We reserve a few minutes Sunday morning to suggest news, or trends, that seem to be predicted by a futurist reading of the Bible.
We are careful to use recognized, reliable sources for news.
We’re not saying the things we report are the definite fulfillment of prophecy – only that they are things you’d expect based on the Bible’s predictions.
One of the most intriguing predictions found in the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ has to do with a “statue” that “comes to life.” I’ll read it to you, but first we need to meet two people associated with it:
- In the Revelation, the world leader we commonly call the antichrist is called the “Beast.” In the passage I’m going to read, he is the First Beast.
- The antichrist has an associate who is a false prophet capable of doing signs and wonders. He is called the Second Beast.
“Then I saw [a second] beast coming up out of the Earth… And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the Earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast… He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire
come down from heaven on the Earth in the sight of men. And he deceives those who dwell on the Earth – by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the Earth to make an image to the beast… He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed” (Revelation 13:11-15).
Until very recently, futurists had almost no idea what this image might be, or how it could be given breath, or how it kills anyone who won’t worship it.
Today it isn’t so difficult to see this as a form of advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Wait. Who would worship it? I know someone. The title of a recent article was, Oprah says we should “honor” and “have a reverence” toward artificial intelligence in new special with Bill Gates.
New-age guru Oprah has found another deity worthy of reverence! “I don’t think we should be scared. I think we should be disciplined and we should honor it and have a reverence for what is to come, and respect.” She’s talking about Artificial Intelligence. She wants us, as humanity, to honor and revere this algorithm as if it’s something we didn’t create. As if it’s an entity outside of humanity. Oprah, being a devotee of New Age mysticism, synced this belief with Yin and Yang symbolism to describe the new deity.
“Because I think it’s going to change in ways that are unimaginable for the good, and just as there is for the good, there’s the yin and yang of everything…”
Guests included OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, tech influencer Marques Brownlee, and current FBI director Christopher Wray.[1]
I watched the program. It’s insulting because she acts like it frightens her, but you can tell it’s propaganda. By the end, she has assuaged any fears you might have.
It is a case of worshipping the creature rather than the Creator. People are being prepped for it.
There is a lot of stage-setting going on in terms of the Bible’s prophecies. Things like global government, global commerce, a personal ‘mark,’ social credit, apostasy in the church, the exponential growth of human knowledge, the elimination of cash, etc.
Most significantly, the Bible predicted that the nation of Israel would be born in a day, that Jews would return there from their dispersion all over the Earth, and that Jerusalem would be at the very heart of global tension until every nation stands against her & God intervenes to save her.
The unfulfilled prophecies in the Bible will be fulfilled to the letter. We are most definitely seeing the stage being set for the 2nd Coming of Jesus.
Jesus promised to resurrect & rapture His Church. He said, in fact He promised, that He would do it before His Second Coming, and before a time of Great Tribulation would come upon the whole Earth.[2]
The resurrection and rapture of the church is presented as an imminent event. It could happen anytime. Right now, for example.
Are you ready for the rapture? If not, get ready, stay ready, and keep looking up.
Ready or not Jesus is coming!