I still view the Last Trump of Matthew 24, 1 Corinthians 15 and 1 Thessalonians 4 as being the Seventh Trumpet of Revelation 10 and 11. But I've changed from viewing that Trumpet as sounded on Yom Teruah to viewing it as sounding on Yom Kippur. I had flirted with this theory before, but am now convinced by nuances I didn't notice before.
But I need to lay some groundwork first.
Chris White likes to draw a strong distinction between the Shofar and the Silver Trumpets of Numbers 10 and 31:6, saying it is only the Silver Trumpets that the Prophets associated with the Day of The LORD.
First of all I think drawing such a strong distinction between them is invalid. Hosea 5:8 used both in the same verse in a way that could justify seeing them as synonyms. The assumption that the Shofar was a Ram's Horn is not really Biblically proven. Joshua 6 does once use Qeren (Horn) to describe those Shofars, but that word is also used of the Horns of the Brazen Altar so we know it can refer to objects made of metal. Every time the KJV of Joshua 6 says "Ram's" however it's actually using the word Yobel, the word for Jubilee, none of the Hebrew words for Ram, Goat or Lamb are in that chapter.
But if they are distinct then it's only the Shofar that is explicitly tied to the Day of The LORD. Most explicitly in Zephaniah 1:14-18 which I'll discus more later. But also Joel 2:1, 15-16, where my personal theory is verse 1 is the Sixth Trumpet when the Day of the LORD is nigh but not quite here yet, and then 15-16 is the Seventh Trumpet and a pretty solid description of the Rapture. Psalm 81 which I've discussed before also uses Shofar.
Isaiah 27:13 is also interesting. Now when Pre-Tribbers (or more specifically an old Prophecy In The News episode) try to make that verse about the Rapture they argue the word for "perish" can be translated "disappear" or "vanish" to help their Secret Rapture doctrine, I'm not gonna support that. What I think is that those ready to perish are believers who because of their Faith in the Resurrection are prepared to die for their Faith in the Messiah. Remember pretty much all non Pre-Tribbers agree the Rapture happens during a time of persecution.
There are other uses of Shofar in the Prophets and Psalms that could be about the the Eschatological Trumpets of Revelation 8-11, but these are the ones I'm most strongly interested in.
It is also the Shofar that is used when YHWH's voice is described as being like a Trumpet in Exodus 19:13-16, 20:18 and Isaiah 58:1. So that shows that Revelation 1:10& 4:1 have the Shofar in mind, and Hebrews 12:19 is probably the same. And since the Greek is using the same word in those verses as every reference to the Rapture Trump and the Seven Trumpets it's likely they too are Shofar.
Also in the Hebrew Bible only the Shofar is associated with the number 7 thanks to Joshua 6. In the Torah it's always singular when it is used, but the Silver Trumpets are inherently a pair, a duo.
Chris White and one Kariate website I used to visit argued that there is no Biblical proof for Yom Teruah of Leviticus 23:24 and Numbers 29:1 being about Trumpets. In the past on this blog I'd argued against their position, but now I've come to agree with it.
The word Teruah is associated with the Silver Trumpets in Numbers 10 and the Shofar in places like Joshua 6. But there are also plenty of places where it doesn't seem to involve Trumpets at all. And to make things even more confusing thanks to Leviticus 25:9 the First day of the Seventh Month isn't even the only Holy Day the word Teruah is directly linked to.
In Leviticus 25:9 Teruah is used of the sounding of the Shofar on the Yom Kippur that comes six months prior to the Jubilee year. The KJV confusingly translated the word "Jubilee" here, but every other time "Jubilee" appears in the KJV including the very next verse it is Yobel.
I had even very recently tried to use Zephaniah 1:16 as smoking gun proof that the Day of the LORD is Yom Teruah. But the word "Day" is not used directly of Teruah in that verse but rather of the Shofar, it is the day of the Shofar's Teruah. And in the Torah that day is the Yom Kippur of the 49th Year.
I still think the Resurrection and Ascension of the Two Witnesses possibly happens on Yom Teruah. I'm thinking of connecting the 10 days that would begin there and end with The Rapture to the 10 days of tribulation refereed to in the message to Smyrna, and typologically to the ten days of Genesis 24:55. But that's a conjecture and maybe all of this happens on the 10th or at least the evening of the 9th.
In my last post discussing Yom Kippur I showed that the "fast" of Yom Kippur ends at Sunset of the Tenth day. I shall speculate that that is also when The Trumpet sounds.
Naturally making the Day of the LORD the pre Jubilee Yom Kippur backs up seeing the Jubilee as a type of the Millennium.
I was suprised how rarely the word Shofar is actually used in the Torah. Three out of five uses are saying the voice of YHWH is like a Shofar. Only this Yom Kippur prior to the Jubilee verse uses it of an instrument the Israelites sound.
I'm not in this post going to make any date setting guesses based on theories about the proper Jubilee cycle. But since even arguing the Rapture happens on Yom Kippur is treated as date setting by Pre-Wrathers, I shall direct you all to my post refuting the anti date setting argument.
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