Chapter Twenty-One/ Jehovah's Plagues on Christendom - A Star Has Falls From Heaven

"And a third angel blew his trumpet. And a great star burning as a lamp fell from heaven, and it fell upon a third of the rivers and upon the fountains of waters. And the name of the star is called Wormwood. And a third of the waters turned into wormwood, and many of the men died from the waters, because these had been made bitter." (Revelation 8:10, 11) Once again other parts of the Bible help us to see how with scripture applies in the Lord's day. 

We have already met the symbolism of a star in Jesus messages to the seven congregations, in which the seven stars symbolize the elders in the congregations." (Revelation 1:20) Anointed "stars" along with all others of the anointed, inhabited heavenly places in a spiritual sense from the time that they are sealed with the holy spirit as a token of their heavenly inheritance. (Ephesians2:6, 7) However, the apostle Paul warned that from among such starlike ones would become apostates, sectarians, who would mislead the flock. (Acts 20:29, 30) Such unfaithfulness would result in a great apostasy, and these fallen elders would come to make up a composite man of lawlessness that would elevate himself to a godlike position among mankind. (2 Thessalonian 2:3, 4) Paul's warning were fulfilled when the clergy of Christendom appeared on the world scene. This group is well represented by the symbol of "a great star burning as a lamp." 

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