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Earlier this week as our Intercessory Team convened for an "Awake Georgia Conference Prayer Call", the Holy Spirit highlighted this passage out of Numbers 10 related to the "sounding of the silver trumpets." We sensed the Lord admonishing us to declare over the state that the SOUND TO ASSEMBLE and the SOUND TO BEGIN THE NEXT JOURNEY to ADVANCE THE KINGDOM would be heard across the State and even across the Region.
The Lord gave these instructions to the Children of Israel - to His covenant people, therefore to us who have been grafted in by faith - "as an ordinance forever throughout your generations." It was the Lord's provision of leadership to the Nation. There were times when the sound was only to leaders. Other times for the entire assembly. It was necessary for the sound of the trumpet to be understood and properly responded to by all. It was God's way of speaking to the collective assembly so that together they would do what He was speaking -- whether it was in moving locations during their journey across the wilderness, in going out against their enemy's in times of war, or in gladness and celebration over the appointed feasts, offerings, and sacrifices.
When Aaron, the high priests, and the priests blew the silver trumpets the people responded!
We believe that Jesus Christ, the Apostle and High Priest of our faith, has called for the sounding of the Silver Trumpets, and some of His appointed priests - apostles and leaders of this time - have joined Him in setting the Silver Trumpet to their lips to RELEASE THE SOUND of the Silver Trumpets across this state.
The first trumpet sounds to "gather before the tent of meeting." It is the Blast of the Trumpet calling us to come and hear what the Lord is speaking to us as a people, not just as individuals but as a company of people that are to move and advance according to His order and at His command. The sound is to GATHER TO MEET WITH THE LORD TOGETHER.
Secondly, the Blast of the Trumpet was to set those in the EAST and those in the SOUTH to BEGIN THEIR JOURNEY. Isn't it interesting that we are in the SOUTHEAST and that Atlanta is the gateway to the Southeast! Therefore, the Sounding of the Silver Trumpet at this time is for sending us out BEGIN THE NEXT JOURNEY TO ADVANCE THE KINGDOM. It is the sound of being the Ekklesia being sent (apostello) out as an apostolic people to bring the Culture of the Kingdom of God into this region.
I believe this is a word for the Church in this region that "The time is now - the trumpets are sounding - it is time to assemble and to shift into a new dimension of the apostolic order that the He intended from the beginning and to move forward as One People to advance."
Thirdly, there is a sense that the Blast of the Second Silver Trumpet is calling us to prepare for war. It is a sound of alarm to "rally together as the Army of the Lord" and to "heed the voice of the Commander in Chief" and to "hear the council of Lord through the Generals who are coming together here, even as the Joint Chiefs, to release strategies of wisdom and revelation that we might go out in strength for the battles that lie ahead."
Hear the sounding of the Silver Trumpets as a call to awaken to the summoning of the Captain of the Lord's hosts to rise up and come to attention to hear His commands.Hear the sounding of the Silver Trumpets calling for the Church - the Ekklesia to assemble together to hear the council of the Lord for the days head to align with the purposes of the Lord as His Ekklesia set into position and sent for to bring His Kingdom rule on earth -- in Georgia -- as it is in heaven.Hear the sounding of the Silver Trumpets signaling for the beginning of the journey required for the days ahead.Hear the sounding of the Silver Trumpets issuing forth an alarm to prepare for the warfare that lies ahead against the forces of darkness that are set against the advancement of the Kingdom of God.Hear the sounding of the Silver Trumpets. The time in now for the people of the Kingdom - the Ekklesia - to come together as one - to hear as one, to move as one, to obey as one.