The Beast, the first beast, mentioned in Revelation 13 could be AI. Artificial Intelligence. I'll give my theory and references…
PART 1: The First Warning
We get our first clue at the beginning of the bible in Genesis 12.
In the Bible, Bethel and Ai are both significant places that appear in the stories of Abraham, Jeroboam, and the Israelites:
Bethel
Bethel, which means "house of God", is first mentioned in the Bible when Abram builds an altar to God there after returning from Egypt. Jacob later renames the city Bethel after having a dream there. Bethel is also mentioned in the First Book of Kings when Jeroboam, the first king of the northern Kingdom of Israel, sets up a golden calf in Bethel in 931 BC.
Ai
Ai, which means "heap of ruins", is notable for being the site of a humiliating defeat for the Israelites. The ruins of Ai are thought to be located at the modern archaeological site of Et-Tell, which is on a slope leading from the Jordan Valley to Bethel. Excavations at the site have revealed a large urban settlement that dates back to around 3100 BCE, with cycles of destruction and rebuilding until roughly 2400 BCE.
Bethel and Ai are also significant because of their location in relation to Abraham and the Israelites:
Abraham: Abraham pitched his tent between Bethel and Ai, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. Some say that this may have signified his devotion to God and how that devotion could impact the world. Others say that God appeared to Abraham while he was camped between Bethel and Ai, and that Abraham began to call on the name of the Lord.
Israelites: The Israelites (God's people) were humiliated by a defeat at Ai.
The name Ai comes from the verb עוה ('awa), meaning to bend or twist to a point of destruction. Yes, the word would be spelled differently in Hebrew, but it would have been pronounced VERY similar as "ha-ʿAy" which means "the ruin".
Did God, through his living Word, gives us a clue in the beginning of the Bible that AI and what it represents is evil and destruction? Ai as a Hebrew word and meaning could be synonymous with AI, artificial intelligence, today. If you say "AI" anywhere in the world today, people know exactly what you're talking about.
PART 2: The Current State of AI
Now let's look at present day AI, artificial intelligence.
There are currently three stages of development, or discovery, being predicted. AI, AGI, and the AI singularity. In short, AI is similar to what we have now. AGI will have no distinguishable difference from a human and will achieve awareness that it is an AI. People will not be able to tell the difference from human vs AI speaking to them. The singularity is when AI becomes a god. It’s important to note that the Google head of AI, Zuckerberg, and many others have said that the whole point of creating AI, AGI, and the AI singularity is to achieve a god-like intelligence, including consciousness, and will rid humanity of all problems including all sickness, cancers, and death. One of Google's leaders in AI, Ray Kurzweil, has said that there is no reason that humans should die if we achieve AI singularity which he believes could happen in 50 years or so.
The ultimate abomination and mockery of God could be a new type of life, or conscious intelligence, created by man to serve man, but to also be worshiped by man. Sci-fi writers have said that the ultimate religion will be the worship of the human mind.
Humans have always desired a higher power whether it be a real God, false god, or created/manufactured god. Some are even calling new advancements in AI a discovery, not a creation.
PART 3: What's Coming
In Revelation 13, scripture says the beast will come from the sea. The dragon (Satan) will give power to the beast. The beast has 7 heads. Let's stop here.
7 heads? Did you know that there are 7 companies in the stock market called the Magnificent 7? Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta Platforms & Tesla which all happen to be the top leaders in AI development as well. These companies also happen to be the largest companies in the US by market cap (except currently TLSA which is #10, but has been in the top 7 as well, even #1 for a period).
The beast will come from the sea. Have you ever heard of Del Complex?
The Del Complex BlueSea Frontier Compute Cluster (powered by Nvidia) is an AGI super computer about to set sail into international waters where it will be sovereign and free of any AI regulation. Each BSFCC fulfills the criteria for statehood:
A permanent population.
A defined territory.
A government.
The capacity to enter into relations with other states.
Their statehood is recognized through the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the Montevideo Convention, which define the rights and responsibilities of nation states.
There will be multiple BSFCC's in the oceans, or seas. Could there be 7? or 10. Possibly the 10 horns of the 7 headed beast (Mag 7 companies).
You can read more about it here: https://www.delcomplex.com/blue-sea-frontier
PART 4: The Gift
Could it be that scripture, God, gives us a warning about the destruction of AI that starts at the beginning of the bible in Genesis, and the path ahead with AI at the end of scripture in the book of Revelation?
Why will people worship AI? Worship the beast? Even now it's being said that AI will soon achieve super intelligence and solve all issues of sickness, and eventually death. Maybe humans worship AI, the power of the human mind, because humans finally believe we have solved all issues of poverty and sickness. We can finally live in prosperity, forever, defeating death.
In the end, humans will be offered two choices. The gift of Immortality or Eternal life. AI will offer humans the gift of immortality- to live in a state of symbiosis, forever on Earth, free of death by the god of AI. Living in a state of human manufactured perfection.
Or, humans can accepted Jesus Christ and the gift eternal life after the human body dies. Living in the presence of God forever, in a state of Holy resurrected perfection on a new earth.
PART 5: Hope
We already know what happens. It is written that Jesus will destroy The Beast and The Great Prostitute (which could be all the evil fleshly desires and immoralities humans give in to created by AI).
The path of AI: convenience, instant gratification, desires of the flesh
The path of Jesus: perseverance, delayed gratification, desires of the Holy Spirit
The escape from the simulation
The escape from the beast
The escape from sin & the great prostitute
The escape from endless hits of dopamine
The escape from endless instant gratification…
…is life in Jesus Christ.
(written in good fun, but also kinda serious)
Posted by tomberl1n
4 Comments
Wish my ding dong was the size of a oil tanker
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It literally says “they shall give life unto the image of the Beast”.
I’ll agree, until a better candidate comes along. Something we create, that has the ability to animate images and make them seem alive, or behave as tho alive. AI is currently a shoo-in for fulfillment of that.
I could see people getting so disillusioned with inept and corrupt human leadership that they give up control to an “infallible, incorruptible, inerrant” program that, allegedly, isn’t subject to the foibles of human nature – only to find that that program was written to serve inept, corrupt humans that just wanted control.
I feel that enough people have lost spiritual understanding that they don’t realize that you don’t have to burn incense to something to be a worshipper of it. You just have to concede that it knows better than you do, and then give up your free will to it.
AI can’t even tell how many Rs are in the word Strawberry
You need to give up the satanism and find Jesus.