The Bible is estimated to be 25% to 35% prophecy. Its very specific prophecies have thus far been 100% accurate.
There is much Bible prophecy that is yet unfulfilled. For example, beginning in chapter four, we believe that everything in the Book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ is future to us. We are called futurists. We believe that these yet-to-be-fulfilled prophecies will be fulfilled in a physical, literal, global, apocalyptic context.
It makes sense that the world would be moving in the direction that the prophecies predict. Here is a list of a few signs or trends that we follow:
- The reemergence of Israel as a nation (Isaiah 66:8).
- International conflict over Israel (Zechariah12:3).
- The alignment of hostile nations against Israel (Ezekiel 38).
- The efforts of Israel to rebuild their Temple (Matthew 24:15).
- Growing apostasy in the Church (Second Timothy 3:1-9).
- Instantaneous global communication (Revelation 11:4).
- The move towards a global government (Revelation 13).
- The move towards a global cashless society, accessed by a personal identifier (Revelation 13).
- An exponential leap in human knowledge (Daniel 12:4).
All of those are trending as never before.
I want to highlight the exponential growth of human knowledge. It was predicted by Daniel as a sign of the times. Are we experiencing this? The answer is one word: Artificial Intelligence.
The big news this week was the firing & rehiring of Sam Altman. As an aside, I found out something I didn’t know about the AI pioneer. Altman is a prepper. He said in 2016, “I have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force, and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to.”
Altman is an AI pioneer, and his company is OpenAI. Why was Altman fired? According to reports, his company was reportedly working on an advanced system that is so powerful it caused safety concerns among staff at the company.
The artificial intelligence model triggered such alarm with some OpenAI researchers that they wrote to the board of directors before Altman’s dismissal warning it could threaten humanity,
The model, called Q* – and pronounced as “Q-Star” – was able to solve basic maths problems it had not seen before. The ability to solve maths problems has been viewed as a significant development in AI.
Many experts are concerned that companies such as OpenAI are moving too fast towards developing artificial general intelligence (AGI), the term for a system that can perform a wide variety of tasks at human or above human levels of intelligence – and which could, in theory, evade human control.
In fact, one of the theories is that it did develop AGI and the whole thing is getting out of hand.
One of the headlines about Altman read, Sam Altman’s Second Coming Sparks New Fears of the AI Apocalypse.
We are getting pretty close to SkyNet. No worries; Jesus said, “For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect’s sake those days will be shortened” (Matthew 24:21-22).
In the 6th century BC Daniel predicted an exponential leap in human knowledge. We point to AI as what you expect if you are a futurist reading the Bible literally.
Jesus promised His Church, “I… will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth” (Revelation 3:10).
He keeps us entirely out of those 7yrs by raising deceased Church Age saints, then rapturing “we who are alive and remain.”
When? The return of the Lord for us is imminent. It could happen any time. Nothing needs to occur before Jesus can come for us.
Are you ready for the rapture? If not, Get ready; Stay ready; Keep looking up.
Ready or not, Jesus is coming!