Trumpet Calls

Do you know who first came up with the idea to use trumpet calls?

Numbers 10:1-2 & 7-10          The Lord said to Moses: ² “Make two trumpets of hammered silver, and use them for calling the community together and for having the camps set out… ⁷ To gather the assembly, blow the trumpets, but not with the signal for setting out. ⁸ “The sons of Aaron, the priests, are to blow the trumpets. This is to be a lasting ordinance for you and the generations to come. ⁹ When you go into battle in your own land against an enemy who is oppressing you, sound a blast on the trumpets. Then you will be remembered by the Lord your God and rescued from your enemies. ¹⁰ Also at your times of rejoicing—your appointed festivals and New Moon feasts—you are to sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, and they will be a memorial for you before your God. I am the Lord your God.”

God told Moses to have the priests use trumpets to communicate with several million people! The trumpets were used to tell the people to set out, call the community together, initiate battle, and lead in celebration at their festivals.

Last week we read how the cloud over the tabernacle would lift up off the tabernacle to tell the people when to set out. It was a visible signal. Then, God added an audible signal with the trumpets!

Jesus said God will use clouds and trumpets as visible and audible signs at His second coming, too! Matthew 24:30-31 ³⁰ “Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory. ³¹ And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

God is detailed and orderly and gives clear direction visibly and audibly. He has given us His Word to help us “see” His direction and He has given us His Holy Spirit to help us “hear” His call. 

Have you responded to God’s “trumpet call” on your life?

First, to draw you to Himself, and then to send you out?

Are you and I careful to listen to His signals each day?

Or do we allow TV, radio, work, the internet, news, sports, or anything else to drown out His call?

How will you and l listen today?

Alice