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 Colossians chapters 1 and 2 provide information about The Body and gives direct permission for Gentiles to Celebrate The Day of Trumpets, 2:16-17. Paul states that Day deals directly with The Body of Christ at the end of 2:17.  The Book of Ephesians provides most of the detail about The Body of Christ. For details, read the Booklets in The Website....

 The Book of Galatians presents an analysis of the circumstances involved with adding Gentile Believers into The Body of Christ. Paul writes about the problems and solutions Gentile Believers faced when they were first added to The Body of Believers. Acts 15 had given Gentiles permission to become believers without being circumcised and several other directions were set forth. Finally it was stated that Gentiles should gather with other believers on every Sabbath Day..... Acts 15:21.

The Origin of Trumpets

The feasts of the Lord were celebrated each year on specific days, because they memorialized certain events that occurred during the days of Moses. Passover was when Israel was redeemed from the house of bondage in Egypt.

The wave-sheaf offering memorialized the day Israel crossed the Red Sea. Pentecost was the day Israel received the law at Mount Horeb.

A few months went by, and then more events occurred which were later memorialized by the second cluster of feasts. The twelve spies were sent to spy out the land of Canaan for 40 days (Numbers 13:2, 25). They began their mission on the first day of the sixth month, and returned on the tenth day of the seventh month.

But meanwhile, God instructed Moses to build two silver trumpets ( Numbers 10:2). Although no date is given in Scripture, this is obviously the origin of the feast of Trumpets. Perhaps Moses finished building these trumpets in time to blow them on Rosh Hoshana, the first day of the seventh month.

In Numbers 10:2-4 God told Moses,2 Make yourself two trumpets of silver, of hammered work you shall make them; and you shall use them for summoning the congregation and for having the camps set out. 3 And when both are blown, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the doorway of the tent of meeting. 4 Yet if only one is blown, the heads of the divisions of Israel, shall assemble before you.

These trumpets were used to summon either the leaders or the congregation itself, depending on how many trumpets were blown. It is of great significance, then, that whenever Paul spoke of the resurrection of the dead, which summoned the people to stand before God, he never wrote about “trumpets” (plural). He only wrote about a single trumpet.

In 1 Thessalonians 4:16 he writes, 16 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first.

Again, he writes in 1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment [atomos, an atomic change], in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.

The fact that Moses was led to build two trumpets was prophetic of two resurrections, one for the leaders (i.e., those who would reign with Christ for a thousand years), and a second resurrection of the entire congregation (at the end of the thousand years).

We see in Colossians The Body was being assembled by The Calling and Plan of GOD. The Gentiles were invited to Celebrate this Harvest and be welcomed at The Table GOD has provided.