The Opening of My Eyes: The Resurrection and the Return to the Land of Israel. Part 2. Hebrew Scripture Sources for the New Testament Teaching. Text 7 & 8: Matt. 24:31 and 1Cor. 15:51-52. Prophecies From the New Testament. “31 And He shall send His angels with a GREAT [Strong’s G3173, megas] SOUND [Strong’s G5456, phwn/e, voice] of a TRUMPET [Strong’s G4536, salpigx, trumpet], and they shall GATHER together His elect from the FOUR WINDS [East, West, North, South], from one end of heaven to the other.” Matthew 24:31. “51. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last [Strong’s G2078, eschatos, extreme, last in time or in place...] trump [Strong’s G4536, salpigx, a trumpet]: for the trumpet shall sound [Strong’s G4537, salpizw, to sound a trumpet], and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.” 1Corinthians 15:51-52. The focus here is in regard to the great sound of a trumpet. Matthew 24:31s sound of a great trumpet is about the gathering of the saved. 1Corinthians 15:51-52s last trump associates the trumpeting to the resurrection and to the glorification of the living saints. Prophecies From the Hebrew Scriptures. “12 ...and ye shall be GATHERED one by one, O ye children of Israel. 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, [that] the GREAT [Strong’s H1419, gadowl {gaw- dole’}] TRUMPET [Strong’s H7782, showphar {sho-far’}] shall be blown [Strong’s H8628, taqa {taw-kah’}, to clatter as in hand clapping], and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship YHWH in the holy mount at Jerusalem.” Isaiah 27:12l, 13. Here, I have paralleled Isaiah 27:12l, 13 to Matthew 24:31 and to 1Corinthians 15:51-52. The word parallels between these passages are “gather/-ed,” “great trump/-et,” and, “last trump.” Imagine my surprise that the words, “great trumpet” existed in the Hebrew Scriptures! 1Corinthians 15:51-52 is included, as a parallel, here. The Hebrew word that is translated as “great” in Isaiah 27:13 is Strong’s H1419: Strong’s H1419, gadowl {gaw-dole’}, from H1431; great (in any sense); hence, older; also, insolent: – + aloud, elder(-est), + exceeding(-ly), + far, (man of) great (man, matter, thing, -er, -ness), high, long, loud, mighty, more, much, noble, proud thing, x sore, (x) very. The Septuagint (LXX) (the inter-testamental translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek by seventy Hebrew scholars) uses both Strong’s G3173, megas and Strong’s G4536, salpigx, just as does the Greek text of Matthew 24:31s “great trumpet.” Matthew 23:31s “great trumpet” is usually paralleled or, associated, with 1Corinthians 15:52s “last trump.” Strong’s G2078, eschatos, extreme, last in time or in place; last in a series of places; last in temporal succession; the last. While many hold that this trumpet is the trumpeting of the Feast of Trumpets on the seventh new moon, I hold that the “last trumpet” of the Hebrew economy is the Jubilee trumpet that is only blown once every forty-nine (49) years. It is also the trumpet that sounded at Sinai, at the giving of the Law, at Pentecost. (Exodus 19:13) Pentecost (Hebrew: Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks), being a count of seven weeks of days, is a miniature of the Jubilee, which is a count of seven weeks of years. This parallel of Pentecost to Jubilee is seen in Exodus 19:16, where the words, “the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud,” has the idea of a “great trumpet[-ing].” Further, the Pentecost at Sinai, when Israel was returning from Egypt to the promised land, parallels the primary theme of the Jubilee year, “return,” particularly, the return of one to one’s land inheritance. Again, according to Isaiah 27:12-13, what happens when the “great trumpet sounds? The elect, the chosen, the Israel of Elohim, are “gathered” to Jerusalem. Once it is realized that the New Testament prophecies of Yahushua’s second coming are, in the Hebrew Scriptures, allusions to the return of Israel to the promised land, the association of “the last trump” to the theme of the Jubilee, where Israel is returned to their land inheritance, makes sense. What we have, then, is the continued association of the resurrection to the return to ones inheritance, in the promised land.
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