The only issue I have is nothing tells us to count trumpets,
deduction tells us "the last trumpet" is the 7th, since there are only 7 trumpets ..
The Greek reads at the last sound of the trumpet the trumpet will sound, meaning that trumpets are blown in a series of sounds or in succession and at the end or last sound we are raised up.
the Greek reads ..
ἔσχατος eschatos = last
σάλπιγξ salpigx = trumpet
σαλπίζω salpizō = trumpet-blow
σαλπίζω salpizō = trumpet-blow
νεκρός nekros = dead
ἐγείρω egeirō = raised
which is translated: (at the) last trumpet trumpet-blow, (by the) trumpet-blow (the) dead (are) raised ..
This really does not denote a 7th Angelic trumpet, nor any scripture that points to the 7th angelic trumpet and with what Paul said.
deduction tells us "the last trumpet" is the 7th, since there are only 7 trumpets ..
Also the trumpet Paul mentions He calls the Trump of God, by an Archangel. Not the same as the ones that sound the events in Revelation.
Paul does NOT say an archangel blows the trumpet .. he says Jesus comes with the "shout of an archangel" AND with a trumpet-blow ..
1Th 4:16
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven, with a shout of the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
however indeed the "7 trumpets" are blown by "7 angels" according to God's will ..
Michael is mentioned in Dan 12 "At that time we are delivered" and a Archangel mentioned in Thess, but Michael name is not given, so it's an Assumption that it may be Michael at the same event of being delivered. Michael or any archangel is ever mentioned in connection with the 7 Angelic trumpets that sound events in Rev.
of course not .. NO ONE said Michael blew a trumpet ..
Hence Why I don't find the evidence conclusive to Paul's timing of trumpets with connection to Revelation because Trumpets just sound events, and they sound more than once depending on the type of warning or event.
and is why I do find the evidence conclusive to Paul's timing of trumpets with connection to the resurrection of the saints ..
To say the last trump means the 7th angelic trumpet, and not the last sound of the trumpet after it blows a series of sounds which is mostly understood, would be premature without something telling us different.
Rev 8:2 And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
what you miss is there are 7 angels blowing 7 trumpets .. not 1 angel blowing 7 times .. a series of trumpet blasts on the same trumpet is found no where in scripture .. it seems to me, that you are turning your head to the obvious ..
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