The Trumpet


Jennifer Perkins

    Having been raised in West Texas in a Christian family, conversations of the end times and the rapture happened often.  They always intrigued me. One day, while visiting my sister, we sat at her kitchen table drinking coffee. Suddenly we heard a noise that sounded like a trumpet.  It got louder and louder.  I looked at her and said, "When the rapture comes, isn't there supposed to be the sound of a trumpet to announce the return of Christ?" 

     After a moment of awkward silence, my sister got up.  She went to the living room where earlier she had been ironing. When she unplugged the iron, immediately the sound stopped. Laughing she said, "That did sound like a horn.  It was just my worn-out iron.  I've needed to get a new one for a long time.  Can you imagine what it would have been like if it had been the rapture?"


The Trumpet

Daily, an old woman sat by the side of the road.

She had lost her youth, and on her face, it showed.

At dusk, she went home and was no longer there.

No one paid her any mind, nor did they care.

Until one day, when she didn't appear at her spot.

People became interested whether they wanted to or not.

Along with many others, she had suddenly just disappeared.

Perhaps something bad had happen like most people feared?

When they searched her house, they found a note.

It read, "1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 are verses I quote.

Often, I sit by the road not expecting a ride.

I'm there to tell others what's waiting on the other side.

The day will come when a trumpet will be heard.

Christians will rise to meet God according to His word.

So, if you're reading this, don't be sad for me.

For I'm in Heaven with Jesus, happy and free."

                                                  Patricia Westbrook  

"For the Lord 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. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord," (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17, NKJ).






        



 


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