* The voice as of a trumpet.

 

Revelation 4:1 After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.

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Comments by Joan Boney:

In the Bible, we often read of a voice that sounds like a trumpet.

I've heard that voice which was like the voice of a trumpet speaking.

It was January 10, 1980, I was asleep in the night.  

And a voice that was like the voice of a trumpet spoke 3 words to me.  "Hartford, Seattle, KWJS"

I jumped out of bed and wrote "KWJS" on a notepad that was beside my bed.  (It seemed to me this must be call letters to either radio or television.)

When I found it was a radio station, I said to God:  "Are YOU telling me to go on radio?  I wouldn't know how to do that."

A very gentle thought came to my mind.  "Call the radio station manager."

I called the station manager at radio KWJS that same morning and said to him, "God might be showing me to go on radio.  How would you do that?"

He told me, "Make an audition tape 29 1/2 minutes long and if you fit our broadcasting we will offer you a contract."

I made the tape and same morning and put it into the mail and within about 5 days, I was broadcasting exhortations for the church on station KWJS.

Since that time, I have noticed several times in the Bible where God used a trumpet (or a voice like a trumpet) to get the attention of the people.

Here are two times that will happen:

I Thessalonians 4:16-17   For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:  Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Matthew 24:29-31   Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:  And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

31 And HE shall send HIS angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together HIS elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

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