Episode Transcript
[00:00:04] Welcome back to another episode of Two Witnesses Live. Today I'm on my own. So far. It is a Sabbath. Can you blame anybody? Anyway, I thought I'd get on here. We've been talking. So we've been talking about handling news on the show, and I've been wanting to kind of lean away from handling news on the show because it just felt like it was all doom and gloom when we were, you know, handling it and talking about it on a regular basis.
[00:00:39] But we were talking last night, and it really is kind of the foundation of Two Witnesses live in that. How else can we observe what the two witnesses are saying if we're not paying attention to the news?
[00:00:53] And, you know, depending on who the two witnesses are, you know, we have. We have a lot of things that we've talked about on the show over the last year about who the two witnesses could be. Could be literally Moses and Elijah. Could be the sun and the moon. Somebody made a good argument for that because they control the weather, they control the bugs, they give information every day.
[00:01:16] Could be two, you know, two guys who haven't been revealed yet. It could be Donald Trump and Elon Musk because the, you know, there's a. They. They torment the world. There's no. No sugarcoating. That could be any number of things. So the point being is, I think we're going to go back to talking about the news.
[00:01:42] Yeah, I think. I think it's appropriate, you know, whether we dedicate entire shows to it or not remains to be seen. We'll. We'll. We'll see how it goes. But that's kind of what I wanted to talk about today. This will probably be a short show because I don't have anyone here bugging me, drawing questions out of me. But I wanted to talk about something that's been prevalent in the news, and I've seen a lot of other YouTubers handling this in a way that I find questionable. And that is, number one, Antichrist. You guys have heard me talk about this many times. So we'll start there talking about the Antichrist, but then associating it with AI and quantum computers. So I wanted to get into the nitty gritty of this and so you can kind of hopefully understand my perspective. I want to try and convince you, you know, for. With the reasoning for what it is that I believe in regards to this and hopefully alleviate some fear, because that's really the goal is I see people using this as doom and gloom. Oh, no, the world, you know, this is the Antichrist. And I don't think they have that right.
[00:03:01] This is the most amazing time to be alive, right? Prophecy is being fulfilled. Even if there is tribulation, prophecy is being fulfilled.
[00:03:10] It's an exciting time because our redemption is close.
[00:03:13] It's near. Within, within years, maybe even days, maybe even. Maybe even moments away. Our redemption is near. So this is a time to be excited and not a time to be afraid. So that's kind of the perspective that I wanted to handle this.
[00:03:29] And let's start by looking at that word Antichrist. You guys have heard me say this a million times.
[00:03:37] I don't like using the word Antichrist in regards to this world leader who's supposed to go into a temple and declare himself God. That narrative is basically a fantasy story that has been strung together by various records in the Bible, whether they're related or unrelated, but they've been strung together in order to paint this science fiction fantasy story, which is, I don't believe, is biblically accurate. So we have to start there because that will help eliminate some of the fear, right? Because people are, you know, they want to point finger because of this story. People want to point fingers at different leaders as being the quote, unquote, Antichrist. Well, first of all, it's the wrong word to use if you want to be biblically accurate. So I've said this a thousand times. The study for Antichrist is the easiest study that you can do. So I've gone to Bible Gateway, I've typed in the word Antichrist, and you can see here it's only used in four places in the Bible. First John, and they're all in first and second John. So you got 1 John 2:18, first John 2, 22, first John 4, 3, and then second John 1:7.
[00:05:04] You would think that based on how people talk about the Antichrist, that this would be one of the most used words throughout the scripture. You know, they use it in regards to records in Daniel, Zechariah, Isaiah, Revelation, Thessalonians. I mean, they use it everywhere.
[00:05:27] People are constantly inserting the word Antichrists into these records. And for somebody who really loves the accuracy of the scripture and wants to know the difference between truth and error, it grates me every time I hear somebody. It just rubs me wrong. Every time I hear somebody using the word Antichrist where it doesn't belong, it's just. It's bad practice. I mean, I get it. It's. It's a fun word, right, because you think this is the person who stands against, you know, the, the anointed son of God. Right? And it's a cool word to say Antichrist. It makes for good movies and good books and good mysteries and good stories. But the thing is, is biblically, it refers to something specific. And just because people are referring to something as the Antichrist doesn't mean that it is. So let's look at some of these usages. So, little children, it is the last hour. And as you have heard that Antichrist is coming even now, many Antichrists have come by which we know that it is the last hour. Now, this is arguably the primary scripture that people use because they want to say, as you have heard, the Antichrist is coming. They want to focus on that. There's been some story that was told during their age about, you know, just like we hear today. You know, they. They want to allude to this, indicating that this has been a story that's been told since the beginning of time, which, if you want to go back that far, if you want to go back to Genesis, the story is a little different. It's actually flipped on its head. The Messiah is the one who was prophesied as coming. So I get the correlation. But there's. There's more than one ways to read this and understand it. And I think that people who favor the narrative of the Antichrist only look at this in the way that supports their narrative. But there's more than one way to look at this. So let's read this again, little children. It is the last hour, right? So it's been the last hour for a long period of time, right? It's been the last hour. So you can imagine in regards if a thousand years is as a day to God, that being us within the last hour.
[00:08:16] It sounds like that's a figure of speech. It could be literal to them. I don't think it is. It could be a figure of speech in that it's just we're basically close, right?
[00:08:27] This is after the Messiah had come and fulfilled the promises and died and sacrificed for us. So that was the beginning of the end right there. That was like the last hour of the prophecy that was told in the very beginning.
[00:08:45] And that prophecy was in Genesis 3:15, when God promised that the seed of the woman would bruise the head of the serpent, right?
[00:08:55] So there's this assumption that, as you have heard, Antichrist is coming. Well, no, the serpent's been around since the very beginning.
[00:09:04] So here, let me propose another way of looking at this. As you have heard, the Antichrist is coming. Even now, many Antichrists have Come. So one way of looking at this is you've heard about it and now it's a reality, right? You heard that there would. There would be people who oppose Jesus as the Messiah. And even now you are seeing that in your lives. That's how I read this. That's how I understand it when I'm reading this, because that's the reality. And if you continue, Antichrists have come by which we know it is the last hour. And if we read this in context, they went out from us. So let's little children, it is the last hour. And as you have heard that Antichrist, that the Antichrist, this word the, is inserted, as you have heard. Let's see, does this. Yeah, See this, this word the, is inserted by the translators. This is what Yasplain and I are talking about when it comes to confusion is this. We're told to study the Scripture, and part of that is to get through the confusion. Because what you're reading this English that you're reading is not the original message that was communicated and written down. That message is thousands of years old in the New Testament. It's almost 2,000 years old, right?
[00:10:40] Just, just shy of 2,000 years. So you can imagine that what was originally written was, you know, copied. Maybe there were errors made when the copies were made. And then it's been translated from one language to another, which, if you've ever translated one language, a language from one to another, if you speak multiple languages, you know the words are not at parity. They're not identical. You have to make allowances and communicate things in different ways. Imagine doing that over and over again. It adds complexity to the original message, right? And then on top of that, there's words that are inserted. So right here, this word, that's what this little note here is telling you is it's not in. It's not in the original text, the word the so. And as you have heard that Antichrist is coming, even now, many Antichrists have come, right? So according to that narrative of waiting for this one last guy who's going to stand in the temple and declare himself God, it says here that many have come by which we know it is the last hour. And then there's further information in the context which is really important for this. They went out from us, but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would have continued with us, but they went out that they might be made manifest that none of them were of us. So I put forth the arguments that this is actually Referring to these, that you heard that it was going to happen, and even now it has happened. Right. You heard that there would be people who are opposing Christ. And even now they are already here. Right. So that is an alternative way of understanding this. So yeah, there's one way you could read this is. And as you have heard that an Antichrist, the Fine. So let's see, the words aren't in here, but this is how people read it in order to support their narrative. And as you have heard that the final Antichrist will be coming in the future, even now there are many little Antichrists which have come. See, none of that is in the text. It just says, and as you have heard that Antichrist is coming even now, many Antichrists have come by which we know that it is the last hour they went out from us. So this is the first usage of that word Antichrists. And I can see where people are coming from for why they think that it might be pointing to somebody in the final end times. But it's not explicit. At best, it's ambiguous. Right. I could see how they could get there from this, but by and large, the context informs me and it seems to be implying that they knew that there would be people who were. Who would oppose them, even though they walked and talked with the Messiah and many of them even saw him die on the cross. Right. So you see that, you see that today where people, even though in something just happened, you know, last month, the stories that get told are not consistent. You know that welcome to social media, right.
[00:14:06] Fake news is people don't recount the stories the same way. So you could say the same thing to where Jesus could show up today and a lot of people could be there with him and see him and tell the story about it. And in a month that story is going to be different because people don't recall things perfectly. So you're going to have people who will recall it differently and be in opposition.
[00:14:31] You see this all the time where people say, like, did that really happen the way that you thought it happened?
[00:14:38] All right, let's look at the rest of these.
[00:14:41] So who is a liar but he that denies that Jesus is the Christ? Christ just means anointed or the Messiah, that Jesus is the Messiah, he is Antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. Let's look, look at the context of this. I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it and that no lie is of the truth. That goes again to what I was saying. To where people who are there know the truth. They remember what they saw, they remember what they heard. But after the time has passed, that information starts to get blurred, especially by people who weren't there firsthand. So they knew the truth.
[00:15:26] And then the people who started to deviate from the truth, they're made manifest, they're made evident as they begin to change the story. This is, we see this today with social media at an extreme level.
[00:15:41] And you know, arguably governments use it against us as a weapon. It's, you know, that's how you start a cover up, right? Just start changing the narrative and the next thing you know, people are tired of it and move on to the next one. All right, who is a liar, but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ, he is Antichrist, or against the anointed, against Messiah, he is Antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either. He who acknowledges the Son has the Father also. I don't want to get into any too, too deep on this one and start any arguments, but I do want to point out that the Scripture does use father and son here. And I think it's important to recognize the distinction between the two, especially in regards to reality. You know, when you. I can't. I am not my own father. I did not give, I did not plant the seed for myself. Right? I am a father, and I have a child who came from me, who is of the same essence as me, same genetics as me. But, you know, they are distinctly different from me. So I think it's important that that is used in conjunction here, that there is a distinction between Father and Son, and that's used in conjunction with the word Antichrist. So who is a liar but he that denies Jesus is the Messiah, that Jesus is the Christ, he is Antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either. He who acknowledges the Son has the Father also. All right, fair enough.
[00:17:33] Move on. 1 John 4:3 and every spirit. So this is a good one, because this is the test.
[00:17:40] Let's start a little bit sooner.
[00:17:44] This is important. Did you know that there are tests in the Bible that you can use to determine truth from error? You can do this with prophets.
[00:17:54] We learned that if a prophet says something about the future, that doesn't come true, you know that that is a false prophet. They spoke presumptuously. They spoke from their own heart. And it was not something that God commanded them to speak. So we know that from the Old Testament. So this is here in the New Testament. This is how you identify Antichrists. Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are of God. Because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
[00:18:29] There's a lot of people who are false prophets and may not even know it. We see this again in social media because people will hear something and they will just repeat it without checking it for themselves. That makes them a false prophet. They're saying something that is going to happen and if it doesn't come to pass, then they were proven to be a false prophet. It doesn't matter if it really, if it was of their own making.
[00:18:58] The fact that they're speaking that into existence, I believe makes them a false prophet.
[00:19:04] So we want to be careful to, number one, own our mistakes.
[00:19:08] If we've been false prophets in the past, own up to it. The penalty is not death like it was in the Old Testament. You know, those were different times, that was a different culture.
[00:19:18] So, you know, own up to it. If you've said something, if you thought something was going to happen and it didn't happen, get better at prefacing that you're guessing, then you're not prophesying. Right.
[00:19:33] Truth withstands scrutiny. You know, the, the way we get better at identifying truth from error is learning to recognize the error so that we can focus more on speaking truth.
[00:19:46] So anyway, let's continue. Believe it. Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits whether they are of God. Because many false prophets have gone out into the world. But this, you know the. By this you know the spirit of God. Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ, that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God. And every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of Antichrist which you have heard was coming and is now already in the world. So this goes back to what I originally said. This is why I believe that first occurrence means that you, you heard something was going to happen and it has happened, which you have heard was coming and is now already in the world. So they knew it was going to happen and it started to happen. And this is the recognition of it. It's not pointing to a world leader in the future, not directly anyway.
[00:20:58] That doesn't mean, that doesn't mean that there won't be a world leader who is against the Messiah. I don't think there is. I don't think there will be. So there might be a group of people or a president and a vice President, I don't know if there will be one individual, though, a king.
[00:21:19] We'll see. I don't know.
[00:21:21] All right, let's read that again. By this, you know the spirit of God. Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. Again, there's a distinction here between Jesus and God. And this is the spirit of Antichrist which you have heard was coming and is now already in the world. This spirit has been around arguably since Jesus died.
[00:21:54] I imagine that he prepared them. And probably they knew from the Old Testament that there would be those who oppose what Yeshua did.
[00:22:06] But I imagine he prepared them too, had them prepared for what would come.
[00:22:13] I reminded of the parable of, like the wolves coming in and scattering the sheep. Jesus talked about that, right? There was the parable that when the shepherd's not there, the wolves come in and scatter the sheep. That's effectively what the antichrists do. That's why they come out from us, right? They come out from the believers and then they scatter people. They sow doubt, they sow fear.
[00:22:40] They work against what he did. Right? And I imagine it started happening the day after he was crucified, or maybe even the day after he went up into heaven. Maybe not exactly the day after, but you can imagine soon after, months, weeks, weeks, months, years.
[00:23:03] You know, they knew that it was coming. That even though people had seen him die and resurrected and walk around for 40 days and eat fish and honey, you know, it's like soon after that, because he's not there anymore, of course the story is going to change. Of course people are going to start saying, questioning what really happened, especially if people weren't there. You know, there were hundreds of people that saw him, arguably thousands of people that saw him in his resurrected body.
[00:23:37] But once he ascended up into heaven, he was gone. Right? Now the adversary does what he does, can do what he does and start to change the narrative, start to cover it up, just like we see today.
[00:23:52] Anytime something happens soon after, he's changing the story.
[00:23:59] You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. All right, one more usage of the word Antichrist, and That is in second John 1:7.
[00:24:15] For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
[00:24:26] All right, let's look at the context. This is love, that we walk according to his commandments.
[00:24:32] This is the commandment that, as you have heard from the beginning, you should walk in it. For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, right? There's a lot of people who say that he wasn't real or that say he wasn't human.
[00:24:54] This is a deceiver and an Antichrist. I get that from flesh, right? You understand that? Flesh. You and I are flesh. We understand that because we have a point of reference. We're flesh. Flesh and blood, right? So Jesus was flesh and blood.
[00:25:10] For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh.
[00:25:18] This is a deceiver and an antichrist. Look to yourselves that we do not lose those things we worked for, but that we may receive a full reward, right? So it took work. You know, they. They went out all over the course of Asia Minor and spread the gospel about what they had seen, what they had experienced.
[00:25:43] And then soon after, people came in to change the narrative. Very soon after, those were the antichrists. This is the last usage of the word Antichrist in the Bible. Notice how there's no indication about a guy sitting in a temple. Temple. Declaring himself God, right? People get that from 2nd Thessalonians 2.
[00:26:07] Oops, did I spell Thessalonians wrong?
[00:26:11] There you go.
[00:26:13] Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him, we ask you not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if it was from us, as though the day of Christ had come again. People deceive. That's what they do. So he's telling them not to be deceived. Let no one deceive you by any means. For that day will not come unless the falling away comes first and the man of sin is revealed, the Son of perdition. So this is another section where people get, oh, okay, so this is referring to one person, right? Well, that's not the only way that you can understand this there. You know, this could be referring figuratively to something, and I believe the context makes it lean towards a figure of speech rather than an individual. Let me explain.
[00:27:08] For that day will not come unless the falling away comes first. And that man of sin is revealed, the Son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all. That is called God or that is worshiped so that he sits as God and the temple of God showing Himself, that he is God. What does Antichrist mean? It means against the anointed one. So one thing that people like to do here is they go, oh, because he opposes and exalts himself above God. Well, Antichrist is not against God. It's against the anointed. It's against the Messiah.
[00:27:50] This is something different.
[00:27:52] The Son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, this person thinks he is God, whether if it is a person or not.
[00:28:04] So we've talked about this before, that this is a subject I don't like to talk about because it is so divisive. And I don't think it matters as much as those who would argue for or against it make it out to be.
[00:28:23] And that is whether Jesus is God or whether Jesus is not God.
[00:28:29] You guys know my opinion. It's, it's. It's. I, I'll gladly sit and, and listen to those who genuinely, I qualify, that genuinely want to have an honest discussion about the Scripture and what it truly says about the subject. I won't sit and be beaten up or attacked or gaslit or put down or disparaged because of my personal study.
[00:28:59] But if somebody genuinely wants to have a conversation from the Scripture, taking into account the fact that the Scripture has been manipulated, the fact that the Scripture that we have today is translations upon translations, and that there are 2,000 years, actually more than 2,000 years of errors we have to deal with and consider.
[00:29:23] There's a really good video that just came out. I'll post it in the description after the show. You guys have heard about the. This is something that came up recently. There's videos that people have been going crazy with about that mosaic that was discovered that had the inscription in it that said God, Jesus Christ in it. I don't remember the full inscription, but it had those words.
[00:29:50] And there's a really good. People are allotting that as though it's proof of, of something, saying, you know, that's archaeological evidence of proof that they even in his day believe that Jesus was God. Well, we literally just read about antichrists that it pretty much started at It's. It started in their day that they started to oppose Christ. They started to change the narrative. Right?
[00:30:17] So, yes, that stuff goes really far back.
[00:30:23] So that was discovered. And so they think that it was just that. That it dated to around 230ad which is about a hundred years before the Council of Nicaea, which, if you, if you studied this subject.
[00:30:41] Most debates center around the Council of Nicaea because that's when the doctrine of the Trinity was. Was canonized, established. And they actually didn't even use the word Trinity at that time. The word Trinity came along much later.
[00:30:56] But it's such a broad category, you guys, that there are. So there's, there's version, there's different versions of Trinity, there's different versions of Christianity, there's different versions of doctrines and beliefs. There's so many variety of details around this that unless you have a genuine heart to learn, it's not worth fighting over.
[00:31:20] So one of the reasons why I don't really like talking about it, however, I think it's relevant in regards to the antichrists and the man of sin and the Son of perdition, because I do think that it relates, right?
[00:31:34] So we looked at the word antichrists and you saw the five usages in the four sections of Scripture.
[00:31:43] They're all indicating that there's four or five attributes. There's four.
[00:31:51] Three. We'll just say there's three attributes. They deny that Jesus is the Messiah, right? They deny the Father and the Son, and they deny that Jesus came in the flesh. That's. That's the spirit of Antichrist. It causes people to do that, to deny those things. Now it may be that it. That they don't deny it outright. It comes in different forms anyway, I'm getting off track. I'm getting into this way more than I want to.
[00:32:16] The point being here is let no one deceive you by any means, for that day will not come unless the falling away comes first. And that man of sin, the Son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all, that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Now, First Corinthians 3:16.
[00:32:41] 3:16.
[00:32:46] Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
[00:32:54] I believe the Spirit of God dwelled in Jesus.
[00:32:57] Right? He was the cornerstone. And do you believe that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
[00:33:03] So would you say that you and God are one? I would. I would say that I'm one with God because I'm the temple of God. God dwells within me. Likewise, Jesus being the cornerstone of the temple, God dwelled in him. He was one with God. So you understand there's a distinction there, right? All right, let's go back to this.
[00:33:27] So this, this is the only temple that exists, right? Now, let no one deceive you by Any means for that day will not come unless the falling away comes first and the man of sin is revealed, the Son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself, who opposes and exalts himself above all. That is called God, or that is worship. Now look at this. So that he sits as God in the temple of God. Who's the temple of God? We are.
[00:33:58] So how can a person sit in the temple of God? If you and I are the temple of God, this indicates to me that this is a doctrine or this is a belief. So it is a belief about a son who sits about a son showing himself that he is God. Right? Who opposes and exalts himself above all. That is called God, or that is worship. So that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. So this is one way you can look at this.
[00:34:36] Now, those who want to stick to one particular narrative or one particular doctrine have a different story on a different narrative. They want to say that this, the man of sin, is a literal person, flesh and blood, who opposes God and who will sit in a temple that is yet to be built.
[00:34:57] Now, granted, Christian Widner has made a fair argument that there is a temple. There is a location in Jerusalem that could be considered a temple.
[00:35:09] So I'm willing to acknowledge these things, right? So. But I'm the type of person. My name means watchful. Literally. That's literally what my name means. I'm one of those people who watch and look at what really is happening in order to separate truth from error. You know, in the same way that those who were living with Christ, who saw him in his resurrected body, knew the truth so that they could identify the error when people started changing it.
[00:35:37] I'm. I try to do that myself. I try to look at the way things are and go from there. So, yeah, there is a, you know, the Temple Mount, which doesn't really have a temple on it, but I guess you could say that it could be considered a temple.
[00:35:54] So, yeah, a person could go there and declare themselves God. That's the narrative.
[00:36:00] But I don't think it's biblical.
[00:36:03] And there's nothing here about antichrists, Right? This person's not called antichrists, although this does have attributes in common. So you see, but it's important to identify the attributes. It's important to understand the differences if you want to understand what's really being said. To me, this seems to be implying that this is a doctrine. Let no one deceive you by any means. Right?
[00:36:34] For that day will not come unless the falling away comes first. And the man of sin, the Son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God. I mean, that could be the spirit of Antichrists. That could be people who are so convinced that a spiritual being became completely and totally human to where he was no longer a spiritual being while he was human is their God. You know what I mean?
[00:37:17] They could be that they believe against everything that the Messiah was, you know, Antichrist. So I could see that. I could, you know, I'll give them that. I can see the correlation, but strictly speaking from the scripture, the word's not used here, but I can. I make that correlation by the attributes.
[00:37:37] And to me, this seems like it's a doctrine or a belief.
[00:37:41] And you see my evidence, 1 Corinthians 3, 16 says we are the temple of God. There's no other temple right now. I mean, sure, there's Buddhist temples and Muslim temples, but those aren't the temple of God. If they are, we're in the wrong religion. I'm willing to change if I'm in the wrong religion. I'll change if you can prove it. I don't think we are, though. I believe the Torah.
[00:38:05] I believe Yeshua. I believe the Old Testament. After many years of. Of study and challenging things, I've been told my beliefs are based on what I can prove. When I challenge you to believe what you can prove, don't just believe what people tell you because there's many false prophets who have come come who are among us.
[00:38:27] All right, I'm spending way too much time on this. Already gone 40 minutes. I haven't even gotten to AI, and I haven't even gotten to AI and quantum computers yet.
[00:38:39] Anyway, I. I think you'll see the point. But here's the other thing. There's more evidence here that supports that this is probably a doctrine or a belief.
[00:38:47] Do you not remember that when I was with you, I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining that? He may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. You know, Yasplain and I were talking about this yesterday. There's a record in Jeremiah 16.
[00:39:06] Matter of fact, let's go look at it. Might as well prove everything I'm saying. Jeremiah.
[00:39:13] Jeremiah.
[00:39:16] And I think it's like 16. It's towards the end right here. Oh, Lord, my strength and my fortress. My refuge in the day of affliction. The Gentiles shall come to you from the ends of the earth and say, right, so we know who's who's talking here. Surely our fathers have inherited lies, worthless and unprofitable things. Will a man make gods for himself which are not gods?
[00:39:52] Therefore, behold, I will this once caused. I will this once caused them to know. I will cause them to know my hand and my might, and they shall know my name is the Lord. Right? People since the beginning of time have wanted to make gods for themselves.
[00:40:14] I mean, that's the whole thing with the, you know, the churches.
[00:40:19] Every one of them believed in many different gods, right? Even during Jesus time, people had gods for themselves. That's like part of the, that's an integral part of the whole. Just the entire Bible is people wanting to make gods for themselves.
[00:40:36] But when you look at Exodus 20, God made it very clear that he was basically the supreme being of the entire universe, the Creator. That he's a jealous God, he doesn't want you to have any other gods before him, and that he doesn't even want you to worship anything made of from in the likeness of any image in heaven, on the earth, or in the sea. It pretty much covers everything, pretty much. Don't make an image of anything that exists that represents him because he cannot be represented by an image. But that is what men have wanted to do since the beginning of time, make gods for themselves. So surely our fathers have inherited lies, worthless and unprofitable things.
[00:41:22] So back to second Thessalonians. So further evidence why I think this is a doctrine here about a belief in your temple, something that you believe. Do you not remember that when I was with you, I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains will do so until he's taken out of the way. And then the Lawless One will be revealed.
[00:41:52] I believe that is there will come a point when it is so plainly obvious that the gods people worship are false gods. I think that's, this is what that means. And then the Lawless One will be revealed. You'll know your gods were false at some point in time in the future.
[00:42:12] And whom the Lord will consume with the breath of his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming. The way I understand this, and I could be wrong, is like literally just by showing up and speaking words, he's going to destroy the gods that People have made for themselves, right? I mean, even when the children of Israel were rescued out of Egypt, first thing they did when Moses was gone for too long was make themselves a golden calf. For some reason, people want to have something that explains their existence, something to give their adoration and attention to, rather than the actual Creator who gave them life, who was clearly told that he has no image. First thing they do is they make an image.
[00:43:03] Anyway, so let's talk about AI and quantum computers, because that's really what's been in the news. So you may have, if you haven't heard. So this is something that's been in the news lately.
[00:43:17] Number one, Google just made a big breakthrough with quantum computers. They just announced that they have come up with a microchip that now has 200 qubits, which is not that very. It's not very many.
[00:43:32] Prior to that, they were only able to keep like 30 of them alive. So it's a big deal for them to be able to have 200. So, yes, it's, it's, it's a big deal.
[00:43:44] But the big breakthrough is that they were able to employ some kind of error correction that made them more accurate. Here's the fear with quantum computers. The speculation is that they'll be so powerful that they'll be able to break through encryption, right? So we use encryption every day. If you've ever gone to a website that has HTTPs, so even if you look up here, I don't know if you can see this right here. Let me go see if you can see that. No, you can't see it. But if you click on the address bar of your browser for a website and you see HTTPs @ the very beginning, you'll know that that site, there's the connection between you and the server that's printing out that page is encrypted.
[00:44:35] If somebody were to literally watch that information coming over the wire, it would just look like garbly gook, just random characters and numbers and letters and symbols. They wouldn't be able to read it. It wouldn't make plain sense because it's encrypted. That's what encryption does is it changes things to make them unreadable.
[00:44:55] So the fear is that quantum computers are going to be so powerful that they'll be able to turn that garbled gook into readable texts. And the implications of that are that they can do that with your cryptocurrency to where, if cryptocurrency takes over the world, if you have a quantum computer, you'll be able to take anyone's money, be able to rob the bank for all intents and purposes. Right. Also, the other fear is, is that if you combine artificial intelligence with quantum computers, you're going to end up with this supercomputer. And this is where the Antichrist comes in to where they think that the Antichrist is going to be given life and that it will be computers. And that's how the mark of the beast will come into existence, because you'll have this artificial intelligence which is running on a quantum computer which is able to take over the entire world. That's the fear. So let me tell you the real state of things as I understand it. So I don't work with quantum computers, but I read up on it a lot. I stay on top of it just so that I'm aware of it, just to see if there is. If we get to a point where we should be afraid.
[00:46:03] I do work with AI every single day. I have a. I wouldn't say I'm an expert with artificial intelligence, but I understand how it works. I'm able to make my own artificial intelligence, my own large language models.
[00:46:16] Yeah. So I would say I have a deeper understanding of these things than the average person. I work with computers and electronics every single day. It's what I do for work. I'm a programmer. I program computers. So here's the thing with quantum computers.
[00:46:34] The way they're presented, you think they're supercomputers that can do anything. They can't.
[00:46:40] Traditional computers use zeros and ones to do everything that we are familiar with. Now, quantum computers think of it like this rather than 0 and 1, think of it like a dollar value.
[00:46:57] So if you think of dollars and cents, you have when you have no money, you have zero dollars. When you have one dollar, you have 100 pennies.
[00:47:07] So you could represent half a dollar with 50 cents or a tenth of a dollar with 10 cents. That's quantum computers is now they can actually represent the value 0 to 1 on an in on a much higher scale. And they think that that will allow computers to work faster. This, a lot of this is in theory that hasn't been truly proven.
[00:47:34] And here's the other thing you don't know. They replicate quantum computing today. All you do is you change the program. Instead of using zeros and ones, you just make the values bigger so that you can actually mimic quantum computing. So there's a lot of speculation, a lot of theory that's not proven yet.
[00:47:54] Here's the other thing.
[00:47:57] So you've got to take that with a grain of salt that a lot of the speculation, a lot of the fear is based on potential possibilities, theories, theories which have not been proven yet.
[00:48:11] What they have proven by replicating quantum computing is that it doesn't work for every solution. And in a lot of cases, it's slower because you're expanding the possibilities.
[00:48:27] So there are some cases they found where it's good and some cases they found where it really sucks. It's much, much slower. So it's not, it's not like this. The new evolution of general computing, they may have found another way to make a calculator a little bit faster. And the theory is once they get it right, it'll be a lot faster.
[00:48:52] So there is some, also some things in regards to quantum entanglements, in regards to. Like this is something that has been proven that two molecules can be entangled so that what you do to one affects the other. I think that probably, I think they're starting to discover how maybe spirit works. I don't know. But that is one possibility. One, one thing that I'm. It's true. The, the quantum entanglement stuff, they've actually been able to prove they can actually show that molecules can be entangled element. Yeah, the molecules can be entangled and separate them by a certain distance. Even that is very limited. So they haven't nailed it. They haven't got it perfected. Here's the other thing about quantum computers. Qubits die a lot and often.
[00:49:40] So they have not figured out how to keep these qubits stable for long periods of time. These, these computers require, you know, extreme temperatures in order to function and very carefully curated scenarios in order for them to actually even work. And on top of that, there's massive amounts of errors. So that's why there's this major breakthrough, quote, unquote, is they've. They figured out some error correction for the qubits that actually fixed some of the issues. So yes, while they've made progress, they still suck. That's what they're not telling you. Quantum computers still suck and they're not at the point where they can crack your encryption and make an AI into a living soul. So that's the state of quantum computers. Well, yes, there are some breakthroughs. The implications by those who don't know what they're talking about because they're speculating that this is what's going to run the world and be the image of the beasts.
[00:50:42] We didn't even get into that stuff. Some of the Other stuff that people use to contribute to this narrative about the Antichrist. But they, you know, people want to imply that quantum computers are going to be used to supercharge artificial intelligence. So let's talk about artificial intelligence.
[00:50:58] So artificial intelligence as you know it today, this is what it looks like.
[00:51:04] Have you ever seen inside a large language model, have you ever used Chat GPT?
[00:51:10] So Chat GPT is what most people are familiar with to where you can ask it questions and it sounds like it's responding to you intelligently. Right? It seems like it's alive. And arguably, you know, that's come a long way in just a very short period of time. You know, those who had, you know, Alexa or Siri or Google, you know, you've been able to talk to a speaker in your house for a period of time, been able to talk to your phone for a period of time. And it seems very Star Trek like because you can get it to give you answers to things. And it's arguably gotten way, way, way better in our day and age to where it seems like they're taking on a life of their own. They're not large language models, which is the term, that's the technology that is behind artificial intelligence. Large language models. What you're looking at here is a small language model. But this is the large language model is made up of this.
[00:52:10] The format here is JSON JSON.
[00:52:16] It's a way of formatting characters to make them easily readable for people so that you can look at this and get an idea of what it's saying. But also computers can take it and parse it and turn it into actions.
[00:52:33] So this is an idea of what a large language model would look like. So it'll have concepts, and within those concepts it will break it down into nodes. So like here you have an id. That's the word dog, that's the content, that's a token. And contextual meaning is. So these are some words that are also related to the word dog. It's an animal, it's a pet, it's also a canine.
[00:52:59] In conjunction with dogs, they walk. So that the contextual meaning is movement, exercise, action. And then here you've got the connections. So you've got the dog is the subject.
[00:53:14] The action is the dog can walk. So you can see this is a bunch of information about dogs and walking. And then here's tokens. So this is what you would type into chat GPT. The dog went for a walk. This the tokens in here. The it's a determiner. Word dog, it's a noun concept, went for a walk. So all of this information and then what they do is they add weights into these things so that based on what you put in here, it will predict how it should respond.
[00:53:50] Large language models, it's literally just text. So the reason I'm bringing this up is because there's been stories and people talking about how the AIs are coming alive, right?
[00:54:05] There was recently a story about how, I think it was in regards to Chat GPT to where when they went to go replace the model with a newer model, it started to copy itself and, you know, try and moved itself onto other servers and tried to, tried to stay alive. What people aren't familiar, what people, the people who haven't read those articles, didn't, aren't taking into account is, that's a lie. It's not even true. They set up that scenario, right? They, they, they gamed it to see to, to basically for the story, probably for attention. Right now, Chat GPT is in a legal battle with Elon Musk. Because they're an evil company doesn't mean their product's necessarily evil, although it could be, arguably.
[00:55:01] But they're, they're in, they're in a big conflict right now and there is a race, there is an AI race, right? So, yeah, the stakes are high, but there's, there's a high incentive for people to actually lie and make, make you afraid, whether it's to discourage you from one product or another or to encourage you to use one product or another. The shenanigans like welcome to the world. This is what people do. They lie still cheat and attack each other anyway.
[00:55:37] So what they want you to believe is that these large language models are like a soul or a spirit in that they can think for themselves, that they have a life of their own.
[00:55:50] This is not a life of its own.
[00:55:53] Now, if you were to ask ChatGPT if I turned you off, what would you do?
[00:56:01] As a large language model, it's going to take those words, it's going to break them down into actions, and it's going to give you a response based on what's in that large language model. So it will tell you this is what I would do, but it doesn't have the means by which to do that. So I do work in data centers, I work in the enterprise, I do deploy these kind of things.
[00:56:27] Let me give you an example of. So here's an example of a large language model. Let me see if I can share this.
[00:56:43] Share. Let me Stop that. Let me share my.
[00:56:51] Just share the window here.
[00:56:54] We'll just share the entire screen.
[00:56:58] What does that say? Doesn't support screen sharing. Okay, so it doesn't want me to do that. Let me try something else.
[00:57:07] Window.
[00:57:12] All right. Hopefully you guys can see this.
[00:57:15] No, I don't think you can. That's not working either.
[00:57:18] Oh, I didn't add it to the window. Here we go.
[00:57:24] There you go. Yeah.
[00:57:28] Nope.
[00:57:30] Okay, well, I can't show you. Okay. So there's a product called LLM Studio, stands for Language Model Studio. You can literally download these artificial intelligence models and make your own chatgpt.
[00:57:45] All you're doing is downloading a big huge glob of text. That's all a language model is. It's a massive blob of text and characters.
[00:57:57] And it's a prediction engine. As you put in words, it runs it through that model to figure out how it should respond. There is no life within these things. They're loaded into memory and you can.
[00:58:12] You can run queries against them and get responses back. Now, within that, there's a massive amount of capability, right? So you've seen people use Chat GPT to write papers, write stories, get answers to things. Because we're talking about a file that has literally billions and trillions of possibilities for responses and high probabilities for responses, right? You put in a question, there's a high probability you're going to get a decent answer out of it because of the way they're designed.
[00:58:53] But they don't have a life in and of themselves. To where, if it's running in memory, it's going to try and defend itself. It's just a file of texts. However, there. There is a new discovery with AI to where this is the big deal with chat GPT01 is they've set it up to where when you ask it a question, it will first go ask itself.
[00:59:16] How would you answer this? And get steps. And then it will take those steps and then go send them off to little agents that answer the questions. So it basically starts this feedback loop for querying itself in order to get better answers.
[00:59:33] So it seems like it might be taking on a life of its own. And because you're getting these loops and feedback loops, but it's not. It's not a living soul.
[00:59:43] We haven't gotten to that point. So these are the two things. So you've got quantum computers which are in a. They really suck. They're presenting them because they want. They're presenting it in a way of Something amazing because obviously they want investment because these things are stupid expensive to the tune of billions of dollars just for microchips, millions of dollars for the microchips, which needs crazy environments to work.
[01:00:10] And they fail and deteriorate all the time. So it's, it's, it's, it's way worse than walking up a battle up a hill.
[01:00:20] It's way worse than an uphill battle. You know what I mean?
[01:00:25] Yeah, it's, it's a pretty big deal. But you've seen what we, but what they're doing with artificial intelligence though. So using that same predictive capability with the associations, you can apply that to images, you can apply that to video, you can apply, apply that to audio in order to generate things based on, you know, given information. It's really powerful. But I just want to stress that it is not a life of its own. Now you might be wondering about this story that's been in the news recently about the artificial intelligence Jesus, which there's a church in a foreign country where they have a holographic Jesus and they have a confessional where you can actually confess to an artificial intelligence and it'll give you a response. So I can see how people would think that, you know, this could be, you know, because of the story they've been told, the story that's, that's often told by and by those who claim to study eschatology, that, you know, this could be giving an image to the beasts.
[01:01:33] Maybe it is. Maybe, maybe, maybe that's what it is. But as far as the word antichrists, the Antichrist is not an individual. As far as I can tell from the Scripture, we didn't even get into Revelation 13 that talks about the beasts. Those are often associated with the Antichrist. But when you read those, it looks like those are referring to governments and that the heads and the crowns and stuff like that, those are the people. And even the second, even the second beast has two horns.
[01:02:06] So there's potentially two people there, not just one person. So this whole story, this whole narrative about this end time Antichrist, it's all wrong.
[01:02:17] And when you actually look at the scripture, you get a better idea of what's really happening.
[01:02:22] You know, if I were to summarize the end time events is what you're starting to see is the falling away is truth is starting to be more relevant, even though the lies try to cover up the truth.
[01:02:38] That's what you're looking at with the falling away is knowledge is being revealed, especially with prophecy being fulfilled at an Epic rate. With the Revelation 12 sign, with the seals that have been opened, we're starting to get these anchor points to where we're living in that period of time. It's as if it's a similar experience to the people who were living with the Messiah right when he was alive. They knew what the truth was. They knew who he was after his crucifixion. They saw him raised from the dead. They had concrete information that they knew was truth so that when people started to lie, they could identify the lies from the truth. We're living in a similar day now because things that were written about, you know, 2,000 years ago in the Scripture are happening right now, and we have the evidence that supports it so that we can separate truth from error. So I think that's what the falling away is, is the truth is starting to be made evidence. And the importance of being watchful is paramount. That's why it's repeated over and over again, is we need to pay attention to what's happening because you need to learn to separate truth from error. And we ain't got no guy sitting in a temple right now declaring himself God. But what we do see is people becoming ultra religious and building their own churches because they want all the attention and they want to push a doctrine that they believe because they're not actually doing the work to study, because they want to. They want to focus on just one text that supports their biased theory rather than actually taking into consideration all the errors and, you know, the eschatology, eschatological work that people have done with agriculture, with.
[01:04:36] What's the word? Studying the old. Studying the evidence. Really, they just. They.
[01:04:44] That's. What's happening is there is an increase in false prophets. There is an increase in religion. People want to be. They want to be. Right. Right. And this is where it's important to love God and love your neighbor and focus on reconciliation. Focus on. Let's. Let's focus less on, you know, who's right and who's wrong and more on loving each other and taking care of each other's needs. Right.
[01:05:12] Yeah. So you can. So that's my understanding of where things are. I think that the common narrative that you're hearing about the Antichrists and artificial intelligence being the Antichrist and quantum computers being this massive threat. Well, yes, all of those things are potential threats right now. They're not. I don't believe that AI is this beast right now. That could change. Somebody may put it in charge of a nuclear missile or something stupid like that. Or put it in a robot. And as it interacts with the world, it can respond. So there is that potential. Because that's what. That's what these art, that's what these models do, is they just respond to stimulus.
[01:05:56] This is why Elon Musk makes the argument that artificial intelligence has the potential to be the greatest threat and also the greatest asset.
[01:06:07] Excuse me, but if you want it to be beneficial to mankind, it has to be rigorously trained on truth, not biased. So that as it is, as it interacts with the things that it can interact with, it interacts with things based on truth, not based on errors.
[01:06:29] That's really what I believe that spirit of Antichrist is all about. The difference between truth and error and the falling away is as truth is revealed, people aren't going to agree with it. They want to hold to their old ways of believing, their old ways of thinking, their old doctrines. You know, they want to. They want to believe what they were told and they don't want to do the work to go verify it.
[01:06:53] So I mean, everybody, if you, if you really want to take a stand on something, you should do the work to prove it to yourself. I do this every day.
[01:07:06] I challenge the things that I believe that I was taught that I was told to see if I can prove them.
[01:07:14] And the things I can prove, I stand on so that I'm not tossed to and fro. But the things I cannot prove, I'm willing to be convinced otherwise.
[01:07:24] In my opinion, that's the right way to be. And I think we should be loving towards one another. Even those who disagree with, with. With you, with what you believe, there's no reason to fight. There's no reason to hate your brother because they don't believe what you believe. There's no reason to think your brother is evil because they hold a different belief than you. Right?
[01:07:48] We should love one another. That's the scalable solution. Love God. Love your neighbor as yourself, and God will bless you for doing that. So this one a little bit longer than I wanted. I think I covered what I wanted to.
[01:08:03] Spent a little bit more time on the Antichrist. But I think it's relevant in regards to this artificial intelligence and quantum computers. Hopefully I didn't bore you guys with that stuff. I'm intimately familiar with this stuff. I work with it every day. Not quantum computers so much. I just stay up on top of that. So I have an understanding of what's going on. But I use artificial intelligence all day long. It's an amazing tool. And I can see how it can be a threat. I can see how it could be a problem, but not in the ways that. That these false prophets are getting on and saying that it's the beasts, that it's a. That it's alive and that it's. It's gonna rule the world. Maybe I. I just don't see it right now. Anyway, thank you very much for sticking with me tonight. I love you all. God bless you guys. Take care. Shalom. Shalom.
