Was That An Earthquake I Just Heard Or Did All the Graves Open Up?

739 Today's Prime Time Devo comes from 1Ki 1:35b-40, “and he shall come and sit on my throne, and he shall be king in my place. For I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and Judah." 36 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king and said, "Amen! May the LORD God of my lord the king say so too. 37 "As the LORD has been with my lord the king, even so may He be with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord King David." 38 So Zadok the priest, Nathan the prophet, Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the Cherethites, and the Pelethites went down and had Solomon ride on King David's mule, and took him to Gihon. 39 Then Zadok the priest took a horn of oil from the tabernacle and anointed Solomon. And they blew the horn, and all the people said, "Long live King Solomon!" 40 And all the people went up after him; and the people played the flutes and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth seemed to split with their sound. (1 Kings 1:35b-40) It is a great procession. Solomon is anointed as King, a trumpet sounds, and with shouts of acclamation, “Long live King Solomon,” he enters the city triumphantly. There is such a joyful noise that the earth seemed to split with the sound! This should immediately turn our thoughts to that Day when King Jesus will return It will be the earthquake to end all earthquakes! Re 16:17 Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, "It is done!" 18 And there were noises and thunderings and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men were on the earth. This earthquake is all part of the returning procession of King Jesus and all the departed saints! 1Th 4:16-18 says, “For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore comfort one another with these words. The trumpet will sound! The entourage of Jesus and the souls of all the saints who have passed before us will descend from heaven. The bodies of these saints being released from the graves and glorified with their souls as the earth “seems to split with the sound!” Oh what a day that will be! Comfort yourself with these sure words of the final Day that were foreshadowed by Solomon's grand entrance into his reign of glory!