Regarding my post about my discover about Wormwood:Alan wrote:Look up STAR in the Greek.The word sounds like "astare".. and because it sounds like STAR it is most ofter translated as such. Probably translated at a time when not
much was known about the workings of the heavens.In fact the word Astare is closer in definition and meaning to asteroid rather than star.An asteroid can crash into the Earth and leave great destruction behind and yet not totally destroy it.That is what I thought at first, too, until, as I said in the article above, I checked the language used to describe clear impacts in the other seals and trumpets and found they did not match.For example, how does Wormwood not hit any land yet somehow ONLY "fall upon a third of the rivers and springs of water". The other previous seal and trumpet impacts describe objects specifically hitting the sea and destroying fish, ships or hitting the land and burn up all the grass, 1/3 trees, etc. This one is quite different. It does not hit anywhere yet "falls upon" different fresh water only. It's inconsistent with an asteroid impact.It is more like a rain of contaminating debris/dust from that star which get's into the water supplies. This fits with the 6th seal where we obviously pass through the debris field of some large body, just as comet's leave debris fields when they cross Earth's orbit and cause the Leonids and other "meteror showers" as Earth passes that point. (Planet X is reported to have a dense debris cloud and field of satellites moving with it)
So the 3rd trumpet is explaining what happens as a consequence of the previous impacts from the debris field shown in 6th seal through 2nd trumpet. The 4th trumpet as well shows a consequence, some of the debris stays up in the atmosphere and blocks 1/3 of all light sources putting us into a nuclear winter.It all literally makes sense when you carefully read the words like this. But then you are faced with the realization of how horrifying it is, especially when you find out that the rapture is not until the 7th trumpet ("the last trump"), some 3 trumpets after the devastation of Wormwood ends and God's wrath is about to begin (the 7 bowls, we are not appointed unto God's wrath). The next natural question is "what is God's real plan to save his people through Satan's wrath until his wrath begins at which time he takes us out?"This is why I wrote my book, to show how all of this in Revelation makes plain sense, literally, if you are willing to throw out some of the (unproven) traditional teachings that do not fit under careful scrutiny.Tim McHyde