Any serious student of Bible prophecy from the pre-Trib point of view knows how deep this generation is within the end of the Church Age (Age of Grace).
Much of Christ’s Olivet Discourse was devoted to the subject of Israel’s future time of unprecedented trouble, as the prophecy said in Jeremiah 30:7. Jesus said the time of Tribulation (Daniel’s seventieth week) will be the worst period of human history (Matthew 24:21). We can certainly surmise that—with the recent hatred much of the world has shown against the tiny nation of Israel—the stage is at this very moment being set for the fulfillment of Zechariah’s prophecy that the nation and its city, Jerusalem, will become a “burdensome stone” and “cup of trembling” to the entire world (Zechariah 12:1–3).
We and others have chronicled the tremendous issues and events occurring in profusion and simultaneously—all of which mark this as surely the last of the last days. When Jesus’ disciples asked Him to tell them the signs of these last-of-the-last days, He began to answer by describing a most interesting thing that would be taking place:
Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. (Matthew 24:23–27)
Profound deception is the first of the signals that He will bring this fallen world to its end as part of His Second Coming. Key in that deception, He stated in starkly pointed terms, will be deceivers claiming they are Christ themselves and pointing to Christ being wherever they designate–whether in the desert, secret chambers, etc.
Many of us who study this prophecy have pointed to all the false Christs and false prophets that have arisen and deceived many throughout the centuries. We know of the false teachers and cults that have presented themselves as directly representing Christ, their leaders having, we’re told, a “direct line to God.”
However, it’s more than interesting to consider whether the latest matters to come to light regarding artificial intelligence (AI) might add even more to the number-one signal the Lord spoke of that day. Specifically, was He warning of a coming AI deception?
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