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• ESPAÑOL: El Fin de los Tiempos: El Día en que Dios toca el sol

In the Book of Revelation, the Apostle John’s vision of the calamitous events that will be occurring in the end times, we read of the strange thing that will be happening on Earth when God touches the sun.

Hi, my name is Dean Smith and as we study the Book of Revelation, we read that God will put the world through three sets of seven different judgments. This will include the breaking of the seven seals in Revelation 6, the sounding of the seven trumpets starting in Chapter 8, and the final set, the pouring out of the bowls of wrath in Chapter 16.

And within the final group, the seven bowls of wrath, we have an interesting judgment aimed directly at our sun.

We read:

The fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun, and it was given to it to scorch men with fire. 9 Men were scorched with fierce heat; and they blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues, and they did not repent so as to give Him glory. (Revelation 16: 8-9 NASV)

Three things immediately stick out in this passage.

First, there is no doubt that God is the one who initiates it. It is part of God’s judgment upon the Earth.

Secondly, we read that when the fourth angel poured his bowl of wrath on the sun, it released a massive amount of heat upon the earth.

It was described as a fierce heat that scorched men. In fact, according to Thayer’s Greek Dictionary, the word scorched can mean”to be tortured with great heat.”

Thirdly, we see man’s response, they actually blasphemed the name of God. In other words, they blamed and cursed God, but they did not repent.

Now anyone following the mainstream media over the summer of 2023 has undoubtedly seen news of the record-breaking heat waves that took place over the summer.

Look at some of these headlines:

• The New York Times: Heat Records Broken across the Earth
• Climate NASA: NASA Announces Summer 2023 hottest on record
• Yahoo News: Land Temperatures in Spain Surpass 60C as Deadly Heatwave Sweeps Europe
• Associated Press: As Heatwave Named Cerebus has Southern Europe in its Jaws, and it’s only going to Get Worse

Predictably, the media’s climate activists have been trumpeting the recent record-breaking heat as another sign that we have to stop carbon emissions as seen by these headlines:

• From The Guardian: Longer heatwaves driven by ‘turbo-charged’ climate change say scientists
• And from the New York Times: Climate Change Drove Western Heat Wave’s Extreme Records, Analysis Finds

No one questions that the climate is changing, because that has been going on for the past 2,000 years, but what is debated is the cause.

Is it being caused by human activity or is there a natural explanation for what is happening?

Though this heat is being blamed on human activity such as driving SUVs and eating meat, what isn’t getting as much press is the unusual sunspot activity that took place on the sun over the summer of 2023.

The sun, which is so large that you could fit 1.3 million Earths inside it, has a profound impact on Earth’s temperatures and seasons.

Now astronomers have been studying sunspot activity for well over four hundred years, and they noticed a peculiar thing taking place during the mini ice age that struck Europe between the 1300s and the 1800s.

There was a significant drop in the number of sunspots and there were actually months when they did not record a single sunspot.
It was a very unusual celestial event.

This cooling resulted in significantly heavier snowfalls across Europe and paintings from the 1600s depicted people skating on Britain’s frozen Thames River, a very unusual event.

But perhaps most concerning the cold resulted in crop failures across Europe leading to famine and disease.

And it was not just Europe. In 1779, the New York harbor froze over allowing people to walk on the ice from Manhattan to Staten Island.

Now to be sure scientists have stated that other natural causes probably contributed to this mini ice age, but most agree that the reduced number of sunspots was certainly a major contributing factor.

So if a reduced number of sunspots can result in cooling, then obviously too many sunspots could arguably have the opposite effect and cause an increase in temperatures.

And this is where it gets interesting, because according to an article on Space.com, NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that the sun became very active this past June recording 160 sunspots, the most in a single month for over 20 years.

I first saw reports of this in an article by Michael Snyder on the Washington Standard website. Snyder who publishes The Economic Collapse Blog specializes in events associated with the end times.

He stated that this increased activity was a shock to both NASA and NOAA as both agencies were projecting much less activity.

But it was not just the number of sunspots it was also their size.

According to an article on LiveScience on July 4, 2023, one of those sunspots called A3354, was ten times larger than the Earth and grew to that massive size in under 48 hours before releasing a massive X Class flare that hit Earth causing a short radio blackout.

In its article, LiveScience tells us a bit more about AR3354.

We read:

“The enormous dark patch, named AR3354, emerged on the solar surface on June 27 and within 48 hours had grown to cover around 1.35 billion square miles (3.5 billion square kilometers), or 10 times wider than Earth. Space weather scientists were alarmed by the colossal sunspot’s rapid emergence and feared it could spit out a barrage of potentially harmful solar storms, according to Spaceweather.com.“

So while the experts were caught off guard by the sudden and dramatic increase in solar activity, this may be one of the reasons why we had such dramatic weather this summer in addition to the heat waves.

This included a tornado mega cluster that hit Chicago in mid-July canceling flights and leaving thousands without power.

Then in mid-July 2023, ABC News reported that over a two-day period, the state of Vermont received as much rain as it would typically receive in two months resulting in the worst flooding the state has seen in 100 years.

Along with this, there were also reports of catastrophic flooding in India.

But aside from these recent reports, a very curious thing has also been taking place on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.

Experts are warning that the Euphrates, a massive river system that travels through the Middle East, including Iran, Syria, Iraq, and Turkey may be drying up.

It is so bad that according to an article in the Irish Times, the UN issued a warning earlier this year stating that the Euphrates is at its lowest water level in 40 years and this is starting to impact the people who depend on this river for their survival.

In fact, in 2021 the Iraqi government even issued a warning that the Euphrates as well as the Tigris River could be completely dry by 2040.

There seem to be a number of factors contributing to this decline in addition to the higher temperatures and drought, including mismanagement of water resources, and the construction of several hydroelectric dams on the river in Syria, Turkey and Iran.

So why is this relevant?

Well, at the beginning of this podcast, I discussed the fourth bowl of wrath that was poured upon the sun mentioned in Revelation 16:8-9.

But then two verses later in Revelation 16:12, we read about the sixth Bowl of wrath being poured upon the great Euphrates River causing it to become completely dry:

We read:

12 The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East. (Revelation 16:12)

So 2,000 years ago, the Book of Revelation warned that in the lead-up to the second coming of Christ, one of the world’s greatest water systems would become completely dry.

It is pretty apparent that the two bowls of wrath, the extreme heat and the drying up of the Euphrates, are probably connected.

But the Euphrates is still flowing, so we haven’t entered the Bowls of Wrath judgment yet.

But it is clear at some point, the fourth bowl of wrath will be poured out and we will enter a time of unprecedented intense heat that will be significantly more severe than anything we have experienced up to now and that will ensure the drying up of the Euphrates River.

And curiously, men will not see this heat as a judgment of God, because they will be too busy blaming SUVs and climate change for the problem, instead of God touching the sun.

Thanks for joining me on this podcast and I will catch you again.

READ: Is Bizarre Activity On The Sun Causing Catastrophic Disasters All Over The Globe? AND Sun breaks out with record number of sunspots, sparking solar storm concerns AND Giant sunspot grew 10 times wider than Earth in just 48 hours, then spat X-class flare right at us AND ‘Desert’: drying Euphrates threatens disaster in Syria AND UN warns of ‘devastating impact’ as Iraq’s marshlands in danger of drying: Alarming fall in water levels in Euphrates and Tigris rivers during worst heatwave for 40 years AND Sun breaks out with record number of sunspots, sparking solar storm concerns