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Revelation 13:11-17

“Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. ¹² 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, whose deadly wound was healed. ¹³ He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. ¹⁴ 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 who was wounded by the sword and lived.

¹⁵ 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. ¹⁶ He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, ¹⁷ and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”

The rise and the popularity of Artificial Intelligence are astonishing. Like GPS a couple of decades ago, a lot of what we see is just cast-off where the technology is old, and so they can let us see what they had. And since it is new to us, it ‘wows’ us. Please think of how cool some of this stuff is, and yet what they are allowing us to see is probably obsolete to them.

The kind of research that is going on is often done in obscure labs and their finds published in journals only the PhD and scientist class people read. But in an article in Biotechnology and Health published in March 2021 tells us about the experiments to grow mouse embryos in artificial wombs and then asks the question, who is next? In May 2020, an article in Forbes Magazine talked about experiments to add live brain matter to inorganic silicon chips to help the chips be faster. The brain is the only intelligent entity in the body. They want the chips to process faster; the human brain is the fastest processor ever created.

Genetic tampering is the system of Satan and his minions. We can go back to Genesis 6 and see the account there of the ‘sons of God,’ fallen angels who engaged in sexual relations with human women, and the result was giant offspring. They were continually thinking of evil, and God had to intervene to protect the genetic makeup of the human line so that Jesus would not have a corrupted gene pool. His gene pool needed to extend back to Adam so that He, Jesus, could be sacrificed for our sins.

The same mindset is at work here. There is genetic manipulation to create something that God didn’t create, nor did He intend to be created. These men are playing God; make no mistake, these experiments will not just stop at mice. Soon, if not currently, they will begin to experiment on us human beings.

There is always a good reason to do evil. They must make the point that evil is necessary to help us humans have a better life. AI will work for us, freeing us to live an easy life. AI will do surgeries faster, better, and more efficiently and make fewer mistakes, making our lives better, and on and on we can go. Let us give the vast majority of scientists the benefit of the doubt; however, behind them are the ones who know what is happening and why it is happening.

Remember the movie Robocop; this is an old what we would call a Sci-Fi movie from the 1980s. In this movie, a police officer is seriously wounded, and this presents just the right opportunity for the scientists to experiment with merging human tissue and robotic limbs together. These ideas are nothing new as far as movies are concerned, but there are some that are trying to make this kind of thing a reality, and it may be that they already have.

In our passage above, the Anti-Christ can deploy his lifelike image. This image will look just like him (verse 14); it will have the ability to speak and breathe and give orders. The False Prophet encourages the masses of the world to worship the beast, the Anti-Christ, and has the power to punish those who refuse to do so.

When we first began looking at passages like this when I was in seminary 4 decades ago, no one understood robotics; we imagined a statue and some sort of ventriloquist’s sleight of hand magic at work. But here we are now, and we know better. This image will look like a man, walk and talk like a man, and even appear to breathe and be alive. It will fool billions of people.

Robotics and AI are interdependent systems to some degree. In an article published in October 2023 titled “9 Emerging Trends in Robotics and Animation,” one can see how AI empowers robots to learn and how this allows them to be used in many ways, in particular alongside humans. There is a growing trend in medicine to use AI.

In the section on humanoid robots, this is what you see:

Perhaps the most engaging and closely aligned with the realm of science fiction imagination of robots is the humanoid.
These robots are designed to mimic human appearance and movements and are currently gaining traction as a prominent trend in the robotics and automation industry.
Robots, such as Sophia and ASIMO, are increasingly used in applications ranging from customer service to education and companionship for the elderly.
The trend is propelled by the desire to create machines capable of human-like interaction and a growing interest in social robotics.

Beyond their utility in the aforementioned sectors, they also raise profound questions about the future of human-robot relationships.

This is the very technology that the Anti-Christ will use to deceive the world and bring a level of destruction to the Jews when they realize that he is not their Messiah. By defiling the new temple in Jerusalem with an idol and claiming to be God (hence the call to worship), the Jews will have their eyes opened and rebel against the Anti-Christ. The ensuing deaths will be catastrophic. All the philanthropic theater will be dispelled with, and the real reason for AI will be seen by the world; that is the destruction of mankind and the control of those under its robotic thumb.

An AI who is intelligent, incorporated into all of the world’s systems via the internet, and with electronic access to your cars, banks, grocery stores and hospitals will have the control to make sure no one buys or sells without the mark. These systems are being put in place alongside the rise of AI and the development of robotics as we speak.

Those of us in Jesus Christ are seeing this, and we recoil from it; the people of the world system, blinded from the truth of the scriptures by Satan, rush headlong into the darkness, and what they perceive to be a light is actually the freight train of the dark empire coming to kill and destroy. They think that AI will make all better; we know that AI will make all subservient to Satan and ultimately dead.

Oh, Lord Jesus, come soon! We see the darkness ahead, and it seems that our warnings fall on deaf ears as we are accused of being ‘party poopers’ or ‘religious idiots.’

Keep watching for the expansion of the AI industry and the development of even more and more ‘human’ robots. The world is about to get crazier; I am sure we will see some of it before Jesus comes to get us. Look up; the trumpet will soon sound.

God bless you,

Dr. Sean Gooding
Pastor of Mississauga Missionary Baptist Church

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We are in a very critical time in the history of the United States of America, a country based on Judeo-Christian values. One with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and also the freedom of speech. But since our values and morals have degraded to the extent that the United States is hardly recognizable from what it was only fifty years ago, it’s evident we are doomed to failure, and we should be concerned.

People who were once thought to be mentally unstable and a threat to our society were let out of mental institutions a few years back, and now, incredibly, we have the mentally unstable in charge of the county! Did you happen to see the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, starring Jack Nicholson? I guess they weren’t so dumb after all. How can a man who lies with another man be in his right mind? Or can a woman who proudly claims to be of American Indian heritage yet has less than 1% Indian blood in her whole body be in her right state of mind? And how can an obvious man claim to be a woman just by wearing a wig and using balloons for boobs? Whatever happened to people who were content or even happy to be what they were born to be?

At first, they were closeted, insecure individuals, and slowly but surely, they’ve come to be blatant and in your face about their extreme and vile sinfulness. Now, they are even so bold as to tell us that they want our children to be exploited. We can all see the havoc these perverts have caused in our once-normal society, where men were men and women were women. When I was in Hollywood chasing a career in movie acting, it was the first time I encountered such open deviousness. The corner periodicals were rife with sexual innuendo and open ads. “NAMBLA” was one of the first to openly display their agenda of Man/boy so-called love. Ugh. This aberration is a trampling of God’s laws underfoot.

Criminals run loose on the streets of America with no morals or concern for their fellow man. This is true throughout the world, and we are all paying the price for this behavior. Rain, the likes of which we’ve never seen, is flooding cities all over the world, destroying cities, crops, and human life. I reported about this for three full months recently, and now it’s happening again. It seems that God is cleansing mankind through these chastisements – not quite ready to mostly destroy humanity just yet. Even though he has in the past, as in the Great Flood. How else can he get our attention? Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions are growing in number everywhere, yet people carry on as if nothing is happening.

Surely, this isn’t just a chastisement; it’s a fulfillment of biblical prophecy as well. Jesus spoke about it often. As did the Old Testament prophets as well as the New Testament Apostles. Everything they said would happen in the End Times is happening even as we speak. Yet, people everywhere are blind to the consequences of their actions. Last year’s “Burning Man” event was marred by monsoon rains, and this year, it was finished off by a stinging sandstorm with visibility nearly impossible and sand whipping the sunburned skin with a vengeance.

Louisiana and Texas will soon be subjected to a fierce storm that will eventually reach up into the center of the country and beyond. Meanwhile, storms are making their way north in both the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, as well as the Pacific. We don’t often hear about the monsoons and storms in Asia, but rest assured, they are happening there as well – with major loss of life.

We Spirit-filled Christians aren’t necessarily afraid of these events but see them as the approaching deliverance that will be ours in the very near future. The rapture of the church. Those who hate God are shaking in their boots – as they should be – for all their vile sinfulness.

Book report

In the book The Case for Trump by Victor Davis Hanson, 2024 Edition, Victor speaks of the odd ways of former president Trump – a tireless warrior for the country even as he approaches eighty.

With energy abounding, he attacks his enemies with vigor and truth – at least at this point. They go running to their respective dark abodes, where they plan their next personal attacks. But thanks be to God, he can parry and thrust with the best of them.

You can bet that the presidential race will end in tragedy for some – maybe even death if the rhetoric isn’t toned down. Yet, for all our hoping, the inevitable will be unavoidable in the days running up to the election. So it’s best to arm ourselves with the unassailable word of God and his promises to care for those who love Him. Likewise, the well-entrenched Never Trumpers and backstabbers should tremble with fear of losing their often ill-gained jobs and positions – and are already leaving the political field of battle for fear of retribution should Trump win.

We, however, are not like them – demanding to impose their will on us. Instead, we pray for people like that to see the light, repent, and leave the rest of us alone to live in peace.

YBIC

Jim Towers

You can write me at jt.filmmaker@yahoo.com or visit me at www.dropzonedelta.com My book Visions, Miracles, Peace, and Power can be ordered on Amazon Books and Kindle. You can also find me on my newly restructured website, www.propheticsignsandwonders.com, which now features videos of worldwide events taking place in the present time, as well as proof of God’s existence and the reality of Biblical places and Moses himself. Incidentally, my website now features “Christian Songs” and is the “go-to” place for them.

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