Revelation 8:11

The name of the star is Wormwood.  A third of the waters became wormwood, and many men died from the water, because it was made bitter.

• ·        Wormwood is a very bitter substance, and proverbial for bitterness and sadness.

• ·        The proportion of ecological disaster stays the same. In each one of the trumpets, a third of an ecological system is destroyed in judgment.

Ruth 1:20  But she said to them, “Do not call me Naomi, call me Mara, for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.

Jeremiah 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 water of gall to drink.

Revelation 8:10

Then 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 water.

• ·        A great burning star will fall from heaven. This meteoric mass will poison the fresh water (rivers and springs) causing the inland fresh water supply to be contaminated.

• ·        This parallels the third bowl, which will poison the fresh water by turning it to blood (Rev. 16:4-7), and the first plague, which destroyed the water supply in the lakes and springs when the Nile turned to blood.

Isaiah 14;12  How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!  How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations.

Zechariah 12:6  In that day I will make the governors of Judah like a firepan in the woodpile, and like a fiery torch in the sheaves; they shall devour all the surrounding peoples on the right hand and on the left, but Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place – Jerusalem.

Revelation 8:9

And a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

• ·        The souls of men found their ruin where they sought for their refreshment (MH)

• ·        God may use whatever method He desires to bring judgment, but people on earth know these events are from God, and do not think them to be merely natural disasters (Revelation 16:9; 16:11; 19:19). (DG)

Psalm 89:25 Also I will set his hand over the sea, and his right hand over the rivers.

Psalm 48:7  As when You break the ships of Tarshish with an east wind