Third Trumpet - Bitter Waters
The third trumpet results in a “great star” falling into the sources of freshwater and embittering them – Revelation 8:10-11. The third trumpet uses imagery from the first plague of Egypt that polluted the nation’s sources of freshwater. The “ Egyptians could not drink of the water of the river ” because it had turned “ into blood .” In the book of Revelation , the plague also kills the fish in rivers and streams, and it “ embitters ” a third of the earth’s drinking water.