The Mystery of the Seven Trumpets (Pt. 1a)

Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand; (Joe 2:1)

As we’ve seen in this study, each of the churches throughout history was given a Kingdom mandate specific to the age they lived in. These mandates directly paralleled the Plan of God for creation as laid out in Genesis 1.

The FIRST AGE was commissioned for the world’s SALVATION; the SECOND AGE for the SEPARATION of the holy from the profane; the THIRD AGE for INTIMACY with the Father; the FOURTH AGE was given a mandate to bear WITNESS of the one true God; the FIFTH AGE was to receive their CALLING to testify to all the nations of the world; the SIXTH AGE was to manifest God’s love to the nations through MINISTRY; and the SEVENTH AGE was to have established the great KINGDOM of God in all the earth.

However, the insurgencies of satan, aided by the free will choices of men, has led to the wholesale corruption of the church throughout virtually every age, so that by the seventh age we see that, though the previous six churches are still active on the earth, God’s original mandate for each has been lost. The EVANGELICAL CHURCH (first age) gospel has been severely compromised; the HOLINESS CHURCH (second age) has become legalist; the DOCTRINAL CHURCH (third age) has interpreted scripture however it sees fit and divided the church because of it; the ORTHODOX CHURCH (fourth age) has regarded man-made traditions above Holy Scripture; the REFORMED CHURCH (fifth age) has all but abandoned the Holy Spirit; the GRACE CHURCH (sixth age) has forgotten the Lordship of Christ; and the CHARISMATIC CHURCH (seventh age) has left the Word of God to pursue signs and wonders.

But God is merciful and He will not send judgment until every attempt has been made to warn His children. That’s the purpose for the seven trumpets. These alarms will sound, in turn, to each of the last days churches as a final call to…

…Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins, or receive any of her plagues. For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes. (Rev 18:4-5)

As Jesus wrote to the church of Laodicea, which represents the last days church…

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches. (Rev 3:20-22)



To be continued…