Blow The Trumpet in ZION

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 (Joel 2:1)

These days, and in many different ways, the Holy Ghost is speaking to the Church about His plan and purpose for our time. Our hearts must be full of expectation as we hear these marvelous words. It is the trumpet of God sounding in our ears telling us that the time has come for the glory cloud that leads the Israel of God, the Church, to move to next level. The trumpet is sounding because her hour of deliverance and total restoration has come. God is bestowing His mercy upon her, for the time to have favor on her is come.

As it was with Israel when they marched in to take the land of their possession, today, the Holy Ghost is speaking to us to get up, put on the whole armor of God for the time has come to move in and take the land.

The trumpet is sounding for the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ to move from this present realm to the next level. It is a trumpet call to alert God’s end-time army not to be distracted by the enticement of this corrupt world and to admonish every distracted soldier to cast off the works of darkness and put back on the armor of light, for the night is far spent and the day is at hand. Put on the armor of light, dear soldier, “for no man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please Him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.”

The trumpet is reverberating and the alarm is sounding louder than ever, it is time for war! It is time to march in as men of war to take the land. Onward, Christian soldiers, your commander is ahead.

The Blowing of the Trumpets

The Lord Jehovah told Moses, “Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps. And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance forever throughout your generations” Num 10:2,8.

God instructed Moses in the passage of Scriptures above to make two trumpets. He explained clearly to Moses what the purpose of the trumpets was, when to blow them, and who was to operate them. These trumpets, according to God, were to be blown for calling the assembly together and for journeying from camp to camp in the wilderness on their way to Canaan.

“And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.”

The first purpose for the blowing of the trumpet in the passage above was for the calling of the assembly. The Lord God said, when the priests blew the trumpet “ALL“ the assembly, that is the entire twelve tribes of Israel should gather at the door of the tabernacle. The Holy Spirit is saying that as we hear the trumpet call this end time, the whole house of Israel must gather at the Door. Ours is not a physical gathering as theirs was, but a spiritual gathering. Ours is not a physical door as theirs was, but a spiritual Door. They gathered at the east gate of the Tabernacle of the Congregation while we are to gather unto Him who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

Our gathering speaks of a “unity in the spirit” which will precede the unprecedented outpouring of the anointing this world has ever seen. As David the prophet said in Psalm 133 that when the brethren dwell in the realm of unity in the spirit, God commands His anointing and blessing upon them. He likened this to the priesthood anointing on Aaron’s head, an anointing of maturity, (that flowed to his beard), and anointing on the whole body (that flowed down to the skirts of his garment). When the Church hears the sound of the trumpet and takes heed to it by gathering at the Door of the tabernacle of the congregation, the same anointing on the head of our High Priest will flow down to the whole body.

Notice that the whole assembly is to gather. Not just the tribe of Judah, nor is it restricted to Ephraim or the Levites, but ALL the assembly. This is not just for a denominational group or a non-denominational fellowship, or just for a special tribe or nation, or restricted to the natural Jewish race, but it is a call to His Body out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation.
Secondly, the trumpet call is not to gather the assembly to a man. The gathering is not to Moses, not to a prophet or to an apostle, but to the Door of the Tabernacle of Witness.

This end-time, it cannot be over-emphasized that the gathering is unto HIM, the LORD JESUS and not any man. It is immaturity and carnality that make us in the Body to worship men, saying “I am of Paul“ or “I am of Apollos.“ Neither Paul nor Apollos died for us. The gathering shall be unto HIM, our SHILOH. As the Patriarch Jacob in the Book of Genesis prophetically declared over his son saying: The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be (Gen 49:10). Yes, Christ is our Shiloh and our gathering is and shall always be unto Him alone.

Trumpet Call for Gathering the Assembly

The first purpose of the trumpets is to gather “all people” including the Catholics, Protestants, Evangelicals, Pentecostals, and non-denominational, all people that call upon His Name, to come out of their little sectarian tents and come to meet God at the Door to hear the voice of the Lord. There is only one Door to the tabernacle of the congregation. There is only one Lord, one Savior, one Commander-In-Chief, one Master, one Eternal Father, one High Priest, and one Mediator between God and man, the man Jesus Christ. As the trumpet sounds, the whole assembly is to gather and be as one at the Door to hear the voice of the Lord.

Who was authorized to blow the trumpets? Not just anyone. Moses could not just choose any of his favorite persons or even his son to blow the trumpet. He couldn’t even blow them himself. As honorable as Judah was, no one from his tribe, not even the most honorable prince of his family, was chosen by God to lay hold of those silver horns and blow them. It was by divine appointment. Who chose the blowers of the trumpets? Yes, it was the Lord God Himself, not Moses, not Aaron. For He said, “And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance forever throughout your generations.”

The trumpets were to be blown by the priests. They were blown by a company of priests (not one priest). We are not told that Aaron himself ever blew the trumpet, for this ministry was reserved for his mature sons. The plan of God this end-time will be carried out, not by an individual celebrated minister, but by the anointed sons of our High Priest. These ones will not be chosen by man but by the Lord God Almighty Himself. He is building an army, an overcomer’s company, a kingdom of priests, and a “generation of them that seek Him”. You and I are important to God as individuals, but in this move, it is the company of well-equipped soldiers that will go across Jordan and take the land.

In this end-time, God is once again gathering His people together unto the Door through His anointed ones, calling us to lay aside all that is of man, all that which separates the Body, and to come to the Door of the tabernacle of the congregation. He is calling us to leave our sectarian and territorial spirits behind and gather at the Door with His brethren so that He might pour on us that “precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard that went down to the skirts of his garments.”

“Oh, that He might pour on the body, this hour, that precious anointing that is upon the Head, even that same anointing upon our High Priest not after the order of Aaron but after the order of an endless life.”

Dear saint of the Most High, can you hear the sound of the Trumpet?

Can you hear what the Holy Ghost is saying to us?  For I know you have ears to hear and the eye of understanding to perceive the things of God. The Lord God is gathering His assembly unto the Door so that He might lead us to the next level. As we gather at the Door of the Tabernacle of Congregation, we must prepare and sanctify ourselves for this great move of the Almighty God in His Church. We must listen carefully to our Commander-In-Chief, the Lord Jesus Christ, as He directs us and leads us onward into battle.

We must be attentive and hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church. Yes, we must listen to HIM who “holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass and hath the sharp sword with two edges.”

We must proceed according to the divine order which He has laid down. We must not create our own order because of modern civilization. It is imperative to us that we proceed exactly as laid down by the Spirit and follow God “after the due order.”

For natural Israel, the day of blowing the Trumpets also gathered the assembly to the Feast of the Lord, the first of which is the Feast of Passover. This feast is threefold in nature. It includes the Passover night itself when the Passover Lamb was slain, the feast of Unleavened Bread for the following seven days after the Passover night, and the waving of the Sheaf on the first day of the following week. Passover was fulfilled when on the cross “our Passover Lamb was sacrificed for us.” And when He ascended, many graves were opened, and many of the patriarchs that slept arose, and He presented them as a “wave offering” of the firstfruits unto God.

For us in the New Creation, this sound of the trumpet is for the “day of preparation” for the Feast of the Lord. And in the day of preparation, as with natural Israel, we must put away all leaven so we may be ready to partake in the Feasts of the Lord. We must purge ourselves of the leaven of hypocrisy, deceit, covetousness, and of malice. As the apostle said:

“Purge out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us:

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”

Leaven is like yeast used in baking, which if left, will spread its influence quickly through the whole lump. Leaven speaks of a corrupting influence, like malice, uncleanliness, covetousness, love of money, love of position, and pride of life, which may start off as a negligible influence in an assembly, but its corrupting influence spreads like wildfire on a hot summer day. The army of God must purge herself of all leaven as we prepare for the Feast of the Ingathering, the final harvest of the Almighty God here on His earth.