Nov 9th 6 Roads to the END IV Technology Norms Matthew 24:14
There is a road that we as human beings have traveled in the effort to make jobs easier, communication quicker and easier, and Travel faster and more efficient. Knowledge has exploded because of this road traveled. This road is tech. With/ the coming of AI, we have now moved past the illusion that tech works for us, which in modern times is a lie; now, with AI, we will work for it. But do not be fooled; tech is not exclusive to evil. The Lord uses tech, also.
When we look at the 4th Horseman, no tech is spoken of, but it is implied. The 4th Horseman is death. Shaded in pale green as the capstone, he brings interhuman conflict, famine, plague, and wild animals preying upon mankind.
3rd Horseman is seal 3 in Rev 6 shaded in darkness. He represents food shortages. Many theologians have concluded it is due to famine, but recently, our minds have been opened to the WEF UN ploy to disrupt supply chains and destroy food plants. This could be technology striking against mankind. Or it could be a figure like Gates who owns farmland only to see it produces nothing.
2nd Horseman is red-repping war/chaos. Do not limit this to nations rising up vs. another. Remember in Matthew 24 Jesus said nation vs. nation kingdoms. Tech has aroused the division
1st Horseman is cloaked in white Conquers without war.
Loves to tell you that he isn’t here to toot his own horn but toot toot! He is the man who will rule bc he wears a crown. He will do so through tech. for all to see who and what he is and does.
The Bible is filled with evidence of technological advancement, first with the Tower of Babel when they used brocks over stones; these bricks signify an advancement in technology.
As time has gone on, technology has been introduced to make tasks easier, & more efficient and to have a better-completed project.
Jesus spoke of technology that was coming which would change the world with the spread of the gospel and even forty years ago most had no idea how it would come to be.
Jesus in his dissertation of eschatology states to his disciples, this gospel will be preached around the world, then the end will come,’ (Matthew 24:14, New International Version). PRAY
The gospel, which translated is as the good news is something that most Christians misunderstand because the prevailing teaching from pulpits is that it only involves the New Testament story of the arrival, life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus, discounting the Old Testament entirely.
But this prophecy is being fulfilled in lands covered in the Old Testament, now run by Muslims.
The gospel has returned to the Middle East having circled the globe, and truly been preached around (emphasis mine) the world.
Sara Afshari investigated the use of satellite television and Christian programming for Farsi Muslims and found eight reasons why they watched programming that represented a different faith system.
The number one and two reasons were seeking and healing.[1]
This provoked doubt in the truthfulness of their own faith and a yearning for more information about faith in Jesus.[2]
Mohabat TV reported that 57% of the audience was motivated to contact the station and change their religious views.[3]
The prophecy has been fulfilled through satellite television and through access to such through apps on smartphones.
Perry Stone stated that the underground church in Iran was among the largest in the world and growing like wildfire in the Texas Prairie with high winds due to the use of smartphones and having access to the truth of God and not the imams.
He himself has testified to teaching through a meeting platform (such as Zoom)
and having over 20,000 collectively converted in his ministry.
Yet, despite the glory of this prophecy, it does not get the acclaim of one other prophecy regarding technology.
Revelation 13 is the most notorious prophecy for the End Times, and it requires technology as the method of fulfillment.
This prophecy is one of personal revelation from visions given while at the literal feet of Jesus in 1984.
The ‘mark of the beast’ prophecy was often misunderstood from my first days in a church as a teen (and to some degree still is) because people it seems tend to put too much emphasis on what it is rather than the conditions that surround the usage.
In 1984 when someone who was a minor would declare a cashless system would occur, it might just get some skeptical looks.
If this same minor also prophesized that a chip would hold the information of an individual’s finances, identification would be monitored and have their health screening read without evaluation the child would be called a liar unless he said these things while technically in a coma with severe brain trauma.
This child was prophesizing the same thing as written in Revelation 13 without having ever read it because he saw it coming to be all under the control of the man whose chief trait is that he is anti-Christ.
The threat of a cashless society will have huge repercussions in everyday life.[4]
The timing of the implementation of this system will also catch many off guard, and we can gather from scripture and what is offered now in the way of technology that the possibility exists, but it is not put into effect until decreed by the Anti-Christ.
The system has components already in place, starting with Central Bank Digital Currency.
This is exactly that, a digital currency that is maintained through internet technology and can be used through a smartphone, smartwatch, or even the body of the user and is available in most major European and Asian countries.[5]
Let’s consider the addition of the element of the vaccine passport which was available ironically within two months of the emergence of the pandemic.
This passport is a means of identification and allows you to have access based on your acceptance and compliance with a government mandate that was not a law.[6]
All that is needed is a tracking mechanism that is read through infrared methods that can positively identify, and the puzzle is complete, and yet such technology is available.
RFID is currently used on shipments primarily but when the usage is tied to living beings look no further than our pets.
Are they chipped? This ‘chipped’ is RFID and is an old technology that is now advanced passed the need of implanting a microchip under the skin, as now it only requires a mark.[7]
Once these technologies share a true central method of operations under one system, the government has full knowledge of financial transactions, dictates access to health care (as well as what care is given) as well as the location of every soul marked.
That central system exists; it just has not been tied in, yet we know it as artificial intelligence (AI).[8]
This technology will offer convenience and security at a higher level than culture offers now but the sacrifice comes with our freedoms.
It is presumed that one of the perks of the coming implementation of this technology will be the end of human trafficking since tracking will be part of the system, but the true hope is the hope we have today.
This isn’t in the world gone bankrupt in justice and morality, it is the hope of the return of Christ. The system will fall as will the one who engaged it, and justice will be served.
The road to the end involves technology in order to achieve what God has given to the prophets. Do not fear it, but be fully aware of its place in prophecy so you do not fall to the schemes of the evil one.
Footnotes
[1] Afshari, Sara. RELIGION, MEDIA AND CONVERSION IN IRAN : Mediated Christianity in an Islamic Context. S.l: ROUTLEDGE, 2023. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003004905.166
[2] Ibid., 168
[3] Ibid., 170
[4] Loh, Xiu-Ming, Voon-Hsien Lee, Garry Wei-Han Tan, Jun-Jie Hew, and Keng-Boon Ooi. 2019. “Towards a Cashless Society: The Imminent Role of Wearable Technology.” Journal of Computer Information Systems 62 (1): 39–49.
[5] Srouji, Jeremy, and Dominique Torre. 2022. “The Global Pandemic, Laboratory of the Cashless
Economy?” International Journal of Financial Studies 10, no. 4: 109. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijfs10040109
[6] Gostin, Lawrence O, I Glenn Cohen, and Jana Shaw. “Digital Health Passes in the Age of COVID-19.” JAMA : The Journal of the American Medical Association. 325, no. 19 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2021.5283.
[7] Badr, Youakim, Xiaoyang Zhu, and Mansour Naser Alraja. “Security and Privacy in the Internet of Things: Threats and Challenges.” Service Oriented Computing and Applications. 15, no. 4 (2021): 257–71. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11761-021-00327-z.
[8] Lopez-Corleone, Melvin, Sholthana Begum, and Gracie Sixuan Li. “Artificial Intelligence (AI) from a Regulator’s Perspective: The Future of AI in Central Banking and Financial Services.” Journal of AI, Robotics & Workplace Automation / 2, no. 1 (2022): 7–16. https://doi.org/10.69554/PLKT5729.