In today’s world, we are accustomed to a computerized world,
one that has pretty much everything at our fingertips
We can order a meal online if we choose, buy our groceries,
order practically anything that our minds can imagine.
We can fill our houses with music in an instant from somewhere far, far away, we can pay our bills, balance our checkbook and many other conveniences too numerous to mention.
This device, our smart phone will also be our demise.
Some of us read or listen to our bible on our smartphones.
We lose our composure if we leave our phone somewhere
or can become very uncomfortable if we don’t have our phones with us.
These little smartphones, that keep us linked to each other,
and the rest of the world, have us eating out of their hand.
We will spend more money on a new phone
to have the latest, greatest, best camera for selfies,
for whatever we see or desire to share with friends
and relatives and social media.
We need to hold our phones loosely.
If possible, let us keep our private business as private as we can.
We are accustomed to sharing, and, with the push of a button,
we can allow others access to our lives
and even the most intimate parts of our lives.
We need to be aware of what we are allowing into our lives.
Some people allow Alexis to live in their homes.
She has become somewhat of a personalized robot,
who accesses information.
She also collects information.
She has been known to transcribe conversations she hears and creates transcriptions and has sent them to others, without the owners’ permission.
We also have the new ChatGPT available at our fingertips,
which can share so much information,
that we can barely have the time and space to touch on the subject.
It can mimic voices, create videos, essays with very compelling knowledge.
This is AI, Artificial Intelligence.
We are also soon looking forward to AGI, Artificial General Intelligence.
AGI are personal robots who will do whatever you need or want them to do.
Not sure how easy the AGI can be hacked or overtaken by the powers that be.
We must be very careful we are not against giving these devices
and computers up once they cross the line.
At this point, we don’t even know where the line is.
Some people wear their phones on their wrists.
This is very close to what we might expect to be The Mark of the Beast.
Once we have everything accessible in our phones,
we will be almost fully using the Beast System
and must be very careful lest we become numb to its hold on us.
Read and memorize these scriptures very carefully
and ask the Lord to open them up to you by His Holy Spirit:
Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth,
and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon.
And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence,
and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
He performs great signs, so that he even
makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men.
And he deceives those who dwell on the earth
by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast,
telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast
who was wounded by the sword and lived.
He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast,
that the image of the beast should both speak
and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast
to be killed.
He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave,
to receive a mark on their right hand
or on their foreheads,
and that no one may buy or sell
except one who has the mark
or the name of the beast,
or the number of his name.
Here is wisdom.
Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast,
for it is the number of a man: His number is 666. Revelation 13:11-18
There are a few things that stand out to me in this passage:
People who do not worship the Beast will be killed
He causes all,
both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark
on their right hand
or on their foreheads,
and that no one may buy or sell
except one who has the mark
or the name of the beast,
or the number of his name.
Some think they know what the Mark of the Beast is.
Some say it’s a vaccine that alters human DNA.
Some say it’s a tattoo or a chip with our information in it
or we cannot buy or sell.
No matter what it is, worship of Satan is involved.
He will not appear like himself. He will be deceptive.
That is why we all must be listening closely to the Lord
and aware of what may be happening all around us or to us.
And what I say to you, I say to all: Watch! Mark 13:37