What are the three trumpet sounds that will be heard before the coming of the Savior?
Gramps, Could you please explain in detail, along with your opinion of the three trumpet sounds before Christ’s coming? I realize it will not be all at once, but I’m also sure it will be a scary thing even for the saints who are living righteously. In your opinion, when do you think the first will occur? Donna, from Indiana Dear Donna, The three trumpet sounds mentioned in Revelations 8:13 are the last of seven trumpet sounds described by John. The sounding of the seven trumpets is also described in Doctrine and Covenants 88:92-110. That these two accounts describe the same events is apparent by their common elements- silence in heaven for the space of half an hour (Revelations 8:1; Doctrine and Covenants 88:95), and there shall be time no longer (Revelations 10:6; Doctrine and Covenants 88:10). As is apparent from the Doctrine and Covenants accounts, these trumpets shall sound at the conclusion of— the testimony of the voice of thunderings, and the voice of lightnings, and the voice o
