According to full preterists, what is the historical basis for viewing the last trumpet call as a historical fact that has already been fulfilled?
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Different passages in the Bible shed light on the events that would unfold at the signal of the last trumpet call:
1 Corinthians 15:50-58 (ESV):
> 50 I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 **Behold! I tell you a mystery**. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 **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 shall be changed. 53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:
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> “Death is swallowed up in victory.” 55 “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”
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> 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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> 58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 (ESV):
> 13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. 14 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. 15 For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For the **Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God**. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.
Matthew 24:29-31 (ESV):
> 29 “Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 **Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory**. 31 And he will send out his angels **with a loud trumpet call**, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Revelations 1:7-10 (ESV):
> 7 **Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him**, even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail[b] on account of him. Even so. Amen.
8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
9 I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the patient endurance that are in Jesus, was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus. 10 I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, **and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet**
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These passages can be summarized as a list of events that would take place at the signal of the last trumpet call. The list below is courtesy of @Dottard's [answer to a question](https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/a/59717/38524) on the hermeneutics site:
1. It signals the resurrection of the dead
2. It is the time when Jesus gathers all the elect from the entire earth
3. The resurrection will mean that the righteous will get imperishable bodies
4. The righteous are resurrected and meet the Lord in the air along with the living righteous
5. This occurs when the Son of Man appears "on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory" (Matt 24:30)
6. This follows some other dramatic events such as the darkening of the sun and moon and falling stars (Matt 24:29). Compare Rev 6:12-14.
7. According to Rev 1:7, when the Son of Man comes in the clouds, "every eye will see him" - made possible by the resurrection.
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**Question**: According to full preterists, when and where did the last trumpet call take place? What is the historical basis for viewing the last trumpet call and associated events as historical facts that have already been fulfilled?
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May 3, 2021, 02:29 AM
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