According to I Th. 4: 16, the trumpet will sound at the return of our Lord. This is not simply a trumpet, but the trumpet of God. In the Old Testament a trumpet was blown on special occasions. When the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai, the people saw the lightning and heard the mighty thunder claps as well as the trumpet sound (Ex. 20: 18). The Jubilee, the fiftieth year, wherein everybody could go free, was also an-nounced on the day of atonement by the trumpet sound (Lev. 25: 9).

Every time we read in the Holy Scripture about the sound of the trumpet, very special events took place. We read about the trumpet of God in connection with the return of Jesus Christ. At that time the Lord completes His great plan of redemption for His elect. Christ will return in the same way as He went to heaven. In Ps. 47: 5 we read, “God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.” When the trumpet of God sounds, the redeemed will be called to the great feast in Glory. The apostle Paul describes the details of how this great event will take place, “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound …” (I Cor. 15: 52).

Jesus Christ returns with a mighty command — a shout, accompanied by the voice of the archangel and the trumpet of God. The chosen ones, whether they are asleep or alive at that time, will be taken away before the wrath of God — the judgments — are poured out in the great tribula-tion. Immediately after this important event pertaining to the plan of salvation (“the taking away” of the Bride) the time of grace for the nations will terminate, and God will turn to His people, Israel — the Jews. The prophet Isaiah also speaks about the great trumpet which will sound at this particular time (Isa. 27: 13).

The return of the Lord will be sudden — as a lightning appears and in the twinkling of an eye. At that time the dead in Christ shall rise first, after which those who are ready will be physically changed (transformed). Together they will be taken up to meet the Lord in the air and go with him into glory. As Enoch, the seventh after Adam, was taken away and not found on earth, so also now at the end of the seventh, the last church age, those who will participate in the rapture will not be found on the earth.

According to I Th. 4: 16, the trumpet will sound at the return of our Lord. This is not simply a trumpet, but the trumpet of God. In the Old Testament a trumpet was blown on special occasions. When the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai, the people saw the lightning and heard the mighty thunder claps as well as the trumpet sound (Ex. 20: 18). The Jubilee, the fiftieth year, wherein everybody could go free, was also an-nounced on the day of atonement by the trumpet sound (Lev. 25: 9).

Every time we read in the Holy Scripture about the sound of the trumpet, very special events took place. We read about the trumpet of God in connection with the return of Jesus Christ. At that time the Lord completes His great plan of redemption for His elect. Christ will return in the same way as He went to heaven. In Ps. 47: 5 we read, “God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.” When the trumpet of God sounds, the redeemed will be called to the great feast in Glory. The apostle Paul describes the details of how this great event will take place, “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the trumpet shall sound …” (I Cor. 15: 52).

Jesus Christ returns with a mighty command — a shout, accompanied by the voice of the archangel and the trumpet of God. The chosen ones, whether they are asleep or alive at that time, will be taken away before the wrath of God — the judgments — are poured out in the great tribula-tion. Immediately after this important event pertaining to the plan of salvation (“the taking away” of the Bride) the time of grace for the nations will terminate, and God will turn to His people, Israel — the Jews. The prophet Isaiah also speaks about the great trumpet which will sound at this particular time (Isa. 27: 13).

The return of the Lord will be sudden — as a lightning appears and in the twinkling of an eye. At that time the dead in Christ shall rise first, after which those who are ready will be physically changed (transformed). Together they will be taken up to meet the Lord in the air and go with him into glory. As Enoch, the seventh after Adam, was taken away and not found on earth, so also now at the end of the seventh, the last church age, those who will participate in the rapture will not be found on the earth.