Wormwood '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.'
Who fell from Heaven? Who was the "light bearer", an angel of once great authority, who would appear as a burning lamp falling from glory? Who drew a third part of the heavens with him? Who is the most bitter of God's children? Who makes the children of God bitter to become just like him when they partake of his vile rebellion? Generally, after a person becomes rejected, they become bitter and UNFORGIVING. The opposite of bitterness is forgiveness. Forgiveness is the most important thing that God has taught us about DELIVERANCE! Interestingly enough, the "test" to uncover adultery (Numbers 5:11-31) is the administration of bitter water.Certainly, there is dualism in all things scriptural. I have been reading in the New Testament and it is quite apparent that this is the case..... And I am sure I am only just scratching the surface.
It is good to be back online after more than a week alone with my sweetheart enjoying her family in Southern Idaho. Her father died in Vietnam exactly 45 years ago on May 25th - Memorial Day. It is because of the crippling ripple effects of this in her life that I have become quite anti-war; except as the Book of Mormon has proscribed in defense of our liberty, our homes, our wives/children and to sustain the good principle found in the Constitution. I am not particularly interested in sustaining the war machine that President Benson warned us about. If asked to work in the military side of my aerospace company, I simply will take the soup line. In the past couple of years, we have all been asked to take cross-training where we will be able to function in a military role. If pushed, I simply will exercise my right to leave the country. If it is a defensive war, I will participate, as long as the weapons I am asked to engineer are strictly defensive in nature - and not used in a role of the police state we are at or to be used in building empire and further causing war to be poured upon all nations. Truly, I am more at home with the Canadians than I am living in a police state that is bullying nations like Russia into an arbitrary economic or social policy.
Here is a great video that sums up the illegality of our wars:
https://youtu.be/_8rbHwMXMT8
Here is the scripture about the administration of the bitter waters as a test of adultery. Truly we are a wicked and adulterous nation and people:
6 Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the Lord, and that person be guilty;7 Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.8 But if the man have no kinsman to recompense the trespass unto, let the trespass be recompensed unto the Lord, even to the priest; beside the ram of the atonement, whereby an atonement shall be made for him.9 And every offering of all the holy things of the children of Israel, which they bring unto the priest, shall be his.10 And every man’s hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.12 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man’s wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him,13 And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;14 And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:15 Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.17 And the priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and of the dust that is in the floor of the tabernacle the priest shall take, and put it into the water:18 And the priest shall set the woman before the Lord, and uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:19 And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:20 But if thou hast gone aside to another instead of thy husband, and if thou be defiled, and some man have lain with thee beside thine husband:21 Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The Lord make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the Lord doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;22 And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water:24 And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter.25 Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the offering before the Lord, and offer it upon the altar:26 And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.27 And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.29 This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
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