[Iscool]

I don’t see how you get one trumpet blown numerous times from “last trump”. You can’t have a “last trump” without previous trumps, and the fact that a specific event is said to occur at the same time as that “last trump” means that this trumpet must sound at one specific time, other than multiple times. If it was blown multiple times, then you would have to have multiple “raptures”, otherwise the prophecy is false. There’s really no logically getting around that.

But that's not what the scripture says, is it??? It says at the last trump...God may be blowing that trumpet for 3 weeks straight...He may be getting people's attention...But at that last trump, things happen...

[MHGinTN]

In one of the Feasts of Israel/Feasts of The Lord, the trumpet is blown 100 times and the last blowing is for as long as the blower can handle a breath.

[Boogieman]

Okay, but we have two parallel set of verses, both speaking of resurrections of believers, during the end of the world, at the return of Christ, both involving a set of trumpets, with the resurrection event happening at the time of the final trumpet.

I guess I’m just not seeing any good reason to believe they don’t refer to exactly the same event. It’s an unnecessary complication, because once you say the verses aren’t connected, then there must be two comings of Christ, two resurrections of believers, two sets of trumpets, etc, of which we don’t really find any evidence. Once an interpretation starts leading you through hoops like that, it’s usually a sign that you missed a much simpler interpretation that is more consistent.