The Day of Trumpets is a reminder every year that God has something important to say to us, and we need to be alert and listen. The trumpet sounded at Mount Sinai when the Lord gave the Ten Commandments. And the Lord’s message to the churches of Revelation was with the sound of a trumpet. That means we need to be alert, listening and applying all of Christ’s instructions to His Church today.

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God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt and took them to Mount Sinai where He came down with the blast of a trumpet. That trumpet blast had a purpose. It was an announcement that God was about to speak to His people. He was going to give them the Ten Commandments, so He wanted their attention. This aspect of Yom Teruah, the Day of Trumpets, applies to us today. The trumpet blast means that God wants to get our attention. He wants us to wake up and listen to Him because He has something to say to us.

We read in Revelation that the Lord’s voice was like the sound of a trumpet when He delivered a message to the seven churches in Asia. Just like at Sinai, the Lord wanted to get their attention, so they would listen to the instructions He had for them. And just like the Ten Commandments, His Words to the churches were commandments the entire Church needed to hear, understand, and follow. We need these Words even more today in this time when the Church is preparing for the return of Christ.

We do not need to determine if our church is like a specific church mentioned in Revelation. Each point the Lord made to all those churches applies to us personally, to our church, and to the global Church today. Every instruction is for us to follow. If the Lord told a church to keep doing a positive activity, then we pursue that with all our hearts. If the Lord pointed out something that needed correction, then we give ourselves to repentance for that to change. Let us wake up to the trumpet call and have ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.

Key Verses:

• Joel 2:1. “Blow a trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm on My holy mountain!”
• Deuteronomy 4:10–13. “The LORD spoke to you. … He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform.”
• Revelation 1:1–3. “Hear the words of the prophecy, and heed the things which are written in it.”
• Revelation 1:4–7. “Every eye will see Him … and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him.”
• Revelation 1:8–11. “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like the sound of a trumpet.”
• Deuteronomy 11:26–28. “I am setting before you today a blessing and a curse.”
• Revelation 2:1–7. “I have this against you, that you have left your first love.”
• Revelation 2:8–11. “Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.”
• Revelation 2:12–17. “I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam.”
• Revelation 2:18–23. “I have this against you, that you tolerate the woman Jezebel.”
• Revelation 3:1–6. “Wake up, and strengthen the things that remain, which were about to die.”
• Revelation 3:7–13. “Hold fast what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
• Revelation 3:14–22. “You do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked.”
• Revelation 4:1. “The first voice which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, ‘Come up here.’”

Quotes:

• “We are going to see things taking place within the Church that are the consequences of the sin that has been allowed to grow there. Do not allow it; call it out. Separate from it, and see that God is able to bring a blessing back instead.”
• “We must come back to Him. We must be filled with His Spirit and see that we finish the deeds that He has given us to do in this day and in this hour.”
• “We are in a place where we must hear His voice now. We must understand what He wants us to do and not do.”

Takeaways:

1. The Messiah’s message to the churches in Revelation is like the Ten Commandments for the Body of Christ to follow now.
2. If we are disobedient to His commands, we will reap what has been foretold of the judgments.
3. If we obey these words, we will be called up into the heavenly throne room and be shown the things that must take place as God’s Kingdom is coming into this earth. Lord, bless us with ears to hear and hearts to obey!
4. The revelation of God’s Word always challenges us to pursue a deeper relationship with the Lord by helping us to see more clearly and understand more completely, so we may be more closely conformed to the image of Yeshua (Jesus) in all we think, say, and do.

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