The Last Trumpet

INTRO: It was Wednesday when I realized I had not prepared ahead for Pentecost as I usually do. Since this Sunday would be Pentecost Sunday I wondered what I might speak on. I had been studying Ezekiel 38-39 and that brought me to the last three feasts of Israel. Pastor Daryl has been speaking about those days and I had asked him for a certain book on the feasts he had been using and so I wondered if I might get a thought from there. It is an amazing book. What caught my interest was the trumpets the writer mentioned in connection with Pentecost.

For many years I had pondered the last trumpet that Paul speaks about in 1 Corinthians 15 and decided to focus study on it. I did not know how much study that would cause for me. 1 Corinthians 15:51-52 says this:

51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—

52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.