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Paul has a teaching theme in First Corinthians and it is built around the type and shadow of the seven

Feasts of the Lord given in Leviticus 23. Way back in the fifth chapter Paul began to teach these Gentile

believers (like you and me) what Christ is doing and in what order He is doing it, and the seven feasts are

his overall theme. He began with (1) the first feast which is Passover. He then progresses to (2) the

second feast which is Unleavened bread. In Chapter Fifteen (3) he introduces Christ as fulfilling the third

feast, which is Firstfruits. Since his subject is the resurrection of the dead, he skips the fourth feast which

is Pentecost in which the Holy Spirit was given on that very day (Acts 2:1-4), and jumps to describing,

what I believe, is (5) the fifth feast, which is “Trumpets.” (5)

(1) (2) (3) “BEHOLD,
I TELL YOU A
“…CHRIST, “YOU ARE TRULY “CHRIST IS RISEN FROM THE
OUR UNLEAVENED… DEAD AND HAS BECOME MYSTERY:
LET US KEEP THE FIRSTFRUITS…. …AT THE LAST
PASSOVER, THE FEAST…
WAS WITH …ALL SHALL BE MADE ALIVE. TRUMPET…
BUT EACH ONE IN HIS OWN FOR THE TRUMPET
SACRIFICED THE UNLEAVENED WILL SOUND AND
FOR US, BREAD ORDER. THE DEAD WILL BE
RAISED… AND WE
THEREFORE OF SINCERITY AND CHRIST THE FIRSTFRUITS, SHALL BE CHANGED.”
LET US KEEP TRUTH.”
THE FEAST… AFTERWARD THOSE WHO ARE 1Cor. 15:51-52
1Cor. 5:7-8 CHRIST’S AT HIS COMING…”
1Cor. 5:7-8
1Cor. 15:20-23

Paul is not looking ahead to the prophetic and futuristic seven trumpets of Revelation in his reference to
“the last trumpet”, for he was oblivious of this not-yet-revealed truth. Rather Paul is looking backward to
the Old Testament type and shadow contained within the Law of the Lord to preach the fullness of Christ
to Gentile believers. As you can see above, it’s theme permeated First Corinthians throughout.

Do the Feasts have anything in common with the blowing of trumpets that might indeed reveal what Paul
had in his mind pertaining to “the last trumpet?” the answer is an emphatic yes. In Numbers 10 we read:

“MAKE…
TWO SILVER TRUMPETS…
IN THE DAY OF YOUR GLADNESS,
IN YOUR APPOINTED FEASTS,
AND AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR
MONTHS, YOU SHALL BLOW THE
TRUMPETS…THEY SHALL BE A MEMORIAL
FOR YOU BEFORE YOUR GOD…”

Num. 10:10,29

These were not the blowing of the traditional Jewish shofars (rams horns), but rather were two very
special silver trumpets created for special events, namely the feasts. Notice they were blown at EVERY
appointed feast as well as at the beginning of every new month. The feast of Trumpets is unique in that it
is the ONLY one of the seven feasts that began on the first day of the month (see Lev. 23:24). All the other
feasts were calculated from the first day of month. Therefore Trumpets would be a very special feast day
in that it was a day appointed for a double portion of the blowing of trumpets. It was (1) an appointed feast
day for blowing the two silver trumpets, and (2) it was also the first day of the month which was also to be
a day of sounding these two silver trumpets. As they were an ongoing memorial, Paul, as a feast-
observing Jew, would have been very familiar with these two trumpets in his day.