The move from the spiritual to the physical realm is portrayed by the Blowing of Trumpets. The Blowing of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah ) is the New Year's Day of the Jews. This fact signifies that the feasts that lead up to and include Pentecost speak of a prior religious year. The religious year begins with Passover, the first of the seven feasts.

But the Blowing of Trumpets announces the new year of kings and contracts, the year of doing business in the earth.

The Christian Era has been characterized by a Heaven-oriented religion. But now the Lord Jesus is preparing the way for His actual, physical entrance into the earth. Therefore the fifth feast, the Blowing of Trumpets, has to do with spiritual warfare, for the chaotic condition of our physical planet has resulted from evil spiritual forces.

In simple terms, the Lord is standing before your personality. He is ready to enter and drive out His enemies. He wants to prepare you to descend with Him and drive Satan and all his works from the earth.

The Day of Atonement, the sixth feast, portrays your being reconciled to God through the destruction of worldliness, lust, and self-will from your personality. Of special importance is the burning out of the self-will from you so you will be instantly obedient to Christ. Otherwise you will not be raised from the dead when He returns and you will not rise to meet Him in the air.

Why not? Because until you have been delivered from worldliness, lust, and self-will you still are part of the enemy. You are not able to work with Jesus Christ in installing the Kingdom of God on the earth. It is as simple as this!

The seventh feast, Tabernacles, which follows the Day of Atonement, signifies the entering of the Father and the Son into your personality that They might make you Their house, Their chariot. This is the rest of God. In order to be qualified to be the house of God you must be changed into the moral image of Christ and you must be abiding in untroubled rest in the center of God's will.

You can see from the above that we still have a way to go before we have entered totally into our great salvation.

In this essay we have spoken of grace, of imputed righteousness, of Heaven, of change, and of the Kingdom of God.

We also have pointed toward some of the passages that announce the coming of salvation in the closing days of the present age.

There always is a "present truth," a freshness of God for each generation. To cling to the old, to not move forward with God, is to make one's self subject to decay and corruption. Yesterday's manna is not good food.

Yet we do not remove the old landmarks. We build on what has been accomplished thus far. But we do not cling to the old. We keep pressing on, pressing on, pressing on.

To be continued.