God's Contrabass Section
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:19 am
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Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:18 pm
So, in traditional Baroque keyboard pitch, that would be a B-natural? Golly, what are the chances of that?
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:49 pm
I think it's a little sharp. PAY ATTENTION, BACK THERE! 
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 2:51 am
I think the sound of the seventh trump at Christ's glorious return to earth will also be a Bb, and not just because most trumpets are pitched that way.
Matt 24:30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Matt 24:30 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:21 am
I have actually meditated long and hard about this subject, and I think the sound will be so glorious that no human band or orchestra ever come close to emulating the sound of God's final trumpets. That includes His trumpets of warning and His trumpets of joy at Christ's return.
God does describe the construction of His trumpets (Numbers 10:2). They will be silver and of hammered work, but that is all we have to go by, and of course, they were instructions for trumpets blown by human beings, not the horns of the angels (Revelation 8:1).
One might imagine the entire sky all around the world filled with hundreds of millions (Dan 7:10, Rev 5:11) of Chicago Symphony brass players (only they will be God's angels) performing a tune written by the Ever Living One himself (not John Williams). The entire world will hear His great trumpet (Joel 2:1), and the firstfruits of God will be rasied at the time of its blast.
Zechariah 9:14
Then the LORD will be seen over them, And His arrow will go forth like lightning. The Lord GOD will blow the trumpet, And go with whirlwinds from the south.
Isaiah 27:13
So it shall be in that day: The great trumpet will be blown; They will come, who are about to perish in the land of Assyria, And they who are outcasts in the land of Egypt, And shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
1 Corinthians 15:52
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1 Thessalonians 4:16
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
And of course everyone knows the famous verse that Handel used in his "Messiah".
Revelation 11:15
[ Seventh Trumpet: The Kingdom Proclaimed ] Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!â€
God does describe the construction of His trumpets (Numbers 10:2). They will be silver and of hammered work, but that is all we have to go by, and of course, they were instructions for trumpets blown by human beings, not the horns of the angels (Revelation 8:1).
One might imagine the entire sky all around the world filled with hundreds of millions (Dan 7:10, Rev 5:11) of Chicago Symphony brass players (only they will be God's angels) performing a tune written by the Ever Living One himself (not John Williams). The entire world will hear His great trumpet (Joel 2:1), and the firstfruits of God will be rasied at the time of its blast.
Zechariah 9:14
Then the LORD will be seen over them, And His arrow will go forth like lightning. The Lord GOD will blow the trumpet, And go with whirlwinds from the south.
Isaiah 27:13
So it shall be in that day: The great trumpet will be blown; They will come, who are about to perish in the land of Assyria, And they who are outcasts in the land of Egypt, And shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
1 Corinthians 15:52
in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1 Thessalonians 4:16
For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
And of course everyone knows the famous verse that Handel used in his "Messiah".
Revelation 11:15
[ Seventh Trumpet: The Kingdom Proclaimed ] Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!â€