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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A reader of my articles sent a piece from the Times of Israel to me.  She was very upset and even said that she believed that these are not “real” Jews.  Unfortunately, they are not only real Jews, but the liberal Jews represents the majority of my people.

The Jewish people, as a whole, are very liberal minded.  I loved my mother very much – she died in 1999.  But I must be truthful with the reader about my mother’s ultra-liberalism.

After I was born-again in 1983, my mother told me that she was less upset about me believing in Jesus than she was at my becoming a Conservative thinker.  These were her words:  “I can’t believe that I gave birth to a Conservative!”

She was pro-abortion, pro-gay rights; pro “anything” that the Lord would consider as sin.  She even defended Bill Clinton after his disgusting relationship with Lewinsky was made public.  She told me that powerful men need more sex.  I responded to her that powerful “married” men have wives for that.

Most Jews are Secular or “Reformed”  

My father was raised in an Orthodox Jewish home in Boston, MA.  My mother was raised in a secular Jewish home in Philadelphia.  They met in D.C. at a Jewish Community Center during WWII.  My dad adored my mom and he gave up his Orthodox traditions and beliefs for her.  Isn’t it interesting that the Lord put a hunger in my father to really know Him, but not my mother?

After my parents retired to Florida, I began to witness to my dad in letters.  He wrote beautiful letters back to me.  He would talk about the Ten Commandments, and how proud it made him that I cared about God.  He began to watch Billy Graham Crusades on TV whenever they were on.  It made my mother a little crazy!

My parents moved back to MD after my dad’s health began to fail.  The Lord allowed me the privilege of leading my father to Him on the night of his death in 1997.

From timesofisrael.com

Breaking down stereotypes, Jewish day school to host drag queen Shabbat ceremony

“Massachusetts’ Lander Grinspoon Academy will hold ‘Sparkle Havdalah’ event in recognition of ‘all sorts of family structures in our community.’”

The Saturday evening event at a Jewish day school in western Massachusetts will in many ways look like a typical havdalah ceremony.  There will be a musical interlude marking the end of Shabbat with a traditional braided candle, grape juice and spice bags.

But the event at the Lander Grinspoon Academy in Northampton will also feature storytelling by a less typical guest: a drag queen.

The school, together with local Jewish organizations, is hosting a Jewish version of Drag Queen Story Hour, a national program in which drag entertainers read stories to children.  The goal of the program, launched in San Francisco in 2015, is to give kids “glamorous, positive, and unabashedly queer role models.”

A local drag queen, Jenayah De Rosario, will be reading “Sparkle Boy,” a book by Jewish children’s author Leslea Newman, about a young boy who likes to wear glittery clothing. Newman will be on hand to read two of her books: “Here Is the World: A Year of Jewish Holidays,” and “Heather Has Two Mommies,” which when published in 1989 drew praise and controversy for portraying a family with same-sex parents.

The event will also feature plenty of glitter, including workshops to make sparkly spice bags and crowns, a photo booth with costumes, and face painting.

Amy Meltzer, the school’s director of family engagement, came up with the idea for Sparkle Havdalah: A Drag Queen Story Hour after a local library hosted a drag queen story hour organized by Newman.  Meltzer, who serves in the same role for event co-sponsor Congregation B’nai Israel of Northampton, said hosting the havdalah event aligned with the values of the local Jewish community.

Liberal Jews
“We live in a community that is progressive, has many LGBTQ families and really celebrates people being themselves and not being stuck with really rigid ideas of what gender needs to look like, so it felt like a really natural fit for our community,” Meltzer told JTA.

Lander Grinspoon Academy is a non-denominational day school that welcomes children “from all Jewish traditions and backgrounds.”

The area, which includes Smith College, Mount Holyoke College and the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts, has a national reputation for being LGBTQ-friendly.  The event is co-sponsored by a range of Jewish institutions in the area, including the school and Congregation B’nai Israel of Northampton along with Gan Keshet Preschool, Abundance Farm, PJ Library of Western Massachusetts and the Upper Pioneer Valley, and the Beit Ahavah synagogue.  The Harold Grinspoon Foundation, which runs PJ Library and is headquartered in nearby Agawam, is providing funding.

In 2014, PJ library, a non-profit organization that sends free Jewish children’s’ books and CDs to families, for the first time included a book featuring LGBTQ characters: “The Purim Superhero.” However, it chose to make the book about a young boy with two fathers available by request only, rather than sending it out to all who subscribe to the service.  PJ Library drew both praise and criticism from the LGBTQ community and allies — praise for including the book, criticism for treating it differently than other books.

Newman said she sees the Lander event as a step forward.

“As far as I know, besides “Purim Superhero,” there hasn’t been a [PJ Library] book that touches on issues of LGBTQ families,” she said.  “I would like to think that they at some point might consider heading in that direction.  I know they have a very broad constituency, and it’s hard to please everybody, so I am absolutely thrilled that they are sponsoring this event.”

“The local PJ Library service welcomes a diverse group of families, including interfaith, interracial and LGBTQ families,” said Rachel Hirsch Schneider, the coordinator for the PJ Library of Western Massachusetts and the Upper Pioneer Valley.  The branch operates under the umbrella of the Jewish Federation of Western Massachusetts.

“We have all sorts of family structures in our community, and we embrace that fully,” Hirsch Schneider told JTA, adding that she hoped to plan future events for LGBTQ families.

Meltzer wants to attract families who might not otherwise attend a Jewish event.  She is expecting a large turnout and has bought craft materials for 100 children.

“People have certain stereotypes that a Jewish community might have a narrower approach to understanding gender, so it’s a message that we’re a welcoming community and an inclusive community,” Meltzer said.

She noted that the event might not be a hit everywhere.

“We know this is a good fit for our community,” she said. “I have no suggestion that every community ought to have a drag queen havdalah.” –source

Brethren, most of the readers of this article are also readers of God’s Word.  I am sure that you remember that the Jewish people throughout the Word of God were called “stiff necked,” and so they were and are.  During the coming Time of Jacob’s Trouble, God will deal with His Chosen people who are unrepentant.  Did you know that Tel Aviv is known as the “Gay Capital of the World?”

But don’t forget that there are more believing Jews in Israel today – more than ever before in history!  About 10% of Jews in Israel are Orthodox, and most of them live in Jerusalem.  Jewish people in America are predominantly secular and do not even care for Israel.  Some of them are pro-Palestinian!  I believe that this, along with the falling away of much of the church in America, will bring about the demise of our once great country.

Another Holocaust 

Unbelieving Jews do not know that a Holocaust is coming that is more horrific than the one they remember from Nazi Germany.  After Antichrist sits in the Temple and declares that he is God – the eyes of the Jewish people will be opened.  Antichrist will slaughter 2/3 of Israel.  1/3 will flee to the hills.

I pray that this article falls into the hands of many unbelieving Jews.  And I pray that the Lord will use this to draw many of His people to Him – and their eyes will be opened before the Rapture.

And I do believe that we are so very close to the Rapture.  Those left behind will experience the most horrific time this earth will ever know:

“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” (Matthew 24:21).

MARANATHA!

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