THE LAST TRUMP

 Many faithful people - those who whatever it takes follow the footsteps of Yeshua and known as true Christians by Word, are living in this church dispensation, awaiting the last trump. They do not care about world’s matter, they do not worship wealth and money, they do not follow the evil ways of others… they only respect God’s Law and righteousness of His Son Yeshua, and rejoice the day of Yeshua’s second coming.

When we look at the signs of times, we can state that we are not far from the Day the Lord Yeshua ben Yosef – Ha-Masshiach, the Son of the Most High. He will return to claim His Body or His holy ones; those who are His Temple and together they shall restore all things ‘as it was in the beginning’.

The One, the Most High and creator of all who the world calls ‘God’, gave all authorities of the universe to the Son who is the Word of the Father; which means that we only can get to the Father through His son.

 John 1:1 states this: ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.’

That Day or moment of Yeshua’s return as we know, is still in the future, but not far away.

 

 

The First Resurrection

 The Bible shows us that the first resurrection that leads to life, takes place before the millennium (Rev. 20: 5.). The Bible also shows that there is a second resurrection after the millennium: than the dead will be judged according to their works before the Great White Throne and is known as the final judgment or Judmentday (Rev. 20:11). The first resurrection consists of three parts, similar to the Old Testament's harvest festivals, which God appointed as the most important of all His festivals: ’Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to Me’: Ex23:14, ‘Three times a year all the men are to appear before Me.’: Ex 23:17, Ex 34:23 : These festivals are Pesach, Pentecost and Tabernacles.

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At First the 'first-fruits' were harvested.

 When Yeshua rose from the dead, many tombs of the saints (His sheep) mentioned in the Old Testament were opened. They literal stood up, appeared to many and then went to heaven (Matthew 27: 52, 53; Ephesians 4: 8-10).

Second: The second harvest is the rapture of His holy ones, His Temple, but currently still future.

Bible says, in an instant the Lord Yeshua takes His Temple to His throne, in a moment only the Father knows or, as bible states: in a blink of an eye. (1 Thessalonians 4: 16, 17; 1 Cor. 15: 51, 52.).

Thirdly: even the saints coming out of the Great Tribulation shall rise before the millennium, and they will reign with Him (Revelation 20: 4; Matthew 24:29-31). It's after all these 3 statements of 3 raptures that God's Word is meant to understand as in Revelation 20: 5 is written: "This is the first resurrection.", He said.

These three raptures make part of the first resurrection and this is the resurrection without judgement and connected to the cross. His blood was/is meant for those who follow Him, not for those who don’t, otherwise the Cross would have been useless, and we now know the Cross refers to the first resurrection not the second after the millennium. The fulfillment of the Cross, which is a blood sacrifice, the begotten Son, given by God to redeem all true followers of Yeshua and the Father WITHOUT any judgment! The Cross means: to be redeemed without any judgment, even if sin once ever was involved! That’s the true meaning of Yeshua’s blood sacrifice: His body – church - holy ones shall resurrect and not be judged as it clearly shall happen on the Great day of judgment after the Millennium where the goats shall be separated from the sheep by judgment: and this is the second resurrection… but by judgment!

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Conclusion: For whom did Yeshua die on the cross?

 For Those who believe in Him and who shall be forgiven of sin by His blood without any judgment, and all those who are with Him and the Father, shall not be judged if they belong to the first resurrection.  Therefore He gave His holy blood to you, but not for those who are not with Him nor with the Father: and these last ones shall be judged on final judgement day after the millennium, and that’s another story I guess!

That’s why we always warn with: “Are you ready?” Because it’s the first resurrection that counts. For many the second resurrection after the millennium shall not be easy at all, but only for the faithful ones who repent after the end of tribulations and during the Millennium, it will!

Note: Those who repent during tribulations are those ‘taken away coming out of tribulations’ and not be confused with those AFTER tribulation and during Millennium because these are covered by the final Great Judgment.

Revelation 20:6;

“Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him for a thousand years.”

That even the faithful coming out of the Great Tribulation are included in a later rapture, confirms the fourth verse of Revelation 20: "And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them; and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of those who were beheaded for the witness of Yeshua, and for the word of God, and which had not worshiped the beast and his image, and had not received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. "

 

 

Rapture before the Great Tribulation?

 But why the church shall be raptured before the Great Tribulation?

The reasons for this are as follows:

Often other people who call themselves Christians but worship another god than the Living God, say that true Christians are afraid of what's coming up, and that's why they all believe in the rapture. But they're wrong and ignorant, because many claim knowing the scriptures, but do not understand anything of what it really reveals and means, not even Vatican or pope when we hear the pope saying that all people, no matter which god they worship, shall be taken into heaven by the Lam’s Blood, but that is a lie.

It's not the fear of what’s coming up in the future or better, near future, which makes us believe in the rapture, but it is God's Word showing us that His Son died for us and has carried away our sins by His blood. And God's Word shows that when we adopted him, the penalty for sin is our way (Rom. 6: 23 and 2 Cor. 5: 21).

Outside the evidence of many texts, the rapture is similar to a rescue, and absolutely not a strange 'idea' in God's Word. Before God sent the flood upon the earth, He provided an ark for Noah and his family before the flood, so they could escape from God's punishment for their sins (Genesis 6-9). When God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, He saved Lot out of there and then he overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah with fire and brimstone. (Genesis 19)

The Lord as we see will first save His people BEFORE He sends any judgment upon the wicked, that's clear!

 

 

Tribulation - a reasoning of the comprehensible:

 The Great Tribulation is a time when God's wrath is upon the earth according to the Bible. 

Revelation 4-18 describes the Great Tribulation, and regularly we find a reference to the wrath of God. Examples are found in Revelation 6:16, Rev. 15:1 and 7, Rev. 15: 7, and they say: "And one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God who lives forever and ever."

But regarding the church it is written that she was not given to anger. In 1 Thess. 1: 10 we read: "And wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Yeshua, which delivered us from the wrath to come." In addition we read in 1 Thessalonians 5:9: "For God has given us [we who are of the day (= the church; verse 8) not asked to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Yeshua the Christ."

 

3. The Second Coming of Yeshua the Christ on earth after the Rapture will be with power and majesty. Every eye will see Him!

Revelation 1:7 says: "Behold, he cometh in the clouds, and every eye shall see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him; Yes, amen."

When Matthew writes about the period after the Great Tribulation, we find in Matt. 24: 29 and 30: "Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then in the sky shall appear the sign of the Son of man; and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory."

 

 In other words, the Second Coming is associated with a great show of strength, majesty, and all the people of the earth at that moment shall see Him, which means the appearance in the sky will take some time so the whole world can see it. But it doesn't refer to the church, as we read in ‘letters to the church.' 1 Cor. 15: 52 speaks of "a point of time, in a moment," and 1 Thess. 5: 2 says that the day of the Lord comes "like a thief in the night", and this quote is meant for those who are not ready. The context makes it clear that it does not apply to the faithful, for they are children of the Light, and expect their Lord because they are ‘ready’, no matter what day or hour! But for the world, the unfaithful ones and the wicked ones, for them the Lord comes as a thief in the night, as ‘unexpected’, because they remained ignorant despite all warnings!

And as quickly and silently the Lord comes for His church, the greater the power and majesty will shines on the Second Coming, so that every eye will see Him from east to west. Isn't this great!

Another reason why the Church during the Great Tribulation is no longer on earth, is because the gospel shall no longer being preached by them. We now are living among the preaching of the gospel of the grace of God (1 Corinthians 15:1-4). Gal. 1:8 and 9 clears that when preached a different gospel, the preacher of the other gospel is cursed!

But there shall be another gospel preached during the Great Tribulation by an angel, which is the eternal gospel Rev. 14:6-7 says: “And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,

7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.”  

How is it that this is an angel of God? This is possible because here we end up in another time! The Church is gone, she's already taken away and the period after the rapture is no longer the time of the Church, it is no longer the period of the proclamation of the gospel of the grace of God by Yeshua's church. And then the Two Witnesses (who are Preachers and the two Olive Trees) shall be sent to preach for a while.

That is the only possible explanation without any argues that the Bible is contradictory.

Before the Great and horrible Tribulation begins, the church is taken home by her Lord, and this is crystal clear!

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The last trump...

 Two well-known segments of God's Word about the rapture are: 1 Cor. 15: 50-54 and 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. These passages talks about "the last trump". And it is this particular 'last trump' which easily confuse some scholars.

Revelation 8:2 describes seven angels with seven trumpets and when these angels blow the trumpets great disasters shall come upon the earth. Hail and fire mingled with blood, falling upon the earth. A large part of the sea becomes blood, many people die from water that has become bitter, eclipse occurs,  demonic plague of locusts... (Rev. 8 and 9). When the seventh angel trumpets, the Kingdom of the Lord Yeshua shall be established and the last rapture shall occur, and then the Last Judgment of that period is upon (Revelation 11:15-19). A common explanation of many scholars is that the seventh angel with the seventh trumpet refers to the last trump of 1 Cor. 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4:16. If so, then the rapture would thus take place at the end of the Great Tribulation! Then the church would indeed have to go through the Great Tribulation...!

But there's quiet some confusion about the translations of the word 'trumpet and trump', cause trumpet and trump doesn't mean the same and in the original scripture not even wrote the same!

Note: about Rev. 9 where John described a war about demonic plagues of locusts and scorpions, we should examine what these plagues really mean. Many scholars and even the Vatican claim these are aliens coming to punish the world: nonsense!

See below for more information about this issue!

 

 

The trump of God

 Indeed, the seventh trumpet of the seventh angel is the last trumpet of the series of seven trumpets in Revelation 8 - 11. But does that mean that this seventh trumpet also is the last trump of 1 Cor. 15: 52? : “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.”

When we compare the two scriptures about the rapture, we see that both segments are giving a description of the moment how deceased believers will resurrect by a resurrection body, but also that those who still are alive at that moment will get a resurrection body. Then they are taken together - and this is definitely rapture - to meet the Lord in the sky. And what do we see then? "The trumpet shall sound"! "The trumpet will trump!"

What trumpet?

The last trump in 1 Thess.4:16 is called "the trump of God. Verse 16: "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 shall rise first: 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.

18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”

 

 Where in Revelation 8-11 angels are sounding trumpets, we see that the sound for the rapture is of God's trump! In other words, where in 1 Cor. 15 and 1 Thessalonians we read about a trump: the last trump refers to God's trump, and certainly is not and can’t be connected to the last of the seven trumpets blown by the seven angels written in Revelation 8 - 11. The trump of God is the last trump which shall sound only for His Church and then be taken to His place with the Lord Himself! The seventh trumpet of the seventh angel in Revelation 11: 15 only announces the Kingdom and the Last Judgement. This seventh trumpet sounds even after Moses and Elijah, the Two Witnesses, when they are taken away (Rev. 11: 12). In other words, the seventh trumpet angel has nothing to do with rapture of the church. Those are big differences! The last trump or the trump of God as we know from the texts to the church doesn't absolutely prove that we have to go through the Great Tribulation.

 

 

Taken home by the Lord or by angels?

 Then what about Matt. 24: 31? In the context of the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus, Matt. 24: 29 and 30, we read verse 31: "Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet (= a trump!), and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other."

 

 Are these still angels who trumpets? Yes, as we have seen in Revelation 8-11, but only different. In this case the honor comes to other angels with trumpets. The Kingdom in fact shall be announced by a trump of the seventh angel. But when at the end of the Great Tribulation the kingdom comes, shall all those who are in Yeshua - the remaining believers of the Great Tribulation, those who have been beheaded - stand up, together with those who are still alive at that time and they all shall reign with the Lord during the millennium (Revelation 20: 4). That is the latest harvest or post-harvest! And here we see one of the great proofs that await two raptures: one meant for the Church before the Great Tribulation, and one meant for the believers during the Great Tribulation, more specific at the end of that period! Both groups shall be with the Lord and reign with Him.

We indeed shall be taken by the Lord Himself (1 Thess. 4:16!). This will happen in a moment, in ‘a blink of an eye’ or even ‘like a thief in the night’; but this quote in fact regards the unbelievers who will be taken by surprise by this event, same as His unexpected appearance in the skies which shall occur by surprise! Those who know will not be surprised, for they know the future! While the faithful of the Great Tribulation shall be collected by angels who are sent by the Lord during tribulations and great signs appear in heaven: then every eye will see Him appear (Matt 24:. 29, 30)! And this is a big difference again, which also means we can't throw bible on one and same level or making some hugh mess of texts.

 

 Do we chase dates appointing to the rapture? Do we break our heads searching after dates and years to appoint the last Day?

No, even if we could, it shall always be unexpected! Most important is to be ready, and to prepare all others to join our Temple, which is God's Temple, not a physical one which never shall be built again, except the spiritual Temple which is the Body of our Lord, cause we are His body!

We do not look forward knowing the antichrist, we do not look forward to the events of the Great Tribulation, as the great signs in the sky, we do not look for angels. But we undoubtly look forward to the Lord Himself, who will come and take us away, "Looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Yeshua the Christ"!

 

 

The song of the elders

 Given the earlier evidence from Scripture, the Church shall be taken before the Great Tribulation. An additional proof is that the Church already is in heaven before the seven trumpets of Revelation will sound, as written in Revelation 5. In Revelation 4 we read that John, who may write about the things during the Day of the Lord (Great Tribulation / millennium Rev. 1: 10, 19) is taken into heaven by spirit (Revelation 4:1). There, he sees a throne surrounded by four beasts and twenty-four elders. God has a book with seven seals in His right hand (Rev. 5: 1), the Lamb (Yeshua) takes the book to open it (Revelation 5: 7). And the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders sing a new song.

In Revelation. 5: 9-10, we read: "And they sang a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals; for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; and hast made us unto our God kings and priests; and we shall reign on the earth."

It cannot be otherwise than that the twenty-four elders represent a representation of the Church of Yeshua our Christ, for they are in the church, bought by the blood of the Lamb, and shall reign with the Lord Yeshua as kings and priests in His Kingdom! In other words: The Church already is in heaven, when the Lamb opens the first seals in Revelation 6, to unfold the Great Tribulation on the earth.

 

     

The Lord will return with His saints

 The Church must also be in heaven during the Tribulation, because God's Word reveals that the Lord Yeshua, at His Second Coming, shall come with His saints! In the Old Testament we find that prophesied in for example: Zech. 14: 5: "... the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee, O Lord."  This is about the time when the Lord Yeshua shall set His feet on the Mount of Olives (Zechariah 14: 4). But in 1 Thess. 3: 13, we read something like: "That he may establish your hearts, to be blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Yeshua our Christ with all his saints." Then we read in Revelation. 19: 14 that the heavenly armies, who are with Him at His second coming, are dressed in "white and clean fine linen." This is a very clear point to dress the bride, who’s the Lamb's wife (Rev. 19: 8): and that is His Church! The saints - the Church, will return with Yeshua the Christ to the earth to reign with Him! But for this they first must be with Him in heaven! The event leading to this, we find likely described in 1 Cor. 15 and 1 Thessalonians 4, and is known as the ‘rapture’, and a word we do not find in bible! Bible doesn’t mention the word ‘rapture’, but a taken away of His church: dead or alive!

 

 

The Lord will call us home!

 When the last trumpet shall sound ... In the old English translation, the King James 1611, we find another distinction. In the English translations we see in 1 Cor. 15: 52: "at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound ..." In our translation it says: "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."

And this means there’s a difference between 'trump' and 'trumpet'. The "trumpet" is the instrument or trumpet itself. The “Trump" is the sound or signal coming from the trumpet.  1 Thess. 4: 16 says and states this: "the trump of God." In essence, we only can state this is God giving a signal to… (translated: "The trumpeting of God"), which sounds like a trumpet! The Lord comes with a shout (1 Thess. 4: 16), with the voice of an archangel (Michael?), and with the trump of God ...

The word “trump” is simply God’s voice made by a trumpet and is surely not Mr. President Trump as many end time scholars try to explain. God never mentioned any future name of some leader, president, king or whatever!

 

Let's take a look in Revelation 4: 1, we read:

“After this I (John) looked, and behold, a door was opened in heaven; and the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me, said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”

The voice of the Lord sounds like a trumpet ... a voice that John recognizes, but the world does not ... for the world God’s voice sounds like thunder.

 

In John 12:28-29 confirms God’s voice as a thunder: we find in John one example thereof. 12: 28 and 29: "Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and I will glorify Him. The multitude therefore that stood and heard, said that it thundered had happened. Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.

29 The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spoke to him.”

A beautiful description of the voice of the Lord is also found in Job 37: 2-5:

"Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.

3 He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.

4 After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.

5 God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend."

 

 When we hear a trump (and understand it!) we are called Home, but the world hears a huge thunderclap! And so it happens when rapture occur! John heard a voice "like a trump," which said, "Come up hither..." (Rev. 4:1). Moses and Elijah, the Two Witnesses, are called home with similar words, as written in Revelation. 11: 12: "And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither..."

Then when we read that the Lord himself comes for His church, with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, with the trump of God, we know that shall sound for us: "Come hither ..." shall we hear and probably even called by each name! For the Lord knows all His sheep by name. In John 10: 3 we read: "To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out."

 

The Lord shall call us home and that is God's "last trump": this is God's last call to His Church: His Calling Home!

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Be blessed and behold

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TNC

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