What the sound of the “trumpet” means to you? Dread or relish?
For some people, the trumpet foretold ominous happenings:
• Amo 3:6 -> “Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the LORD has done it?”.
For other people, this was sign of happiness:
• Ps 89:15 -> “Blessed are the people who know the festal shout, who walk, O LORD, in the light of your face,”.
Perhaps you are asking: “what has something to do with the other one? This festal shout was the trumpet of the jubilee, which announced the year of the liberty:
• Lev 25:9,10 -> “Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.”.
For those who impoverished and lost their properties, or even their freedom, this was the opportunity to recover. On the other hand, for those who became lord over them, regrettably, this was seen as a sad time, a loss.
Of course, the correct would be the rich get elated for the new chance given to their poor brethren, but many of them only value financial profits. Many rich men won’t desire to give up on part of their possession. And the Creator warned about this:
• Deu 15:9 -> “Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the LORD against you, and you be guilty of sin.”.
In the first case, although the use of the trumpet was being related to the warning about a baleful and impending war, this could be seen by other point of view:
• Eze 33:2-6 -> “Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: if when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.”.
They could see this as an occasion to duck out of suffering or death. Although the occasion was terrible, but the sound of the trumpet itself was a reason for joy in virtue of existing someone interested in warning them.
And about this sound of the trumpet?
• Num 10:3 -> “And when thou shalt sound the trumpets, all the multitude shall gather unto thee to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant.”.
Is it a reason for joy (as in Ps 122:1) or for despondency (as in Malachi 1:13)?
So, have a good day facing all the “trumpets” (warnings) of the Creator as a blessing, an opportunity to minister something good.
For some people, the trumpet foretold ominous happenings:
• Amo 3:6 -> “Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the LORD has done it?”.
For other people, this was sign of happiness:
• Ps 89:15 -> “Blessed are the people who know the festal shout, who walk, O LORD, in the light of your face,”.
Perhaps you are asking: “what has something to do with the other one? This festal shout was the trumpet of the jubilee, which announced the year of the liberty:
• Lev 25:9,10 -> “Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.”.
For those who impoverished and lost their properties, or even their freedom, this was the opportunity to recover. On the other hand, for those who became lord over them, regrettably, this was seen as a sad time, a loss.
Of course, the correct would be the rich get elated for the new chance given to their poor brethren, but many of them only value financial profits. Many rich men won’t desire to give up on part of their possession. And the Creator warned about this:
• Deu 15:9 -> “Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the LORD against you, and you be guilty of sin.”.
In the first case, although the use of the trumpet was being related to the warning about a baleful and impending war, this could be seen by other point of view:
• Eze 33:2-6 -> “Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: if when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.”.
They could see this as an occasion to duck out of suffering or death. Although the occasion was terrible, but the sound of the trumpet itself was a reason for joy in virtue of existing someone interested in warning them.
And about this sound of the trumpet?
• Num 10:3 -> “And when thou shalt sound the trumpets, all the multitude shall gather unto thee to the door of the tabernacle of the covenant.”.
Is it a reason for joy (as in Ps 122:1) or for despondency (as in Malachi 1:13)?
So, have a good day facing all the “trumpets” (warnings) of the Creator as a blessing, an opportunity to minister something good.