Revelation 11:15
Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, ‘The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!’
Feast of Trumpets is the fourth of God’s seven annual holy days, and it is the first of the fall holy days. In our hymnal’s version of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” we sing, “In the beauty of the autumn Christ was born across the sea.” This is because there is some evidence that the human Jesus may have been born on or very near the Feast of Trumpets or the Feast of Tabernacles Also, Bible symbolism and prophecy indicate that He may well return to this earth on the Feast of Trumpets in some future year.
This feast symbolizes a vast turning point in world history. It pictures the pivotal changeover between the age of man, of darkness, and of Satan to the age of God, the World Tomorrow, the Millennium, and the Kingdom of God.
When we consider the significance of the Feast of Trumpets, we think that trumpet blasts that accompany the major, tumultuous events of the end times, the return of Jesus Christ, and the resurrection of the dead. Here are just a few of those scriptures:
» And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. (Matthew 24:31)
» . . . 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. (I Corinthians 15:52; see I Thessalonians 4:16))
» So the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. The first angel sounded. . . . Then the second angel sounded. . . . Then the third angel sounded. . . . Then the fourth angel sounded. . . . Then the fifth angel sounded. . . . Then the sixth angel sounded. . . . Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!” (Revelation 8:6-8, 10, 12; 9:1, 13; 11:15)
When Jesus was crucified, the inscription over His head read He was “King of the Jews.” Yet, when asked just a few hours earlier by Pilate if He was a King (John 18:33), Jesus replied, “My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from here (verse 26). It will be established! We are much closer to that time than they were then. At His coming, Revelation 19:16 proclaims, “And He has on His robe and on His thigh a name written: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.”
