Trumpet Number Three: Repent, Only God Controls the Water of Life
Revelation 8:10-11 (NKJV) 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. 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.
Nearly every form of life on Earth is water-dependent since most living things are water-based. Humans are especially so, with a huge percentage of our bodies being water. Without water, life withers, dries up, crumbles, and returns to dust.
Water connects, communicates, and controls so much of life as we know it. God designed our bodies and all other creatures, organisms, and plants to be water-dependent. God controls life and the water that sustains it.
The rivers will run with deadly poison; the wells will become springs of death; the lakes and reservoirs will be filled with toxic waters. People will be able to survive, for a time, the destruction of food supplies caused by the first two trumpet judgments, living off stored provisions. However, people cannot survive without fresh water, and the loss of a significant portion of the world’s freshwater supply will cause widespread death.
To an already water-impoverished planet, this trumpet is catastrophic. God sends a comet, meteorite, or asteroid (the word here, lampas, was used for both meteors and comets in Greek and Roman times). The blazing object poisons a third of the freshwater. So desperate is humanity, and so deadly is the poison that the God who speaks just truth plus no exaggeration says “many.”
Mankind refuses the One who said He is the only supplier of the water of life. So God introduces Himself by cutting off the water we so desperately need to live.
So, as many lay dying in a dehydration stupor, they cry for God as their Savior, and He responds to their faith. The multitudes saved from this time, show many heed God’s call to repent.
(ROK-27)
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