Save the Dates (at least one of them!)
Our Christmas program, Noel (Night of Everlasting Love) will be presented on Saturday, December 18, and again on Sunday, December 19. Both performances will begin at 3:00 p.m. You will hear some beautiful arrangements of Christmas classics as you watch the traditional pageantry of the Nativity story.
Mark your calendar! This would be a good time to invite friends and neighbors or folks you barely know for an afternoon of worship!
Trumpets in the Old Testament
As our church family is now reading in the book of Numbers on our journey through the Pentateuch, I have noticed the importance of the use of trumpets in these scriptures, which has prompted me to do a little reading on trumpets in the Old Testament.
The trumpet is the instrument most frequently referenced in the Bible and its uses were many and varied.
The following list gives specific uses:
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To assemble a large group of people
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To give direction to a large group of people.
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To alert people to coming danger of judgement.
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Used along with other instruments and singers to celebrate holy days and sacred events.
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As a battle signal.
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To make an announcement or proclamation.
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As a regular part of worship ceremonies.
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And most importantly – To praise God.
We find in Numbers 10:1-13, that the silver trumpets had two primary purposes: to make people alert and gain their attention and to sound the alarm of battle.
The High Priests or the representatives in the priestly line were to blow the silver trumpets. This compares with end times when a representative of our High Priest Yeshua will blow the final trumpet blast to summon His people to resurrection and war against evil.
“The LORD spoke further to Moses, saying, ‘Make yourself two trumpets of silver, of hammered work you shall make them; and you shall use them for summoning the congregation and for having the camps set out,” (Numbers 10:1-2 NASB).
It is truly amazing how all the events we are reading about point forward to the time of Jesus!