TWO TRUMPETS
We will look at the two trumpets used in the wilderness and still being used today. In Israel and the United States, to either the announcing of the Feast Days or a trumpet call of warning, or a call to assemble, a call to move and a call to hear from Jehovah at the Door.
I. THE SILVER TRUMPETS
Trumpet-hasoserah-2689-as a trumpet made of hammered silver as noted:
Numbers 10:1-10 (NAS)
1. The Lord spoke further to Moses, saying,
2. “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.
3. When both are blown, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the doorway of the tent of meeting.
4. Yet if only one is blown, then the leaders, the heads of the divisions of Israel, shall assemble before you.
5. But when you blow an alarm, the camps that are pitched on the east side shall set out.
6. When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that are pitched on the south side shall set out; an alarm is to be blown for them to set out.
7. When convening the assembly, however, you shall blow without sounding an alarm.
8. The priestly sons of Aaron, moreover, shall blow the trumpets; and this shall be for you a perpetual statute throughout your generations.
9. When you go to war in your land against the adversary who attacks you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the Lord your God, and be saved from your enemies.
10. Also in the day of your gladness and in your appointed feasts, and on the first days of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be as a reminder of you before your God. I am the Lord your God.”
The previous scripture gives a complete context of the following points of interest.
- A call to assembly. Num. 10:2
- A command for Israel to move out. Num. 10:2
- Summoning the congregation. Num. 10:2
- When both are blown, all the congregation shall gather at the doorway. Num. 10:3
- Only one is blown, the heads of the divisions of Israel, shall assemble before you. Num. 10:4
- Blow an alarm, the camps that are pitched on the east side shall set out. Num. 10:5
- Blow an alarm the second time, the camps that are pitched on the south side shall set out. Num. 10:6
- When convening the assembly, you shall blow without sounding an alarm. Num. 10:7
- The priestly sons of Aaron, moreover, shall blow the trumpets. Num. 10:8
- A call to war. Num. 10:9
- A call for the appointed feasts. Num. 10:10
You can see as I itemized out the list and usage of the trumpet calls an individual would be listening and prepared for the call.
The silver trumpets are used in the New Covenant as well. Known as the “Rapture” in:
1 Corinthians 15:50-55 (VOICE)
50. Now listen to this: brothers and sisters, this present body is not able to inherit the kingdom of God any more than decay can inherit that which lasts forever.
51. Stay close because I am going to tell you a mystery—something you may have trouble understanding: we will not all fall asleep in death, but we will all be transformed.
52. It will all happen so fast, in a blink, a mere flutter of the eye. The last trumpet will call, and the dead will be raised from their graves with a body that does not, cannot decay. All of us will be changed!
53. We’ll step out of our mortal clothes and slide into immortal bodies, replacing everything that is subject to death with eternal life.
54. And, when we are all redressed with bodies that do not, cannot decay, when we put immortality over our mortal frames, then it will be as Scripture says: Life everlasting has victoriously swallowed death.
55. Hey, Death! What happened to your big win? Hey, Death! What happened to your sting?
II. THE SHOFAR (Ram’s Horn)
Blowing the trumpet
Expository Dictionary of Greek and Hebrew defines
Trumpet-shophar-7782—meaning “Rams Horn” Lev. 25:9 Used For the Jubilee on the day of atonement; and Joshua 6:4 falling of the walls.
Leviticus 25:8-9 (VOICE)
8. You are to count off seven Sabbath years (that’s seven times seven years), which gives you 49 years.
9. After the 49th year is over, sound a ram’s horn across the land in the 50th year on the tenth day of the seventh month. Sound the ram’s horn throughout the land on the Day of Atonement.
Joshua 6:2-5 (VOICE)
2. I have given Jericho, its king, and all its soldiers into your hands.
3. Every day for the next six days, you will march once around the city walls with all your fighting force.
4. Seven priests will go in front of the covenant chest, each carrying a trumpet made from a ram’s horn. On the seventh day, you will march around the city walls seven times, and the priests will blow their trumpets.
5. When they play a long final blast, then all the people will give a mighty shout. The city walls will collapse in front of you, and all the Israelites will charge in and take the city.
In the services today in a church or conference they usually blow a trumpet / shofar. However the long horn that has a slight twist / curve is from a gazelle not a ram.
