The Last Trumpet

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. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 

I Corinthians 15:51-53   

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 in Christ will rise first. 

I Thessalonians 4:16 

Jesus is coming again. He promised His disciples, ‘And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.’ When He does return, a trumpet will herald it. Paul refers to it as, ‘the last trumpet.’ In the portion of our text from Thessalonians, he describes the event. It is at that time our transformation from being corruptible to incorruptible occurs. It means we go from mortality to immortality. This is a heady concept for us because we are only familiar with our mortality. All who came before us died. We have not seen anyone who is immortal. We have heard about it, and perhaps contemplated it, but never experienced it. Paul sets it forth as a fact. When Christ returns at ‘the last trumpet,’ we, and all who have gone before us, shall exchange our mortality for immortality. It is because of Christ this change occurs. He is the reason for it, the cause of it, and His return precipitates it. He deserves all the praise for it. It begins the next phase of our enjoyment of Christ. We have seen Him with the eyes of faith. Then we shall see Him in Person and with immortal eyes. 

Our Glorious, Living Christ, 
we rejoice at the future You have prepared for us. 
We look forward to the day 
when the faith shall be sight. 

Tomm Tice
Where the Bush is Burning