Things To Come: The Eyes Of Antichrist

The Eyes of Antichrist

Tom Gilbreath

Antichrist will briefly rule the world with a level of control unlike anything before. Consider the mark of the beast money system described in Revelation 13:17. “No one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”

 

That’s control! For centuries, Christian scholars couldn’t imagine such a thing being possible, so they tried to think of what it might “really mean.” And it wasn’t possible… not yet. Primarily because we still use cash, it’s still not possible. The difference is that today we are watching a cashless, global monetary system being built before our eyes. 

 

The fulfillment of this prophecy and others will require night and day monitoring of entire populations. In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, signs saying, “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” were everywhere. The novel depicts a society in which the government has “telescreens” in every household. The “telescreens” are bi-directional. They send programs and information into homes, but they also have cameras and microphones in order to remotely see and hear inside those homes. 

 

Orwell’s “telescreens” sound a lot like today’s smart televisions. But we really don’t have to say “smart TV” anymore because practically all new TVs connect to the internet, have at least one camera, and usually more than one microphone. In that way they are like our telephones, cars, and many appliances. As far as we know, they’re not being monitored by the government, but your words and images are being sent out over the internet. Imagine such tools in the hands of a totalitarian government. 

 

In Orwell’s story, “Big brother is watching you” was a bluff. Orwell said, “There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.” Someone might be watching, but probably not. To monitor just one person 24 hours a day would take three people working 8-hour shifts and never taking time off. That has made it impossible to surveil everyone… until now.

 

Artificial Intelligence never takes a day off. It never goes on break. It feels no sympathy. It watches, listens, and never stops. It can be trained to flag signs of subversion, or what its programmers consider “hate.” Even now, those who call sin “sin” are labeled “haters.” With this label, a government can attack anyone its leaders don’t like or see as a threat — like Christians.

 

Today in Europe, governments use the label “hate” to censor speech that European leaders don’t like. The EU is trying to bend X (formerly Twitter) to its will by using enormous fines because the owner of X, Elon Musk, refuses to censor comments the EU doesn’t like. This is meant to intimidate, not just X, but all such firms. As Europe’s choices reduce its wealth and influence, its leaders fear that the people will grow restless. Increasingly, those leaders cling to power by trying to silence the voices of dissent.

 

The Bible describes Antichrist starting in Europe and coming to lead a global totalitarian government. It will control finances down to the smallest transaction. It will squash dissent for a level of control more complete than any government in history. The Bible prophesied a worldwide surveillance state long before science made it possible.