The Abomination of Desolation - St. Marys Coptic Orthodox Church

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became blood; And the third part of the creatures which were in the
sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.”
(Rev 8:8-9)
I was watching the news one day in March 1989, the tanker
EXXON VALDEZ was shown spilling oil in the Gulf of Alaska. The
whole sea was covered with the red crude and thousands of dead fish
were floating on the surface. The moment I saw this, Revelation 8
immediately came into my mind! Here is what TIME magazine reports
about pollution of our seas:
The life-support functions of earth’s oceans are burdened with oil
ballast and other wastes dumped overboard from millions of
motorized vessels and pollution flowing from the land and air into
the sea, along with millions of tons of hard trash. Oil spills are
among the most obvious forms of pollution. 1
No one can deny that oil spills and other forms of pollution are
depleting the seas from fish. Cod is disappearing from Canada’s east
coast and salmon from the west coast. The recent closures of the
fisheries in Atlantic Canada, and the ongoing quarrel with the U.S.A.
about salmon fishing are indications that the second trumpet may have
sounded already!
THE THIRD TRUMPET:
“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; 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.” (Rev
8:10) Again, here we can make a case for pollution of rivers and springs.
According to the United Nations, in 1995, 20% of the world population
had no access to clean drinking water.
Rivers and streams that run through human settlements are
increasingly contaminated with pesticides from agriculture,
industrial waste from manufacturing plants and, of course, untreated
1 Time Magazine: Special Report, November 1997