Seventh Trumpet Raptue Battle of Jericho

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The Battle of Jericho Predicted the Seventh Trumpet Rapture

Prophetic types and parables

A prophetic type in the Hebrew Scriptures is a kind of historical parable of what will happen in the future; hidden revelations of the promised Messiah and of all the events, players and meanings of His first and second comings.

“To you has been given the mystery of the kingdom of God, but those who are outside get everything in parables.” Mark 4:11.

“And through the prophets I gave parables.” Hosea 12:10.

Parables and prophetic types hide the mysteries of God from the world and reveal them to believers through the Holy Spirit.

“But we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery... the wisdom which none of the rulers of this age has understood…For to us God revealed them through the Spirit.” I Corinthians 2:7-10.

A Biblical parable has three primary purposes:

1. To hide a mystery

2. To reveal a mystery

3. To explain a mystery

The New Testament is full of references to prophetic types from the Hebrew Scriptures that reveal and explain the mysteries of Christ: Jonah’s story as a picture of the death and resurrection of Jesus, the Passover as a picture of Jesus the Lamb of God, Melchizedek as a picture of Jesus our High Priest, David as a picture of Jesus the eternal King, and the days of Lot as a picture of the Last Days.

The prophetic types in the Hebrew Scriptures can be a treasure chest of revelation to explain and confirm many of the mysteries of Last Days prophecy. They are also a powerful way to settle disagreements over important Last Days doctrines such as the timing of the Rapture and whether the Church will be here during the Tribulation. The deeper meanings of prophetic events can also be understood more clearly through these symbolic pictures. They go a long way to answer not just what will happen but why they must happen as they will.

The Battle of Jericho: a perfect picture of the Tribulation

Over fourteen hundred years before John wrote the book of Revelation, the famous battle of Jericho took place in Israel. The account of this battle in the book of Joshua is a prophetic parable that pictures the Seven Seals and Seven Trumpets of Revelation in perfect parallel.

After wandering for 40 years in the desert, the nation of Israel is poised on the banks of the Jordan River to enter into the Promised Land. The fortress of Jericho is the first obstacle they must face before they can begin their conquest of Canaan. Joshua sends two men to spy out the city. A prostitute named Rahab hides the two from the king of Jericho in her inn that sits on the wall. Before they make their escape, they tell Rahab to hang a red cord from her window so the Israelites will know not to harm her and her family when the city falls.

God tells Joshua to have the priests march around the city with the Ark of the Covenant once a day for six days, blowing trumpets on each march. He also instructs them to march around the city seven times on the seventh day, blowing trumpets each time as well. When the seventh trumpet is sounded on the seventh day, the people give a shout and the walls of Jericho fall down. The city is then put to the sword and Joshua sends the two spies back in to escort Rahab and her family safely out.

Joshua: a prophetic type of Christ

Joshua is what is known as a Messianic type. This is a person in the Hebrew Scriptures who is in some ways, a prophetic picture of Jesus Christ. Some of the better known Messianic types of the Hebrew Scriptures are Isaac, Joseph, Moses, David, and even Jonah. Stories from these men’s lives often foreshadowed some aspects of the future Messiah’s life, of His first or second coming.

Joshua foreshadows Christ who will conquer the Promised Land for Israel when He returns. Jericho is a type of the kingdom of the world under the reign of satan. The seven marches of the battle of Jericho picture the seven seals described in Revelation. Just as Jericho is encircled seven times on the seventh day, with seven trumpets sounded each time, seven trumpets will sound during the Seventh Seal of the Tribulation. When the Seventh and last Trumpet is sounded at the end of the Tribulation, the kingdom of the world will become the Kingdom of the Lord and His Christ (Revelation 11:15).

“At the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, ‘Shout! For the Lord has given you the city...’ And when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout and the wall fell down flat... Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, ‘Go into the harlot's house and bring the woman and all she has out of there..."” Joshua 6:16-22.

Rahab, a prophetic type of the Church

Rahab is a gentile bride type, which is a gentile woman in Israel’s history who comes to faith in the God of Israel and marries a man who is a type of the Messiah. When Rebecca marries Isaac, she became a type of the Gentile Bride, the Church; the same as the Egyptian Asenath who married Joseph, the Midianite Zipporah who married Moses and the Moabite Ruth who married Boaz. At the seventh trumpet on the seventh day when the walls of Jericho fall down with a shout, the city became Israel’s, and Rahab is taken safely out just as the Lord Jesus will descend with a shout of the archangel at the last trumpet to rapture the Church (I Thessalonians 4:15-17). Any believer who cares to examine this story fully and objectively as a prophetic type of the Rapture can arrive at only one conclusion: It clearly illustrates a Seventh Trumpet Rapture of the Church and destroys the pre-Tribulation rapture theory.

The story of Rahab is clear Biblical proof of the Seventh Trumpet Rapture

We could probably stop here with this book, because what other proof do we need of a Seventh Trumpet, post-Tribulation rapture of the Church? But for those who demand even more Biblical evidence, they certainly can be obliged, because there is so much more in the Scriptures that builds an overwhelming case.

Giving prophetic types short shrift

It is ironic that some Darbyists actually point to this story as evidence for a pre-Tribulation rapture. They insist that because Rahab was taken out before the destruction of Jericho, that shows the Church will be taken out of the world before the Tribulation. They correctly understand the story as a metaphor for the Tribulation period, but seem oblivious to the meaning of the fact that Rahab is not taken out until after the seventh trumpet on the seventh day. They rarely, if ever, mention this, a classic case of cherry picking. If the battle of Jericho were a prophetic picture of a pre-Tribulation rapture, Rahab would have to be taken out before the seven marches even began. When studying prophetic types, the key to understanding them is often in the details. The details of the entire prophetic picture must be considered, and nothing should be deliberately ignored or capriciously thrown out because it doesn’t fit some ill-conceived theory. We all make mistakes but some mistakes may prove to be extremely costly some day if not corrected soon enough.

A summary of the prophetic types of the battle of Jericho

1. Joshua is a type of Jesus

2. Rahab is a type of the Church

3. Jericho is a type of the Kingdom of the World under the beast

4. The battle of Jericho is a type of the Tribulation

5. The seven marches and the seven trumpets on the seventh day are a type of the Seven Seals and Seven Trumpets of Revelation

6. Rahab’s escort out of the city after the seventh trumpet and the shout is a type of the Seventh Trumpet Rapture of the Church at Christ’s return

7. The destruction of Jericho is a type of the Seven Bowls of God’s Wrath on the Day of the Lord

The Scriptures make it clear that the Rapture will occur at the Last Trumpet at the end of the seven year Tribulation

“Behold I tell you a mystery, we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.” I Corinthians 15:51

The Seventh Trumpet of Revelation 11 is the last trumpet in all the Bible. Unless the rapture happens at the Seventh Trumpet, it cannot honestly be described as a Last Trumpet event.

“But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, then the mystery of God (Christ and the Church) is finished, (no longer a mystery because every eye will see the Coming/Rapture) as He preached to His servants the prophets.” Revelation 10:7.

What the story of the battle of Jericho can tell us about the Rapture and Second Coming:

The rapture of the Church will happen at the Seventh Trumpet when Christ returns after the Seven Seals at the end of the seven year Tribulation. The Church will be here during the entire Tribulation but will be gathered up before the Seven Bowls of God’s Wrath are poured out on the Day of the Lord.

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