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
- Bile obtained from an animal used in arts or medicine.
- something bitter to endure
- bitterness of spirit – RANCOR
2
- A skin sore caused by chronic irritation
- A cause or state of exasperation
3
- To fret and wear away by friction
- IRRITATE, VEX
- SEIZE
4
- 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
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