Posted on 08/02/2015 3:54:30 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Futurism is when experts make educated, knowledgeable predictions about where humanity is going in the future. It is a growing and important field used by many national and transnational organizations to help give them an edge over competitors. The military is deeply involved in futurism, trying to gain an advantage over future potential enemies. Banks and hedge funds, also for similar reasons. Nation-states and governments spend substantial amounts of money in futurist-orientated research each year.
Futurists examine trends and attempt to extrapolate where these trends may lead. It is a fascinating field and anybody who spends any time looking at this subject will inevitably come to the conclusion that humanity apparently stands on the brink of change; far more fundamental than any ever experienced in our collective history.
Transhumanism is one such change. The Singularity is another. Strange names of concepts that remain alien to many. These terms will soon be as commonplace to us as “tweeting” and “Facebook.”
The scale of change humanity will witness in the next one hundred years is beyond the ability of most to truly appreciate. Most assume that technological development is constant, and that it is slow. It is not constant or slow. The more advanced technology gets the faster the rate of technological development until it becomes an exponential rate of development. Technological development is advancing faster and faster each and every day.
To illustrate this rate of change think of the following example. The change in technological advancement during the lifetime of a child born today, in 2015, if she was to live a full life and be able to look back to her childhood as an old woman would be the same level of change as a child today going back in time from 2015 to 1750. Such will be the amazing advances made during her short seventy year lifetime.
So where is mankind predicted to be a mere one hundred years from now?
In one hundred years time futurism predicts that mankind will have made drastic and significant advances in a whole range of fields. It will be by 2100 that mankind will have significantly improved its own human based intelligence by augmenting the human brain with Artificial Intelligence (AI). By this point AI will occupy almost every level of business, government, the military, manufacturing and service sectors.
AI, in just one hundred years time is not anticipated to be a separate entity from individual human beings. AI at this point will have been merged with humanity meaning that the human mind has been vastly expanded allowing for the opportunity to simply download vast amounts of information directly into our brains. A person could potentially learn to drive in simply a matter of seconds. Humanity and AI will be well on the way to full integration.
This significant implantation of AI into human beings will have created a trans-human race. Humans who are unwilling or unable to have these implants will be left behind in every sense, unable to comprehend the world in the same way as their “improved” brothers and sisters. This would inevitably lead to vast splits within society.
By 2100-2150, terraforming on Mars is well under way and there are vast floating cities all over the oceans of the world to accommodate the increased population. Cities will commonly see immense buildings and structures more than a kilometer high and these buildings and cities are completely automated.
The military is actively using force fields and the moon is well on the way to being inhabited and settled. “Holo-deck” style environments are now a reality providing individuals wealthy enough with the opportunity to enjoy full immersion virtual reality for the first time, meaning any fantasy imaginable has now become a reality.
This period will see the first bicentenarians and antimatter power plants will be commonplace providing huge amounts of energy to supply a vast human world-wide population. Interestingly, asteroid terrorism is viewed as being possible at this time.
Beyond two hundred years into the future things get really amazing and increasingly difficult for us to conceptualize. After 2200, just two hundred years away from today, employment will be a thing of the past with the majority of citizens spending much of their time in some sort of virtual reality world.
Although the real world will still exist most will chose to spend their time on-line as a consequence of the almost god-like powers it will bring them, especially those already augmented by AI. At this point full mind uploading will be possible to a whole variety of platforms.
Men and women who have been augmented, it is believed, will have become virtually immortal.
Antimatter star-ships have been developed so that the solar system can be successfully explored, but only those trans-humans appropriately augmented will be able to exploit this opportunity as only they will be intellectually and physically able to handle to demands of interstellar travel. The latter part of this period, up to 2300 AD, should witness the rapid colonization of the solar system.
Beyond this point predictions become even more amazing, if that were possible. Human beings become super humans via a combination of nanotechnology and AI. These trans-humans, compared to those living in 2000 AD, have god-like capabilities with the ability to manipulate their own DNA to suite the environment in which they find themselves; unbelievable intelligence and speed of thinking as well as amazing physical abilities, gained through enhancement. Trans-humans of this time would more resemble a super hero or video game character from today.
Mars and Venus have been terraformed and are being settled and the exploration of the rest of the galaxy through the exploitation of worm-holes is underway.
This all sounds so fantastic doesn’t it. Consider that the time frames used for the developments described above are only the same as a human being today going back in time to 1700.
Technological development is going to become an exponential one in the near future due to something called the singularity; the point at which AI becomes superior to human intelligence. When this point is reached, and it is commonly believed that it will happen any time now, human intelligence is removed from the design and development process and technological innovation and progress just gets faster and faster until progress and technological development becomes exponential.
There is, however, one flaw in all these predictions. All these predictions, even if they are based on trends that we can anticipate and technology we know will be developed, are flawed. These predictions are not going to happen.
These future technologies far exceed the technology predicted in the book of Revelation.
We already have the technology necessary to fulfill the technological requirements for Revelation and the Tribulation period. If humanity were to continue along its present rate of technological development then the technology we would have in just twenty years would begin to far exceed the technology necessary for the tribulation period to occur.
We already have the technology necessary to implement a Mark of the Beast system. We just do not yet have the will to enforce it, yet.
We already have the technology necessary to restrict the buying and selling capacity of each and every human being on this earth, just not the will to enforce it.
We already have the technology required to destroy all of the earth, and we have had this capability for quite some time now.
We are now entering the time when, for the first time, it will become necessary to have a one world currency system, due to a complete systemic breakdown of our current economic systems. With this one world economic system will come a one world governing system and the necessary judicial systems to back this up. The technology for the implementation of this is already here. Indeed, do a quick Google search, the calls for a one world government are now loud and proud, with the most vocal being the current Pontiff, Francis I.
Many writers I respect are openly voicing the possibility that this man may actually be the biblical False Prophet. He is certainly fulfilling that role well up to this point.
We already have the technology necessary to be able to kill by execution the vast numbers of people martyred in the Tribulation period, and the necessary expertise to identify them, round them up, hold them and then kill them. This Christian target group is also being actively alienated in our own cultures today. This is in preparation for the final persecution to come under the Antichrist. The satanically inspired Zeitgeist of the age, the spirit of the age, is positioning the general public’s consciousness, readying them for the horrific persecution that will soon come.
We have the technology necessary for the kings and rulers of the earth to flee deep in the caves of the earth to “hide themselves from the face of the Lamb” (Revelation 6:16) It has even become common knowledge that our governments and elites are actually moving vital equipment and stores deep into these deep mountain bases right now.
We have the technology necessary to destroy our atmosphere so that, “the skies were rolled up like a scroll…” (Revelation 6:14). When the Large Hadron Collider comes to full power in mid-September the magnetic field it will produce will be 100,000 times stronger than the earth’s magnetic field. (The Earth’s magnetic field shields us from harmful solar radiation, without this magnetic shield our atmosphere would be completely destroyed) Scientists at CERN openly admit they have “no idea” what effect this will have on the Earth’s magnetic field.
We have the necessary technology for “every eye to see Him,” (Revelation 1:7). Equally, we have the technology now for the whole world to witness the preaching of the Two Witnesses and for the whole world to see the Beast confront them and kill them, and then leave them lying in the streets, whilst the whole world looks on in celebration.
For two thousand years believers looked at these prophecies and wondered how? Now we look at them and wonder, when?
The technology revealed in Revelation is the technology of 2015. It is not the technology of circa 2040.
The Tribulation isn’t going to be in twenty years time. The Tribulation is going to be soon. Really soon.
Jesus must literally be standing right at the door.
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Still, get the good news of the Gospel out there!
AMEN!
Plus Jesus also warned not to speculate but to not only do His will, but get the good news of the Gospel out there.
Interesting, guys.
Actually crime is on the downslide.
You’re talking about things that are happening in America exclusively.
...is getting closer.
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Are you still killing your unborn? -- GOD |
As a Jew sir, I ask the honor of allowing me to bless you. For as the Torah says:
"I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you."
Genesis 12:3
The United States will decrease, and Israel will increase.
Hasn't it ALWAYS?
I guarantee that before Christ is finished with this earth, every human being who has not been taken out of this world by His mercy and Grace will pray for death.
I don't know if 'warn' is the correct woprd or not.
HE did say that we'd not be ABLE to know the day or the hour.
Earth has more than 24 time zones and a different day exists on opposite sides of the International Date Line in the PAcific...
33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
The discernment you have does not come from your own wisdom, but from the Holy Spirit.
The Tribulation is going to be soon. Really soon.
It is very, very interesting that the Jewish festival of the Feast of Trumpets said, in Hebrew and in Aramaic, that no one would "know the day of the hour." That is because the festival take 2 witnesses to observe the moon to let the people know when the festival actually takes place.
Jesus fulfilled many feasts during His first coming: Passover, First Fruits, and later, Pentecost.
The fall festivals have not yet been fulfilled. Look for the Feast of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement.
Or, if you are a Replacement Theology Catholic, then ignore everything, and be caught up in the coming Wrath and Chaos.
I love R.C Sproul - he is a brilliant man.
But, I disagree with him a very major point. He believes the Rapture will take place at the mid-Point of the Tribulation, or later, depending on how you take his words.
He is absolutely in error on this, and therefore, I take many of his other teachings with a grain of salt. If he can't get this one right, then he is in major error.
Amen Elsie. Those who twist the words of the Lord for their own ends have their own selfish agendas. And in the End, they will give an account.
Be careful that you do not twist His words Biggirl.
The Demand for a Sign
16 The Pharisees and Sadducees came to Jesus and tested him by asking him to show them a sign from heaven.
2 He replied, “When evening comes, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,’ 3 and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.[a] 4 A wicked and adulterous generation looks for a sign, but none will be given it except the sign of Jonah.” Jesus then left them and went away.
The Yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees
5 When they went across the lake, the disciples forgot to take bread. 6 “Be careful,” Jesus said to them. “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
7 They discussed this among themselves and said, “It is because we didn’t bring any bread.”
8 Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked, “You of little faith, why are you talking among yourselves about having no bread? 9 Do you still not understand? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered? 10 Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered? 11 How is it you don’t understand that I was not talking to you about bread? But be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” 12 Then they understood that he was not telling them to guard against the yeast used in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Matthew 16: 1-12
Address the issue of soon and quickly and the difference in the message. It is NOT about Sproul.
Your emphasis on “when” indicates the need to be in control and have secret knowledge. We are very clearly not told when, that is not the message. But it makes us feel good to think we have that secret knowledge.
I walk away very quickly from those who emphasize WHEN.
All that said, way back in Leviticus chapter 23 God defined His Times. They are known as the Feasts of Israel, but they are God's signs for all times. Jesus fulfilled the Spring 'feasts' on the day and times appointed BY GOD in Leviticus. It is 'likely' He will fulfill the Fall Times with such precision. But you need to know that even the devout Jewish scholars are not able to realign the Gregorian Calender precisely for sure tot he Times, the Feast days and hours, but they can get within a day or two of the precision desired.
Jesus is returning for His spiritual Church, the Body of Christ. THEN the world will watch for the beginning of the last week in Daniel's prophetic sabbatical weeks of years. The pause between week 69 and week seventy has been almost two thousand years. But regardless of how long the pause, God will not forget to fulfill the prophecies given to Daniel, of which Jesus spoke specifically with His disciples, James, John, Andrew and Peter the evening after He taught during the day in the Temple as recorded in Luke 21.
The Bible does issue a stern warning: 2 Peter 3
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.
15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;
Keep studying His Word, keep looking up. He is returning soon for His body, the Bride of Christ, to take us to where He has been preparing a place in the Father's House (John 14). He is coming to take us there for a while, then we'll be returning tot he Earth as part of an army fo Heaven, to crush anti-Christ and satan.
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