KML (22 June 2014)
"" Last Trump; First Trump ""
 
We know when we read the words of Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:52, that we are looking for (A) specific trump: not just any trump.
 ( In a moment, in 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 .)
   So we ask ourselves; What trump ?
Is it an actual (sound) of a literal Trumpet?
or is it the voice of God, which sounds like a trumpet?

Paul wrote as if the people understood exactly what trump he was referring to.
Let us examine the scriptures to see if there was A First trump, because if there is A LAST trump, there must be a First.

Where in scripture do we find a story of A trumpet sounding in relation to A GATHERING TOGETHER ?
The Lord tells us in Ecclesiastes 1:9 "The thing that hath been, IS THAT which Shall BE; and that which IS DONE is that which SHALL BE DONE: and there IS NO NEW THING under the sun.
Therefore we know according to the word of God, that there must be a FIRST Trump if there is to be a LAST Trump.
God showed us in Numbers 10:2 that the children of Israel were to make TWO trumpets of A whole piece of silver. One was to be blown (for A Gathering of assembly of the people, and also for the gathering of the heads of the Princes of the thousands. 
There was One SOUND to be blown for A gathering of the people, There was another SOUND to be blown for their journeying, which was the SAME SOUND used as an ALARM.
1. One The Gathering
2 One The Journeying, and Alarm.
TWO Trumpet sounds
This is a beautiful picture of Last Days Prophecy.
God had A NOTE or special SOUND of the Trumpet that the people would recognize for their (gathering together) at the (Tabernacle door,) and Another NOTE or special SOUND for their journeying, and ALARM.
Was there any other examples that God shows us in the scripture concerning A SOUND LIKE UNTO A TRUMPET, which was (the) Voice of God ? YES
1. At Mount Sinai
Exodus 19:9-11, and 15-19
And the Lord said unto Moses, Lo, I' come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people MAY HEAR WHEN I SPEEK WITH THEE, (and believe thee for ever.) And Moses told the words of the people unto the Lord. And the Lord said unto Moses, go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes, And BE READY AGAINST THE THIRD DAY(:) for (the) Third Day the Lord WILL COME DOWN IN THE SIGHT OF (ALL) THE PEOPLE upon mount Sinai. Moses said unto the people, BE READY AGAINST THE THIRD DAY(:) come not at your wives. And it came to pass ON THE THIRD DAY IN THE MORNING, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and THE VOICE OF (A) TRUMPET EXCEEDINGLY LOUD; SO THAT THE PEOPLE THAT WAS IN THE CAMP TREMBLED.
AND MOSES BROUGHT FORTH THE PEOPLE (OUT) OF THE CAMP TO MEET WITH GOD; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
And mount Sinai was ALL TOGETHER ON A SMOKE, BECAUSE THE LORD DESCENDED UPON IT IN A FIRE(:) and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
AND WHEN (THE VOICE OF THE TRUMPET SOUNDED LONG, AND WAXED LOUDER AND LOUDER,  Moses spake, and God answered him BY (A) VOICE.

We also have another WITNESS of this same case scenario  in the New Testament, where Paul again is speaking of the Rapture/ the catching away/ our gathering together unto the Lord. Which Paul here calls IT (the trump of God.) 
1 Thessalonians 4:16 KJV
For The Lord ( HIMSELF) SHALL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT
( which is a loud voice) with the voice of the archangel, AND WITH THE TRUMP OF GOD(:) and the dead IN CHRIST shall rise first(:)

We see here the VOICE exceedingly loud through (the) SHOUT of our Lord Jesus Christ, and also the voice of the archangel (Michael) and the TRUMP or exceedingly loud VOICE of God as in the Exodus at mount Sinai.
Which sounds like A Trumpet.

So we ask ourselves:
Will we hear the Trumpet blast of A Literal Trumpet, or will we hear (the) Literal Voice of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Voice of God the Father and the Voice of Michael the archangel ?
For there is only ONE archangel and he is the Prince over the children of Israel.
Daniel 10:21 KJV
But I' will shew thee (that) which IS NOTED in the scripture of truth(:) and there is NONE that holdeth with me (the angel speaking with Daniel) in these things, but MICHAEL YOUR PRINCE.
Daniel 10:13 KJV
But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days(:) but, lo, ONE of the chief princes, came to help me; and I' remained there with the kings of Persia.

Why will we also hear the VOICE of (the) archangel Michael ?
I believe it is because Michael is sounding an alarm concerning Israel. ( the beginning is at hand for the time of Jacob's trouble.) The time, being fulfilled of the gentile has fully come in at the Rapture of the church, and the time of Jacob's trouble will begin.
I believe the 30 minutes of silence in heaven follows our catching away. God is slow to anger and great in mercy, and the Lamb is about to break the seals on the scroll to begin the time of terrible troubles, such as have never been, nor shall ever be again.

John speaks in Revelation 4:1 about A DOOR being opened in heaven(:) and A VOICE which he heard was as it were of A TRUMPET talking with him, as did God with Moses and the children of Israel at mount Sinai. The FIRST TRUMP, and with John the SECOND and LAST trump. (voice of God) saying COME UP HITHER.
After God spake with the children of Israel at the nether part of mount Sinai, Moses WENT UP to the top of the mount.
Remember  the children were to GATHER TOGETHER on the THIRD MORNING and God would COME DOWN.
I believe this is a picture of our Lord also COMING DOWN IN THE CLOUDS to receive us, as God came down to speak with Israel in the cloud of smoke.
1. The cloud of smoke, because the people could not look upon the glory of God, nor could Moses, lest they die.
2. Our Lord comes in A CLOUD to receive us, but we will not die, we will be changed into our glorified bodies like him. We shall not die, but live for ever with him, because we shall be Like Him in our new bodies. (incorruptible).
Israel had to wash their clothes before they came before God at mount Sinai, and we must have our garments washed (sin washed away through the blood of the lamb) before we can be caught up with him into glory.

There are the Trumpet judgments mentioned in Revelation 8:13 KJV which also refer to their trumpets as VOICES, but are literal trumpets being sounded.
And I' (John) beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a LOUD VOICE, Woe, woe, woe to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other VOICES OF (THE TRUMPET) OF THE THREE ANGELS, which are yet to SOUND !
This is the trumpet sound of Alarm

 Literal trumpet being referenced
Revelation 9:14 KJV
Saying to the sixth angel which HAD (THE) TRUMPET, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
(THE) references a specific literal trumpet being sounded; as was the case with the two silver trumpets God had the children of Israel make of an whole piece of silver.
Again the trumpet sounded as an Alarm

In these passages we see that there is THE VOICE of GOD which sounds like an exceedingly  Loud Trumpet, but it is God's Voice that sounds like a trumpet.
We also see A Literal Trumpet being sounded, one for journeying, and Alarm.

It is my belief that we will hear at the Rapture, God the Father's voice, the Lord Jesus Christ's voice, and Michael the archangel's voice, as spoken by Paul in
1 Thessalonians 4:16
1. The Gathering Together of the saints
2. The Journeying, Israel's eyes being opened
3. The Alarm, the time of terrible troubles to begin
 Israel walked 40 years in the desert (seeing) all the miracles of God, and heard his voice. His cloud by day and his fire by night, and he fed them with manna from heaven, and the springs of water he brought forth from the desert.
Their clothes never aged, and their shoes never were worn in all those years.
Israel will again SEE the glory of God's handiwork present in their lives, when God deals with their enemies in the Last Days.

The Time Line ???
It has been 2000 years sense our Lord Jesus Christ ascended into heaven.
If we take God at his word, (That which was, is that which shall be and that which is done is that which shall be done) We sit TODAY nearing the midnight hour of the SECOND day from when our Lord Ascended into heaven. God said,
be READY against The THIRD Day for our Lord to come.

Trumpet is mentioned 61/61 times in the KJV
The FIRST TRUMPET mention is Exodus 19:13
when (the) Trumpet soundeth long, (they shall Come Up) to the mount.
God's voice which sounded as a trumpet long and exceedingly loud.

The FIRST Trumpet mentioned in Revelation 1:10
I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and I heard behind me A Great  VOICE as of A Trumpet. 11) Saying, I' am (the) Alpha and Omega ( Jesus spoke in GREEK not Hebrew) THE FIRST and THE LAST(:) and what thou  seest, WRITE IN A BOOK, and send (it) unto the seven churches which are in Asia;
Jesus's Great voice as of a trumpet.

John has already shown us here in chapter One, who's voice As A Trumpet it is in the 4th Chapter first verse, Saying, Come Up Hither.
Please notice throughout these scriptures we see the same language being used.
Revelation 4:1 is the LAST mention of A Trumpet  talking in the Voice of our Lord Jesus Christ. I believe this is the LAST Trump, saying, Come Up Hither.
The FIRST was at Mount Sinai.
The LAST is in Revelation 4:1
This was exemplified by the making of TWO Silver trumpets of ONE whole piece of silver.
How does God show us in the scriptures the purity of his WORD ?
Psalms 12:6 KJV
The WORDS of the Lord are pure words(:) as SILVER (tried) in a furnace of earth seven times.
Two silver trumpets, Two Voices of God as A Trumpet exceedingly LOUD.

God Bless You
KML