Tell City Nazarene Church's Biblical Journey
With Pastor Charles Areson
Today's reading is Joel 2-3 and Amos 1-2
“Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the
alarm on my holy hill. Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the
LORD is coming. It is close at hand—" Joel 2:1
There is a chorus which I sang a lot in the late 1980’s and 90’s,
it was called blow the trumpet in Zion. It talked about God’s great army who
was going to carry out his word. It is an upbeat song which can get you excited.
After the song, we would blow our shofars, ram’s horns, and it felt great.
The scripture it was derived from was Joel 2. The problem with this
scripture is it has nothing to do with Israel or the church. It has to do with
the destruction coming on Israel. The blowing of the trumpet was a warning to
Israel not the charge of God’s victorious army.
Does this mean I won’t sing this song again? No, it’s a cool tune
and God’s army be they a band of locust or the church can do whatever God has
called them to do. However, (I seem to use that word a lot) we need to realize
when we hear the horn blow or whatever God uses to get our attention, we need
to understand what it means for us. We need to ask, it this a warning or a call
to action.
Image by Jake Roxen
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