When the fourth angel pours out his bowl on the sun, power is given to it to scorch men with fire, and men are scorched with great heat. Even under this plague they do not repent. Instead they blaspheme the name of God, who has power over these plagues, and they refuse to give Him glory. This hardened hatred of God marks the end-time world. The beast leads the world in blasphemy against God, and many follow him. The same stubbornness appears in the earlier trumpet plagues, where the survivors still do not repent of their idolatry, murders, sorceries, sexual immorality, or thefts. It fits Paul's description of end-time men in II Timothy 3, who love themselves and money, are proud and blasphemous, and keep only a form of godliness. The fifth bowl, poured on the beast's throne, brings the same response: darkness and pain, and still blasphemy without repentance. The scorching of the fourth bowl therefore shows that judgment alone does not turn a people who are fundamentally set against God. The anti-God spirit seen today in Marxist-rooted movements is a sign that this time is approaching.