Could a giant solar flare scorch the earth?



In the movie "Knowing", the earth is scorched by a giant solar flare, destroying human life on earth. Is such a giant solar flare possible? In fact, there have been some major solar flares in recent years. The largest recent solar flare was on Nov. 4 2003, an X28+, and a week before that there was an X17.2 solar flare on Oct. 31 2003. See this page on the prophecy significance of these solar flares in 2003. And a much larger solar flare is possible.


The Bible's Book of Revelation has prophecies of future world events, in particular disastrous world events during the future End Times period. Note that there is a passage in the Bible's Book of Revelation which appears to imply an increase in solar activity which scorches the earth with great heat:

16:8,9, King James version: "And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat..."
And Isaiah 30:26 in the Old Testament may also be describing a giant solar flare with a 7 times increase in sun intensity:

"Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound."

Also, a prophecy of French prophet Nostradamus from the 1500s may predict a solar flare scorching earth in the future:
Nostradamus 5-98:
"At 48 degrees, Cancer ending, there is great dryness,
Fish in the seas and rivers are boiled by the heat.
Bearn and Bigorre see chaos from fire from the sky."


[link to revelation13.net]