So you think the trumpet is the zeitgeist. That's a little different, but that's what I'm looking for... different views on what the trumpet is.
Do you know of a second witness from the bible that supports your idea?
It's not the zeitgeist. Remember first that we battle not flesh and blood, but powers and principalities. That means what we THINK is wrong or right by appearances. Take again or system of money. No matter who comes or goes, that principality is still dominant. It was set up long before we got here and has ruled over the thoughts of men since iniquity.
What that boils down to is that if you take a child that knows neither good nor evil, and place him in a poor environment, he will act according to that environment. If you were born in a rich environment, you will act rich.
This is what the bible is about when you understand that first, it was not written in your present day language, and therefore the meaning is coded, and for good reason.
If the mighty men fully understood what the bible was saying, they would NEVER have given the people a copy.
In the story in Revelation, you read of 10 kings that have given their collective power to the beast.
The 10 kings are the 10 nations of Israel that are lost, due to these powers and principalities who are of one mind. That is where the power comes from, the mind and will of a person.
Again if our collective mind REALLY wanted to stop gun violence, we would stop making and selling guns.
Even in Genesis, we find this coded in the words. The sons of God came into the daughters of men.
The sons of God are us before we get entangled in the affairs of how the world works. One man or woman over time grows up in their environment and becomes a Christian. Another man or woman grows to be a Muslim. Both influenced by their environments used as a help meet (daughters of men). This produce mighty men or the Nephelim.
Again using money as an example, when someone came up with the idea of bartering. There were men by reason of circumstance and environment who were better and more profitable than others. This produced what we see as value in those that became rich by these ideas of men.
This is how these very same people were found AFTER the flood. It was only Noah and his family. Say barter ended with the flood. But someone on that boat carried the IDEA with them and started over with it.