Leviticus 23:24-25
“Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, `In the seventh month on the first of the month you shall have a rest, a reminder by blowing {of trumpets}, a holy convocation. `You shall not do any laborious work, but you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD.”
God does not command us to do things just to show off His power. His commands are always filled with true logic and common sense; when He commands us to do something, it is always for a very good reason. He tells us to keep His Feast of Trumpets because He wants us to take a break from the mundane tasks of our daily lives. Like God’s other Holy Days, the Feast of Trumpets is like a stop sign. God wants us to stop!
On the Feast of Trumpets, God wants us to stop, to put aside our relatively unimportant daily affairs, and to concentrate on what is really important, not on the physical things that are not lasting or eternal (II Corinthians 4:18). Even the rocks and mountains of this earth eventually will wear away to sand and dust (Psalm 102:25-27; Hebrews 1:10-12). On this Feast, God wants us to stop in order to concentrate on the truly eternal things: the return of Jesus Christ, the resurrection of the dead, the end of the age of man, and the establishment of the Kingdom of God on earth. That is why we keep the Feast of Trumpets!
At the time of Jesus’ first coming, the Jews were looking for a Messiah to rescue them from their downtrodden state. Though they were well aware of the Old Testament prophecies, they had made an incorrect interpretation: They were looking for a powerful, conquering king. When He came, He was indeed powerful, but He was powerful spiritually. The Jews misinterpretation blinded them to the reality of where His power lay and how their downtrodden condition would be relieved.
When Jesus was crucified, the inscription over His head read He was “King of the Jews.” Yet, when asked just a few hours earlier by Pilate if He was a King (John 18:33), Jesus had replied, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here” (verse 36). It will be established. We are much closer to that time than they were then. At His coming, Revelation 19:16 proclaims, “And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.”
