Advent Glimpses of our Future
Trumpets in the Bible announce something significant. In Matthew 24 it announces the end of tribulation and the coming of Christ as does the seventh trumpet in Revelation. In 1 Corinthians 15:51-52, the trumpet announces the resurrection of the dead and their corresponding transformation. We have hope in what the last trumpet sounds. The last trumpet will mark the end of tribulation, tests and trials; it marks the beginning of of our glorious future, resurrected bodies, new creation, a restored earth, and heaven and earth becoming one. The old will have passed and the new will arrive. What seers, prophets, patriarchs, and disciples saw will break out in all of its wondrous glory. Oh, trumpet sound! Oh, trumpet sound!
“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” (Matthew 24:31 ESV).
“Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, 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 shall reign forever and ever.” Revelation 11:15 (ESV)
“Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will 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 imperishable, and we will be changed.” 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 (NASB)
16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words. (1 Thessalonians 4:16–18 ESV).
