Numbers 10:1 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps. 3 And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. 4 And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee. 5 When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward. 6 When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys. 7 But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm. 8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations. 9 And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies. 10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.
As those of you who have read Revelation at the end of the Bible
are aware, trumpets will play a special significance in the end times. Although
only two here will use two trumpets in Solomon’s time that number had grown to
one hundred and twenty showing a command can be turned into ritual excess.
After all, if two are good then a hundred and twenty must be sixty times as
good, right?
2Chronicles
5:12 Also the Levites which were the
singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their
brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and
harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty
priests sounding with trumpets:)
These silver trumpets accomplish two main purposes; one to call
assemblies and one to send the camps on their march. We should be careful in
making these trumpets signify our evangelism efforts as the purpose here is
clearly explained. They were also used to announce offerings as a remembrance
that Jehovah LORD was their God. Note the trumpet’s use during Jubilee in
Leviticus 25.
Leviticus
25:9 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.
God’s
voice is like a trumpet to the hearer in places.
Revelation 1:10 I
was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great 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.
The
prophets’ voices of conviction were likened to trumpets.
Isaiah
58:1 Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy
voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of
Jacob their sins.
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