...creator

The sun is a fantastically hot cosmic radiation powerhouse. It has a surface temperature of about 11,000 degrees, and its interior temperature is estimated as high as 18 million degrees. The sun is so colossal in size that it contains 99.8 percent of the total mass of our solar system. Jupiter consists of about 0.2 percent, which means Earth is a pretty small speck.

Our sun is so huge, it would take more than a million Earths to fill its core. Because it’s some 93 million miles away, it takes the light from the sun about eight minutes and 20 seconds to reach us. 

The pressure at the center of the sun is about 700 million tons per square inch. It’s enough to smash atoms, expose the inner nuclei, and allow them to smash into each other and produce light and warmth. In fact, the material at the core of the sun is so hot that if you could capture enough of it to cover a pinhead, it would radiate enough heat to kill a man one mile away. 

Without the sun there would be no life on this planet. It gives off light and heat that makes it possible for us to survive and for plants to grow. The sun is not unique, however, and is a star among billions of other stars. Still, it’s pretty bright. If you compared the closest 50 stars to Earth, our sun would rank fourth brightest. Because of its massive size, a person who weighs 150 pounds on Earth would weigh 4,200 pounds on the sun because the sun’s gravity is 28 times that of our planet. 

Isaiah writes a prophetic message to future King Cyrus, who needed to remember the power of the one true God. “I am the Lord, and there is no other; There is no God besides Me. … They may know from the rising of the sun to its setting That there is none besides Me. I am the Lord, and there is no other; I form the light and create darkness” Isaiah 45:5–7 

Ancient people have worshiped the sun. 

But we know that there is only one Son to worship—Jesus Christ, the one who made the sun. 

"I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded."

Isaiah 45:12

-doug batchelor