Friday, May 9, 2025
Over the past century the world has undergone a technological seismic shift due to the biblical fulfillment of the prophetic truth of Dan. 12:4, that in the end-times “many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase”. As for the church, this shouldn’t take any of us by surprise, in fact, we should have expected those technological challenges and prepared to meet them head on. And for all the knowledge that generated conveniences of communication, manufacturing, and enhanced lifestyles, there’s unprecedented confusion, unrest, anger, hatred, division, wars, suicide, fear, mental illness and depression. This stuff isn’t just in the unbelieving world, but it features prominently in the organized church. Many in the church are in psychological therapy sessions for fear, anxiety and depression. Many are on numerous prescription medications and drugs in hopes of healing the anxiety within. It’s nearly become the new normal. This exists in part because the church has not prepared its people for the end-times and as a result many have fallen prey to anxiety and depression, not discerning the unprecedented spiritual warfare.
Now, in the love of Christ, I say, Christians addicted to prescription Pharma is no different than unbelievers being addicted to various substances to vacate anxiety and depression. There’s really no difference, because both remedies, if we can call it that, are not based on one’s abiding faith in Christ for peace, healing, restoration and reality of a blessed life of faith in Christ for anyone who loves Him. It’s sadly amazing the number of people in churches who are in psychological therapy sessions and addicted to drugs, including many children. This isn’t God’s doing, for His Spirit said “You [God] will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You, Because he trusts in You” (Isa. 26:3); and “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” (John 14:27); and last but not least, “in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us” (Rom. 8:37). The remedy for fear, anxiety and depression is keeping our heart, mind and soul fixed on the Word of Truth, our Deliverer, our Healer and Conqueror, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Christ warned that hearts would be weighed down with the cares of this life which lead to the dependency of something other than the Lord who warned: “But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man” (Luke 21:34–36). It’s absolutely true that the technologies we’re now seeing were things of science fiction a century ago. For example “Transhumanism is the great merger of humankind with the Machine. At this stage in history, it consists of billions using smartphones. Going forward, we’ll be hardwiring our brains to artificial intelligence systems.” (Source) The question is, “Will church leaders lead the people to accept or reject end-time progressive technologies?” That’s a valid question because the church has shown its people that, not only is it a big business, but it loves being progressive with many technological offerings of this corrupt and dying world. Where’s the discernment?
This is a certainty: end-time knowledge, technologies, science and biological combinations are not going to diminish, but rapidly amplify. And because the church has mandated teaching the pre-trib rapture and promised that its people will never see Antichrist or the 7-year tribulation, there’s zero preparation being made for those God-promised events, nor are there any spiritual restrictions or guardrails warning believers to abstain from the very technologies Satan will use to deceive and destroy vast portions of humanity. And worse, when the tribulation starts many believers will not believe that Antichrist is who he is because they were promised they would never see him or his God-promised technological destruction that will sweep across the world. And then as a result of millions of believers having been lied to “many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another” (Matt. 24:10), exacerbating the falling away.
Geoffrey Hinton, the so-called father of AI said, “The best way to understand it emotionally is we are like somebody who has this really cute tiger cub. Unless you can be very sure that it’s not gonna want to kill you when it’s grown up, you should worry.” (Source) Understand that we have AI technology today that, in its final state will literally desire to kill humanity. That’s the truth of God’s word! It’s called “the image of the beast” (Rev. 13: 15). And if we of faith in Christ can’t get our act together, as it were, and absolutely trust and believe and prepare in the testimony of God in Christ, we will quite naturally be drawn away to view these progressive technologies as normal. And that’s exactly what Satan desires as he ramps up end-time anxiety and depression disguised as progressive good. But you must know that the Devil is a thief who “does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. [But Jesus said] I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly” (John 10:10). Let us walk in faith and not in fear.
Evils of technological progressivism have deceptively been at work for well over the last century in a tangible way that is recognizable to those having knowledge of God’s word and true faith in the testimony of Christ Jesus. One such evil progressive thought entered the mind of Elon Musk demonstrating his faithlessness in the Son of God and His word. It’s utter foolishness. He wants to colonize the planet Mars, describing Mars as “life insurance for life on earth”. (Source) Musk believes that people can live on Mars as the backup plan for the destruction of life here on Earth. It’s a faithless and crazy thought. But the much larger concern for Christians is the push to unite man and machine which Musk’s technology is already perfecting and the Machine will be given authority over those who dwell on the earth via “the image of the beast” as mentioned above. Its end-time technologies of evil for which the church is not being warned. Why? Because of faith in the unbiblical pre-trib rapture! Millions have been sold the lie that they won’t be on Earth to see the well-detailed tribulation events the testimony of Jesus Christ clearly reveals. Very bad!
VATICAN UPDATE. As of yesterday, Thursday, May 8, 2025, after two failed votes, the third vote produced Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first-ever American pope taking the papal name Pope Leo XIV, who appears to have been chosen by Pope Francis himself. “Francis brought Prevost to the Vatican in 2023 to serve as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations from around the world, one of the most important jobs in the Catholic Church. As a result, Prevost had a prominence going into the conclave that few other cardinals have.” (Source) In the short term he may be a copy of Pope Francis, but in the longer term, likely far darker, e.g. “Pope Leo XIV ‘looked the other way’ when confronted with child sex allegations against priest in his Chicago church” (Source) It appears Pope Leo XIV aligns with the advancement of globalism and New World Order. Soon, I believe he will call for unifying all religions into a One World Religion.
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Marlin J. Yoder
