He will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his chosen people from the north, south, east, and west—from one end of the sky to the other.
The Lord himself will come down from heaven shouting a command, with the voice of the chief angel, and with a blast from God’s trumpet. Then those who believed in Christ but have already died will rise first.
That will happen in a flash, as quickly as you can blink an eye. It will happen at the blast of the last trumpet. Then the dead will be raised to live forever, and we will be changed.
After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth. They were holding back the four winds of the earth and keeping them from blowing on the land or the sea or on any tree.
But I ask, “Didn’t the people of Israel hear?” Of course they did. It is written, “Their voice has gone out into the whole earth, their words from one end of the world to the other.”
The seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven. They said, “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Messiah, and he will rule for ever and ever.”
and his followers will preach in his name. They will tell others to turn away from their sins and be forgiven. People from every nation will hear about this, beginning in Jerusalem.
The seven stars you saw in my right hand have a hidden meaning, and so do the seven golden lampstands. The stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the lampstands you saw are the seven churches.
or to a loud trumpet blast, or to the voice of God speaking to you. When the Israelites heard that voice long ago, they begged it not to say anything more to them.