Revelation 16:7-9

⁷ And [from] the altar I heard [the] cry, Yes, Lord God the Omnipotent, Your judgments (sentences, decisions) are true and just and righteous!

• Remember the judgment that Jesus used on the Cross. Love, forgiveness, grace, and intercession. He never changes.

⁸ Then the fourth [angel] emptied out his bowl upon the sun, and it was permitted to burn (scorch) humanity with [fierce, glowing] heat (fire).

• The Holy Spirits power and wrath against sin will be felt around the world, by all men.
• We are told that every nation, tribe, and tongue will hear the end time message and that many will be empowered to accept it and become the Bride of Christ. 

⁹ People were severely burned (scorched) by the fiery heat, and they reviled and blasphemed the name of God, Who has control of these plagues, and they did not repent of their sins [felt no regret, contrition, and compunction for their waywardness, refusing to amend their ways] to give Him glory.

• People will blasphemy by continuing to follow religion and not Jesus. They will feel the convicting power of the Holy Spirit, but the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches will not allow them to produce fruit.
• Then the cares and anxieties of the world and distractions of the age, and the pleasure and delight and false glamour and deceitfulness of riches, and the craving and passionate desire for other things creep in and choke and suffocate the Word, and it becomes fruitless. Mark 4:19
• They will confess what they are doing. Not what our Father is doing through them.
• Look at America today. As a nation we are very prosperous. We are relatively safe, probably safer then in any other time in our history. We are living longer and yet we are still divided. Money and worldliness are not bringing peace. They don’t because it's blasphemy. It all looks good and even charitable, but if our Father is not being given the credit, it's blasphemy.