03.02.2016 Old Testament: Num 29.1–6

To read the Bible in a year, read Numbers 28–29 on March 2, In the year of our Lord 2016

By Don Ruhl

The Lord set up various feasts for the children of Israel to observe, including the Feast of Trumpets,

“And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work. For you it is a day of blowing the trumpets. You shall offer a burnt offering as a sweet aroma to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year, without blemish. Their grain offering shall be fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths for the ram, and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs; also one kid of the goats as a sin offering, to make atonement for you; besides the burnt offering with its grain offering for the New Moon, the regular burnt offering with its grain offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, as a sweet aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD (Numbers 29.1–6).

Either the blowing of the trumpets occurred all day long, or as the priests made the sacrifices. What kind of sound did they have daily in those days? We have constant noises filling our air. Assuming that things were relatively quiet, when they started blowing on those trumpets, it must have been an awesome experience! It certainly would have gotten the attention of every Israelite.

Questions:

• What gets your attention in the church?
• Have you read of the trumpets of judgment in the Book of Revelation? (Chapters 8–11)
• Do you know what sound shall signal the end of time?