BLOW THE TRUMPET

BLOW THE TRUMPET

God told the prophet Joel to blow the trumpet. “Blow the trumpet in Zion, sound the alarm on my holy hill. Let all who live in the land tremble for the day of the Lord is coming. It is close at hand.” (Joel 2:1) NIV Where did God tell Joel to blow the trumpet? Joel was to blow the trumpet in Zion among the people of God. The trumpet was not to be blown in the world among wicked people. The trumpet being blown is a warning or wake up call for God’s people to repent.

King Ahab & Jezebel were two very wicked people.  When Jezebel became Ahab’s queen, she began a relentless campaign to rid Israel of all evidences of Jehovah worship. She even ordered the prophets of God to be killed. (1 Kings 18:4) NIV Ahab was a Jew, but he allowed Jezebel to bring the pagan religion of Baal into the land of Israel. Baal worship required human sacrifice of children. These innocent children were sacrificed by fire to the pagan god Moloch. This awful concept of killing children was totally alien to the mind and will of the living God. “They have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as offerings to Baal-----something I did not command or mention, nor did it ever enter my mind.” (Jeremiah 19:5) NIV God has never changed His mind. Ahab and Jezebel plunged Israel to new lows both spiritually and morally and judgment came upon the nation.

What is secular humanism? It is when a civilized society tries to function without God and His moral principles. If we look at America through our spiritual eyes we can see how this once great nation has gotten off track. Just like Ahab, we have stood by and allowed a ruthless campaign by un-godly people in America to remove God from our land and make a law that says it is legal to sacrifice our babies to the pagan god of secular humanism. God is no longer welcome in our schools, our government & public places. We have called right wrong and wrong right. We have substituted the wisdom of man for the wisdom of God.  The church has been asleep too long.  It is time for us to awake from our spiritual sleep, blow the trumpet and sound the alarm among God’s people. 

Throughout the Old Testament God used pagan countries to bring judgment on His people. The prophet aHabakkuk complained to God that He was silent in the midst of widespread idolatry and violence in the land of Judah.  God replied, that He was going to send the Babylonians through the land to plunder, steal and kill. (Habakkuk 1-5) NIV Habakkuk was shocked at this revelation. The fact that God would use a wicked, pagan nation against His own people seemed to shake the prophet’s faith to the core. However, his faith was actually strengthened with further revelation and he could rejoice in God no matter how much suffering lay along his path. (Habakkuk 3:16-19) NIV

Judgment delayed is not judgment denied. Just like Habakkuk we may be asking why God seems to be silent. Many Bible scholars believe America will be judged because no nation has turned away so much light in order to choose darkness. Jesus said, “From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be required.”(Luke 12:48) NIV Our greatest gift to this country is to return to the Biblical principles of the Bible.