THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND
by
Keith Hunt
Bible PROPHECY! There have been and still are, a few Christian
writers out there that are very popular in the books they have
written regarding prophecy in the Bible. I well remember the
popular splattering of religious movement and shaking in
fundamental Christianity during the 1980s, when books came off
the press regarding Bible prophecy and what some thought was
going to be the last decade of the 20th century, leading up to
the coming of Christ.
All such prophetic broadcasters were VERY WRONG! Here we are
as I write on the Feast of Trumpets 2007, and Jesus still has not
returned.
I will be very BLUNT and UP-FRONT. All the prophetic writers
of popular Christianity, WILL NEVER CORRECTLY UNDERSTAND THE
PROPHECIES OF THE BIBLE. THEY CANNOT UNDERSTAND THEM. IT IS
IMPOSSIBLE FOR THEM TO UNDERSTAND THE PROPHECIES OF THE BIBLE!
One of the KEYS to understand God and what He has written
is:
"The FEAR of the Lord is the BEGINNING of wisdom; a GOOD
UNDERSTANDING have all they that DO HIS COMMANDMENTS..."
Psalm 111:10
The leaders and writers in the popular Christian world, WILL
NOT DO GOD'S COMMANDMENTS!
Those leaders and writers are educated men and women, they
are not unlearned as the world defines "learned" and
"un-learned." They have more than likely studied at some
"theological school" somewhere in the world. Many of them have
their certificate or degree or even their PhD in "theology." They
are praised and popularized by thousands of people, their books
sell by the 10s of thousands in the Christian religious world.
BUT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THEM TO UNDERSTAND BIBLE PROPHECY!
They will NOT do the COMMANDMENTS of God. Most of them KNOW
the truth about the 4TH commandment of God. They KNOW which day
is the weekly Sabbath of rest, BUT THEY WILL NOT TEACH IT! They
prefer to have the acclaim of men, they prefer to keep their
popularity and even "fame" with the masses of popular
Christianity. They may be sincere, to a point, they may be "nice"
people (but I know many nice people who ain't religious at all),
but the bottom line is, when the rubber hits the road, they will
NOT OBEY the 4th commandment of the BIG TEN commandments of God,
they certainly will not keep holy the 7th day of the week. If
they do, they do it privately, and will NOT teach it openly to
the majority of the Christian world.
These leaders KNOW the truth about the false pagan Christian
holidays of the year (they know that Christ-mass was not even
observed by the Catholic church until the 4th century A.D.) and
what the Bible says are the FESTIVALS of God. These leaders know
the truth about DEATH, heaven and hell, but will seldom teach
those truths.
Put it ALL TOGETHER, the leaders of popular Christianity
KNOW MANY things held by common Christianity are FALSE and lies
and old fables taken from the pages of heathen writers. Of course
the largest error they know and will not obey, or teach, is the
truth of the 4th commandment of God from the famous 10
Commandments.
Hence, such leaders, CANNOT UNDERSTAND Bible prophecy. Read
the entire Psalm 119. How clearer can God get through a man after
His own heart - David - to uphold His commandments, precepts,
statutes, and laws He has given?
Those who will not live by every word of God, those who will
not obey the commandments of God, will not be able to understand
Bible prophecy! It is just that simple! As shocking as it may be
to you to hear me say this, the truth of the matter concerning
Bible prophecy is just that simple. Only the true obedient
servants of the MOST HIGH can understand Bible prophecy. I make
no bones about saying that I serve the MOST HIGH, hence I do
understand Bible prophecy. It is not something I can take pride
in myself for. I have served the true God and His commandments
for decades now, and the understanding of Bible prophecy has been
given to me.
If you have some of the books written from yesterday or from
this first decade of the 21st century, by the would be prophetic
prophets of popular Christianity, you need to throw them in the
trash can. They are useless to you for the correct understanding
of Bible prophecy!
THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS
I write this study on the very Feast of Trumpets day in the
year 2007. The Bible does talk in some depth about a TRUMPET
BEING BLOWN to usher in the return of Christ Jesus to reign on
this earth for a thousand years, and then hand the Kingdom of God
on earth over to His Father for all eternity, when the new
heavens and the new earth comes at the end of that thousand
years.
Let's begin!
Matthew 24:21-31. There is to come on this earth a
TRIBULATION that has never been the like before it and never will
be the like after it (verse 21). It is the tribulation spoken
about by the prophet Jeremiah in 30:7. There it is called
"Jacob's trouble." Now Jacob had 12 sons, and Judah (the Jews of
today) was only ONE son. There are in the world today 11 more
sons of Jacob that have grown and multiplied to be NATIONS on
this earth. Those nations and sons of Jacob HAVE BEEN FOUND. They
can be known who they are! Most of the leaders of Christianity
will also NOT ADMIT, or even be willing to search the truth of
the matter as to WHO ARE the sons and nations of Jacob today,
hence one more reason they cannot understand Bible prophecy.
The sons and nations of Jacob today have become the British
Commonwealth of nations, the United States, and the nations of
North West Europe. In other words most of the WESTERN world is
the Sons of Jacob today.
The best Website in the world to prove that very fact is:
www.britam.org
One day, this GREAT TRIBULATION of the end-time (so great
none has been like it ever) shall come upon the Western world,
and will go on to include the Eastern world as well, before Jesus
returns.
Going on with Matthew 24. Jesus said in verse 22, that
except THOSE DAYS be SHORTENED ... NO FLESH WOULD BE SAVED ALIVE.
It would mean the very extinction of all human life from off this
planet earth. You see photos, old news clippings, old films,
taken from the first and second World Wars, and you are stunned
by the death and devastation you see. Well, what is yet to come
(unless the nations of the world REPENT and turn back to God -
which is extremely unlikely) will make the first and second World
Wars look like Sunday-afternoon picnics. The human mind cannot
really comprehend what this last GREAT TRIBULATION will be like,
but as Jesus said, unless it is cut short, all human life on
earth would be obliterated.
It is for the ELECTS sake that these terrible days yet to
come, will be cut short. The world will be so full of evil and
false religious deception, and out and out madness, that if it
was not for the elect, it would be better to let people
obliterate themselves.
During this time, which the book of Revelations says will be
42 months, or a time, and times, and half a time, or 1260 days,
many false prophets and false teachers will arise to deceive
MANY. So great will be the religious deception that it will near
be possible to deceive the very elect. The elect cannot be
deceived but they will be close to being deceived, if it was
possible. So how much easier it will be to deceive the other
people of the world who are not the elect.
This last great tribulation will be about 42 months in
duration, which is about THREE AND ONE HALF YEARS. It will not be
7 years long as the fundamentals teach. Nor will it have anything
to do with a Beast power signing a treaty with the Jews, then
breaking it after three and one half years, a "Christian rapture"
(where Jesus is to come secretly) to heaven taking place for the
elect, and three and one half years of hell on earth, when after
that Jesus returns from heaven with the saints.
All that prophetic teaching by the fundamental prophets is
false and utter garbage. You reading this, are NOT going to be
caught away in some "secret rapture" idea.
Jesus said that when people tell you, "Oh, look, Jesus is
over here" - do NOT BELIEVE them (Mat.24:23). Some of these last
end-time false prophets will be able to work MIRACLES. They will
be able to bring down fire from heaven. They will show you great
signs and wonders in the heaven. Jesus and the book of Revelation
tells you it will be this way.
If those teachers at that time tell you Jesus is over in the
desert or in some "secret" cave or hidden spot (and we might add,
in some invisible secret rapture to take place) DO NOT BELIEVE
THEM OR THEIR TEACHING!
I have devoted a full in-depth study on this Website to the
teaching of the "secret rapture" and showing you the falsehood of
that teaching. We have also given lots of space to give you the
truth of Daniel chapter nine, where some get this false teaching
of a last 7 year period, a Beast covenant with the Jews, and a
breaking of it after three and one half years, then coming a
secret rapture of the elect to heaven.
Jesus clearly and plainly tells us HOW HIS COMING WILL BE.
It is in Matthew 24:27-31. Mark it friends, yellow high-light it.
It is simple and clear, a child can understand it. As the
lightning often comes out of the east and shines to the west (I
remember many thunder storms in Britain as a kid growing up with
lightning streaking across the heaven like that), SO SHALL THE
COMING OF THE SON OF MAN BE!!
There you have it. No secret rapture. Jesus does not come in
any TWO-PHASE return, one secret and invisible, and another
visible. Jesus ONLY COMES BACK ONCE. The entire Bible and all the
prophecies it contains, gives you over and over again this
absolute truth. JESUS ONLY COMES BACK VISIBLE AND ONLY COMES
ONCE!
He will come with open SPLENDOR, MIGHT, AND BRILLIANT LIGHT.
He will come SUDDENLY. Most on earth at the time, will not KNOW
or EXPECT His glorious coming. They will be shocked and
surprised. Some of the nations of the earth will band together at
a place called Armageddon (Revelation 16) and being led by Satan
and his demons, they will probably think they are being invaded
from outer-space and literally try and fight Jesus and the angels
with Him.
It will be like eagles and a carcase. The two are naturally
drawn together. The saints will be drawn up to Christ in a
resurrection, the powers of the earth will gather together to
fight Him.
Concerning the saints being drawn up to Jesus at this time,
is told to us as we read on in Matthew 24. Jesus says that
immediately AFTER the great tribulation, the sun will be
darkened, the moon shall not give her light, the stars of heaven
shall fall, the very powers of heaven shall be shaken. This is
not some invisible signs, some secret invisible rapture. This
OPEN heavenly power display like no one has ever seen before. The
prophet Joel spoke about the same prophetic heavenly display
coming before the "terrible day of the Lord" (Joel 2:28-32). It
is the time when DELIVERANCE shall be upon Jerusalem and mount
Zion. That city has never yet in the last 2,000 years seen
deliverance as it will see when Jesus comes again.
The book of Revelation gives us the inner details of this
last time. Revelation 6 is the lead up to the heavenly signs (see
verses 12-16). The GREAT DAY OF HIS WRATH comes (verse 17). The
elect from all places and nations are sealed from harm that the
day of the wrath of God will bring. Revelation 8 the last seal
and the last SEVEN TRUMPETS will be opened and will begin to
blow. When the SEVENTH angel sounds the SEVENTH trumpet, the
kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms of our Lord and
of His Christ. It is the time to judge the dead and reward the
servants of God, and the time to destroy those who destroy the
earth. Revelations picks up the details of the SEVENTH trumpet,
and the final battle of earth between the armies of Satan and the
army of Christ at Armageddon, a physical place on earth, a physical
battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Zechariah the prophet tells us of the same end-time battle.
Zechariah 14. Jesus will come and the very day He comes His feet
will stand on the Mount of Olives. Jesus defeats His enemies by
literally melting their skin from off their bones. On that day
Jesus shall be King and Lord over all the earth (verse 9). All
that are left of the nations shall be made to observe the FEAST OF
TABERNACLES!
It is the day when Jerusalem shall be DELIVERED, when Judah
shall see her God, acknowledge Jesus, the one the Jews nailed to
the cross they will know is their Messiah. The Jews will mourn
and weep - in repentance and joy, they will look upon Him they
pierced (Zechariah 12 and 13).
It is the day the saints will come from the clouds of heaven
(because they will have been resurrected or changed from mortal
to immortality) with Jesus to the Mount of Olives (Zech.14:5).
Jesus, in Matthew 24:30-31 said the same truth. After the
heavenly signs, the angels will go forth to GATHER TOGETHER the
ELECT with the SOUND of a TRUMPET, from the four corners of the
earth, from the four winds, one end of heaven to the other.
This RESURRECTION and gathering of the saints is AT the
COMING of Christ! Not the day before, not a week before, not a
month before, not three and one half years before. But it is AT
THE VISIBLE LIGHTNING COMING of Christ.
PAUL PREACHED IT
This is not new teaching. It is old teaching. It is what the
Bible has ALWAYS said. The apostle Paul knew his Old Testament.
He knew the saints would be gathered together to be WITH Christ
at the COMING of Christ.
It is found in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18.
"But I would not have you to be ignorant brethren,
concerning them which are asleep (dead), that you sorrow
not, even as others which have no hope. FOR if we believe
that Jesus died and rose again, EVEN SO them also which
sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him. (this is how) FOR
this we say unto you, by the word of the Lord (it's been in
the old Scriptures for centuries) that we which are alive
and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not precede
them which are asleep. FOR (this is how it shall happen) 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. 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. Wherefore comfort one another with these
words."
Those dead and those alive, the elect, the saints, dead or
alive, shall be caught up to the CLOUDS, not the heaven where God
the Father lives, in the AIR, still in the atmosphere of this
planet, to MEET with Christ. We shall ever then be with Him. But
where WILL Jesus BE? Zechariah 14 gives us the answer. In the
very day that God the Messiah comes, His feet will stand on the
Mount of Olives, and He will be King and Lord over all the earth.
He will with the saints and angels with Him, destroy those who
destroy the earth, He will fight those who come against Him at a
place called Armageddon. Those of the nations left will them be
made to observe the Feast of TABERNACLES!!
It is so simple when you put together correctly the passages
of the all the Bible, from both the Old and the New Testaments.
Paul is not yet finished. He gives more light on all this
wonderful truth concerning the TRUMPET, Jesus' RETURN, the
RESURRECTION of those saints dead, and the CHANGE of those saints
living at Christ's coming.
Paul gives us wonderful truths of this in 1 Corinthians 15.
Jesus is the FIRST human ever to be resurrected to glorious
immortality. If Jesus was not raised from the dead then our faith
is all in vain. We then have no hope (verses 20-22). Christ was
the FIRST-FRUITS and then those that are Christ's AT HIS COMING!
(verse 23).
Flesh and blood, humanity in the physical, CANNOT INHERIT
the Kingdom of God. Paul says we may not all sleep, be dead, at
Christ's coming, but we shall ALL BE CHANGED! It will happen in
the twinkling of an eye, AT the LAST TRUMP: The TRUMPET shall
sound, the dead in Christ shall be RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE, and we
(still alive) shall be CHANGED! For this corruptible shall put on
incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality. Then when
all that happens, as Paul says, death will be swallowed up in
VICTORY! (verses 50-54).
THE LAST TRUMPET SOUND
On this Feast of Trumpets day in the year 2007, I am
reminded again of all these wonderful passages we have once more
read and studied. Though there is a time ahead that is terrible
to contemplate for the peoples of this earth, a TRUMPET or
trumpets, that will usher in a time of trouble and pain and
sorrow and evil that has never been the like on this planet
earth, we have the hope of the JOY of TRUMPETS, or the LAST
TRUMPET. When Jesus our Lord and Savior will again come to LIVE
on this earth. Come with GLORY, POWER, MIGHT, to destroy those
who destroy the earth, and to RAISE UP or INSTANTLY CHANGE the
saints of all ages, to meet Him in the clouds, and to be with Him
forever more.
On this great Feast Day, we still pray, "Thy Kingdom Come,
Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven."
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Written on the Feast of Trumpets 2007
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