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Why did I name this web site the Clarion Call? There was an occasion
where God told me to sound the clarion. I knew a clarion was a brass
musical instrument, but that is all I knew.I looked it up in
the dictionary. The definition was a medieval trumpet with clear,
shrill tones. Trumpets were often used to get people's attention for
making announcements. (In the Bible trumpet calls were associated
with the calling of a holy assembly, a warning of danger, or the arrival of
a king.)
God wanted me to sound the clarion. At the time He told me that it
was in reference to some things He wanted
me to share with someone who was in a leadership position. Yet, He
has continued to urge me to stress how time is short and people are not
allowing Him to get close and have a personal relationship with them.
A clarion has
clear tones. A dictionary calls it "brilliantly clear". God wanted me to make sure I made things very clear.
The clarion's tones were shrill. God let me know that often the
things He wants people to know sound shrill in their ears because they
don't want to hear them. Sure enough, the
things God had me pass on were shrill in the ears of the person for whom
the message was intended. What was given was rejected.
So, if God wants
you to sound the clarion then you need to sound it. Make the message
clear. Make sure that it is not you, but GOD, giving the message in
the way He wants it given. Then be ready because the message may just
sound shrill in the hearer's ears. If the message is rejected that is
between the hearer and the Lord.
After all, it doesn't help to shoot the messenger, right? |
“For if the trumpet give an
uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?”
1Cor 14:8
Thank you Joshua Davis for sending me this verse!
Again, it is important that the message be
clear and given in the way God wants it given. Would it be clear if
your opinions are included? Would it be clear if your emotions were
included?
I took a lot of time away from the Clarion Call. My life was being
interrupted with things that were drawing me away from being able to know
what was God and what was me. I felt no leading to read my Bible.
I did not feel equipped to minister here.
The one thing I did do regularly is listen to as much Christian music as I
could. The other thing I did was try to find a church that would
provide the match to light the flame that had been extinguished.
Unfortunately that was not easy. But, I am back and ready to sound the
clarion again! |
A woman named Brenetia
has this explanation for a clarion call:
"I understand it to be a clear urgency in the spirit to move and to act with
haste. The clarion was an loud, shrill instrument that signaled time to go
into battle. A clarion call is such a call, but coming from the core of
one's spirit to move out of complacency, procrastination, doubt, fear, and
limitations to MOVE and CONQUER for the kingdom!
"For instance, I have been given the clarion call that this year broken
spirits must be ushered to the cross. I don't have a choice in moving where
God says move, when He says move. There is something so POWERFUL about this
year.
"There is an urgency that if God has laid a vision in the spirit, it must
come to pass!! The clarion call is loud and urgent for the anointed of God." |
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MORE ABOUT
THE CLARION
The ancient
Egyptians had short, straight silver trumpets for war. The Greeks used a
trumpet for the Olympics called the salpinx. The Romans used an instrument
called a lituus which was straight with a curved bell.
Trumpets called buzines and clarions were found in post-Roman Europe. The
buzine was a long straight tube. The clarion was a smaller, shorter tube
with a bend.
The zigzag method of folding the tube first was developed in the
16th century. That was the principle from which modern trumpets are made.
There were three species of trumpets by 1511. They were the clarion, the
military trumpet, and the Thurner horn. The clarion was later used in
orchestras.Keys and tone holes for trumpets were developed in the 17th
century. Valve mechanisms were then developed and applied to the
instrument. Valves were patented in 1818 by the German brass players
Heinrich Stölzel and Friedrich Bluhmel in the early 19th century. Those
changes made trumpets more versatile and enabled performers to play in
tune with a larger range of notes. Slide trumpets were also invented but
were not used. The more developed trumpet replaced the clarion in the
orchestra and, as a result, we no longer have any clarions in use. |
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Another source
says this about the clarion:
In the Middle Ages, "clarion" was a noun, the name for a trumpet that could
play a melody in clear, shrill tones. The noun has since been used for the
sound of a trumpet or a similar sound.
By the early 1800s, English speakers
had also started using the word as an adjective for things that ring as
clear as the call of a well-played trumpet.
Not surprisingly, "clarion"
ultimately derives (via the Medieval Latin "clario-") from "clarus," which
is the Latin word for "clear." In addition, "clarus" gave English speakers
"clarify," "clarity," "declare" ("to make clearly known"), and "clear"
itself. |
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CLARIONS
AND THE BIBLE
The word "clarion"
does not appear in the Bible. The Bible only mentions trumpets.
In Numbers 10:1-2
God told Moses to make trumpets out of silver. The Strong's
Concordance shows this for trumpet:
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Chatsots@rah (khats-o-tser-aw')
Noun Feminine, Strong #2689
trumpet |
In my Bible dictionary it says:
Jewish historian Josephus has
described the trumpet as a straight tube, "a little less than a cubit
(around 20") long," its mouthpiece wide and its body expanding into a
bell-like ending. The form of the trumpet is still preserved on the
Jewish coins of the latter part of the period of the second temple.
When, in A.D. 70 the Romans erected an arch for Emperor Titus after his
conquest of Jerusalem, they depicted on it his triumphant return to Rome
with the holy objects robbed from the temple, among them a trumpet, which
corresponds exactly to the description of Josephus. |
King Tutankhamun's tomb contained two musical instruments which could very
well have been what a clarion looked and sounded like. They were from
the year 1323. They are the oldest ever found.
You Tube has a fascinating story about the clarions and actually lets you
hear the sounds they make. It is a 14 minute video. The sounds are at
the very end. Click on the angel.
Here's another video which goes directly to the sounds at the end.
Click on the angel.
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