MATTHEW 24:31 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”
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. The gathering of the elect from the four corners of the earth — the universal ingathering of the chosen — is the counterpart to the tribulation's scattering. The loud trumpet echo Isaiah 27:13 (a great trumpet will sound, and those who are perishing in Egypt will come and worship). The angels who gather the elect are the same reapers who separated the weeds from the wheat (Matthew 13:41–43).
Church Fathers on Matthew 24:31
Because He had spoken of mourning, which shall be only that they may bear witness against themselves and condemn themselves, that none should suppose that that mourning will end their woes, He now adds, 'And he shall send his Angels with a trump and a loud voice.'
Here we are not to think of a real trumpet, but of the voice of the archangel, which shall be so loud that at its sound all the dead shall rise out of the dust of the earth.
The sound of the trump refers to the resurrection, and the rejoicing, and to represent the astonishment which shall be then, and the woe of those that shall be left, and shall not be snatched up into the clouds.
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