When we talk about the “last trump” in 1 Corinthians 15, there’s often a leap to connect it to the Seventh Trumpet in Revelation 11, as though Paul had this in mind while writing to the Corinthians.

But here’s the problem with that: Paul wrote his letter to the Corinthians around AD 53, while John received the Revelation of the Seven Trumpets roughly 40 years later, during his exile on the island of Patmos in AD 95.

Imagine if someone in 2025 is watching an old Monty Python skit about SPAM and thinks they’re referring to spam emails. We all know that back in 1980, SPAM had nothing to do with the junk cluttering our inboxes, it was just salty, delicious canned meat. This is the mistake people are making by retroactively applying the Seventh Trumpet to Paul’s earlier reference.

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