Dear Sister
Kathi, I'll just give an excerpt from a study of Revelation I transcribed from CD's my friend Gene Hawkins taught, and Sister
digging is on the right track as to the bittering of the Living Water.
Revelation 8:10.
"And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters." Well this one is of easy interpretation and this is somewhat where we're going to see the time line as we get on into this book of Revelation because this great star is Satan himself, and when he falls that really signals a great deal of devastation that is going to come upon this world. We see the same star identified in Revelation 8:11 and 9:1, and you'll notice here that it was burning as it were a lamp and the way to interpret that is 2 Corinthians 11:14 because Satan has transferred himself into an angel of light and this is so interesting when we see the symbolism of it.
This great star fell upon a third part of the rivers and upon the fountains of waters, and I believe this is altogether symbolic because these rivers and these fountains speak of religious systems which should have been carrying the living water that Jesus spoke of in John 4:10.
"Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water." And then John 4:14,
"But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life". That's what Jesus told the woman at the well, and that's what these religious waters are supposed to have been. They should have been real channels of blessings but what has happened? Notice what it said here. This star fell down and anywhere Satan goes he is defiling. He has transformed himself into an angel of light and just what does it mean? It means that he has spoken that same deception. In John 8:44 Jesus said of the devil, "He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Satan has spread those same lies into the religious systems even in our day. Can you imagine what it's going to be when Satan is cast out of heaven and he's certainly not going to be reformed on the way down I'll tell you that. He's going to have such an influence on these rivers and on these waters, and so this angel of light will defile even more then than he is doing now. Now this deception we're talking about is going to continue to the ultimate deception, and that will be the ultimate deception of the antichrist. Rather than running after Christ men will be deceived into running after the antichrist, and the master of deception before him is going to be the false prophet. So this deception sets in big time whenever this great star falls from heaven here burning as this lamp and he literally defiles a third part of the rivers and upon the fountains of the waters. This is a fulfillment of what we see there in 2 Thessalonians 2:11.
"And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion." Now that principle is also true now, but this is speaking of this end time because they believe not the truth. When God throws Satan right into their midst, talk about sending them strong delusion; the delusioner himself becomes so defiling and deceptive and they indeed believe the lie.
Revelation 8:11.
"And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter." The name of the star is called "Wormwood" and the word simply means bitterness and Satan is the source of all bitterness. Notice further; the third part of the waters became wormwood and many men died of the waters because they were made bitter. We have said it again and again; bitterness will kill you and that's all there is to it. Christians can be bitter to the point that they are absolutely completely devoid of spiritual truth. It won't take your life but it will take any kind of increase in growth and maturity they could have. Well at this time many are going to die literally and spiritually because of these bitter waters.
