Burning heat befalls the earth.

Malachi 4:1

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 “For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, and all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day which is coming shall burn them up,” says the Lord of hosts, “That will leave them neither root nor branch.” Malachi 4:1

The phrase “For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven...” sounds like what frequently appears in newspapers, heard on television, and is often quoted by government leaders at local, state, national, and global levels. Global warming is a present reality. It is the Fourth Plague described in 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.” The more powerful the United Nations becomes as the one world government the hotter and more intense the burning heat of the sun becomes.

The burning heat is the judgment of God coming against the present world government and its global culture. They are those who are empowered by the atheistic entity that has power over physiology to give them what to think, feel, say, and do. This entity enlivens the image of the beast to live and speak through today’s culture as they are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they are given to say and do.

The atheistic entity, with power over physiology, replaces the conscience and spirit as people receive uncanny knowledge, heightened intuition, amazing physical abilities, uncanny authority over others, extraordinary talents and skills, uncanny emotional responses, etc. They do wickedly by denying God, scoffing at the need for the forgiveness of sin through Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit is not part of who they are. They are proud and do wickedly as in their attitude they boast, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?” Revelation 13:4 The “beast” is of the image and mark of the beast. This verse is spoken about them, “And the day which is coming shall burn them up,” says the Lord of hosts, “That will leave them neither root nor branch.”

Global warming plays a significant role in dismantling the power center of the beast, as revealed in the Fifth Plague of Revelation 16:10-11. This event will leave the world government and its global culture devoid of power, stripping them of the extraordinary abilities previously described in the paragraph above. In this state of powerlessness, the Battle of Armageddon ensues, as stated in Revelation 16:12-17, followed by the Day of the Lord and the return of Jesus Christ.

As the scorching reality of global warming affects us today, the second coming of Jesus Christ is described as unexpected, like a thief in the night. Upon His return, He will finish His work, and the elements of this earth will dissolve in intense heat, as quoted below,

“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be laid bare. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.” 2 Peter 3:10-13

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11