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Consider the entirety of the type and shadow that Numbers 10 records of these two silver trumpets:
“MAKE

TWO SILVER
TRUMPETS…

“…IN THE DAY OF YOUR As we have seen, they were to
GLADNESS, mark all the seven feasts of
the Lord, but especially the
IN YOUR APPOINTED feast of Trumpets which was
FEASTS, the only feast day that was
celebrated on the first day of
AND AT THE BEGINNING the month.
OF YOUR MONTHS, Unfortunately, Jewish
YOU SHALL BLOW tradition has labeled
THE TRUMPETS… the feast of Trumpets
as their New Year.
AND THEY SHALL BE A This is not what
MEMORIAL FOR YOU Exodus 12:2
BEFORE YOUR GOD…” establishes as the
Jewish New Year.
Num. 10:10

“…WHEN YOU GO TO Not all has been lost
WAR IN YOUR LAND to tradition. This
AGAINST YOUR ENEMY recent photo taken
WHO OPPRESSES YOU, during Israel’s last war
with Hezbollah shows
THEN YOU SHALL that the Jewish
SOUND AN ALARM leaders are still using
WITH THE TRUMPETS, the silver trumpets as
AND YOU WILL BE God instructed them
REMEMBERED BEFORE as a defense against
YOUR GOD, AND YOU their enemies.
WILL BE SAVED FROM
YOUR ENEMIES…”

Num. 10:9

“THE SONS OF AARON This is an illuminating type and shadow recorded in Numbers 10 that
THE PRIESTS, pertains to the rapture specifically. It is the priests who are to blow the
SHALL BLOW trumpets. This is an unchanging ordinance “forever.” Paul, in
describing the rapture in 1Thess. 4:16, makes the point that it is “The
THE TRUMPETS… Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout…and with the
AND THESE SHALL BE TO trumpet of God. At the rapture it will be Jesus Himself, “our High Priest”
YOU AS AN ORDINANCE (Heb.8:1), who will sound the trumpet of God. As a point of contrast, the
FOREVER THROUGHOUT seven trumpets of Revelation are sounded by seven angels, not by the
Lord Himself, our High Priest!
YOUR GENERATIONS”
Num. 10:8

“…YOU SHALL USE THEM It is here that we find the exacting type and shadow of the rapture.
FOR Two stages are mentioned here by God for the Children of Israel in
their journey from Egypt to the Promised Land. The two silver
(1) CALLING THE ASSEMBLY… trumpets were used to “call together the assembly” of the three million
AND plus people of God, and they were used to announce when it was time
for “the movement of the camp.” The first trumpet gathered them
(2) FOR DIRECTING together, and “the last trumpet” (2nd trumpet) would “move the camp.”
THE MOVEMENT OF

THE CAMPS…”
Num. 10:2-7