® ® JULY–AUG 2016 | VOLUME 28 ISSUE 4 “Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet.” Isaiah 58:1 Not of This Revelation Series Hiding Places World 6th Seal k Trumpet PAGE 5 PAGE 7 PAGE 11 EDITORIAL What a tremendous privilege to be a child of God and to be enjoying the blessedness of walking in the light of His holy Word. Herein is life, and that more abundant, in- deed! It is no small miracle to be delivered from the power of darkness; from the blindness of mind Satan once had us under. The eyes of our understanding have now been en- lightened by the powerful grace of God. To be awakened is a divine work. And now, as partakers of so great a deliverance, we increasingly feel a weight of responsibility to rescue as INDEX many as we can who are yet held captive by Satan. Oh, for the passion and the wisdom to pull souls from the fire! Not of This World 5 The Holy Ghost enflamed this burden through mes- sages preached at our recent international camp meeting, The Seven Seals and Seven Trumpets and the saints responded with ready minds and willing of Revelation: A Series 7 spirits. May God teach us as never before how to number our days, for they are counting down to the Final Day of Hiding Places 11 Judgment. The harvest must be hastened in. We rejoice to see how God has been on the move and souls are being saved, yet long to see multitudes more Ten Questions for Our Detractors 12 being reached and rescued, both out of the world and out of the cages of false religion. Indeed, more people would Armageddon News 13 be finding real Bible salvation were it not for the curse of false religion that is overflowing the earth! Sectism is The Gospel Trumpet Publishing Co. marching souls along the broad way that leads to destruc- is registered as a charitable organization in the USA. tion. May God grant divine enablement to intercept their Please request a tax receipt for donations, if so desired. march before it is too late. sm This work is supported through free-will offerings. TESTIMONIES & LETTERS God Has so Much Grace for Me kill the soul, so full of things that drain me, lived through a miserable summer of won- Praise the Lord! I am so thankful that and often times I cry deep inside, saying dering whether I was saved or not. Finally I have found the church of God and that I I am nearly drained–where can I find the coming to the conclusion that I wasn’t, I didn’t stay in Babylon. Oh glory! I am so fountains of living water? Praise the Lord! tried to figure out how salvation worked glad that I could be made free from sin as I can find it in Christ and through His be- and how I could get a hold of it. we read in 1 John 3:9. “Whosoever is born loved church. I thank God that on a Tuesday in Octo- of God doth not commit sin; for his seed re- The Gospel Trumpet radio is an en- ber of the same year, when I was willing to maineth in him: and he cannot sin, because couragement to the saints in the world who give everything up, I went to my mom that he is born of God.” are very far away during times where they evening and told her I wanted to be saved. And I am so thankful that I can be a need to work. God bless the work of His So we prayed together. I thank God that child of God at such a young age and that precious saints! Bro. Rio Carandang somehow, somewhere in my feeble little God has so much grace for me. I am so very Philippines prayer that He had mercy and reached down thankful!! Sis. Susana Martens (Age 16) and lifted that heavy weight of guilt and sin Bolivia Absolutely Real and Lasting from my soul. I remember getting up after “Could I sing out the pleasures in my that prayer feeling as light as a feather and Source of Consolation and Strength bosom, How my heart thrills with glory in thinking that no one in the world could tell Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, the way, All the world would no longer in me that I hadn’t gotten the real thing. I praise the Lord that the preaching and the desert stay, but to my Jesus come and I’m thankful that it didn’t end there, singing of the saints reach us here in the even today.” What a glorious experience! but that salvation just gets sweeter and Philippines through the Gospel Trumpet Sometimes I feel like if many people knew richer. It’s going on seven years since I got radio app. A few days ago I installed this the joy I was experiencing they wouldn’t saved, and though it was glorious when app in my Android phone and it has really keep doing what they’re doing. I’m thank- that happened and Jesus was sweet to me been helpful. The preaching and the sing- ful that in a world where it seems like ev- then, I must confess that it’s more glorious ing are very encouraging and a source of erything is fake, there’s still something that now and Jesus just keeps getting sweeter consolation and strength. It feels like I am exists that is absolutely real and lasting. and sweeter to me all the time. also there. When we met the saints seven years I love this holy way and am deter- In this evil world, where there is the ago, I was so ignorant: I had hardly ever mined to get all the Lord has for me. busy-ness of life in the city, the things of heard of the term “saved,” let alone know Bro. John Byler (Age 19) the world, the distractions–the Lord has what it meant. But I’m so glad that through Indiana, USA provided a refuge, the church of God. the preaching God kept dealing with me. There are times I think of being with I’m so glad God not only saves those I Have a Wonderful Friend in Jesus the saints seven days a week, but it is im- who come from drug houses, bar rooms, Glory to His name! I am so glad that I possible. It is only the seventh day that I can and night clubs, and those who’ve actually am part of His glorious church. I was very be with the saints in Tarlac and sometimes done a lot of evil things, but that He can bad when I was not saved. Now, I am so I still miss the meetings. But when I listen also save those who appear good to others, glad that I don’t have to be part of this sin- to Gospel Trumpet radio, I am encouraged. yet whose hearts and minds are desperately ful world. I have a wonderful Friend in Je- I sing along when I hear the singing. I also wicked, and the only reason they didn’t do sus. I want to serve the Lord in my whole say amen to the preaching, but many times a lot of bad things was because they either life. I love the church of God’s true mes- I weep because the messages are strong didn’t have the opportunity, or didn’t want sage. Please pray for me so that I can serve and life-giving so that it seems my thirst is to look bad. the Lord and give all my life to His work. quenched. There is life! This world is full After our first Ohio camp meeting in Sis. Ruth Tamang (Age 18) of death! This world is full of things that 2009, the Lord kept dealing with me, and I Nepal THE GOSPEL TRUMPET 3 The Gospel Trumpet Publishing Co. Anti-Denominational Holiness Paper Editor-in-Chief: Sis. Susan Mutch German Dept.: Sis. Doreen Tovstiga Russian Dept.: Bro. Waldemar Anselm This definite, radical, anti-sectarian holiness paper is published in the name of the Lord for the edification of the church of God. Its mission is to point souls to full salva- tion through Christ and to expose the errors of spiritual Babylon (false religion). 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