They shall neither hunger anymore nor thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any heat (Revelation 7:16).

Cursing the Sun

The historian Herodotus tells of a people in Africa in the neighborhood of Mount Atlas whose daily custom was to curse the sun when it rises high in the heavens, because its excessive heat scorched and tormented them.

Hiroshima’s Heat Wave

In the simpler form the heat blast alone over Hiroshima caused the greatest number of deaths. It is no small wonder when we consider the force and intensity of that blast. The temperature at the center thereof reached, momentarily, an officially estimated 60 million degrees centigrade (127,200,000 °F), three times the temperature of the interior of the sun, and 10,000 times the temperature of the surface of the sun!

Unless otherwise noted, Scripture taken from the New King James Version®, NKJV © 1982 by Thomas Nelson.
Used by permission. All rights reserved.