The continual association of trumpets with sacrifices, therefore, indicates that the blowing of trumpets was associated with the cross in New Testament thought. The blowing of the trumpets signified that the great sacrifice was complete.1 Since that is the case, the trumpets seem intended by the author to cover the period from the cross to the second coming, the entire Christian era.2 The trumpets portray the general judgments of God over the whole Christian age. The trumpets,