Doctrine of Trumpets
						   6/2/2015
  
    I.  Definition: An wind instrument made of an animal 		   horn like a ram or some metal for the purpose of 			   sending forth a sound usually for some kind of signal. 

	  A.  Hebrew words 
           1.  rDpwøv    shophar—horn, trumpet
           2.  h∂rVxOxSj     chatsotsrah— trumpet
  
	  B. Greek word—sa¿lpigx salpingx —trumpet

  II. Usages in Old Testament
	  A. Ceremonies— Lv. 25:9-year of Jubilee
	  B. Festivals —Ps. 81:4
	  C. Signal to praise the Lord —Ps. 98:6;150:3;
	  D. Assemble for battle —Jer. 4:5
	  E. Enemy warning  —Ezek. 33:3
	  F. Associated with Theophanies—Ex. 19:16,19;20:18; 			 Zech. 9:14;Heb. 12:19
	  G. Associated with the day of the Lord and judgment.
		 Joel 2:1; Zeph. 1:14-16 
	  H. For calling the Israelites home to worship Is. 27:13
 III. Usages in the New Testament
	  A. Call to battle —1 Cor. 14:8 	
	  B. Call to judgment —Rev. 8:2 ff.
	  C. Call for assembly —Matt. 24:31;1Cor. 15:52 
	  D. The Seven trumpet judgments— Rev. 8:6 ff.-10:7		  E. The Seventh announces the arrival of the Kingdom 		  of Christ— Rev. 11:15-19
	  F. A lack of trumpeters in destroyed Babylon— Rev. 			18:22
	  G. Call for a resurrection of the dead—1 Cor. 15:52; 
		  1 Thess. 4:16

		1Cor. 15:51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not 		all 	sleep, but we will all be changed— 
		1Cor. 15:52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at 		the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the 			dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be 				changed. 
		1Cor. 15:53 For the perishable must clothe itself with 		the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 
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	   F. The Son of man sends out his angels with a loud 			  trumpet call—Matt. 24:31
 
		Matt. 24:30  ¶ 	“At that time the sign of the Son of 			Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the 		earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man 				coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great 		glory.
		Matt. 24:31 And he will send his angels with a loud 		trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the 		four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

  IV. Voices that sound like a trumpet.  Both passages use 		   the comparative particle for “as” or “like” in Rev. 1:10;  	   4:1. 

		Rev. 1:10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day 				and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,