When you think of a trumpeter, one of the things that comes to mind is that they are used to make a grand pronouncement, like the entrance of royalty for example. Each one pronounces a different judgment upon the earth during the Great Tribulation.
The trumpets are revealed after John sees a vision of the great crowd from every tribe and nation standing around the throne offering worship to the lamb of God. Here is what happens next. The contrast of the silence in heaven compared to the great roar that was just heard must have really been deafening to John.
As you see within the seventh seal there are seven trumpets which were to be blown. Each one will pronounce a type of judgment on the earth, and they will intensify as each subsequent trumpet is blown. When you look a little closer at these opening verses in chapter 8, it seems the blowing of these trumpets is a response to the saints offering prayers to God. Consider Revelation :. God, in response to the prayers of the martyrs who were killed during the Great Tribulation, vindicates his people with the blowing of the trumpets.
God is judging the people of the earth and bringing vindication for his people all in one. At the heart of the seven trumpets in Revelation are the judgments that come with the blowing of each one.
Each trumpet will be blown by a different angel, but the angels are not named. The earth, seas, water and sky are all affected by these first four judgments. These are all the things required for life, and God is affecting these things as judgment for those who have rejected him.
After blowing the fourth trumpet, there is a brief pause before the last three trumpets are blown. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels! In the middle of judgment God pauses.
He decides to give additional warning of what is to come and at the same time give people an opportunity to repent. I think sometimes people believe God brings judgment because he likes to judge. He brings judgment because he is a just God. In order for God to be who he is, he must judge sin. Yet even in the judging process, God offers opportunity for repentance because that is his heart.
As you can see with the first four of the seven trumpets in Revelation, things are getting pretty bad. The fifth trumpet Rev. We are finally free. We are finally one with the King, and nothing separates us from His great love that continuously pursues us and fights for us.
What happens in the time between? Right now, in this moment, God is waiting for you to sound your trumpet. You see, God is not waiting by idly, fiddling his thumbs. Reminding yourself of His promise to you, and believing it. Reminding Him of His promise to you, claiming it, and declaring it.
And when you do that, sweet friend, He promises to remember you and rescue you from your enemies. Join our tribe of butt-kicking, God-fearing, Bible-studying, kingdom-building women who are committed to stepping into their unique calling and following Christ!
Friend, the King reigns. He has not forgotten you. I am reminded of the lyrics from Desert Song by Hillsong Worship :. I will rejoice I will declare God is my victory and He is here. And this is my prayer in my battle When triumph is still on its way I am a conqueror and co-heir with Christ So firm on His promise I'll stand.
Stand firm on His promise. Sound your trumpets, friend, and let Him defeat the enemy for you. Come hang out with me on Instagram keelahope to get updates on new content and goodies! Cart 0. Upon further research, I found that blowing the trumpets served multiple purposes, including: The trumpets tell people an instruction from God and how to respond.
Heck yeah! Thank you! I'm so excited to learn how to study the Bible together! 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 this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. O death, where is your sting?
And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! You shall not do any ordinary work. It is a day for you to blow the trumpets,. So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown.
As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they captured the city. On the morning of the third day there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people in the camp trembled.
The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up. On the day of your gladness also, and at your appointed feasts and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings. They shall be a reminder of you before your God: I am the Lord your God.
Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet there anoint him king over Israel. The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of their light might be darkened, and a third of the day might be kept from shining, and likewise a third of the night.
Then you shall sound the loud trumpet on the tenth day of the seventh month. On the Day of Atonement you shall sound the trumpet throughout all your land. So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouting, to the sound of the horn, trumpets, and cymbals, and made loud music on harps and lyres. Of hammered work you shall make them, and you shall use them for summoning the congregation and for breaking camp.
And when both are blown, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the entrance of the tent of meeting. But if they blow only one, then the chiefs, the heads of the tribes of Israel, shall gather themselves to you. When you blow an alarm, the camps that are on the east side shall set out.
You shall not do any ordinary work, and you shall present a food offering to the Lord. And each of the builders had his sword strapped at his side while he built. The man who sounded the trumpet was beside me.
Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.
But that in the days of the trumpet call to be sounded by the seventh angel, the mystery of God would be fulfilled, just as he announced to his servants the prophets. The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. And when she looked, there was the king standing by the pillar, according to the custom, and the captains and the trumpeters beside the king, and all the people of the land rejoicing and blowing trumpets.
Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark. On the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. Be on guard, keep awake. For you do not know when the time will come. It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and puts his servants in charge, each with his work, and commands the doorkeeper to stay awake.
Therefore stay awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning— lest he come suddenly and find you asleep. Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with their battle trumpets to sound the call to battle against you.
O sons of Israel, do not fight against the Lord , the God of your fathers, for you cannot succeed. And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit. Obed-edom and Jehiah were to be gatekeepers for the ark.
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