What the Bible Says About the Meaning of the Silver Trumpets

Symbolism of the Silver Trumpets

The silver trumpets in ancient times were used as a means of divine communication and order. They were a means by which Yahuah directed His people, ensuring that the community moved in unity and obedience to His commands. Also, the sound of the trumpet was a reminder of Yahuah’s covenant with Israel and His ongoing presence among them.

In the New Covenant we are told that those who believe and follow Yahusha are the Israel of Yah. 

Galatians 3: 26 For you are all sons of Yahuah through faith in Yahusha. 27 For as many of you as were baptized into Yahusha have put on Messiah. 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Yahusha Messiah 29 And if you are Yahuah’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Galatians 3:5 Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?— 6 just as Abraham “believed Yahuah, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” 7 Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham.

These verses tell us that it is no longer the Hebrew blood line that counts as being the children of Israel, rather it is our faith and obedience to the Way of Yahusha that makes us the children of Abraham and therefore the inheritors of the promises made to him.  The Israel of Yah who are in Messiah are counted for Abraham’s seed because of their faith.  So what do the silver trumpets have to do with those who are in Yahusha Messiah? 

Metaphorically, the trumpets of ancient times can be seen as a precursor to the eschatological themes found in the New Testament, where trumpets are associated with end times and the return of Yahusha Messiah and the final gathering of Yahuah’s people (1 Thessalonians 4:16, Revelation 8-11). The use of trumpets in both the Old and New Testaments highlights their role as instruments of divine proclamations and warnings.

Throughout the Book of Revelation, trumpets are used to sound the alarm of something significant that is about to happen and also while in the process of happening. In chapter 4 of Revelation there are seven seals, and within the seventh seal, there are seven trumpets that are to be blown during the day of Yahuah. Each trumpet will pronounce a specific judgment that will effect the people and the earth. They will intensify as each subsequent trumpet is blown.  At the seventh trumpet something of great magnitude will happen:

Revelation 11:15 Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Yahuah and of His me, and He shall reign forever and ever!” 16 And the twenty-four elders who sat before Yahuah on their thrones fell on their faces and worshiped Yahuah, 17 saying: “We give You thanks, O Yahuah Almighty, The One who is and who was and who is to come, Because You have taken Your great power and reigned. 18 The nations were angry, and Your wrath has come, And the time of the dead, that they should be judged, And that You should reward Your servants the prophets and the saints, And those who fear Your name, small and great, And should destroy those who destroy the earth.”

The Feast of Trumpets then is a memorial of this time when the fulfillment of all the promises of the Messiah coming to reign on earth will finally take place. The Son of Yahuah will come in all His glory to take His rightful place on earth, to take over all the kingdoms of the world, and will be King over all for ever more. This will all occur at the great and magnificent sounding of trumpets in the heavens.

Those who have put their trust in Yahusha as their Savior, and have made themselves servants of Yahuah their Father and who REMEMBER His laws to keep them as instructed in His Word, will be REMEMBERD by Yahuah and He will save them from their enemies, with the last enemy being “Death”.  (1 Corinthians 15:26, 55)

He will remember His Covenant and do what He has promised to do throughout the Bible. In his letter to Timothy Paul states that Yahuah cannot deny Himself (2 Timothy 2:13), which says “if we are faithless, he remains faithful—for he cannot deny himself.” This verse is contained in a passage where Paul is encouraging Timothy to “share in suffering as a good soldier of Yahusha Messiah” (2 Tim. 2:3) and to not get entangled in civilian pursuits. This is saying, that even if we are unfaithful, Yahuah remains faithful. He is dependable and steadfast. His character does not change. He cannot deny His own nature. He is going to do what He says He is going to do. He made a Covenant with mankind right from Genesis 3:15 and He is going to fulfill His part.

When Paul says that Yahuah cannot deny Himself, it means Yahuah is consistent. His attributes do not change. He does not contradict Himself or go back on His promises.

Numbers 23:19 declares, “Yahuah is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?” Yahuah always acts in accordance with who He is. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever (See also Hebrews. 13:8).

Secondly, Yahuah cannot deny Himself because He is truth. He is the essence of truth. There is no falsehood or deception in Him. Titus 1:2 says, “Yahuah, who never lies.” 2 Samuel 7:28 affirms, “O Yahuah Elohim … your words are true.” Yahuah speaks only truth because He is truth. Yahuah denying Himself would be antithetical to His nature.

Third, Yahuah’s faithfulness stems from His immutability. He does not change like shifting shadows (James 1:17). There is no variation or shifting in Yahuah (James. 1:17). He established His Covenant with an oath to demonstrate its unchanging character (Hebrews 6:17). He keeps His promises and fulfills what He spoke long ago (Joshua. 23:14). His plans stand firm forever and His purposes last eternally (Psalm 33:11).

I believe this is what the Feast of Trumpets is referring to when it says it is a day of remembrance, for it foreshadows that on a future Feast of Trumpets when Yahuah’s Covenant will come to fruition in all it’s fullness, when Yahusha comes to earth to save the world from the evil forces that have ruled since the time of Adam and Eve.

From a Biblical viewpoint, the Feasts of Trumpets holds eschatological significance. It is seen as a foreshadowing of the return of Yahusha, when the “trumpet of Yah” will sound, and the dead in Yahusha Messiah will rise (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17). This feast is also a reminder of the need for readiness and vigilance in anticipation of Yahuah’s return.

1 Thessalonians 4:16 For Yahuah Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of Yahuah. And the dead in Yahusha will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet Yahuah in the air. And thus we shall always be with Yahuah.

Matthew 24:29 “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. 30 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. 31 And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

For modern day believers, the silver trumpets serve as a reminder of the importance of listening for Yahuah’s direction and responding in obedience. They also emphasize the need for communal worship and the celebration of Yahuah’s faithfulness and deliverance.

The blowing of trumpets, is central to this feast. The trumpet sound serves multiple purposes: it is a call to repentance, a reminder of Yahuah’s sovereignty, and a herald of significant events. The sound of the trumpets is a spiritual wake-up call, urging the people to examine their lives and return to Yahuah.

Joel 2:1 Blow the trumpet in Zion, And sound an alarm in My holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; For the day of the Lord is coming, For it is at hand: 2 A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds and thick darkness, Like the morning clouds spread over the mountains. A people come, great and strong, The like of whom has never been; Nor will there ever be any such after them, Even for many successive generations.

The Feasts of Trumpets, with its rich symbolism and profound spiritual implications, continues to be a time of reflection and renewal. It calls believers to remember Yahuah’s past acts showing His presence and intervention; to repent and seek His face, and to look forward with hope to the fulfillment of all His promises.

Historical Context

When Adam and Eve disobeyed Yahuah’s clear directive to not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, Yahuah pronounced a curse on Adam and his descendants that they would be under the rule of  Satan for a season of time, but the curse also contained a promise. It was the promise that Yahuah would one day send the Messiah to die for the sins of all humanity, that mankind might be saved if they would accept Yahusha’s atoning sacrifice for their sins and then live in accordance with Yahuah’s WAY of life for evermore. The promise included the fact that Satan would bruise Messiah’s heel (at the time of the crucifixion and death of Yahusha) but that the Messiah Yahusha would some day have the ultimate victory and would bruise (break) Satan’s head.

The Hebrew word for bruise is shuph (Strong’s #7779) and means break, bruise, cover, to overwhelm.(Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance)

Throughout history and throughout all generations mankind has forgotten and turned away from their Creator. In Deuteronomy, Yahuah gives us a warning about keeping His laws and way of life. If we will remember to do that, we will be blessed in our lives, and as a community the land would be blessed. But if we forget that it is Yahuah who gives us our blessings and turn from Him and forget to do His commandments, we will surely perish and be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 8:1 “Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which Yahuah swore to your fathers. 2 And you shall remember that Yahuah your Elohim led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not. 3 So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of Yahuah. 4 Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years. 5 You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so Yahuah your Elohim chastens you.

6 “Therefore you shall keep the commandments of the Yahuah your Elohim to walk in His ways and to fear Him. 7 For Yahuah your Elohim is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, that flow out of valleys and hills; 8 a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey; 9 a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills you can dig copper. 10 When you have eaten and are full, then you shall bless Yahuah your Elohim for the good land which He has given you. 11 “Beware that you do not forget Yahuah your Elohim by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today, 12 lest—when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them; 13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; 14 when your heart is lifted up, and you forget Yahuah your Elohim who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage; 15 who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty land where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the flinty rock; 16 who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do you good in the end— 17 then you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’

18 “And you shall remember Yahuah your Elohim, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may [h]establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. 19 Then it shall be, if you by any means forget Yahuah your Elohim, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish. 20 As the nations which the Lord destroys before you, so you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of Yahuah your Elohim.

So, Again, What is the Feast of Trumpets?

It is a memorial of blowing of the trumpets; a remembrance of the great trumpet of Yahuah that He sounded on the day that He entered into a Marriage Covenant with the children of Israel. This day reminds us that we are to stay faithful to Yahuah’s Covenants (now the New Covenant) and to celebrate the accomplishment that Yahuah will do to bring about the complete return of His people to embrace His law and the whole Word of Yahuah once again.

The memorial of the blowing of trumpets is a memorial of all of Yahuah’s Covenants and His Promise to remember them. All these events center on what Yahuah has promised and on what He has done for humanity over the years of man on earth since the sin of Adam and Eve. Yahuah’s promise is about the culmination and fulfillment of all people turning back to Yahuah when He sends His son to set up His Kingdom, and ultimately after the Millennium, when all mankind (all those who repent and commit to sin no more) have been turned back to their Creator and His way of life when He is going to make a New Heaven and New Earth. It stands for completion; an end and completion of the Plan of Salvation for humanity.

Mary prophesied of the purpose for the Baby that would come from her womb and how it was a fulfillment of the promise to the people of Israel (and those who would become believers, therefore being accounted the same as the Israel of Yahuah (Galatians 6:16 Romans 9:6-8). She even states in this passage that He is the promised Messiah spoken by all the prophets, and it is because Yahuah remembered His Holy Covenant that He made to our ancestors, that this Son would save us from our enemies. Who is our most adamant enemy? It is Satan and all his minions that have oppressed mankind since the rebellion of Adam and Eve and became the god of this world as a result of their rebellion. Mankind’s ultimate enemy is death and that too will be defeated in the end.

Luke 2:68 Blessed be Yahuah Elohim of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, 69 And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; 70 As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began: 71 That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; 72 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; 73 The oath which he sware to our father Abraham, 74 That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, 75 In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

When is this going to happen in all of its fullness? It will be at the return of our Savior Yahusha at the sound of a great trumpet! The Feast of Trumpets is a reminder that Yahuah will remember His covenant with mankind and take over the world from the hand of our number one enemy and bring about restoration and righteousness to fill the earth once again.

The beginning of the next phase of the plan of Yahuah will start during the Main Fall Harvest symbolized by the Feast of Tabernacles. Yahuah will begin the work of delivering and saving the “rest of the dead” (Revelation 20:5, 12-13); all those who have died during this present evil age who had not been called during their physical lifetimes. He will remove the veil from off of their eyes and He will give them a new heart with His Covenant written within them and they too will become the Family of Yahuah just like He has done with the spiritual nation of Israel (Gentiles and Israelites alike whosoever have grafted themselves into the olive tree by their belief) during the first six thousand years and also in the Millennium of all those who repented of all of their sins, committed to sin no more and entered the New Covenant with Yahuah.

When the New Heavens and the New Earth have come down from heaven and when the whole earth has been restored and all those who have repented and have entered into the Family of Yahuah, is when the work of saving mankind (all those who ultimately choose to believe and repent of their sins) will be finished. Satan will be removed once and for all and will no longer have influence of the people. It is a time of remembering what Yahuah has done through His Son Yahusha Messiah beginning with the promise to send the Messiah in Genesis at the very beginning of man’s sin in the Garden. It is about Yahuah’s Covenants with Noah, then Abraham, then the children of Israel and then the Davidic covenant. All of the covenants are tied to each other and make up of the overall plan and purpose of what Yahuah is going to do to bring about salvation for all people.

It was Joshua who was given the command to have his men and priests march around Jericho with trumpets for seven days, and at the end of the seven days the walls of Jericho came tumbling down, that said at the end of his life when he had accomplished all that Yahuah had given him to do: that all of Yahuah’s promises had come to pass, not one of them had failed.

Joshua 23:14 And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which Yahuah your Elohim spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.

On the future day Day of Trumpets, the true day in which this feast depicts, we will be able to look back and say the same, for Yahuah will have fulfilled all of His promises and will have kept all of His Covenants, not one of His promises had failed.

“They Shall Be My People and I Will be Their Elohim”

The blowing of trumpets can also be about much joy and rejoicing. When David brought the ark of the covenant back to Jerusalem to set it in the tent he had prepared for it, there was much rejoicing, singing, praising Yahuah to the sound of trumpets.

1 Chronicles 15:28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Yahuah with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.

That day David composed a song that he gave to Asaph to have sung as a commemorative of the momentous event that had happened: the return of the Ark of the Covenant. The theme of the song was: “Give thanks unto Yahuah, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people. Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his wondrous works. Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek Yahuah”.

This is what I believe it will be like on the day of Trumpets, the day that the Memorial of Blowing of Trumpets commemorates. This song of David was sung along with the blowing of the trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant in celebration of bringing the Ark home. Here again the trumpet is connected to the Covenant of Yahuah (which the Ark represented). That day, and the celebration that took place on that day, was because of what Yahuah had done for David and the children of Israel.

David was not only king of Israel, he was also a prophet. The song he composed is also looking forward as a prophecy of the victory that will take place in Zion when Yahuah has final victory over Satan and he is no longer able to torment and oppress the people any longer and the Covenant will once again be established over the whole world and all peoples will walk in the laws of Yahuah. It will be a time of rejoicing and great celebration just like in the time of David when the Art of the Covenant was brought back to the land of Israel. Some day soon, Yahuah’s Covenant will return to the land of Israel and from there will go forth unto to all other nations.

1 Chronicles 16:4 And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark of Yahuah, and to record, and to thank and praise Yahuah Elohim of Israel: 5 Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obededom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals; 6 Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of Yahuah. 7 Then on that day David delivered first this psalm to thank Yahuah into the hand of Asaph and his brethren.

This is David’s song about Yahuah’s marvelous works and of His wonders:

1 Chronicles 16:8 Give thanks unto Yahuah, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the nations.

The Last Enemy Destroyed And Our Final Victory 

1 Corinthians 15:54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

56 The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to Yahuah, who gives us the victory through our Messiah Yahusha HaMashiach. 55 “O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?” 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of Yahuah, knowing that your labor is not in vain in Yahuah.

The Feasts of Trumpets, with its rich symbolism and profound spiritual implications, continues to be a time of reflection and renewal. It calls all the people of the world to remember Yahuah’s past acts of momentous events, to repent and seek His face, and to look forward with hope to the fulfillment of His promises.

In these modern times, the sound of the trumpet is going out in the voices of those who are sounding the alarm for the people of the world to wake up, to repent of their sins, and get ready for the most spectacular and monumentous event of all history which is going to take place in the near future.

Will you hear and heed the sound of the trumpet, turn from your sins and the entanglements of this world? And then go forth as a child of Yahuah our Heavenly Father, forever as a member of His spiritual family enjoying eternal life with Him and His Son in the New Heavens and the New Earth…..a kingdom, wherein dwells righteousness….forever.