Sounding the Seventh Trumpet

With the precarious nature of the weather patterns, the global economy, the failure of businesses, and the possibility of food shortages, the church is experiencing a surge of excitement.   Those churches that still preach the last days are speculating once again on imminence of the Rapture.

Jesus said He would come at a time we least expect (Matt 24:44).  But almost without exception the church expects the Rapture to take place at the outset of the Tribulation. Few realize that this pre-tribulation view was only promulgated in the 1800’s by an Anglican priest.  What if he was wrong?

What if the modern day Church has got it wrong? 

“Let no man deceive you!” Paul urged in his second letter to the Thessalonians. He reminded them that before the coming of the Day of the Lord two signs would be witnessed by the church. 

1) a falling away of believers

2) that the Son of Perdition, the Antichrist, would be revealed as he stepped into Jerusalem’s temple and proclaimed himself God.  (2 Thess 2:3,4)

In I Corinthians 15:51,52, Paul declares a mystery.  We will not all ‘sleep’ (die) but we shall all be changed “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump”!  It suggests the obvious: if the seventh angel sounds his trumpet at the last of the trumpet judgments, this should be the starting point of our search (Rev 11:15-19).

The Seventh Trumpet is vitally important reading for this time.  I have yet to discover another book that focuses on the powerful events of Revelation’s midpoint. Yet it is at the Seventh Trumpet that God’s plan for believers reaches its climax.

What if you are unprepared for the turbulent days to come?  The Bible promises betrayals, persecutions, hardships, deprivations, and sorrows.  Will you be among the disillusioned that fall by the wayside?  Or keeping your eyes firmly on Jesus Christ, your all-sufficient Lord, will you stand and withstand until that final moment of glory when Christ calls His Bride home?