Can anyone explain the star wormwood?

Question

God bless all.

Answer 1

Yep it is similar to woodcraft welding rods for mending wooden floors.

Answer 2

Its a luminous ball of plasma

Answer 3

It is Satan, the Devil.

Satan was in heaven, but has been cast down to the earth...by Jesus.

Revelation  12; 7-9 & 12.

Answer 4

The star called wormwood is satan.He turns everything bitter,in the spiritual sense-poison!

Rev.8:10 And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;

Rev 8:11  And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

In vs.10,the rivers are the nations and the fountain is in reference to "the fountains of the living waters",which are the christians whose fountain of living water flows from the Lord.The burning by satan comes from the deception.They don't know the morning star(satan) from the Morning Star(Christ).

In vs.11 Satan may look like Christ and offer fountains of blessings, but his fountains will give only bitterness. You think it is clean, fresh and pure water, but when you taste of that water its bitter. When you drink of it and digest it, it becomes poison to your very soul. This is why Satan is called "Wormwood" [a poison]. One third of the world will become part of Satan's system, and drink freely from the Antichrist waters.

Answer 5

According to the New Testament book of Revelations, a large asteroid or planetoid, named wormwood,  will strike the earth...  resulting in the death of 2/3 of the planet's population.  It will poison the food/water supplies and those who do not die instantly will die of thirst/starvation.

Answer 6

Wormwood is a character in the book- The Screwtape Letters

Answer 7

Here is what I found when I looked it up

Various religious groups and figures, including Seventh-day Adventists and the theologians Matthew Henry and John Gill,[5] regard the verses of Revelation 8 as symbolic references to past events in human history. In the case of Wormwood, some historist interpreters believe that this figure represents the army of the Huns as led by king Attila, pointing to chronological consistencies between the timeline of prophecy they have accepted and the history of the Huns' campaign in Europe.[6] Others point to Arius, the emperor Constantine, Origen or the ascetic monk Pelagius, who denied the doctrine of Original sin.[5]

Another interpretation leads some researchers to conclude that the events of Revelation are in mid-progress. For example, the name for a specific type of wormwood is translated in Ukrainian to "Chernobyl" (or "Чорнобиль")[7]. Therefore, the meltdown of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in A.D. 1986 could be interpreted as the verses in Revelation referenced above that state, "When the third angel blew his trumpet, a large star burning like a torch fell from the sky. It fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. The star was called "Wormwood," and a third of all the water turned to wormwood. Many people died from this water, because it was made bitter"[8].

Futurist interpretations

Commentators favoring a naturalistic interpretation of Revelation 8:10 relate it to the last days, seeing Wormwood as a meteor fated to strike the earth and cause environmental calamities.[9] Others, while not specifying a precise method, see in the verse a "personification of something God threatens to do to [His] people when they allow themselves to be deceived by false prophets."[10]

Alternative interpretations

A number of Bible scholars consider the term Wormwood to be a purely symbolic representation of the bitterness that will fill the earth during troubled times, noting that the plant for which Wormwood is named, Artemisia absinthium, is a known Biblical metaphor for things that are unpalatably bitter.[11][12]