The Star Called Wormwood

Cherbobyl Victims - Photo by Gerd Ludwig

The Third Trumpet:
Revelation seems to be moving on with it's agenda with very strange thought provoking signs. One is the burning and meltdown of Chernobyl nuclear plant. Surrounding the facility are scores of Wormwood plants and hence the facility was called Wormwood or in Russian - Chernobyl.

Revelation 8:10-11
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;
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. (KJV)

Our  sun of course is a star and it burns by  a nuclear fusion process in which hydrogen is converted into helium. On April 26, 1986 50 tons of nuclear fuel and 800 tons of reactor graphite formed a pit the size of a volcanic crater. Vast agricultural bodies of water have been poisoned with radioactive fallout. To date 8000 people have died and 2 million have suffered in some way as the result of the Wormwood explosion.

Today, the exclusion zone remains almost entirely empty of human life. The fruit orchards are heavy with unpicked, radioactive fruit that is left rotting on the branches. Picket fences are slowly succumbing to molecular decay  and collapsing. Vegetation is taking over the streets. The city of Prypiat - once a bustling Soviet city - is now an image of absolute decay, its wide boulevards empty but for the wind and the occasional wild boar or feral dog. The majority of those temporarily living in Chernobyl are forestry workers. Should the forests around Chernobyl catch fire, a new radioactive cloud would be set free.