God's prophetic messages clearly show that God announces each great intervention of God by the sound of a trumpet (Revelation 8:6). Christ said, "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.
"And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to another" (Matthew 24:30, 31).
Though this final trumpet blast occurs suddenly, God shows that the process of calling out God's elect from this earth over many decades is also typified by the blowing of a trumpet!
"Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sin," wrote Isaiah (Isaiah 58:1). Christ said, "And this gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness
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