Rev.
8:10 The third angel sounded, and a
great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of
the rivers and on the springs of waters.
11 The
name of the star is called Wormwood; and a third of the waters became wormwood,
and many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter.
Who sounded the trumpet?
(8:10)
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the
third angel
What happens after the third
trumpet is sounded? (8:10)
“.
. . a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch . . .” (8:10).
Upon what does the great star
fall from heaven, burning like a torch? (8:10).
“.
. . it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of waters” (8:10).
What is the name of the star
that fell from heaven, burning like a torch?
Wormwood
(8:11).
o ἀψίνθιον (apsinthon) “Wormwood” – “a plant of the genus ‘Artemisia’,
proverbially bitter to the taste, yielding a dark green oil (the rendering wormwood derives from its association
with medicinal use to kill intestinal worms)” (BDAG, 161).
o לַעֲנָה (la⁽anah)
“Wormwood” – “wormwood, bitterness” (HALOT, 533).
§ Deut. 29:18 so that there will not be
among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from
the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations; that there will
not be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.
§ Prov. 5:3-4 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey and
smoother than oil is her speech; but in the end she is bitter as wormwood,
sharp as a two-edged sword.
§ Jer. 9:15 therefore thus says the
LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, “behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood
and give them poisoned water to drink.
§ Jer. 23:15 “Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts
concerning the prophets, ‘Behold, I am going to feed them wormwood and
make them drink poisonous water, for from the prophets of Jerusalem pollution
has gone forth into all the land.’”
§ Lam. 3:15 He has filled me with bitterness, He has made
me drunk with wormwood.
§ Lam. 3:19 Remember my
affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and bitterness.
§ Amos 5:7 For those who turn justice into wormwood
and cast righteousness down to the earth.”
§ Amos 6:12 Do horses run on
rocks? Or does one plow them with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison
and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,
What happens to the waters
when the star called Wormwood falls from heaven, burning like a torch, on a
third of the rivers and on the springs of water?
1/3
of the waters became wormwood and they were made bitter (8:11).
What is the result of the
waters becoming wormwood, being made bitter? (8:11)
“.
. . many men died from the waters, because they were made bitter” (8:11).
What impresses you about the
third trumpet?
During
the present age, condemned sinners share the common grace of God’s provision
for saved sinners of life-sustaining resources. During the second half of the
Tribulation, God poisons the waters, the most essential element to the survival
of physical life. Humanity will experience their utter dependence on the God
Whom they rejected.
What do you learn about God
from Rev 8:10-11?
God
gives and God takes away. The Sustainer becomes the Destroyer during judgment.
How could this transform your
life?
Remember
to thank God for the living water that Jesus gives. We will never thirst again.
“Jesus answered and said to
her, ‘Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; but whoever drinks
of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will
give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life’” (John 4:13-14).
Father,
You are the Creator Who sustains the living.
And You are the Judge Who will destroy the condemned. In Jesus’ Name, I give
thanks for both physical and spiritual sustenance, for You are the source of
both. You provide fresh water to drink to support life. And You sent Jesus to
give of the living water that quenches our thirst forever and becomes in us a
well of water springing up to eternal life. Blessed is Your Name in all the
earth. Blessed is He Who comes in the Name of the LORD. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
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