(June 6, 2010) In the last couple of years Hollywood has produced two apocalyptic movies (Knowing and 2012) in which the sun played a role in devastating the earth. I do not know whether or not the Bible played any role in the development of the storylines of these two movies. However, according to the Bible the sun does play a part in the judgment of the earth towards the end of the seven-year Tribulation Period.
John saw the future and wrote what he observed in the Book of Revelation (“Write what you see in a book” - Rev. 1:11) . He witnessed the Tribulation Period when men’s judgments and God’s judgments devastate the earth. The final judgments he saw were the seven bowls being poured out on the earth. He writes what occurred when the fourth bowl judgment takes place, “8 And the fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. 9 And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give Him glory.” John doesn’t say exactly how the sun scorches men (i.e. solar eruptions, deterioration of the earth’s atmosphere, etc.) only that they are still alive after this judgment occurs.
Scientists are meeting this Tuesday at the Space Weather Enterprise Forum in Washington D.C. to discuss severe space weather events and how they will impact the earth (As the Sun Awakens, NASA Keeps a Wary Eye on Space Weather). This article reports:
“Earth and space are about to come into contact in a way that’s new to human history. To make preparations, authorities in Washington DC are holding a meeting: The Space Weather Enterprise Forum at the National Press Club on June 8th.
Many technologies of the 21st century are vulnerable to solar storms. Richard Fisher, head of NASA’s Heliophysics Division, explains what it’s all about:
‘The sun is waking up from a deep slumber, and in the next few years we expect to see much higher levels of solar activity. At the same time, our technological society has developed an unprecedented sensitivity to solar storms. The intersection of these two issues is what we’re getting together to discuss.’”
The article goes on to speak of some of the possible technological problems the earth might experience as a result of increasing solar activity:
“The National Academy of Sciences framed the problem two years ago in a landmark report entitled “Severe Space Weather Events—Societal and Economic Impacts.” It noted how people of the 21st-century rely on high-tech systems for the basics of daily life. Smart power grids, GPS navigation, air travel, financial services and emergency radio communications can all be knocked out by intense solar activity. A century-class solar storm, the Academy warned, could cause twenty times more economic damage than Hurricane Katrina.”
A History Channel You Tube video discusses this very subject:
Some have tried to connect any cosmological upheaval with the Mayan prophecy which states the year 2012 is the end of a long cycle of time (although not the end of the world). On another You Tube video a NASA scientist dismisses the idea that there is a correlation between the Mayan prophecy and an increase of solar activity over the next couple of years:
I too see no eschatological significance to the year 2012. Since the prophesied bowl judgments occur at the end of the seven-year Tribulation Period it will probably be at least six years from the beginning of that time period before those judgments take place. When they do occur though, somehow the sun will heat up the earth to a point where many of the inhabitants of the earth will curse God.
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