Marching Orders

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Marching Orders

• Listen, I tell you a mystery We will not all
  sleep, but we will all be changed- in a flash, in
  the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
  For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be
  raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
• 1 Corinthians 1551-52

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The Facts, Please!

• Trumpets, also called horns or coronets, are
  mentioned in several places in the Bible. They
  were made of either metal or bone. Their
  sounding air column was about two feet long.
  This produced a high, shrill tone.

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The Facts, Please!

• The bone trumpets were usually made from a rams
  horn. The Jews called this a shofar. It was
  used to signal a battle or peace at the end of a
  battle, the beginning of Sabbath, the first day
  of the month, and the Year of Jubilee. In the
  month of Tishri they blew these trumpets all day
  long on the first day on the Festival of Trumpets.

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The Facts, Please!

• When God gave Moses instructions for building the
  tabernacle, he also commanded that two silver
  trumpets should be made. These were to be blown
  as signals to the Israelites when they were
  camped in the wilderness. One long blast blown
  by the two trumpets mean that all the people were
  to assemble before Moses at the door of the
  tabernacle. If the long blast was blown on only
  one trumpet, just the tribal leaders were to
  assemble. A special blast, called an alarm,
  was sounded when the camps were to march forward.

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The Facts, Please!

• Paul said that when Jesus came in the air to take
  us to heaven, the last trumpet would sound.
  The people in Palestine in those days were
  familiar with Roman soldiers, who were signaled
  by three trumpet calls. The first blast meant
  Strike tents and be ready to depart. The second
  meant, Fall into line. The last trumpet meant,
  March!

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http//www.music.iastate.edu/antiqua/shofar.htm
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Bible Story

• The Trumpet Call to March
• (Numbers 101-36)