Who Needs God in An Age of Artificial Intelligence?

When I first began hearing about artificial intelligence (AI) years ago, I don’t think anyone could perceive its dangers. Clearly, it had end-time significance. Surely this would assist the Antichrist in his “buying and selling” scheme.

But God gives intelligence. How does mankind create it? And the honest question is, would it be a blessing or a Frankenstein? How about both?

There Have Been Ominous Warnings

A decade ago, I read the title to some articles that were stunning. One was, “Ex-Google Executive Anthony Levandowski is Founding a Church Where People Worship an Artificial Intelligence God.” Another story was headlined, “Why Humans Will Happily Follow an A.I. Robot Messiah.”

Microsoft founder Bill Gates says, “AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice. It could accelerate medical discoveries, help doctors diagnose, provide farmers in poorer countries with better agricultural advice, make government services easier to navigate, and give teachers tools to personalize education.”

Then he backtracks and says he doesn’t think the world is ready for it.

AI experts have made further warnings. I began assembling comments a decade ago. Here are just a few:

• The human era could be ending, and machines will take over.
• He who develops AI rules the world. We won’t be able to control it.
• We are summoning up demons. Be very careful.
• We are playing with fire.
• AI could become smarter than humans and could become a god.
• AI could be the worst event in the history of civilization, as machines could win.

The Warning That Went Around the World

In September of this year, a former employee of Open AI and Anthropic stated, “I resigned from Anthropic today. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are gambling with our lives. Don’t underestimate the power of this technology. These will soon be superhuman systems that can hack anything, revolutionize any field, and acquire real power.”

He concludes, “The people building AI believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. No other human activity poses this level of danger.”

Justifying a Global Government

Here is how one man could control all buying and selling. Could it play a role in the “image of the beast”? Why not? And as critics are warning now, AI could simultaneously create the crisis used to justify global government—and provide the technological machinery necessary to operate it.

Global crises are just that—they are global. The threat is global; therefore, the solution must also be global. The end-time scenario requires a one-world leader. The technology is here. Maybe this new religion isn’t the promise of paradise after all. Some promoting AI are evangelists, and some of them offer a new Promised Land, it would seem. But some of the very movers and shakers of the artificial intelligence industry are sounding serious warnings. If we’re summoning up demons, as one suggests, this is a type of Frankenstein in the wrong hands.

Who Needs God in an Age of Artificial Intelligence?

Young people are particularly drawn to artificial intelligence. Some will tell you that they can get an answer more quickly from Google or Alexa than they can from God. Who needs God in an age of artificial intelligence? Who needs an invisible God? And Google or Alexa may tell you what you want to hear in Technicolor, 3-D, and instantaneously!

But, as I have pondered here the last few years, I agree with those who are saying this is the second super sign of Christ’s return. The first was the dry bones coming back to life (Ezekiel 37); the second is this 21st-century technology that will be the key to the Antichrist kingdom.

AI Is Fearfully Fraudulent

AI cannot speak anything into existence or give anyone eternal life. It cannot give anyone comfort, guidance, or offer anyone peace or hope. It cannot still the wind or calm the sea. It is trying to be like God but will fall far short! We are fearfully and wonderfully made. AI is fearfully fraudulent. I know President Trump has renamed this “Super Intelligence” or SI, but I believe only God possesses that, and He distributes it in small portions to mankind.

God Cannot be Superseded by Computer Chips

Events of the Tribulation are casting a shadow today. He is coming soon! God sits in the Heavens and laughs at these people (Psalm 2). He will allow them a short season of notoriety and then will crush the evil doers at His Second Coming. The biblical vision of the future does not conclude with humanity being exterminated by its machines. In fact, it culminates in Jesus ruling and reigning. God created mankind in His image, not to be superseded by computer chips.

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Jan Markell launched Olive Tree Ministries in the 1980s.  In 2000, she began her syndicated radio program, “Understanding the Times,” heard on 1,000 stations. She stepped down from that in 2025.  She currently hosts the video podcast “Falling Into Place” with Michele Bachmann as co-host. Jan has authored ten books and, until 2019, hosted the world’s largest prophecy conference in suburban Minneapolis.

 

The title I am using for this article is not mine. It was the title Amir Tsarfati used at my prophecy conference in suburban Minneapolis in the Fall of 2016. It was one of the most captivating and timely messages ever presented at that event that spanned almost 20 years. Dare I say, some 5,000 people sat captivated–even riveted.

Amir described his experience in Europe that year. It left him terrified. You can hear the message here. Remember, this is a decade ago. He knew he was somewhere near the headquarters of a future Antichrist empire. He felt unnerved and even ran back to his hotel room, sensing evil or danger. Shortly after that, he called me, and we did a radio interview.

The Globalists Pave the Way

We’re seeing Europe’s globalists paving the way for the Antichrist. They are throwing out the welcome mat.

No, the title of Antichrist doesn’t belong to bumbling Emmanuel Macron, but in 2016, even The Economist magazine was calling him Europe’s savior. How God humbles the proud. As the head of France, no European leader today should be as ashamed as Emmanuel Macron, who casually enjoyed a Celine Dion concert while policemen were on fire in Paris and elsewhere.

Now the world knows he’s no savior. But there is one standing by somewhere. He will rise from obscurity.

There have been riots and demonstrations in Greece, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Portugal, and beyond, but began in mid-September in France.

Be He God or Devil, We Will Receive Him! Seriously?

Europe has cried for a savior in days gone by. Paul Henri Spaak—a Belgian politician called “Mr. Europe”- was Secretary General of NATO in 1957. At that time, he made a statement that lingers and should haunt Europeans today:

“What we need is a man of sufficient stature to hold the allegiance of all people, and to lift us out of the economic morass into which we are sinking. Send us such a man, and be he god or devil, we will receive him.”

Daniel 9 suggests the Antichrist will come from the region that destroyed the Temple in 70 AD. And while the Roman Empire was huge, most scholars suggest this “little horn” will arise from what is today the European Union.

Welcoming the Stranger??

Europe has reeked with the familiar mantras of “free Palestine” and “from the river to the sea” since October 7, 2023. Could that be a judgment? Decades ago, Europe killed most of its Jews and then began welcoming Islamic immigrants to the point of collapse today.

Now, they need a savior, and according to Spaak and almost all of today’s globalists, be he god or devil, they will receive him.

As Michele Bachmann and I asked in our recent online conversation (see below), is America paying attention? Globalists in every country, including America, want to destroy sovereignty, welcome unlimited immigrants as cheap laborers, and brag about being multi-cultural—even though many of these immigrants will never assimilate.

What’s Wrong with This Picture?

As a lifelong resident of Minnesota, I know. We are now called Mogadishu on the Mississippi. Our Scandinavian culture has been trampled, and mosques are replacing churches. As a thank you, the invaders extorted billions of dollars in Somali fraud from this once-pristine state. We no longer boast of ten thousand lakes; rather, ten thousand terrorists.

The European chaos is spreading rapidly. The fires of rebellion are casting an eerie glow. Evildoers are waiting in the wings to take advantage: globalists, communists, socialists, and an assortment of thugs. A deadly “red-green alliance” of communism and Islam.

“From the river to the sea,” they shout. This is where it leads. Hate the Jews and pay the price. Emmanuel Macron no longer walks on water. Soon, every European leader will be riddled with fear. They will all be longing for a “man-with-a-plan.”  Mr. Fix-It.

The Trade-Off: Kill the Jews, Welcome the Muslims?

Eighty and ninety years ago, Europe tracked down, registered, marked, and tried to murder every Jew in the world. Righteous Europeans tried to intervene in vain. A group of people who were a blessing to the world was targeted for extermination as an ethnic group. They have borne the brunt of enmity because they dared to be different and dared to insist on their difference.

God intervened, for it is Israel and the Jews who are His last days’ markers and clock signaling the end of days. And if God is for you, it doesn’t matter how many are against you. Their existence is the greatest testimony of a loving God who keeps His covenants to Jews and Christians. He spared a remnant who began the new State of Israel.

Europe was sick and twisted in the 1930s and is even more depraved today, except for a remnant of the righteous.

Awaiting Jesus Christ, Not Antichrist!

The true believer can be assured that we only await Jesus Christ. We will never encounter this Antichrist. He will arrive not to curse believers, but to haunt and torment an unbelieving, left-behind world.

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(For further study, read Pastor Brandon Holthaus’ article, Why Are European Elites Destroying the West? here.

And Terry James’ insightful article, “Mostly Peaceful” Seas and Waves Roaring here.)

www.olivetreeviews.org

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Jan Markell launched Olive Tree Ministries in the 1980s.  In 2000, she began her syndicated radio program, “Understanding the Times”, heard on 1,000 stations. She stepped down from that in 2025.  She currently hosts the video podcast “Falling Into Place” with Michele Bachmann as co-host. Jan has authored ten books and until 2019, hosted the world’s largest prophecy conference in suburban Minneapolis.