The Spirit Of Antichrist:

The Spirit Of Antichrist: Humanity Is Increasingly Looking For Answers, Hope, And Salvation From Sources Other Than The Creator

David Bowen

Anti-Christ: Opposite of Christ or Instead of Christ? The greatest deception of the last days may not be the rejection of God, but the acceptance of substitutes for God. “Children, it is the last hour; and just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have appeared; from this we know that it is the last hour” (1 John 2:18).

Is the Antichrist alive today? Will he be European? How much of today’s technology is capable of fulfilling Revelation 13? These are questions I have been asked just this week. Yet while these questions are important, they often miss a deeper truth about the spirit of antichrist already at work in the world.

Most people think “antichrist” means someone who stands in direct opposition to Christ. While opposition is certainly involved, the Greek meaning carries another powerful implication: instead of Christ.

Humanity is increasingly looking for answers, hope, security, wisdom, and salvation from sources other than the Creator. The spirit of antichrist is conditioning mankind to trust something—or someone—instead of God.

On July 23, 2025, the White House released Winning the Race: America’s AI Action Plan, a roadmap designed to secure American dominance in artificial intelligence. The stated goal was clear: to usher in a new era of human flourishing, economic competitiveness, and national security through AI.

To support this initiative, three executive orders were issued that accelerated AI infrastructure, expanded governmental adoption of artificial intelligence, and promoted American leadership in AI worldwide.

Among the priorities were:

• Massive expansion of data center infrastructure

• Government standards for AI deployment, eliminating all “woke” AI.

• Global leadership and influence through artificial intelligence

The message is unmistakable: technology will solve our problems, secure our future, and elevate humanity. Scripture warns us that mankind has always sought salvation through human achievement. From the Tower of Babel to the coming Beast system, humanity repeatedly attempts to build a future apart from God.

Artificial intelligence itself is not the antichrist. Technology is not inherently evil. However, when society begins placing its faith in technological solutions rather than God’s wisdom, it reveals a heart posture that is increasingly comfortable with living instead of God.

The Bible also speaks of a future period, the Tribulation, of unprecedented death and suffering. However, Scripture identifies the source not as random demographic trends but as the judgments associated with the coming Tribulation period.

The world eagerly listens to scientific predictions about the future while largely ignoring biblical prophecy. The issue is not whether scientists possess useful information. The issue is where humanity places its ultimate trust. When people accept scientific forecasts as certain truth while dismissing God’s revealed Word, they are choosing authority instead of God.

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Nine U.S. States Expand Age Checks

Nine U.S. States Expand Age Checks

Dan Frieth

The White House has asked Keir Starmer’s government to drop the part of its plan that would cut Britain’s under-16s off from social media, a measure that would have swept up roughly 13 million young people.

The request arrived in a formal US submission to the UK consultation titled “Growing Up in the Online World,” published by the US Embassy in London. The pushback is narrower than the headline suggests.

The administration raised concern about rules that would “impose disproportionate compliance burdens on American companies or that apply to one platform but not similar services.”

Where the submission lands hardest is on identity documents. The administration wrote that it would “strongly oppose regulations that require or create conditions that compel platforms to collect government-issued IDs (e.g., driver’s licenses, passports), which create serious privacy and security risks, encourage surveillance systems vulnerable to abuse, and chill freedom of speech.”

Forcing someone to hand a passport scan to a website builds the exact surveillance plumbing that gets abused later and Washington said the words “chill freedom of speech” out loud. Credit where it is due.

But then the door swings back open. The same document keeps age verification on the table for adult material, backing “narrowly targeted requirements primarily with respect to pornographic and adult commercial content (e.g., online gambling, tobacco sales, alcohol sales), rather than broad social media bans.”

It then frames the wider position. “The United States does not categorically oppose age assurance measures, but we urge careful consideration of their scope and implementation,” the submission reads.

That means that ultimately the principle of checking your age before you can speak or read online survives. Only the bluntest version of it gets rejected.

The administration also threw its weight behind a specific fix, saying it “strongly supports privacy-preserving age assurance technologies.”

That phrase points at zero-knowledge proofs, the cryptographic trick that lets a site confirm you clear an age threshold without seeing your birth date or your ID. It sounds like the clean answer but it’s not.

A proof that you are over 18 does nothing to stop a site from logging your IP address, fingerprinting your device, or demanding the check again every single day. It does nothing about the data-broker profiles already sitting on most people. The proof shrinks one piece of what you hand over. The checkpoint itself stays bolted to the front door of the open web and you are now showing papers to the doorman to get in.

Who decides which content sits behind that door is the question nobody in either government wants pinned down. “Adult content” is the lazy example everyone reaches for. The definitions written into law rarely stop there and the people writing them are the same people who would rather you not see certain things.

Here is the part the submission does not mention. While the US warns London about chilling speech, it is already running a pipe of its own.

The states have spent two years assembling the exact ID checkpoint the submission tells Britain to avoid. The Supreme Court upheld Texas HB 1181 in June 2025 in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, a 6-3 ruling that lets the state force adult sites to verify age before entry, by government ID or a third-party credential.

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote for the majority that “adults have no First Amendment right to avoid age verification.” That one line melted decades of precedent and read to every state legislature as a green light.

They took it. Nine states had adult-content age-verification laws in effect by the end of 2025, among them Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, Arizona, and Ohio, with more drafting their own. Several reach past pornography.

Florida and Arkansas wrote laws pointed at social media itself, sweeping in platforms that host little or no adult material. Utah, Nebraska, and New York passed measures forcing platforms to bar younger users or collect parental consent.

California went its own way with an Age-Appropriate Design Code that pushes services toward estimating the age of everyone who shows up. Courts have frozen some of these and let others stand, so the check you hit now depends on which state you log in from and which judge ruled last.

A US submission can warn London that ID mandates “chill freedom of speech” while Texas already demands the ID, the Supreme Court has blessed the demand, and the states lining up behind Texas are copying the requirement rather than the caution in the letter to Britain.

US says it downed multiple Iranian drones targeting ships in Hormuz

US says it downed multiple Iranian drones targeting ships in Hormuz

By AFP

US forces have “downed” several Iranian drones targeting commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, the military says.

“Iran launched multiple one-way attack drones in an attempt to strike commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz,” US Central Command (CENTCOM), which oversees operations in the region, posts on X.

CENTCOM insists that the strait “remains open for transit.”

Iran launched multiple one-way attack drones in an attempt to strike commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

U.S. forces have downed all of them in recent hours as traffic flow through the strait continues unimpeded. The international trade corridor remains open for transit.

Gabbard Drops Receipts Detailing US-Funded Biolabs

Gabbard Drops Receipts Detailing US-Funded Biolabs

TYLER DURDEN

Outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Friday declassified a set of internal intelligence slides documenting a long-running US program that has funded a worldwide network of biolabs that handle dangerous pathogens - including dozens in Ukraine. 

Gabbard, who is set to leave her post at the ene of this month, said that the documents are "new evidence of longstanding United States government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries," with over 40 of those in Ukraine, adding that this information has been "knowingly withheld from the American people." She accused US officials, along with Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Biden administration's national security team, of having "lied to the American people about the existence" of the labs.

"Now, despite the obvious potential for catastrophic global impact that research on dangerous pathogens in biolabs can have, politicians and so-called health professionals like Dr. Fauci, as well as entities within the Biden administration’s national security team, lied repeatedly to the American people about the existence of U.S.-funded and supported biolabs," Gabbard said, adding "Not only did they lie, they threatened those who attempted to expose the truth."

Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.

In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function… pic.twitter.com/RkPHnAbka9

— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) June 12, 2026

Gabbard tied the release to Executive Order 14292, which President Trump signed in May 2025 to end federal funding of gain-of-function research, and said she had directed the intelligence community to step up collection on the labs. The release is part of a wave of declassifications in her final weeks; an ODNI official has said she is working to release documents on the origins of CV before her departure.

The existence of the U.S.-funded labs has been public for years: the Pentagon published fact sheets on the program, the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv described it in 2020, and Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland acknowledged Ukraine's "biological research facilities" in Senate testimony in March 2022 - in what Glenn Greenwald framed at the time as "with palpable pen-twirling discomfort and in halting speech, a glaring contrast to her normally cocky style of speaking in obfuscatory State Department officialese - acknowledged: “uh, Ukraine has, uh, biological research facilities.” 

 Any hope to depict such "facilities” as benign or banal was immediately destroyed by the warning she quickly added: “we are now in fact quite concerned that Russian troops, Russian forces, may be seeking to, uh, gain control of [those labs], so we are working with the Ukrainiahhhns [sic] on how they can prevent any of those research materials from falling into the hands of Russian forces should they approach”

Awkward...

U.S. Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland says Washington is working with Ukraine to prevent biological research facilities from falling into Russian hands. She just confirmed every conspiracy theory about the existence of those labs. pic.twitter.com/ynkd7hW6iK

— Ian Miles Cheong (@ianmiles) March 8, 2022

IDF eliminates Islamic Jihad and Hamas commanders in precise Gaza strike

IDF eliminates Islamic Jihad and Hamas commanders in precise Gaza strike

Israel National News

IDF: Yesterday (Thursday), in a precise strike in the Gaza Strip, the IDF eliminated Qasslam Hassan Saleh and Sami Jamil Abu Dalal, two platoon commanders in the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization, as well as Ubay Mamoun Saleh Farwana, a deputy company commander in the Hamas terrorist organization.

The terrorists had been planning to execute imminent attacks against IDF troops, posed an immediate threat to them, and were eliminated in precise strikes.

Prior to the strikes, steps were taken to mitigate harm to civilians, including the use of precise munitions and aerial surveillance. IDF troops under the Southern Command remain deployed in the area in accordance with the ceasefire agreement and will continue to operate to remove any immediate threat.

IDF troops under the Southern Command remain deployed in the area in accordance with the ceasefire agreement and will continue to operate to remove any immediate threat.