@robb65 okay I'll try to find that but for now I just got home and I need to rest.

@robb65

First, the trumpet referenced in 1Corinthians 15 is one of the trumpets traditionally blown during the Jewish feast of Rosh Hashanah (also called the Feast of Trumpets for that reason). The last trump is a well-known Jewish phrase of Paul's day referring to the final trumpet blown at this feast. Rosh Hashanah observance involves blowing a series of trumpets at the feast each year. During the ceremony, there are a series of short trumpet sounds which conclude with one, long trumpet blast called the tekiah gedolah, which means “the great trumpet blast.” This is the trumpet Paul was describing in 1Corinthians 15, and it announces the resurrection of the Church.

Paul was showing that the feast of Rosh Hashanah, pictures the Rapture of the Church. All seven feasts on the Jewish calendar, picture aspects of God's redemptive plan, starting with Passover and ending with the Feast of Tabernacles. The Feast of Rosh Hashanah, pictures the moment of the Church's resurrection (also called the Rapture), which is why a trumpet is blown during the feast. That tekiah gedolah is a prophetic picture of the trumpet that will blow at the Church's resurrection.

On the other hand, the trumpets of the Seven Trumpet Judgments are an announcement blown by angels in Heaven during the latter half of Tribulation. They are signals to warn unbelievers of impending judgment. These judgments will be the final opportunities for unbelievers on Earth in the Tribulation, to be saved before the final wrath of God is poured out on earth, in the Bowl Judgments.

How do we know these trumpets are not one Paul was referencing in 1Corinthians 15? Because the historical order of authorship for the New Testament books precludes the possibility that these are the same trumpets. Paul's first letter to Corinth, refers to "the" last trumpet, and his use of the article "the" indicates Paul expected his audience to know and recognize this particular ttrumpet blast. This wasn't "some" trumpet, it was "THE" the trumpet, so Paul must be refering to a trumpet already known to his readers in the day he wrote 1Corinthians.

For that reason, we know Paul could not have meant the trumpets described in the Trumpet Judgments of Revelation, because the book of Revelation wasn't written and revealed to the Church until 40 years after Paul's death. No one in Paul's day could have known that trumpet judgments were a part of God's plan for Tribulation when Paul referred to "the" trumpet, so Paul was clearly speaking about some other trumpet. On the other hand, the final trumpet blast of Rosh Hashanah was very well known to Paul and his readers.

Therefore, at the time Paul wrote 1Corinthians, he was speaking of the final trumpet of Rosh Hashanah blown at the feast of Trumpets, and since this feast is a picture of the Rapture, it fits the context of 1Corinthians perfectly. Therefore, Paul was not referring to the Trumpet Judgments but to the feast of Trumpets.

@GodSpeed63 but was it part of God telling his Children to leave Babylon the Great? I'm still having a hard time understanding the Rapture, I thought most of us will be in the great Tribulation before the Rapture in the end times? This is tricky for me.

@FreestyleArt You have nothing to worry about. The tribulation period doesn't even start until after the church (the saved) is raptured out of this world.

@DanielsASJ You have that right. It is the whole purpose of the rapture, to take the church out, so it does not experience the wrath to come, because there is no wrath on those who have been saved.

Wow... where are all the Bible studyers here?

@LadyGrace Still trying to get up

@FreestyleArt it is true that America is already suffering because it has not turned away from sin, but has gotten worse. But the Bible guarantees that we will not go through the tribulation period. In order for the tribulation period to begin, first must come the rapture and then it will be ushered in. The scripture above in my post to confirm it. The church age ends! After that comes the tribulation. Where the Antichrist is introduced to the world. What you're feeling now is prophecy coming to pass, the signs of the end times, not the tribulation period. I will be writing much more about it with scripture to back it up.

@FreestyleArt First Thessalonians 4:13–18 describes the rapture, giving the order of events like this: Jesus comes from heaven (1 Thessalonians 4:16), the dead in Christ rise first (1 Thessalonians 4:16) from the grave that is only believers that have died, and then living believers are “caught up” to meet the Lord in the air. This event ends the Church Age, and believers will “be with the Lord forever” following the rapture (1 Thessalonians 4:17).

@TheShanachie Time will tell. God always keeps his promises.

@LadyGrace fiction

@TheShanachie you're in for a big surprise