BS-23 ‘The Trumpet’
In scripture, does the trumpet have significance?
A Question – What happened at Jericho when the trumpets were blown?
Was it the LAST trumpet? ___ (no)
How many times was it blown and how many blew? Joshua 6:6-20 ___
Question – 2. In the NT does Jesus ever mention the trumpet?
What is the sign of your 2nd coming was the question. Vs.24:3
Matthew 24:29-31. After the tribulation the trumpet is blown.
The angels will then gather the ELECT. Is it the last trumpet?
Question – 3. Paul mentions a mystery in 1 Cor. 15:51. [vs.50-58] What is it?
At the last trumpet the dead will be raised and become immortal.
Is that all dead or just the dead in Christ? Which trumpet is it?
Question – 4. Paul mentions the trumpet again in 1 Thessalonians 4:16.
Who descends from heaven with a shout and trumpet sound?
What do you think? Is Paul telling the same story to both cities?
Question – 5. After Jesus breaks the seal in Rev. 8:1, what happens?
How many angels have trumpets? In vs.7 the 1st is blown.
What do you think? Does Ch.8 describe tribulation or judgement?
Question – 6. How many trumpets sound until the 1st woe passes? 9:1
How many woes are still coming? Rev. 9:12,
Question – 7. What happens when the 6th angel blows the trumpet?
Do four angels kill a third of mankind? Rev. 9:15
Does mankind finally call upon the Lord and repent? Rev. 9:20
Question – 8. What is it that the 7th angel proclaims? Rev. 11:15
Which woe passes prior to the 7th angel sounding the trumpet?
The 2nd woe is completed. Rev. 11:14.
Since this is called the final trumpet; is it also the last trumpet?
Has ‘tribulation’ or ‘great tribulation’ taken place so far?
Question – 9. From chapters 12 – 16; what are angels involved in besides the trumpet?
Vs.12:7, the Archangel Michael throws Satan from heaven to earth.
Vs. 15:1, 7 angels with 7 plagues
Vs. 16:1, 7 angel pour out 7 bowls of wrath
What happened when the 7th bowl was poured? Rev. 16:7-21
Conclusion
If the 7th trumpet is the last trumpet as Matthew describes it; how much tribulation will take place prior to the saints being caught up to be with Christ Jesus? Is the scripture sequential in time on this topic?
Scripture
Joshua 6:6-20. So Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the Ark of the Covenant, and let seven priests carry seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord.” 7 Then he said to the people, “Go forward, and march around the city, and let the armed men go on before the ark of the Lord.” 8 And it was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the Lord went forward and blew the trumpets; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord followed them. 9 The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard came after the ark, while they continued to blow the trumpets. 10 But Joshua commanded the people, saying, “You shall not shout nor let your voice be heard nor let a word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I tell you, ‘Shout!’ Then you shall shout!” 11 So he had the ark of the Lord taken around the city, circling it once; then they came into the camp and spent the night in the camp. 12 Now Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord. 13 The seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord went on continually, and blew the trumpets; and the armed men went before them and the rear guard came after the ark of the Lord, while they continued to blow the trumpets. 14 Thus the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp; they did so for six days.
15 Then on the seventh day they rose early at the dawning of the day and marched around the city in the same manner seven times; only on that day they marched around the city seven times. 16 At the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout! For the Lord has given you the city. 17 The city shall be under the ban, it and all that is in it belongs to the Lord; only Rahab the harlot and all who are with her in the house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent. 18 But as for you, only keep yourselves from the things under the ban, so that you do not covet them and take some of the things under the ban, and make the camp of Israel accursed and bring trouble on it. 19 But all the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron are holy to the Lord; they shall go into the treasury of the Lord.” 20 So the people shouted, and priests blew the trumpets; and when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight ahead, and they took the city.
Mathew 24:3. As He was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things happen, and what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?” 24:29-31. “But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. 31 And He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
1 Cor. 15:51. Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,
1 Thes. 4:16-17. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.
Revelation 8:1. When the Lamb broke the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. 2 And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them. 8:7. The first sounded, and there came hail and fire, mixed with blood, and they were thrown to the earth; and a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.
Rev. 9:1-2. Then the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven which had fallen to the earth; and the key of the bottomless pit was given to him. 2 He opened the bottomless pit, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit. 9:12. The first woe is past; behold, two woes are still coming after these things.
Rev. 9:15. And the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, were released, so that they would kill a third of mankind. 9:20. The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so as not to worship demons, and the idols of gold and of silver and of brass and of stone and of wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk;
Rev. 11:14-15. The second woe is past; behold, the third woe is coming quickly. 15 Then the seventh angel sounded; and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ; and He will reign forever and ever.”
Rev. 16:7-21. And I heard the altar saying, “Yes, O Lord God, the Almighty, true and righteous are Your judgments.” 8 The fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun, and it was given to it to scorch men with fire. 9 Men were scorched with fierce heat; and they blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues, and they did not repent so as to give Him glory. 10 Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became darkened; and they gnawed their tongues because of pain, 11 and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores; and they did not repent of their deeds. 12 The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates; and its water was dried up, so that the way would be prepared for the kings from the east. 13 And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs; 14 for they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them together for the war of the great day of God, the Almighty. 15 (“Behold, I am coming like a thief. Blessed is the one who stays awake and keeps his clothes, so that he will not walk about naked and men will not see his shame.”) 16 And they gathered them together to the place which in Hebrew is called Har-Magedon. 17 Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl upon the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple from the throne, saying, “It is done.” 18 And there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder; and there was a great earthquake, such as there had not been since man came to be upon the earth, so great an earthquake was it, and so mighty. 19 The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of His fierce wrath. 20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. 21 And huge hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, *came down from heaven upon men; and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, because its plague *was extremely severe.
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