Watching Tesla’s new Roadster climb a ramp upside down, rotate in midair and land on its wheels feels like watching science fiction step off the movie screen. The demonstration is astonishing, and when you place it alongside AI’s growing ability to interpret information, plan tasks and operate machinery, the implications reach far beyond a new sports car. We are watching technologies converge that could reshape how people work, travel, communicate and make decisions. This is a vivid illustration of a world experiencing an extraordinary increase in knowledge. “But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” Yet increased knowledge brings an ancient question roaring back into view: what happens when mankind’s growing abilities only serve its pride, and not the God that gave those talents? At Babel, human ingenuity became an instrument of collective self-exaltation to the point where the LORD stepped in to stop it. In the time that’s coming, He’s gonna just let it go and play out for 7 glorious, terrible years.
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The prospect of machines managing more of everyday life should make us examine who will control them and what authority we are willing to surrender. Imagine transportation, identification, employment and payments connected through systems capable of granting or denying access automatically. Under coercive leadership, the conveniences people welcomed will become the means of enforcing their obedience. Revelation describes a coming regime that joins worship, allegiance and economic participation together: <...> Buying and selling become privileges granted on the Beast’s terms. Take it or leave it, take it or die. That should put some end times steel into our discernment as technology continues to reach deeper into our everyday lives. What is the end of all this, you ask? Let’s find out!