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CHAPTER 5: BURNING TORCH- 3 Trumpet

Giacobini-Zinner
Haumea

October 2394 Early in the month, the star burning as a torch high in the heavens

All previous heavenly events in the skies were given as signs or wonders. The third angel is describing the
judgment as a heavenly scene. This is the first of the judgments describing a heavenly occurrence that doesn’t
need to be interpreted as a symbol. It brings with it pollution of the waters on the earth. The burning like a torch
is seen high above the heavens early in the month. It initially appears not as a threat to the inhabitants of the
earth. Notice it appears as a “great star” falling. Is it going to collide into the dwarf planet of Haumea in our solar
system? Is this a reminder of the coming judgment prior to it impacting the earth?

Revelation 8:10 “The third angel sounded, and a great star fell from heaven, burning like a torch, and it
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fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of waters.”

By the way, this is not in agreement with Biblical scholars who see this symbolizing “the star fallen from heaven” as a
“chief minister.” It is important to understand that the scripture doesn’t use the words of “similar or like” to
describe this event except in describing the falling star as “like” a burning torch. This falling star can be clearly
seen on earth for all who look up into the heavens to observe. Let us take a look at Jamieson’s commentary on
the third judgment - the falling star that burns like a torch.

The symbolizers interpret the star fallen from heaven as a chief minister (ARIUS, according to BULLINGER, BENGEL, and others;
or some future false teacher, as is more likely, the event be still future) falling from his high place in the Church, and instead of
shining with heavenly light as a star, becoming a torch lit with earthly fire and smoldering with smoke. ALFORD gives as an
illustration in a physical point of view, the conversion of water into firewater or ardent spirits, which may yet go on to destroy even as
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many as a third of the ungodly in the latter days.

55 New American Standard Bible : 1995 update. 1995 (Re 8:10). LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

56 Jamieson, R., Fausset, A. R., Fausset, A. R., Brown, D., & Brown, D. (1997). A commentary, critical and explanatory, on the Old and
New Testaments (Re 8:11). Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc.