>>>What difference does that make? When did it dry up?<<<
How do you know it was supposed to literally dry up?
Do you believe the beast will rise up out of the sea?
Do you believe a third part of the trees will burn up?
Do you believe all green grass will burn up?
Do you believe a great star, named Wormwood, will fall from heaven and contaminate a third part of the waters?
Please answer those questions.
Thanks,
Philip
Revelation 16:12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
Looks pretty clear to me. Sometimes allegory is obvious or symbolism is evident. Other times no symbolism or allegory need be applied.
>> Do you believe the beast will rise up out of the sea?<<
Revelation 17:15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
Where did you think the “sea of people” phrase came from?
>> Do you believe a third part of the trees will burn up?<<
Revelation 8:7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.
Looks rather clear to me.
>> Do you believe a great star, named Wormwood, will fall from heaven and contaminate a third part of the waters?<<
You really need to do a study of the references to wormwood in scripture. Deuteronomy 29:18-19, Proverb 5:3-5, Jeremiah 9:13-16, Jeremiah 23:14-16, Lamentations 3:14-16, Amos 5:6-8
Revelation 8:10 And the third angel sounded (blew it's trump, the sixth trump), and there fell a great star from heaven (Angels are called stars and there was no greater star than Satan), burning as it were a lamp (Trying to be "the light"), and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters; (As stated in Revelation 17:15 the waters are the people, the toungs and the nations. Not drinking water! The third part of the people were made spiritually dead, not physically dead.) 11 And the name of the star is called Wormwood (Wormwood is a Hebrew idiom for bitterness, also another name for Satan.): and the third part of the waters became wormwood (Again, after being exposed to Satan and his flood of lies it made the third part of the waters (people) bitter.); and many men died (spiritually) of the waters, because they were made bitter (deceived by Satan).
The Bible doesn't say in Revelation 8:11 that the people died because they were poisoned, but because they became bitter (wormwood), a spiritual death, not a physical death.