I have never believed that non-believers will here that trumpet. Given that the dead in Christ rise first, and an earthquake opens their graves, perhaps this will happen 3 days prior to our departure?! TR Yeah Tammie, 96 kg is my target weight. My current weight is ... (I don't want to say, and please, nobody go fission for the answer.) I suppose "bust a gut" will be the most apt description for what's going to happen to me at the Rapture. :yes: :yes: :whistle: TR, Non-believers won't hear the trumpet. Anyway, few years ago I have shared my thought on Luke 17:22-37 in which verse 30 is rapture when the Son of man is revealed to the world. The world knows that Jesus is the architect of rapture when they see millions of people disappear. This is how Jesus is revealed to the world in that day. Verse 31 is Jesus hurrying us to get ready for rapture, by not getting back to our house and take the belongings with us. That belongings are our loved ones who cannot make it to rapture. To some Christians, knowing rapture is near, they are glad to go with Jesus. Some Christians love their sons and daughters. This emotion hinders them , a bit hesitant to go. This is why Jesus says in following verse "Remember Lot's wife", because she missed the things in the world and looked back. Jesus uses Lot's wife as an example and tells us not to look back to the world like she did. Jesus further describes the details, "in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left. 35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken, and the other left. 36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left." This is exactly how rapture shall happen. And Jesus concludes his statement by comparing us taken into the air to "Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.". The "body" is Greek word soma which means a live body, a flesh. These live bodies (us) shall be gathered together like the eagles are gathered in the air. Let me finish the sermon Jesus gave to Pharisees, concerning the kingdom of God in Luke 17. The whole sermon is described in a backward manner. Pharisees want to know when the kingdom of God should come. Jesus said to the disciples " look, the days (days in tribulation ) will come, when you shall desire to see one of days with me, but you shall not see it. For as the lightning out form one part of heaven, shines to other part of heaven, so shall my coming will be. But first son of man has to be rejected by this generation" Jesus didn't give much details regarding the events in tribulation in this sermon. He saved it and gave the details in Mount Olivert Discourse later on. He then went on to describe a spectacular event, that is, the rapture. Luke 17:26 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. 27 They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; 29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. This is how the world is when rapture happens. They eat, drink, giving in marriage, not knowing the sudden destruction/rapture shall come upon them, like travail to a woman. 30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed. I have already explained this verse, the Son of man is revealed to the world during the event rapture. 31 In that day, he which shall be upon the housetop, and his stuff in the house, let him not come down to take it away: and he that is in the field, let him likewise not return back. 32 Remember Lot's wife I have already elaborated on this verse. Jesus tells us not to look back at our earthly belongings which include our loved ones. It seems there is a time lapse between our sensing rapture is near and the final trumpet call. This time lapse triggers our thought of our loved ones who are going to be left behind. How much is time lapse? I don't know. It can be hours, a day, or three days. I suspect we hear some roaming noise, see some atmospheric change, or some spectacular phenomenon, which stir up our spirit, before the final trumpet call. When I suggest Jesus gave the sermon in Luke 17 in a backward manner, it is because Pharisees wanted to know when the kingdom of God/ the millennium kingdom should come. Instead of telling Pharisees when the kingdom of God should arrive, Jesus replied by foretelling the events which precede the kingdom of God/ the millennium kingdom. Jesus starts with verse 22, by saying these to the disciples " Look, the days (days in tribulation ) will come, when you shall desire to see one of days with me, but you shall not see it. For as the lightning out form one part of heaven, shines to other part of heaven, so shall my coming will be. But first, Son of man has to be rejected by this generation” Jesus then went on to foretell a spectacular event the rapture which precedes the tribulation, from verse 26 to 37. In summery, Kingdom of God will not come until there is a tribulation first. Tribulation cannot come until rapture happens first. The reason I bought up perhaps the unsaved hear the trumpet sound is because for a few years now there have been reports of people claiming to be hearing unexplained trumpet-like noises. :unsure: The San Diego Union-Tribune Have you heard those weird, apocalyptic trumpet-like noises coming from the sky? People all over the world say they have. So what are they? The short answer is no one knows. The latest video of the mystery comes form Germany and was posted to youtube last month. In it, the puzzled photographer sticks a camera out the window as a woman asks in German, “What is that?” In the background is heard a metallic-type groaning sound coming from the sky as if someone just put the key in the ignition of a large, invisible “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” kind of vehicle and started it up. The video is all the more eerie because a young boy is standing motionless in the street as the noise amplifies. The sounds have been reported over the last several years from California to Texas to Australia and many parts in between. The website StrangeSounds.org, which chronicles the incidents, has compiled a list of more than 150 videos of the audible weirdness. So what’s really causing the noise? The rumor-debunking website Snopes says that scientists point to natural causes, such as earthquakes, tidal waves, methane explosions and even shifting sand dunes, as the possible reasons for the aural oddities. David Hill, a U.S. Geological Survey scientist, said that small earthquakes below the surface can transmit sounds of the earth’s cracking crust. He also said that the emissions could come from meteors. Other theories include electrical power lines, electromagnetic radiation, high pressure gas lines, wireless communications devices, submarines ... Another had this to say: “I think people are so accustomed to hearing these sounds in their back yards ( I hear them in mine) they don't realize that this is not normal, it is the hidden machines being used to control the weather and sometimes to cause quakes. They are weapons hidden among us.” Other guesses include God’s trumpets, aliens, the slippage of the planet’s core and earth's growing pains. Some even point to HAARP, aka the U.S. government’s High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, a research program that analyzed the ionosphere with the aim to develop enhancement technologies for radio communication and surveillance. Conspiracy theorists claimed the program, which was shut down last year, was really an effort to control everything from the weather to people’s minds. - Fair Use- Well you could “pinch an inch”, “grab a slab”, “chuck a tuck”, “rub a tub”, or “kick a keg” :mdrmdr: :mdrmdr: :mdrmdr: there is advanced technology for sound now. maybe some of the sounds that were heard were projected from tech we don't know about. the tech we do, https://www.wired.com/2007/06/darpas-sonic-pr/ in 2003, I was at home with a friend visiting. we were in the kitchen when there was a huge blast sound, like a bomb or something really big. there was a wave of pressure that shook the house. it came from the north, back of the house through the kitchen. my friend and I felt it go over us. we thought the window would blow out. my husband was at work and it shook the 3 story building. People at his office thought an earthquake or something happened. they heard the sound and felt the pressure also. it was felt for miles around. the military, the emerg services, the province all said basically we don't know what you are talking about. nothing happened. there is nothing to investigate. press acted like people asking questions were being strange and the story was dropped. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/mysterious-blast-shakes-nanaimo/article1166212/ We aren't in the trib yet when overtly supernatural stuff is going to happen. God is able to get people's attention by Holy Spirit talking to them. While the present virus is spread around the world, thousands upon thousands have heard Holy Spirit and turned to Jesus. so because of that experience that happened to Nanaimo, i tend to think something else is going on with the weird sounds heard over various places, tending more to think it is a tech thing, man made. maybe sounds from the sky will be part of the great delusion. The Earth moans and groans in anticipation! But IMHO the Rapture is a personal and private moment with His beloved! We shall each here our own names be called. Just as He did with Lazerus! Showcasing His intimate feelings! TR Matthew 25:8 And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out. 9 But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves. 10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut. After the midnight cry, there is still time for the foolish virgins to act. Jesus uses buying the oil for example. I think I am correct, there is a time lapse between the virgins sensing rapture is near, and the trumpet call.
By Debbi Baker
Aug 24, 2016
The phenomena has been described variably as the blare of a trumpet, a groaning metallic sound, an airplane engine, a loud rumbling, even humming.
