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The Sabbath During the Day of TemptationLeviticus 23:23-25
Excerpted from: Jesus in the Feasts (Part Three): Divine KingWe have gone over this phrase, "a memorial of blowing of trumpets" many times. I know I have given, I do not know, a dozen sermons on the Day of Trumpets where we go over that in some form or another. And we know that it literally means a remembrance of shouting. If we were to take the Hebrew and just literally translate the words there, that is what we would get. It is not necessarily a memorial of blowing of trumpets, but a remembrance of shouting. And the shouting is thought to refer to the shout or blast of a shofar.
Now we can understand it to mean the sound, and this sound is very important here, of either literal shouting of people or to the sound or the blare of a trumpet or a horn. Sound is very important here because we are talking about loudness, a blast of sound, a howl, a roar, a prolonged sound of people shouting, either that or the blast of a horn.
The shouting of people or the blast of a horn could fit the definition here of the remembrance of shouting. So just tuck that in the back of your mind.
In Hebrew, this feast is called Yom Teruah. Clyde [Finklea] talked to us about that on the Sabbath. And literally that means a day of shouting. Yom and Teruah, literally, day shouting, day of shouting.
Leviticus 23:23-25
Excerpted from: Christ's Second ComingNow I'm sure that we've all gone through these verses many times in the past depending on the numbers of Day of Trumpets we've kept. We pretty much go here in scripture every time. And I'm sure you've heard that this phrase, "a memorial of blowing of trumpets" is not literally what it says. It's been somewhat interpreted that way. It is really a "remembrance of shouting." Like a bunch of people—a whole multitude—let's say all the children of Israel—all giving one big shout all at once.
But, it has an even more particular definition than that. And that's why the translators decided to change it to "a blowing of trumpets," because when the shofar is blown, it is said to be "shouting." So, they've changed it to mean that it is the shout of the shofar, or the way we'd look at it, the blowing of a trumpet. So, the way it is rendered is perfectly fine. It is just a few phrases down the line from its literal meaning.
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