Eight Sounds of the Trumpets

Thank you very much, Mrs. Graby. Appreciate that special music. What a treat! Nice to be down here with all of you. Happy Feast of Trumpets! I used to come down to Lexington from time to time, and I used to come down to Louisville from time to time, but it seems I have not been that welcome. I'm made by Mr. DeCampus, but in recent years, early years, I have not been in this area, so it's nice to be down here and visit with you again, though I see a lot from Cincinnati area here, too. So, welcome! I hope you're having a great day. Today is a wonderful day. A lot of memories, a lot of things to consider about the meaning of the Feast of Trumpets.

Usually, a shofar or a long, silver, herald-type trumpet was blown on this day. Some say, some commentaries say, 30 blasts, and the word for blowing of trumpets can also mean shouting.

So, today was a day of shouting. Some say, well, it was about the New Year, but really, God's New Year begins in the springtime, the spiritual New Year. This was a more recent, civil New Year began the first day of the seventh month. But on the Feast of Trumpets is spoken of as a memorial of the blowing of trumpets.

Not a lot more is said about the Feast of Trumpets, except if you trace through the Scriptures, which Mr. Adams did somewhat today, and I may be able to just refer to his message, but I'll be more than happy to go beyond that. But the Feast of Trumpets pictures the events that will take place at trumpets.

It's not really the day of the last trumpet, though the last trumpet certainly has part in this day. Notice the name of it is the Feast of Trumpets.

So, I did a little study to compare what kind of...

Let me let him know. He's ready to go.

I did a little study on meetings behind trumpet calls.

Mostly, these have to do with the military. So, if you get in the military, you might recognize some of these calls that I'll be sharing with you.

There are seven of them I'm going to share, although there are lots of them.

Probably about 25, 26 of them.

I picked the ones that I felt most relevant to the Feast of Trumpets. So, each one of these events will be introduced by a trumpet call.

Since I have Mr. Gravy here to play the trumpet, I'll have him play it in a minute.

But, Josh Roddenbush, actually, one of our former students, was kind enough to record all of these for me.

So, he recorded them, and Rudy Rangel was kind enough to put them on the CD so that I could bring them down to you and have them played as that, which would be representative of each one of these events.

So, there are seven trumpets that we should want to hear, and the event that they depict.

There's one, an eighth one, that you do not want to hear.

But, there are seven you should want to hear.

So, to introduce these, I'll each one with a sound, and so I'll have Mr. Gravy please play number one.

And, as you go all the way back to him, all the way back, that's it.

Ready for the very beginning? Okay, play the beginning.

Okay, stop. That one is called the call to arms.

That was one where the men would go get their arms and get ready for battle.

So, trumpet number one pictures a time of warfare.

Feast of trumpets introduces the time when God begins to intervene into this world affairs.

The seventh trumpet, the seventh seal, reveals seven trumpets, each one of them having something to do with this world, culminating in a great war at the end.

Notice in Jeremiah 4.19, we'll see how a trumpet was a sign of... trumpet blast could be a sign of war.

Jeremiah 4.19, he says, My vows, my vows, I am pained at my very heart. Hopefully you're not after that lunch today.

I made it your very heart, although my grandson was pained at his...

Anyway, so let's get verse 19. He says, I am pained at my very heart, my heart makes a joy, makes a noise in me.

I cannot hold my peace because you have heard, oh my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. So a trumpet sound could be the alarm of war. And this one is called arms.

There's another one called charge, where they're actually sending them into battle.

Now, what are we talking about here? The day when God intervenes in this world affairs.

This world's affairs will be a time of trouble, will be a time of gloominess.

In the darkness, Joel 2 introduces this. Joel 2, verse 1, he says, blow the trumpet in Zion. And by the way, there are two kinds of trumpets.

There is the shofar, which is just a long, kind of like a ram's horn, and usually rather short, so that it would make a real high piercing sound.

But there was also the silver trumpet, as you could read in Numbers chapter 10.

They had a long trumpet that belonged to like a bugle, almost, that could place different notes depending on how much pressure you put on your armature as you blew into the mouthpiece.

But Jeremiah, Joel 2, verse 1, he says, blow the trumpet in Zion.

Son, an alarm in my holy mountain. Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord comes, and it is near at hand.

Blow the trumpet, because this is not going to be a good time.

Blow the trumpet, alert people if there's war coming, there's trouble coming for them.

Verse 2, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds, thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains, a great people and strong, have never been the like, neither shall there be any more after it, even to many years of many generations.

Now, Joel's really describing a great locust plague that had come upon the people before, and using that as the devastation that warfare would bring upon the peoples at the end.

Verse 11, we read this, And the Lord shall utter his voice before his army, for his camp is very great, for he is strong that executes his word.

For the day of the Lord is great and very terrible, who can abide it?

Now, in Revelation 8, I'm not going to go there, just reference you to it.

In Revelation chapter 8, you find the seven trumpet plagues introduced.

Seven angels are given seven trumpets.

Each one of those seven trumpets introduces another difficulty on this earth, the last three of which are woes.

But just to know, it is a time of the end.

Remember the prophecy that Jesus Christ said when he was asked, what will be the sign of your coming at the end of the world?

He said there will be wars and rumors of wars. The Feast of Trumpets signals the final war when Jesus Christ comes back with his angels, following him as King of Kings and Lord of Lords as he comes back.

And we meet him in the air to come back with him.

You like a good fight, you have a good fight, but you'll be a spirit being, you can't be hurt.

So, those on his side, his angels and his saints will prevail.

Revelation 17, verses 12-14. So, first event that's pictured by the trumpet is that of an alert for war, an alarm for war.

Yes, get ready for war.

I could use many parallels, and I'm choosing to stick with more of the events.

We could talk about the warfare that we all have in our minds, 2 Corinthians 10-5.

We could talk about the need to put on the armor of God so that we may be good soldiers, and that we may be able to fight with the proper government issue, which is from God, that is, the various attributes and various characteristics of the armor of God.

Revelation 17, verse 12, it says, And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings, the ten kings at the end, which have received no kingdom as yet, but will receive power as kings one hour with the beast.

They have one mind, and shall give their power and strength to the beast, and they shall make war with the Lamb.

So that's the end-time war, the battle that's going to end all.

And the Lamb shall overcome them, for he is Lord of lords and kings of kings, and they that are with him are called and chosen and faithful.

So God's people and the angels, those who have changed the spirit beings, rise in the air and meet him, and come back to bring this earth, finally, peace, at that last great war. But it will be a time of darkness and gloominess.

Let's listen to the second trumpet.

What is this picture? This is called Reveille.

That was blown to awaken the troops, to get them out, and to get them ready for action, to get them awakened.

How do I liken this? There's going to come a time when all of God's troops will need to be awakened.

Those are troops that are lying in the graves.

Remember what Jesus Christ said about Lazarus? When he was asked about him, he said, They said, He's sleeping. He said, Lazarus is dead.

There's going to come a time in their order that God, through this trumpet, through the trumpet, is going to awaken those who are the dead in Christ, and before the first coming of Jesus, before the second coming of Jesus Christ, and bring them back. Notice, over in 1 Thessalonians 4, you already heard 1 Corinthians 15. I can go back to that.

1 Thessalonians 4, verse 13, He said, I would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep or dead, that you sorrow not even as others who have no hope.

The resurrection of the dead provides hope, and this revelry is to remind us that one day, God is going to issue the call, and they're going to come forth out of the graves.

I remember doing a funeral in Canada, standing in Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada, doing a graveside funeral, and there were a lot of people there who were not in the church.

I just was moved to say to all of them, one day, I read the Scripture, one day, you see all these graves around you, one day they're going to open up, and people are going to stand.

One day, God's going to call everybody in their own order, one day.

It was very powerful because we were all standing there in this cemetery, where this particular person was going to be interred, but all around them were all these gravestones.

But he says, I would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that you sorrow not even as those who have no hope.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him, because God will resurrect them, they'll meet him in the air, you'll see that in a moment, and they'll come back with him.

Verse 15, for this we say to you, by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain to the coming of the Lord, shall not precede them which are asleep.

Just because we're alive, it doesn't mean we're going to go first.

Those in the graves are going to be resurrected first. 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 will rise first. I don't know if they'll play revelry, but it'll be the trump that causes these people to be alerted, like the alarm clock that goes off, and the dead in Christ shall rise first.

Verse 17, then we which are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

No, we're not going to be helicopters.

We're not going to be just hovering around.

We're not going to be in the air.

Don't we ever get the land? Of course we land.

We meet him in the air, and we come back with him.

And he says in verse 18, Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

Psalm 17 verse 15. It was interesting what David said in the song.

Psalm 17 verse 15.

You can also check Job 14 verses 14 and 15, where Job said, If a man die, shall he live again?

He said, All the days of my appointed time, will I wait till my change come?

And it will be a change.

Psalm 17 verse 15, the psalmist, then says the prayer of David in the beginning of this.

As for me, he said, I still behold, as for me, I will behold your face in righteousness.

I shall be satisfied when I awake with your likeness.

Because we are going to be changed to be sons and daughters of God, in the very family of God as spirit beings.

Today is such an awesome day because it pictures the time that all people who have been in Christ, dead or alive, when Christ comes back, are going to be changed in a moment, the twinkling of an eye at the last trunk.

They're going to be made incorruptible.

They're going to be given spirit bodies.

They're going to live forever and never have to worry about death, never have to worry about sin, never have to worry about eating, never have to worry about drinking.

They can eat or drink if they want to and have all these wonderful attributes.

of your Father in heaven and your elder brother, Jesus Christ.

So the second trumpet pictures the time of the resurrection, the time of awakening, revelry. Let's listen to the third one.

Okay. What does this one picture?

Assembly. This is called the call to assembly.

We heard about that somewhat from Mr. Adams today.

But I'm going to share with you more than just coming to church.

What will be the state of the physical Israelites when Jesus Christ comes back?

Where will they be? In captivity.

In captivity. Remember the talks about you go into captivity and I'll lead you into captivity. He talks about in Ezekiel about one-third being killed by pestilence and one-third being killed by the sword and the other-third being taken into captivity.

There's so many scriptures in the minor prophets and major prophets that indicate a time when Jesus Christ comes back, He's going to have to rescue those people.

Look at Isaiah chapter 27. Isaiah chapter 27.

It will be a call to assembly. God will be calling those people out of those countries where they have been scattered.

You'll find a reference to that in Matthew where you could apply that to either the resurrection or you could apply that to spiritual Israel or a resurrection, or rather a regathering of physical Israel.

Notice Isaiah chapter 27 and we'll start with verses 12 and 13.

And it shall come to pass in that day. Any time you read the words, in that day, at that time, that usually referring to the time when God sets His hand to deal with the people.

In that day, that the Lord shall beat off from the channel of the river to the stream of Egypt and you shall be gathered one by one, O you children of Israel.

When God comes back, He's going to have to gather His people again.

In verse 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 outcast in the land of Egypt and shall worship the Lord in the holy month at Jerusalem.

They will be brought back and they will be saved.

And I'm telling you, today's a great day for our brethren in America, for our brethren in Australia and England and Canada.

This is a great day for those Israelite-ish nations which have not thrown in with the beast.

Those who have thrown in with the beast, they're going to get their comeuppance from God.

But the others are going to go into captivity.

The Bible even indicates that those who go out by a thousand will leave only a hundred.

Those who go out by a hundred will leave ten.

Now, that's very sobering, because if you already have two-thirds being killed by famine, investments, and warfare, that means you have one-third being taken out, and out of that one-third, only one-tenth returned.

That means one-thirtieth of all the peoples.

If that prophecy in Amos 5 is true, how many people have you met throwing in the church?

Nice people.

There's a horrible time coming ahead.

But thank God, thank God, he's going to bring them out.

And all during that time, they're in that place of captivity, guess who's going to be giving them hope?

The two witnesses.

Because you see, the two witnesses who carry on the work of God during those three-and-a-half years when God's church is protected, when God's people are protected, and when the work has been shut down, except for them, and those two witnesses, nobody can dare touch them, or they will hurt them.

And those two witnesses will be able to do God's work, and they come, hey, these people are converted now, you let them keep the Sabbath, or I'll be back, you know, whoever says that, the department chores the neighbor, or whatever.

I'll be back, you know.

And they have the power, if anybody tries to hurt them, to inflict whatever punishment they choose. Read it in Revelation, Chapter 11.

They are going to be the ones who sustain those.

Then you end up having 144,000 Israelites come out and convert it, and you have an innumerable multitude of those, or their captors, perhaps, or even people in those captive lands who are converted.

That's Revelation, Chapter 7.

And in Revelation, Chapter 11, you find those two witnesses doing the work of God, and they will be known all over the world.

That God is going to call his people back, and he's going to assemble them.

Matthew 24, Verse 31, can sort of be dual, not only calling God's people, whoever they might be, but I see even more importantly, bringing back the physical Israelites.

You do know that in the Old Testament, the physical Israelites were also called God's Elites.

They were called God's Elites.

They were elected to do a job physically that they did not do, but they will once again have a chance to do it in the beautiful world tomorrow, as God begins to perform them as a nation, reclaim them, form them, teach them his way, have them be an example to the rest of the world.

In Matthew 24, Verse 31, he shall send his angels, timeframe, Verse 30, then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven, and then shall the tribes of the earth mourn, for they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory, and he is coming with the sign of the trumpet, too.

And he shall send his angels with a great sign of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Who are these elects? Certainly they could be spirit, but those who are going to be changed spiritually, those who are in God's Church, but I also see reason to believe who's going to be scattered all over the world.

If we understand the prophecies correctly, God's Church is supposed to be protected.

So why will they be all over the world?

If they're protected in one place, then maybe they're not protected in one place.

But when they're changed to spirit beings, he says he has to gather them, or they'll just be coming.

But those physical Israelites will need to be gathered, we read in Isaiah 27, verses 12 and 13.

So, trumpet number three is assembly, a call to come together.

And those physical Israelites are going to come back to the land, and those Gentiles are going to fear them, because God is going to put the fear of the Lord into them.

They're going to bring them back. They're going to be carrying the children.

It says your kings and your princes are going to be carrying their children.

The Israelites' children on their shoulders as they bring them back.

They're going to be the promised land.

So one day is going to happen, the call to assembly.

Let's listen to number four.

A pomp and circumstance. Now, that's not necessarily a military call, but it is a well-known one that's done for congratulations, for graduation, for coronation, for honoring and appreciating.

And I like a number four to the coronation.

You see, they did blow trumpet. They did blow the trumpet.

You can read it in 1 Kings 1, 34.

When Solomon was going to be anointed, they anointed him with the blast of a trumpet.

So at the coronation, there will be the trumpet blast.

Let me read to you Psalms 24, verses 7 to 10.

Psalms 24, verses 7 to 10.

He says, lift up your heads, O you gates.

Be lift up, Psalms 24, verse 7.

Be lift up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.

And who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty.

The Lord mighty in battle.

Lift up your heads, you gates.

And even lift them up, you everlasting doors.

And the King of glory shall come in.

And who is this King of glory? Who is this one that we celebrate?

The Lord of hosts. He is the King of glory.

And Revelation, chapter 11.

Revelation, chapter 11. At that seventh trump, when the seventh angel sounds, it will be the time of proclaiming Jesus Christ as King of kings and Lord of lords.

Feast of trumpets is the beginning of God's reign when He proclaimed to be King.

But He has to fight His way back to this earth because the world's not going to readily accept Him.

But Revelation, chapter 11.

Revelation, chapter 11, verse 15.

And the seventh angel sounded. Now you'll notice they were all given trumpets.

Over back in chapter 8, chapter 8, verse 2, it says, And I saw seven angels which stood before God, and to them were given the seven trumpets.

So now, chapter 11, you have what's taken place in between chapter 11 and verse 15.

The first part of chapter 11 is about the two witnesses.

Verse 15 says, And the seventh angel sounded, And there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, of His Christ, And He shall reign for ever and ever.

And the four and twenty elders which sat before God on His throne, Fell upon their faces and worship God. They're elders in heaven. See? People go to heaven.

Is that true? How do I deal with this?

Did God know what men looked like?

Yeah, because He had caribbean way back when, one of whom's faces was a man.

Did God know what men looked like? Let's see.

Why did He say He made us in His image?

Yes, He knew what men looked like. Were these humans, or were these men, what do angels appear like when they come to the earth?

When angels manifest themselves, they appear as men.

They appear as men. Remember Abraham, Fed with them.

Come on in, you must be strangers in time. I don't recognize you.

Come on in. They sat by the including and they blessed them.

They appear as men. God knew what men looked like. These aren't human beings. These are spirit beings.

Elders, they're called. They sit around the throne of God, twenty-four of them. I take it they give Him advice if He wants it. But God doesn't need advice from anybody. God is omniscient and omnipotent. He's all-powerful and He's all-knowing. He knows everything. He doesn't need advice. Just like, does He need us to help Him rule the world tomorrow? Does He really need us? Does He need lots of angels? Many millions of them? A hundred million plus? Not many of them could consent. One would wipe out a whole army of 185,000 Assyrians. He didn't need 185 angels. 185,000 angels. He just needed one. So, why is God happy? Because God is a sharing, giving God. So you have these twenty-four elders. Anyway, they're so happy. They fall upon their faces. They worship God. Notice what they said. Saying, we give you thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which are and was and are to come. Because you've taken to you your great power and have reign. You're going to sit on your throne now. You're going to be bringing some peace and justice to this world. Over in Zechariah... I don't know about that Scripture either. Revelation 19. Revelation 19 and verse 16.

But at the time of coronation, it's a time of proclaiming Jesus Christ as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Revelation 19 and 16. Talking about heaven open in verse 11. His eyes were as a flame of fire. He sat on his horse. God even has horses in heaven. I don't know. He has spiritual stables. I don't know. He has spiritual hay. I don't know. He has spiritual rains. I don't know. He has spiritual saddles. But I do know he has spiritual horses. God even knew what horses looked like. Isn't that amazing yet? Because he made them. He also talks about it again in his vision. He's saying this, whether it's literal, real or not. Our vision to explain God's coming back in power. Which a horse riding on a horse was. It talks about out of his mouth. Verse 15. There's a sharp two-edged sword that with it he should smite the nations. He shall rule them with a rod of iron. He treads the winepress of the fierceness, wrath of Almighty God. Who is this? Verse 16. He has on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of kings, Lord of lords. On his head were many crowns, and his head symbolic of one who rules over many. But who are the other kings? You. It's your coronation day, too. Those who are faithful to God, who are faithful to the end, and live to the end, and those of us who may die before the end. God will resurrect them and give them eternal life, but not just eternal life. Kingship. Remember the parable, the talents, the parable, the pounds? What does he say to them? Well done, you good and faithful servant. Have a heart.

Here's a cloud. Hope you can play it. Hope you like floating around. No. He talks about rulership. You've been faithful and little. Have rulership over many. Have rulership over two cities, five cities, ten, whatever. Have rulership over them, because you have been faithful in that, which is little. I'm going to make you ruler over much. You say, but I've never ruled a city. How many of us here have ever ruled a city? Maybe my daughter Jan, she went to girl state, so she had sort of a makeshift kind of a city, but that really was kind of a place in me. How many have actually ruled over a city? Do you know how quickly as a spirit being, you'll be able to learn? Doesn't even come close to it. I've heard people say, well, I don't know. I'll be able to rule all the nations. I can't speak Spanish very well, or I can't speak French very well. Do you know what? All you have to do is like that. God says, here's how to learn it. You learn it. Like downloading a major program onto your computer only faster. I mean, I've got so many things on my computer. I've got Bible, so it's got so many things. It's got World Books, it's got Shat Hursav, Shat Hursav, Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. It's got all these commenters, and you probably have them too on yours. It is amazing what one little disc could contain and how that can be fed into your computer. There it is! My computer has it all. Well, you'll be Spirit Being. Your mind is not limited by human means and human limitations or human memory. So you'll be able to learn well and learn quickly. But Revelation 5.10, it has made them, it should be, not us, O King James as us, made them to our God, kings and priests, because it's the angels saying this, or the beasts not humans saying this, and made them those human beings to our God, kings and priests, and they shall reign on the earth. God is going to make you a king, a queen, a leader, a ruler, a governor, a mayor, too. So it's your day of coronation as well. So pomp and circumstance could be played for you. Let's listen to number 5.

The The The The The The The What is this one? This is the call to mess. They had slightly different variations depending on whether it was breakfast, lunch, or dinner. But this was the call that you would hear if you were out in the field on a dud. It's time to go eat. Let's go chow down. They called their cafeteria mess hall. So this is the call to mess, at least in the army. They did. What is the picture to us? They call it a supper.

There is going to be a great supper, at least, indicated in the scripture. The time of a great marriage. Now, I don't know what that means. You're going to wear a dress. We all are going to wear dresses and walk down the aisle. All $140. I'd be awful to see me in a dress. Especially a white woman wearing high heels and a veil. That'd be pretty awful. Although I have worn a tutu before.

I made a mistake one time. I used the word tutu at church and everybody laughed at me and giggled. And I didn't mean that. But anyway, it came out. Now, it means you're going to be faithful to God. There's a wedding coming. Who are the people that are going to partake of that? Those who are faithful. What is marriage all about?

Faithfulness. When he talks about you adulterers and you adulterers, is he only meaning those who cheat on their families? No, he's meaning those who cheat on their God. Those are full of adulterers. You're full of the word, boredom. Those who cheat. Those who are unfaithful. He means unfaithful to him. So the marriage supper is saying, we are going to be faithful to God for all eternity now.

What kind of supper he's going to have? I have no idea. I have no idea how good it doesn't say it. And for me to say it would be wrong. God doesn't say it. Why should I say it? But you read in here, in chapter 19 of Revelation, verse 15. Revelation chapter 19. We'll start with verse 15. That's what I want. No, it's not what I want. Revelation 19 verse 7. Sorry, I gave you the next one. Revelation 19 verse 7. Let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and his wife has made herself ready.

Are we ready to show God faithfulness for all eternity? What is this life about anyway? It's a proving ground for us. It's to see what our mettle is all about. It's to see what we're made out of. It's to see, can we be true and faithful to the other? And I tell you, you find out who's faithful and who isn't. You find out who can be easily hoodwinked.

You find out who can follow man instead of following God and Jesus Christ. You find out. Shockingly surprised. People are saying, that person will never leave the child. I know them so well they would never leave. They left. He said, that person, he probably leaves. He's stuck. Because I don't know the heart of them.

I can only see what they're doing on the exterior. And may I say that Christianity can be easily put on. You can externalize Christianity if you don't do it from the inside out. You can do it from the outside in.

But it's not so easy to do it from the inside out. That's why God's law is not just written on some tablets that we put in our home. Or put on our, we're on our wrists. But put in our heart. That's a person who's internalized God's way of life. Those who study it and say, I believe this because it is true. Not my church told me, I believe it.

So the bride has made herself ready. He says, he's made the, he's come and the bride has made herself ready, the wife. Verse 8, and to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright. For the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints, as was brought out by Mr. Hoover. That's his presentation. Integrity. Integrity having to do with righteousness. Integrity having to do with uprightness.

Integrity having to do with purity, honesty, truth. All of those. Uncorruptness. You read uncorruptness? It's a word for integrity. Are you a person who has clean linen on? Are you a person who's arrayed in clean linen? For it is the righteousness of the saints. And he says in verse 9, he says to me, Right, blessed are they which are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb.

And he said to me, these are the true sayings of God. A lot of I see Trumpet number 5 called a mess. A call to mess. A call to the great supper that God has. Whether it's literally physically, God can do what he wants, or talking about it being scripture. We will celebrate together at a time that we show our faithfulness to God for all eternity. Pretty special time. God speaks about there. Call to that marriage supper. And notice 2 Corinthians 11 and verse 2, making ourselves ready. 2 Corinthians 11 and verse 2. As I turn here, you know what Jesus Christ said to his disciples after he did the last Passover?

I will no more taste of this fruit of the vine, until I take it anew with you in the kingdom of God. I'm not going to have any more wine on Passover with you until we celebrate in the kingdom. So, that fifth trumpet, that call to mess, is kind of a celebration, supper. We're coming together. God is saying, these people are going to be faithful and true to me for all eternity. 2 Corinthians 11 too puts it this way.

Paul writes, I'm jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin unto Christ. God wants us to be pure, pure in heart, pure in attitude, pure in practice, pure in our approach to life. That's how he wants us to be. So, the fifth trumpet, sound, call to mess. Let's listen to number six.

A TAPs at funerals for soldiers. So, John did a great job on it. I gave him lots of credit for doing this for him. He did it in a few days. Worked in a few days' practice. What do I see in this? TAPs. It signals a funeral. It signals death. Who's this the death of? It's the death of this world. The death of this world, because the Feast of Trumpets pictures the beginning of the end of this world. What did the disciples ask Jesus Christ? What will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the world? Then he went on to describe what was going to take place for this world to be end. It's really not the end of this world. It's kind of a change, a transformation. Not the end, in a sense, the whole world's going to be obliterated, but it's going to be transformed. And it is the time when this world will be dying. It will be dealt a death blow. Of course, we already read Revelation 11.15. At that trumpet, they will proclaim the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ. He shall reign forever and ever. Look at Daniel chapter 2. Daniel chapter 2 verses 44 and 45. Again, we've set up with the trumpet. We said that that last trump is when they proclaim the kingdoms of this world. In Daniel chapter 2 and verse 44, we read, And in the days of these kings, again, kings representing that last final world-ruling empire at the end, days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed. And what is it going to do to what is in existence already? And the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. Today signals the time of the end for this world's system. Verse 45, For as much as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountains without ends, and that it had broken pieces, the iron, the brass, the clay, and the silver, and the gold, the great God is made known to the king which shall come to pass hereafter. The dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof is sure. In Revelation chapter 19, now we will go to verse 15, and take it to verses 19 and 20.

So, Revelation chapter 19.

Beginning in verse 15 of Revelation 19, he says that, Out of his mouth goes a sharp sword that with it he should smite the nations. The death knelt of this world is being signaled by the Feast of Trumpets. And he shall rule them with the wrought of iron. He treads the winepress, the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. Verse 19, And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against him that sat on his horse and against his army. And verse 20, And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet, that worked all these false miracles really before him, with which he deceived them that had the mark of the beast, had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. And they were both cast alive into a lake of fire, burning with brimstone. So what is God going to do? He's going to remove all the worldly leadership. He's going to put an end to this world's system. That death knelt, that taps, picturing that time. Notice Daniel chapter 7, going back to Daniel chapter 7 and verse 13. Daniel 7 verse 13 and 14. And Daniel, again, seeing these visions of the end time, but not knowing when they applied, and not knowing how they applied. Because as he's discussing these things, he doesn't really know when this is going to be. In fact, he said at the end, When shall these things be? I write all these things down, but I don't know when it's going to happen. What was his answer? God says, Go your way, Daniel. It's not for you to understand. You're just my scribe. You don't have to understand what you're writing. Just write it. Verse 13, And I saw in the night visions, And behold, one like the Son of Man, came of the clouds of heaven, and came to the ancient of days, And they brought him near before him. And there was given to him dominion, glory, and a kingdom, That all people, nations, and languages should serve him. It's the end of this world. And his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away his kingdom, that which shall not be destroyed. So that's going to replace this world's kingdoms. And notice over in the same section, verses 17 and 18, he talks about these great beasts, which are four. Picture in the four world-ruling kingdoms. The world will have its ruling kingdoms right till the time Jesus Christ comes back, which shall arise out of the earth, verse 18. But the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom. So God's not just going to do it himself, he's going to have his saints with him. He shall take the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, even, forever, and ever. So, trumpet call number six. Taps. The funeral, the death knell for this world, replaced by the kingdom of God. So, let's listen to number seven.

Three loud blasts. I don't know what the victor said. They are trumpet blasts. There's coming a time to announce the Jubilee for this world. The Jubilee was announced with the trumpet blast. You'll notice Leviticus chapter 25. The Jubilee for the children of Israel was a time of release, a time of freedom, and a time of restoration. Leviticus chapter 25 verses 9 and 10. It was a time of restoration. It was a time when things would be replaced.

It was a time when there would be renewal. And this is a time of celebration, a time when the world could be free, free from the clutches of Satan the devil, free from the clutches of men who try to make their gain over people. The chapter 25 and verse 9. He says, Then shall you cause the trumpet... I don't know what the trumpet did.

That's why I had him do just three trumpet blasts. Then shall you cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month. It occurred on the day of Atonement, which is the time of freedom, a time of atoning for people of this world. In the day of Atonement shall you make a trumpet sound throughout all your land. So we have the trumpet sound. And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, proclaim liberty throughout all the land of the inhabitants thereof. And it shall be a Jubilee unto you, and you shall return every man his possession, and you shall return every man to his family.

Those people that have been sold into slavery, and they did sell people into slavery back then. You've minded so many debts you couldn't pay. Okay, you can work it off by being my gardener, by being my butler, by being my chauffeur for X number of years. While the day of Jubilee comes, I'll be free. And when the kingdom of God starts, it's going to be like a Jubilee when God restores.

How do I know that? Acts 3, 21. Acts 3, 21 is a time of restoration. And let's face it, there are a lot of things that have to be restored, not necessarily physical properties, a lot of things that have to be restored. There are some animals that have been wiped out from the face of the earth because of man's evil, because man liked their pelts, because man liked their tusks, because man liked their ivory or their skin, because man liked their meat, because man liked their skin.

They wiped them out practically from the face of the earth. God is going to have to restore a lot of things. He's going to have to restore our atmosphere. He's going to have to restore our ground that has been overworked and pummeled with fertilizers that have really done more damage. He's going to have to restore the eco-balance in the world. He's going to have to restore how the bugs take things and what they do.

He's going to have to restore the purple martins in my area of the kingdom to keep all the mosquitoes. I'm going to ask for lots of purple martins. I hope I can be there. Lots of purple martins. I don't like mosquitoes. And they don't like me. They like me. That's the problem. They like me. So I'm a pickle guy. I don't like mosquitoes that like me. Anyway, chapter 3, verse 21, we read this.

Jesus Christ, verse 20, He shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached to you, verse 21, whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things which God has spoken by the mouth of all of His holy prophets since the world began. When Jesus Christ comes back, it's going to be jubilee-dime time for this world.

God is going to restore, and He's going to bring about a time of restitution of all things. What a great time that's going to be. Former enemies are going to like each other. Isaiah 19 talks about Israel, Egypt, and Assyria, all three serving together. Traditional enemies, they're going to be serving together. That's an awesome time. It's a time when people will come to seek God in Jerusalem, and not only Israelites, Isaiah 2, Micah 4.

They're going to come and say, teach us of your ways. We want to learn about God. They're coming of the nations. They're going to come to learn of God's ways. And Zechariah 14 talks about them coming up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. Of all the people who are left of the nations, they'll come to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. If they decide not to, they'll get a little plague here. And if they don't, that's not good enough.

They'll get a big plague here. Because God wants them to follow Him and learn His way. Isaiah 11, verses 1-9. Isaiah chapter 11 shows you the effects that there will be when God is here, and how He will take a hand at restoring things. Isaiah 11, verse 1, there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of its roots. And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him. The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.

Jesus Christ is coming back equipped with all this special, intuitive way of dealing with people. And you will have it too, because you'll be His Spirit being with Him. And He shall make Him a quick understanding in the fear of the Lord, shall not judge after the sight of His eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of His ears. How many times do people judge wrongly? How many times do people misjudge? Because they do it after the sight of their eyes and hearing of their ears, but not after the knowing of the heart.

They can't see the heart. But with righteousness, verse 4, shall He judge the poor, reprove with equity for the meat of the earth, shall He smite the earth, the rot of His mouth, and with the breath of His lips shall He slay the wicked. God is going to take a hand. God is going to stand for that which is right. I could read you lots of quotes. I just gave a leadership seminar on integrity.

Lots of good quotes on, do the right thing. Do the right thing. I think that was Marcus Aurelius. Do the right thing. No matter what. God's going to do the right thing. Verse 5, righteousness will be the girdle of His loins, and faithfulness the girdle of His veins.

How will He rule? He'll rule faithfully. How will He deal with people? He'll deal with them according to His righteousness. Verse 6, series of restoration, The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf, the young lion, and the fatling together, and the little child shall eat them.

Now that doesn't happen today, except in circuses maybe. And maybe in some special homes. I did see something on television the other day where they, one person had like a tiger in a kangaroo, was that anybody see them on TV? A tiger in one arm and a kangaroo in the other. Apparently they were best friends, the tiger and the kangaroo. And sometimes that works. This is not just one animal. Animals are going to be changed, at least as we see it here.

Verse 7, the cow and the bear shall feed. They'll both be grazing beside each other, or beside each other feeding, and their young ones shall lie down together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the ass. That's where we get this kingdom picture. Children having whatever their pets will be in their backyard, whatever pet elephant, pet crocodile, or whatever it might be that they choose to have.

Sucking child shall lie, shall play on the hole of an ass. Deadly serpent, snake, the ween child shall put his hand on the cockatrice dead. It's not going to, it'll just kind of tickle them. They won't strangle him like the boa constrictor did that got into these twin kids' room, somehow through the eating system or events. This big boa constrictor, I don't know, 90, 100 pounds, 120 pounds, fell on them and squeezed them to death.

That won't happen in the world tomorrow. Verse 9, here's verse 9. They shall not hurt nor destroy, and all my holy mountain, for the earth, shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. At one time, the earth was full of knowledge of God. In fact, that's all the knowledge they had, is knowledge of God. And Adam and Eve were here, and their children, to start with.

But gradually, that knowledge became perverted by the great perceived of Satan the devil. That's going to also be restored to this earth. What a beautiful time! There's a lot more that's going to happen that's so awesome and wonderful that God's going to bring about. Pictured by that seventh trumpet of Jubilee. So we've covered the six, right? The first one that caught arms, or the alarm for war. The second one, the rebel in the awakening, the troops, the resurrection of the dead. Thirdly, the assembly of the gathering of physical Israelites from the lands where they've been, and gathering people together. Number four, the coronation, the proclamation of God as King of Jesus Christ as King of Kings, Lord of Lords, and us too.

And the fifth trumpet, the cult of supper, the mess of marriage supper. And the sixth one, taps, the end of this world, the beginning, marking the end of this world, the beginning of the world tomorrow. Number seven, Jubilee, a time of celebration and a time of restoration, time of peace. Now there's one that I haven't played yet. Number eight, you do not want to hear. Would you please play?

You know what that is? The call to retreat. Seen the movie, not Braveheart, the Patriot, and the British general sitting up on Cornwall, sitting up on the hill, and they're losing because they were outsmarted by a bunch of militia men. And he says to his general assistant to him, sign the retreat. They've taken the field. Sign the retreat. Retreat. You never want to hear retreat. As a Christian, we dare never draw back. We dare never fall away. We dare never pull away from being God's servant. Hebrews 10, verses 38 and 39. Hebrews 10, verses 38 and 39, and I don't have a trumpet for this one in Scripture anyway. But Hebrews chapter 10, the words are here. Chapter 10, verse 38, Now the just shall live by faith, but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. God doesn't want any of us to quit. God doesn't want any of us to pull away. God wants us to move forward. But we are not of them who draw back into perdition, but of them that believe to the saving of the soul. God does not want us to pull back. God does not want us to slow up. God does not want us to take a detour somewhere.

And we read over in 2 Peter 2 and verse 20. 2 Peter 2 and verse 20. Notice the warning that Peter gives. For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, 2 Peter 2 20, they are again entangled there and overcome. The end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. But it's happened to them, according to the true proper, the dog has turned to its own vomit again. The dog goes back and licks up that which it found repulsive. The dog goes back. Or the pig, the sow, that was washed, the female pig that was washed to her wallowing in the muck. She's been cleaned up for some exhibit, and she goes as soon as she comes back, open the cage, open the pen, and right back into the muck. God says, I have no pleasure in that. 2 Timothy 4, verse 10. We find some people who did in the time of the Apostle Paul turn away. 2 Timothy 4, verse 10. We read this, For Demas has forsaken thee, having loved this present world, and is departed from into Thessalonica. Cressons is into Galatia, and Titus into Dalmatia. Now, we don't know if the last two that are mentioned fell away, or if he's just saying, This man fell away, and he went there, but these other good guys went here. Or if he's in the same frame talking about those who fell away, if these other two also fell away. We do not want to be of that guilt. But we can have assurance if we keep pressing on faithfully. 2 Timothy 4, same chapter, verses 7 and 8. And this was read to us by Mr. Adams, but I will reread it. I have thought a good fight. I have finished my course, Paul said. I have kept the faith. I've fought the fight. I'm ready to keep on going. Henceforth has laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day, and not to me only, but to all them also that love his appearing. All those that keep moving forward, all those that keep looking forward to the return of Jesus Christ, that that was pictured by his great feast of trumpets. One final scripture. Philippians 1 and verse 6. By the way, thank you, Mr. Ravey, for playing there. You did great. Philippians 1 and verse 6. Being confident of this very thing, that he which has begun a good work in you will perform it till the day of Jesus Christ. That we can have confidence in as long as we keep moving forward, as long as we don't draw back, and as long as we keep our eyes on the glorious kingdom of God, which this day announces. Eight trumpet calls. Seven we should long to hear. One I hope we never hear. As we conclude this day, I hope you've had a meaningful and wonderful feast of trumpets. I hope we all will look forward to the great day of atonement. It is a great day, even though we fast that day. We don't feel like as spontaneous and as spunky as we normally do. And then the joyous feast of chaperon apples and the grand finale of hope. The last great day, or the eighth day of the feast. May you have a blessed rest of the day, and thank you for letting me come down this day. On the Feast of Trumpets, 2013.