The Power of the Air Horn!*

Many are familiar with the scripture phrase “the prince of the power of the air” as referring to Satan,¹ which was the phrase that immediately came to mind when pastor Charlotte Quist² spoke of the truckers' convoy and of its reminder for her of God's use of sound in several dramatic events:

• the great shouting of Joshua and the people as the priests blew the seven trumpets at the fall of the walls of Jericho³;
• David waiting to hear the sound of marching in the treetops before commencing battle against the Philistines⁴;
• Gideon and his 300 being directed to break pitchers holding lights and to shout in the middle watch of the night to terrify the sleeping, warrior hosts of the east.⁵

For pastor Quist, the honking of the convoy had a prophetic sound:

Whatever your personal feelings about the freedom convoy taking place in Canada right now, the prophetic nature of the SOUND that has come from the movement and the prophetic message for CANADA that is tied to it should not be ignored. / Canada is called to be and to bring healing to the nations, a prophetic word for Canada inspired by Revelation 22:2 "And the leaves of the tree will be for the healing of the nations."

What a thought-provoking insight considering the global response to the Canadian Freedom Convoy 2022.

I thought of all those horns pummeling the air like trumpets — sounds so distressing to the “prince of the air” that those reminiscent echoes could not be tolerated. And so, those who do not know, or perhaps who do not care whom they serve in this historic event have forbidden their sounding in Ottawa, but elsewhere, worldwide, they are sounding. We are hearing “the sound of a shaken leaf.”⁶

Evil is no longer leashed or hiding. Its face is bared for all the world to see. As Jesus foretold:

10 The thief^[7] cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.⁸

So, however things appear, however the powers maneuver, they cannot prevail. They expose and defeat themselves in their frenzy, rage, hypocrisy, and pride. We do what is in our power and leave the rest to God. We take the way of peace, integrity, and love. The blood-stained battles of Joshua, David, Gideon, and others are in the past. Ours is the way of Christ, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and others who, instead of shedding blood, gave their blood in pursuit of peace and justice. We pray it does not come to that for us — that our willingness will be counted as enough.

But in the words of Viktor Frankl:

“A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes— within the limits of endowment and environment— he has made out of himself. In the concentration camps, for example, in this living laboratory and on this testing ground, we watched and witnessed some of our comrades behave like swine while others behaved like saints. Man has both potentialities within himself; which one is actualized depends on decisions but not on conditions.”⁹

Let us Hold On.¹⁰

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*An air horn is a pneumatic device designed to create an extremely loud noise for signaling purposes. It usually consists of a source which produces compressed air, which passes into a horn through a reed or diaphragm. The stream of air causes the reed or diaphragm to vibrate, creating sound waves, then the horn amplifies the sound making it louder. Air horns are widely employed as vehicle horns, installed on large buses, semi-trailer trucks, fire trucks, trains, and some ambulances as a warning device, and on ships as a signaling device. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_horn

1. New Testament | Ephesians 2:2 (Bold emphasis added.)
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
2. God is saying THIS about Canada 2022 | Have you heard the prophetic sound? (Victory Church GP | Pastor Charlotte Quist | Feb. 3, 2022 | Time 18:57) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O6x9JuXlnA
3. Old Testament | Joshua 6:2-5, 20
2 And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour.
3 And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him. ...
20 So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
4. Old Testament | 2 Samuel 5:22–24; also 1 Chronicles 14:15
22 ¶ And the Philistines came up yet again, and spread themselves in the valley of Rephaim.
23 And when David enquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.
24 And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the LORD go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.
5. Old Testament | Judges 7:12, 17-21
12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like grasshoppers for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand by the sea side for multitude. ...
17 And [Gideon] said unto his [300 warriors], Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do.
18 When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
19 ¶ So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands.
20 And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.
21 And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled.
6. Old Testament | Leviticus 26:36
36 And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth. 

7. E.g., those who have co-opted GoFundMe and now GiveSendGo.
8. New Testament | John 10:10
9. Frankl, Viktor E.. Man's Search for Meaning (pp. 133-134). Beacon Press. Kindle Edition. (Bold emphasis added.)
10. https://dejavu-timestwo.blogspot.com/2022/01/hold-on.html

Other reference to SOUND (Bold emphasis added):
Old Testament | Leviticus 25:9
9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
Old Testament | Numbers 10:9
9 And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.
Old Testament | 2 Chronicles 5:13
13 It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;
Old Testament | Psalms 150:3
3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. Old Testament | Ezekiel 33:2 - 7
2 Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
4 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.
6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.
7 So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.
Old Testament | Joel 2:1-2
1 BLOW ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
2 A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.
New Testament | Matthew 24:31
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
New Testament | 1 Corinthians 14:8
8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
New Testament | Revelation 8:6
6 And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

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