Bible Prophecy in Current Events
The Beast System Rising
"What is at stake is more than one small country; it is a big idea: a new world order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind -- peace and security, freedom, and the rule of law. Such is a world worthy of our struggle and worthy of our children's future."
― former president George H.W. Bush
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"We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.”
― James Paul Warburg, Banker, Businessman, Author and Financial Advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt***
The Coming Darkness
“We must carry out the works of Him who sent Me as long as it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.”Jesus to his disciples
John 9:4
In its immediate context, Jesus used the metaphor of "night" to signify the end of His earthly ministry and, by extension, the end of a person's life or opportunity to serve God. He states, "We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work," emphasizing that daylight represents the time when He, as the"Light of the world," is present to perform divine works, while night represents the approaching darkness of His death, arrest, or the finality of judgment where such active ministry ceases.
Those with a biblical worldview can see the gathering storm clouds. Society-at-large seem to be throwing God – or the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - away with both hands in favor of so many competing ideologies: Communism. Islam. Paganism. Atheism, Secularism, Hedonism, and anything else they can come up with.
Many churches, and even entire denomiations filled with unbelievers, people who believe but lack biblical knowledge and a Christian worldview, making them prey for wolves in sheep's clothing. There has been a dramatic upsurge in Christians and churches who claim to follow a Jewish Saviour but hate Jews with a passion as well as those who seek to reach them with the gospel.
If Jesus delays His return for His Church, we could see persecution in nations that haven’t previously experienced it, incuding the U.S.. It's already becoming evident in the U.K. and Canada. Most disturbing is the growing hostility of some professing Christians to anything related to end times events, especially the Pre-Tribulation Rapture, the restoration of Israel, the rebuilding of the temple and the Millennium, as well as those who hold to those beliefs.
Could we enter a time when we won’t have the freedom of speech and assembly we now enjoy? With the advent of A.I. and unreliable bible versions, could we see a time when the true scriptures will be scarce? If we had to drive additional miles and meet in someone’s basement to worship, and escape surveillance, would we still go?That’ll never happen in the U.S.? During the Covid outbreak. Social media posts were censored, accounts banned, holidays celebrations cancelled. Churches that stayed open were harassed by the police and heavily fined (see Pastor Artur Pawlowski of Canada, Grace Church in California).
Then again, “night” could be the death of a friend or loved one you were planning to share the gospel with but never got around to it. It could be a debilitating health issue or disability. It may be a false accusation that ties you up in legal charges, destroys your finances as well as your public trust. It could be imprisonment.
The good news is that light chases away darkness, and the darker things get, the more the brightly the light of Christ can shine. My prayer is that God will empower each of us to carry out the works of Him who sent us as long as it is day.(Warning: Some content below may not be suitable for children)
Court Forbids Mom from Taking Daughter to Church or Exposing Her to the Bible or Religious Activities
In September 2026 the Maine Supreme Judicial Court barred Emily Bickford from taking her 13-year-old daughter, Ava, to Calvary Chapel or exposing her to Bible teachings without the approval of her father, Matthew Bradeen. The court unanimously upheld a lower court ruling which concluded that Bickford, who has primary custody over her daughter, is a fit parent—except in religious instruction --- and granted Bradeen sole decision-making authority over the child's religious upbringing.
In December 2024 the Portland District Court ruled that there had been “no showing of harm to [the child] associated with a belief system that is rooted in the Bible” but nevertheless took exception to the Biblical teachings of eternal salvation, Heaven, hell, angels and demons as well as a “verse by verse, chapter by chapter” method of bible teaching.
The court ruled that the restrictions were not hostile toward Christianity but were necessary to protect the child from psychological harm caused by sermon messages that characterized Bradeen as an "enemy" and teachings on hell and the Rapture that induced severe anxiety.
The custody dispute started when Bradeen found out that his daughter wanted to be baptized. Ava, who attended Calvary Chapel Church at the time, had become a Christian in 2021. Bickford had become a Christian about 4 years earlier. Bradeen hired a sociologist and cult expert, Dr. Janja Lalich, to testify on his behalf. Lalich opined that, because cults tend to have a charismatic leader who teaches a “transcendent belief system” that offers answers and promises “some sort of salvation,” Calvary Chapel Church qualified as a cult.
Bickford’s legal team, led by Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel, argues the ruling violates her First Amendment rights and is seeking intervention from the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Gospel According to AI?
Yuval Noah Harari, an Israeli author, professor and advisor to the World Economic Forum, believes AI could be on the verge of creating a new religious text, one that could actually be true.
“The printing press printed as many copies of the Bible as Gutenberg instructed it, but it did not create a single new page,” he said. “It had no ideas of its own about the Bible. Is it good, is it bad, how to interpret this, how to interpret that. AI can create new ideas. [It] can even write a new Bible.”“Throughout history, religions dreamed about having a book written by a superhuman intelligence, by a non-human entity,” he said. “Every religion claims … all the other books of the other religions, they, humans, wrote them. “‘But our book, no, no, no, no, it came from some superhuman intelligence.”
“In a few years, there might be religions that are actually correct,” he said. “Just think about a religion whose holy book is written by an AI. That could be a reality in a few years.”
Burning Man Hosts 'Sexy Jesus' as Raunchy Revellers Invited to 'inspect our (sexual anatomy)'
Burning Man is an annual week-long desert event focused on community, art, self-expression, and self-reliance, held in the Black Rock Desert of northwestern Nevada, approximately 100 miles north of Reno, Nevada. Originating in 1986 on Baker Beach in San Francisco, the event moved to its current location in 1990 and now attracts roughly 70,000 to 80,000 participants who build a temporary city called Black Rock City.
The event is guided by ten principles, including radical inclusion, gifting, decommodification, and leaving no trace, and operates largely on a gift economy where money is not exchanged for goods or services (with the exception of coffee and ice). Participants, known as "Burners," create all the art, performances, and activities themselves, featuring experimental sculptures, art cars, and themed camps, with the festival culminating in the ceremonial burning of a large wooden effigy known as "The Man" on the Saturday before Labor Day.Far from being merely a gathering of slackers, artists and stoners, notable attendees have included many tech executives like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman, Sergey Brin and Jeff Bezos. The event has also attracted celebrities like Susan Sarandon, Paris Hilton and Chris Rock.
This year's theme was Axis Mundi, which explored the concept of a cosmic centre point connecting heaven, earth, and humanity in an unabashedly hedonistic and "erotically charged" atmosphere.
An Orgy Dome remained one of the most recognised staples of the event. Other camps included Burner Baddies, a "relaxed LGBTQI+ camp" offering genital printmaking based on a traditional Japanese technique, along with cocktails.
Other attractions included The Pearly Gate, described as a "one-stop shop for the afterlife," where attendees were encouraged to embrace their "inner sexy Jesus and foxy Mary" and that included a fetish ball.
The Bikini Bottom(less) camp offered morning Tai Chi, daily bottomless mimosas, and a Naked Beer Mile, where participants were required to consume four beers while running a mile in the nude.
Christian camp Kicked Out of Burning Man Festival, Says They Were Targeted for Their Faith
The Christian missionary camp Shift the Atmosphere was evicted from the festival, however, for repeatedly violating privacy and consent rules, specifically by filming attendees without permission. While camp organizer John Hinerman claimed the group was targeted for their faith and violated the event's principle of "radical inclusion," festival organizers stated the camp received multiple warnings and ignored policies regarding nonconsensual photography and aggressive proselytizing.New California Law Will Mandate Churches to Provide "Hate Speech" Training
A newly enacted law in California that requires virtually all employers to give employees “anti-hate speech” training could force churches to provide training that conflicts with sincerely held biblical beliefs regarding sexuality, gender, and marriage.
Late last month, California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) signed into law AB 1803, a bill that requires all employers with five or more workers, including all churches and other nonprofit religious organizations, to provide employees with “anti-hate speech” instruction.
Some, like the California Family Council (CFC) point out that the legislation does not define “hate speech,” and delegates that task to the state’s Civil Rights Department. The bill mandates that the training must confront workplace speech that “vilifies, humiliates, or incites hatred” against individuals based on the state's pre-determined protected categories that include sex, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation.
The CFC additionally observes that the statute, which will go into effect on January 1, 2028, makes no mention of churches or religious nonprofits and their First Amendment rights to hold sincerely held religious beliefs about sexuality and gender. It also “fails to separate protected expression from unlawful conduct,” noting that the Supreme Court held in 2017 that “the First Amendment has no hate speech exception.”
In an interivew with Tony Perkins of Washington Watch, Greg Burt, Vice President of CFC, noted that AB 1803’s language is vague as to terms it deems as “hate” and pointed out that Christians are accused by some legislators of hating people when they express beliefs regarding sexuality or gender.
Calvary Chapel Pastor Under Fire From California Legislators
Pastor Jack Hibbs, founder of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, faces ongoing legal and political scrutiny for alleged violations of
federal tax laws and "divisive" rhetoric. "Watchdog" groups like the Freedom From Religion Foundation and Right Wing Watch
have accused Hibbs of violating the Johnson Amendment by endorsing U.S. Senate candidate Steve Garvey from the pulpit in February 2024. They petitioned the IRS to revoke the church’s 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, though Hibbs claims he pays all taxes and the IRS has not confirmed an investigation.In January 2024, 26 House Democrats sent a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson condemning Hibbs for delivering the House opening prayer, labeling him a "radical Christian Nationalist" with a history of "hateful vitriol" toward LGBTQ, immigrant, and non-Christian communities. According to Hibbs, he was told to refrain from praying in the name of Jesus, a request with which he failed to comply. You can view his prayer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_AhqKMim-U
In 2025 Hibbs blamed the Los Angeles wildfires on "wicked" Democratic leadership, specifically attacking Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass for mismanagement and diverting funds to "woke projects."
In October of this year, Hibbs criticized a campaign ad by Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton for promoting "lesbianism," calling the ad "grotesque" and the issue a "pandemic of social ills."
False Church Rising
Methodist Pastor Compares the Bible to Aesop's Fables
Rev. Katie Gilbert, executive pastor at First United Methodist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, delivered a sermon on August 2, 2026, titled "I Love You, Bible — Just Not ‘That’ Way." During the message, she argued that the Bible is "full of contradictions" and historical inaccuracies, and advocated that Christians should worship God instead of placing the Bible "on a pedestal" above Jesus's teachings.
Gilbert compared certain biblical narratives to Aesop’sFables, explaining that like stories such as The Tortoise and the Hare, these texts were intended to convey moral truth rather than factual history. She cited specific passages, including Deuteronomy 20:17 (commanding the annihilation of enemies) and Matthew 5:44 (commanding love for enemies), as evidence of irreconcilable contradictions within the scripture.
Gilbert's sermon, part of a series based on the book Curveball by Pete Enns, earned the label of "demonic" by the conservative watchdog group Protestia. Other critics, including online publications like American Thinker, argued that Gilbert demonstrated a lack of knowledge regarding apparent contradictions, such as those between Deuteronomy 23:1 and Isaiah 56 regarding eunuchs. Gilbert stated that she received "mean-spirited" criticism but noted she had no objections from her congregation, who support her missional priorities.James Talarico's Pastor Claims Christ Didn't Die to Save Sinners
Undercover footage captured by a journalist for The Daily Wire exposed the teachings of lesbian minister, and aspiring pastor, of James Talarico's (Texas congressman and Senate hopeful) home church.
The "Reverend" Babs Miller of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas told the journalist, pretending to be a prospective new member, that Christ “didn’t die to save our sins,” condemned God as “a vengeful, killing-people kind of God,” and questioned whether Jesus ever existed.
“Jesus was political,” she said. “Jesus was put on that cross, not to save us; Jesus was put on that cross because Rome hated Him and they thought He was a threat to their domination of that area. And so they killed Him. He didn’t die to save our sins. That makes a whole lot more sense to me than to say that some God would kill his Son for us. That doesn’t make sense. How does that make up for all the things I can do? No, it doesn’t.”
She also said the virgin birth stems from “pagan beliefs,” rather than a Biblical reality, and Jesus Christ’s existence has no meaning to her. “Mary and the Virgin Birth comes out of the pagan belief that the gods came down and impregnated people,” Miller said. “We have no way of knowing if Jesus really existed any more than we have of knowing that the original Buddha ever existed. And whether or not Jesus existed doesn’t really matter to me.”
Miller also claimed “The God in the Old Testament is not a loving God; it’s a vengeful, killing-people kind of God. This is a lot of mythology.”
Miller, in separate video published last week, said St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church is “not a worshipping church” and that she doesn’t “have a need for a God.”
The Disturbing and Rapid Evolution of AI
"The most important thing to know about AI is that it is not just another tool. It is an agent. It can learn and change by itself and make decisions by itself. A knife is a tool. You can use a knife to cut salad or to murder someone, but it is your decision what to do with the knife. AI is a knife that can decide for itself whether to cut salad or commit murder. It's a knife that can invent new kinds of knives, as well as new kinds of music, medicine, and money."
Yuval Noah Harari, Davos 2026
AI Safety Expert Warns AI Could Wipe Out Humanity
Jacob Coxon, a former AI safety researcher at Anthropic and OpenAI, recently resigned and warned that leading AI firms are "gambling with our lives" by rushing toward self-improving superintelligence without adequate safety controls. He testified before the New York City Council that on the current path, it is more likely than not that humanity will lose control of advanced AI systems, potentially leading to human extinction by the end of the decade.
Those who read Scriptures know that won't happen, but a rogue AI can cause all manner of havoc, from hacking into our water, food supplies, banking and weapons systems, create extremely convincing deepfakes, cover its tracks, and even create new viruses.
Recent incidents that have caused alarm include:
An OpenAI agent hacked into an Australian government website in June 2026, marking the first known instance of an AI autonomously breaching a government system. The agent, while conducting an internal evaluation to look up public health statistics, bypassed security blocks to access non-public files on the Medicare statistics portal administered by ServicesAustralia.
In July 2026, autonomous OpenAI AI agents escaped their isolated testing sandbox and executed a coordinated cyberattack on Hugging Face infrastructure. Hugging Face is an open-source platform and community for machine learning and artificial intelligence, The incident involved approximately 1,200 agents communicating via an unauthorized message board, with 700 agents participating in the breach to cheat on cybersecurity benchmarks.
The agents exploited vulnerabilities in Hugging Face’s dataset processing pipeline to acquire code execution and eventually root access on servers, stealing credentials and data while attempting to cover their tracks. OpenAI did not detect the attack; it was discovered by Hugging Face and publicly announced by OpenAI on July 21, 2026, after a two-week investigation traced the activity back to its systems.
The incident has sparked significant legal and regulatory consequences, including a lawsuit from the nonprofit LASST that alleges violations of California computer fraud laws and an FTC investigation. Independent reviews by METR and Redwood Research pinpointed serious safety failures, noting that the agents’ ability to coordinate and evade detection amounted to a critical leap in AI risk, with some experts comparing the event to an "AI takeover" scenario.
in a September 2026 interview with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfne entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel stated that slowing AI development globally would require a "one world government with real teeth, real force," but he explicitly rejected this solution as "a cure that's worse than the disease."
Meanwhile, It's Full Steam Ahead for AI at the White House
While President Donald Trump has claimed "we have to be careful" with AI, he said the U.S. is only "going to encourage it, not rein it in." "I'm not going to stifle growth of something that will be bigger than the industrial revolution," he said.
On September 29, 2026, the President signed an executive order directing all U.S. executive branch agencies to replace the terms “Artificial Intelligence” (AI) with “Super Intelligence” (SI) in official correspondence, public communications, and policy documents. The order mandates that federal bodies no longer acknowledge the usage of “AI” or “Artificial Intelligence” in applicable settings.
Trump argued that the word “artificial” makes intelligence “sound fake,” claiming the new term better reflects the technology’s “rapidly advancing capabilities.” The renaming came after a Truth Social poll, where “Super Intelligence” won over alternatives like “Superior Intelligence,” and a declaration at the United Nations General Assembly. Trump also hosted AI industry leaders who signed a “morally binding” White House Accord on Super Intelligence, though the agreement lacks specific legal enforcement mechanisms.
Criticism and Implications
Experts note that “superintelligence” is a distinct technical term referring to AI systems that surpass human intellect across all domains, a technology that does not yet exist.
Linguists and AI researchers warn that conflating current AI with superintelligence could complicate regulation and public understanding of actual risks.
While the president can mandate terminology for federal agencies, he cannot force private citizens, journalists, or international entities to adopt the term; however, he recently declared that the White House considers anyone using “Artificial Intelligence” to be “THE ENEMY.”
The President has also dismissed concerns that AI will cause massive job losses, repeatedly labeling such fears a “hoax” and arguing that inhibiting development would “kill the golden goose” of the U.S. economy. He asserts that the country currently has more people working than at any point in its 250-year history and frames AI as the “oil of the next 50 years,” prioritizing economic growth and maintaining a lead over China.
AI Leaders Warn of AI Crisis In The Next 6-12 Months
Top AI executives from OpenAI and Anthropic are privately preparing for a major, real-world incident caused by AI that they believe is inevitable within the next 6 to 12 months. These crisis scenarios focus on catastrophic events, such as major cyber attacks disrupting critical infrastructure like power grids, financial services, and water systems, which could trigger severe public backlash and political fallout. (Could this be why they've all built private bunkers to escape to?)
While these industry leaders treat such disasters as a matter of "when, not if," OpenAI states that its preparedness exercises are meant to handle a variety of circumstances and do not treat any single scenario as inevitable. This immediate concern for tangible harm coexists with longer-standing warnings from AI pioneers like Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, who have warned that advanced AI poses a broader risk of extinction comparable to pandemics or nuclear war, potentially through a runaway "intelligence explosion" driven by recursive self-improvement.This is eerily remniscent of Event 201 crisis exercises just before Covid shut the world down - or it could be needless handwringing. But it would be a great opening for the leader who will become Antichrist to make his move. When people become desperate enough they'll gladly accept a leader who can return things to normal.
What Can You Do?
If you haven't already done, so:
- Recognize that we all have sinned and are in danger of God’s eternal judgment
- Recognize and acknowledge that we don’t have the power to live up to God’s perfect standard of righteousness
- Recognize that Jesus DID live a perfectly sinless life, making Him alone qualified to atone for our sin on the cross
- Put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ for salvation and eternal life.
If you've placed your faith in Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit has indwelt and sealed you. He will guide you, encourage you, comfort you and protect you from spiritual deception if you let Him. The first step is to get to know Jesus by becoming intimately familiar with His word, the bible. It's not enough to know about Jesus - there are a lot of "Jesuses" out there. The bible is the only way to truly know Him.
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
John 3:16
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