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 When we look at Passover and Pentecost, the same things apply. Some things are similar and some things are different.... 1Cor 12, and Ephesians give us a list of Church Leadership and responsibilities. In 1Corinthians, we see the body is discussed right after the Giftings of The Spirit are listed earlier in Chapter 12.

 We can also look at The Day of Atonement which is set forth in The Books of Hebrews and 1 John, as an example. With The Day of Trumpets, we have several other books which give us more clues on what Trumpets means in The New Testament.  

 First Corinthians deals first with The Passover and then directs Believers what God’s Plan is with respect to each of the 7 Set Celebrations. In chapter 12, Paul shows how The Holy Spirit instructs and empowers believers (or Pentecost.)  In the last half of Chapter 12, Paul shows how The Body of Christ is organized and directed by gifted believers (Trumpets.) The Book of Ephesians has Trumpets as it’s Main Theme dealing with The Membership and Design of The Body.

 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 details about The Body of Christ. For details, read these Book Commentaries in The Website... SeventhDayChurchOfGOD.net

 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 written. These warned Gentiles to stop Pagan Religious behavior. 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 as designed during God’s Creation. These Feasts also 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. Numbers 10:2-4 God told Moses, 10:2 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, 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