The Last Trumpet

Daily Reading: Isaiah 27

Scripture Focus: And in that day a great trumpet will be blown, and those who were lost in the land of Assyria and those who were driven out to the land of Egypt will come and worship the Lord on the holy mountain at Jerusalem. (Isaiah 27.13)

Devotional Thought: The people of God would be dispersed among the nations - away from their homeland, removed from the spiritual blessings of the Promised Land, laboring under the godless cultures of Assyria and Egypt.  God said, through the prophet Isaiah, I will bring you back.  What would be the signal that it was time to come home and worship the Lord in Jerusalem?  "In that day a great trumpet will be blown."

That Old Testament prophecy was fulfilled - the trumpet was blown, and the lost came home.  But, there is also a further fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy.  There is yet a trumpet to be blown, the last trumpet:

1 Corinthians 15.52: ...at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.

Matthew 24.31: He will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

1 Thessalonians 4.16: For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

Revelation 11.15: Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.”

At that last trumpet, those who were lost and then found will come and worship the Lord in the New Jerusalem, the eternal holy mountain of God.  What a day that will be!

Are you listening for the last trumpet?

Prayer: O Lord, I can hardly wait for that last trumpet when you will call us home.  Help me to be ready on that day.  Until then, I consecrate myself to finding other lost souls and bringing them into your family.  Amen.

Psalm of the Day: Psalm 60.6-12

6 God has spoken in his holiness: "With exultation I will divide up Shechem and portion out the Vale of Succoth.

7 Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim is my helmet; Judah is my scepter.

8 Moab is my washbasin; upon Edom I cast my shoe; over Philistia I shout in triumph."

9 Who will bring me to the fortified city? Who will lead me to Edom?

10 Have you not rejected us, O God? You do not go forth, O God, with our armies.

11 Oh, grant us help against the foe, for vain is the salvation of man!

12 With God we shall do valiantly; it is he who will tread down our foes.