The Great Star Fallen from Heaven

1. At the sound of the third trumpet of Revelation, the following scene is presented: «The third angel sounded. And a great fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. And the name of the star is ; and a third of the waters became ; and many men died from the water, because it was made .» The Word of God will give us the keys we need to understand the symbolism of that trumpet.

2. In Bible prophecy, what does a star symbolize?
   A star, literally.
   An angel.
   A kingdom, a political power.
   A Church, a religious power.

3. In the third trumpet of Revelation, what does the «great star burning like a torch» represent?
   Satan.
   The Roman Empire.
   The apostate Church.
   A gigantic asteroid.

4. The book of Isaiah explains the circumstances which led Lucifer, a powerful angel of God whose name means «Bearer of Light», to become Satan, a name which means «Adversary», and to be driven out of heaven. The intentions of Lucifer are expressed in the following words: «I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north; I will ascend above the of the clouds, I will be the Most High.»

5. According to the Word of God, which event has definitively driven Satan out of heaven?
   The disobedience of Adam and Eve.
   The Flood.
   The birth of Jesus in Bethlehem.
   The death and resurrection of Jesus.

6. In the third trumpet of Revelation, what does wormwood poisoning the waters represent?
   The Roman Empire.
   False doctrines.
   Water pollution.
   The Roman persecution.

7. The book of Jeremiah helps us to understand the message of the third trumpet of Revelation, as God reveals the spiritual condition of His people: «My people have committed two evils: they have Me, the of living waters, and hewn themselves cisterns - cisterns that can hold no water.»

8. But Satan doesn't want people to have access to the fountain of living water. He aims to poison them with the waters he turned into wormwood. Jesus illustrates this fact, in the Gospel according to Luke, with the parable of the sower: «The seed is the of God. Those by the wayside are the ones who hear; then the comes and takes away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be .»

9. The third trumpet of Revelation perfectly confirms the message of the third letter, addressed to the church of Pergamos, and the third seal. In these three prophecies about the period from A.D. 313 to 538, what danger is threatening the Church?
   The severe persecutions of the Roman Empire.
   Lack of resources to proclaim the gospel.
   The Church's doctrinal compromises with surrounding paganism.
   Cold formalism that destroys the believers' ardor and zeal.

10. Finally, in the book of Deuteronomy, God gives the following warning, that is very relevant to the message of the third trumpet: « (...) so that there may not be among you man or woman or family or tribe, whose heart away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the of these nations, and that there may not be among you a root bearing bitterness or .»

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