Feast of Trumpets and the Resurrection

Now, as we go forward into the lesson tonight, this is truly important. One of the reasons I wanted to do this tonight is we all know that we're going into the feast days: the Feast of Trumpets, Yom Kippur, the Feast of Tabernacles. And as we all know on this channel, the Feast of Trumpets will begin the day of the Lord when He returns. We're going to go through that if one doesn't understand it. So normally, I go through these videos from Genesis to Revelation. But tonight, we're going to be reversed. We're going to look at it and we're going to try to explain, if someone's on the channel that might not know this information, the importance of that education. So I'm not going to start teaching from the calendar and the days. I'm going to go to Paul first, and then we'll backtrack to show everybody the importance of what Paul is speaking about with all of these things.

So again, we're headed into the Feast of Trumpets, the feast days, here in a couple nights. And I think it's very important for all of us to understand what the day of the Lord looks like, because this is the season to understand that so we can relate and also the prophecies. We're going to go through Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel during the 10 days, the 10 days of awe, so that we can have an understanding as we go through this season of celebrating and proclaiming and being intimate with our King and the expectation of what He's going to do on His divine appointments or His feast days in Leviticus 23.

So without further ado, let's go through 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, and then we'll go through the trajectory through chapter 5, and then also 2 Thessalonians 1 and also verse 2 as well.

Okay, so 1 Thessalonians 4:13 through 18. Let's look at what it says: "But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Yeshua died and rose again, even so Yahweh will bring with Him those who sleep in Yeshua. For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means be preceded by those who are asleep."

So we'll stop right there. Paul's trying to explain to the Thessalonian church that some of them felt that they were missing the day of the Lord because some people had passed away. And he's saying, "No, if they passed away, they're going to rise first with us at the coming of the Lord." So we've got to wait and understand what the coming of the Lord is and what that means as far as the resurrection is concerned as well. And as we keep reading, he's going to keep explaining to us. We're not going to have to understand. He's going to keep explaining to us. We don't have to guess the understanding of what the apostle was truly speaking about of the day of the Lord, the resurrection, and all of these beautiful tie-ins.

"For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with a trumpet of God." Okay, let me stop there, my friends. This is literal. This is not symbolic. We've got to quit taking the Bible symbolically until it tells us to take it symbolically, like the book of Daniel, the book of Revelation. And even when it's symbolic, it's going to give you the interpretation in the book of Daniel or in the book of Revelation. So again, we can't just symbolize this. When he says "the trumpet of God," that is pointing to one thing. That's pointing to the Feast of Trumpets. That's pointing to only one feast day, and that is the Feast of Trumpets, which Yeshua will have to fulfill at His second coming events. He must fulfill it as the Jewish Messiah. So that's super important. So this is talking about the Feast of Trumpets when He returns. And that is from the calendar and the days. And we'll go back and we'll show you that with the times and the seasons as well.

"And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore, comfort one another with these words."

So, we need to comfort one another with these words that once Yeshua returns for second coming events on the Feast of Trumpets, that's literal in 1 Thessalonians 4, then He's going to get the dead first, rise up, and then we will come with them afterwards, and we'll meet the Lord in the air. You don't see any mention of this happening during the seven-year tribulation. He doesn't mention the tribulation in here at all. He just does not. He mentions what he mentions about the day of the Lord. So remember, this whole process of this chapter and the next chapter and the next book of 2 Thessalonians is a trajectory of the day of the Lord. And He's going to explain all of these things to us so that we can comprehend them.

So again, in 1 Thessalonians 4, we're finding out that the dead and the ones who are on the earth will rise up and meet the Lord in the air at the trumpet sound of God, which points directly to the Feast of Trumpets.