Yom Teruah 2026: The Feast of Trumpets and the Christ It Announces
On Saturday, September 12, 2026, Solo Faith Church will gather at 1:00 PM to keep Yom Teruah — the Feast of Trumpets. We keep it the way the earliest believers kept the appointed times: not as law laid on anyone, and not as empty ceremony, but as a Christ-centered remembrance. Every one of these days is a shadow, and the body casting the shadow is Jesus (Yeshua). This one announces Him.
What Scripture Actually Commands
The command is short. “Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. Ye shall do no servile work therein” (Leviticus 23:24–25). Numbers 29:1 repeats it: “it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.”
Notice what Scripture does not say. It does not name this day a new year. It does not call it Rosh Hashanah — that name comes from later tradition, not from the text. Scripture gives it one Hebrew name: Yom Teruah, the day of the teruah. A teruah is not a musical note. It is a blast, a shout, an alarm, the noise an army makes and the noise a crowd makes when a king is crowned. God set aside one day a year and filled it with a sound.
So the honest question is not what the day means to later tradition. It is this: everywhere the trumpet sounds in Scripture, what is God doing? Trace that, and the Christ this day announces comes into focus.
Every Place the Trumpet Sounds
The ram in the thicket — Genesis 22
The shofar is a ram's horn, and the first ram in Scripture that matters is the one on Moriah. Abraham tells his son, “My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering” (Genesis 22:8). Then: “behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns” (Genesis 22:13). A father, a beloved son, a mountain, and a substitute God Himself supplied. Every time a horn is lifted, that is the horn being lifted. The instrument itself preaches substitution before anyone blows into it.
The mountain that shook — Exodus 19
At Sinai there were “thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled” (Exodus 19:16). The trumpet “sounded long, and waxed louder and louder” (Exodus 19:19). This is the sound of God coming down to meet His people and calling them up to meet Him. Hebrews takes that scene and sets it beside the gospel: “ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire … and the sound of a trumpet … But ye are come unto mount Sion” (Hebrews 12:18–22). The trumpet at Sinai announced a covenant written on stone. The One it foreshadows wrote it on hearts.
Two silver trumpets — Numbers 10
God gave Moses two silver trumpets with four assignments: gather the congregation, signal the camp to move, sound the alarm in war, and sound over the offerings “that they may be to you for a memorial before your God” (Numbers 10:10). Hold those four beside Christ. He gathers His people. He moves them out. He is the alarm against the enemy. And He is the memorial before God — the offering God remembers. Four uses, one Person.
The trumpet of liberty — Leviticus 25
“Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land” (Leviticus 25:9). Debts cancelled. Land returned. Slaves freed. When Jesus stood up in Nazareth and read Isaiah — “to preach deliverance to the captives … to preach the acceptable year of the Lord” (Luke 4:18–19) — He was blowing that trumpet with His mouth. The jubilee horn is a Person, and He said so out loud.
Walls that fell — Joshua 6 and Judges 7
Seven priests, seven trumpets, seven days, and on the seventh day “the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat” (Joshua 6:20). Not a battering ram. A horn and a shout. Gideon's three hundred did the same with trumpets and pitchers and no swords in their hands (Judges 7:19–22). The pattern is consistent and it is deliberate: what human strength cannot bring down, God brings down at the sound of a horn. That is a foreshadow of a cross, where the victory looked like nothing but noise and weakness.
A king is crowned — 1 Kings 1 and the Psalms
Solomon is anointed at Gihon, “And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, God save king Solomon” (1 Kings 1:39). The horn is coronation music. The Psalms say the same thing plainly: “God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet” (Psalm 47:5), and “With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King” (Psalm 98:6). Psalm 81:3 ties it directly to this day: “Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.” Yom Teruah is enthronement day. The question it asks is not what year it is. The question is who is on the throne.
The prophets — Isaiah, Joel, Zephaniah, Zechariah
Isaiah sees a gathering: “the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish” (Isaiah 27:13). Joel hears an alarm: “Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain … for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand” (Joel 2:1). Zephaniah calls the day of the LORD “a day of the trumpet and alarm” (Zephaniah 1:16). Zechariah says “the Lord GOD shall blow the trumpet” (Zechariah 9:14). Two notes sound together in the prophets and they never separate — gathering and warning, mercy and reckoning. The same blast that calls the perishing home warns the comfortable that a day is coming.
The trumpet in the New Testament
Jesus keeps the image without changing it: “he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds” (Matthew 24:31). Paul: “at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed” (1 Corinthians 15:52), and “the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God” (1 Thessalonians 4:16). John hears “a great voice, as of a trumpet” (Revelation 1:10), and when the seventh angel finally sounds, the announcement arrives: “The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever” (Revelation 11:15).
That is where the whole line of trumpets has been heading since Moriah. A substitute provided, a covenant given, a captive freed, a wall broken, a king crowned, a people gathered, a dead man raised, a kingdom announced. One day a year, God told His people to stand still and listen to that.
The Archetypes Carried in This Day
A day of remembrance. Leviticus 23:24 calls it “a memorial of blowing of trumpets.” In Scripture, when God remembers, He acts — He remembered Noah (Genesis 8:1), He remembered Abraham (Genesis 19:29), He remembered His covenant and came down to Egypt (Exodus 2:24). The memorial is not us reminding God. It is us rehearsing that He keeps covenant, and that Christ is the covenant kept.
A day of coronation. The horn that crowned Solomon points past Solomon. Christ is the King the noise is for.
A day of awakening. The alarm in Joel is not decorative. It is meant to interrupt. A feast built on a loud noise is a feast designed to wake somebody up.
A day of gathering. Trumpets called the scattered camp into one assembly (Numbers 10:2). Isaiah 27:13 and Matthew 24:31 use the same picture for the last gathering.
The opening of the fall feasts. Ten days after this blast comes the Day of Atonement; five days after that, Tabernacles. Announcement, then atonement, then dwelling with God. That is not an accident of scheduling. That is the gospel in order.
One association deserves an honest caveat. Because this feast falls on a new moon, some teach that it is the day of which Jesus said, “of that day and hour knoweth no man” (Matthew 24:36). It is a striking thought and we understand why people make it. But Scripture itself never makes that connection, and we will not build a doctrine on a link the text does not draw. We would rather hand you the verses and let the Word do its own work.
Why a Concord Church Keeps a Day Like This
Solo Faith Church is a non-denominational fellowship in the Polycarpian and Quartodeciman stream. Polycarp was a disciple of the apostle John, and when the church around him began adjusting the apostolic pattern to fit the customs of the day, he did not. Our confession borrows his posture: we follow what Christ and His apostles delivered, not what later men added. Faith comes by hearing the Word of God (Romans 10:17), and that is where we start and stop.
So we keep the biblical feasts — and we keep them the way Paul framed them: “Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ” (Colossians 2:16–17). Read that carefully. The shadow is real. The body is Christ. We are not earning anything on Yom Teruah, and we are not measuring anyone else by it. We do not condemn believers who keep other days or no days at all. We simply refuse to throw away a shadow that points this clearly to our Lord.
Come Hear It With Us
Whoever will may come. Yom Teruah 2026 begins at sunset on Friday, September 11, and we will gather for the day portion on Saturday, September 12, at 1:00 PM at 587 Old Charlotte Rd SW, Concord, NC 28027. In person and live-streamed. Come as you are. You do not need to know the Hebrew, you do not need to agree with everything on this page, and you do not need to belong to anything first. Bring your family; we worship together and no one gets sent to a separate room. If you have never heard a shofar sounded in worship, come and hear what Scripture has been describing for four thousand years.
Solo Faith Church shares this teaching because a feast nobody explains is just a strange date on a calendar, and our Concord neighbors deserve the reasons and the references, not a rule. The trumpet was never about the horn — it was always about the One it announces, and that announcement belongs to anyone who will stand still long enough to hear it.
You're Invited — Come Remember Christ With Us
Solo Faith Church meets at 587 Old Charlotte Rd SW, Concord, NC 28027 — Saturday and Sunday at 1:00 PM, and at 1:00 PM on the feast days themselves. Come as you are. Learn more here.
Community Support Note: This teaching post is part of Solo Faith Church's community journalism initiative for Concord and Cabarrus County. It was written from Solo Faith Church's own Polycarpian Statement of Faith and Ministry Covenant, from Scripture quoted in the King James Version, and from a description of the 2026 feast schedule provided directly by Solo Faith Church leadership. Feast dates follow the calculated Hebrew calendar; confirm the exact evening with the church.
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