GO BIG OR GO HOME! -

There is a popular phrase in the pop culture of these days, "Go Big or Go Home"

Solomon and the sons of Israel took this phrase and applied it to worship in 2 Chronicles 5. We pick up the story just before the dedication celebration of Solomon's temple. You may want to take a minute and go read that chapter now, begin looking for extravagant dimensions to worship.

You may remember that Solomon asked the Lord (in a dream) for a wise and discerning heart and it was given to him. And with that wise and discerning heart, He determined how to properly worship the Lord, when it should be done and even in the construction of the temple, Solomon embodies the phrase Go BIG or Go Home.  This is a story of extravagant worship on a scale we just don't comprehend, 

And all the men of Israel came together to the king at the time of the festival of the seventh month. 2 Chronicles 5:3

 When Solomon was dedicating the temple he dedicated it during the festival of the seventh month. We may read over that passage and it goes over our head, we may not discern it properly. Even though it goes on to say that 120 priests blew their trumpets, we may miss that it is significant that this would take place at this time of the year. It foreshadows the prophetic calendar of the last days of the year. 

They were accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets, the trumpeters and singers joined in unison, as with one voice, to give praise and thanks to the Lord.                       2 Chronicles 5:12b,13

 Traditionally during this one day Feast of Trumpets they would sound the trumpets over 100 times during the course of their worship. So if Solomon had 120 priests each blowing their trumpets and they did it over 100 times that is 12,000 trumpet blasts in just one day, no wonder they called it the Feast of Trumpets.


12,000 TRUMPET BLASTS IN ONE DAY

Can you imagine a national worship gathering where they had a parade from the tent of David all the way to Mount Moriah to the new temple and on the way they sacrificed so many sheep and cattle that they could not be numbered or counted.  And then in the course of the day you heard 12, 000 blast of the trumpet? It would hard to remain asleep on that day. The feast of Trumpets as also called an awakening blast, to wake up Gods people to their need for a Savior. 

This Mount Moriah, was the same mountain where Abraham offered up Isaac to the Lord, where David saw the angel of the Lord standing after the plague that struck the nation. And he bought the threshing floor of Onan for the full price, saying I will not offer the Lord something that costs me nothing. 

We are coming up quickly on TRUMPETS it is just a few weeks, this year it falls on the Roman calendar date of September 13.  More about this later, next time...

What should you wear when going to a festival of the Lord?