Numbers 10:9
And when you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the Lord your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.
Tag: Wating for the Trumpets of God
In the above verse we see the instruction for the sounding of the trumpets. The trumpets were sounded by the priest for a number of reasons.
1. Announcing they are moving the camp.
2. Calling the leadership to the Tabernacle
3. Announcing the time of battle or war
Here are some examples of #3:
Joshua 6:4
Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark. On the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.
2 Chronicles 13:12-16
Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with their battle trumpets to sound the call to battle against you. O sons of Israel, do not fight against the Lord, the God of your fathers, for you cannot succeed.”
Jeroboam had sent an ambush around to come upon them from behind. Thus his troops were in front of Judah, and the ambush was behind them. And when Judah looked, behold, the battle was in front of and behind them. And they cried to the Lord, and the priests blew the trumpets. Then the men of Judah raised the battle shout. And when the men of Judah shouted, God defeated Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah. The men of Israel fled before Judah, and God gave them into their hand.
The sounding of the trumpets were to be a “perpetual statue throughout” all their generations. Note what Moses goes on to tell the nation:
Numbers 10:10
On the day of your gladness also, and at your appointed feasts and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings. They shall be a reminder of you before your God: I am the Lord your God.”
The most important aspect of the trumpets and the trumpet sound is that they were to be a reminder to them of God’s presence and faithfulness. The trumpet sound, along with the cloud by day and the fire by night, would assure the nation of God’s continued presence and power among them. The nation was young in faith and needed to have tangible visuals and sounds to know God was faithful. God’s word, today is our trumpet sound. The power of God’s word, mixed with the presence of the Holy Spirit, give us the tangible we need to know that God is, indeed present in our lives. Someday we, too, will hear the sound of the trumpet:
Revelation 11:15
The Seventh Trumpet
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.”
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.
We are waiting for the trumpet to sound. That will be the sweetest sound.
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