Terri and I went prayer driving in Harvey and around Harvey tonight. We prayed for the following:
1. Safety of a gal in Town that is being persued by an abuser
2. Thanked God for the work he is doing to reveal injustice and secrets in this legal system
3. Protection of the people
4. Rooting out of the spirits that are planted there
5. Truth…more Truth…asked God to continue the placement and replacement of Authorities here. We know He (God) is in control and we see his hand working here.
6. We were patroling the area…prayed with tongues
7. I just asked God to pull up some more roots of the enemy here…then Terri heard, “wormwood”.
8. Not know what it meant…we prayed for the worms to be driven from the wood….soaked with the Holy Spirit kerosene….dead or live…bring out the spirits that linger in the dept of this place.
9. Make this a place of beauty once the worms are removed (wood is beautiful once the worms are gone…character in the wood)
Once home…this is what I found on the word: Wormwood.
Although the word wormwood appears several times in the Old Testament, translated from the Hebrew term לענה (la’anah), e.g., Deuteronomy 29:18 and Jeremiah 9:15, its only clear reference as a named entity occurs in the New Testament book of Revelation: “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.” (Revelation 8:10, 11 – KJB).
Certain commentators have held that this “great star” represents one of several important figures in political or ecclesiastical history,[2] while other Bible dictionaries and commentaries view the term as a reference to a celestial being.
A Dictionary of The Holy Bible states, “the star called Wormwood seems to denote a mighty prince, or power of the air, the instrument, in its fall, of sore judgments on large numbers of the wicked.”[3]
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.[10][11] One interesting theory is that ‘wormwood’ merely represents nuclear weaponry. They do poison the water where they are detonated, thus explaining the correlation. Some even point to the Chernobyl disaster as a possible fulfillment of this prophecy, as the name Chernobyl is said to translate to “wormwood.”
Definition:
Wormwood is the Biblical symbol for injustice. “Ye who turn judgment [justice] to wormwood [bitterness, i.e., implying injustice], and leave off righteousness in the earth” (Amos 5:7). God rewards or punishes according to our works. The injustice of the world earns them Wormwood (Revelation 8:11) in this 3rd Trumpet Judgment. “Behold, I [the LORD of Hosts] will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink” (Jeremiah 9:15).
Wormwood
(From Easton’s Bible Dictionary)
Heb. la’anah, the Artemisia absinthium of botanists. It is noted for its intense bitterness (Deuteronomy 29:18 ; Proverbs 5:4; Jeremiah 9:15; Amos 5:7). It is a type of bitterness, affliction, remorse, punitive suffering. In Amos 6:12 this Hebrew word is rendered “hemlock” (RSV, “wormwood”). In the symbolical language of the Apocalypse (Revelation 8:10,11 ) a star is represented as falling on the waters of the earth, causing the third part of the water to turn wormwood.