We reserve a few minutes to discuss current trends that you’d expect from reading Bible prophecy.

We are futurists. We interpret all unfulfilled prophetic passages as future events that will occur in a literal, physical, apocalyptic, and global context.

Biometrics, Artificial Intelligence, cashless commerce, the manipulation of human DNA, global government, instantaneous global communication, the exponential growth of human knowledge, and the movement to rebuild a Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. These are predicted in the Bible and unfolding as never before.

A decade or so ago, if someone had asked you what or who is going to power the Image of the Beast spoken of in the Book of the Revelation, you’d have been at a loss for words. You can answer that same question today with two letters: AI (for artificial intelligence).

At years end 2023, Forbes Magazine published a list of predictions about what the world of artificial intelligence will look like in the year 2030.

1. We will interact with a wide range of AIs in our daily lives as naturally as we interact with other humans today. We will use AIs as our personal assistants, our tutors, our career counselors, our therapists, our accountants, our lawyers. They will be ubiquitous in our work lives: conducting analyses, writing code, building products, selling products, supporting customers, coordinating across teams and organizations, making strategic decisions. And yes – it will be commonplace for humans to have AIs as significant others.
2. Over one hundred thousand humanoid robots will be deployed in the real world.bringing cutting-edge AI into the real world is the next great frontier for artificial intelligence.
3. AI-driven job loss will be one of the most widely discussed political and social issues. Before the decade is out, AI-driven job loss will be a concrete and pressing reality in everyday citizens’ lives. In the years ahead, organizations will find that they can boost profitability and productivity by using AI to complete more and more work that previously required humans. This will happen across industries and pay grades: from customer service agents to accountants, from data scientists to cashiers, from lawyers to security guards, from court reporters to pathologists, from taxi drivers to management consultants, from journalists to musicians.^[1]

“Gentlemen, we can build them. We have the technology. They will be like man, only better than he was before. Better… stronger… faster.”

We cannot saying 100% that AI is what will empower the Image of the Beast and do many other things for the antichrist. But it could in ways that we never dreamed of even a decade ago.

Whether it is AI or something else, the stage is being set for a global government, a global economy, and even a global religion that worships the antichrist.

We live in the Church Age. It began on the day of Pentecost fifty days after Jesus Christ rose from the dead. It precedes the Time of Jacob’s Trouble, more commonly known as the seven-year Great Tribulation.

The Tribulation will not begin until something fantastic happens. The Lord said He would return for us, the Church, raising the dead in Christ, then catching up (rapturing) believers who are alive when He comes.

Jesus promised His Church Age believers, “I also 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).

The resurrection and rapture of the church is always imminent. It could happen any moment; nothing needs to happen before it.

Are you ready for the rapture? If not, Get ready; Stay ready; Keep looking up.

Ready or not, Jesus is coming!