What Wormwood means (COVID19 implications)

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What Wormwood means

(COVID 19 implications)

By MBPSTB

Saturday, 1 August, 2020

Sabbath

 

Most scholars, preachers and students lean toward the star Wormwood as mentioned in Revelation to mean an actual literal celestial object such as a meteor or asteroid which will fall into the waters. And so the mindset is in place.

 

A lot of the scriptures can be allegorical (as defined by the definition in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary):

Allegorical:

2 : Having hidden spiritual meaning transcending the literal sense of a sacred text.

 

In this same dictionary we find some interesting meanings connected with the following words:

 

Wormwood, Gall, Choler, Rancor, Tannin, Enmity

 

GALL:

Has several definitions that appear to fit the current global crisis called COVID 19.

Greek – chole, cholos, gall, wrath

1

1. Bile obtained from an animal used in arts or medicine.
2. something bitter to endure
3. bitterness of spirit – RANCOR

2

1. A skin sore caused by chronic irritation
2. A cause or state of exasperation

 

3

1. To fret and wear away by friction
2. IRRITATE, VEX
3. SEIZE

 

4

1. A swelling of plant tissue usually due to fungus or other parasites sometimes forming an important source of TANNIN

 

RANCOR:

Bitter deep seated ill will, see ENMITY

 

TANNIN:

1

            Of various soluble astringent complex phenolic substances of plant origin used also in medicine. (see Greek word “Pharmakiea” [aka SORCERY, DRUGS])

 

CHOLER:

Connected to CHOLERIC: easily moved to anger, hot tempered, angry, irate

 

Connected to bile which is connected to the word “gall”.

 

IRASCIBILITY – (this one has a huge definition of which would accurately describe how everyone is feeling being forced to wear masks and socially distance and/or isolate and quarantine)

 

Hot temper, easily provoked anger. Testy, touchy, cranky, easily angered with slight provocation. CHOLERIC may suggest impatient excitability and unreasonableness in addition to hot temper; TESTY over small annoyances; TOUCHY as in undue sensitiveness from either jealousy or bad conscience; CRANKY fretful irritability;

CROSS snappish or grumpy irritability from disappointment or discomfort.

 

WORMWOOD:

1

            A European plant (Artemisia absinthium) yielding a bitter slightly aromatic dark green oil used in absinthe.

 

2

            Something bitter or grievous : BITTERNESS