Trumpets

Trumpets were given to God's people for very specific purposes: to gather together the congregation at the tabernacle to meet in one accord, and to get ready to move at the direction of God!


Numbers 10:1-7 And 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 of them, all the congregation shall gather before you at the door of the tabernacle of meeting. But if they blow only one, then the leaders, the heads of the divisions of Israel, shall gather to you. When you sound the advance, the camps that lie on the east side shall then begin their journey. When you sound the advance the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall begin their journey; they shall sound the call for them to begin their journeys. And when the assembly is to be gathered together, you shall blow, but not sound the advance.


The trumpets of Revelation are intended to do the same thing. The Judgments of the Book of Revelation are divided into three groups of 7...7-fold increases in intensity called "seals," "trumpets," and finally "bowls." The seals are on the outside of the scroll, which is the title deed of the earth (what was stolen in the fall) and the action plan required to take it back (two sided scrolls are also very specific in the Bible). The seals are the prelude to the "meat" of what is in the scroll: the trumpets and the bowls.


Zechariah 5:1-3 Then I turned and raised my eyes, and saw there a flying scroll. And he said to me, “What do you see?” So I answered, “I see a flying scroll. Its length is twenty cubits and its width ten cubits.” Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole earth: ‘Every thief shall be expelled,’ according to this side of the scroll; and, ‘Every perjurer shall be expelled,’ according to that side of it.”


The trumpets are the chosen symbol by God because the action plan of the scroll requires the congregation...the Bride...to come together in one accord, execute the plans of the Lord, and draw in all that was stolen. The last trumpet is the call to the congregation to gather in the place of meeting: a sea of glass in the sky with Jesus and everyone who belongs to Him from Adam to you and I! In the chronology of the Bible, these two passages are in chronological order:


Revelation 11:15 Then the seventh angel sounded: 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!”


Revelation 15:1-3 Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them the wrath of God is complete. And I saw something like a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who have the victory over the beast, over his image and over his mark and over the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God. They sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: “Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the saints!


There is only one set of trumpets in the New Testament, the trumpet series of Revelation 8 to 11. These trumpets will be warnings to the earth that Jesus is coming soon, but mostly they are a gathering call to the Bride, announcing...releasing...the events written on the scroll in agreement with the groom, just like Moses announced and RELEASED the judgments to Pharaoh and the Israelites. God always looks for people in agreement with him to accomplish what He wants done on earth. Angels can't do what God gave to mankind to do:


Genesis 1:28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”


Psalms 115:16 The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord ’s; But the earth He has given to the children of men.


By God's own promise and design, only people on earth partnering with God can bring the fullness of His plans to earth. That is why Jesus had to become a man, why Nehemiah had to build a wall, Moses had to hold his staff over the Red Sea, Jonah had to go to Nineveh....God looks for a man:


Ezekiel 22:30 So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.


The rapture is the gathering of God's people not to go away to some far off cloud, but to go with Jesus into Edom and then dance our way with Him into Jerusalem, liberating the captives and slaying His enemies as He takes over all the governments of the earth, beginning in Jerusalem. The rapture happens at the "last trumpet" because the Bride is the "man" God is looking for to build a wall. He isn't going to remove all of His "wall builders" before He is done executing the scroll and gathering all that was stolen!! No, Jesus' Bride is going to partner with Him in the greatest upset victory the world has ever seen! Each blast of the trumpet releasing her to pray and worship the next judgment in....in one accord...gathered and getting ready to move to the sea of glass for the final victory march in what will begin the renewing of all the earth.


The Bible is plain and clear about the chronology of these events. The symbols are well-chosen, and the intent clearly defined. The Bride is going to be the one generation God has always had His eye on...making herself ready through all these events to take back the inheritance of Her groom WITH Him...not "rescued from" His greatest hour!


Revelation 19:7-8 Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His wife has made herself ready.” And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.


Matthew 24:31 And He 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.


I Corinthians 14:8 For if the trumpet makes an uncertain sound, who will prepare for battle?


I Corinthians 15:51-52 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall 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 incorruptible, and we shall be changed.


I Thessalonians 4:15-17 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. 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. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.





Right now, night and day prayer...the last tabernacle in all its glory...is being raised up all over the earth to gather the Bride in one accord. This is just the beginning...the preparation for the time when the seals are opened, the trumpet blasts are heard and we stand as a faithful witness releasing the trumpets in prayer...our incense mixed with the prayers in heaven...building walls and gathering in all that was stolen...executing the scroll as the spouse of our beloved until the final trumpet blast!