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Different “Trumpets” for Different Purposes

Updated: December 10, 2025

As Israel approaches the Holy convocation of Yom Teruah, the Feast of Trumpets also known as the Days of Awe, that culminates with Yom Kippur – the Day of Atonement, some Christians have incorrectly associated this annual God-appointed Holy convocation with the one-time-only gathering of the saints, which is the Resurrection & rapture.

The confusion comes from a misunderstanding of the two different types of “trumpets” and their specified uses by God in the Old Testament.

Two Silver Trumpets

In the book of Numbers chapter 10, God commands Moses & the children of Israel to make two silver trumpets for the specific purposes of “summoning the congregation” and “having the camps move out.”

Summoning the Congregation

God clarifies that if both silver trumpets are blown, the whole congregation is being gathered to the tent of meeting (Numbers 10:3). But, if only one silver trumpet is blown, only the leaders are being summoned to the tent of meeting (Numbers 10:4).

Having the Camps Move Out

God further clarifies that in addition to gathering the congregation, the two silver trumpets are used to sound the alarm for the camps to move out. At the sounding of the alarm of the first trumpet, the camps east of the tabernacle are to move out. At second sounding of the alarm, the camps south of the tabernacle are to move out.

So, the sounding of the two silver trumpets are used for gathering the congregation, and then to sound the alarm to have them depart, first from the east of the tabernacle and then from the south.

Why the east and then the south? To understand this, we have to move from the time of the tabernacle to the temple, and the temple mount’s fixed location in Jerusalem once David took the city, became king and then Solomon built the temple. The eastern facing gate of the temple is where the Messiah is to enter the temple (Ezekiel 43:4, 44:1-2, 46:1-2). To this day, eastward from where that gate was, lies the dead and buried. Cemeteries of Jews, muslims, and Christians are just east of where the eastern gate once stood.

The City of David is south of the temple mount. The people coming from the City of David would enter the temple through the southern gate.

This departure of the camps after the alarms of the two silver trumpets is prophetically pointing us to the Resurrection and rapture event. By the Holy Spirit, the Apostle Paul wrote that “with the trumpet of God, the dead in Christ will rise first” and then the living in Christ will be caught up with them and together will depart to be with the LORD forever.

So, the sounding of the two silver trumpets is to gather the whole congregation and then sound the alarm for the camps to depart, first the dead in Christ (Resurrection) and then immediately the living in Christ (rapture).

Also, notice that God does not specify a given month or day of the year for this to happen. The departure is not associated with the Feasts of the LORD, the Days of Awe / Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruah), or the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur).

“You too, be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect.”” Luke‬ ‭12‬:‭40‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬

“I am coming suddenly; hold fast what you have, so that no one will take your crown.” Revelation‬ ‭3‬:‭11‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬

““And behold, I am coming suddenly. Blessed is he who heeds the words of the prophecy of this book.”” Revelation‬ ‭22‬:‭7‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬

It is however, preceded by a series of specified events.

By the Holy Spirit, the Apostle Paul wrote to the Thessalonian Church that “the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together with Him” will not come until “the apostasy comes first,” then “the man of lawlessness is revealed,” when he “opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship” and “takes his seat in the temple of God, displaying himself as God.”

Jesus Himself confirmed this when He told His disciples to expect His return & the end of the age “when you see the Abomination of Desolation (see above) which was spoken of through Daniel the Prophet, standing in the Holy Place… then there will be Great Tribulation such as not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever will be… for just as the lightning comes from the east and flashes to the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.”

“But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. And He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭24‬:‭15, 21, 27, 29‬-‭31‬ NASB1995

The Seven Rams Horns

The Holy convocation of Yom Teruah, known as the “Feast of Trumpets” begins with the sounding of ram’s horn trumpets. The ram’s horn trumpet is called a shofar, and when there are more than two they are called shofarim.

In the Book of Numbers chapter 29, God instructs Moses & the children of Israel concerning the annual observance of the Holy convocations of Yom Teruah (Feast of Trumpets) and Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) that precede Sukkot (the Feast of Tabernacles). These are the annual autumn Holy feasts designated by God according to His prophetic calendar. The dates are based on Israel’s lunar calendar.

In the Book of Leviticus chapter 25, God instructs Moses & the children of Israel concerning the Year of Jubilee (teruah – trumpets) at the sounding ram’s horn trumpets, when the land will be released from its inhabitants, the return of all Israel to their own designated property in the land and family according to God’s covenant. All debts will be forgiven, and it will be a year of Sabbath rest for the people and the land.

That Jubilee Sabbath rest is a culmination of the previous 49 (seven times seven years) annual feasts of Trumpets & Days of Atonement observed by Israel. Leviticus 25:8.

The Year of Jubilee will begin with the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) in the seventh month on the tenth day of the month in the 50th year (according to Israel’s lunar calendar). “You shall sound a ram’s horn abroad on the tenth day of the seventh month.”

This “sounding of seven ram’s horn trumpets” at a specified time and date, in a pattern of repeating sevens is the exact pattern that God told Joshua & the children of Israel to use when defeating Jericho in their first battle in claiming the land of Israel according to God’s covenant.

So Jericho was a type of Jubilee where the land began to be released from it’s inhabitants and the children of Israel took hold of their God-given property in the land, and were gathered each to their own families, which eventually led to David anointed as King of Israel by God Himself, then persecuted by a king chosen by the people, finally accepted by the united nation of Israel as King of Israel, and the building of the first temple, where God dwelled among His people (Sukkot).

Do you notice the intentional pattern that God has established in His Word for Israel and the world? It is all based on His established prophetic calendar and its repeating fulfillments in Israel’s history until the final fulfillment at Christ’s return to judge Israel, deliver Israel, and dwell among His people Israel in the land of Israel from Jerusalem as King over God’s kingdom on earth!

Summary

According to God’s Word, there are two different types of trumpets, and they are used for two very different purposes.

One set, the two silver trumpets, is used for the gathering & departure of the congregation at any unspecified time. This set points prophetically to the Resurrection & rapture event that Jesus and the Apostle Paul tell us happens after the revealing of the Antichrist and before the return of the Lord to Jerusalem.

The other set, the ram’s horn trumpets (shofarim), is used at a specified time each year in the autumn to prepare Israel for the days of judgment, the Day of Atonement, the Year of Jubilee, and God dwelling with His people. This set points prophetically to national Israel’s judgment, purification, and preparation for the reign of Jesus the Messiah & King of Israel, on earth from Jerusalem.

The Book of Ruth – God’s Redemptive Plan for National Israel

by Dane Gay

Posted: September 16, 2025

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The Book of Ruth best lays the overview of God’s redemptive plan for Israel. Naomi is the type of Israel, Ruth the Moabite Gentile and her daughter-in-law as a type of the Church, and Boaz the Israelite Kinsman Redeemer as a type of Jesus. Naomi is left husbandless and has no hope without a kinsman redeemer, just as unfaithful Israel is left husbandless when given a writ of divorce by God (Jer. 3:8).

But, Ruth the Gentile by faith declares to Naomi that “where you go, I will go, and where you sleep, I will sleep. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD do so to me, and worse, if anything but death separates me from you.” It is through Ruth’s faithfulness to Naomi, and Israel’s God, that God brings about Naomi’s restoration through the law of the Kinsman redeemer (Leviticus 25:25).

When Boaz, Naomi’s Israelite kinsman takes Ruth the Gentile as his bride, Boaz redeems Naomi, and restores her inheritance in God’s eternal covenants.

In the same way, national Israel has been husbandless all these years because of her unfaithfulness, and rejection of her Messianic King, Yeshua, and therefore has been subject to the curses of the Law, persecution, bitterness, and scattering.

But God’s eternal covenants to Israel have yet to be fulfilled, and the process of fulfillment has already begun with Christ Jesus’ death, resurrection, ascenscion, and coming return.

God has already begun the regathering of national Israel into the land of covenant, and through the marriage of the Israelite Kinsman Redeemer and the Church (the remnant of believing Israel & believing Gentiles), will restore national Israel to her inheritance and fulfillment of all the eternal covenants of God.

Eyewitness Accounts

by Dane Gay

Posted: September 7, 2025

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How can we prove that the biblical Jesus of Nazarene is the Savior and not someone else?

God has given us archaeological evidence, historical evidence, and more importantly, eyewitness testimony.

“On the mouth of two or three witnesses, let a matter be established.”

We have the eyewitness testimonies of Moses, Samuel, Amos, Habbakkuk, Ezra, Nehemiah, Isaiah, Ezekiel, and so on.

We have the eyewitness testimonies of those who saw, heard, touched, and were touched by Jesus Himself. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Mary, Peter, Paul, James, Jude, and so on.

You have your eyewitness testimony, I have mine. Others have theirs.

All of these eyewitness accounts are after the fact. But there is one eyewitness account that is greater than all of these.

God’s testimony. You see, He says that He alone is God and that Jesus is His Messiah, the Savior of the world and His only begotten Son, and that we would know it without a shadow of a doubt because unlike all the other eyewitness accounts that were after the fact, God’s account was before the fact.

He told us the end from the beginning. He told us who Jesus would be BEFORE he came.

Prophecy is God’s eyewitness account and Jesus fulfilled over 365 pinpoint prophecies when He came the first time.

But God’s eyewitness account isn’t done yet. There are still many more things that God has said that are being fulfilled today, and are going to be fulfilled tomorrow an on into the future, until He has accomplished all His plans for saving the human race, both Jews and Gentiles, people from every family, every language.

But not everyone will be saved, only those who believe all the evidence that God has so painstakingly provided, guarded, and communicated to us through the Bible, and through His people, and through the miraculously continued existence of the Jewish people that Satan has tried but failed to annihilate over and over again.

So God says to all of us: “do not be faithless and unbelieving, but believe and keep believing the truth I have given you.” And Jesus Christ says: “You believe in God, believe also in me.”

“Never Again” Will Happen Again

by Dane Gay

Posted: August 19, 2025

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“Never again!” will happen one more time when Jacob makes a covenant of death with the Son of Perdition who comes in his own name. But the LORD will save a remnant of Israel when the Holy One of Israel, Yeshua is His Name, appears in the heavens and they cry out for Him to deliver them & say “Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the LORD!”

“for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”” Matthew‬ ‭23‬:‭39‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive.”
‭‭John‬ ‭5‬:‭43‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day (the Day of Christ) will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.” II Thessalonians‬ ‭2‬:‭3‬-‭4‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“Then he shall confirm a covenant with many for one week; But in the middle of the week He shall bring an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate, Even until the consummation, which is determined, Is poured out on the desolate.”” Daniel‬ ‭9‬:‭27‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“All the host of heaven shall be dissolved, And the heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll; All their host shall fall down As the leaf falls from the vine, And as fruit falling from a fig tree.” Isaiah‬ ‭34‬:‭4‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

““Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.” Matthew‬ ‭24‬:‭29‬-‭30‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

“I looked when He opened the sixth seal, and behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became like blood. And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind. Then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved out of its place. And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, and said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb! For the great day of His wrath has come, and who is able to stand?””
‭‭Revelation‬ ‭6‬:‭12‬-‭17‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

The Rod that Budded

by Dane Gay

Updated: December 10, 2025

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Aaron’s rod that budded & bore fruit (almonds) points to Jesus’ Resurrection.

– Made clear to the children of Israel God’s choice for High Priest (to make atonement & intercession on behalf of the people)

– What was dead is brought to life and bears good fruit

– A tangible reminder to keep the complaints of the people from kindling God’s wrath

“It will come about that the rod of the man whom I choose will sprout. Thus I will lessen from upon Myself the grumblings of the sons of Israel, who are grumbling against you.”

Moses therefore spoke to the sons of Israel, and all their leaders gave him a rod apiece, for each leader according to their fathers’ households, twelve rods, with the rod of Aaron among their rods. So Moses deposited the rods before the Lord in the tent of the testimony.

Now on the next day Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi had sprouted and put forth buds and produced blossoms, and it bore ripe almonds.

Moses then brought out all the rods from the presence of the Lord to all the sons of Israel; and they looked, and each man took his rod. But the Lord said to Moses, “Put back the rod of Aaron before the testimony to be kept as a sign against the rebels, that you may put an end to their grumblings against Me, so that they will not die.”

Thus Moses did; just as the Lord had commanded him, so he did.” Numbers 17:5-11 NASB1995