God has warned His people throughout the bible before He acted.  God warned and instructed Noah before the flood came. Noah obeyed God’s instructions and was saved. God brought Lot out before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.  God has given His people, in our day, warnings and instructions about the devastation of the earth that is pictured by the Feast of Trumpets. God instructs us that we must be awake, be alert, and be prepared so that we can be accounted worthy to escape the devastation.