Rogue Planets, Wormwood and Bible Prophecy

Discoveries of new planets have not ceased since they began anew in the early 2000s. Whether it is the new "failed star" rogue planet, "Planet Nine" or Niku, people wonder if each of these planets are the long-rumored Planet X or even Wormwood of Revelation. If that's you, it's time to learn the important distinction between these objects and why no previously sighted object is the threat to earth known as Wormwood.

Rogue Planet? Planet X? Planet Nine?

Remember back when we had nine planets and that was that? There was speculation about another planet beyond Pluto, but for many decades it went unconfirmed.

Now, ever since the early 2000's, we have discovered one planet after another, to the point of making Pluto not look like it deserves a place in the pantheon of planets.

In 2016 alone, we were informed about Planet Nine, Niku and a brown dwarf named "SIMP J01365663+0933473."  Niku was discovered just a few months after "Planet Nine." Although Niku is small (only 124 miles wide), how it orbits the sun in the opposite direction of nearly every other object in the solar system is troubling. This points to undiscovered larger object to push Niku into its strange retrograde orbit. (However, that object cannot be Planet Nine which is out of reach from Niku.)

SIMP J01365663+0933473 is interesting in how it has a strong magnetic field that causes it to have and aurora halo (see artists rendering above). It was originally considered a failed brown dwarf star. But now it's being considered more of a very large planet because it is just the threshold of 13 times the size of Jupiter to trigger deuterium fusion at its core.

While most don't pay much attention to these new planets, those who have heard about Planet X and the mysterious Wormwood object in the Book of Revelation take note. They wonder whether this new object could be the one that Bible prophecy predicts will bring "the end of the world as we know it" (TEOWAWKI)? Wormwood, also mistakenly known by many as Planet X.

But Which Planet X?

Let's be clear on what Planet X means here as there are two Planet Xs:

1. The harmless Planet X scientific theory
2. The doomsday Planet X conspiracy theory

You see, Planet X as a term has evolved over time. This makes for some confusion when studying the subject.

The most common use of Planet X now is as an internet doomsday theory based on pseudo-science and ancient histories. The claim is that there is a large planet on it's way to devastate the earth, that perhaps the ancients (or aliens) have seen when it visited before.

But the name Planet X first came from real astronomers. They coined the term for an unknown (hence, the X) tenth planet (X also being the Roman numeral for ten) they believed to be out there. They postulated its existence based on irregularities in the orbits of Uranus (the eighth planet) and Pluto (previously the ninth planet, now a dwarf planet). Later with better instrumentation, they realized these measurements were in error. There was no proof of a Planet X after all.

With no reputable science behind it, the myth of Planet X was infused with mythology and new age pseudo-science. This includes Zecharia Sitchin's work explaining the Sumerian version of Planet X called Nibiru, or the 12th planet (when you count the Sun and Moon and of course the now dwarf planet, Pluto) and the Zeta Reticuli alien communications transmitted by Nancy Leider of the ZetaTalk cult.

Now things have changed again with a highly reputable astronomer, known for major discoveries, says there is a Planet X after all. But, of course, he's not talking about the doomsday Planet X. Apart from the gravity it seems to be exerting on other far flung bodies at the edge of the solar system, this Planet X is harmless.

Why Planet X Is Harmless

Whenever a new body is discovered, whether it was Eris, Sedna or now this possible ninth planet, people who are aware of the doomsday Planet X wonder "Is this it?"

There are several reasons to put your mind at ease.

First of all, all of these objects have orbits that circle the sun far outside the inner solar system where the earth orbits. In other words, their orbits would never take the objects near earth anyway. It would take some new interaction such as another object colliding or passing by to change their orbit significantly. The chances of that are extremely remote.

Second of all, even if one of these Planet Xs was on an orbit that intersected earth's orbit, there is still the very huge distance problem. All of these objects are extremely far away, which is why they are just being discovered now in the 21st century and not the 20th century like the eight other planets. It would take thousands of years for any of them to reach earth. For example, the new ninth planet is on a 15,000 year orbit around the sun. That means around 7,500 years to reach earth if it could, which it can't.

Thirdly of course an object reaching earth's orbital area is not enough. Lots of objects already do that. To be a threat, the object has to intersect a point on earth's orbit when the earth is there. The odds are stacked against an object not already on a collision course with earth to suddenly find itself on one.

By the way, this is why the Planet X doomsday theory is also nothing to fear. The concept that a far away object has devastated the earth before (some 3600 years ago supposedly) would do so again ignores the realities of orbital mechanics. It's not like the planets run on train tracks! Their orbits are dynamic, subject to the perturbations by any bodies they pass near, including earth. A body passing the earth close enough to damage it (as is the claim about Planet X doomsday theory) would also change course as a result of that near flyby. Earth's gravity would send it in a new direction, on a new path. It would not stay on the same orbit that let it to intercept earth before.

You cannot reasonably expect a body to devastate the earth and then go on to cover great distances and return and devastate earth a second time. It's against all odds.

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The End In 2026? It's Now Possible

Since learning in 2001 that Yeshua must return in a Sabbath year, I've had to rule out three Sabbath year cycle windows for the final 7 years (2003-2009, 2010-2016, 2017-2023). With the next window (2024-2030) less than 7 years away, I'm ready to share why I believe, based on the real end time sign of Mt 24:14, that this can be the one. If it is, the "birth pains" (WW3 + Wormwood, Lk 21:10-11) would hit near its middle in 2026 with Yeshua returning in 2030. Find out what's changed to convince me about 2026 and what you can do about it...

How Can Wormwood Hit Us Then?

What about Wormwood? How does it manage to hit us then?

The Wormwood of Bible prophecy (Rev 8:11) is different in two significant ways from doomsday Planet X that help this:

1. Prophecy does not say Wormwood came before. This is key for the reason explained above.
2. Prophecy does not say Wormwood is on some crazy long period orbit that put it further out from the Sun and decrease its chances of coming near earth.

Think of it this way: Scientists have been warning for decades about the threat to earth from Near Earth Objects (NEOs). Some of these objects are big enough to bring an extinction level event like happened before and wiped out the dinosaurs (but not man, who was concurrent with dinosaurs, hence all the "dragon" legends). Consequently, they have begun a program to survey the skies to identify and then track any objects large enough to pose a threat to life. Wormwood is the object out there that realizes their fears, yet somehow they do not catch it in time.

(Why it is not spotted earlier, I can't yet explain. Probably it has an off-kilter orbit like Niku has, potentially allowing it to come at us from the South Pole, where less telescopes are looking. And it must be abnormally dark/non-light-reflecting to escape notice of the many amateur telescopes. Update: I can now explain why Wormwood is not spotted yet and won't be spotted long before it hits!)

How Exactly Wormwood Affects Us

Except instead of it being a smallish mountain-sized rock that hits us directly, Wormwood is a dwarf planet (smaller than earth) that flies by the earth, close enough to read its license plate, so to speak.

At this proximity, its gravity becomes a major factor. It causes a unprecedented great global earthquake (Rev 6:12). so fierce that it "moves every mountain and island out of place" (Rev 6:14).

At the same time, earth's superior gravity is able to rip smaller Wormwood apart, causing it to, at least partially, disintegrate. Just like in the movie Deep Impact, the threats multiply when a NEO breaks up into pieces. The same happens here in reality.

Revelation describes a resulting shotgun blast of shooting stars (Rev 6:13), meteorites (Rev 8:7), and asteroids (Rev 8:8) raining down on the earth. They light up the sky as they fall from heaven to cause destruction below (Rev 8:10-11).

The devastation will effectively bring an end to civilization. Homes, infrastructure will be broken. Agriculture will be over with the reduced sunlight penetrating the dusty, smokey skies. People will starve and freeze until the Antichrist appears as "God" to save the world. They only need to take his mark and worship him for the food and supplies they need...

How to Prepare and Escape

The news of new planet discoveries serves as a good reminder of a stark reality:

Contrary to what many scientists used to say about Planet X that if it was out there we would have discovered it by now, we really do have gaps in our knowledge and blind spots in what we can see. We keep discovering new objects, but what about the ones we have not seen yet? Michael Brown argues that statistically speaking it stands to reason that there are many more out there to be discovered.

The threat from these undetected objects in space is clearly real.

Worse, of all the threats to humanity that are talked about (climate change, pandemics, artificial intelligence, super-volcano, etc.), the only one Bible prophecy talks about is the star/planet that sneaks up an unprepared global population (Rev 6:15-17). Thankfully it also tells us how we will escape. See my book or my previous article on how we escape through faith.

For how the Wormwood dwarf planet can sneak up on us even with NASA and amateur astronomers watching, read the thrilling insight God gave on this!

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