are changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye (again 1 Cor. 15:52). The trumpet-blast, in this connection, is certainly very fitting. In the old dispensation, when God “came down,” as it were, to meet with his people, this meeting was announced by a trumpet-blast (e.g, Ex. 19:16, 17: “and the sound of a trumpet exceeding loud … and Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God”; cf. Ex. 19:19). Hence, when the marriage of the Lamb with his bride reaches its culmination (cf. Rev. 19:7),