There's a great preacher of the past, he's one of my favorite preachers. His name is J. Frank Norris.
You ever heard of J. Frank Norris? Great preacher from the past.
Boy, a powerful preacher. Independent fundamental Baptist.
He had a great sermon called "The Second Coming of Christ."
Let me read for you what he says in this.
"What shall I do? One of these nights," he says, "you'll hear the trumpet of God sound. You won't ask what it is."
He said, "I don't believe in a secret rapture."
See, this guy knows what he's talking about. This is a good guy.
He says, "I don't believe in a secret rapture."
The great trumpet, Isaiah says, shall be sounded.
The trumpet of God shall be sounded and it will be heard the world around.
The trumpet will be heard in the graveyard where the flowers are withered.
He said, "The dead in Christ shall rise first."
He said, "I go back whenever I can to my mother's grave, not because she's there,
but as a sweet association and as I look upon that little moss-covered tombstone,
I think about this," he said, "so also is the resurrection of the dead.
It is sown in corruption. It is raised in incorruption.
For this corruptible must put on incorruption. This mortal must put on immortality."
He's listing these verses that he thought about when he visited his mother's tombstone.
"And as we are born in the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
And that's what's going to happen," he said, "when the trump of God shall sound.
When Christ comes and the trumpet is sounded, every cannon in the world will be silenced."
is during World War II. I think it was 1942 that this sermon is from.