Wormwood and Revelation

Many years ago, I learned that a link exisited between the wormwood as described in Revelation correlates to a nuclear contamination.

Being it is Sunday, I thought it would be best to take a detailed look at the word origins and the science to try and understand this more thoroughly. Since one of the contracts I worked with at Rocky Flats was contamination clean up.

While of course running yet more simulations… I’m not a legalist, and I will make my computer work on the Sabbath, although I may personally take much of it off.

Here is the basic concept of what I learned in many years past. Wormwood translates to Chernobol in the Ukrane language… or does it

I’m a literalist, sometimes perhaps too much so. I am also of the belief that God is explicit when it is critical for our relationship with Jesus and his Word. In other part of the Bible, God uses the imagery of the time to guide and teach us. I think it best that unless God has made something explicit, we should think long, hard, and extremely prayerfully before going beyond what God has explicitly given us.

Onward with the science, and the word derivations.

Wormwood is Artemisia absinthium.

Mugwart is Artemisia vulgaris.

Chernobyl was named for black grass, eg mugwart, not wormwood.

In my literalist frame of mine, and my extreme stance of the inerrancy of scripture. If God had wanted to give us this link in the 20th century to Chernobyl, he would have had John use Mugwart rather than Wordwood. Yet, Mugwart was nowhere near as commonly used nor found as Wormwood was in Biblical lands.

Is there a nuclear link, perhaps, is it critical for our relationship with Christ, imho it is not. Is it interesting thinking and reading about it, absolutely. However, we must not dwell extensively on such possibilities, and as a result, cause them to be a distraction from the Way which is only found through Jesus.

Comments both positive and negative are greatly appreciated!!!