Sound Of A Trumpet

And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
[Matthew 24:31 NKJV]

I am writing on this subject because on Saturday evening I was sitting and talking with Milady, and I heard inwardly a sound unlike no other; a deep resonant sound which I could not at first identify. Then I remembered an album I had on cassette many years ago of music from the Middle East, which featured the many and varied instruments of that region. One of those instruments was the Shofar - a rams horn, made into a trumpet. However, the trumpet is actually another instrument altogether*. The Shofar, or horn has a very distinctive sound and was used in a variety of ways, but primarily as a call to commence battle, or as an alert to signify something momentous. In each case this signifies a beginning.

There is a significance too, in the fact of it being made for preference from ram’s horn** (although often from a wild goat horn) — a connection with the ‘ram in the thicket’ sacrificed in place of Isaac perhaps, I do not know. What I do know is that such a sound in your head is quite a thing. A wake-up call, indeed!

From that moment, I have been especially aware of The Lord moving; of a change in the spiritual atmosphere. This, so far, is unquantifiable to me beyond a handful of small events signifying a shift in the way things are, and this is the essence of the sound of a trumpet — change.

Listen brother to the trumpet sound
We are free, we’re no longer bound
When the Son has set you free
Rise up and proclaim your liberty

Don’t you settle for the prison floor
When the Lord has offered you so much more
Shed your shackles of sin and doubt
Let faith arise, walk on out

When the enemy seeks to bind
Plays captivity on your mind
Telling you that can’t be free
And there’s no such thing as Jubilee

Don’t you settle for the prison floor
When the Lord has offered you so much more
Shed your shackles of sin and doubt
Let faith arise, walk on out

* see Numbers 10:2 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: “Make two silver trumpets for yourself; you shall make them of hammered work; you shall use them for calling the congregation and for directing the movement of the camps.
** the larger ones (as in the illustration above) are made from the horn of the Greater Kudu, a type of antelope.

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Shofar (Ram's Horn Trumpet) Blowing

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Never try to explain God until you have obeyed Him. The only bit of God we understand is the bit we have obeyed.

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