I JUST WATCHED A SPECIAL ON TV ABOUT MANKIND’S PROGRESS TOWARD AI, OR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. I HAVE STUDIED THE PROPHETIC SCRIPTURES MOST OF MY LIFE. NOT UNTIL RECENTLY HAVE I BEEN CONVINCED THAT THE BEAST OF REVELATION 13 IS NOT HUMAN BUT AN “IT.” THE GREEK WORD FOR BEAST IS NEUTER GENDER. I BELIEVE THE BEAST WILL BE A PRODUCT OF MAN’S DOING, INSPIRED BY THE FALLEN ANGEL SATAN, WHO IS NEITHER MALE NOR FEMALE, A SATANIC CREATION OF GODLESS HUMANITY.
BUT ISN’T PROGRESS GOOD? ARE NOT THINGS GOING TO GET BETTER AND BETTER, A CURE FOR CANCER, CARS THAT CAN DRIVE THEMSELVES AND PREVENT ACCIDENTS, MIND CONTROL, WITHIN LIMITS OF COURSE, JUST ENOUGH TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM DOING BAD THINGS, LIVING LONGER AND LONGER, PERHAPS NEVER EVEN HAVING TO DIE. IS THIS WHAT WE WANT? IS THIS REAL PROGRESS? IS THIS WHAT WE WERE MADE FOR?
I DO NOT BELIEVE SO. ARE WE REALLY BETTER OFF NOW THAT WE HAVE PC’S, SMART PHONES, VIDEO GAMES, OUR OWN PERSONAL MOVIE THEATERS, AND LOTS OF GADGETS? WE NEED TO JUST QUIET OUR MINDS AND ASK OURSELVES THESE QUESTIONS. WHERE ARE WE REALLY GOING? WHAT DO WE REALLY WANT? WHAT IS OUR PERSONAL GOAL? WHAT AM I LIVING FOR?
THE BIBLE GIVES US GOD’S ANSWER TO THAT LAST QUESTION. “FROM ONE MAN HE MADE EVERY NATION OF THE HUMAN RACE TO INHABIT THE ENTIRE EARTH, DETERMINING THEIR SET TIMES AND THE FIXED LIMITS OF THE PLACES WHERE THEY WOULD LIVE, SO THAT THEY WOULD SEARCH FOR GOD AND PERHAPS REACH OUT AND FIND HIM, THOUGH HE IS NOT FAR FROM EACH ONE OF US. FOR IN HIM WE LIVE AND MOVE AND HAVE OUR BEING.” Acts 17:26-28
GOD, WHO CREATED ALL THINGS, MANKIND BEING THE CROWN OF HIS CREATION, HAS HIS OWN GLORIOUS GOAL FOR US, TO MAKE US LIKE HIMSELF. IT IS CALLED SONSHIP. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS, HE HAD TO BECOME ONE OF US, TO GIVE HIS OWN LIFE FOR US IN DEATH, WHICH HE HAS DONE IN HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THE LORD JESUS.
THE FIRST QUESTION JESUS ASKED HIS FIRST FOLLOWERS WAS, “WHAT DO YOU SEEK?” WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? HE IS STILL ASKING EACH ONE OF US THE SAME QUESTION, AND WE MUST ANSWER IT IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.
OUR ANCIENT ENEMY, SATAN, IS STILL THE SAME DECEIVER AND LIAR. “YOU WILL BE LIKE GOD,” HE SAID TO EVE. “YOU WILL NOT DIE.” BUT DEATH IS MORE THAN JUST PHYSICAL. JESUS SPOKE OF LOSING ONE’S SOUL, THAT WHICH MAKES US HUMAN.
IN THE TV REPORT ABOUT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, THE QUESTION WAS ASKED, “WILL MAN BECOME OBSOLETE?” IN WHAT SENSE OBSOLETE? CAN A MAN, WOMAN, OR CHILD BECOME INHUMAN? YES, AND I BELIEVE IT IS PROGRESSING IN THAT DIRECTION AT AN ACCELERATING SPEED.
YEARS AGO, MY UNCLE SAID TO ME, “I WONDER HOW FAR GOD IS GOING TO LET US GO BEFORE HE INTERVENES.” HE WAS AN OUTSTANDING DESIGN ENGINEER, AND HE ALSO HAD A THOROUGH KNOWLEDGE OF THE BIBLE. I DON’T KNOW, BUT I DO KNOW THERE WAS A POINT WHEN GOD STOPPED THE BUILDING OF THE TOWER OF BABEL.
AS GOD OBSERVED THE HUMAN RACE IN ITS QUEST FOR KNOWLEDGE, HE SAID, “NOTHING THAT THEY PROPOSE TO DO WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR THEM.” Genesis 11:6
THE TOWER OF BABEL WAS MORE THAN JUST BRICKS. ITS BUILDERS SAID, “COME, LET US BUILD FOR OURSELVES A CITY, AND A TOWER WHOSE TOP WILL REACH INTO HEAVEN, AND LET US MAKE FOR OURSELVES A NAME.” Genesis11:4 THAT TOWER WAS MEANT TO REACH INTO HEAVEN. THEY WERE NOT SEEKING GOD. THEY WERE SEEKING TO BE LIKE GOD. THEY WERE SEEKING A NAME FOR THEMSELVES. THEY WERE IN TOUCH WITH FALLEN ANGELS.
C.S. LEWIS WROTE A BOOK IN THE 1940’S THAT WAS PROPHETIC OF OUR DAY, “THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTH,” THE THIRD IN A TRILOGY. IN THE BOOK THERE WERE THE ELITE SCIENTISTS WHO HAD A SECRET PLAN. THEY DUG UP A RECENTLY BURIED CORPSE OF A CONVICT AND DID THEIR SECRET EXPERIMENTS ON THE HEAD OF THE CORPSE. THEY HAD IT CONNECTED TO ALL KINDS OF TUBES AND MACHINERY. FINALLY THE HEAD ACTUALLY SPOKE. OH, THEY WERE ASTOUNDED! BUT LITTLE DID THEY KNOW THAT THEIR TALKING HEAD WAS NOT THE RESULT OF THEIR POWER TO GIVE LIFE, BUT WAS POSSESSED BY EVIL SPIRITS.
“ONE OF THE BEAST’S HEADS APPEARED TO HAVE BEEN KILLED, BUT THE LETHAL WOUND HAD BEEN HEALED. AND THE WHOLE WORLD FOLLOWED THE BEAST IN AMAZEMENT. THEY WORSHIPED THE DRAGON BECAUSE HE HAD GIVEN RULING AUTHORITY TO THE BEAST, AND THEY WORSHIPED THE BEAST TOO, SAYING, ‘WHO IS LIKE THE BEAST AND WHO IS ABLE TO MAKE WAR AGAINST IT?’” Revelation 13:3-4
I DON’T KNOW HOW IT IS GOING TO ALL COME TOGETHER, BUT THE “IT,” IN WHATEVER FORM, IS COMING. AND IT IS NOT HUMAN.
NOT ALL LIVING IS LIFE, AND NOT ALL DYING IS DEATH. WE DO NOT NEED COMPUTERS, SMART PHONES, OR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO FIND GOD, AND THAT IS WHAT WE ARE HERE FOR. “WHAT DOES IT PROFIT A MAN IF HE GAIN THE WHOLE WORLD AND LOSE HIS OWN SOUL?” Mark 8:36
Rosemary E Hyslop September 22, 2019