At the Sound of the Trumpet
The sound of the trumpet was often used in connection with the Jewish festivals. One notable festival was the year of Jubilee found in Lev. 25:9. It occurred in the 50th year.
"And you shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years. Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land.
In this writing we demonstrate the connection of the sounding of the Jubilee trumpet with the resurrection of the dead. Next we demonstrate the timing of that event by correlating several passages in the N.T. to demonstrate its Jewish context in fulfillment with the establishment of the New Covenant.
Jubilee involved the freeing of all captive Israelites and the release of their debts. It was a year of freedom. The true message of Jubilee is freedom from the bondage of sin and the release of souls from the captivity of sin, Hades and death.
Jesus alludes to this by quoting Isaiah 61:1-3. See Luke 4:18-19. The observant reader will note that the Lord stopped reading just before the last phrase of Isaiah 61:2, i.e. 'and the day of vengeance of our God.'
Because it was common among Jews to invoke the entire text, he did not need to read it to imply that was part of his message. For this reason, all eyes were fixed on him because he was announcing himself as the Messiah and the one who would bring about Jubilee and the vengeance upon the people of God.
This acceptable year of the Lord is noted in Isaiah 49:8, a text which Paul quotes in 2 Corinthians 6:1-2, declaring that the day of salvation, i.e. the acceptable year of the Lord was in progress. In other words, God through Christ already had begun releasing the captives from prison through the gospel.
He affirmed that the day of salvation was now, -at the time of writing, not generations or ages later. According to Isaiah 25:8-9 this day of salvation equaled the time God would swallow up death and wipe away all tears from all faces. This is resurrection. Paul confirms the same by directly quoting the text in 1 Cor. 15:54. Further the allusion to taking away the rebuke of His people is their release from bondage as captives. See on Joshua 5:9, where the reproach of Egyptian bondage is rolled away when the then new nation of Israel reached their land flowing with milk and honey.
When God's people were held captive, they are said to be dead, whether in national captivity by a foreign nation such as the Egyptians, Assyrians or Babylonians, or as captives to sin and Satan.
O Lord our God, masters besides you have had dominion over us; but by you only we make mention of your name. They are dead, they will not rise. They are deceased, they will not rise. Therefore you have punished and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. You have increased the nation, O Lord, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have expanded all the borders of the land." (Isa. 26:13-15). Note this text describes captivity and release from the oppresors that Israel might be free to inhabit the land.
God promises resurrection. "Your dead shall live; together with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who swell in dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead." (26:19).
The timing of the event is when the Lord comes out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; The earth will also disclose her blood, and will no more cover her slain.(26:26). According to verse 25, this follows a time of persecution and tribulation by the people of God.
Chapter 27:13, says that in that day, the great trumpet will be blown; and they will come, who are about to perish in the land of Assyria, and they are outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
So far, we have: the sounding of the trumpet : the release of captives in the year of Jubilee : the coming of the Lord : the resurrection of the dead and the day of salvation the restoration of Israel to their land
So remember that places the acceptable time, i.e. Jubilee in the future, --a prophecy which Paul's takes up in 2 Corinthians 6:1-2 and in a verbatim quote says: "In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in the day of Salvation I have helped you.' Behold, now is the accepted time; behold now is the day of salvation." Thus, these end times events are unfolding in the first century. That means these events are being spiritually fulfilled in the church of the New Testament. Paul did not say 1948 was the time. He did not say, 1967 was the time. Nor did he say 2010 was the time, but "now" is the time, "now" is the day of salvation from his point of view. Any attempt to remove these passages from the first century context results in travesties of hermeneutic gymnastics.
Finally, the trumpet of Jubilee is sounded by the Lord to gather the captives at the fall of the Jewish temple in A.D. 70. See Matthew 24:3, 31-34. Jesus emphatically proclaimed it would occur before his generation passed away. That was the day of vengeance he declared at the beginning of his ministry as shown from Luke 21:20-22.
Thus, the destruction of the city and temple in A.D. 70, becomes the time for the sounding of the Jubilee trumpet. These events correspond likewise with 1 Cor. 15:50, 1 Thess. 4:16, and Rev. 11:15-18.
In all of those texts, the trumpet of the Lord sounds and the dead are raised. However, the trumpet of Rev. 11:8-18, is directly related to the fall of the city where the Lord was crucified. That can be none other than Jerusalem in A.D. 70. This is double-barrel proof that the resurrection of the dead and the sounding of the last trumpet in all texts correspond in time to the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.
Man is now free from sin and death. He is reunited with the Father and heaven. He has love unfathomable and immeasurable as a child of Christ. He walks with the assurance that no promise of God failed. He can place his complete trust in Christ without wavering. Such is the believer who makes God and Christ, their salvation.
"And you shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years. Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land.
In this writing we demonstrate the connection of the sounding of the Jubilee trumpet with the resurrection of the dead. Next we demonstrate the timing of that event by correlating several passages in the N.T. to demonstrate its Jewish context in fulfillment with the establishment of the New Covenant.
Jubilee involved the freeing of all captive Israelites and the release of their debts. It was a year of freedom. The true message of Jubilee is freedom from the bondage of sin and the release of souls from the captivity of sin, Hades and death.
Jesus alludes to this by quoting Isaiah 61:1-3. See Luke 4:18-19. The observant reader will note that the Lord stopped reading just before the last phrase of Isaiah 61:2, i.e. 'and the day of vengeance of our God.'
Because it was common among Jews to invoke the entire text, he did not need to read it to imply that was part of his message. For this reason, all eyes were fixed on him because he was announcing himself as the Messiah and the one who would bring about Jubilee and the vengeance upon the people of God.
This acceptable year of the Lord is noted in Isaiah 49:8, a text which Paul quotes in 2 Corinthians 6:1-2, declaring that the day of salvation, i.e. the acceptable year of the Lord was in progress. In other words, God through Christ already had begun releasing the captives from prison through the gospel.
He affirmed that the day of salvation was now, -at the time of writing, not generations or ages later. According to Isaiah 25:8-9 this day of salvation equaled the time God would swallow up death and wipe away all tears from all faces. This is resurrection. Paul confirms the same by directly quoting the text in 1 Cor. 15:54. Further the allusion to taking away the rebuke of His people is their release from bondage as captives. See on Joshua 5:9, where the reproach of Egyptian bondage is rolled away when the then new nation of Israel reached their land flowing with milk and honey.
When God's people were held captive, they are said to be dead, whether in national captivity by a foreign nation such as the Egyptians, Assyrians or Babylonians, or as captives to sin and Satan.
O Lord our God, masters besides you have had dominion over us; but by you only we make mention of your name. They are dead, they will not rise. They are deceased, they will not rise. Therefore you have punished and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. You have increased the nation, O Lord, you have increased the nation; you are glorified; you have expanded all the borders of the land." (Isa. 26:13-15). Note this text describes captivity and release from the oppresors that Israel might be free to inhabit the land.
God promises resurrection. "Your dead shall live; together with my dead body they shall arise. Awake and sing, you who swell in dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead." (26:19).
The timing of the event is when the Lord comes out of His place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; The earth will also disclose her blood, and will no more cover her slain.(26:26). According to verse 25, this follows a time of persecution and tribulation by the people of God.
Chapter 27:13, says that in that day, the great trumpet will be blown; and they will come, who are about to perish in the land of Assyria, and they are outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
So far, we have:
So remember that places the acceptable time, i.e. Jubilee in the future, --a prophecy which Paul's takes up in 2 Corinthians 6:1-2 and in a verbatim quote says: "In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in the day of Salvation I have helped you.' Behold, now is the accepted time; behold now is the day of salvation." Thus, these end times events are unfolding in the first century. That means these events are being spiritually fulfilled in the church of the New Testament. Paul did not say 1948 was the time. He did not say, 1967 was the time. Nor did he say 2010 was the time, but "now" is the time, "now" is the day of salvation from his point of view. Any attempt to remove these passages from the first century context results in travesties of hermeneutic gymnastics.
Finally, the trumpet of Jubilee is sounded by the Lord to gather the captives at the fall of the Jewish temple in A.D. 70. See Matthew 24:3, 31-34. Jesus emphatically proclaimed it would occur before his generation passed away. That was the day of vengeance he declared at the beginning of his ministry as shown from Luke 21:20-22.
Thus, the destruction of the city and temple in A.D. 70, becomes the time for the sounding of the Jubilee trumpet. These events correspond likewise with 1 Cor. 15:50, 1 Thess. 4:16, and Rev. 11:15-18.
In all of those texts, the trumpet of the Lord sounds and the dead are raised. However, the trumpet of Rev. 11:8-18, is directly related to the fall of the city where the Lord was crucified. That can be none other than Jerusalem in A.D. 70. This is double-barrel proof that the resurrection of the dead and the sounding of the last trumpet in all texts correspond in time to the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.
Man is now free from sin and death. He is reunited with the Father and heaven. He has love unfathomable and immeasurable as a child of Christ. He walks with the assurance that no promise of God failed. He can place his complete trust in Christ without wavering. Such is the believer who makes God and Christ, their salvation.
