Lets notice the scriptures on this subject. 

THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS IS ON THE NEW MOON AS THE NEW MOON COMES TO US.
Just as the sabbath is kept as the sunsets on Friday night where we live, so Trumpets is observed on the day of the  new moon  as it comes to where we live.

The Feast of Trumpets should be celebrated with the sound of trumpets before services.  It would also be appropriate to have special music which would include, Harp, Trumpet, drums and timbrel.

Psa 81:1  <To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph.> Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. 
Psa 81:2  Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. 
Psa 81:3  Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. 
 

LEV 23 V 23-24

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: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

The above scripture shows a number of things about the Feast of Trumpets. 
It is in the seventh month 
It is the first of the month 
Because it is the first of the month, it is then on the new moon. 

Psalm 81 v 3 above shows that the feast is in the new moon.
 

How easy God has made the dates for the keeping of His holy days.  We do not have to be highly educated or go through hours of needless calculation on a worthless calendar, all we need to know is the phases of the moon as they come to us. 

We have used the Australian Government Geoscience site for this information, it tells you the time and date of the new moon, but you need to add  time depending where you live, for us in Brisbane, we add 10 hours to the time stated on the site, the time stated at the site is in universal time.

Now here is the key to understanding what this feast pictures……
it is a memorial of blowing of trumpets. 

Note the scripture................
 

Lev 23:24  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. 

What is a memorial?….The World Book Dictionary says…..something that is a reminder of some event.  So  a memorial is a reminder of some event.  That means that what ever the Feast of Trumpets pictures has happened in the past, and it is so important to God that He wants us to remember it every year by celebrating a Feast. 

God wants us to remember an even which was  accompanied by the blowing of  trumpets. 

Notice psalm 81 which is to be sung on the feast of Trumpets, it gives us clues as to what the day pictures.

Notice it is the 10 commamdments

Psa 81:9  There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.

Psa 81:10  I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. 

Notice the following great event in Israels history.  The receiving of the 10 commandments and the making of a covenant between God the Father and Israel. 
God said if Israel obeyed Him they would be a holy nation. 

EXOD 19 V 5-6

Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
     And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

The people said they would obey God. 

 EXOD 19 V 8

And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.

As we have already learned in previous articles, the Father appears in a cloud, or a fire, or a whirlwind, or in a vision or He is invisible.  In this case He appeared in a cloud….notice why He did this, so the people would believe Moses. 

EXOD 19 V 9

And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.

Then the Israelites were instructed to prepare themselves and be ready to hear God the Father speak to them and to see the cloud and to receive the words of the covenant. They were not to come up to the mount until they heard a long blast from the  Trumpet. 

EXOD 19 V 10-13

      And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,
And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.
     And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:
There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.

Then the third day arrived and the people trembled at the sound of the exceedingly loud trumpet, as well as thunders and lightnings. 

EXOD 19 V 16

And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that 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.

Then the people came to meet God the Father. 
The Israelites were frightened, the trumpet blew louder and louder, the mountain quaked greatly the whole mountain was full of smoke as God descended in a fire. 

EXOD 19 V 17-20

      And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
      And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.
And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount: and the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.

Then the Father told Moses to  ensure the people did not break the boundary set for them, lest they perish, and Moses was to return to the mountain with Aaron. 

AND NOW THE COVENANT IS MADE

Moses returns to the mountain and God the Father gives the 10 commandments. 

EXOD 20 V 1-17

And God spake all these words, saying,
I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
      Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
      And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
      But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Thou shalt not kill.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

When the Israelites saw the lightning flashes and heard the thunder and the sound of the trumpet they trembled. 

EX 20 V 18

   And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they removed, and stood afar off.

   The Israelites did not want God to speak to them, they were afraid, they wanted Moses to speak to them.  Look at the amazing reasons why God the Father came down to the mountain to speak to them. 
To test the Israelites, and so that they would fear God and not sin. 

Look just how much mercy God the Father has.  He did not want the Israelites to sin, so He demonstrated some of His power and authority to them, to instill in them a healthy respect and fear of Him. 

EX 20 V 19-20

      And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die.
And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

Moses approached the cloud where the Father was and He gave Moses the judgments.

Exo 21:1  Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. 

Christ gave the oracles when He spoke, and ate with Moses Aaaon and the elders.

Act 7:38  This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us: 

The Father said He would send  an angel {Christ}…remember an angel is translated  a messenger….to go before them. 
If the Israelites obeyed Christ and the Father then the following would happen. 

EX 23 V 22

But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.

EX 23 V 25-27

And ye shall serve the LORD your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.
I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

EX 23 V 28-31

And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
      I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
      By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
      And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

      What God the Father was offering to the Israelites was amazing.  Lets see what happened next. 

      The Israelites said they would obey God. 

 EX 24 V 3-4

And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.
And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

Now the covenant is affirmed 

EX 24 V 7-8

      And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.
And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.

After these things, it did not take Israel long for them to fall into disobedience, and disbelief as they constructed the golden calf, while Moses was with the Father. 

The covenant is then renewed and the tablets of stone replaced, the following verses are in the covenant which God the Father made with Israel. 

EX 34 V 10-27

      And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
      Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
      For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
      The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.
     All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.
But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.
Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year.
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.
      The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
      And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

      Notice how we are told to remember the covenant God made with Israel 

 DEUT 4 V 10-11

Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.
     And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.

The covenant between God and Israel 

DEUT 4 V 12-14

And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.
      And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.
And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it.

The Israelites did not see the shape of God, they only heard His voice, so that they would not try to make any image or likeness of Him. 

DEUT 4 V 15-19

Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire:
Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
     And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

God tells the Israelites to remember the covenant. 

 DEUT 4 V 23-24

Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

Now lets notice a repeat of the above events pictured on the Feast of Trumpets: 
 

Notice Psalm 81 verse 3 this is the Feast of Trumpets, new moon, blow the trumpet, feast day. 

If you read the following verses carefully, you will see parts of the 10 commandments mentioned.

PSA 81 V 3-16

Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.
This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.
Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!
I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.
The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.

Notice the recounting of the event of the covenant. 

HEB 12 V 18-19

For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:

Moses reminds the people of the covenant they made with God the Father. 

DEUT 5 V 1-4

And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them.
The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,

God wanted the Israelites to remember the covenant He made with them at Horeb, he had Moses put the tablets in the Ark of the Covenant  [there was also Aarons rod and a jar of manna originally in the ark, but it appears they had been removed at the time of the writing of 1st Kings.]

Heb 9:4  Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; 

1 KINGS 8 V 9

There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

The next verse tells us to remember the law which was given at Horeb 

MAL 4 V 4

Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.

Notice how the Feast of Trumpets was kept by Nehemiah
It is interesting to note that the book of the law was read for quiet some hours.  This book would have been Leviticus because this is the only book which mentions that the Israelites should live in booths during the seventh month.....Neh. 8 v 14.  It is interesting to note that this was discovered the day after Trumpets when the people gathered to learn more about the law under the teaching of Ezra.  This day after Trumpets may well have been the sabbath. 

Neh 8:13  And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law. 
Neh 8:14  And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month: 
 

NEH 8 V 1-12

And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.
And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.

The reading of the book of the law started in the morning and finished at noon. 

And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.
And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.
And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:
And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground.
Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.

It appears in the above verses that there were a number of sermons or sermonettes given by these men, quite a lot of men spoke, so perhaps in the form of sermonettes.

The ministers gave the understanding of the book of the law and the people were told not to mourn, but to rejoice. 

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.

After they had heard the law explained to them, they ate and drank and sent portions to those who had nothing, and they were very joyous 

Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.
So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved.
And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.

It is clear by all the above scriptures that the Feast of Trumpets pictures the giving of the 10 commandments at Horeb which was a covenant between God the Father and the nation of Israel. 

When God the Father spoke the covenant at Horeb it was preceeded by blasts of the Trumpet. 
This feast is to be a memorial, a blowing of trumpets, this is what happened at Horeb.  This is the memorial a blowing of trumpets….This is the Feast of Trumpets. 

This feast falls on the 1st day of the Seventh month.  It will be a new moon.  It is imperative that we know the correct time for the new moon, as described above.  We sent an email to the authority listed above to establish the correct time for us here in Brisbane, and we should all be diligent to find out this information where ever we live, also note that the world changes days at midnight, we change to a new day  as God has directed at the setting of the sun. 
Therefore again we need to be very careful to have the right day.  For example if they state the new moon is the 3rd at 2028pm, by the worlds standards the date is still the 3rd because it is before midnight, but for us, it is passed sunset so it is on the next day, the 4th. This can be a little tricky but with care and attention it can be worked out. 

The feast should be kept as Nehemiah kept it. 
Today we have church services from early morning  till mid day, being careful to read the book of  Leviticus,   and then eat drink and be merry and share our food with others,  for the remainder of the day, it should be a day of great joy.

Neh 8:3  And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law. 

Neh 8:10  Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength. 

Neh 8:12  And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them. 

On the feast of Trumpets, we remember the covenant that God made with the Israelites at Horeb, but we need to realize that today we are under the new covenant. 
The new covenant is spiritual obedience to God  as well as the physically keeping of the law,which will be rewarded by the receiving of the earnest of the spirit, which is the down payment for eternal life. 
When we continue to  believe God, and obey Him, He will eventually give us the holy spirit of power.  This is our inheritance, eternal life. 
We must of course endure to the end and continue to overcome and grow, believe God and obey Him, for this inheritance to be in force. 

The 4th chapter of Deuteronomy is mainly talking about the feast of Trumpets and telling us to remember this great event.

Lets notice some of the scriptures

Deu 4:5  Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. 
Deu 4:6  Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. 
Deu 4:7  For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for? 
Deu 4:8  And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? 
Deu 4:9  Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons; 
Deu 4:10  Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children. 
Deu 4:11  And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness. 
Deu 4:12  And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice. 
Deu 4:13  And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. 
Deu 4:14  And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it. 
Deu 4:15  Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: 
Deu 4:16  Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 
Deu 4:17  The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, 
Deu 4:18  The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth: 
Deu 4:19  And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven. 
Deu 4:20  But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day. 
Deu 4:21  Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance: 
Deu 4:22  But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good land. 
Deu 4:23  Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee. 
Deu 4:24  For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God. 
Deu 4:25  When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger: 
Deu 4:26  I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. 

Deu 4:32  For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it? 
Deu 4:33  Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live? 
Deu 4:34  Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? 
Deu 4:35  Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him. 
Deu 4:36  Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire. 
Deu 4:37  And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt; 
Deu 4:38  To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day. 
 
 

The only difference between the old and the new covenants is that under the old covenant the Israelites   had ears to hear and eyes to see,but refused to hear and see, they would not listen to  or obey God. 
Under the new covenant, God writes His laws on our hearts and we WANT TO keep the laws and statutes.  This is made possible by the shedding of the blood of Jesus Christ who has paid the penalty of sin for us. 
Today the greater majority of the nation of Israel is ignorant of Gods laws.These statutes and laws will be restored to the nation of Israel by the soon coming Elijah
who is John the Baptist..