The Second Coming of Christ and the End Times

 

The Advance of Technology

 

Charles H. Duell, the director of the U.S. Patent Office, talking about how many technological inventions has been created, was once quoted as saying, “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” Can you believe he said that in the year 1899? Then there was Robert Milliken, Nobel Prize winner in physics, who said in 1923, “There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom.” Another was Lord Kelvin, president of England’s Royal Society (a scientific organization), who noted in 1885, “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.”

 

I remember in the 1990s, when mobile phones came to the stores, thinking that this idea would never catch on. Why would someone pay mega sums of money to carry a massive phone around on them like they were doing? How wrong could I get? Of course, we have a much smaller and smarter version now. Today's cell phone is virtually unrecognizable from the version first presented and marketed to the general public in 1987. Technological change has been so fast that it seems too difficult for some of us to keep up. It is interesting to consider how the increase and advance in information, innovation, and technology are changing our lives at breakneck speed. And it causes us to think about what changes we will likely see in the next ten or twenty years, should the Lord tarry. What will life be like for our grandchildren? The speed of technological change in the last days is something that was spoken about 2,500 years ago by the prophet Daniel:

 

³And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. ⁴But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased (Daniel 12:3-4 KJV).

 

Some time ago, I was invited to go with a friend to shoot some rifles at clay targets, or skeets, as most people know them. It took a bit of time to get used to shooting at them because I kept shooting at the target as I saw it. The problem was that the skeet wasn't hovering still when I fired my shotgun; it was moving through the air at quite a speed. I learned that I had to fire ahead of the target to be able to shoot it down. When cutting-edge companies plan a new device, such as a new iPhone, they have to start thinking about where technology will be at the point where they want the iPhone to come out onto the market. Why? Because there is no point in starting to design an iPhone based on where technology is right now. It would be like me, shooting at those skeets’ and missing the target. They have to consider Moore’s law, or they will fall behind the goal when it goes on the market.

 

Moore's law—what is it? Gordon E. Moore, the co-founder of Intel Corp, wrote in his 1965 paper about the pace of technology change that the number of transistors one can put on a microchip double every eighteen months to two years. In 1970 just over one thousand transistors could be put on a chip, whereas in January 1995, the Digital Alpha 21164 microprocessor, held to be the most remarkable technological breakthrough ever, had 9.3 million transistors. In a single modern CPU in 2022, there can be hundreds of millions, if not billions, of transistors. For example, the Apple MI 2020 CPU has up to 16 billion transistors; Technology is changing at an exponential rate.

 

The Approaching Singularity

 

Some while ago, I came across an article in Time Magazine about the coming Singularity. Some of you may not be familiar with the term Singularity as it relates to technology, so let me explain; Lev Grossman, the person who wrote the article, was sharing the thoughts of Ray Kurzweil, a computer scientist, inventor, futurist, and a director of engineering at Google. Kurzweil wrote a book called The Singularity is Near. I quote from Lev Grossman’s Time article:

 

Kurzweil believes that we're approaching a moment when computers will become intelligent, not just intelligent but more intelligent than humans. When that happens, humanity — our bodies, our minds, our civilization — will be completely and irreversibly transformed. He believes that this moment is not only inevitable but also imminent. According to his calculations, the end of human civilization as we know it is about 35 years away. Computers are getting faster. Everybody knows that. Also, computers are getting faster faster — that is, the rate at which they're getting faster is increasing. True? True.

 

So if computers are getting so much faster, incredibly fast, there might conceivably come a moment when they are capable of something comparable to human intelligence, artificial intelligence, or what is known as artilect. All that horsepower could be put in the service of emulating whatever it is our brains are doing when they create consciousness — not just doing arithmetic very quickly or composing piano music but also driving cars, writing books, making ethical decisions, appreciating fancy paintings, making witty observations at cocktail parties.

 

If you can swallow that idea, and Kurzweil and a lot of other brilliant people can, then all bets are off. From then on, there's no reason to think computers would stop becoming more powerful. They would keep on developing until they were far more intelligent than we are. Their rate of development would also continue to increase because they would take over their own development from their slower-thinking human creators. Imagine a computer scientist that was itself a super-intelligent computer. It would work incredibly quickly. It could draw on huge amounts of data effortlessly. It wouldn't even take breaks to play online games.

 

It's impossible to predict the behavior of these smarter-than-human intelligences with which (with whom?) we might one day share the planet because if you could, you'd be as smart as they would be. But there are a lot of theories about it. Maybe we'll merge with them to become super-intelligent cyborgs, using computers to extend our intellectual abilities like cars and planes extend our physical capabilities. Maybe artificial intelligence will help us treat the effects of old age and prolong our life spans indefinitely. Perhaps we'll scan our consciousnesses into computers and live inside them as software, forever, virtually. Maybe the computers will turn on humanity and annihilate us. The one thing all these theories have in common is the transformation of our species into something that is no longer recognizable. This transformation has a name: The Singularity.

 

When you're talking about the Singularity, it sounds like science fiction; it isn't, no more than a weather forecast is science fiction. It's not a fringe idea; it's a serious hypothesis about the future of life on Earth.

 

By quoting a magazine article such as this, I am not saying I would agree with or support such ideas. Frankly, the view of a new and "improved" humanity ("humanity 2.0"), as some people refer to it, makes me shudder. However, let us be aware of what some people are proposing and working toward that goal. Someone who does not see or acknowledge the spiritual component of humanity may view the transformation of our species only as a positive thing. The idea presents many ethical and moral dilemmas voiced by church leaders and the scientific community who have ethical misgivings about such advances. You may think, "God will never let it happen." I am not sure how far it will be allowed to proceed; however, there are many things we could say the same about if we were to be able to go back in time and view our present world from a worldview lens, of say, just a mere 200 years ago.

 

Here in 2022, we are building things with nanotechnology. What is nanotechnology, you say? K. Eric Drexler was the man who popularized the word nanotechnology in the 1980s. He talked about building machines at the molecular level, motors, robot arms, or even whole computers far smaller than a single cell. Nanotechnology is so new; no one is sure where it is going. With nanotechnology, scientists can now build things from the ground up, from the sub-atomic level, where they cannot be seen, reproducing things like diamonds, food, and anything we want. To understand the smallness of what we are talking about, a centimeter is one-hundredth of a meter, a millimeter is one-thousandth of a meter, and a micrometer is one-millionth of a meter, but all of these are huge compared to the Nanoscale. A nanometer (nm) is one billionth of a meter, smaller than the wavelength of visible light and a hundred-thousandth the width of a human hair. There are now companies constructing things with nanotechnologies, such as IBM Zurich's Research laboratory, which has 3,500 employees in eight labs worldwide, working on nanoscience, future chip technology, supercomputing, advanced storage, and server technologies, among many other things. Nanotechnology is expanding at an exponential rate.

 

When it comes to new technology, are you an early, mid, or late adopter? How do you respond to new technology?

 

Nanotechnology has already made advances in science and medicine possible. What concerns about this type of technology, if any, do you have? Where do you think it could be heading?

 

Ray Kurzweil, in his book, The Singularity is Near, says:

 

The impending Singularity in our future is a period during which the pace of technological change will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed. The key idea underlying the impending Singularity is that the rate of change of human-created technology is accelerating, and its powers are expanding exponentially. Exponential growth is deceptive. It starts almost imperceptibly and then explodes with unexpected fury.

 

Then there are also knowledge explosions in the exploration of DNA. Begun formally in 1990, with a budget granted that was more than that spent on getting to the moon and back, the Human Genome Project was an effort coordinated by the U.S. Department of Energy and projected to take 15 years, but because of the rapid technological advances was finished two years early in 2003. What is a Genome? And why is it essential to our future? A genome is the entire DNA in an organism, including its genes. Genes carry information for making all the proteins required by all organisms. These proteins determine, among other things, how the organism looks, how well its body metabolizes food or fights infection, and sometimes how it behaves. We can genetically modify food and have been doing it for some time. In the USA, we are not told on the label if it is GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) food, whereas in Europe, they are required to do so by law.

 

Along with the ability to change structures at the genetic level and build things with Nanotechnology, many other technologies are all coming together simultaneously. When the Singularity arrives, which is supposed to be sometime between 2030 and 2045, we are about to enter that era when, as Tom Horn, the writer of the book Forbidden Gates says:

 

"…the trend toward smaller and smaller technologies will yield greater-than-human machine intelligence. That sort of super-intelligence will increase not by self-replication but by building other agents with even greater intelligence than itself, which will, in turn, build more superior agents. The result will be an "intelligence explosion" so fast and so vast that the laws and certainties with which we are familiar will no longer apply. That event horizon is called the Singularity. Our version 1.0 natural bodies are frail and subject to a myriad of failure models. The Singularity will allow us to transcend these limitations…we will gain power over our fates. Our mortality will be in our own hands, and the nonbiological portion of our intelligence will be trillions of trillions of times more powerful than unaided human intelligence.

 

We are now in the early stages of this transition. The acceleration of change is causing a paradigm shift [a fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions]…as well as the exponential growth of the capacity of information technology is both beginning to reach the “knee of the curve,” which is the stage at which an exponential trend becomes noticeable. Shortly after this stage, the trend becomes explosive. Soon the growth rates of our technology—which will be indistinguishable from ourselves—will be so steep as to appear essentially vertical. The Singularity will represent the culmination of the merger of our biological thinking and existence with our technology, resulting in a world that transcends our biological roots. There will be no distinction, post Singularity, between humans and machines.

 

Trans Humanism—the Future Homo Sapiens 2.0

 

The new field of technology that is happening right now, in our lifetime, is Transhumanism. Transhumanism is a cultural phenomenon. It is about the efforts to change the human species to be what some would like it to be—Homo Sapiens 2.0. It is humanity re-designing humanity, and many brilliant minds today are working towards this end. Some would consider it a vast improvement to our present human state with all its limitations. Again, I am not saying I agree with this in any way, only that serious thought is being spent on this idea (as well as billions of dollars of money spent by governments and the private sector in various countries). Technological Singularity brings with it the ability to combine our natural biological bodies with machines. With the mapping out of DNA, scientists can now merge DNA from animals to humans and human DNA to animals. DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the USA, has been given billions of dollars to research altering the genetic code of soldiers, modifying bits of DNA to fashion a new type of human specimen. A new kind of human, if one can still call it human, that functions like a machine, killing tirelessly for days and nights on end and mutations that will revolutionize the contemporary order of battle and guarantee operational dominance across the whole range of potential U.S. military employments.

 

They are now working on advanced gene therapy, which can provide cheetah or gorilla quality muscles in people for 45 miles per hour speed or five to ten times the strength. There is also talk of merging eagle DNA with human DNA to enable future snipers to have sight much better than the regular human being. John Horgan, a former senior writer for Scientific American, states that DARPA "is already investigating the possibilities of cyborg warriors downloading complex fighting procedures directly into their brains, like the heroes of the Matrix. DARPA is interested in developing techniques that can survey and possibly manipulate the mental processes of potential enemies by recording signals from the brains of enemy personnel at a distance, to read their minds and control them."

 

If you could access such technology, what would you change about yourself?

 

How Will This New Technology Affect Us As Christians?

 

The fast-approaching Singularity will bring with it another terrifying development that, I believe, is mentioned in the Book of Revelation:

 

¹¹Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the Earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. ¹²It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the Earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. ¹³And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the Earth in full view of the people. ¹⁴Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the Earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. ¹⁵The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. ¹⁶It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, ¹⁷so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name. ¹⁸This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666 (Revelation 13:11-18).

 

On September 12, 2005, Chief Justice John Roberts was questioned at his confirmation hearing. Then-Senator Joe Biden was interviewing him on the "Micro-Chip." Senator Biden tells John Roberts: "…And we'll be faced with equally consequential decisions in the 21st century. Can a microscopic tag be implanted in a person's body to track his every movement? There's an actual discussion about that. You will rule on that — mark my words — before your tenure is over."  The microchipping of citizens is part of Obamacare! Chief Justice John Roberts ruled on this, just as Joe Biden said he would. The Obama Health care bill under Class II (Paragraph 1, Section B) specifically includes “(ii) a class II device that is implantable.”

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3eER_zO1tQ

 

I always wondered why the Bible was so emphatic about the significance of this “mark of the beast" and why it would be in two places, head or hand. God has seen the end from the beginning. He exists outside of time, knows the future completely, and has shared what will happen with His people in the Word of God. Whatever this mark is, it causes a separation among the people of the Earth. It's like Elijah's challenge on Mount Carmel to the people of Israel, “…choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve” (Joshua 24:15).

 

The penalty for taking this mark is absolute. Those who take the mark will suffer torment. The Lord tells us that whoever takes the mark will be punished with the full strength of God’s fury:

 

⁹A third angel followed them and said in a loud voice: “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark on their forehead or on their hand, ¹⁰they, too, will drink the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. They will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. ¹¹And the smoke of their torment will rise for ever and ever. There will be no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.” ¹²This calls for patient endurance on the part of the people of God who keep his commands and remain faithful to Jesus (Revelation 14:9-12).

 

What is this mark? As we mentioned in the second study of this series, I believe it will be somewhat like what we know today as an RFID chip, but I think it will become much more than that—maybe a “borgification” (As in the Sci-Fi series called Star Trek) of some of humanity that will choose to go that route. I believe many will receive a microchip that will enhance their brainpower millions of times. At the moment, all over the world, most companies are turning over their computing power to what is known as the “Cloud.” The Cloud refers to vast banks of computers that now handle the application software and does the data crunching for them. I no longer have to load an email program like AOL onto my laptop. I access my email account with my Browser—I use Gmail, a cloud-based application software.

 

Each company pays a monthly fee to access its cloud-based applications via a cell phone, tablet, or laptop. The applications we use daily are stored on servers at remote locations. My computer now syncs with my phone via the Cloud. When I answer an email on my laptop, it records it as already answered on my iPhone. But soon, with brain interfacing technology, a person will be able to access the Cloud through thought alone. Advancements in technology going on even now indicate that this is just a matter of time, and I believe this may well happen in my lifetime. Does this sound crazy? Before you answer, know this: Elon Musk’s brain-computer Startup, Neuralink, aims to create a human and A.I. symbiosis whereby people can connect with their digital A.I. selves. He also said that the technology would enable telepathic communication between humans whereby thoughts can be communicated seamlessly without speech or external devices such as a keyboard. Neuralink's progress in the field of BCI (Brain Computer Interface) opens the door to a new dimension where human brains are connected to all their digital devices. A future where people can Google items and browse social media just by thinking and stream music directly to the brain. No more will you have to type on a computer or phone. A future where you can get ads straight to your brain depending on your current thoughts or mood, and if the device senses that you're working or need to focus, it can block ads, phone calls, and text messages.

 

Developers at Toyota and the University of Utah are working on brain transmitters, which they hope will contribute to building a global ‘hive mind.’ What on Earth is a hive mind? It is the concept of many people sharing their knowledge and opinions with a central artificial intelligence producing collective intelligence and uncritical conformity. Of course, a dictator or queen bee of this hive will shape this collective intelligence; that person is the one the Bible calls the Antichrist.

 

How will the Antichrist use brain-computer interface technology? How may this affect the free will, personal freedom, and faith in God?

 

What will this advancement mean for our children or grandchildren’s future? For example, what if you, as a grandparent or parent of a thirteen-year-old, must face the day they come home from school asking to become "Transhuman?” To be implanted with a chip enabling them to access the Google data banks, the hive mind, or whatever it will be called then— (perhaps the Beast?).

 

If they go ahead and have the implant or mark, they will instantly know any historical question, geographical question, or any question thrown at them. They will have access to artificial intelligence, perhaps accessing it wirelessly via the Internet with brain-interfacing chip technology. There was a time when we could only see this happening in a science fiction story or movie, but today this does not look far away. Can you see what the next step would be if or when this becomes possible?

 

Imagine going for a job interview and being asked if you have the brain-interfacing technology that allows you to think thousands of times faster than others. Only those with the chip will advance their careers up the corporate ladder. Those not connected with the chip in this way will be left out “in the cold” and not a part of the hybridization of Mankind, Humanity 2.0. They will be left behind in intelligence and opportunities available to them. Life will be considerably harder for anyone who chooses not to be a part of this development, which will seem, at first, only advantageous.

 

This hybridization of many species by tampering with DNA is already going on by many scientists on planet earth. There are huge companies making billions of dollars worldwide by changing the genetic structure of individual plants to make some of them immune to certain insects and bugs. There is evidence that hybridization is happening in the animal world by having human DNA added to animals to grow human body parts.  Again, those who support these ideas state that this is a positive thing and will help us to combat sickness, aging, and ultimately death. But along with these ideas, we could also face the reality of a race, which is not, strictly speaking, 100 percent human and, therefore, patentable and owned by whichever organization or company makes the change. I believe this is what the Mark of the Beast is, something added to your human DNA, making you less than human—owned and operated at the will of the enemy of your soul.

 

As I stated before, there will come along with the mark, the command to worship. There will be a choice that people will be forced to make (If you want to be part of the in-crowd) that will cause them to align themselves with the Antichrist and with the world system. When these things take place, I do not believe people will be in any doubt as to the significance of taking the mark. If indeed it is connected to this idea of becoming Trans-Human, it is evident that a person will automatically surrender something of their humanity. It will change what it means to be human. Freethought will be challenged by the owners and operators of the Hive Mind; after all, they will know your thoughts. Those who take the mark will upload into a system from which they can pull data, but it would also cause them to opt into a system that can influence and even control them. Isn't that what the enemy of our souls has sought to do from the beginning?

 

When the first humans were tempted in the Garden of Eden, the temptation was to be “as gods, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:5) and eat from the tree of knowledge. Those deceived and tempted to take the mark will have at their disposal a vast tree of knowledge on the Internet available to all who plug into it. Some have openly stated that the desire is to transcend our mortal humanity. In 2 Thessalonians 2:4, we see a prophecy that the Anti-Christ will enter the temple of God and proclaim himself as a god. He wants to achieve god status, to be “as god.” There has been a lot of talk in the scientific community and in popular films such as Avatar, Transcendence, and books about what it means to be human. The temptation will be to leave Homo Sapiens 1.0 behind:

 

When Satan approached Eve in the Garden of Eden, he said to the woman:

 

“Did God really say, “You must not eat from any tree in the garden?" The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden. But God did say, ‘You must not eat from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will surely die.’ "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. "For God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:1-5).

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tn4P7IBqoQ

 

If this link to the clip is not working, go to YouTube and put in the search box, Most People Don’t Even Know What’s Coming. 23 mins.

 

Do you see any correlation between this passage and the idea of humanity 2.0? In what ways is this temptation similar?

 

This is the temptation that Satan has offered man—to be as gods—to transcend their humanity and be more than human, with Satan being god over mankind:

 

"How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of dawn! You have been cast down to the Earth, you who once laid low the nations! You said in your heart, 'I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly'” (Isaiah 14: 12-14). 

 

We see this same thought presented as a temptation when Jesus went into the desert to fast. Satan came and took Christ to a very high mountain. As He looked down from the mountain, Satan showed Jesus all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. “All this I will give you," he said, "If you will bow down and worship me." Satan’s aim has always been the same; to transcend the state he has been given and be worshipped as god. He is tempting humankind, in the same way, to transcend our humanity and create a super-human race. Those who believe in and support the idea of Singularity and Transhumanism have described it positively by stating that man needs to be the controller of his destiny, no longer subject to the limitations of humanity, and will one day, they believe, be able to conquer death itself.

 

Satan never gave away anything for free, and I don't think this ability to be Homo Sapiens 2.0 will be free—it will cost people their souls. It could be only the elites, the rich, and those with the influence who will be able to afford this augmentation into Humanity 2.0. Others will have just the mark on their hand to track them and buy and sell. Those who reject the mark or are not connected may be shut out of the system. Those who refuse to worship the Antichrist and do not take the Mark will need to trust the Lord and the Body of Christ for their provision. The Scripture says, “so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed (Revelation 13:15). Those who take the Mark and refuse to worship the Antichrist will have their switch turned off.

 

The result of this technology will be a wholesale redesign of what it means to be human. This vision—the borgification (marriage between human biology and machine) of man—is supported in the latest “State of the Future” report (2010) by the global think tank, the Millennium Project, founded after a three-year feasibility study with the United Nations University, Smithsonian Institution. They say, “genetic code will be written to create life forms to augment civilization.”

 

The report says that a “global collective intelligence system [hive super mind] will be needed to track all these science and technology advances.” That last sentence scares me the most. A massive database with artificial intelligence many millions of times greater than the human mind will, I believe, come into operation. Once a person is connected to it, they will be forced to worship the one who will gain control over the whole world—the Antichrist. Another thing to remember is that Scripture tells us of a time when some people on the Earth will not be able to die, even though they want to.

 

In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them (Revelation 9:6).

 

Doesn't that sound weird? This inability to die sounds like those who take the mark of the beast have uploaded their consciousness to some supercomputer—they are no longer biological beings—they have become Transhuman or Humanity 2.0. Of course, the question then is what will happen to the bodies of those who upload their consciousness to Meta? Are demons then able to enter their vacated bodies? All information about everyone that takes this upgrade to their humanity will be on this hive artilect (artificial intellect). This “hive intellect” will be at the disposal of the Antichrist, giving him supreme power—they that take the mark will become his slaves and have to worship him. Take a look at the video produced in 2013 at the link below:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmaczzTUR5M

 

I found the above link by searching on YouTube with the words Transhumanism.

 

My purpose in showing this clip is merely to show that these ideas are out there and to consider how they may be connected to the last days, particularly to the Anti-Christ and the Mark of the Beast. We do not know how far humanity will be allowed to proceed, but we are already seeing things that show we are on the path to changing our species, which has started with altering DNA.

 

When we consider these things, it is easy to become anxious or afraid. However, Paul gives some good advice to the Thessalonian church:

 

“But you, brothers, are not in darkness, so that this day should surprise you like a thief. You are all sons of the light and sons of the day. We do not belong to the night or to the darkness. So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be alert and self-controlled, putting on faith and love, as a breastplate and the hope of salvation as a helmet” (1 Thessalonians 5:4-8).

 

These words are excellent advice for us today. We should not be asleep but aware of the times we live in and look forward to when Christ returns. Until then, we put on faith, hope, and love. He has also promised He will be with us until the end of the age (Matthew 28:20). If you have never entrusted your life to Christ and turned from your sin, today is a good day to do that. God is as near as a prayer. He will not force His way into your life but has given you the gift of free will, and the handle to the door to welcome Him into your life is on your side. Call on the Lord Jesus Christ and ask Him to fill your life with His love and grace. He stands waiting.

 

Father, I have messed up time and again with my life. I come to you today seeking your forgiveness for the things that I have done wrong (my sin). I understand you sent your Son to pay the penalty I brought on myself. I believe Christ died for me and as me, as the just payment for my sin. Help me from now on to live for You. I receive your gift of mercy and grace today. Amen.

 

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Keith Thomas

 

Email: keiththomas@groupbiblestudy.com

 

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For further study via YouTube, you might want to search for: Transhumanism Part 1/Mark of the Beast: The Ultimate Agenda. Here’s the link:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwh4ShZA5Tg

http://naturalsociety.com/russian-scientist-says-immortality-possible-for-wealthy-elite-by-2045/

 

Link for further research:

 

This Robot Already Owns Everything (And it's just getting started): Blackrock Aladdin. Published on November 29, 2021.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWBRldjVzuM