And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.
The great trumpet shall be blown - image from the trumpets blown on the first day of the seventh month, to summon the people to a holy convocation (Leviticus 23:24). Antitypically, the Gospel trumpet (Revelation 11:15; Revelation 14:6), which the Jews shall hearken to in the last days (Zechariah 12:1-14:l0; 13:1). As the Passover in the first month corresponds to Christ's crucifixion, so the day of atonement and the idea of "salvation," connected with the Feast of Tabernacles in the same seventh month, answers to the crowning of 'redemption' at His second coming. It is in this sense that redemption is put last in 1 Corinthians 1:30.
They shall come which were ... in ... Assyria - where the Ten tribes had been carried: Babylonia is mainly meant, to which Assyria at that time belonged. The two tribes were restored, and some of the Ten accompanied them. However, "Assyria" is designedly used to point ultimately to the future restoration of the Ten tribes fully, which were long ago carried away by the Assyrian-a restoration never yet accomplished (Jeremiah 3:18).
Egypt - where many had fled at the Babylonian captivity (Jeremiah 41:17-18). Compare as to the future restoration, Isaiah 11:11-12; Isaiah 11:16; Isaiah 51:9-16 ('Rahab' being Egypt).
Remarks: Among the last enemies to be destroyed is Satan, "the old serpent." After the beast and the false prophet, though invested with all his energy, shall have been utterly overcome, the judgment of Yahweh falls by righteous consequence on the arch-enemy himself. With all his tortuous, windings and "crooked" devices, he cannot evade the "great and strong sword" of divine justice. His element has been "in the sea" of political and social agitations. But now the Prince of Peace is come, and all must be still. In that day the Church triumphant shall "sing" the thanksgiving hymn of perfected redemption, in honour of Him who 'kept' His vineyard "night and day" from all real and lasting "hurt." The Lord's "fury" shall have then been transferred from Israel, the "vineyard," to the godless foe, the "briers and thorns" which molested it. Now, as yet the alternative is offered to sinners, if they would have "peace" with God, that they should "take hold" of the "strength" of God, that is Jesus Christ.