Numbers 10: 2, 10
Make yourselves two trumpets of silver ... and you shall use them for summoning the congregation and for having the camps set out.
And also in the day of your gladness and in your appointed feasts....
Leviticus 23 tells us that one of the "appointed feasts" is the Feast of Trumpets, to be observed on the first day of the seventh month, in the fall; following the Day of Pentecost in the Summer; and just preceding the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles, on the 10th day and the 15th day of the same 7th month (see Leviticus 23).
I Thessalonians 4: 16-17
For the Lord Himself will descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus we shall always be with the Lord.
We know from the book of Acts that the Feast of Pentecost refers to the Church of Christ, which God formed by sending His Holy Spirit to indwell each member.
So the next "event" on God's calendar of Feasts will be that Feast of Trumpets, to call out this Church He formed, to be "raptured" (the word means, "called-out").
And in close succession are the last two feasts of the liturgical year, the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles, or Booths.
My understanding is that Jesus, having returned to this Earth, will scour it of all that has harmed it, conducting the Battle of Armageddon and cleansing it of everyone and everything the World of Men has perpetrated upon it.
So the Day of Atonement is King Jesus cleansing the whole environment of His Kingdom, and we who have returned with Him will build temporary "tabernacles" or "booths" for shelter while we rebuild the cities of the World.
O my Father, thank You for giving me a little understanding of what You have revealed in Your Word; Your order of events is unfolding and playing out before my very eyes and ears.
Thank You for for telling us in Your Word what to expect, and for Your faithfulness to Your promises.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
