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My favourite bit of Biblical trivia. Consider this passage from the Revelation of St John: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%208%3A10-11&v
by rich_sasha 7mo ago
My favourite bit of Biblical trivia. Consider this passage from the Revelation of St John: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%208%3A10-11&version=ESV https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%208%... describing, perhaps, events leading to the end of the world:
> The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the water, because it had been made bitter.
"Wormwood", a type of bitter plant, translates to Russian as "Chernobyl", and Ukrainian "Chornobyl": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl > Etymology
- kubb 7mo agoSure, but this description doesn't correspond to what happened in Chernobyl, and none of the other trumpets have corresponding events. So do the Evangelicals believe that Chernobyl disaster triggered the apocalypse, and that it has been happening ever since? I don't think so.
- rich_sasha 7mo agoYes, you would have to extend some poetic license. This was a bit of ad lib, the US branch of Christianity follows it's own logic and sadly I cannot answer the serious question. I'm pretty sure there were some bits in the Bible about loving thy enemy and turning the other cheek. But maybe I misremember.