i READ THAT TRADITION SAYS THAT gabriel Will sound the LAST TRUMPET WHEN THE END COMES.
WHO WHO IN THE BIBLE,READERS DIGEST.
Has WT GOT THE WRONG ARCHANGEL?
by badboy 6 Replies latest jw friends
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Leolaia
The simple answer to your question is that in Jewish-Christian apocalyptic literature, there are several trumpets that the different archangels have. Of these, it is not clear exactly which angel blasts which trumpet. In Revelation 8-11, there are seven trumpets belonging to seven different angels that are blown -- but none of them are associated with the resurrection or judgment. Instead, the resurrection and judgment are mentioned in Revelation 20 as occurring without trumpet blasts. Other apocryphal writings mention trumpet blasts but not necessarily those associated with the resurrection; for instance, in the third-century A.D. Gospel of Bartholomew 4:12, Jesus at his resurrection beckons on Michael the Archangel to sound his trumpet of authority which causes an earthquake and ascent of Beliar from Tartarus being held captive by 666 angels with fiery chains (motifs from this story, incidentally, was later incorporated into the Quran). And there are many angels and archangels mentioned in Jewish traditions which could be identified as trumpeteers: 1 Enoch 20:1-7 names the archangels as Suru'el, Raphael, Uriel, Michael, Saraqa'el, and Gabriel, and Remuel. Tobit 12:15 also assumes about seven archangels which could possibly be related to the seven angels with trumpets in Revelation.
In Matthew 24:31, the gathering of the elect is supposed to occur with "the angels with a loud trumpet call," in 1 Corinthians 15:52 the resurrection occurs "in a twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet," 1 Thessalonians 4:16 mentions the resurrection occuring "with the voice of an archangel and the trumpet call of God." Similarly the first-century A.D. apocalypse in the Didache mentions "first the sign of an opening in heaven, then a sign of the sound of a trumpet, and third, the resurrection of the dead" (Didache 16:6). According to later Catholic tradition, Gabriel is thought to be the angel that blows the Last Trumpet. This might be based on Jewish tradition which viewed Gabriel as the one who blew the trumpet that announced the judgment of Adam:
After that we heard the angel Gabriel blowing a trumpet and summoning all the angels and saying to them, "Thus says the Lord, 'Come to me so that I may descend to the Garden with you, and listen to my judgment with which I shall judge Adam.' " When we heard the sound of the angel's trumpet, we knew that God was about to come to the Garden to judge us. (Pentinence of Our Forefather Adam 44.22.1-2)
This is reminiscent of the Last Trumpet being blown on the great Day of Judgement. Still later Islamic tradition viewed Israfel, the angel of music, as the one who blows the Last Trumpet, while Gabriel was the one who gives the Quran to Mohammad.
Leolaia
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badboy
wHO WAS BELIAR?
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Frannie Banannie
ARCHangel = highest angel
There can be only one.
Don't make me pull yall's fingers!
Frannie B
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Leolaia
Beliar = Satan.
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Leolaia
The word "archangel" does not imply that there was only one, any more than "archbishop" means that there is only one archbishop. The term means "chief angel" and the use of the term outside the NT shows clearly that the term carries no such exclusive implication in Greek.
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badboy
Thanks 4 the clarification,Leolaia