ll future. Nor will the events foreshadowed come to pass till the
harvest, the end of the age, comes, and the church has been removed
from the earth. The trumpets here must not be identified with the last
trump in 1 Cor. xv:53 or the trump of God in 1 Thess. iv. The feast of
trumpets does not foreshadow the Coming of the Lord for His Saints.
The feast of trumpets shows prophetically the call of God to the
remnant of His earthly people. They are to be regathered and a remnant
of them is to be brought back. But the Lord does not regather earthly
Israel as long as His heavenly people are still here. An awakening
spiritually and nationally is predicted throughout the prophetic Word
for His people Israel. See Isa. xxvii:13 and Joel ii:1. Matt. xxiv:31
has often been applied as meaning the church. This is incorrect. The
elect to be gathered by the trumpets' sound is Israel. The blowing of
the trumpets on the first day of the seventh month precedes the great
day of atonement and heralds that approaching day.

+Jehovah-Roi+, "the Lord is my Shepherd" (Psalm xxiii:1). Christians
have almost universally applied this precious Psalm to themselves and
forgotten that Israel also has a part in it. He who is our Shepherd is
the Shepherd of Israel. He gave His life as the good Shepherd for all
His sheep; yea, He died for that nation (John xi:51). There is a day
coming when this loving, caring Shepherd, who was here once and sought
the lost sheep of the house of Israel, will seek them again. "Behold
I, even I, will both search for my sheep and will seek them out. As a
shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his flock
that are scattered, so will I seek out my sheep; and will deliver them
out of all places whither they have been scattered in the day of clouds
and thick darkness. And I will bring them out from the peoples and
gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land,
and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers and in all the
inhabited places of the country" (Ezek. xxxiv:11-14). And when He
gathers them, then will they joyfully praise Him as their Shepherd and
know Jehovah-Roi.

+VI. The Day of Atonement+. This solemn feast followed immediately
the blowing of the trumpets. Lev. xvi gives us the full description of
that important day. On that day the blood of a sacrificial animal was
carried within the vail and sprinkled by the high-priest on the mercy
seat.