Trumpet Shadows

The trumpet figured extensively in Israel´s past. The trumpet backed dramas are recorded in the scriptures. Most are dramatized prophecies for our time. They were staged by the eternal to inform the entire universe of what He is planning to do in the last days of earths history.

The Apostle Paul writes.

1 Corinthians 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for en samples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the World are come.

Let us now look at some of those prophetic dramas, those shadows of coming events and see what we in the year 2000 can learn from them.

Holy War

Numbers 31:6  And Moses sent them to war, a thousand of every Tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the Priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.

The Fall of Jericho Joshua 6:4  And seven priests shall bear before the Ark seven trumpets of rams horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
Joshua 4:5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the rams horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before Him.
Joshua 4:6 And Joshua the Son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them, take up the Ark of the Covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams horns before the Ark of the Lord.
Joshua 6:13  And the seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams horns before the Ark of the Lord went on continually, and blew with the trumpets, and the armed men went before them; but the reward came after the Ark of the Lord, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
Joshua 6:20  So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
A similar collapse of earths cities is foretold in the Book of Revelation.
Revelation 16:15  Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
Revelation 16:16  And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
Revelation 16:17  And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the Temple of Heaven, from the Throne, saying, it is done.
Revelation 16:18  And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, and so great.
Revelation 16:19  And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of fierceness of His wrath.

Gideon´s Victory

Judges 7:18  When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The Sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

The Ark of the Covenant

2 Samuel 6:15  So David and all the house of Israel brought up the Ark of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
1 Chronicles 15:28  Thus all Israel brought up the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord with shouting, and with sound of the Coronet (Yobel), and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with Psalteries and Harps.

Anointing the King

1 Kings 1:39  And Zadok the Priest took an horn of oil out of the Tabernacle, and anointed Solomon, And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, God save King Solomon.
Revelation 11:15  And the seventh angel sounded his trumpet and there were great voices in Heaven, saying, The Kingdoms of this World are become the Kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever.

Dedication of Solomons Temple

2 Chronicles 5:12  Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and Psalteries and Harps, stood at the East end of the Altar, and with theman hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:

King Abijahs Victory over Jeroboam

2 Chronicles 13:1-20  read about this battle where 500,000 soldiers were slain, King Abijah said these words:  And behold, God Himself is with us for our Captain, and His Priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O Children of Israel, fight ye not against the Lord God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.

Building the second Temple

Ezra 3:10  And when the builders laid the foundation of the Temple of the Lord, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the Lord, after the ordinance of David King of Israel.

Jubilee Trumpet

Hebrew Yobel; jubilee, a ram´s horn Shofar.    Leviticus 25:9  Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of Atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.

Still Future

These laws and the experiences bear in mind are prophetic dramas, shadows, types, miniature examples. of great universal realities due to occur in our day. This includes the Sacred Trumpets on high and the Yobel (rams horn) Trumpeters on earth.

Isaiah 18:3  All ye inhabitants of the World, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when He lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when He bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.

Isaiah 18:4  For so the Lord said unto me, I will take my rest and I will consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

Isaiah 27:1  In that day the Lord with His sore and great and strong sword shall punish Leviathan the Piercing Serpent, even Leviathan that crooked serpent; and He shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

Isaiah 27:2  In that day sing ye unto her, a vineyard of red wine.

Isaiah 27:3  I the Lord do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will keep it night and day.

Isaiah 27:4  Fury is not in Me, who would set the briers and thorns against Me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

Isaiah 27:5  Or let him take hold of My strength, that he may make peace with Me; and he shall make peace with Me.

Isaiah 27:12  And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye Children of Israel.

Isaiah 27:13  And it shall come to pass in that day, that the GREAT TRUMPET shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall Worship the Lord in the Holy Mount at Jerusalem.

The Resurrection

When the trumpet of the Lord sounds, even the dead will hear it. It will trigger the Resurrection. Millions of believers from ages past will rise out of their graves to greet the coming King. I tell you there will be a shout of delight so loud that the Earth will shake. It will be the greatest day this old Universe has ever witnessed. A day of freedom. A day of victory over death, pain, sickness, sorrow and separation.
This is the reason why I suspect that the Savior may well return on a Feast of Trumpets in some future year.
1 Thessalonians 4:16  For the Lord Himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the Trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
1 Corinthians 4:16  In a moment, the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

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