Comet Wormwood
This is a REALLY interesting article about someone's theory regarding Wormwood...the star (comet?) that falls from the sky in The Book Of Revelation.
There has been speculation for some time now that the real purpose of the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope, (AKA "the Pope Scope") located on Mount Graham, Arizona, is to keep watch for Wormwood.The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water-- the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.
In this article...tha authors paragraph on Formic Acid was a shocker.
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http://www.prophecies.us/article.php?sid=671
Comet Wormwood ?
Contributed by Dan on: Monday 07 February 2005 @ 19:51:41
Here's another theory, and it's just a theory, on what Wormwood just might be.
"The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss. 2When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss. 3And out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth. 4They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 5They were not given power to kill them, but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a man. 6During those days men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.
"7The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces. 8Their hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth. 9They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle. 10They had tails and stings like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months. 11They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon."
(Revelation 9:1-11 NIV)
Finally, note what causes the locusts to rise from the Abyss in the first place, a "star that had fallen from the sky to the earth."
Some may believe this to be symbolic of Lucifer (the bright 'Morning Star') being hurled to the earth after the War in Heaven (Rev.12:7), and that may well be the actual case as well. But in the previous chapter, that 'star' was described as being something quite different, much more physical in nature;
"6Then the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to sound them.
"7The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up.
"8The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, 9a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.
"10The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water-- 11the name of the star is Wormwood. [1] A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.
"12The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night.
"13As I watched, I heard an eagle that was flying in midair call out in a loud voice: "Woe! Woe! Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the trumpet blasts about to be sounded by the other three angels!"
(Revelation 8:6-13 NIV)
Footnotes
8:11 That is, Bitterness
Some people believe that the three separate phenomena described above are caused by three separate causes. Not so, they are caused by one single event, which also releases the Locusts from the bowels of the earth. And no, it isn't an asteroid, since that heavenly body cannot cause 'bitterness'.
But a comet can. A comet is basically composed of frozen substances such as HCN (Hydrogen Cyanide), Formaldehyde and Methanol (which breaks down and forms Formic Acid, the 'stinging' agent of Fire Ants), is dissipated in the atmosphere, and falls on the Earth's land surface, poisoning its fresh waters for quite some time.
All three chemical substances are known for their 'bitterness' ('Wormwood'). Add to that the vast amounts of sulphuric acid caused by the sulphur dioxide clouds emitted by the flowing magma and lava from the pierced earth's crust. These clouds will darken the skies for some time, preventing crops from growing in most parts of the northern hemisphere, amongst other devastations.
Perhaps, and just perhaps, a small comet, or a piece of a larger sungrazing comet broken up during its solar flypast will slam into the earth, piercing its crust.
According to a NASA website, at http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/torino/ ;
"The Torino Scale is a "Richter Scale" for categorizing the Earth impact hazard associated with newly discovered asteroids and comets. It is intended to serve as a communication tool for astronomers and the public to assess the seriousness of predictions of close encounters by asteroids and comets during the 21st century."
I believe that this comet, or chunk of a larger comet will be at **least** a "Nine" out of a possible ten, which is classified in the "Certain Collisions" category, and described as;
"A collision capable of causing regional devastation. Such events occur between once per 1,000 years and once per 100,000 years."
As to where it will strike, I will take my guess, and gut feeling and say in the Northern Hemisphere, in an ocean (thus causing the effects upon the sea creatures and ships at sea of Revelation 8:8-9).
Re-read Revelation 8 with the idea in mind that it is indeed a comet. The first physical effect of a comet entering the earth's atmosphere would be that the kinetic energy caused by such a mass travelling at such extreme velocities would be heat, in the form of fire;
"7The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up." (Rev. 8:7 NIV)
The second effect, would be the mass of the comet core striking the planetary surface, in this case, the open sea;
"8The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, 9a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed." (Rev. 8:8-9 NIV)
The third effect would be the subsequent fallout upon the oceans, and lands, and its fresh waters of the hydrogen cyanide, formaldehyde and methanol that made up the cometary nucleus;
"10The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water-- 11the name of the star is Wormwood. [1] A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter." (Rev. 8: 10-11 NIV)
The final effect would be caused by the earth's magma that would erupt from below the earth's crust, thus becoming lava. When the surrounding ocean water again closes in on the impact point, the resulting steam and sulfur dioxide smoke will be tremendous, and will cover one-third of the planetary surface;
"12The fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them turned dark. A third of the day was without light, and also a third of the night." (Rev. 8: 12 NIV)
The following is part of a research paper written by an MIT student describing the probable physical effects of an asteroid striking the earth. Simply replace 'asteroid' with 'comet', thus adding the additional effects that the frozen poisons that makes up a comet, and you may get some idea of what one might expect if Wormwood truly is a comet on a collision course with the earth.
"PREMONITION"
"The consequences of a collision with [a small earth-crossing asteroid] are unimaginable; the repercussions would be felt the world over. In dissipating the energy equivalent of half-a trillion tons of TNT, 100 million tons of the earth's crust would be thrust into the atmosphere and would pollute the earth's environment for years to come.
A crater 15 miles in diameter and perhaps three to five miles deep would mark the impact point, while shock waves, pressure changes, and thermal disturbances would cause earthquakes, hurricances, and heat waves of almost incalculable magnitude. Should [the asteroid] plunge into the ocean a thousand miles east of Bermuda, for example, the resulting tidal wave, propagating at 400 to 500 miles per hour, would wash away the resort islands, swamp most of Florida, and lash Boston-1500 miles away, with a 200-foot wall of water...The energy involved is the equivalent of 500,000 megatons of TNT-two orders of magnitude above that involved in the largest recorded earthquake, and four or five orders of magnitude more than Krakatoa... If the strike occurred in midocean, tsunamis in the 100-foot category would cause worldwide damage. If the strike occurred on land, the blast wave would level trees and buildings within a radius of several hundred miles, and some 10 tons of soil and rock dust would be thrown into the stratosphere, where for several decades it would act to reduce the solar radiation ordinarily received at earth's surface and threaten the triggering on an ice age.
-MIT Student Project in Systems Engineering,
Project Icarus, MIT Press,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1968
("Comet", by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, 1985.)
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