Immediately after the tribulation, Jesus Himself will sound a great loud trumpet dispatching His angels to gather His elect to Himself at the first resurrection. (Matthew 24:29-31). This will mark the beginning of His millennial kingdom reign on this earth. “And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.” (Matthew 24:31). Paul says it this way: “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.” (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17). Also “Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed-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.” (1 Corinthians 15:51-52)
I believe this “last trumpet” also marks the beginning of another significant end time event. The announcement of the final Jubilee year. Consider this: The prophet Isaiah writing in the context of the coming millennial kingdom referred to the “acceptable year of the Lord” “when “liberty would be proclaimed to the captives”. (Isaiah 61:1-3). Jesus Himself declared that He was the ultimate fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecy. “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord.” (Luke 4;18-19). This is surely referring to the future announcement of a Jubilee year, the final Jubilee year. The year of Jubilee as detailed in Leviticus chapter 25 does just that, giving liberty to the captives. After seven sabbaths of years (49 years); “Then you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement, you shall make the trumpet to sound throughout all your land. And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you.” (Leviticus 25:9-10)
If Jesus is returning at the start of a Jubilee year, then it will be the final Jubilee, and the trumpet announcing the Jubilee will coincide with the trumpet blown by our Lord when He gathers His elect. Since no other trumpet is subsequently sounded, it follows logically that this jubilee trumpet is the “last trumpet” referred to by Paul as quoted above. Following this logic even further leads to the conclusion that Jesus’s return (second coming) will occur on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), Tishri 10, when this last trumpet is sounded throughout the land. This also means that Daniel’s 70th week will begin on that same date, and that the abomination of desolation, set up in the middle of the week, will be at Passover (3 1/2 years from the start of the 70th week).
Whether these observations are accurate, only time will tell, though the reasoning appears to be sound. Another heads up to add to your last days watch list. Keep studying. Keep watching. We live in exciting times!
Maranatha, Jim