The Biblical Feast of Trumpets, also known as Rosh Hashanah (Head of the Year), begins tonight, Friday September 15, at Sundown and ends on Sunday, September 17, at Sundown—the 5th of the 7 ‘Feasts of the Lord” and the 1st of the 3 Fall Feasts.
All 7 Feasts of the Lord have a Prophetic and Practical Fulfillment in Jesus Christ—the 4 Spring Feasts were Fulfilled to the Day in the First Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and the 3 Fall Feasts shall be Fulfilled to the Day in the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ!
Beginning this Sunday and for the next 3 Sundays (if I’m still here), we will teach on exactly how these 3 Fall Feasts shall be Fulfilled in our lives in Jesus Christ!
I said, “if I’m still here,” because I’m fully persuaded, and shall prove from Scripture, that the Feast of Trumpets shall be Fulfilled by the Resurrection of the dead in Christ and Rapture of the Church prior to the 7-Year Tribulation! In other words, by this Sunday Evening I and you (if yu are a true Believer in Jesus Christ) may all be with our Lord Jesus in Heaven gathered around His Throne! !
You think I dance now? Wait until you see me dancing then!
The 3 songs we shall praise and worship God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ and Holy Spirit with have been picked to Teach and Admonish us about the Resurrection/Rapture. Song 1, Days of Elijah, is a well-known praise and worship song which we have sung many times—although the “Pre-Tribulation Rapture Theology” is not as clear in this first song, it’s still wonderful to worship with on the Feast of Trumpets!
But songs 2 and 3 clearly Teach and/or Admonish us about the Pre-Tribulation Rapture; and are well known songs, though seldom sung in Church. In fact, when I sent them to Debbie Shoemaker for her and I to practice for this Sunday and I acknowledged they are not songs we usually sing, Debbie replied, Yes, but these are Classics!
And praise and worship songs should Teach and Admonish us, as it is Written:
Colossians 3:16 (KJV)
16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
And all 3 songs are grounded in and quote from Holy Scripture! Song 2 is, Midnight Cry by John Starnes! If you’ve been in the Church, especially the Pentecostal Church since the mid ‘80’s like me and gathered every Sunday after Church around the TV to watch Jimmy Swaggart, one of the highlights for me was always when John Starnes would sing! Though John went to work for Jimmy Swaggart who is affiliated with the Assemblies of God, John Starnes is a Church of God guy!
Finally our 3rd song is by the band DC Talk, who stormed onto the Contemporary Christian Music scene with their album, “Jesus Freak,” harkening back to the “Jesus Revolution” which swept the Nation in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, when the “Hippie Movement had swept the country in which the more conservative American culture called the Hippies “Freaks;” so when a bunch of Hippies began turning to Jesus, renouncing Drugs, Fornication, etc., they became known as “Jesus Freaks!” My first “Encounter with Jesus was as a 16-year-old teenager on Easter Morning on Clearwater Beach, FL, where about 100 “Jesus Freaks” were gathered Baptizing in the ocean!
This 3rd song by DC Talk is a re-do of the late ‘60s song by Larry Norman, “I Wish We’d All Been Ready!” If you’re not Saved yet, I bet you will be by the end of that song!
So here they are:
1. Days of Elijah – Robin Mark (5:18):
2. Midnight Cry – John Starnes (4:23):
3. I Wish We’d All Been Ready – DC Talk (3:31):
I’ll see you here or there or in the Air!
Pastor Jim Alderdice, New Life Worship Center Church of God, Peoria, AZ