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Is the use of technology and artificial intelligence by the Antichrist inferred in end time prophesy

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This is almost exactly what I believe. I mean it is exactly but not in a detailed extent. I know that it is only canonized in the ethiopian bible but the book of enoch (that in my opinion should still be in the bible) Goes into detail about why man became completely evil, where demons come from, and why God decided man was a mistake and to destroy everything. You are right about demons being disembodied spirits. They are the spirits of the Nephilim. and since the have to form of their own they want to inhabit any form they can. In my opinion possession is not permanent because a spirit of one kind cannot permanently inhabit the body that has the spirit of another kind. Like the bible says, everything after its kind. The nephilim was not Gods creation so when they died their spirit was condemned to roam the earth until the end of time. The Nephilim were called abominations. This leads into another passage that proves my beliefs and something that people haven't gotten completely correct. Jesus mentions 2 people by name concerning the end times. He says that it will be like in the days of Noah. Which the Nephilim were on the earth in the days of Jarod but all were dead and became evil spirits influencing the thoughts and actions of men in the days of Noah. He also said that when the abomination of desolation sits in the temple of God as its say's in Daniel ( let he who reads understand) the end of days is nigh. I offer this. Many believe that when the Antichrist sets himself up as God in the newly rebuild temple is what hes talking about. This may well be literally true but prophesy is very rarely just literal and has no spiritual meaning. Jesus and Paul refer to our bodies as the temple of God also (which is the number of man 666) but I take this a step further. Nephilim were called an abomination. Desolation literally means empty or void, Nephilim cannot permanently take over anything that God created because each creature has its own type of spirit and since God did not create nephilim, their spirit is unlike any other that has a body. In order for them to permanently inhabit something. It has to be something that God did not create and have a spirit for and it has to be empty as in desolate. I truly believe that the uptick in technology and the rush for A.I. are desires of evil spirits. since A.I does not have a spirit and android body that we make for it is desolate and since it is not God's creation like the Nephilim, the evil spirits can inhabit them. The evil spirit of the AntiChrist will inhabit the body of an android that is made to look like man. and man's body is the temple of God. Also as the AntiChrist will claim to be God, how does God save us but to fill is with his spirit. Its a natural conclusion that AntiChrist will attempt this also.
Have you looked into alien abduction syndrome any? An almost universal feature of the syndrome is the belief that ones eggs or sperm has been harvested and a hybrid child is born from it. Less common, but still prevalent is an experience of someones soul being inserted in another body and soul manipulation. One of the most interesting things are the implants. Little pieces of metal or glass that somehow get imbedded into the persons flesh without any entry marks. The reason why it's interesting is that during some of the more difficult excorcisms, when the demon is expelled they vomit up random things like red string or a bit of glass.

If you view the modern era in view of the demonic trade in Enoch it becomes almost certain we are in that age. In 50 years we went from a few cars and many still on horses to walking on the moon. Compare that to how long it took to go from the bronze age to the Iron age. We live in a historical anomoly far greater then the megalithic structures left behind by a long forgotten era.
 
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“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” (Revelation 13:16–17)

“And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.” (Revelation 14:1)

Notice the mark is symbolic, not literal.

How does one receive it? By placing laws that force one to sin above God's precepts.

It has existed throughout history and to a degree in the USA recently when Christian businesses could not buy or sell unless they complied with sinful laws. Those who supported the laws received the mark.
The mark of the beast or number or name of the beast has only a 42 month span when it is enforced or death. This comes at a time when one beast survives a mortal wound and he is given dominion over every tribe tongue and nation. The 2nd beast causes all to have one of the 3 options or they can be beheaded. This is also at a time when the two witnesses have been performing their protests as well. This is literal and future and coming soon.
 
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I completely agree with all you say. I have never believed the whole rfid thing in someones hand although it could happen. I have always believed the mark in your head was the unGodly thoughts and in the right hand as wicked deeds done. This opens a whole topic on knowing the end from the beginning but I have been told but never tried that if you read the first chapter of Genesis then the last chapter of Revelation and continue like that until you get to the middle it plays out exactly the same. I haven't looked this up but thinking about it know I think I will very soon. the mark of the beast and noone buying or selling reminds me of Genesis 6 when every thought of Man (what the number of the beast is) was evil.

But, since at least 1999 and again in 2008 conspiracy theorists people have been saying this would happen... no one listened to them? That's weird...
 
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“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” (Revelation 13:16–17)

“And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.” (Revelation 14:1)

Notice the mark is symbolic, not literal.

How does one receive it? By placing laws that force one to sin above God's precepts.

It has existed throughout history and to a degree in the USA recently when Christian businesses could not buy or sell unless they complied with sinful laws. Those who supported the laws received the mark.
You're assuming its symbolic. The entirety of the book of Revelation isn't symbolic...unless you believe the second coming is symbolic....
 
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But, since at least 1999 and again in 2008 conspiracy theorists people have been saying this would happen... no one listened to them? That's weird...
As I said, I have believed it and preached it since about 99. Those who didn't think I was making a joke thought I was a kook who watched too much terminator.
 
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You're assuming its symbolic. The entirety of the book of Revelation isn't symbolic...unless you believe the second coming is symbolic....
What are the symbols for the second coming?
 
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The mark of the beast or number or name of the beast has only a 42 month span when it is enforced or death. This comes at a time when one beast survives a mortal wound and he is given dominion over every tribe tongue and nation. The 2nd beast causes all to have one of the 3 options or they can be beheaded. This is also at a time when the two witnesses have been performing their protests as well. This is literal and future and coming soon.
This has already happened time and again in history. Consider the domination over the world by the Papacy or Nero.
 
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As I said, I have believed it and preached it since about 99. Those who didn't think I was making a joke thought I was a kook who watched too much terminator.

Ho hum...

Honestly, it is too late. Many of the people who knew and declared what was going on are "gone," gone, or not around. What people are experiencing now isn't new - which should be sad.

The ignorance has gone so far that people don't realize they are in that future already. And, many begged for it.
 
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I hope this is the right forum to post this. I apologize if its not. I post this not because it is a hot button topic of late because of people in the secular world such as tech moguls, physicists, scientists, and even the U.N. finally coming to their senses and speaking out an ominous word of warning ,but because I believe that I was revealed this by the grace of God more than 20 years ago and I haven't been able to find anyone preaching more than half of the truth with very little references to back it up. I will not try to document every scripture inference to prove my belief in this summary I will go into detail if anyone so wishes. I do believe though that not only is there much more prophesy than the general broad belief that the image of the beast with the power to talk is a.i., many of the wonders the the antichrist is allowed to do can only be done with advanced technology, And some of the atrocities done during the tribulation point to a super computer, hive mind with modern technological weaponry. I'd love to hear if anyone else believes that they have been shown this and what proof of scripture they have been pointed to. I will say that I truly know that there are many levels to prophesy and most has more than 1 meaning. I believe that the general decoding of prophesy such as daniel 2 is very much correct but I believe some deeper spiritual prophesy is found in them that I am unable to find anyone talking about.

There is a ton of stuff going on right now and a lot of it is backed by very deep pockets. It’s pretty hard to predict which of these things will succeed and how they will impact us in the future.



Stopping aging
AI supercomputers
Nanobots
Cyborgs
Robots
Uploading consciousness to computers
The side effects of GMOs
Gene splicing to evolve humans to post-humans (basically chimera)
Research on the subatomic level
Quantum, biological, and chemical computers

Incredibly exciting and terrifying things at the same time.

If you look up singularity, post-human, and futurist, you will find many things.

Though, it seems like people are distancing themselves from the term futurist because it’s almost a religion.
 
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First we had credit cards now then now we have credit chips and just recently we got to use wireless pay with your phones. Today's phones are pocket computers that can open with a fingerprint, face id or retinal eye scan. A mark doesn't even need to be visible they could use infrared paints that can track even better on cameras. For instance I think in the future we will have wearable augmented reality glasses that use bone conduction earphones meaning you can both hear music in your head and talk to people with cameras that track you visual field to give feedback on stuff like prices and direction. There are already some state of the art stores that use pay and go features meaning you dont need to check out they already have all the goods chipped or tracked and you just enter and leave with your phone at the door. Makes things so much easier and at the same time Technology like block-chain although still quite slow for merchant transactions today is fully transparent meaning and if they decide to implement this into our currency then physical money and anonymity will be gone as we know it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-42769096
 
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There is a ton of stuff going on right now and a lot of it is backed by very deep pockets. It’s pretty hard to predict which of these things will succeed and how they will impact us in the future.



Stopping aging

Be my guest. Get a pill, injection or radiological boost that will make you be one of those people suffering the vials (tongue boiling out, asking for death but death flees them)? It won't just be agelessness; it will be biochemical replication and repair on the micro, nano and femto level.

AI supercomputers
Nanobots
Cyborgs
Robots

Post-modern war machines marketed to the world as something useful for the future.

Uploading consciousness to computers

A lie. Your "consciousness" cannot be uploaded to a computer - at least not the essence that makes you you. A replication based on statistical data can be produced with great precision and reasonable accuracy, but it is essentially an interloper of the real person.


The side effects of GMOs

We know how GMOs affect us - suspicions were (always) right. The first of the big 4 GMOs were approved for public consumption in the 80s. It takes about 20 - 40 years before changes in a human population begin to show up.


What alimentary sensitivity is happening now that has been very prevalent in this day - that wasn't in the 1990s?

Gene splicing to evolve humans to post-humans (basically chimera)

Ultimate goal of chimera is weaponization for post-modern warfare. This has been predicted since at least the 18th century, and has always been in "history."

Research on the subatomic level
Quantum, biological, and chemical computers

Quantum mechanics and field theory are mapping out spacial dimensionality and the energy that sustains them. That will open up aliens interdimensional interaction.

AI machines will be the vessels for these interdimensional entities to physically interact on our plane of existence.

Incredibly exciting and terrifying things at the same time.

If you look up singularity, post-human, and futurist, you will find many things.

Though, it seems like people are distancing themselves from the term futurist because it’s almost a religion.

The distance is an exercise in futility; the future has already been set. It is just a matter of how we will respond to it. All of these things are repeat history of the antediluvian world; this is not the first time the world has become a technopolis, and has striven to know everything under the unification of "oneness."
 
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The mark of the beast or number or name of the beast has only a 42 month span when it is enforced or death. This comes at a time when one beast survives a mortal wound and he is given dominion over every tribe tongue and nation. The 2nd beast causes all to have one of the 3 options or they can be beheaded. This is also at a time when the two witnesses have been performing their protests as well. This is literal and future and coming soon.

:oldthumbsup: I belive this. And looking around the world, I see it as revised Muslim Caliphate that will just like ISIS. I mean, they are the ones cutting off heads right now.

But I also see the Beast using tech to control who will be able to buy anything. Heck, we are already cashless pretty well. Whoever controls the banking industry could already make it to where all your "money" is gone right now. I look for all cash to be done away with as us older people die off anyway, cuzz only we use cash anymore, young people don't. :)
 
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:oldthumbsup: I belive this. And looking around the world, I see it as revised Muslim Caliphate that will just like ISIS. I mean, they are the ones cutting off heads right now.

But I also see the Beast using tech to control who will be able to buy anything. Heck, we are already cashless pretty well. Whoever controls the banking industry could already make it to where all your "money" is gone right now. I look for all cash to be done away with as us older people die off anyway, cuzz only we use cash anymore, young people don't. :)

Some young people use cash specifically for the reasons you listed - as a protest even. But you are right, most people in general use a virtual system, and often look wierdly at people who use coins and cotton.
 
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Steven, are you acquainted with the works of Jacques Ellul? If not, I suggest you look them (and him) up. One good place to start is his book The presence of the Kingdom. He doesn't go into the details that you seem to be interested in, in this book, but you will get a sense of why and how things have got the way they are, and the Church's part in this process. Others of his writings will take you into deeper issues relating to the dehumanisation of "humankind" - which of course is the goal of the Evil One. It is here that you will find the whole process of the attempted transformation of human kind from people to units of production (and consumption), then to be replaced through mechanisation and automation, and ultimately to be subjected to mechanical and electronic/digital "intelligence."
You might also appreciate William Stringfellow - An Ethic for Christians and other Aliens in a strange land. Stringfellow's starting point is the Book of Revelation in terms of attempting "to understand America Biblically." He is very clear on the current subservience what he calls the "morality of death." This is, or should be, a deeply disturbing book for Americans to read - written in the days of Nixon, it is astounding how current it is today, 40 years later.
 
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There is a ton of stuff going on right now and a lot of it is backed by very deep pockets. It’s pretty hard to predict which of these things will succeed and how they will impact us in the future.



Stopping aging
AI supercomputers
Nanobots
Cyborgs
Robots
Uploading consciousness to computers
The side effects of GMOs
Gene splicing to evolve humans to post-humans (basically chimera)
Research on the subatomic level
Quantum, biological, and chemical computers

Incredibly exciting and terrifying things at the same time.

If you look up singularity, post-human, and futurist, you will find many things.

Though, it seems like people are distancing themselves from the term futurist because it’s almost a religion.
I guy started a religion where A.I will be the God. It reminds me of a passage that says in those days men will worship new gods that their fathers never did
 
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Have you looked into alien abduction syndrome any? An almost universal feature of the syndrome is the belief that ones eggs or sperm has been harvested and a hybrid child is born from it. Less common, but still prevalent is an experience of someones soul being inserted in another body and soul manipulation. One of the most interesting things are the implants. Little pieces of metal or glass that somehow get imbedded into the persons flesh without any entry marks. The reason why it's interesting is that during some of the more difficult excorcisms, when the demon is expelled they vomit up random things like red string or a bit of glass.

If you view the modern era in view of the demonic trade in Enoch it becomes almost certain we are in that age. In 50 years we went from a few cars and many still on horses to walking on the moon. Compare that to how long it took to go from the bronze age to the Iron age. We live in a historical anomoly far greater then the megalithic structures left behind by a long forgotten era.

This has not been my experience with exorcism.
 
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This has not been my experience with exorcism.
I only read about it in Catholic exorcisms. The first I heard about it, if i'm recalling correctly, was in one of Gabriel Amorths books. I have heard of vomit in deliverance (protestant), upon the demon leaving, but I have not heard of any objects in protestant exorcisms either. But at the time I was researching there weren't many reliable protestant books on the subject.
 
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The thing is as soon as an android or AI starts doing something that it has not been programmed to do then it won't be long before its shut down. In short, if we build it and don't understand what its doing or how its doing it then it will be shut down.
In the last few months, an A.I driven drone almost crashed head on with a plane, An A.I robot in Russia escaped the lab and blocked traffic during his meanderings. This wouldn't be much but it is the only hive mind A.I. that tried to escape and when it was shut down and reprogrammed it continued to search for a way out 3 other times, and it was reprogrammed each time. Now they are leaving it online to study why it is acting this way. And finally facebook had to shut down 2 of it's A.I.'s because they started to talk to each other in a language they made up. I freaked the techs out so much because they had no idea what they were talking about
 
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