The Festival of Trumpets^(A)

29 “‘On the first day of the seventh month hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.^(B) It is a day for you to sound the trumpets.

²⁴ “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of sabbath rest, a sacred assembly^(A) commemorated with trumpet blasts.^{(B) 25} Do no regular work,^(C) but present a food offering to the Lord.^(D)’”

¹⁶ to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles.^(A) He gave me the priestly duty of proclaiming the gospel of God,^(B) so that the Gentiles might become an offering^(C) acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

¹⁷ Therefore I glory in Christ Jesus^(D) in my service to God.^{(E) 18} I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles^(F) to obey God^(G) by what I have said and done— ¹⁹ by the power of signs and wonders,^(H) through the power of the Spirit of God.^(I) So from Jerusalem^(J) all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ.^(K)

¹⁴ How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? ¹⁵ And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”^[a](A)

¹⁶ But not all the Israelites accepted the good news.^(B) For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”^{[b](C) 17} Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message,^(D) and the message is heard through the word about Christ.^{(E) 18} But I ask: Did they not hear? Of course they did:

¹⁵ He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation.^{(A) 16} Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.^(B)

The Lord Will Appear

¹³ And in that day^(A) a great trumpet^(B) will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled^(C) in Egypt^(D) will come and worship^(E) the Lord on the holy mountain^(F) in Jerusalem.

⁶ On the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, though the foundation of the Lord’s temple had not yet been laid.