Gabriel's Trumpet

Overview

According to Biblical sources, the arrival of the end times will be signaled by the blowing of a great and thunderous horn, the trumpet of the Archangel Gabriel. Insightful scholars among the Faithful point out that it needn't actually be Gabriel himself who blows the trumpet, merely that it be his trumpet that is blown. Because of this, it is the object and not the owner that is truly important.

According to the Gospel of Laodice, the Lord specifically bade the hoary archangel to leave his trumpet behind when returning to Heaven the last time he visited Earth after appearing to the prophet Muhammad in the early seventh century, if the text is to be trusted. The purpose behind this is still the subject of considerable debate, but most agree that the trumpet itself does indeed exist. Some Faithful believe that God wanted the dawn of the End Times to be left in the hands of mortals, while others maintain that since the truth of the matter was revealed specifically to the Faithful, that it is they who are destined to locate the trumpet. Given its prescience on the subject, Laodice is said to believe the latter to be the case — that God Himself expects (or wants) the Faithful to be ones who shall signal the call to Apocalypse.

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