I just heard a ‘mid-Acts’ preacher say tonight that the seventh trump will blow for the ENTIRE 3-1/2 YEARS of the last half of Daniel’s 70th week.
Could anyone show me the VERSE that teaches that?
If so, please e-mail magnifiedword@aol.com.
If not, don’t believe the ‘mid-Acts-ers’.
Instead, trust the word of GOD.
Rom 4:3-a For what saith the scripture?
In his futile attempt to deny that ‘the last trump’ of 1 Cor 15:52 is the same as the last of seven trumpets to blow in Rev 10:7, he used the old argument I’ve heard from the ‘teaching elder’ many times before, who preaches that the trumps can’t be the same because 1 Cor 15:52 blows in an instant, and Rev 10:7 blows over an extended period of time.
However, when the verses are examined, notice that it is our ‘change’ that will occur in a moment --- not the trump sound. Our physical bodies will ‘change’ into glorified bodies in a split-second .... when the last trump sounds:
1 Cor 15:51-52 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
We will not all be dead then. Some saints will have survived and escaped the world-wide massive killing:
Rev 13:15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
Rev 10:7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
While it is true that the phrase "in the days of" specifically describes 3-1/2 years in another passage in Rev 11:3-6 (which the preacher did not even mention), during the prophecy of the 2 witnesses .... that does not mean that "in the days of" MUST ALWAYS BE 3-1/2 years time span .... as can be seen by all the other 83 times the phrase is written in the scripture.
If the ‘mid-Acts’ method of handling the phrase "in the days of" was applied to another verse, it would mean that Jesus was not born on ‘a single day’ .... but over a period of YEARS when Herod was king:
Matt 2:1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
The preacher threw caution to the wind to say that the 7th angel is going to blow his trump for a whole 3-1/2 years.
This is David Dowell, saying, "Think about it!"
