What does the
Feast of Trumpets picture?
We have always thought that it pictured the return of
Christ…..but does it?
In these last days, God has restored the truth of the
Holy Days to His church.
Let’s notice the
scriptures on this subject.
THE FEAST OF
TRUMPETS IS ON THE NEW MOON AS THE NEW MOON COMES TO
US.
Just as the Sabbath is kept as the sunsets on Friday
night where we live, so Trumpets is observed on the
day of the new moon as it comes to where we live.
The Feast of
Trumpets should be celebrated with the sound of
trumpets before services. It would also be
appropriate to have special music which would include,
harp, trumpet, drums and timbrel.
Psa 81:1 To the Chief
Musician. On An Instrument of
Psa 81:2 Raise a
song and strike the timbrel, The pleasant harp with
the lute.
Psa 81:3
Blow the ram's horn in the new moon, in the time
appointed, on our solemn feast day.
Lev 23:23 Then the
LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 23:24 "Speak to
the children of
Lev 23:25 You shall
do no customary work on it;
and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the
LORD.' "
The above
scripture shows a number of things about the Feast of
Trumpets.
It is in the seventh month.
It is the first of the month.
Because it is the first of the month, it is then on
the new moon.
Psalm 81 v 3
above shows that the feast is in the new moon.
Also notice that
the Feast of Trumpets is a memorial.
God has made it
easy for us to keep His holy days at the correct
time. We do not have to be highly educated or go
through hours of needless calculation on a calendar,
all we need to know is, the phases of the moon as they
come to us, and the sun setting times to show us the
start and finish of each day.
We have a graph
of the new moon times by the Melbourne Planetarium
included in the article Holy Days 20?? It has
the time of moon rise in Australian Standard Time, you
only need to adjust 1 hour or so for daylight saving
when that occurs.
Now here is the
key to understanding what this feast pictures……
it is a memorial of blowing of trumpets.
Note the
scripture:
Lev 23:24 "Speak to
the children of
What is a
memorial?….The World Book Dictionary says…..something
that is a reminder of some event. That
means that what ever the Feast of Trumpets pictures
has happened in the past, and it is so important to
God that He wants us to remember it every year by
celebrating a Feast. The Hebrew word in Strong's
Concordance is H2146 a memento (or memorable
thing, day or writing): - memorial, record.
God wants us to
remember an event which was accompanied by the blowing
of trumpets.
Notice Psalm 81
which is to be sung on the Feast of Trumpets, it gives
us clues as to what the day pictures. Notice it
was a time of blowing trumpets, {rams horn} the time
setting is when the Israelites came out of Egypt, the
verses show very clearly they are the Ten
Commandments.
Psa 81:2 Raise a
song and strike the timbrel, The pleasant harp with
the lute.
Psa 81:3 Blow the
trumpet at the time of the New Moon, At the
appointed time, on our solemn feast day.
Psa 81:4 For this is a
statute for Israel, A law of the God of Jacob.
Psa 81:5 This He
established in Joseph as a
testimony, When He went throughout the land of
Notice it is the
Ten Commandments.
Psa 81:9 There
shall be no foreign god among you; Nor shall you
worship any foreign god.
Psa 81:10 I am the
LORD your God, Who brought you out of the land of
Egypt; Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Notice the
following great event in
God said if
Exo 19:5 Now
therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep
My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to
Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.
Exo 19:6 And you
shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy
nation.' These are the
words which you shall speak to the children of
The people said
they would obey God.
Exo 19:8 Then all
the people answered together and said, "All that the
LORD has spoken we will do." So Moses brought back
the words of the people to the LORD.
As we have
already learned in previous articles, God the Father
appeared to man in various ways: in a cloud, a fire, a
whirlwind, in a vision, in a dream, or is
invisible. In this case He appeared in a cloud….notice
why He did this, so the people would believe Moses.
Exo 19:9 And the
LORD said to Moses, "Behold, I come to you in the
thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak
with you, and believe you forever." So Moses told
the words of the people to the LORD.
Then the
Israelites were instructed to prepare themselves and
be ready to hear God the Father speak to them and to
see the cloud and to receive the words of the
covenant. They were not to come up to the mount until
they heard a long blast from the trumpet.
Exo 19:10 Then the
LORD said to Moses, "Go to the people and consecrate
them today and tomorrow, and let them wash their
clothes.
Exo 19:11 And let
them be ready for the third day. For on the third
day the LORD will come down upon
Exo 19:12 You shall
set bounds for the people all around, saying, 'Take
heed to yourselves that
you do not
go up to the mountain or touch its base. Whoever
touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.
Exo 19:13 Not a hand
shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or
shot with
an arrow; whether man or beast, he shall
not live.' When the trumpet sounds long, they shall
come near the mountain."
Then the third
day arrived and the people trembled at the sound of
the exceedingly loud trumpet, as well as thunders and
lightning.
Exo 19:16 Then it
came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that
there were thundering and lightning, and a thick
cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet
was very loud, so that all the people who were in
the camp trembled.
Then the people
came to meet God the Father.
The Israelites were frightened, the trumpet blew
louder and louder, the mountain quaked greatly the
whole mountain was full of smoke as God descended in a
fire.
Exo 19:17 And Moses
brought the people out of the camp to meet with God,
and they stood at the foot of the mountain.
Exo 19:18 Now
Exo 19:19 And when
the blast of the trumpet sounded long and became
louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him
by voice.
Exo 19:20 Then the
LORD came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the
mountain. And the LORD called Moses to the top of
the mountain, and Moses went up.
Then the Father
told Moses to ensure the people did not break the
boundary set for them, lest they perish, and Moses was
to return to the mountain with Aaron.
AND NOW THE
COVENANT IS MADE
Moses returned to
the mountain and God the Father gave the Ten
Commandments.
Exo 20:1 And God
spoke all these words, saying:
Exo 20:2 "I am the
LORD your God, who brought you out of the
Exo 20:3 "You shall
have no other gods before Me.
Exo 20:4 "You shall
not make for yourself a carved image any likeness of anything
that is
in heaven above, or that is in
the earth beneath, or that is in
the water under the earth;
Exo 20:5 you shall
not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD
your God, am
a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children to the third and fourth generations
of those who hate Me,
Exo 20:6 but
showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and
keep My commandments.
Exo 20:7 "You shall
not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for
the LORD will not hold him
guiltless who takes His name in vain.
Exo 20:8 "Remember
the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exo 20:9 Six days
you shall labor and do all your work,
Exo 20:10 but the
seventh day is the
Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it
you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your
daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female
servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is
within your gates.
Exo 20:11 For in six
days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the
sea, and all that is in
them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD
blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
Exo 20:12 "Honor
your father and your mother, that your days may be
long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving
you.
Exo 20:13 "You shall
not murder.
Exo 20:14 "You shall
not commit adultery.
Exo 20:15 "You shall
not steal.
Exo 20:16 "You shall
not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Exo 20:17 "You shall
not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet
your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his
female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor
anything that is your
neighbor's."
When the
Israelites saw the lightning flashes and heard the
thunder and the sound of the trumpet they trembled.
Exo 20:18 Now all
the people witnessed the thundering, the lightning
flashes, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain
smoking; and when the people saw it, they
trembled and stood afar off.
The Israelites
did not want God to speak to them, they were afraid,
they wanted Moses to speak to them. Look at the
amazing reasons why God the Father came down to the
mountain to speak to them.
To test the Israelites, and so that they would fear
God and not sin.
Look just how
much mercy God the Father has. He did not want
the Israelites to sin, so He demonstrated some of His
power and authority to them, to instil in them a
healthy respect and fear of Him.
Exo 20:19 Then they
said to Moses, "You speak with us, and we will hear;
but let not God speak with us, lest we die."
Exo 20:20 And Moses
said to the people, "Do not fear; for God has come
to test you, and that His fear may be before you, so
that you may not sin."
Moses approached
the cloud where the Father was and He gave Moses the
judgments.
Exo 21:1 "Now these
are
the judgments which you shall set before them:
Christ gave the
oracles when He spoke, and ate with Moses, Aaron and
the elders.
Act 7:38 "This is
he who was in the congregation in the wilderness
with the Angel who spoke to him on
The Father said
He would send an angel {Christ} to go before them.
Remember an angel
is translated a messenger.
If the Israelites
obeyed Christ and the Father then the following would
happen.
Exo 23:22 But if you
indeed obey His voice and do all that I speak, then
I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary
to your adversaries.
Exo 23:25 "So you
shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless
your bread and your water. And I will take sickness
away from the midst of you.
Exo 23:26 No one
shall suffer miscarriage or be barren in your land;
I will fulfill the number of your days.
Exo 23:27 "I will
send My fear before you, I will cause confusion
among all the people to whom you come, and will make
all your enemies turn their
backs to you.
Exo 23:28 And I will
send hornets before you, which shall drive out the
Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before
you.
Exo 23:29 I will not
drive them out from before you in one year, lest the
land become desolate and the beasts of the field
become too numerous for you.
Exo 23:30 Little by
little I will drive them out from before you, until
you have increased, and you inherit the land.
Exo 23:31 And I will
set your bounds from the Red Sea to the sea,
What God the
Father was offering to the Israelites was
amazing. Let’s see what happened next.
The Israelites
said they would obey God.
Exo 24:3 So Moses
came and told the people all the words of the LORD
and all the judgments. And all the people answered
with one voice and said, "All the words which the
LORD has said we will do."
Exo 24:4 And Moses
wrote all the words of the LORD. And he rose early
in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of
the mountain, and twelve pillars according to the
twelve tribes of
Now the covenant
is affirmed.
Exo 24:7 Then he
took the Book of the Covenant and read in the
hearing of the people. And they said, "All that the
LORD has said we will do, and be obedient."
Exo 24:8 And Moses
took the blood, sprinkled it on
the people, and said, "This is the blood of the
covenant which the LORD has made with you according
to all these words."
After these
things, it did not take
The covenant was
then renewed and the tablets of stone replaced, the
following verses are in the covenant which God the
Father made with
Exo 34:10 And He
said: "Behold, I make a covenant. Before all your
people I will do marvels such as have not been done
in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the
people among whom you are
shall see the work of the LORD. For it is an
awesome thing that I will do with you.
Exo 34:11 Observe
what I command you this day. Behold, I am driving
out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite
and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and
the Jebusite.
Exo 34:12 Take heed
to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the
inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it
be a snare in your midst.
Exo 34:13 But you
shall destroy their altars, break their sacred
pillars, and cut down their wooden images
Exo 34:14 (for you
shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name
is
Jealous, is
a jealous God),
Exo 34:15 lest you
make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land,
and they play the harlot with their gods and make
sacrifice to their gods, and one of them
invites you and you eat of his sacrifice,
Exo 34:16 and you
take of his daughters for your sons, and his
daughters play the harlot with their gods and make
your sons play the harlot with their gods.
Exo 34:17 "You shall
make no molded gods for yourselves.
Exo 34:18 "The Feast
of Unleavened Bread you shall keep. Seven days you
shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, in
the appointed time of the month of Abib; for in the
month of Abib you came out from
Exo 34:19 "All that
open the womb are
Mine, and every male firstborn among your livestock,
whether
ox or sheep.
Exo 34:20 But the
firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb.
And if you will not redeem him,
then you shall break his neck. All the firstborn of
your sons you shall redeem. "And none shall appear
before Me empty-handed.
Exo 34:21 "Six days
you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall
rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
Exo 34:22 "And you
shall observe the Feast of Weeks, of the firstfruits
of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at
the year's end.
Exo 34:23 "Three
times in the year all your men shall appear before
the Lord, the LORD God of
Exo 34:24 For I will
cast out the nations before you and enlarge your
borders; neither will any man covet your land when
you go up to appear before the LORD your God three
times in the year.
Exo 34:25 "You shall
not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leaven, nor
shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover be
left until morning.
Exo 34:26 "The first
of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring to
the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a
young goat in its mother's milk."
Exo 34:27 Then the
LORD said to Moses, "Write these words, for
according to the tenor of these words I have made a
covenant with you and with
Notice how we are
told to remember the covenant God made
with
We are told to remember this day and what happened on
this day.
Deu 4:10 especially
concerning the day you stood before the LORD your
God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, 'Gather the
people to Me, and I will let them hear My words,
that they may learn to fear Me all the days they
live on the earth, and that
they may teach their children.'
Deu 4:11 "Then you
came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, and
the mountain burned with fire to the midst of
heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
The covenant
between God and
Deu 4:12 And the
LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You
heard the sound of the words, but saw no form; you only
heard
a voice.
Deu 4:13 So He
declared to you His covenant which He commanded you
to perform, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them
on two tablets of stone.
Deu 4:14 And the
LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes
and judgments, that you might observe them in the
land which you cross over to possess.
The Israelites
did not see the shape of God, they only heard His
voice, so that they would not try to make any image or
likeness of Him.
Deu 4:15 "Take
careful heed to yourselves, for you saw no form when
the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of
the fire,
Deu 4:16 lest you
act corruptly and make for yourselves a carved image
in the form of any figure: the likeness of male or
female,
Deu 4:17 the
likeness of any animal that is on
the earth or the likeness of any winged bird that
flies in the air,
Deu 4:18 the
likeness of anything that creeps on the ground or
the likeness of any fish that is in
the water beneath the earth.
Deu 4:19 And take heed,
lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and when you
see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host
of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and serve
them, which the LORD your God has given to all the
peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage.
God told the
Israelites to remember the covenant.
Deu 4:23 Take heed
to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the
LORD your God which He made with you, and make for
yourselves a carved image in the form of anything
which the LORD your God has forbidden you.
Deu 4:24 For the
LORD your God is a
consuming fire, a jealous God.
Now let’s notice
a repeat of the above events pictured on the Feast of
Trumpets:
Notice Psalm 81
verse 3 this is the Feast of Trumpets, new moon, blow
the trumpet, Feast day.
If you read the
following verses carefully, you will see parts of the
Ten Commandments mentioned.
Psa 81:3 Blow the
trumpet at the time of the New Moon, At the
appointed time, on our solemn feast day.
Psa 81:4 For this is a
statute for Israel, A law of the God of Jacob.
Psa 81:5 This He
established in Joseph as a
testimony, When He went throughout the land of
Psa 81:6 "I removed
his shoulder from the burden; His hands were freed
from the baskets.
Psa 81:7 You called
in trouble, and I delivered you; I answered you in
the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the
waters of Meribah. Selah
Psa 81:8 "Hear, O
My people, and I will admonish you! O Israel, if you
will listen to Me!
Psa 81:9 There
shall be no foreign god among you; Nor shall you
worship any foreign god.
Psa 81:10 I am the
LORD your God, Who brought you out of the land of
Egypt; Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.
Psa 81:11 "But My
people would not heed My voice, And
Psa 81:12 So I gave
them over to their own stubborn heart, To walk in
their own counsels.
Psa 81:13 "Oh, that
My people would listen to Me, That
Psa 81:14 I would
soon subdue their enemies, And turn My hand against
their adversaries.
Psa 81:15 The haters
of the LORD would pretend submission to Him, But
their fate would endure forever.
Psa 81:16 He would
have fed them also with the finest of wheat; And
with honey from the rock I would have satisfied
you."
Notice the
recounting of the event of the covenant.
Heb 12:18 For you
have not come to the mountain that may be touched
and that burned with fire, and to blackness and
darkness and tempest,
Heb 12:19 and the
sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that
those who heard it
begged that the word should not be spoken to them
anymore.
Moses reminded
the people of the covenant they made with God the
Father.
Deu 5:1 And Moses
called all
Deu 5:2 The LORD
our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
Deu 5:3 The LORD
did not make this covenant with our fathers, but
with us, those who are here
today, all of us who are
alive.
Deu 5:4 The LORD
talked with you face to face on the mountain from
the midst of the fire.
God wanted the
Israelites to remember the covenant made with them at
Horeb, He had Moses put the tablets in the Ark of the
Covenant [there was also Aaron’s rod and a jar of
manna originally in the ark, but it appears they had
been removed at the time of the writing of 1st Kings.]
Heb 9:4 which had
the golden censer and the ark of the covenant
overlaid on all sides with gold, in which were the
golden pot that had the manna, Aaron's rod that
budded, and the tablets of the covenant;
1Ki 8:9 Nothing was in
the ark except the two tablets of stone which Moses
put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant
with the children of Israel, when they came out of
the land of Egypt.
The next verse
tells us to remember the law which was given at
Horeb.
Mal 4:4 "Remember
the Law of Moses, My servant, Which I commanded him
in Horeb for all
Notice how the
Feast of Trumpets was kept by Nehemiah
It is interesting to note that the book of the law was
read for quiet some hours. This book would have
been Leviticus because this is the only book which
mentions that the Israelites should live in booths
during the seventh month.....Neh. 8 v 14. It is
interesting to note that this was discovered the day
after Trumpets when the people gathered to learn more
about the law under the teaching of Ezra. This
day after Trumpets may well have been the
sabbath.
Neh 8:13 Now on the
second day the heads of the fathers' houses
of all the people, with the priests and Levites,
were gathered to Ezra the scribe, in order to
understand the words of the Law.
Neh 8:14 And they
found written in the Law, which the LORD had
commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel
should dwell in booths during the feast of the
seventh month,
The book of the
law referred to in the following scripture is the book
of Leviticus, and it was read on the first day of the
seventh month, which is Trumpets.
Lev 23:42 You shall
dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native
Israelites shall dwell in booths,
Lev 23:43 that
your generations may know that I made the children
of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of
the land of Egypt: I am the
LORD your God.' "
Neh 8:1 Now
all the people gathered together as one man in the
open square that was in
front of the Water Gate; and they told Ezra the
scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses, which
the LORD had commanded Israel.
Neh 8:2 So Ezra
the priest brought the Law before the assembly of
men and women and all who could
hear with understanding on the first day of the
seventh month.
The reading of
the book of the law started in the morning and
finished at noon.
Neh 8:3 Then he
read from it in the open square that was in
front of the Water Gate from morning until midday,
before the men and women and those who could
understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive
to the Book of the Law.
Neh 8:4 So Ezra
the scribe stood on a platform of wood which they
had made for the purpose; and beside him, at his
right hand, stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Urijah,
Hilkiah, and Maaseiah; and at his left hand Pedaiah,
Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbadana, Zechariah, and
Meshullam.
Neh 8:5 And Ezra
opened the book in the sight of all the people, for
he was standing
above all the people; and when he opened it, all the
people stood up.
Neh 8:6 And Ezra
blessed the LORD, the great God. Then all the people
answered, "Amen, Amen!" while lifting up their
hands. And they bowed their heads and worshiped the
LORD with their
faces to the ground.
Neh 8:7 Also
Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai,
Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan,
Pelaiah, and the Levites, helped the people to
understand the Law; and the people stood in
their place.
It appears in the
above verses that there were a number of sermons or
sermonettes given by these men, quite a lot of men
spoke, so perhaps in the form of sermonettes.
The ministers
gave the understanding of the book of the law and the
people were told not to mourn, but to rejoice.
Neh 8:8 So they
read distinctly from the book, in the Law of God;
and they gave the sense, and helped them to
understand the reading.
Neh 8:9 And
Nehemiah, who was the
governor, Ezra the priest and
scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said
to all the people, "This day is holy
to the LORD your God; do not mourn nor weep." For
all the people wept, when they heard the words of
the Law.
After they had
heard the law explained to them, they ate and drank
and sent portions to those
who had nothing, and they were very joyous.
Neh 8:10 Then he
said to them, "Go your way, eat the fat, drink the
sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing
is prepared; for this day
is
holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the
LORD is your strength."
Neh 8:11 So the
Levites quieted all the people, saying, "Be still,
for the day is holy; do not be grieved."
Neh 8:12 And all
the people went their way to eat and drink, to send
portions and rejoice greatly, because they
understood the words that were declared to them.
It is clear by
all the above scriptures that the Feast of Trumpets
pictures the giving of the Ten Commandments at Horeb
which was a covenant between God the Father and the
nation of
When God the
Father spoke the covenant at Horeb it was preceded by
blasts of the Trumpet.
This Feast is to be a memorial, a blowing of trumpets,
this is what happened at Horeb. This is the
memorial a blowing of trumpets….This is the Feast of
Trumpets.
This Feast falls
on the 1st day of the Seventh month. It will be
a new moon. It is imperative that we know the
correct time for the new moon, as described
above. We should all be diligent to find out
this information where ever we live, also note that
the world changes days at midnight, we change to a new
day as God has directed at the setting of the
sun.
Therefore again we need to be very careful to have the
right day. For example if they state the new
moon is the 3rd at 2028pm, by the world’s standards
the date is still the 3rd because it is before
midnight, but for us, it is passed sunset so it is on
the next day, the 4th. This can be a little tricky but
with care and attention it can be worked out.
The Feast should
be kept as Nehemiah kept it.
Today we have church services from early
morning till midday, being careful to read the
book of Leviticus, and then eat drink and be
merry and share our food with others, for the
remainder of the day, it should be a day of great joy.
Neh 8:3 Then he
read from it in the open square that was in
front of the Water Gate from morning until midday,
before the men and women and those who could
understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive
to the Book of the Law.
Neh 8:10 Then he
said to them, "Go your way, eat the fat, drink the
sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing
is prepared; for this day
is
holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the
LORD is your strength."
Neh 8:12 And all
the people went their way to eat and drink, to send
portions and rejoice greatly, because they
understood the words that were declared to them.
On the Feast of
Trumpets, we remember the covenant that God made with
the Israelites at Horeb, but we need to realise that
today we are under the new covenant.
The new covenant is spiritual obedience to God as
well as physically keeping of the law, which will be
rewarded by the receiving of the earnest of the
Spirit, which is the down payment for eternal
life.
When we continue to believe God, and obey Him, He will
eventually give us the Holy Spirit of power.
This is our inheritance, eternal life inherent.
We must of course endure to the end and continue to
overcome and grow, believe God and obey Him, for this
inheritance to be in force.
The 4th chapter
of Deuteronomy is mainly talking about the Feast of
Trumpets and telling us to remember this great event.
Let’s notice some
of the scriptures.
Deu 4:5 "Surely I
have taught you statutes and judgments, just as the
LORD my God commanded me, that you should act
according to
them in the land which you go to possess.
Deu 4:6 Therefore
be careful to observe them;
for this is
your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of
the peoples who will hear all these statutes, and
say, 'Surely this great nation is a
wise and understanding people.'
Deu 4:7 "For what
great nation is there
that has God so near
to it, as the LORD our God is to
us, for whatever reason
we may call upon Him?
Deu 4:8 And what
great nation is there
that has such
statutes and righteous judgments as are in all this
law which I set before you this day?
Deu 4:9 Only take
heed to yourself, and diligently keep yourself, lest
you forget the things your eyes have seen, and lest
they depart from your heart all the days of your
life. And teach them to your children and your
grandchildren,
Deu 4:10 especially
concerning the day you stood before the LORD your
God in Horeb, when the LORD said to me, 'Gather the
people to Me, and I will let them hear My words,
that they may learn to fear Me all the days they
live on the earth, and that
they may teach their children.'
Deu 4:11 "Then you
came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, and
the mountain burned with fire to the midst of
heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness.
Deu 4:12 And the
LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. You
heard the sound of the words, but saw no form; you only
heard
a voice.
Deu 4:13 So He
declared to you His covenant which He commanded you
to perform, the Ten Commandments; and He wrote them
on two tablets of stone.
Deu 4:14 And the
LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes
and judgments, that you might observe them in the
land which you cross over to possess.
Deu 4:15 "Take
careful heed to yourselves, for you saw no form when
the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of
the fire,
Deu 4:16 lest you
act corruptly and make for yourselves a carved image
in the form of any figure: the likeness of male or
female,
Deu 4:17 the
likeness of any animal that is on
the earth or the likeness of any winged bird that
flies in the air,
Deu 4:18 the
likeness of anything that creeps on the ground or
the likeness of any fish that is in
the water beneath the earth.
Deu 4:19 And take heed,
lest you lift your eyes to heaven, and when you
see the sun, the moon, and the stars, all the host
of heaven, you feel driven to worship them and serve
them, which the LORD your God has given to all the
peoples under the whole heaven as a heritage.
Deu 4:20 But the
LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron
furnace, out of Egypt, to be His people, an
inheritance, as you are this day.
Deu 4:21 Furthermore
the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and swore
that I would not cross over the Jordan, and that I
would not enter the good land which the LORD your
God is giving you as an inheritance.
Deu 4:22 But I must
die in this land, I must not cross over the
Deu 4:23 Take heed
to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the
LORD your God which He made with you, and make for
yourselves a carved image in the form of anything
which the LORD your God has forbidden you.
Deu 4:24 For the
LORD your God is a
consuming fire, a jealous God.
Deu 4:25 "When you
beget children and grandchildren and have grown old
in the land, and act corruptly and make a carved
image in the form of anything, and do evil in the
sight of the LORD your God to provoke Him to anger,
Deu 4:26 I call
heaven and earth to witness against you this day,
that you will soon utterly perish from the land
which you cross over the Jordan to possess; you will
not prolong your days in it, but will be
utterly destroyed.
Deu 4:32 "For ask
now concerning the days that are past, which were
before you, since the day that God created man on
the earth, and ask from
one end of heaven to the other, whether any
great thing
like this has happened, or anything
like it has been heard.
Deu 4:33 Did any
people ever
hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of
the fire, as you have heard, and live?
Deu 4:34 Or did God
ever
try to go and
take for Himself a nation from the midst of another
nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by
a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great
terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did
for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Deu 4:35 To you it
was shown, that you might know that the LORD Himself
is
God; there
is none other besides Him.
Deu 4:36 Out of
heaven He let you hear His voice, that He might
instruct you; on earth He showed you His great fire,
and you heard His words out of the midst of the
fire.
Deu 4:37 And
because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose
their descendants after them; and He brought you out
of Egypt with His Presence, with His mighty power,
Deu 4:38 driving
out from before you nations greater and mightier
than you, to bring you in, to give you their land as an
inheritance, as it is
this day.
The only
difference between the old and the new covenants is
that under the old covenant the Israelites had ears to
hear and eyes to see, but refused to hear and see,
they would not listen to or obey God.
Under the new covenant, God writes His laws on our
hearts and we WANT TO keep the laws and statutes. This
is made possible by the shedding of the blood of Jesus
Christ who has paid the penalty of sin for us, and the
receiving of the earnest of the Spirit.
Today the greater majority of the nation of
John the Baptist also fulfilled this commission.
The law and
the
prophets hang on the Commandments.
Mat
22:36 "Teacher, which is
the great commandment in the law?"
Mat 22:37 Jesus said to him, 'YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD
WITH ALL YOUR HEART, WITH ALL YOUR
SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.'
Mat 22:38 This is
the first and great commandment.
Mat 22:39 And the second is like it: 'YOU SHALL
LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR AS YOURSELF.'
Mat 22:40 On these two commandments hang all
the Law and the Prophets."
