Chapter Thirty-Two/God's Anger Brought to a Finish - Scorching Men With Fire

 The fourth bowl of the anger of God has the sun as its target. John tells us: "And the fourth one poured out his bowl upon the sun; and to the sun it was granted to scorch the men with fire. And the men were scorched with great heat, but they blasphemed the name of God, who has the authority over these plagues, and they did not repent so as to give glory to him." - REVELATION 16:8, 9.

Today, at the conclusion of the system of things, Jesus' spiritual brothers "shine as brightly as the sun in the kingdom of their Father." (Matthew 13:40, 43) Jesus himself is "the sun of righteousness." (Malachi 4:2) Mankind, though, has its own "sun," its own rulers to try to shine in opposition to God's Kingdom. The fourth trumpet blast proclaimed that the 'sun, moon, and stars' in Christendom's heavens are really sources of darkness, not light. (Revelation 8:12) The fourth bowl of God's anger now shows that the world's "sun" would get unbearably hot. Those looked to as sunlike leaders would "scorch" mankind. This would be granted to the symbolic sun. In other words, Jehovah would allow this as part of his fiery judgment on mankind. In what way has this scorching taken place? 

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