What are the Seven Trumpets in Revelation 8?
📰The Bible is one of the best-selling and most widely distributed books in history, yet it is also considered to be among the least understood. The Bible, which is referred to as the New Covenant and Promise of God, in which 'the way to heaven and salvation' is presented, differs in theologians' interpretations that make it difficult to understand. These differing interpretations have been the cause of the rise of denominations with each one establishing their own doctrine. With the increase in online church services and gatherings resulting from the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, there has been growing interest in the comparison of various church doctrine. This paper, therefore, attempts to provide readers with the opportunity to compare differing Biblical teachings without interpretation. Among a host of online sermons and Bible-based teachings, the contrasting doctrine between the established Church and Shincheonji Church of Jesus, which has drawn public interest throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, is hereby compared and summarised. Best efforts have been made to provide a summary of Shincheonji Church of Jesus' understanding of the Bible. Judgment as to what is right or wrong is left to the reader’s discernment.
"A trumpet in the books of prophecy is a person used by the spirit to sound the word of truth"
Shincheonji Church of Jesus, the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony
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Revelation chapter 8 tells us that the seven angels receive seven trumpets. As angels are spirits, we cannot see them. Then does this mean these trumpets fly in the sky? In Matthew 24:29-31, which records the events of the Second Coming, it is said that after the sun, moon and stars darken and fall, Jesus will send his angels with a loud trumpet call and gather the elect from the four corners of the earth, from one end of the heavens to the other. If these words refer to the sounding of a literal trumpet, how loudly must the trumpet be blown in order for it to be heard from one end of the skies to the other?
In summary, the trumpet that appears in Revelation 8 is a person, and the sound of the trumpet is the sound proclaiming that the reality has appeared. To understand this, let's first look at the trumpet. In the Bible, there are spiritual trumpets and physical trumpets. At the time of the Old Testament, priests blew physical silver trumpets to summon the people. Moreover, in Joshua 6, when the Israelites conquered the land of Canaan, the priests with Joshua blew the seven trumpets and the city of Jericho fell.
In this way, the trumpet was blown in order to gather God's people or conquer the land God had given them. Under the analogy of this physical trumpet, God foretold the spiritual trumpet that would be blown at the Second Coming.
If we look at the spiritual trumpet in the books of prophecy, in Isaiah 58:1, God told Isaiah to raise his voice like a trumpet and declare to the people their transgressions and sins. Isaiah was commanded in this way to deliver a message of warning to God's people, on behalf of God. At that time, Isaiah's voice became the sound of the trumpet, and Isaiah became the trumpet that God used, and God blew the trumpet through Isaiah. God, who is Spirit, spoke by blowing the trumpet to make a sound, which was the sound of Isaiah prophesying the word.
This same principle is also found in Matthew 10:20. Jesus said to his disciples that it would not be them speaking, but the Holy Spirit of their Father speaking through them. Therefore, the Holy Spirit of God became the trumpeter, the disciples became the trumpets, and the words of the disciples became the sound of the trumpets. In summary, the one who blows the trumpet is the spirit, the one who is used as an instrument is the trumpet, and the sound of the trumpet is the word of testimony.
The words Jesus preached at the first coming were also the words of God who sent Jesus, as recorded in John 14:24. Jesus was the trumpet of God, and the actual word of fulfilment of the Old Testament that Jesus testified was the sound of the trumpet of God.
Among the believers at that time, only those who came out after hearing the trumpet sound proclaimed by Jesus could perceive that the kingdom of heaven was near, and receive true salvation and become God's people. Likewise, the seven trumpets in the book of Revelation that prophesy about the Second Coming of the Lord do not refer to actual trumpets, but to seven people who prophesy the word of God at the time of the Lord's Second Coming. Then let's find out what the sound of the trumpet in Revelation 8 proclaims concerning the fulfilled realities of the book of Revelation.
Firstly, in Revelation 1, the tabernacle of the seven golden lampstands and its people appeared to prepare the way for the Lord. However, they betrayed and broke the covenant with God, as seen in Revelation 2~3. Therefore, in order to bring them back to God, Jesus sent His messenger to send them letters of repentance. However, even after receiving the letters they did not repent, so Jesus raised up the four living creatures, the four archangels, along with the armies of heaven, to judge the chosen people of the tabernacle that betrayed, as seen in Revelation 6.
The chosen people who betrayed, were judged, expelled and became one with the Gentile organisation of destroyers, and were being killed (spiritually). However, since the people of the tabernacle who betrayed did not realise this fact and did not repent, the trumpets were sounded to proclaim the fact that they had received judgment from Jesus and were being put to an end by the Gentile destroyers, as seen in Revelation 8.
In this way, the six trumpets that appear in Revelation 8 and 9 are trumpets of warning urging for repentance and informing the chosen people who betrayed that they were being destroyed. Therefore, the trumpets in Revelation 8 sound the judgment making known that the messengers and congregation of the tabernacle of the seven golden lampstands, who were driven out because of their betrayal, were being destroyed by the Gentiles.
However, among the seven trumpets, the seventh trumpet appears in Revelation 11:15. The sound of this seventh trumpet makes known that the kingdom of the world becomes the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ. So the seventh trumpet is a very important and special trumpet.
What is the reality of the seventh trumpet? Only when we know this reality can we participate in the kingdom of our Lord and of Christ. Revelation 22:16 says that Jesus sends his angel to testify for the churches. Therefore, this messenger carries out the duty of a trumpet as he testifies the word of testimony to the churches on behalf of Jesus. This promised messenger is the shepherd who received and ate the open book in Revelation 10 and testified to what he saw and heard at the location of the events, that is, the fulfilled realities (fulfilment) of the prophecies of the book of Revelation. There must be a fulfilled reality that this shepherd sees, hears and delivers regarding God's mystery according to the revealed word.
Therefore, the promised shepherd who received and ate the opened book is the reality of the seventh trumpet in Revelation 10:7. This shepherd fought to the point of death with the words of testimony that he saw and heard at the location of the events; and as in Revelation 12:9-11, he fought against the group of the dragon that deceived all nations of the world, and overcame them to the point of death. As a result, the kingdom of our Lord and Christ has been established through the one who overcomes, and the testimony delivered by the one who overcomes, who establishes the new kingdom and new people of God, is the sound of the seventh trumpet.
"When Jesus opens the seventh seal, War begins. That is when the trumpet of command is sounded"
Korean Church
Pastor, Presbyterian Church
"The seventh seal is opened and there were seven angels standing before God and they receive seven trumpets, and no one could open the scroll God had written. But the Lamb that was slain received it. God delivered them and they are removed one by one, but every time they are taken off, the angels of God stand by. 'Buup!' What kind of trumpet is this? It is the trumpet of the victory that signals the start a war.''
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