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To: topher
The short of it -- persecution helps one perfect their spiritual life

In that case I predict that we're all going to have the opportunity ion the very near future to start perfecting our spiritual lives.

4 posted on 03/06/2013 8:53:59 AM PST by pgkdan ( "Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." ~Thomas Jefferson)
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To: pgkdan
One thing that is disconcerting from the Bible is the "Angel of Wormwood" in the book of Revelation (or book of Apocalypse).

In the Ukrainian language wormwood literally means "chernobyl".

That was the place where a number reactor burned down, spreading radiation for hundreds of miles around that spot. [This nuclear reactor was located in the Ukraine.]

Also of interest is that there was not a word for nuclear radiation at the time of Jesus Christ and the Twelve Apostles.

So it is possible that that Angel of Wormwood refers to nuclear fallout/radiation. The book of Revelation refers to streams, rivers and lakes being contaminated by wormwood. [That does not make sense -- that a tree/plant would contaminate rivers/streasm/lakes.]

10 posted on 03/07/2013 11:24:25 AM PST by topher (Traditional values -- especially family values -- which have been proven over time.)
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