The Future of our Sun

For all the time man has been on the earth, the sun has served us well. That's no surprise since God created the earth to be inhabited (Isaiah 45:18).

An X-class sun storm this past July sent a wave of charged particles toward the earth, resulting in radio blackout for some high-frequency communication systems. This is the most powerful type of flare our sun has. But other stars produce “superflares” up to 10 million times more energetic. Of 83,000 stars observed, 148 erupted within 120 days. Over thousands of years, a typical sun-like star should have multiple massive eruptions. Flares like these could eliminate life on earth.

Will our sun always be this temperate?

No, it will not. Two sun events are on the horizon: a significant diminishing of the sun's light, and a significant increase in the sun's light and heat. The diminishing of the light may be due to ash and dirt in the atmosphere, much like the darkness after a volcanic eruption, since geologic as well as solar disasters lie ahead.

These coming events appear first in the prophecy of Isaiah (740-680 BC) and later in The Revelation written by the apostle John in AD 95.

• Isaiah 13:10 "For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be darkened in its going forth, and the moon will not cause its light to shine."

• Isaiah 30:26 "Moreover the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days."

• Revelation 8:12 "Then the fourth angel sounded [his trumpet]: And a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened. A third of the day did not shine, and likewise the night."

• Revelation 16:8-9 "Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give him glory."


When will these events take place? They are associated with the great day of the coming of the Lord to judge the earth.

• Isaiah 13:9 "Behold, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate; and he will destroy its sinners from it."

• Revelation 15:1 "Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them the wrath of God is complete."

In these final signs with the sun, God will remind the human race that he is the Creator. Humankind puts a lot of effort into trying to prove that the earth and the universe just happened without the benefit of a God.