In the book of Romans, Paul writes: “I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek, for therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith.” Also the wrath of God is revealed therein. Where? In the Gospel. The sounding of the trumpets is symbolizing nothing more than a sounding of God’s Word.

In Joel, the second chapter, the first verse, we read: “Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain.” God’s alarm never fails to go off. He set His alarm seven times down through the periods of time of the church and when the set time came, the alarm sounded. He had a man stand up and sound a trumpet and warn His people what was going to befall them. We’re living in the day of the last of these angels; the seventh angel is sounding. But what is his message? Warning the church of the lukewarmness, deadness, formality and the denying of the power of God; and telling them to turn back to the old paths where they will find rest to their souls.

The trumpet is the message of salvation or warning. Paul said in 1st Corinthians the 14th chapter and the eighth verse: “If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for battle?” The reason so few are joining the ranks to fight against the ungodliness and sinful conditions of our land is because there’s too much uncertain preaching going on in the pulpits. When the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, (and I repeat) people will not prepare themselves for battle. What do we mean by the words, “an uncertain sound?” They’re ceasing to call sin, sin. They fail to show how black sin is and to preach on hell as the end of man, if they fail to take Christ into their hearts and lives.

Because of this condition, we have people, so to speak, on the fence. When there’s a true revival and the plain Word of God is preached in honesty, there will be no people on the fence when the revival services are over. Why? Because God gives the true minister enough equipment to “tear down the fence” and leave nothing for anyone to sit on.

The uncertain sounding of the trumpet is putting the people in a neutral position, which is nothing more than a picture of this lukewarmness, not hot, not cold.

In the 33rd chapter of Ezekiel, God chose to set the ministers to be watchmen on the wall and He said, “When I bring the sword, and the sword would come on the land and you warn them, if the sword take them, the blood would be on their own hands. But if you fail to sound the trumpet to warn them, they will be taken, but I will require their blood at your hands.” [ The End ]