We focus on Bible prophecy each week for about five-minutes, calling it a “Prophecy Update.”
The Bible is about 30% prophecy. There are approximately 500 prophecies awaiting literal fulfillment. We contend that, since we are living in the Last Days, trends in the world should be predictable based on what the Bible says is going to happen.
Many of the unfulfilled prophecies have to do with the future seven-year Great Tribulation. In the middle of those years, the world leader we most commonly call the antichrist will assume complete control over his citizens. No one will be able to buy or sell, or conduct any business, without swearing allegiance to him. It will be a terrifying authoritarian government.
Thus we would expect a growing trend towards invasive methods of identifying and tracking people. And that is exactly what we see.
One article I read was titled, “Eyesight Technologies’ in-car A.I. can tell when drivers smoke or use phones.”
Excerpts:
According to recent European Union proposals, all new cars on the road as of mid-2022 must be equipped with special driver monitoring systems that are capable of telling whether the person behind the wheel is distracted. Calls for similar guidelines are being heard all over the world.
With that in mind, Israel-based Eyesight Technologies has developed new in-car monitoring technology for spotting when drivers are using cell phones or smoking while driving.
The latest feature builds on the existing in-car monitoring system Eyesight Technologies has developed. This system uses an infrared sensor to detect driver features such as head pose, blink rate, eye openness, and gaze. By constantly measuring these factors during the course of a journey, Eyesight’s in-cabin A.I. can work out if a driver is starting to fall asleep or is distracted in some other way.
The company has just signed a $15 million deal with a major U.S. car manufacturer.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/eyesight-technologies-distracted-driver-smoke-phone/
The Revelation also speaks of the antichrist’s ‘image’ having a kind of life of its own to enforce his totalitarian government: “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” (13:5).
It sounds a great deal like AI.
The November issue of Newsmax feature article is titled, Artificial Intelligence: Will it Destroy Mankind?
The tagline: “The desperate race to ensure humans are the masters, not the slaves, of tomorrow’s supercomputers. It quotes Elon Musk as saying, “Mark my words, AI is far more dangerous than nukes.”
It is as expected from reading your Bible.
Jesus promised He’d return to rapture His church – which entails the resurrection of the dead in Christ of the Church Age, then the translation from earth to Heaven of all living believers.
It is presented in the Bible as an imminent (any-moment) event.
Are you ready for the rapture? If not, get ready, stay ready, and keep looking up. Ready or not, Jesus is coming!