All over the world,
Jews celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Occurring usually in the
month of September, this feast is celebrated with the blowing of trumpets—the
shofar or ram’s horn. That is why it is also called the Feast of Trumpets.
The Jews observe seven
feasts: The Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, Pentecost, Trumpets,
Atonement and Tabernacles. The first four have been fulfilled literally by
Jesus. He was the Passover Lamb (see 1 Corinthians 5:7), the bread of life (see
John 6:35) and the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep (see 1
Corinthians 15:20). And when Pentecost had fully come after His ascension, He
sent us the Holy Spirit (see Acts 2:1–4).
So the next feast that
we are waiting for Jesus to fulfill literally is the Feast of Trumpets. Why is
this feast significant to us? Because when Jesus fulfills it, it means that we
are going up to meet Him in the clouds!
I am talking about the
rapture of the church. When the trumpet sounds, “in the twinkling of an eye,”
we who are alive will be changed. We will put on new bodies that will be like
Jesus’! Those who are dead in Christ will rise and also receive new bodies.
They will go up first followed by us who are alive, and we will all meet the
Lord in the air (see 1 Corinthians 15:51–55).
This means that there
is a possibility that you might not see death! The Bible says, “Then we who are
alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the
clouds to meet the Lord in the air” (1 Thessalonians 4:17). It is one thing to
happen to be alive, but quite another to remain alive.
I believe that there is a generation of Christians who know the resurrection power of the Lord. They know how to walk in their inheritance and put off sickness and death until the coming of the Lord. My friend, may you be counted as one of them as you take the Lord Jesus and His finished work as your victory over sickness and death! ? (Article & Picture; courtesy of Joseph Prince Ministries used with kind permission).
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