Another school of eschatology in the world today is that of the Devil's human upper management. They see advancing technology as bringing in a new age offering the benefits of the biblical vision, but under their direction and control. Two of these are life extension and space colonization.
While the 20th century was the age of electricity, and electronics technology took center stage, the 21st century is replacing it with biotechnology, the technology of life itself. One of the consequences is that the causes for aging are - or maybe already have been - discovered. These seven or so causes, such as the unraveling of telemeres on chromosomes in cells, can potentially be thwarted and lifetimes extended, perhaps indefinitely as the fulfillment of eschatological "eternal life". This expression (with the translator infinity-word "eternal") is, in writings of the apostle John, "zoe aionios", more literally rendered "life of the age to come".
We are now entering the age of Aquarius, coming after John's age, that of Pisces. For about the last 2160 years, the precession of the earth has pointed us to the constellation Pisces. However, as the earth precesses, we have been leaving Pisces and, according to the zodiacal star-clock, are now pointed to the constellation of the water-bearer Aquarius, the one who brings life in a desert land.
Another application of biotechnology is to place human life in a biologically suspended state by reducing metabolic rates to near-zero - barely alive but extended in time into the future, when the technology to repair causes for death or near-death can be applied and the lives of those in suspended animation revived. It is now possible to be assigned a place in a suspension chamber, in the hope of immortality (another infinity-word not found in scripture). This is the only means of hope at present for those not trusting in the parallel offer made by faith in Jesus at his return.
Life extension leads to the second development of interstellar space travel and the plausibility of colonizing inhabitable planets elsewhere. As for longer lives, a USAF meteorologist stationed at Nellis AFB in the 1960s has a credible testimony about encountering ETs in an area known there as Dreamland, beings he calls Tall Whites - in Areas 53 and 54 of the Nevada Test Site (which includes the popular Area 51) north of Indian Springs, NV. He has written extensively about his time among the Tall Whites, and all that can be verified has been confirmed. According to Hall, who has subsequently obtained a graduate physics degree from UCSD and was in contact with Tall Whites for about two and a half years as he made weather measurements out on the range that were needed for testing experimental aircraft, they have lifetimes of about 800 years. If Hall's testimony is correct, then non-human intelligent beings live about a decade longer than humans.
Astronautical engineering has now advanced to where interplanetary travel is becoming possible, with SpaceX and other efforts globally. The movie The Martian stands in the true genre of science fiction in that what is portrayed in it is quite technologically accurate. However, a successful colonization of Mars, or even a round trip to it, is an immense challenge to contemporary engineering; The Martian was, after all, science fiction. Even so, we have now arrived at a time in the development of technology to credibly anticipate the eschatological end-of-age descriptions in scripture given by Isaiah, Jeremiah and essentially all the prophets. Their pattern is to berate Israel for breach of covenant, as prosecuting attorneys sent from Yahweh, but then end on a positive note, with assurance of a better age ahead. Their descriptions of this better age parallel what is now in the thinking of research engineers and scientists. Is this another unfolding confirmation of biblical eschatology?
While the 20th century was the age of electricity, and electronics technology took center stage, the 21st century is replacing it with biotechnology, the technology of life itself. One of the consequences is that the causes for aging are - or maybe already have been - discovered. These seven or so causes, such as the unraveling of telemeres on chromosomes in cells, can potentially be thwarted and lifetimes extended, perhaps indefinitely as the fulfillment of eschatological "eternal life". This expression (with the translator infinity-word "eternal") is, in writings of the apostle John, "zoe aionios", more literally rendered "life of the age to come".
We are now entering the age of Aquarius, coming after John's age, that of Pisces. For about the last 2160 years, the precession of the earth has pointed us to the constellation Pisces. However, as the earth precesses, we have been leaving Pisces and, according to the zodiacal star-clock, are now pointed to the constellation of the water-bearer Aquarius, the one who brings life in a desert land.
Another application of biotechnology is to place human life in a biologically suspended state by reducing metabolic rates to near-zero - barely alive but extended in time into the future, when the technology to repair causes for death or near-death can be applied and the lives of those in suspended animation revived. It is now possible to be assigned a place in a suspension chamber, in the hope of immortality (another infinity-word not found in scripture). This is the only means of hope at present for those not trusting in the parallel offer made by faith in Jesus at his return.
Life extension leads to the second development of interstellar space travel and the plausibility of colonizing inhabitable planets elsewhere. As for longer lives, a USAF meteorologist stationed at Nellis AFB in the 1960s has a credible testimony about encountering ETs in an area known there as Dreamland, beings he calls Tall Whites - in Areas 53 and 54 of the Nevada Test Site (which includes the popular Area 51) north of Indian Springs, NV. He has written extensively about his time among the Tall Whites, and all that can be verified has been confirmed. According to Hall, who has subsequently obtained a graduate physics degree from UCSD and was in contact with Tall Whites for about two and a half years as he made weather measurements out on the range that were needed for testing experimental aircraft, they have lifetimes of about 800 years. If Hall's testimony is correct, then non-human intelligent beings live about a decade longer than humans.
Astronautical engineering has now advanced to where interplanetary travel is becoming possible, with SpaceX and other efforts globally. The movie The Martian stands in the true genre of science fiction in that what is portrayed in it is quite technologically accurate. However, a successful colonization of Mars, or even a round trip to it, is an immense challenge to contemporary engineering; The Martian was, after all, science fiction. Even so, we have now arrived at a time in the development of technology to credibly anticipate the eschatological end-of-age descriptions in scripture given by Isaiah, Jeremiah and essentially all the prophets. Their pattern is to berate Israel for breach of covenant, as prosecuting attorneys sent from Yahweh, but then end on a positive note, with assurance of a better age ahead. Their descriptions of this better age parallel what is now in the thinking of research engineers and scientists. Is this another unfolding confirmation of biblical eschatology?
