![]() ![]() John is likely talking about a Sunday when this trumpet sound was heard by him. And we could say that for us as believers in Him every day is a Lord ’s day. No matter what situations we are facing we can live in the Holy Spirit and honor the Lord ’s day. Let us make note of these two important pieces of information. He made sure his mind and heart were available to the move of God. ![]() The Revelation he would record in writing came to him first while he was “in the Spirit on the Lord ’s day.” Living by the leading of the Spirit and according to established worship patterns, John put himself in position to hear from the Lord. The Roman authorities banished him to the Isle of Patmos, which was sort of an Alcatraz-like chunk of land positioned in the Aegean Sea off the coast near the city of Ephesus in what is now part of modern Turkey.ĭid these circumstances stop John from following after the Lord? They did not. They flooded the scene with an ocean of Truth. His words, John wrote, poured forth from Him. Jesus spoke and what He said could not be ignored. It cuts through the air and arrests our attention, like the sound of the horn blown by an ambulance or fire truck on its way to an emergency. The sound of a trumpet is a sound that pierces the atmosphere. In Revelation 1, the visions communicated to John reveal the aged Apostle hearing “a great voice, as of a trumpet” and as “the sound of many waters” (Revelation 1:10, 14). These words were sounded out loudly and in waves. Jesus uses these words toward the end of our Bibles, in the early part of the book of Revelation. If we listen to and read the things Jesus said about who He is, this can help us to discover Him as ever faithful and ever true. And it’s something we need to grasp perhaps now more than ever. He let this be known in certain terms, lest some fall for deceptions that lead to misunderstanding and disaster. When He talked of His identity, Jesus spoke with clarity and definition - always. The message was this: Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God there is none like Him. The placing of “the” is indicative and points out the specific and exclusive nature of the subject. This article is one of limitation, a narrowing word in its work as a modifier. Notice the use of the definite article “the” before some of these words. These were words Jesus used to describe Himself. ![]()
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