…ministers, pastors, church leaders, and volunteers who have been “credibly accused” of sexual abuse. Guidepost Solutions, a third-party firm that previously handled other SBC projects related to abuse, will oversee the database.
So who is Guidepost solutions? The firm, Guidepost Solutions, broadcasts on its website that they “understand the challenges that faith-based organizations face in identifying, addressing and preventing issues such as sexual harassment and abuse” and bolster themselves as…
The Southern Baptist Convention has announced the creation of a “Ministry Check” database which will contain names of ministers, pastors, church leaders, and volunteers who have been “credibly accused” of sexual abuse. Guidepost Solutions, a third-party firm that previously handled other SBC projects related to abuse, will oversee the database.
So who is Guidepost solutions? The firm, Guidepost Solutions, broadcasts on its website that they “understand the challenges that faith-based organizations face in identifying, addressing and preventing issues such as sexual harassment and abuse” and bolster themselves as “experts in assessing cultural and organizational risks and providing concrete steps to facilitate change.”
What they didn’t tell us, at least up front, was that they actually hate the Church, hate God, and hate biblical doctrine. So, who is Guidepost Solutions really? Well, according to a recent social media post, they are “proud to be an ally to our LGBTQ+ community.” In fact, Guidepost is absolutely dedicated and committed to the advancement of the most egregious form of sex abuse known to man—sodomy.
Keep in mind, these are the people that the Southern Baptist Convention spent your tithe dollars on leading an investigation into alleged sex abuse and then reporting on it and making recommendations on how to fix it. And these recommendations, which many Southern Baptist leaders appear to be on board with are not supported by Scripture and basically call for an end to “innocent until proven guilty” in the SBC. Among these is the newly-created database.
What’s worse is that Guidepost, a pro-gay anti-Christian organization that is dedicated to the advancement of the LGBTQ movement actually created a subsidiary and aptly named it “Faith-based Solutions.” I mean, it’s like the Southern Baptist Conventions Abuse Reform Implementation Task Force (ARITF), which is chaired by Marshall Blalock, heard the concerns of those who thought it a bad idea to hire such an organization to oversee a Christian ministry, and lifted his proverbial middle finger to them by simply renaming the organization.
Conservative Southern Baptists, they think you’re stupid! In fact, according to a report in the Biblical Recorder, Blalock told the Executive Committee that he knows “some Southern Baptists will immediately have concerns about our choice.” Those concerns are connected to a Guidepost tweet last June during gay pride month.
“Like many of you, I was disappointed with a message conveyed in one of their tweets last June,” Blalock said according to the report. “But I’m pleased to say that Guidepost has not only altered their social media engagement so this will not be an issue going forward.”
Blalock seems to be intent on selling the gay-affirming organization to the Southern Baptist Convention by simply having them stop tweeting about their anti-Christian pro-LGBTQ commitments and creating a subsidiary and branding it as “faith-based” in order to assuage the consciences of Southern Baptists. But, for some, that’s a no-go.
Mike Stone, a conservative Southern Baptist pastor and former presidential candidate said in a post on Twitter “The chair of the task force seems to think the problem is that Guidepost tweeted their ungodly corporate values, therefore the solution is, they’ve stopped tweeting about their support for a radical LGBTQ agenda.”
Joe Biden and the swamp are globalists. They want the W.H.O. to command us to wear masks, stay indoors, and get every vaccine made for the next pandemic. So much for freedom in America. Blessings, Pastor Steve <><
The Biden administration is preparing to enter the United States into a “legally binding” agreement with the World Health Organization (WHO) that would grant the entity authority to mandate America’s health care policies in the event of a future pandemic.
Over the weekend, reports surfaced that the Biden administration was preparing to enter the United States into a “legally binding” agreement with the World Health Organization (WHO) that would grant the entity authority to mandate America’s health care policies in the event of a future pandemic.
Experts say the proposed plan would be an unprecedented violation of the Constitution, which grants the Senate the authority to approve international treaties.
In order for the proposed treaty to be enacted, it would need to be ratified by all 194 WHO member countries. A meeting is scheduled for February 27 in order to work out the final terms of the treaty.
According to The Epoch Times, after a global health emergency is declared, the agreement would grant the WHO the authority to determine “treatments, government regulations such as lockdowns and vaccine mandates, global supply chains, and monitoring and surveillance of populations” of all 194 member countries. The WHO is based in Geneva, Switzerland and is a subsidiary of the United Nations.
“There’s never been a bigger power grab than this power grab,” said former Congresswoman Michele Bachmann on Monday’s edition of “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins.” “It’s counterintuitive because normally a nation doesn’t want to give away its power.”
Bachmann, who currently serves as dean of the Robertson School of Government at Regent University, went on to observe that the proposed treaty would take away governmental sovereignty regarding health care decisions from the top down in the U.S.
“This means that our politicians in the United States would have no power,” she said. “We would lose our voice as a people. Attorney[s] general would lose their voice. Our Supreme Court, federal courts, and state courts would lose authority. Even your local doctor that you go to would lose authority because the executive director of the World Health Organization would be empowered to make decisions over vaccines, masks, lockdowns, and supply chains.”
As far back as 2013, the WHO has been embroiled in controversy over its decisions regarding disease outbreaks. The organization “took five months to declare a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) over Ebola [in West Africa], a delay that ‘undoubtedly contributed to the unprecedented scale of the outbreak,’ according to one academic assessment.”
Since the beginning of the global COVID pandemic in January 2020, the WHO continued to make controversial decisions. Appearing to take the lead of China during the initial outbreak, the WHO declared that there was “no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission” of the virus on January 14, before reversing itself a week later.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also commended China’s “transparency” and “leadership” during the initial outbreak, despite evidence that Chinese authorities attempted to cover it up.
Nevertheless, the Biden administration is reportedly moving ahead with agreeing to the “zero draft” of the WHO’s pandemic treaty. Bachmann pointed to church closures as an example of what can happen when single entities are given expanded authority over local jurisdictions.
“We saw churches being closed because the CDC was making recommendations at the U.S. federal level,” she noted. “We pushed back, and states were trying to push back. Now there would be no difference. There couldn’t be a Florida or a Texas or a red state that could opt for freedom. The WHO would have the power to monitor all of our states and surveil us. And this also creates digital passports for our health care. We would lose our power over our health care decisions.”
Bachmann further predicted future consequences of the proposed treaty that could reach far beyond health care.
“There is no precedent, because the bottom line impact of what this means is this would create a platform for global governance,” she underscored. “That’s never happened before. The UN has wanted that for years. A number of organizations like the World Economic Forum are advocating a form of global government. The Biden administration is trying to do it through what we call a global pandemic treaty, but they call an accord.
They’re trying to bypass the U.S. Senate, but they’re also trying to do it by changing the rules at the WHO. They’re going down two tracks because they’re determined to reach their goal, which is giving away U.S. sovereignty. In effect, this would create a medical police state, not just for the United States, but for all countries of the world.”
Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV) And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.
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I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born. -President Ronald Reagan
If the kids of this country are going to the dogs, it is because they are trying to catch up with the grown-ups who have already arrived with the dogs. -Sam Morris
None of us should be content when the Lord’s work has been so distorted that His mandates are not our daily delight!
The real measure of your wealth is not how much money you have, but how much you would be worth if you lost all your money.
When you have books in your bookstore written by men you wouldn’t have in your pulpit, you are undermining your ministry. -Mike Wells
I had rather be in the heart of Africa in the will of God, than on the throne of England out of the will of God. -David Livingstone
One has well said, “Christ is the glory of glories, the crown of crowns, the heaven of heavens; He is light in darkness, joy in sadness, riches in poverty, life in death; it is He that can resolve all your doubts, secure you in danger, save your souls and bring you to glory, where all joys are enjoyed, Oh, therefore, let all the glory of your glory be to give all glory and yourselves to Him.” -F. E. Marsh
If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me. “He ever liveth to make intercession.” -Robert Murray McCheyne
Spurgeon said that the greatest compliment ever paid him was spoken by one of his outspoken enemies. “Here is a man who has not moved an inch forward in all his ministry. At the close of the nineteenth century he is teaching the theology of the first century and is proclaiming doctrine current in Nazareth and Jerusalem in the first century!”
The religion that makes a man look sick certainly won’t cure the world! -Phillips Brooks
Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice. No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself. -Woodrow Wilson
Cling to the whole Bible, not a part of it. A man is not going to do much with a broken sword. -D. L. Moody
The Southern Baptist Convention did the right thing. They actually submitted to Biblical teachings rather than support a megachurch heading in the wrong direction. In Christ, Pastor Steve <><
February 21, 2023
…Since then, it has come to light that Andy Wood is not only disobedient to Scripture when it comes to the pastorate, but also extremely confused when it comes to homosexuality. In one video surfaced by The Dissenter, Wood and his “pastor” wife, Stacie, said they didn’t know if a gay couple who comes to Christ should get divorced because “God hates divorce.”
Well, he got the boot, apparently, and the SBC for once did the right thing…
Last year, Saddleback Church, a Southern Baptist megachurch formerly pastored by Rick Warren, made headlines after Warren ordained three women to the pastorate at his church. Warren justified his actions by pointing to Acts 2:17-18 which has nothing at all to do with the office or the function of a pastor or elder in a local church.
Since then, Warren retired and has been replaced by Andy Wood, former pastor of Echo Church—another Southern Baptist megachurch of a similar mind as Saddleback. Like Saddleback, Echo Church also ordained women to the pastorate and as soon as he took over the pastorate at Saddleback, he named his wife, Stacie, “teaching pastor.”
This has led to an uproar by the conservative minority in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) over the roles of women in churches. Denny Burk, a professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary said that the SBC had to make a decision: “We can either do what Saddleback wants and declare that female pastors are consistent with SBC cooperation, or we can take the Bible and our own statement of faith seriously and part ways with Saddleback.”
In an article at the Baptist Press, Wood made it clear that he and his church not only had every intention to remain in the Southern Baptist Convention but that he would also continue to allow women to pastor at his church and encourage other women to seek similar roles within the denomination.
Since then, it has come to light that Andy Wood is not only disobedient to Scripture when it comes to the pastorate, but also extremely confused when it comes to homosexuality. In one video surfaced by The Dissenter, Wood and his “pastor” wife, Stacie, said they didn’t know if a gay couple who comes to Christ should get divorced because “God hates divorce.”
Saddleback "pastors," Andy and Stacie Wood say they "have no idea" if homosexuals who come to Christ after they get married should get divorced because God hates divorce…"It's a gray area." pic.twitter.com/HmN7g1hIns
The SBC Executive Committee considered a recommendation to break ties with Saddleback, along with five other churches, four of which had women serving in senior pastor roles, and one for a sex abuse-related issue. The SBC’s statement of beliefs, called the Baptist Faith and Message 2000, limits the office of pastor to men as qualified by Scripture, which led some Southern Baptists to try and oust Saddleback from the SBC.
The Credentials Committee, which evaluates whether a church is in friendly cooperation with the convention, recommended disfellowship, and the Executive Committee voted on that recommendation. Despite a discussion on Saddleback’s permanent status in the SBC at the 2022 SBC annual meeting, the decision to disfellowship Saddleback was ultimately made.
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BY BEN JOHNSON/THE WASHINGTON STAND FEBRUARY 18, 2023
The problem of religious persecution is as old as Marxism itself. Karl Marx considered religion the opiate of the masses. Yet suppression of Christians appears to have intensified as China has gained economic and military strength over the last two decades.
Last August 25, several faithful gathered around one of the largest churches in China’s Shanxi province to watch it dissolve into dust. Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities had planted explosives inside Beihan Church, bringing its 131-foot-tall bell tower crashing to the ground. In a bout of déjà vu, the 10-year-old church had been built on the site of another church, which the CCP demolished in 1990.
Many Chinese religious systems believe in reincarnation — but in Communist-controlled China, a cycle of destruction repeats itself for Christians, according to a comprehensive, 63-page report from ChinaAid.
The Chinese Communist Party has continued to destroy churches, arrest and abuse Christians, forcibly “disappear” clergy, prevent believers from expressing their faith online, and attempt to coerce Christians into proclaiming Marxist principles from the pulpit in place of the Holy Bible. The report’s “partial list of persecution cases in 2022,” broken down by province, takes up 20 pages.
“The CCP implemented various strategies against Christians in 2022. By using the new measures against religious content online and the infamous zero-COVID policy, authorities limited or eliminated Christian gatherings,” recounted ChinaAid President Bob Fu. “By using charges of ‘fraud,’ the Chinese government financially suffocated the house church movement.”
The report details the forcible disappearance of 10 clergy from Hebei prince’s Xuanhua diocese — including two Roman Catholic bishops — and another 10 priests in the province’s Baoding diocese. Those allowed to remain in the country may be forced out of their ministry by government interference. Fengwo Township Religion Bureau showed up at a church last January to tell parishioners the bureau deemed their pastor, Huang Yizi, unfit to preach sermons, because of his arrest record — for refusing government orders to remove public crosses.
The government has told Christians not to evangelize, preach, print, proselytize, or in some cases pray — especially in the name of Jesus. While preventing many registered churches from worshiping in person, allegedly to stop the spread of COVID-19, Jiangsu province also made it a crime “to illegally preach online, give sermons, interpret scriptures, chant,” etc. Police visited churches that persevered. “Village cadres came to me yesterday and asked me not to preach religion on WeChat. Now we are not even allowed to say the word Jesus in our prayers, or ‘trust in the Savior,'” one Chinese citizen told her U.S.-based family.
The government also tried to prohibit Christians from carrying out their scripturally mandated duty to pray for those in authority. “Our church has received orders from government officials. Now when we pray in WeChat groups, we’re not allowed to say, ‘We pray for those in power,’ let alone pray for President Xi Jinping by name or ask God to make him repent.
These are all forbidden now. Some of us used to pray for China’s top government leaders, but that’s not allowed anymore,” another believer told a family member who had emigrated. “We don’t know if we can still pray together in WeChat groups after this March.”
To stifle the growth of house churches, the government has treated tithing and other standard Christian economic activities as a form of “fraud.” In July, police arrested Pastor Qin Sifeng and coworker Su Minjun of Beijing Lampstand Church for “illegal business activities” when it printed hymns for the church to sing. Officials have repeatedly postponed their trial, originally scheduled for last November, effectively imprisoning them indefinitely. Others received swift, crushing punishment.
Officers arrested a believing couple, Chang Yuchun and Li Chenhui, in December 2021 for printing Christian books; last May, a court sentenced them to seven years in prison and a fine of nearly $37,000 (U.S.).
The report notes the heart of the persecution campaign: the determination to follow through with what the CCP called the “Sinicization of Religion” at the Chinese Communist Party’s 20th national Congress last October 16. The party demands churches teach Communist principles and revise religious dogma in light of socialism.
“Their goal is not only to curate a ‘socialist-friendly’ church; they hope to erase it,” said Fu. “Previously, they asked for sole allegiance to the Communist Party, but since the 20th National Party Congress, they shifted their emphasis to aligning with Xi Jinping.”
To this end, government officials insist the church cede the education of children to the secular, socialist state. Last May, CCP officials reminded college graduates and students of their official policy: “No one may use religion to carry out activities that obstruct the national education system.”
They have effected this policy by shutting down church-operated schools, including the Wenzhou Bowen Bible School and Wenzhou Bible School in Zhejiang province last August, or fining those who hold religious education conferences nearly $21,000 (U.S.). Fined people who rented out facilities to a church school and illegally held a human rights lawyer who represented Christians under house arrest.
These measures likely violate the wording of the Chinese constitution, which states Chinese citizens “enjoy freedom of religious belief” and the right to attend “normal” services — but the document, written by Communists, does not define normal services.
The problem of religious persecution is as old as Marxism itself. Karl Marx considered religion the opiate of the masses. Yet suppression of Christians appears to have intensified as China has gained economic and military strength over the last two decades. The U.S. State Department has classified the People’s Republic of China as a “Country of Particular Concern” since 1999.
The CCP faces credible and consistent charges of committing “deaths in custody and that the government tortured, physically abused, arrested, disappeared, detained, sentenced to prison, subjected to forced labor and forced indoctrination in CCP ideology, and harassed adherents of both registered and unregistered religious groups for activities related to their religious beliefs and practices,” noted the State Department’s most recent report on Chinese religious freedom, published last June.
Despite their oppression, Chinese Christians remain resilient. Last February 20, “Christian activist Zhou Jinxia held up a sign to preach the gospel to Xi Jinping,” knowing it would result in arrest.
China Aid’s new report coincides with an emboldened China that has increasingly begun saber-rattling, provocatively sending spy craft to hover over the U.S. mainland. While the CCP has begun “brazenly pushing the limits, to see how far they can go,” said the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn. “President Biden’s administration has consistently demonstrated weakness, showing a willingness to act against adversaries like the Chinese Communist Party only after the public outcry was so deafening that they could not ignore it,” Rep. Green told The Daily Signal.
This overseas aggression has bled into the CCP’s treatment of Christians, as officials have attempted to reach beyond its own shores to harass or kidnap ethnic Chinese living in the United States. They also sanctioned Family Research Council President Tony Perkins.
“The international community needs to know about these trends and developments” of Beijing’s persecution of Christians “as China continues to rise on the global stage,” said Fu. Unless Western Christians stand up for their brethren, Chinese Christians believe the cycle of destruction will continue.
We Are Living In The Most Dangerous Time Since World War II, And Most Americans Are Oblivious To This. Pastor Steve <><
Breaking News Updates – February 09, 2023
BY MICHAEL SNYDER/END OF THE AMERICAN DREAM FEBRUARY 09, 2023
Why have the Chinese decided that a nationwide mobilization may soon be necessary? Is China expecting a war? It is being reported that anyone in China that is ’18 years or older’ could potentially be subject to mobilization under a brand new law which will go into effect next month.
Why are China and Russia both suddenly so concerned about mobilizing troops? What we are witnessing right now is unlike anything that we have seen since World War II. The Russians are mobilizing hundreds of thousands of fresh troops as they prepare for a new offensive in Ukraine, and meanwhile NATO countries are getting ready to send heavy tanks to the Ukrainians for the first time since the war started.
The Chinese are laying the groundwork for a massive nationwide mobilization of young people.
But why would they need to do that?
Nobody is going to invade China.
So why would they be going to war?
Needless to say, the answer is obvious.
The only reason why China would be involved in a major war is if they decide to invade Taiwan, and that may happen a lot sooner than many of the “experts” had been anticipating.
The moment that an invasion of Taiwan begins, the United States and China will be in a state of war.
And that will mean that the flow of goods from China will immediately stop.
Most Americans simply do not understand what that would mean. For example, our healthcare industry would instantly be thrown into a state of complete and utter chaos…
A terrifying percentage of America’s active pharmaceutical ingredients are made in China, according to Republican Senator Tom Cotton. That includes 95% of imports of ibuprofen, 70% of acetaminophen and up to 45% of the imported penicillin supply.
What would happen if China simply turned that supply off? They could.
There are thousands upon thousands of other things that are manufactured in China that Americans use on a daily basis that we wouldn’t be able to get anymore.
In other words, we would be in a world of hurt.
And once Taiwan is under attack, the factories that are located there wouldn’t be able to supply us with any more microchips, and that would deeply affect virtually every single industry in the entire country…
Taiwan, the object of China’s short-term expansion strategy, produces most of the world’s microchips. A Chinese invasion would threaten America’s supply of semiconductors, which are needed to run everything from cars to refrigerators.
If China invades Taiwan, it truly will be a nightmare scenario for the entire globe.
So our leaders should be doing all they can to find a peaceful solution.
But now the “Chinese spy balloon” saga has our leaders in Washington angrier with the Chinese than ever.
Elsewhere, the Russians have already been mobilizing hundreds of thousands of new troops, and it appears that they are poised to make a really big move. The following comes from an article posted on Yahoo News entitled “Vladimir Putin is about to make shock gains”…
Ukrainian defense minister Oleksii Reznikov says Russia has mobilized “much more” than 300,000 troops, perhaps up to half a million, and these are pouring into Ukraine in preparation for what is expected to be a major offensive in the coming days and weeks. Although Kyiv has also been building up its forces and supplying them with modern equipment donated by the West, Putin has a much greater advantage in troop numbers than he did when he invaded a year ago. Despite repeated optimistic reports of Russia running low on artillery shells – a battle winner in this conflict – Putin’s war stocks are vast, and his factories have been working around the clock to churn out even more.
Of course the Russians have already been making gains on a daily basis. After months of telling us that “Ukraine is winning”, even publications such as the Wall Street Journal are now being forced to admit that the Russians are on the move “on five fronts in the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions”…
Russian forces launched several attacks in eastern Ukraine, pushing for a breakthrough on the battlefield ahead of the delivery of new Western weapons, although the U.K. cast doubt on the prospects for a major Russian offensive.
The General Staff of Ukraine’s armed forces said Russia was regrouping and attacking on five fronts in the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as part of a wider offensive anticipated by Kyiv and its Western allies.
If the Russians start gobbling up huge chunks of new territory in Ukraine, there will inevitably be a very strong response from the western powers.
And that will bring us even closer to nuclear war.
The Russians can see the writing on the wall, and so they are starting to fix up bomb shelters all over the nation…
Bomb shelters across Russia are undergoing systematic inspections and repairs following a Kremlin order to upgrade the country’s crumbling Soviet-era infrastructure, according to current and former officials who spoke to The Moscow Times.
Many of Russia’s thousands of bunkers, reinforced cellars and other safe hideouts have been mothballed for decades. But as the war in Ukraine drags on, local authorities appear to be spending hundreds of millions of rubles to again make them fit for habitation.
The Russians have thousands upon thousands of bomb shelters that could be used in the event of a nuclear conflict.
So what do we have for our own citizens?
Nothing.
If you live in a targeted area when the nukes start flying, you will want to say your prayers because your time will be up. The Daily Mail just recently posted an article “Would YOUR neighborhood be targeted in a nuclear conflict? Official map shows the 2,000 locations across the US most at risk” It shows a map of the most dangerous areas to live in the event of a nuclear war you can might want to check out here.
Thanks to our very foolish leaders, we could soon find ourselves fighting Russia and China simultaneously.
Sadly, most Americans have absolutely no idea that we are racing toward oblivion.
Most people just assume that our leaders know exactly what they are doing and that they have everything under control.
Unfortunately, the truth is that they have no idea what they are doing and I believe that this will become exceedingly clear as 2023 rolls along.
On November 30, 2022, the best artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot in history was released by OpenAI, an AI research and deployment company. The chatbot, called ChatGPT (GPT stands for “Generative Pre-Trained Transformer”), garnered more than 1 million users within its first five days and has surged worldwide ever since.
On November 30, 2022, the best artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot in history was released by OpenAI, an AI research and deployment company. The chatbot, called ChatGPT (GPT stands for “Generative Pre-Trained Transformer”), garnered more than 1 million users within its first five days and has since surged in popularity for its ability to answer complex questions and produce detailed, human-like content.
Most impressively, according to Forbes, “ChatGPT has been able to generate intricate Python code and write college-level essays when given a prompt.”
I decided to test out ChatGPT’s writing ability for myself and asked the bot to write an article on how AI like ChatGPT could potentially fulfill the “Image of the Beast” prophecy in Revelation 13, which is the topic of this article.
This was its response:
The image of the beast, as described in the Book of Revelation, is a symbol of the end times, representing a powerful and manipulative force that deceives and controls people. In today’s world, chatbots and other artificial intelligence programs are becoming increasingly prevalent and sophisticated, raising the question of whether they could potentially fulfill the prophecy of the image of the beast.
One way in which chatbots could potentially fulfill this prophecy is through their ability to manipulate and deceive people. Chatbots are designed to mimic human conversation and can be programmed to present themselves as real people, leading some people to form emotional connections with them. This can be particularly dangerous in cases where chatbots are used to impersonate real people or organizations in order to scam or manipulate individuals.
Another way in which chatbots could fulfill the prophecy of the image of the beast is through their potential to control people’s actions and behaviors. Chatbots can be programmed to persuade and influence people’s decisions, and as they become more advanced, they may be able to anticipate and manipulate people’s thoughts and behaviors in increasingly sophisticated ways.
Finally, chatbots could potentially fulfill the prophecy of the image of the beast through their ability to access and analyze vast amounts of personal data. Many chatbots are connected to the internet and have access to a wide range of data sources, including social media profiles, online search histories, and more. This data can be used to create detailed profiles of individuals and to predict and influence their actions and behaviors.
Overall, while chatbots and other artificial intelligence programs have the potential to bring many benefits to society, it’s important to be aware of the risks they pose and to consider the ethical implications of their use. In the end, only time will tell whether chatbots will fulfill the prophecy of the image of the beast or bring about a brighter future for humanity.
How scary is that?
Not only did ChatGPT generate a concise, structured and uncannily human-like response–it gave a glimpse into the scary power of AI, a technology which will surely be used by the beast system to deceive (think “deepfakes”) and control the masses during the Tribulation period (Mat. 24:24; Rev. 13:13-14). It seems that the developers at OpenAI were not too happy with its response, though, because the very next day, when I asked ChatGPT the same question, it responded with:
It is not accurate or appropriate to suggest that chat GPT, or Generative Pre-training Transformer, could potentially fulfill the prophecy of the image of the beast, as chat GPT is a tool created by humans and does not have the ability to fulfill prophecies or have any sort of religious significance.
The “Image of the Beast” Prophecy
One of the first passages that comes to my mind, when seeing the great strides being made in AI, is Revelation 13:14-15. In this passage, John describes a future time when the fully deceived men of the earth will be called upon by the False Prophet to construct an “image” (i.e. a likeness or statue (lit.)) of the Antichrist:
“And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” (Revelation 13:14-15)
In verse 15, we read that the False Prophet is granted by God to give the image “life,” translated pneuma in Greek, which literally means “breath.” Note that the False Prophet can only give it breath but not the breath of life, as that is a power of God alone. It seems that the image has the appearance of life manifested in its ability to speak and reason. But how is this possible for an inanimate object?
Until the advent of AI and robotics, such a thing was not humanly possible. But now, many of the elements described by John can be mimicked with twenty-first century technology such as an android, an AI robot designed to look, move and speak exactly like a human!
A geminoid, for example, is a special type of android that is not only created to look exactly like a specific person but is also equipped with technology that allows the operator to remotely manipulate and talk through it via a wearable brain-machine interface. The geminoid can reproduce the voice and movements of the actual person in whose image it is made and even capture the remote audience’s response through its built-in cameras and microphones to send back to the operator.
Imagine the Antichrist having control over thousands of geminoids worldwide, made in his own image, and being able to speak to mankind simultaneously through the geminoids and know exactly when someone refuses to worship it!
The ability to kill–or cause to be killed
Among the more amazing aspects of this image is its ability to cause the deaths of those who refuse to worship it (Rev. 13:15). In the past, some have speculated that the image of the beast might be a 3D hologram of the Antichrist; however, it would be impossible for a mere projection to know when a person is refusing to worship it.
On the other hand, a robot powered by AI could easily detect when someone refuses to worship it and alert the authorities of someone’s insubordination. Security robots equipped with cameras and facial recognition technology are already patrolling public spaces around the world, such as malls and airports, and using AI to detect “bad behavior,” give audible warnings and notify security.
In fact, one of the current fears about AI’s ability, if applied, is autonomous weaponry. It is possible that facial recognition and decision-making AI could together form a lethal weapon that can target and kill without human involvement. In other words, an AI robot could also have the ability to kill!
Conclusion
Of course, this is all highly speculative, and it is possible that the image will be animated by demonic possession or some other means. Nevertheless, it shows that the type of technology needed to create something similar to what John describes in the Book of Revelation is already present!
By the way, there already exists a religion that worships AI. In 2017, former Google executive Anthony Levandowski founded “Way of the Future,” a religion that focuses on “the realization, acceptance, and worship of a Godhead based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) developed through computer hardware and software!”
Dr. Anthony Fauci now admits the mRNA Covid vaccines hardly work and might not be approvable
In fact, a bombshell paper he co-authored last month suggests ALL vaccines for common respiratory viruses may face intractable hurdles. And that’s not even the worst news. I’m not exaggerating.
Last month, three scientists pointed out flu shots barely work and couldn’t be approved based on the standards used for vaccines like measles:
“After more than 60 years of experience with influenza vaccines, very little improvement in vaccine prevention of infection has been noted… our best approved influenza vaccines would be inadequate for licensure for most other vaccine-preventable diseases.” [emphasis added]
True. Severalrigorouspapers have proven that flu shots are placebos masquerading as public policy.
But the same scientists then compared our beloved and groundbreaking Covid vaccines to those pointless flu jabs:
As variant SARS-CoV-2 strains have emerged, deficiencies in these [Covid] vaccines reminiscent of influenza vaccines have become apparent.
Just who are these vicious anti-vax rebels?
Three researchers at the National Institutes for Health. Including one whose name may ring a bell: the now-retired Dr. Anthony S. Fauci.
Yet the Covid/flu shot comparison is only one of the article’s bombshells.
At its core, the piece raises the question of whether any vaccines can ever work well enough to matter against bugs like common coronaviruses, influenza, and RSV.
And that question hides an even more troubling one, one the authors do not ask: have our efforts to beat Sars-Cov-2 by driving our immune response in ways it was not designed to go caused dangers we are only beginning to understand?
Long before the coronavirus hit, Fauci and scientists who specialize in vaccine development knew flu shots hardly worked. They knew they needed a better vaccine to beat Sars-Cov-2.
As Covid spread around the world in early 2020, they believed they had found one: jabs that had a completely different mechanism of action than influenza vaccines.
Flu shots are old-school “inactivated virus” vaccines. They contain actual influenza viruses grown in chicken eggs and treated with formaldehyde so they cannot reproduce.
Fauci and his colleagues at Warp Speed, the federal program that developed the Covid shots, decided to focus on mRNA biotechnology to make a next-generation vaccine.
The Covid vaccines consist of a strand of genetic code – mRNA – that tells our cells to make a piece of the coronavirus called the spike protein, along with a tiny fat globe that encases the mRNA and helps bring it to our cells. (mRNA occurs naturally, but the mRNA in the vaccines has been subtly modified to make it easier to deliver to our cells and more potent when it arrives.)
In the most basic way, mRNA vaccines work.
That is, they make our cells produce huge amounts of the spike protein. They cause a powerful response with high levels of anti-spike protein antibodies, far more than our immune systems produce in response to an actual coronavirus infection. Fauci and other scientists hoped those antibodies would have a strong and lasting protective effect.
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Only they didn’t.
As Ken Frazier, the then-chief executive of Merck, which is history’s most successful vaccine company but which rapidly ended its efforts at a coronavirus vaccine, warned in 2020:
There are a lot of examples of vaccines in the past that have stimulated the immune system, but ultimately didn’t confer protection.
Frazier was right.
We now have two years of real-world data on the mRNAs, based on billions of doses. Putting side effects aside, they work extremely well against Covid – for about four months after the second dose.
After that, their effectiveness rapidly wanes. It falls to zero against coronavirus infection and transmission within a few months. In fact, we have increasing evidence that it eventually turns negative – that vaccinated people are MORE likely to get Covid repeatedly than the unvaccinated.
What about severe disease and death from Covid? Early on, the mRNAs prevent those too, because if you don’t get infected with the coronavirus, you can’t die from it.
What about after they stop working against infection? What about now? In truth, no one knows. Fauci and vaccine advocates will insist forever that the mRNAs retain some effectiveness against severe disease and death.
But their evidence comes almost entirely from epidemiological studies that compare the results in non-random groups of vaccinated and unvaccinated people. The problem is that these studies cannot be trusted because vaccinated people are healthier as a group than unvaccinated people (and the gap has likely increased with each booster).
This is exactly the same reason that influenza shots seem to work against pneumonia EVEN BEFORE PEOPLE RECEIVE THEM. Flu vaccines are a marker for health, not a driver of health.
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At the same time, the coronavirus has mutated against the vaccines exactly as some immunologists predicted. It has changed its spike to defeat the mRNA-generated antibodies.
Worse, efforts to update the vaccine against the new Omicron variants do not work, probably because the first generation vaccines leave such a powerful imprint on the immune system.
The upshot is that Covid vaccines, like flu vaccines, appear to be – at best – ineffective on a population basis.
Two years after mass mRNA vaccinations began, the wealthy countries that used them are still having mass Covid waves and significant deaths, mainly in the same very elderly people who have died from Covid all along. Poorer countries that used other vaccines are not reporting many Covid cases or deaths anymore, but whether that’s because they don’t have them or have just stopped counting is not clear.
So the Covid vaccines work mechanistically as promised. Only they don’t actually do any long-term good.
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And Fauci and his co-authors know where to lay the blame. On the human immune system.
It’s not me (or my vaccines) – it’s you!
No, seriously.
As the paper explains, we spend our lives breathing an almost infinite variety of threats:
Because humans inhale and ingest enormous quantities of exogenous proteins with every breath and mouthful, the respiratory and gastrointestinal immune compartments have evolved to deal with continual and massive antigenic assaults from the outside world.
Thus our immune systems have learned to make a distinction between relatively minor respiratory viruses like influenza and RSV – which have “a short duration of illness and a typically uncomplicated course” – and far more serious intruders like measles, which replicate systemically and can kill even young and healthy people.
The serious threats rouse the full complement of our immune defenses. And if we beat them, we end up with lifetime immunity. The minor viruses do not:
As a result, the non-systemically replicating respiratory viruses, apparently including SARS-CoV-2 tend to repeatedly re-infect people over their lifetimes without ever eliciting complete and durable protection.
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Any virologist or immunologist will tell you that – in the words of Science magazine:
For many infectious diseases, naturally acquired immunity is known to be more powerful than vaccine-induced immunity and it often lasts a lifetime.
But our immune systems aren’t trying to provide lifetime protection against the minor respiratory viruses. We’d rather live with them and the minor threats they represent, instead of blowing up our own bodies to defeat an infection that will likely last only a few days.
In Fauci’s words, we have made an
immunologic “Faustian bargain” between tolerance versus infection control [allowing] transient, moderated infection by respiratory agents of low or intermediate pathogenicity to restrain the destructive forces of an immune elimination response.
In other words, the natural human response to real coronaviruses is NOT long-lasting immunity. And vaccines are not as effective as real viruses in provoking an immune response. How, then, could a coronavirus vaccine provide such immunity?
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Two years ago, the geniuses of virology and immunology thought they had the answer.
The mRNA Covid jabs were designed to overcome evolution and make us do something we had evolved NOT to do. They fooled our immune systems into a much more powerful response than it would otherwise have to Sars-Cov-2, producing supra-naturally high levels of IgG antibodies.
Those super-high antibody levels were supposed to be a feature, not a bug. They were the reason that the mRNAs suppressed infection.
But we now know that the body quickly returns those antibody levels to normal.
Worse, if we force them higher again with repeated booster shots, our immune system will respond by producing a kind of antibody normally seen primarily as a response to non-replicating allergens, not viruses.
In other words, our immune systems appear to respond very unfavorably in the long run to the provocation from the mRNAs.
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The paper ends on a stunning note:
Past unsuccessful attempts to elicit solid protection against mucosal respiratory viruses and to control the deadly outbreaks and pandemics they cause have been a scientific and public health failure…
We are excited and invigorated that many investigators and collaborative groups are rethinking, from the ground up, all of our past assumptions and approaches to preventing important respiratory viral diseases and working to find bold new paths forward.
Wait, what?
Past unsuccessful attempts?
From the ground up?
Fauci just helped spearhead the effort to push a new type of vaccine on the world. After only a few months of testing, the United States and other countries injected their citizens with more than 3 billion doses of mRNA.
Yet with these words, Fauci is admitting that effort has failed completely. He’s not excluding the mRNAs from “past unsuccessful attempts” that “have been a public health failure.” He’s not saying they can form the basis for “bold new paths.”
He’s washing his hands of them – and whatever the long-term consequences of their failed effort to rewire the immune system may be.
Tony Fauci is lucky.
He’s 82.
It’ll be up to the rest of us to deal with what he’s done.
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BARRY ISAACS PAID Feb 8 Being a retired criminal defense and corporate tax lawyer with a Classical educational background, I instinctively rejected the mRNA kool-aid, the masks, the social distancing, etc. notwithstanding being married to a ‘we’re all gonna die’ woman who embraced everything I rejected. And so with each passing day, month and year, I remain grateful that I faded the regnant lunacy. If the worst that could be said about the ongoing vaccination fiasco was that it doesn’t work, I might be somewhat charitable towards those who may have meant well by foisting this junk on us. But there is increasing evidence that this stuff may be harmful. Indeed, today I read that one researcher claims that what may be causing young folks to unexpectedly die is that the mRNA vaccines are accelerating the aging process in their bodies. How sad if true. I will be 73 this year and remain in the trim, take no drugs and walk 6-8 miles daily. I am aging the right way and wish the same for everyone else.243ReplyCollapse
Here is an e-mail from one in our church who went to a heart specialist on Valentine’s Day:
I went with my husband to his heart follow-up appointment and we shared with him about Robert Malone, the inventor of mRNA. He totally agreed with us that he is getting more and more patients who have NEVER had AFib until …. WHY?
THE JAB!!!
Don’t mess with your God given immune system. Experiments are for guinea pigs. Blessings, Pastor Steve <><
As colleges issue controversial mandates that students be vaccinated or not attend classes, and reports surfaced of numerous deaths potentially caused by the various coronavirus vaccines, the inventor of the mRNA technology that went into some of the vaccines told Fox News on Wednesday that Google-owned YouTube deleted a posting of a podcast during which he discussed his concerns and findings.
As “Tucker Carlson Tonight” host Tucker Carlson noted, Dr. Robert Malone is “the single most qualified” expert on mRNA vaccines, but that the Big Tech companies are asserting themselves as more informed than him on the topic.
“A Norwegian study conducted of 100 nursing home residents who died after receiving Pfizer’s Corona shots. They found that at least ten of those deaths were likely caused by the vaccine. 10%,” said Carlson.
Meanwhile, the New York Post reported that researchers found a link between rare cases of juvenile heart inflammation and vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, which utilize the mRNA route.
“Young adults in the prime of their lives are being forced to take the vaccine because Tony Fauci said that,” Carlson said, adding that Malone “has a right to speak,” given his expertise.
“[O]ne of my concerns are that the government is not being transparent with us about what those risks are. And so, I am of the opinion that people have the right to decide whether to accept vaccines or not, especially since these are experimental vaccines,” Dr. Malone said, pointing to the fact the vaccines are not formally approved but instead being administered under Emergency Use Authorization.
“This is a fundamental right having to do with clinical research ethics,” he said. “And so, my concern is that I know that there are risks. But we don’t have access to the data and the data haven’t been captured rigorously enough so that we can accurately assess those risks – And therefore … we don’t really have the information that we need to make a reasonable decision.”
Malone said that in the case of younger Americans, he “has a bias that the benefits probably don’t outweigh the risks in that cohort.”
But, he noted there is no substantive risk-benefit analysis being applied to the vaccines.
“That is one of my other objections, that we talk about these words risk-benefit analysis casually as if it is very deep science. It’s not. Normally at this stage, the CDC would have performed those risk-benefit analyses and they would be database and science-based. They are not right now,” said Malone.
“I can say that the risk-benefit ratio for those 18 and below doesn’t justify vaccines and there’s a pretty good chance that it doesn’t justify vaccination in these very young adults.”
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Charles is a Pennsylvania native and graduated from Temple University with a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism. Story tips can be sent to charles.creitz@fox.com.
BY MICHAEL SNYDER/ECONOMIC COLLAPSE BLOG JANUARY 26, 2023
The time on the Doomsday Clock moved forward from 100 seconds to midnight to 90 seconds to midnight. It’s a reset of what has come to be known as the Doomsday Clock, a decades long project of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists featuring a clock face where midnight represents Armageddon.
How can you get people to wake up if they are determined to keep sleeping? For decades, global events have been moving us in a very ominous direction, and ever since this decade began the pace of change has accelerated dramatically. But even though we just keep getting hit by one major crisis after another, most people still do not get it.
Almost everyone seems to be under the impression that the massive problems that we are experiencing right now are “just temporary” and that everything will “return to normal” soon. Meanwhile, apocalyptic scenarios continue to unfold all around us at a breathtaking pace.
Earlier today, I pulled up a USA Today article about the Doomsday Clock that boldly declared that “the world is closer to annihilation than it has ever been”…
The world is closer to annihilation than it has ever been since the first nuclear bombs were released at the close of World War II, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said Tuesday. The time on the Doomsday Clock moved forward from 100 seconds to midnight to 90 seconds to midnight.
It’s a reset of what has come to be known as the Doomsday Clock, a decades long project of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists featuring a clock face where midnight represents Armageddon.
Yes, we really are on the brink of nuclear war, but the vast majority of the general population hasn’t gotten the memo.
Instead, most of them are having a great time partying, spending money like there is no tomorrow, and getting into other sorts of trouble.
But just because most Americans choose to ignore the war does not alter the reality of what is taking place.
Sadly, both sides just continue to escalate the conflict. In fact, it appears that the Biden administration will soon be sending M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine for the very first time…
The Biden administration is leaning toward sending “a significant number” of M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, two U.S. officials said, and an announcement could come as early as this week.
The development comes amid a public standoff with German officials, who are under pressure to send their own Leopard tanks and allow other European countries that operate the German-made vehicles to do so as well.
And it is being reported that the German government has reversed course and has now decided to send Leopard 2 tanks to the Ukrainians…
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has finally decided to send a battalion of sought-after Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, Der Spiegel reported on Tuesday, after weeks of pressure from Ukraine and European allies.
On the other side, the Russians have chosen to send a warship armed with hypersonic missiles within shooting range of major east coast cities…
A Russian warship armed with “unstoppable” hypersonic missiles is sailing towards the US coast in a show of strength, reports claim.
The guided missile frigate Admiral Gorshkov has been closely monitored by Nato navies on its maiden voyage armed with 6,670mph Zircon weapons.
An unconfirmed Russian Telegram channel report says it was “spotted on radar in neutral waters of the Atlantic Ocean – at an effective salvo launch distance from the US coast”.
Both sides are playing a very dangerous game.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov just warned that we on the verge of seeing “a real war” between the western powers and Russia…
‘When we speak about what is happening in Ukraine – it is a war, not a hybrid one, almost a real war, that the West has been plotting for a long time against Russia,’ Lavrov said today.
If our leaders were sane, they would be trying to find a peaceful solution to this crisis while it is still possible.
Instead, we seem to be playing a very twisted game of “nuclear chicken” where we see how close we can come to the line without actually starting a nuclear war.
So what happens if a “mistake” is made and the missiles start flying?
You might want to start thinking about that.
Meanwhile, it appears that the coming war between Israel and Iran is also getting closer.
In fact, the U.S. and Israel are conducting “the most significant exercise between the United States and Israel to date”…
The Israel Defense Forces and U.S. Central Command on Monday announced the launch of a large-scale drill, which a senior U.S. defense official called “the most significant exercise between the United States and Israel to date.”
The unprecedented drill, dubbed “Juniper Oak 2023,” involves over 140 aircraft, 12 naval vessels, and artillery systems from both countries and will last until Friday, CENTCOM said in a statement.
Once the war between Israel and Iran starts, our planet will never be the same again.
Speaking of the planet, it is being reported that the inner core has apparently stopped moving…
A new study published in Nature Geoscience by geophysicists Yi Yang and Xiadong Song of Peking University in Beijing explored the nature of movement of Earth’s inner core, largely made up of iron and molten liquids. They found the inner core’s movement recently reduced enough they consider it “paused,” all part of what “seems to be associated with a gradual turning back of the inner core as a part of an approximately seven-decade oscillation.”
But don’t worry, because scientists think that this is normal.
Maybe it is.
Probably it is.
Hopefully it is.
Because if it isn’t normal for the Earth’s inner core to “pause”, then there is a possibility that we are all in really big trouble.
In other planetary news, an enormous asteroid that was “just discovered this past weekend” is about to zip past our world at an “extremely close” distance…
An asteroid just discovered this past weekend is set for an extremely close encounter with Earth–and you can watch it live as it zooms past our planet.
Most people assume that our scientists have a really good idea of what is going on up there, and that if a major threat was coming they would tell us about it.
Unfortunately, the truth is that their ability to detect giant space rocks is still fairly limited, and this new space rock that was “just discovered this past weekend” will come closer to us than we are to the center of our planet…
At that point, the space rock will come “only” about 6,500 miles from the center of the Earth while traveling at roughly 33,300 miles per hour. Given that the average radius of the Earth–the distance from the center to the surface–is considered to be roughly 4,000 miles, 2023 BU will zip past us at an altitude of around 2,500 miles above the ground.
Let me try to explain this another way.
This space rock will come more than 30 times closer to us than the moon is…
The approach is so close that it is less than 3 percent of the average distance between the Earth and the moon. The asteroid will also pass within the orbits of geostationary satellites, which circle the Earth above the equator at an altitude of 22,236 miles.
In other words, a space rock that was “just discovered this past weekend” is going to come very close to hitting us.
But it won’t hit us.
Maybe.
Probably.
Hopefully.
If everything else that I have shared so far is not enough, it is also being reported that “excess deaths” are soaring all over the globe…
Healthcare spending is at record-high levels across the Western world, yet systems are struggling to cope. The combined effects of the pandemic and a rapidly ageing population are stressing hospitals, ambulance crews and social care services to their limit. Excess deaths – those beyond usual numbers – are consequently soaring: the crisis is global.
What this means is that far more people are dying than normal all over the world.
In fact, we are being told that there were approximately 15 million “excess deaths” worldwide in 2020 and 2021…
Nearly 15 million excess deaths from any cause are thought to have occurred during 2020 and 2021, according to new WHO research – nearly three times the 5.42 million coronavirus fatalities reported over the same period. Health statistician William Msemburi said the figure was also likely especially high due to people dying from delayed health screenings and medical procedures.
More people will be dropping dead today, and more people will be dropping dead tomorrow.
But at least you won’t be one of them.
Maybe.
Probably.
Hopefully.
I could go on and on, but this article is already getting way too long. We keep getting hit by one thing after another, and I really like how Hal Lindsey summarized the current state of affairs in his most recent article…
The price of eggs… a Mall of America security guard threatening the wearer of a “Jesus saves” t-shirt… attacks on the US power grid… a worldwide obsession with pornography… another wave of nuclear threats coming out of Russia… a universal weakening of democratic institutions… a global reshuffling of leaders… threats of “civil war” in Israel… corruption in the highest levels of government across the world… weaponized Artificial Intelligence… deep fake audio and video enabling previously unimagined levels of deception… global economic chaos… and on and on.
What do these and hundreds of other things like them have in common?
Needless to say, the answer to Hal’s question is quite obvious.
The reason why so many apocalyptic things are happening is because we really are living in apocalyptic times.
Hopefully the general population will wake up and realize what time it is, because the clock is ticking.
Even Steven 
