The Bible accurately foretells specific events – in precise detail – sometimes even centuries before they occur.
Approximately 2500 prophecies appear in the pages of the Bible. About 2000, or 80%, have already been fulfilled to the letter, with no errors.
Because we know that the remaining 500 or so prophecies will definitely be fulfilled, we look for news, and trends, that you’d expect to be taking place.
You might call them the signs of the times.
One fascinating prediction made in the Bible about the Last Days is found in the Book of Daniel.
Dan 12:4 “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”
The phrase, “knowledge shall increase,” literally means that human knowledge will increase exponentially. It predicts an explosion of knowledge.
We live in the first time in human history when that prophecy is not only possible, but is being fulfilled.
The explosion of knowledge is so prevalent that it has elicited a rather fantastic reaction from Elon Musk.
If you don’t know who he is, you should. He is a major player in the world today. He is the founder, CEO and CTO of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors; chairman of SolarCity; co-chairman of OpenAI; co-founder of Zip2; and co-founder of PayPal.
As of April 2016, he has an estimated net worth of $12.3 billion, making him the 68th wealthiest person in the US.
He made headlines recently in an article titled, We are Living in a Computer Simulation.
Excerpts:
Elon Musk has said that there is only a “one in billions” chance that we’re not living in a computer simulation.
Our lives are almost certainly being conducted within an artificial world powered by AI and highly-powered computers, like in The Matrix, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO suggested at a tech conference in California.
Mr. Musk, who has donated huge amounts of money to research into the dangers of artificial intelligence, said that he hopes his prediction is true because otherwise it means the world will end.
Musk bases his argument on the explosion of knowledge. Here is how he reasons it out:
“The strongest argument for us probably being in a simulation I think is the following. 40 years ago we had Pong – two rectangles and a dot. That’s where we were.
“Now 40 years later we have photorealistic, 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously and it’s getting better every year. And soon we’ll have virtual reality, we’ll have augmented reality.
“If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then the games will become indistinguishable from reality, just indistinguishable.”
He said that even if the speed of those advancements dropped by 1000, we would still be moving forward at an intense speed relative to the age of life.
And, by the way, he said that either we will make simulations that we can’t tell apart from the real world, “or civilization will cease to exist.”
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/elon-musk-ai-artificial-intelligence-computer-simulation-gaming-virtual-reality-a7060941.html
He is picking up on the idea that the knowledge explosion can only go on for so long before the world as we know it must end.
Musk isn’t someone on the fringe. He is a major force in our world.
It’s all right out of Daniel.
While we look for signs of the times, there is one event that has no sign. It is presented as being imminent – meaning, it could occur at any moment.
Jesus will come and resurrect the dead believers, than snatch-away those who are alive. We call this the Rapture of the church.
Are you ready for the rapture? If not, get ready, stay ready, and keep looking up. Ready or not, Jesus is coming!