you took bits and pieces out of verses, and not the whole verse, a misquote in my bookDavid505 said:highwic said:David505 said:Revelation 8 may authenticate the appalling spectacle of an intercontinental nuclear exchange. In this regard, John compares the conflagration to “hail and fire mingled with blood (Rev. 8:7); a great mountain burning with fire (Rev. 8:8); [and] a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp (Rev. 8:10).†In fact, the fusion reaction is the same process that powers the stars. After a nuclear strike, weather systems distribute radionuclide derivatives throughout the environment contaminating the ecosystem’s air, soil, ocean, and freshwater supplies. “Wormwood†is from the Greek apsinthos (Strong 894), with reference to the bitter herb, Artemisia absinthium. In antiquity, folk preparations of the plant’s oily extract alleviated digestive ailments, fever, and infection. Wormwood–based concoctions also enhanced the potent liqueur, absinthe. Alternatively, an overdose of the active ingredients, santonin and thujone, elicits disturbed vision, tremor, and convulsion. The plant’s insecticidal properties benefit gardens. In scripture, wormwood evokes the mordant recompense of idolatry and infidelity: “Her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two–edged sword (Prov. 5:4).†In John’s context, wormwood is synonymous with “bitter†from the Greek pikraino (Strong 4087), meaning to make bitter, or to embitter in an abstract sense of piercing; for example, as the sharply acute calamity of poison rivers and springs: “many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter (Rev. 8: 11).†You can click the following links to learn about the devastating potential of nuclear weaponry:
http://www.nuclearfiles.org
http://www.atomicarchive.com
dont bother miss quoting bible versus to me
Rev 8 v7 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.
all the worlds grass burnt up and a third of the trees and you think a nuclear exchange. get serious
it is the super heated methane atmosphere of Wormwood mixing with Earths
Rev 8 v 8 says And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was
cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
that description clearly indicates a meteor or asteroid type thing hitting an ocean
Rev 8 v 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.
And the NAME of the STAR is called WORMWOOD
Thanks highwic, although I’m certain I did not misquote scripture.
Regarding “get seriousâ€â€¦
Consider the following assessments of the 1954 fifteen-megaton Castle–Bravo nuclear device detonated at Bikini Atoll:
“The Bravo crater in the atoll reef had a diameter of 6510 ft, with a depth of 250 ft. Within one minute the mushroom cloud had reached 50,000 feet (15 km), breaking 100,000 feet (30 km) two minutes later. The cloud top rose and peaked at 130,000 feet (almost 40 km) after only six minutes. Eight minutes after the test the cloud had reached its full dimensions with a diameter of 100 km, a stem 7 km thick, and a cloud bottom rising above 55,000 feet (16.5 km).†[1]
“The entire Bikini Atoll was contaminated to varying degrees and plans for conducting test operations from the islands, including use of the firing bunker, had to be abandoned. All further Castle tests were controlled by radio link from the USS Estes.†[2]
“After this test the exclusion zone around the Castle tests was increased to 570,000 square miles, a circle 850 miles across (for comparison this is equal to about 1% of the entire Earth's land area).†[3]
“There are currently about 31,000 nuclear warheads deployed or in reserve in the stockpiles of eight countries…Of these about 13,000 are deployed and 4,600 of these are on high alert, i.e. ready to be launched within minutes notice. The combined explosive yield of these weapons is approximately 5,000 megatons…†[4]
[1] http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Castle.html
[2] Ibid.
[3] Ibid.
[4] http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-is ... kpiles.htm
and to ramble on about bitter herbs when the verse specifically refers to a STAR makes you wrong again. Face it Wormwood is a brown dwarf STAR and it will destroy this year.