I have been writing many articles concerning Artificial Intelligence and how it may be setting the stage for the “Wicked” the Antichrist to make his entrance onto the  world stage.

One of my readers sent me an article today about the perceptions of a Kabbalist rabbi in Israel about AI. In the article, another rabbi is quoted, and his words were chilling to me.

We know from Scripture that Antichrist will confirm a covenant with Israel for one week (actually speaking of 7 years) God will finally open their eyes to the evil they have trusted. 3 1/2 years after the signing of the covenant, the Wicked will sit in the newly constructed 3rd Temple and declare himself to be God. This will be the start of the Great Tribulation. It is only then that the eyes of Israel will be opened and 2/3 will be slaughtered by Antichrist, while 1/3 flees to the hills.

From breakingisraelnews.com

Artificial intelligence in the End-of-Days: Killer Bots for Gog or Dry Bones to Praise God?

“And He said to me, “Prophesy over these bones and say to them: O dry bones, hear the word of Hashem!” Ezekiel 37:4 (The Israel Bible™)

Artificial intelligence is advancing at a lightning pace and is already being adopted for military use, raising questions as to what role this powerful new technology will play in the end-of-days. Will it be a terrifying rogue combatant in the final Biblical War of Gog and Magog, or will it be an unforeseen savior of mankind and even have a possible role in the resurrection of the dead? (Emphasis mine)

We know that this “unforeseen savior” is Antichrist himself. We also know that the One who has everything to do with the resurrection of the dead is our Lord Jesus Christ.

In one potential end-of-days scenario, technology plays a destructive role for humanity. A video, titled “Slaughterbots” and produced by the notorious Campaign to Stop Killer Robots illustrates this outcome in which autonomous drones armed with explosive charges wreak havoc on society. The video is part of a campaign intended to ban lethal autonomous weapons, a concern which clearly resonates with many as the petition has already garnered over 20,000 signatures.

Aspects of the fictitious future depicted in the video are appearing to become reality. Both India and Japan announced this week that they are beginning to introduce autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) into their defense sectors.

At the same time, governments also recognize that the destructive potential of AI raises moral difficulties. British Prime Minister Theresa May announced this week that her government is establishing an advisory body to coordinate with other countries in discussing how artificial intelligence can be used ethically for military purposes.

It seems that any future war, including the pre-Messianic War of Gog and Magog, will include killer robots, and many spiritual leaders are already considering how AI figures into a religious vision of the end-of-days. Rabbi Michael Laitman, a leading expert in Kabbalah and the founder of Bnei Baruch Kabbalah association, believes that technology and more specifically artificial intelligence, will play a major role in the end-of-days but not necessarily a positive one.

“It is clear in Kabbalah that in the times preceding geula (redemption), Man is going to utilize the entire potential of technology,” Rabbi Laitman told Breaking Israel News. “Men will begin to create artificial intelligence. People will want to achieve something similar to the creation of Man.”  (emphasis mine)

 My heart aches for my people who do not understand that their “Redemption” came, but they missed His visitation

“In the time of the geula, people will understand that all of this development, all throughout history, is what brought us to an even greater collapse,” he stressed. “This will become very clear in war when we see that all of the technology we developed for man’s good can immediately turn around and be used against man.”

Rabbi Laitman believes that the same motives of Man which led to the construction of the Tower of Babel are also in play with the development of artificial intelligence.

“Men wanted to ascend to the heavens and become like God,” the rabbi explained. “To do this, they were dealing with the basic foundations of creation. They wanted to fix something inside man they believed was a blemish.” (emphasis mine)   

Yes – the blemish of which the rabbi speaks is of course “Sin”

Though this motive sounds noble, Rabbi Laitman pointed out a flaw that turned their good intentions into evil.

“This came from a place of ego, in which they wanted to take the place of God,” Rabbi Laitman said.

Personally, I believe that the intentions of man in building the Tower of Babel were from the very start  “evil” and that AI is also man’s attempt to take the place of God

In an article that Rabbi Laitman published last Friday in Breaking Israel News, he outlined the dangers of artificial intelligence but also described a solution in containing potential problems.

“Unfortunately, I do believe that AI-powered weapons will be developed,” the rabbi wrote. “If we upgraded our human consciousness at least as much as we upgraded our technologies, then we would have no fear of creating AI terminators that would be capable of eliminating us. Instead, we would further our research to discover a technology more sophisticated than AI, and energy more powerful than nuclear energy.”

The New Age thought and terminology is glaring here. Upgrading our human consciousness? Our minds and hearts were changed when we repented and trusted Yeshua for the forgiveness of our sins!

Rabbi Mark Goldfeder, a senior lecturer at Emory University School of Law, speculated that AI would, in fact, play a more positive role in the Messiah.  (emphasis mine)

When the rabbi speaks of “A more positive role in the Messiah, he does not understand that he is actually speaking of Satan who will indwell Antichrist!  Pray for this man.

“Some people have proposed an apocalyptic vision of AI in which Man and machine merge in the End of Days, suggesting that this would be tchiyat hametim (resurrection of the dead),” he told Breaking Israel News.

He also described efforts to upload the entirety of an individual’s knowledge to a computer.

“Some scientists think they are on the path to achieving this and in some form replicating or even recreating the consciousness of individuals,” Rabbi Goldfeder said. “This is not the traditional understanding of tchiyat hametim and not one that I ascribe to, but that being the case, I can’t imagine why it would be problematic as something else entirely if it is done with proper consent.”  (emphasis mine)

Done with proper consent?  This is a fallen world, and the “consent” will be from fallen people.

The rabbi suggested that at some point in the future theologians will have to determine whether AI should be considered sentient and human.(emphasis mine)

Sentient and human? Unthinkable!

“The line between Man and machine in the Torah is not as clear as what we would like to think it is,” the rabbi said.

Although AI poses many ethical and theological questions, Rabbi Goldfeder thinks that not only is this a good thing but that the development of technology was in fact intended by God to be part of Man’s role in being a partner with God in Creation. (emphasis mine)

This is the part of this article which was the most alarming to me. A partner with God in Creation?  This is so New Age.  The evil one is certainly not very subtle in these end times!

“One of the first commandments we received was to conquer the world,which we understand as that doing your best to participate with God in creation,” Rabbi Goldfeder said, citing Genesis. (emphasis mine)

This was certainly not a Commandment as we understand the Ten Commandments

Hashem blessed them and Hashem said to them, “Be fertile and increase, fill the earth and master it;  Genesis 1:28

“All these forces were put in nature and they are amoral, not immoral; what we do with them establishes good or evil,” explained Rabbi Goldfeder. “Artificial intelligence has the ability to help us do incredible good.”

Rabbi Goldfeder believes AI will continue to be important even after the arrival of the Messiah.  (emphasis mine) –source

Rabbi Goldfeder does not realize that these words are absolutely prophetic, but his eyes have not been opened to the Truth of God’s Word. When he speaks of “Messiah” he does not know that Messiah Jesus already came.

Brethren, this article should be clearly understood by students of Bible Prophecy. Israel will indeed by deceived by Antichrist, whom they will believe is the long awaited Messiah.

This is God’s prophetic Word and nothing will stop it. But don’t forget that every Prophetic Word was uttered by the Holy Spirit to men who wrote under His inspiration.

We know how God’s story ends, and we are blessed who truly know Him and cling to Him as our Lord and Savior.

Pray for the Jewish people. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.  Pray for the unsaved.

We are certainly in the end of the end times!

Shalom b’Yeshua

MARANATHA!

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Artificial Intelligence and Antichrist

Since writing my last article about AI (Artificial Intelligence), I have been researching the ramifications of this technology. What the reader will see in this piece will be shocking – even alarming. But AI is here and is progressing at breakneck speed.

I do believe that as John the Baptist cried out in the wilderness to make the paths straight for the coming of the Lord, Satan (whom I believe is behind this technology) is crying out:

“Make way for AI, for it is the answer to the earth’s problems – and the Path to Paradise for all who will follow!”

Here is my last article for those who did not see it:

Artificial Intelligence and Antichrist: Will There Be a Connection?

I happened upon a website while researching AI. The similarities and references to Christianity were not subtle, but glaring and intentional. Satan knows that his time is short, and wants to deceive as many people as he can. After all, that is what he does best.

From motherboard.vice.com

**I am “bolding” key words in this article for the benefit of the reader.  My commentary will be in blue.

Silicon Valley’s Radical Machine Cult

From afterlife to machine transcendence, Digitalism offers a new promise of paradise.

We are witnessing the beginning of Silicon Valley institutionalizing its religious beliefs. As Wired reported recently, Anthony Levandowski, a top Silicon Valley engineer formerly working for Google’s self-driving car company Waymo, and now at the center of the trade secrets lawsuit between Uber and Waymo, founded a religious organization called Way of the Future. Its goal? To “develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence.” According to Wired, Way of the Future was founded in September 2015.

I find it interesting that the UN Sustainable Development Goals final document was adopted at the UN on this very date.  Coincidence?  I think not.

It was on the 20th of that month when, 9,400 miles away in Switzerland, I first became aware that Digitalism had turned into a kind of religion. I participated in a conference in the French mountain resort of Chamonix underneath the white peak of Montblanc, where leading technologists had gathered to discuss our future. The topic of one panel discussion, featuring executives from Google and eBay and the CEO of a prominent US think tank, was “Technology is turning the world upside down—what’s going on?”

What was going on?  Satan was fomenting his plan to enter Antichrist on his appointed day.

As they enthusiastically discussed the many ways digitalization will make the world a better place, I started to experience my own epiphany: Slowly and all at once, I saw that these people were the evangelists of a new religion, true believers invoking the Promised Land with glowing eyes.

Not very subtle, is it?  The Promised Land – Yes, promised in God’s Word in the books of Daniel and Revelation.

In this version of paradise, cars will drive, factories will produce themselves, software and technology will find cures for everything, virtual reality will enable us to live our dreams instantly, and ubiquitous robots will serve us and understand us better than we understand ourselves. A land of milk and honey, where roasted, on-demand chicken flies directly into our mouths, is just around the corner. A new benevolent super-intelligence will solve all the problems we created over the last centuries, from climate change to global poverty, while we enjoy eternal leisure, softly hypnotized by screens, entertained and served by machine slaves.

A Land of Milk and Honey – that is what the land of Israel was called in the Old Testament. A new benevolent super intelligence will solve all of the world’s problems.  They speak of Antichrist here – it is crystal clear.

“The evangelical fervor is fascinating,” William Gibson said about Silicon Valley in an interview this year with Das Magazin. “These people are atheists; they don’t have a religion, but the mechanism is the same. God comes and saves us all. Just that in their case God is technology.”

They think their god is technology. They have no idea that their god is the devil himself.

But I think Gibson was wrong. They do have a religion: Digitalism, or machine religion. Digitalists believe in transcending the human condition, ultimately overcoming death through machines.

There is that word “Transcending.” You might remember Transcendentalists and Transcendental Meditation.  Satanic – all of it.

Just as Christianity promises ultimate redemption from Original Sin, Digitalism promises redemption from the unavoidable sin of our messy, distracted, limited brains, irrational emotions, and aging bodies.

Here is where the followers of the “Social Gospel” will undoubtedly jump on board, and I can just hear Kumbaya being sung together.

As Wired founding executive editor, Kevin Kelly, put it in a 2002 article titled “God is the Machine,” Digitalists literally believe in the transcendent power of digital computation. In that sense, Digitalism is linked to the beliefs of transhumanists and similar movements, and thrives on a broader global terrain where traditional religion is in decline (while evangelical movements are on the rise), the internet continues its march across the planet. We’re on fertile ground for digitalism.

That is a very true statement that traditional religion is in decline (mainline denominations) but that Evangelical movements are on the rise (God’s Remnant of true believers).

Risks? Computers will soon be intelligent enough to manage them, so why worry? You might expect even the most radical Digitalists to at least recognize cybersecurity as a potential concern. Despite the premise of the discussion’s title, the panel did not utter one word about any risks, for that matter. Nothing.

The longer the panelists talked, the more common traits between Digitalists and the followers of all other religions became apparent. If you don’t profess to Digitalism, you will be left behind; you will be part of a miserable, inferior, anachronistic species in a dysfunctional, dirty, analog world soon to be extinct; Hell on earth, in effect.

Not an unrealistic scenario, if the so-called Singularity—the moment machine intelligence surpasses human intelligence—becomes reality faster than we could ever imagine, as digital dementia might make humans dumber than Siri is today. However, no need to worry: computers will create opportunities and find purpose for those left behind in the age of digitalization.

Brethren, is it not clear that what they refer to as “being left behind” will be those who are true children of God? After the Rapture, these will be the Tribulation Saints.

At the heart of the Digitalist premise of technology’s empowerment is a belief in the inherent incompleteness of humans. Just as Christianity promises ultimate redemption from Original Sin, Digitalism promises redemption from the unavoidable sin of our messy, distracted, limited brains, irrational emotions, and aging bodies. Digital redemption will come upon us in the form of super-intelligent machine intervention, chips to implant in our brains and hard disks to upload our consciousness to (or so goes the vision of Google’s prophet, futurist Ray Kurzweil).

While traditional religions believe in the immortal soul, Digitalists believe in the immortality of the lines of code they aim to reduce our mind and consciousness to.

It is clear to me that the “chips to implant in our brains and hard disks to upload our consciousness will come from the “Mark of the Beast.”  I believe that these “marks” will send these chips to the brains of those who receive the dreaded mark. This will indeed seal their fate.  (Do not believe any teaching which suggests that taking the mark will not prevent a person from ever being saved!)

Digitalism claims to provide a set of final answers to all of humanity’s problems and promises to bring paradise. Their belief is driven by deep contempt for humans, for humanity. The Digitalist religious vision is to remove the human factor altogether.

Satan loathes the human race – so much that he is determined to take as many as he can to hell.

Christopher Mims, in a January piece about cybersecurity for the Wall Street Journal, articulated this when he wrote of humans as the “critical, unpatchable weakness.” “History has shown us we aren’t going to win this war by changing human behavior,” Mims concluded. “But maybe we can build systems that are so locked down that humans lose the ability to make dumb mistakes. Until we gain the ability to upgrade the human brain, it’s the only way.”

The ONLY way to change human behavior is a regeneration of their spirit – to be born again from above – a circumcision of the heart by God Himself.

The rejection of what Digitalists call “the human factor,” combined with the dream of a God-like, perfect machine-power, makes them fundamentally post-humanists with a more shiny, civilized façade. A darker reading might find a parallel in other contemporary fundamentalist forces.

As André Glucksmann, a contemporary French philosopher, has brilliantly described in his book Dostoievski in Manhattan, the driver of what today has become ISIS is the negation and destruction of all human values—a violent, barbarian, belligerent version of post-humanism. Digitalists would readily annihilate what to their eyes is human imperfection altogether, if only they could become a machine themselves first.

Like many post-humanists, Digitalists believe we are enjoying (or suffering through) the last days of homo sapiens as we know them. If not something like a continuously extended life, then the fusion of humankind and machine into a new super-species may be close at hand. The turning point, the return of the Messiahs, is just some 20 or so years away. According to the high-priests of the Singularity, for instance, a God-like super-intelligence will arise, the Christ of the golden machine age.

It is obvious of whom they speak – this is Antichrist!  I find it interesting that when using the term “Messiah” they state that this is only some 20 or so years away. 2030 is the projected year of the UN to complete their Sustainable Development Goals.

Silicon Valley, with its CEO-worship and male-oriented customs, can sometimes feel like another version of a religious state. The belief in Mary’s Immaculate Conception, the myth standing at the beginning of the arrival of Christ, is not so far from the equally unexplainable mystical Digitalist belief that consciousness will soon be born out of a machine if it just processes enough 0s and 1s.

They call the Immaculate Conception of Mary a “myth; and say that “consciousness” will soon be born out of a machine. They call their belief “mystical” and compare it to our Lord Jesus and His arrival on earth.

Part of this belief is the superstition that, perhaps, the universe—God herself—is a computer. Reality itself may be a simulation. By this account, if we evolve our computational power enough, we will become one with God—the ultimate yearning of all religions.

AH! Here is the caveat:  Becoming one with God.  I think of the Tower of Babel and Satan’s plan from the very beginning to be “like” God. New Age teachings say that we are “little gods.”

In modern times, Kelly’s 2002 article, a survey of Matrix-like, variously murky scientific theories of “universal computation,” appears to be one of the first that uses the term. “Somehow, according to digitalism, we are linked to one another, all beings alive and inert, because we share, as [theoretical physicist] John Wheeler said, ‘at the bottom—at a very deep bottom, in most instances—an immaterial source,’” Kelly wrote. “This commonality, spoken of by mystics of many beliefs in different terms, also has a scientific name: computation. Bits—minute logical atoms, spiritual in form—amass into quantum quarks and gravity waves, raw thoughts and rapid motions.”

There is, in a sense, one marked difference between digitalism and modern religion: the Digitalists, in their scientistic emphasis, believe that they aren’t believers.

Satan is the author of confusion.

“We only talk about facts,” said one of the panel members when the audience challenged the panel’s visions.

If God punishes in the form of a misfortune, fanatical believers of all religions assume they have not been religious enough. For the panel in Chamonix, any problem that technology might create is, therefore, easy to solve—with more of the same. God is just testing your faith; you need to intensify your belief. The Digitalist vision calls for solving the problems computation brings with more computation, less error-prone human interference, a society on AI-guided autopilot. Two-hundred years after Kant, humans will finally be able to stop using their imperfect brains and searching for answers so the future can finally arrive.

The “future” of which they speak is the coming of Antichrist. I am compelled to believe that this man of sin will actually be an AI robot – but not just another one. He will be able to control all AI and, at this point, unbelievers will be at the mercy of Antichrist.

In Chamonix, as an epilogue to their mass—it was truly surreal—they played “Imagine” by John Lennon. It strangely sounded as if they had found an ideal anthem:

Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can. 

Yes, thank you Airbnb and Uber.

Imagine all the people, sharing all the world. 

This is happening; just check your Terms and Conditions.

And the world will live as one. 

As in, one brain-linked social network of the future, connecting us all into one superhuman supercomputer. (Should we call it “the Matrix?”)

It sounds like a paraphrase of Facebook’s complex and convenient new mission: To “give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together,” as Mark Zuckerberg told a crowd of Facebook Group leaders earlier this year. If we believe it’s good for us, and join the flocks and go along with it, well, we too can live in the Promised Land. As the logic of social media demonstrates, the story we tell ourselves about the future doesn’t need to be true. It just needs to be shareable.

They love our expression “Promised Land” don’t they?

In the rush of the stream, it can be hard to remember that these visions of the future often tend to turn out very different from what their creators had envisioned. Think of fake news or the Uber culture or the walled gardens of tech giants; part of the problem, as Salon put it recently, is a CEO-worship problem—powerful priests offering narratives of biblical dimension.

And if you do not believe what they say – you will be hunted like an animal. And with AI – it will not be difficult to find your whereabouts.

However, in order to get to their Promised Land, anything that doesn’t fit into the brave new machine-world must first be cut to size in the Digitalists’ bed of Procrustes, the world of 0s and 1s, streamlining all life into dead and sterile bits and bites.

Imagine there’s no heaven. It’s easy if you try. – source

Since becoming a Christian, I knew that John Lennon’s “Imagine” would be the anthem of the reign of Antichrist. And so it is.

Jan Markell is doing a two-part interview with Pastor Billy Crone on her radio broadcast.  The theme? “Will Artificial Intelligence Rule the World?”

If you missed this, I highly recommend that you listen. Here is where you can hear Part 1:

Understanding the Times: Jan Markell interviews Pastor Billy Crone on the topic of AI and if it will rule the world:

Interview Part 1   (part 2 will air next Saturday)

Brothers and sisters in Christ, I believe that AI is exactly how Satan will fool the world.  I believe that Antichrist will be the leader of Artificial Intelligence – and not a human, but the ultimate AI Robot which will reign over all AI robots.

I believe that after the Rapture of the Church, that all those taking the mark of the beast will lose not only their souls to Satan, but also their ability to think as humans. Please share this with unbelieving friends and family. It is happening now, and if this information can startle a person enough where they begin to seek after  God, then this article will have been worth the writing.

MARANATHA!

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