HORN/TRUMPET

Definition:

A calling out, confession, a message/messenger.

Scripture:

• The Lord uses a trumpet as a representation of our voice.

Isaiah 58:1 (NKJV) “Cry aloud, spare not; Lift up your voice like a trumpet; Tell My people their transgression, And the house of Jacob their sins.

• Not lifting your horn is referred to as “not speaking.”

Psalms 75:5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

• Exalting the horn is referred to as the praise of God’s saints.

Psalms 148:14 (NKJV) And He has exalted the horn of His people, The praise of all His saints…

• A “horn being exalted” and the opening of the mouth is used back to back.

1 Samuel 2:1 (KJV) And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.

Lamentations 2:16-17 (KJV) All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth… and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

• Shouting and opening the mouth is used in association with “the horn” budding.

Psalms 132:16-17 (KJV) I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy. 17 There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.

Ezekiel 29:21 (KJV) In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the LORD.

• Messengers seem to be referred to as trumpets or horns — at the very least their voice. (It’s important to note that the word translated “angel” is always the word “messenger.” Angel is just an unfortunate translation.)

• For instance, Exodus 19 says that the law was given, not directly by the voice of God, but through the voice of a trumpet. It says that God answered “by a voice.” The New Testament explains explicitly that the law was given through angels, while Exodus says “the voice of a trumpet.” 

Exodus 19:16 (KJV) And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet [an angel/messenger] exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled. Verse 19)  And when the voice of the trumpetsounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.

Acts 7:53 (KJV) Who have received the law by the disposition of angels [messengers], and have not kept it.

• Here, the voice of an archangel is used together with “the trump of God.”

1 Thessalonians 4:16 (KJV) For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

• The word of the Lord is referred to as a sword (Hebrews 4:12, Ephesians 6:17). Also, light in our earthen vessels would represent the truth of God in our bodies (see Light and Vessel/Pot). When Gideon led Israel, the people shouted, “The sword of the Lord and of Gideon” as they blew a trumpet and pulled a lamp out from a jar, as if to say that the blowing of the trumpet and the lamp being manifest from the jar both represented “the sword (word) of the Lord.” 

Judges 7:20 (KJV) And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD [referring to the lamps and the trumpets], and of Gideon.

• Here, a trumpet, along with other instruments, are used by Paul as a comparison to speaking in different languages.

1 Corinthians 14:6-8 (KJV) Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine? 7 And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? 8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?

• Wrong thinking is represented by fortifications (see “Fortresses”). When we have a revelation of Jesus and wrong thinking is torn down in our mind, that will produce confession. Out of the abundance of our heart our mouth speaks. Therefore, in symbol, at the tearing down of the walls of Jericho (wrong thinking), there is blowing of trumpets and shouting to represent that a wrong thought is truly taken down in our mind at the point that our confession changes. At the point it comes out of our mouth, wrong thinking (the wall) has been torn down. And as it is with us, once the wall (wrong thinking) was torn down, accompanied with shouting and trumpets (confession), the people partook of their inheritance.

Joshua 6:5 (KJV) And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.

• The blowing of trumpets bears symbolism of how God’s people called out to Him in the Old Testament versus the New Testament. 
• When Israel was in war or being oppressed, God commands that trumpets be blown (representing the people calling out) as a reminder TO GOD to save them. This is like Old Testament prayers that were calling out, as reminder TO GOD, to bring salvation.
• Then it says that in the day of their gladness (when they are safe) they are supposed to blow trumpets (call out) OVER the burnt offerings and peace offerings (which represent Thanksgiving). These trumpets are to be a reminder, not to God, but to THE PEOPLE before the Lord. (as thanksgiving is a reminder to us of what Jesus has already done – Psalms 103:2). 
• When we were oppressed (before Jesus came), we called out as remembrance TO GOD to send Salvation, but now that we’ve been saved (after Jesus came), and the day of our gladness has come, we call out to the Lord in thanksgiving (burnt offerings) to remind OURSELVES that we’re already saved.

Numbers 10:9-10 (KJV) And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before THE LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies. 10 Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be TO YOU for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.