All Our Yesterdays
"To the last
syllable of recorded time, and all our yesterdays. . ." (Macbeth V.v.)
A series of brief articles
dealing with Human Pre-existence
by Arthur & Rosalind Eedle.
3. The Feast of Trumpets
Leviticus
Our
interest is focused on the words "a memorial of blowing of trumpets."
I can remember looking up the word "trumpets" in Young's Concordance,
and being perplexed at not finding it there. It took some time before I solved
the problem, this time by looking up "blowing" instead. I found that
the Hebrew word for "blowing of trumpets" was TERUAH, which Young
said meant "shouting." There is nothing in the original text to
warrant the translation in terms of "trumpets". Strictly it should
read "a memorial of shouting."
The word
"memorial" is ZIKRON, meaning "remembrance". Now we are in
full possession of the facts, and it's time to find out what God intended His
people to remember on this auspicious day.
Let's have
a look at the Calendar. This day was the 1st of the 7th month. But the Calendar
had been changed at the Passover. Originally the 7th month (Tishri) had been
the 1st month. Therefore we are looking at something corresponding with the 1st
day of the 1st month. Surely this must have been a remembrance of
creation, because the ancient Hebrew Calendar would have started on that day.
What needed
to be remembered on that day? What was all the shouting about? In the last
article we looked at Job 38, where the Lord reminded Job that at creation, all
the stars sang together and the sons of God shouted for joy. Here then is the
answer. The "sons of God" were pre-existent human beings, and the
Lord was asking His people, each year on this commemorative date, to
remember the time when they had been "shouting for joy" at His great
creative act.
To clinch
this I looked up "shouted" in Job 38:7, and found the Hebrew word
came from the same root as that in Leviticus 23:24.