When the Trumpet Sounds

Silver trumpets were used in the days of Moses to call the people of God together: “The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ‘Make two silver trumpets for yourself; you shall make them of hammered work; you shall use them for calling the congregation and for directing the movement of the camps. When they blow both, all the congregation shall gather before you at the door of the tabernacle of meeting.’” [1]

Trumpets were used to remind the Lord that His people needed saved from their enemies:

“When you go to war in your land against the enemy who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the Lord your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.” [2]

The apostles who wrote the Gospels, Epistles and recorded the Revelation were all Jewish. They were schooled in the teachings of Moses. It seems feasible that when Jesus taught about a trumpet being sounded at His return, they would have made the connection that...

1) When the trumpet sounds God’s people gather to meet with Him, and,
2) When the trumpet sounds God will save them from their enemies.

Below are five Bible verses from Matthew’s Gospel, Paul’s Epistle and John’s Revelation:

“He [the Lord] will send His angels with a great sound of a TRUMPET, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” [3]

“For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the TRUMPET of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.” [4]

“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a TRUMPET.” [5]

“And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven TRUMPETS.” [6]

“Then the seventh angel sounded [the seventh TRUMPET]: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, ‘The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!” [7]

When the TRUMPET of the Lord sounds, will you be ready to meet Him?

I pray that we will all be ready.

[1] Numbers 10:1-3
[2] Numbers 10:9
[3] Matthew 24:31
[4] 1 Thessalonians 4:16
[5] Revelation 1:10
[6] Revelation 8:2
[7] Revelation 11:15