Will do my best. = )
For starters...
The matter in question involves [considering the following]:
1) "the
LAST [G2078] trumpet" (what occurs with this?);
2) the "
SEVEN Trumpets" (unfolding "judgments" upon the earth--via 7 "ANGELS" who sound them... and note how the term "MIGHTY" angels is used elsewhere in Scripture,
besides 2Th1:7-10);
3)
"GREAT" trumpet (
Matt24:29-31 / Isa27:12,13,9--note WHO, and IN WHAT MANNER, and TO WHERE, and BY WHOM [these] are gathered, and to what end/purpose)
So, re: "the
last [G2078] trump/trumpet"...
The question is, must this mean the LAST
EVER??
Or can the
"7 [judgment] Trumpets" take place
after that one (which 7 Trumpets have nothing to do with "the Church which is His body")?
And can the
"GREAT" trumpet (
Matt24:29-31 / Isa27:12-13,9 which gathers the elect of Israel to one place upon the earth, namely "to worship the Lord in the holy mount,
AT JERUSALEM") take place
after both of those mentions
(both of those, meaning,
(1) "last [G2078]" which calls the Church His Body--for the "change"/glorification--at which time we are "SNATCHED-UP [G726]"),
and (2) "[set-of] 7" which are
judgments unfolding upon the earth within the "in quickness [noun]" time period, aka the commonly-called "the Trib" yrs)
In view of the above, CONSIDER:
...another / different Greek word that is also translated "last":
"Then
last of all [G5305--one word in Grk]" he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
G5305 (
husteron/hysteron) as used
in Matt21:37 "last of all" (kjv)... used also in:
--
Prov5:4 LXX - "Her
END [G5305 LXX..." -
https://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/pro/5/4/p0/t_concl_633004
(the next verse reflects same, by saying, "her feet go down to death"... I mean, she ain't doing nothing else after that, that was "THE
END" of her, see ['the
LAST of her,' as the saying goes])
If
this ^ were the word that was used, one might begin to have a more convincing case... but it's not.
So, 1Th4:16 says,
"Because THE LORD HIMSELF
in shout of command
in voice of archangel
and in trumpet of God [see OT in a passage where "the Lord [
'ăḏōnāy-H136] God" is said to blow the trumpet... see also "Lord [H136]"
used 10x in Daniel 9 (as well as Dan1:2, 1x - "And the Lord [H136] gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his [Neb's--v.1] hand...")... ]
WILL DESCEND"
[the next verse describing
our "SNATCH-UP [G726]" TO the MEETING OF THE LORD in the air... Recalling earlier in this epistle, 1:10 saying, "the
One delivering US out-from
THE WRATH COMING"... IOW, Paul does not merely refer to this event
ONCE, in the
well-known / oft-quoted ONE VERSE 1Th4:17, but something like 8-10 TIMES in his two Thess epistles!... not to mention his other epistles...]
I have another couple of points regarding this issue (noted at bottom)... but don't want to make this posts as long as any of Paul's epistles, or anything. Haha. Perhaps I can come back and post one of those at a time / one point per post... we shall see...
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[note, if I can get to it]
the next points regarding:
--
Numbers 10:1-5 (2 trumpets blown in certain patterns for certain PURPOSES),
Numbers 1 ("24 names" coupled, of the "LEADERS / HEADS"... and concerning also "the SUM OF ALL the congregation..." and "thou and Aaron shall number them [those of certain 'age'] by their ARMIES" etc etc...)
--"
the voice the FIRST that I heard
like a trumpet" referring BACK to the one John had
previously heard speak
in Rev1:10-11 (the One identifying Himself as "[I AM] the
FIRST and the
LAST")