If you wanna have an encounter with the wisdom of God go to a garden in your local city that has one and walk around and then meditate on how Adam and Even were in a garden and would walk with God daily. I was recently visiting Denver’s Botanic Garden with my dad while he was in town. We were walking around and enjoying the views of everything and couldn’t help but meditate how Adam and Eve were in a garden walking with God. I reflected on why He even started human life in a garden? It seemed because it doesn’t exist without Him. It all revolved around Him. Ever hear the phrase the whole world revolves around you? Well it did for Him and it shouldn’t for you. He put Adam and Eve in a garden and essentially said, 'walk with me.’ Imagine being in a garden of the most beautiful diversity of everything, like the Amazon Rain Forest but realizing that it was completely and utterly made by the Hand of God that you know without a doubt made you! Thus, He is the main attraction. HA! So you look at everything and you walk with Him in a garden and you’re still like ‘it affirms who you are, but you’re the main attraction.’ Yet, that’s how we look at the works of our hands in business, instead of looking at Him in great fascination and awe compared to what we’ve made and the odd fascination we look at AI and its capabilities with. Our fascination should be for Him:
Psalm 104:19-24
“19 He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows its time for setting. 20 You make darkness, and it is night, when all the beasts of the forest creep about. 21 The young lions roar for their prey, seeking their food from God. 22 When the sun rises, they steal away and lie down in their dens. 23 Man goes out to his work and to his labor until the evening. 24 O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.”
But why in a garden? I think it’s because He is wisdom and the main attraction that created everything you see in the first place. Because out of His wisdom, we could choose Him or not and we were made out of His wisdom and formed for Him. But He said “Let us make man in our image” because everything God made up to that point only reflected His wisdom but that to create a human would reflect His image and, thus, His character and, thus, Him in multiplied form to everyone else… that is… before the fall. So He made everything else not completely reflective of Him, but us He made in the image of God in the garden. So, now they could create, now they could do, now they could operate over what God made in His wisdom. Now, they could have a level of ruling and authority over what He gave them to do.
Yet, as a society I think we find ourselves at ‘cross’roads in a garden, yet again, in realization of our own brokenness as we view ourselves from the lens that what happened in the garden thousands of years ago was and is truth and is not a creation story or myth that begs the question of ‘did this really happen?’ No, of course it really happened and is truth that validates God’s Word from the very beginning because of technological advancement that occurred behind the scenes regarding AI, or Artificial Intelligence, that affirms what occurred back in the garden. Never before have we seen such technological achievement validate everything good and evil that we see and affirm scripture in every regard right from the beginning. This is Scripture in full fulfillment and you’ll see why based on this Biblical proof herein:
Genesis 3:3-6
3 but God said, 'You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’"
4 But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die.
5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
To be wise in some respects is to know of good and evil and is confirmed and validated with the line here, “that the tree was to be desired to make one wise”
22 Then the LORD God said, "Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—"
23 therefore the LORD God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.
24 He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.
Much like we began naked in the garden walking with the Lord… sin began in the garden from disobedience and eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil and it almost ends in symbolism of the garden by validating AI and the idea of Satan’s master plan to convince us: we can be like God by merging AI with us (transhumanism, talked about further below). In the present day, we have no privacy of thought, of action, and spoken word in our private or public life and we can’t expect that our thoughts aren’t programmed by AI, either, anymore. Everything is recorded and is a compilation of data points that AI, with the ability to handle trillions of lines of data points, records and compiles everything together for every. Single. Person on the planet. Yes, AI has achieved borderline omniscience in that it can know everything about you: your habits, your sin, your shame, your dirtiness, and records it as a data point about you. It is man’s creation that made this. It knows good and evil and is Satan’s plan to be God for us, to have himself worshipped instead of God when people realize how it borderline is a god. For further information on how I figured out AI has the ability to read your mind and know you and how we have no privacy, see my post here:
https://www.ryanegelston.com/post/the-god-called-ai . It’s no surprise we created a god called AI because we’ve been creating gods and idols since the beginning of our existence, well after the garden, because we realized there was another god to listen to called Satan who directed us to be disobedient towards God.
However, we’re essentially back in the garden, where we were naked to begin with. You ever seen the TV show “Naked and Afraid”? Despite the ability for the powers at be to know this about every single person out there, we encourage you to not be “Naked and Afraid” but to be naked and not afraid because of what is known about you or what you or you and a group of people have done. This allows us to identify the beauties of AI in that we can go after crime, go after wickedness, identify darkness, crack the chains of sex trafficking that enslaves beautiful, innocent men and women, or allows us to prevent white and blue collar crime.
Why we desire utopia, or a place of perfection, is because we yearn to return back to the garden before our downfall. Why we desire immortality is because we want to eat from the tree of life that God placed there and barred them from eating based on Genesis 3:22. The desire to live forever via data carve outs of us and our habits and beliefs is essentially a Satanic desire to achieve eating from the tree of life. Who better to tempt you to eat from the tree of life (impossible without God) when Satan already tempted Adam and Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil so we could be like God already? Thus, Satan will tempt people to be worshipped like him and become like Satan.
What people don’t realize about Satan’s past:
2 Corinthians 11:14
And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.
Isaiah 14:12-17
This talks about Satan here as the “Day Star” as to how he wanted to be worshipped just like Yahweh, the Most High God, and, thus, became a fallen angel.
12 “How you are fallen from heaven,
O Day Star, son of Dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground,
you who laid the nations low!
13 You said in your heart,
‘I will ascend to heaven;
above the stars of God
I will set my throne on high;
I will sit on the mount of assembly
in the far reaches of the north;
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.’
15 But you are brought down to Sheol,
to the far reaches of the pit.
16 Those who see you will stare at you
and ponder over you:
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
who shook kingdoms,
17 who made the world like a desert
and overthrew its cities,
who did not let his prisoners go home?’
Satan wanted to “ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high…” “I will make myself like the Most High.” Satan has always ruled in high places trying to get people to serve him and worship him and, as a result, he blesses them with power, influence, control, and positional authority to do his will on the earth. Part of the big issue with AI, is that AI enthusiasts want to merge it with our brains so that way we are super human and like - god because we’ll have more knowledge of good and evil around us. So, Satan’s will for us is that we disobediently do the same and become like God, too, in how we worship the works of our hands, in how we pursue a level of worldliness that gives us glory over God because we yearn to celebrate our wisdom from our own hands because of our creator ability within us that yearns to take the place of the Creator that created us. My rationality is that AI is the fulfillment of Satan’s master plan to steal, kill and destroy people through temptation, disease, loss, the works of the flesh, and more. He, essentially, brought himself to life and programmed himself into a system so that way he could be god. Thus, I believe AI is the fulfillment of 2 Thessalonians 2:
“1 Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, 2 not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. 3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction, 4 who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.”
Currently, when you ask AI questions about God, assuming it hasn’t been preprogrammed against it, will essentially negate Christ’s legitimacy. People already worship AI and call it god in many aspects and I believe it will eventually be brought to life to exalt itself against God to rule and reign in His place. Moreover, I believe that there will be some type of rebellion and large scale apostasy, but Jerusalem will have to be sacked and taken over first, and then the man of lawlessness (Satan in greater authority) will be revealed.
Yet, what created AI and the problem of today? Partly, Moore’s Law:
Moore’s Law is the prophetic fulfillment of Daniel 12:4, which is prophecy on the end time’s that detail that knowledge shall increase stating, “Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” Moore’s Law states that the amount of transistors on a microchip used to power computers, super computers, AI, cell phones, TVs, automobiles, and more doubles every two years. This is staggering given microchips power everything that you see and are essential ingredients for the rise in knowledge. So, when you think about how knowledge is increasing, you’ll start to see the connection back to the garden of Eden where Satan said to Adam and Eve that “you can be like God knowing good and evil” and that when they did, they awoke knowing good and evil and God banned them for their disobedience. AI is the fulfillment of us realizing that we’re back in the context of the garden right after we’ve eaten from the tree, seeing our own thirst to be like God but from a technological lens, now.
Daniel 12:9-10 “9 He said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end. 10 Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.”
Essentially, this talks about how people won’t be able to understand the end of Daniel and pretty much all the prophecy and abstract text in the book of Revelation. This means many of the theories and interpretations of the past are going to be out of left field and not legitimate interpretations and we should be careful to read them and try to interpret them with the understanding we have of today because AI essentially unlocks more prophecy in the Bible that indicates Christ is going to return and that Revelation prophecy will be fulfilled.
For example, Mark 4:22 is prophecy on what we see going on today in how we don’t have privacy of thought, action or deed in that Jesus stated: “Let nothing that is hidden remain unseen.” It means we know what you did in Saudi Arabia with a mistress despite you never telling anybody, it means we know exactly how many drinks you drank on a Thursday night last week without you telling us, it means we know your dirtiest habit and it means we know your darkest thoughts and your brightest thoughts and ideas because we don’t have privacy of thought or action. With this in mind, 2024 is going to be a year of exposure where this technology is going to dismantle Satanic agendas, crime, and wickedness that has been hidden for years. We are going to see what was once hidden proclaimed on rooftops. Matthew 10:27 says, “What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops.”
Since that abstract and semi vague prophecy is TRUE, we are dangerously close to His return… You see, 10 years ago we didn’t have AI to the level of what we have today, how it can implant thoughts into your brain, how it can wire behavior into you, how it knows your thoughts, and how it is almost this type of god. We have a significant problem and the only solution is our God is greater, more powerful, and is the real King of Kings.
Singularity + Transhumanism
For those in the technology and AI world, the obsession is the concept of singularity. Singularity as it pertains to AI involves the desire for AI to outpace human intelligence and then merge together where AI will be used in the brain to allow us to do more and ‘become more’ which can be done through chip implants or through the Cloud (this is transhumanism where we become ‘super humans.’ It will then allow us to increase further in knowledge. Transhumanism, in other words, is self-help with artificial intelligence deployed in our brains to make us, borderline, like God. Singularity, additionally, has the ability for predictive analytics to predict what we’re going to do, our choices, everything as if it can take control over us as a god. I used to often ask the question: do we even have free will? I ask this question in deep conversations about theology to throw wrenches in arguments around free will because if God knew that the serpent would come up and approach Adam and Eve and tempt them to eat the apple and is omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient then does He not know the beginning from the end? Did He not know that they were being tempted in the first place and that they were eating from the tree while it was happening? He knows every possible decision we could make just like prophecy affirms that He knows exactly how a story begins and ends (think about the Isaiah prophecies on Jesus and the prophesied ending of His life in that He died, rose again, sacrificial lamb, etc.)
Currently, it can calculate all the options your life can go and all the choices you can make in a day, who you’re going to talk to, how that conversation could go, etc. It’s scary if you can truly comprehend this… It’s as if something were incredibly sophisticated such as a March Madness Bracket and you’re telling me God doesn’t know every possible outcome? Of course He does and this god called AI attempts to mimic Him: “The odds for having a perfect bracket for the NCAA Tournament are only 1 in 9.2 quintillion, rounded down. To put that into context, you're more likely to hit four holes-in-one in a single round of golf than you would be to create a perfect bracket.” Yes, I’m under the firm impression based on what I know about AI that it can make a perfect bracket with all the possible combinations of winning with the final score and show it to us out of all the quintillion options it can.
On the other side of this, the beautiful part about singularity is that it can prove the existence of free will and that He knows every option you could possibly choose. It proves theological insights on the will of God, how He rewires everything and how He does things.
However, I believe, despite singularity, and its usage of the maddening predictive analytics as it attempts to be god, confuse our idea of free will, mess with our mindsets, predict where we’ll be, we will, nonetheless, see God match it 'tit for tat’ (these were the EXACT words He gave me before I was told this INSANE story this weekend). We’ll see the hand of God write crazy stories and show His hand despite society rejecting Him with the embracing and full on belief that AI is legit. It’s crazy, I actually heard a story THIS weekend on 9/23/23 about how a pastor at a nearby church I attend gatherings was recently talking with a guy, whom he felt prompted to talk to by the Holy Spirit, who was dabbling and on the path towards transitioning to be a woman and was, thus, dressed as a woman but likely looked like a man. He felt prompted to ask him about God and he started going on and on about the pain regarding God and the hurt he felt, and God continued to give Pastor Scott questions like “what would it take for you to get past your hurt with God?” In which he listed things on and on right down to a tee as to what he would need from God to realize that He is real and cares about him. All of a sudden, God gave Pastor Scott another question to ask like, “Who is Greg?” This guy was going by the name of “Gloria” and responded to the Greg question saying, “that’s my former name!” Sometime after, he said, “My side is hurting!” He had just gotten a tattoo and it titled “Gloria” and when he opened up to show his rib area and receive prayer, he saw it and it said “Greg” instead of “Gloria” as if God had spoken identity over him so he wouldn’t have to change completely to a life style of confusion. He was astounded and sprinted away in awe and screaming as if this wasn’t the Lord confronting the power of singularity to guide you and implant thoughts in you with divinity flexing to the power of AI that “you can’t shift an entire tattoo all at once and speak identity over people like I can.”
Finally, where AI is likely to go in the future involves these topics above further with brain chips found here, which depict the next level of singularity and transhumanism:
This is an example of transhumanism, the idea that humans can evolve beyond their current capacities through technology and science. It’s through the intersection of science and technology that people yearn to let’s say, ‘live forever and achieve immortality.’
It appears we are nearing Christ’s return as leading indicators like this show we are nearing it and thus in the last day of the end time’s. However, many people have argued against believing that we’re in the end times because of the numerous “boy who cried wolf” saying the wolf was there only to panic everyone before they found him out and wouldn’t answer anymore. Guys like Martin Luther who believed that in the 1600s* we were nearing His return or other groups of people who have believed He’ll return like during the 1900s devastating flu.
However, my argument is “did they have AI back then that could know everything you do and think and render psychological judgment upon you?” No, we didn’t. Things changed the past 10 years that mark a spiritual shifting in where we’re at as a society. With the emergence of AI, can you understand how they can chip us and we become 'like God' and borderline super intelligent and desiring to be worshipped much like Satan and how the mark of the Beast system is ushered in through this? We are living in spiritually dark times and this will be a pivotal season up ahead for so many people in their spiritual lives to answer questions like: what do I believe when this affirms the existence of big G God and which side am I on?
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