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March 19, 2015 - Jim Bakker Show
07:48
History of the Trumpets
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First Trumpet Blast Heard 00:02:54
Because if we're talking about the trumpets of Revelation and their significance and their possible interpretation, if we're going to let the Bible interpret the Bible, if we're going to stay inside the Bible first, the first thing I wanted to do was to go all the way back to where trumpets are first used in the Bible, find out what that's all about.
And as I did that study, I discovered the first time a trumpet blast is heard is on Mount Sinai in the book of Exodus when God's getting ready to give the law and he's getting ready to birth the nation of Israel.
And on that day is when the first trumpet blast was heard.
Now, Pastor Jim, I'm going to give a quick synopsis in a moment of all the other trumpet blasts in the Old Testament, but watch this.
The last time you hear a trumpet blast in the New Testament before you get to the book of Revelation, because that's where you hear the very last trumpet.
But before that is in the book of Hebrews, I believe it's chapter 12, but get this.
You know what it's referring to?
The first trumpet blast in the book of Hebrews, where it speaks of that trumpet that was heard from the blast of a trumpet that was heard on Mount Sinai.
So the first trumpet blast we hear on Mount Sinai, and what is it?
It's a sound to God's people that the Lord God is ascending, descending upon the mountain and getting ready to birth the nation of Israel.
The last time you hear about a trumpet blowing in the Bible before you get to the book of Revelation is the book of Hebrews that refers back to that.
For you have not come, you know, in Jesus Christ to a mountain that's trembling with fire and smoke, where the trumpet is blasting.
And so that's the last mention of the word trumpet.
But what you're saying, Pastor Jim, is right.
That all in between, in the Old Testament, whenever you hear trumpets blasting, it's to announce the arrival of the king.
It's to announce it's time for battle.
It's to announce that the enemy is attacking.
The trumpet blast, you know, Jericho, when they're marching around Jericho, blowing those trumpets, announcing the glory of God, the power of God, those walls are going to fall by God's word.
They're going to fall.
They're blowing the trumpets.
Even with Gideon, they broke the plates and blew the trumpets.
And, of course, that routed the enemy and it terrified the enemy.
But those trumpet blasts were first and foremost for that little band of 300 to give them courage and strength that God was with them.
When those shofars started sounding, they were emboldened with the power of God.
And the next thing you know, the enemy is fleeing.
Trumpets are not sounds of God's wrath for the enemy to hear.
Seven Trumpets Fulfilled 00:05:08
They are sounds of God's, oftentimes, his word of announcement or warning for God's people.
Do you know about the trumpets in Leviticus?
Yes.
Oh, yeah, Leviticus 23.
The Feast of Trumpets.
The Feast of Trumpets.
Do they connect at all to the Revelation seven trumpets?
Yeah.
Listen.
Even better than that, I believe they do.
The quick answer is yes.
Did you have another question for me?
I know.
This is exciting.
Well, thank you.
God bless you.
Give a hand to the Lord.
Well, as you know, and as you guys know, but I want to reiterate this and to answer your question profoundly, Leviticus 23, the seven feasts of the Lord, it begins with Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread, Feast of First Fruits, Feast of Pentecost.
All of those fulfilled in the ministry of Jesus Christ and the birth of the church, right?
Feast of Passover, the Lamb of God takes away the sins of the Lord.
The Feast of unleavened bread, he is our bread without sin, without yeast.
He is our sustenance.
He is the bread of life.
By the way, he's born in Bethlehem, which in Hebrew translates, as you know, to house of bread.
So he fulfills that completely.
The Feast of Firstfruits, the New Testament, Paul declares he is the firstfruit, the firstborn from the dead.
He was resurrected on the feast of first fruits, so he fulfilled that perfectly.
Then he tells his disciples, go and wait in Jerusalem to the promise of God comes the Holy Spirit.
So the church is born by the Holy Spirit on Pentecost, the same birthday as when Israel was born.
The lampstand born on the same day the olive tree is born.
So all of that's fulfilled.
Now watch.
And in the New Testament, from Matthew right up to Jude, these four feasts are often portrayed as Jesus having fulfilled them.
Paul does most of it, but that's there.
But the last three feasts, watch this, this is important.
The feast of trumpets, the feast of atonement, which comes right after that.
Of course, he is our great high priest.
He fulfilled that.
But the final fulfillment of it all has not yet happened.
And the feast of tabernacles, in its final fulfillment, has not yet happened.
In a preliminary fulfillment, it has, in that the Holy Spirit tabernacles in us, and therefore we can tabernacle with God.
But you know, there's going to be a much greater fulfillment of that when we finally, when, you know, God says, I will live among them.
I am, you know, you are my people.
I am your God.
And now we dwell together.
Okay, now watch.
So we come all the way up to the book of Revelation, and the first four feasts, we see them fulfilled ultimately and finally in Jesus Christ.
But watch.
So we get to the book of Revelation, and what do we find?
Seven.
The number seven, meaning perfection and completion, seven trumpets.
Oh my gosh.
What was the feast of trumpets about?
It was to warn.
It's a sound of warning.
It was supposed to be blown before the feast of atonement to get the people prepared for that day of atonement, the highest holy day among God's people.
Why?
Because either you were under the blood and saved, or you were not under the blood and you were under God's wrath and his condemnation.
So when those trumpets started blowing, you better get ready.
You better get right.
Even today, the Orthodox Jews understand it's a time of repentance.
It's a time of kind of getting ready to come under the priestly sacrifice.
So watch.
You get to the book of Revelation, and after the seals are opened, because that's the book of Revelation, the scroll with the seals, and they're opening.
And the seventh seal opens into the seven trumpets.
And now we're confronted with the seven, the trumpets.
The trumpets, get ready, get ready.
Trumpet one, get ready.
Trumpet two, get ready.
Trumpet three, get ready, get ready.
Trumpet six.
World, if you don't see this, trumpet seven, boom.
The rapture of God's people.
Watch.
Watch what happens next.
If you're under the blood, you're raptured.
You're with the Lord.
You're under his shelter.
If you're not, what happens?
The day of atonement has come.
The great day of the wrath of God.
Do you know what happens after the seven trumpets in Revelation?
Seven bowls of God's wrath are poured out.
Watch this.
After that's all over, the great white throne, everything's done.
You open up to Revelation 21, and I saw him who was seated upon the throne.
And he said, Behold, the tabernacle of God is now with men.
The feast of tabernacles is completed.
So I see Matthew.
Yeah, so we're out there then.
Yeah.
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah, we're with the Lord.
So I'm saying.
His chosen people are out.
That's right.
I'm saying what I think God has revealed to me, and millions of others around the world see this, but I think what God has revealed to me is the feast of trumpets is fulfilled in the book of Revelation.
The feast of atonement, either you're under the blood or you're not.
You're under God's wrath or you're under his seven.
It's fulfilled in the book of Revelation.
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