Wormwood (Bible)

[4] Certain commentators have held that this "great star" represents one of several important figures in political or ecclesiastical history: Matthew Henry mentions Augustulus, a 5th-century emperor of the Western Roman Empire, and Pelagius, deemed a heretic at the Council of Ephesus.

[6] Various religious groups and figures, including Seventh-day Adventists and the theologians Matthew Henry and John Gill,[7] regard the verses of Revelation 8 as symbolic references to past events in human history.

[8] Others point to the heretical priest Arius, the Roman Emperor Constantine, Origen, or the ascetic monk Pelagius, who denied the doctrine of original sin.

[13][14][15][16] Due to the Ukrainian word for Artemisia vulgaris being Chornóbyl ,[17] many[18] have used the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 as definitive proof that the prophecy in the Book of Revelation is correct.

[19] The verses referring to a "star falling down and turning the waters bitter" are interpreted as the radioactive fallout from the disaster poisoning the environment around Chernobyl, leaving it uninhabitable.