach series
Matthew 24:30-31: “At that time [after the great tribulation when the sun and moon won’t shine and stars fall from the sky] the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory. And He will send His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”
Trumpets blasting this Feast will happen September 21, 2017. Despite this Feast exploding a future reality, Believers-in-Christ—even the whole of creation—eagerly anticipate Christ’s return to earth.
Romans 8:19 and 20 says, “The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed,” [so that] “the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.” This shows that God intends for People to be good caretakers of the planet He created for us.
The nations which mourn to see Jesus return never believed in Him. If they observed these important Feasts as God’s holy days, they’d get it that what’s happening is for their own good. Jesus promises to raise His followers back to life in John 6:44: “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
God’s kids are His elect from the opening Scripture.
Trumpets always announce great news in the Bible. See the lesson linked below for more about trumpets and God’s elect. 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 proudly announces, “For the Lord Himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, 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.”
Take Home Nugget
Christ will fulfill the Feast of Trumpets one day. He is the focus of the prediction of this Feast, too. At His second coming, celestial trumpets will sound announcing the triumphant arrival of the King of Kings!
“At the Seventh angel sounding his Trumpet, there were loud voices in heaven which said, ‘The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, .and He will reign forever and ever.’” (Revelation 11:15).
Holy Father, We proclaim Your kingdom come! In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
Adapted from God’s Holy Day Plan, The Promise of Hope for All Mankind. ©1966, 1998, 2001, 2010, 2013 by the United Church of Christ. Ohio. Pgs. 55-56.
J.D. Griffith
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