Rapture Trumpet

God's Trumpet

The moment will come when the Lord Jesus descends from heaven to resurrect or transform all who have believed in Him for 2,000 years into immortality. Then He will bring them into His Father's heavenly dwellings. He will do this with a command, with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God. What will that sound like?

 

The command speaks of the turmoil of battle. Warriors are called upon to prepare or to form a group. The voice of the archangel sounds like a battle cry, since the archangel Michael is engaged in constant conflict with Satan, our adversary. And the trumpet of God is also an instrument in the battle. The Old Testament contains several texts where the trumpet is blown as a signal in battle:

'I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war' (Jeremiah 4:19)

Literally, it says: trumpet blast, the alarm of war.

 

In the New Testament, the trumpet is also seen as an instrument of war:

'For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?' (1 Cor.14:8)

To get an idea, here you hear the sound of a ram's horn, which served as a trumpet in Israel.

And here you get an idea of ​​God's trumpet and here.

Recently, sounds reminiscent of a trumpet have been heard in the air worldwide. Listen HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE.

These could come from SPACE. God can use his trumpet to create elements within creation (natural causes) or from outside creation (supernatural causes).

 

The story of Jericho is well known, where the people of Israel marched around the city of Jericho 13 times in a procession, trumpets sounding, before the walls fell and the city was captured.

"And it happened as Joshua had spoken to the people: the seven priests bearing the seven ram's trumpets, went out before the Lord and blew the trumpets, and the ark of the covenant of the Lord followed them. Those prepared for battle went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard followed behind the ark, blowing the trumpets as they marched." ( (Josh.6:13)

 

Also well-known is the story of Gideon, who addressed the 300 men with whom he defeated the Midianite army as follows:

“When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then you also blow the trumpet around the whole camp, and say, ‘For the LORD and for Gideon!’” (Judg.7:16)

The trumpets were instrumental in achieving victory.

 

Thus, God’s trumpet is a sign of the battle that is underway at the moment Jesus comes to take His own from the earth. It is not a battle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world rulers of darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. (Eph.6:12)

 

At its core, this is a battle between truth and falsehood, between freedom and slavery, between righteousness and lawlessness, between life and death. This battle began at Sinai, where a people enslaved for hundreds of years in Egypt and captive to the idolatry and lies of Babylon received God's holy and righteous laws, which—if obeyed—put an end to all injustice.

Therefore, the giving of the law at Sinai, in Arabia, as the beginning of the battle of God's law against the adversary's lawlessness, is the first occasion in the Bible where a trumpet is mentioned. IT IS GOD HIMSELF WHO BLOWS THE TRUMPET ON SINAI.

“On the third day, when morning came, there were thunders and lightnings, a thick cloud, and a very loud trumpet blast on the mountain, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled. Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God. They stood at the foot of the mountain. Mount Sinai was completely covered with smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked violently. The trumpet blast grew louder and louder. Moses spoke, and God answered him with a voice.”

 

The trumpet blast was so loud that the people trembled. The sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder. They were not to touch the mountain where God was about to descend.

“On the third day the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. You shall set a boundary around the mountain for the people, saying, ‘Take care not to go up into the mountain or even to touch its base. Anyone who touches the mountain will surely be put to death.’ Then the Lord came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. The Lord called Moses up to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.

 

How different it will be when Jesus comes for his church. Then his people will be caught up together in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. This will happen to the deafening sound of God’s trumpet.

Paul also speaks of this trumpet in his first letter to the Corinthians. He calls it "the last trumpet":

"Look, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed." (1 Corinthians 15:51,52)

 

In 1 Thessalonians 4:16, "the trumpet of God" is mentioned, and 1 Corinthians 15 speaks of "the last trumpet." When we refer to "the last trumpet," which is also a trumpet of God, the question arises as to how many trumpets God has. An answer to this question may be found in the book of Numbers, about the people of Israel on their wilderness journey. In the tenth chapter, we read that God commands the people of Israel to make two silver trumpets from a single piece of silver (Num. 10:1-10). These two trumpets could symbolize the fact that God has two trumpets.

 

God blows the trumpet twice in history. Many things in history occur twice—albeit with differences. For example, there was a first Adam and a Last Adam (1 Cor.15:45 - so also mentioned in 1 Corinthians 15). There was an old covenant with Israel, and there is a new covenant with the Church (2 Cor.2:6). God had a wife in the Old Testament (Israel), and the Messiah has a bride in the New Testament (the Church). There is an earthly Jerusalem, and soon there will be a heavenly Jerusalem coming down from heaven (Rev.21:9). The old world of Noah perished by water, and the present world will perish by fire (2 Pet.3:6). Thus, Peter used the keys of the kingdom of heaven twice, once for the Samaritans (Acts 8:14) and once for all Gentiles (Acts 10:34). That Farao's armies were buried in the waters of the Red sea will be repeated with the Zionist armies of the empire around the Endtime, only this time the burying will take place with 'earth' (Revelation 12:14-17). 

 

Just as God's world history involves dual events, so too did the life of his Son, Jesus, on earth involve mirror events: two times a temple cleansing, two miraculous feedings, two miraculous catches of fish, two storms, and so on. The two silver trumpets, made of one piece, fit this imagery well. These trumpets served four purposes (Num. 10:1-10): (1) To summon the assembly, (2) to signal for departure, (3) to remind the people of the LORD in case of war, and (4) to signal for feast days and the first days of the month.

Each of these meanings applied to the first time God blew the trumpet on Mount Sinai. That was for the gathering of the people to bring them under one law, to then have them ascend and act according to that law, and finally to fight with that law against the spiritual powers of darkness in the world. Sadly, in the centuries that followed, the exact opposite happened. The people failed to be a beacon of light through the application of the law. They were enveloped in the darkness of idolatry and lawlessness of surrounding nations until they were completely destroyed in the deportation to Babylon.

 

The second and final time that God blows the trumpet is on the occasion of Jesus' coming to call all of His people from earth to heaven, the "gathering to Him." (2 Thess.2:1) Furthermore, God's last trumpet has to do with the people of Israel. After all, the gathering of all the believers of the past 2,000 years marks a new period in Israel's history, the last half week of Daniel (Dan.9:27), lasting for 3.5 years. This will be a period of great conflict, the "great tribulation", the last half of "time of Jacob's trouble." (Jer.30:7) God's trumpet will sound on the eve of this period, indicating that the people of Israel will rise as God's important instrument during those final 3.5 - 4 years and will be remembered by God.

 

The heavenly gathering of all his people by Jesus marks the end of the church age and the beginning of a new era for Israel. This great event is symbolically depicted in the Feast of the Trumpet in Leviticus 23. In that chapter, the seven Jewish feasts are mentioned, and each of these feasts is related to the Messiah's actions. The first four feasts found their fulfillment in the first coming of Jesus. The first feast, Passover, represents the suffering and death of the Messiah, the Lamb of God, who was slain for the sins of all who believe in Him. The second feast, Unleavened Bread, represents the Messiah's burial and his death, the wages of sin, to blot out all sin. The third feast, the Feast of First-fruits, represents the resurrection of the Messiah. The fourth feast, the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost, represents the outpouring of the Holy Spirit through the Messiah.

The final three feasts will be fulfilled in the future at the second coming of Jesus. The first of these, feast five, is the Feast of Trumpets, when trumpets (traditions says 100 blows) were blown on the first day of the seventh Jewish month. It is significant that the original text does not mention any instrument : no shophar (ram's horn) or trumpet. Nor is there any mentioning of a "joval" (another word for horn or trumpet). Only the word "alarm" or "blow." This corresponds to the reality of which this feast is a type: that it is God himself who will blow the trumpet at that great moment of the gathering of all believers in heaven, "our gathering unto Him."

 

The trumpet at the gathering of the church to heaven must not be confused with the feast of trumpets. That is the 5th of Israel's feasts, the first of the fall feasts, at  first day of the seventh month of the religious year, that corresponds to the first day of the first month of the civil year, Rosh Hashanah. Just as the trumpet of the feast of Rosh Hashanah heralds the first day of a new civil Israelite year, so too does the feast of trumpets mark the beginning of a new era for the people of Israel. Israelites who do not believe in Jesus and do not participate in the rapture of the church into heaven will undoubtedly mention this enormously impressive and fearsome heavenly trumpet blast at the rapture, which, just like God's first trumpet on Sinai, will be very intense and will grow ever stronger. On this basis, they will seek the God of their forefathers. Far better however, is it to be among the believers who share in the rapture.

“Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts..." (Heb. 3:7)

The feast of trumpets will prophetically be fulfilled in the gathering of the elect once Jesus returns and will send out his angels under the sounding of a heavenly trumpet. This might be an extension of the use of 'the second silver trumpet' in the Endtime.

'And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.' (Mathew 24:31)

However frightening the 'shout', the 'voice of the archangel' and the 'trumpet of God' might seem, believers have absolutely no reason to be in any way frightened. Once they hear the deafening sounds from above, their hearts should leap for joy about the fulfillment of prophecy in their lives and about their going home, to the house of their God and Father, as stated in this text in Hebrews: