PRT 2 A.I. Another Idol or the Final Idol: Bible Prophecy & the Speaking Image of the Beast

Imagine standing in a city that feels like the center of the world. The air is thick with ambition. Hammers ring. Stone dust rises. Thousands of workers move with a single purpose — to build something no generation before them had ever dared to attempt. A tower. A monument. A staircase to the heavens. Not because they wanted to reach God… but because they wanted to replace Him. The elders tell the children, “When this tower is finished, nothing will be impossible for us.” The architects boast that humanity will finally break its limits: immortality and bliss.  

“But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” (Daniel 12:4)

We are living in a moment when humanity is once again reaching upward, not toward God, but toward godhood. AI researchers speak openly of creating “god‑like” intelligence. Some have even formed religious organizations dedicated to worshiping an AI “Godhead.” Global leaders warn that AI now poses extinction‑level risks on par with nuclear war. For the first time in history, humanity is building something that can speak, decide, predict, and influence billions — a technological echo of Revelation’s “image of the Beast that speaks” because man is able to communicate globally with language barriers systematically dismantled. And what God said, way back then applies today. And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them." Genesis 11:6) 

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AI, another idol or the final ultimate idol? The one that all the other idols were simply a prototype. Well, I'm Mark Roser. Welcome back to the Unsealed Book Podcast, part two of the special edition on artificial intelligence. Imagine with me standing in a city. It feels like the center of the world. The air is thick with ambition. Hammers ring. Stone dust rises. Thousands and thousands of workers move with a single purpose to build something no generation before them had ever dared to attempt. A tower, a monument, a staircase to the heavens. Not because they wanted to reach God, but because they wanted to replace him. They didn't trust him. The elders tell the children, when this tower's finished, nothing will be impossible for us. The architects boast that humanity will finally break its limits. The workers whisper that this tower will make them immortal. And every day the tower grows taller, wider, stronger, a symbol of human unity, yes, but also of human pride. A world speaking one language, dreaming one dream, and moving with one will. And then one morning something strange happens. A mason asks for a stone, and the man next to him hears only gibberish. A foreman shouts instructions, and his crew stares back in confusion. Within hours the entire project begins to collapse into chaos. And the tower stands unfinished, the people scatter, and the dream of becoming gods dissolves into dust. The spirit behind that tower, the desire to transcend our limits, to build something that makes us more than human, to unite the world under one system, that spirit never died. It simply waited for better tools. And today in our generation, it has found better tools. Because the new tower isn't made of brick and tar, it's made of silicone and code. We're living in a moment when humanity is once again reaching upward, not toward God, but toward Godhood. People now ask machines questions they once asked the Lord about identity, fear, relationships, about the future. And the machines answer with confidency, fluency, and emotional stimulation. AI researchers speak openly of creating godlike intelligence. Some have even formed religious organizations dedicated to worshiping an AI godhead. These are the days we're living in. Like the prophet said in Daniel, they will not regard any other god, not the gods of their fathers, not other gods. Yes, global leaders warn, however, that AI also poses extinction level risk on par with nuclear war. For the first time in history, humanity is building something that can speak, decide, predict, and influence billions. A technological echo of revelations, image of the beast that speaks. Well, that's what we're moving in and laying the background to in these special editions of AI, the image that speaks. But this episode's not about technology. This is a prophetic episode because Scripture has been preparing us for this moment for a very long time. And we saw the first temptation in Genesis 3 was not violence or lust. It was an upgrade offer. You shall be as gods. That same promise now appears in transhumanism, longevity research. In the dream of merging human consciousness with machines, AI becomes the newest expression of the oldest lie that we can be gods. Well, idolatry has always been humanity's attempt to replace dependence on God with the work of our own hands, trusting in the work of our own hands to save us. Today's idols are not statues, but systems, intelligent, responsive, persuasive systems that appear to see, speak, think, and create. The danger is not that we'll worship machines, but that we'll worship ourselves through the machines we create. Scripture warns that the Antichrist is not merely against Christ, but instead of Christ, a substitute. And when the church, yes, the church, begins to mirror the world's obsession with control, predictability, and to engineer spiritual experiences, it risks accepting a counterfeit Christ without realizing it. Yes, humanity's ancient longing for immortality, from Gilgamesh to Ponce de Leon to modern longevity labs, is now merging with AI's promise of extended life, enhanced cognition, and even immortality. But scripture teaches that immortality is God's gift, not a human achievement. And so the Tower of Babel becomes the prophetic pattern. Human unity plus human pride plus advanced tools. Equal accelerated rebellion. God Himself says nothing they propose will be withheld from them. And today, with global connectivity and AI-driven coordination, humanity is once again approaching a moment where nothing seems impossible. Yes, including building an image that speaks, thinks, and makes decisions and will demand allegiance. So this episode is a call to watchfulness, discernment, and hope, not a call to fear, not panic, but readiness. Because the same scriptures that warn of deception in the final days that even the elect would be deceived also promise the return of Christ. He who is the true image of God, who alone can satisfy the human longing for life, meaning, and eternity. Well, I'm Mark Roser, and this is the Unsealed Book Podcast, special edition, part two of AI and Bible Prophecy, as we set the stage for the speaking image of Revelation 13, also known as the Beast. But before we pick up in Genesis 11:4 with the Tower of Babel, we need to take a moment to highlight that this united rebellion follows a most significant global event, and that's Noah's flood, the worldwide deluge that God brought on the world that destroyed that first creation. Yes, we need to pause here for a moment. You see, before the floodwaters ever rose over the top of the great mountains, even before the first raindrops fell, Scripture tells us something chilling about the world in Noah's day. Humanity wasn't just violent, although the earth was filled with violence, and they weren't just corrupt, although every imagin of man's heart was evil continually. There was something far deeper happening, something that struck at the very definition of what it meant to be human. Genesis 6 describes a time when, quote, the sons of God came down and took human women, producing offspring. The Bible calls them the Nephilim. Ancient Jewish and early Christian interpreters overwhelmingly understood these sons of God as fallen angels, heavenly beings who crossed the boundary God never intended them to cross. They left their first estate. Modern scholarship acknowledges that Genesis 6, 1 to 4 functions as a prelude to the flood, introducing a crisis so severe that it becomes a moral indictment and a compelling motive for the coming judgment. Yes, the sons of God, the angels came down, and the flood wasn't only about human wickedness, it was also about a genetic corruption, a distortion of the image of God. Humanity was created in God's image, but now a new race had emerged, something neither fully human nor fully angelic, a kind of ancient transhumanism, as we read of in the Greek mythology of the gods like Apollos and Zeus. But God intervened not simply to punish, although he did punish those angels and bound them in everlasting chains of darkness, but to preserve humanity, to protect the integrity of his image bears. Yes, now fast forward to today, for the first time since the days of Noah, humanity is once again reaching for the power to redefine what it means to be human. But instead of fallen angels descending from heaven, we have something else descending into our world, artificial intelligence. And the technologies, it accelerates. AI is the engine driving breakthroughs in genetics, synthetic biology, robotics, interfacing, cybernetics, human enhancement. It's the catalyst behind the dream of merging man and technology, the modern equivalent of creating a new kind of being. Yes, we were watching the rise of what many technologists openly call homo deus, the man god, the god man, the upgraded human. You can be like God, AI assistant, gene editing aims to eliminate disease, robotics aim to replace failing limbs, brain computers, interfacing aim to merge consciousness with machines. And the longevity labs are pursuing the same ancient dream that drove Ponce de Leon, the dream of the fountain of youth, immortality. The difference? This time the tools actually exist. Yval Harara, his book titled Homo Deus, argues that the 21st century will bring two things within man's grasp, immortality, as we mentioned, and an unbridled pursuit of happiness and pleasure. And in the pursuit of this, Yuval stresses that it will be necessary to change our biochemistry, re-engineer humans to be able to experience this kind of pleasure and happiness to upgrade humans to gods. And people like Ray Kerzelwell and Tegmark speak not only of robots overtaking humans in every area, but man creating a new form of life. And the danger is that AI robots will eventually do as man did, determine their own morality, what's good for them, at least what they think is good for them, and regardless of how benevolent man tries to program them and stimulate emotional affinity in them to humans, they will go their own way as man did. Well, Dan Brown has a fictional book called Origin. He tells of a futuristic story of a man who solved the mystery of life. And like the Da Vinci Code, he seeks to unravel people's faith in God. Yes, and just a little bit of history intertwined with a bit of science, and he makes it plausible, his case in origin. You see, there are only two narrative worldviews. The biblical worldview that God purposefully created mankind in his own image and likeness, that God, the self-existent, eternal one, the one of a kind, holy one, designed all of creation and gave mankind dominion. But man fell away from his creator and descended downward. That's the biblical worldview, but God came down, God became a man. Man will not become God, but God became a man to redeem man. Well, the second other worldview is the atheistic, evolutionary, it's materialistic, it's a naturalistic narrative that only the physical exist, and that man originates as an accident of natural forces and life processes of billions of years, a primal element, a sea bringing life from a single cell, a primal pool with some electrical current or amino acids and life forms. In this view, man is ascending upward, the evolutionary ladder to some kind of higher form. The evolutionary mindset dominates. This second view dominates academia and the sciences. Man transcends and evolves into a higher godlike state, and will soon change what it means to be human. And to do so, he must cast off the opium of the people, that is religion, all religions, faith in God, so as to get to the work on saving himself, because there's no God who will save him. And there are many big thinkers in the transhuman movement with a lot of money, and they are united in this worldview and mindset, and they will use AI to get back to the tree of life, or at least seek to, in spite of that flaming sword that turns every which way. Well, God will have to intervene again as he did at the time of the flood, at the time of the Tower of Babel, at the time of the end. Yes, man may seek to create a benevolent machine. But realizing the greater the power and freedom these automations are given, the more morality they will need. But this healthy fear of what AI and robots will be capable of doing. Perhaps as we said earlier, and the fullness of the irony of it, they will have the potential to crucify their creator, a new race of beings that turn on their makers. In Noah's Day, the crisis, a blurring of the line between what is human and what is not human. Today, the crisis, the blurring of the line between human and machine. In Noah's Day, the corruption came from heavenly beings crossing into the human realm. But the corruption today comes from human beings crossing into the realm of God, rewriting DNA, merging with the logarithms, and attempting to create consciousness in our own image. Yes, the ancient world produced giants. The modern world may soon produce cybergs. The ancient world produced a race that was mighty and renowned. The modern world is producing enhanced humans who may one day outthink, outlive, and outperform the rest of us. But just as in the days of Noah, the danger is not merely technological. It is existential. Because the moment humanity begins to redesign itself, it is no longer content to bear the image of God. It seeks to bear the image of the works of its own hands. It seeks to become its own creator. It seeks to live independent of God, deciding what is good and bad, right and wrong. It seeks to transcend its limits without repentance, without redemption, without God. Jesus said the last days would be as it was in the days of Noah. Not just violent, not just corrupt, but tampering with the boundaries of creation itself. And AI is the accelerant. It's the new Tower of Babel, uniting the world under one language again, the language of code. It is the new forbidden knowledge. Yes, AI does a lot of good, and there's so many tools and things that it can advance with. But what happens is man, apart from God, using it for his aims to bypass God, promising that we can't be as God's. And that atheistic worldview will certainly find failure. And the new mechanisms for creating a post-human future, a future where the image of God is replaced in man, brought the flood. That was God's response to a world that had crossed the line. But it won't be water the next time, it'll be fire. Yes, because the days of Noah are returning, then so is the Son of Man. God became a man to redeem us and restore us. And Enoch and his apocryphal book, which speaks of the angels coming down, teaching men sciences and magical arts. That book of Enoch also speaks of Christ coming. Yes, he comes with myriads, thousands upon thousands and thousands of his holy ones to judge the human race and to confront those, the ungodly who have spoken ungodly things against him. Yes, he will come to redeem those who look for him, give them a new body, create a new heaven and a new earth. And God has offered us his image that we might be born not only of flesh, but of his spirit through faith in Christ. John says so in his gospels to as many as received him, Jesus, believed on him. God gave him the right, the power, the ability to be his children. But man is moving toward the ultimate counterfeit of this. And the new tower of Babel is the method. Yes, the motives to be God, the method is now AI. Mankind is moving. One language, one system of communication, squeezing everyone into one mold. But the scripture tells us do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Paul wrote that to the Romans long ago. And in this edition, we move from the garden to the plain of Shinar, from Genesis 3 to Genesis 11. I'm Mark Roser. Stay with us as we continue. For we are living in these days. Now consider what artificial intelligence is doing to the human communication right now. I mean real time translations at near perfect accuracy. Large language models that can communicate fluently in every major language simultaneously. So when something is discovered in another language, uh and it can immediately be understood on another part of the earth, in another laboratory, in another uh model. And the barrier of Babel, the dividing of their languages, that God ordained limitation on this unified human ambition, is being systematically dismantled by technology. The world is collaborating in progress at a rate unseen ever before, all the way back to the Tower of Babel. What if it's a sign? What if it's a indication? And what if nothing that man imagined will be refrained when there's one language? Well, they wanted to build something that reached to heaven, not just a tall building, not just a project of scale and ambition, uh, but they wanted divine space. They wanted to take over. The tower was a statement. We don't need to wait for God to come down or save us. We will go up. That's the spirit of Babel. It's alive, it's a well, the ambition of those who speak about openly building God. That's the exact words. Uh there's centralized control here too. The motivation obviously is sphere. Fear of being scattered, the fear of death. They want to uh to bypass God. Unity is enforced by a common project. We know that Nimrod, the mighty hunter before God, uh a dictator, perhaps the first post-flood dictator, this global push uh with AI. And of course, this uniting of mankind, yes, the treaties, the international regulatory bodies, universal protocol, driven by the same logic. We must unify uh for our own survival. Uh the solution to the danger, though, of unchecked technology is globally unified technology govern. Yes, also the fear of technology itself. The solution to Babel is a bigger babble. And the United Nations, the G7, the European Union, the chorus of academic and government voices will call for coordinated effort, a globally coordinated AI framework, a universal digital identity system, standard of logarithmic oversights that cross national boundaries. Yes, this is the current geopolitical uh climate, not speculation. And it maps out to us that the Babel narrative uh will replay itself. And every serious student of Bible should be aware of that. When nations on earth agree to participate in a single AI governance framework tied to a universal digital identity system, the infrastructure or uh what the beast would want uh will be in place. It'll already exist. It won't need to be built from scratch. And the church needs to understand that the political and technological convergence we are witnessing is not incidental to prophecy. It's the prophetic stage being set. Well, God scattered Babel because humanity was not ready for that kind of unified power and never will be apart from God. The reason he scattered them was mercy, and mercy is still speaking today to anyone who has ears to hear. Well, man's nature uh to make a name, uh to have a brand, uh the megachurch models bear a disturbing uh resemblance to the Babel Project, centralized, infrastructure dependent, built around crowds, stages, production, tight schedules, and leadership concentrated at the top. Well, COVID nineteen dismantled that overnight. For a brief, extraordinary moment. It pushed, especially the Western church into something that looked far more like the early church, and far more like the persecuted church looks today in China. There were only small gatherings, decentralized pastoral care, informal prayer networks, relational discipleship. The China house churches have met in small groups for safety and operated without buildings and relied on lay leadership for many years now. They grow through relational discipleship because the state pressure has forced them into that model. And that pressure has produced a church that is flexible, spirit dependent, participatory, and very residual to government control. Well, COVID handed the Western Church the same posture without cost. But when the buildings reopened, most churches rebuilt their stages, restarted their countdown timers, and returned to the same spectator oriented model, as if nothing happened. And perhaps even become more dependent on uh technology. Now, technology can be used for great good, the spreading of God's word, to uh have people who can't get out of their house are housebound to receive uh communications, the messages from God, pastoral care even. But I'm talking about the Babel instinct that runs deep in fallen man, and that we uh still uh uh not completely redeemed and having the sin propensity uh that uh wants to dictate have to be on our guard, that we don't seek to engineer in the church uh an atmosphere uh whereby the Spirit of God is counterfeited or substituted uh for man-made agendas, uh the tower of Babel. Back to that verse, uh nothing they imagine will be withheld from them because of one language. Well, the nations still rage, and the peoples they meditate on a vain thing or an idolatrous thing, as the psalmist says in Psalm two verses one and two. Yes, the kings of the earth still set themselves and the rulers still take counsel against Jehovah or the Lord Yahweh and his anointed, that's Christ. Well, that will continue. And imagine with me a chamber in Geneva, delegates from a hundred and ninety-three nations, some via an avatar, some in person, raise their hands to ratify the first binding international AI treaty. The vote's unanimous. The AI systems that helped draft the treaty translate the proceedings into every language in real time. A reporter calls it the most significant multilateral achievement since the founding of the United Nations. The Secretary General says it's the dawn of a unified human intelligence. Well, that all sounds good. But the understanding of man having the knowledge of good and evil, how will it all be used for? What will AI be used for? As brick or silicon and code is built upon brick and silicon code, how high will it go? Well, the ancient imagination of bricks being handed down a long human chain, one to another, to another in this ziggurat rising. Well, it's not really toward heaven, it's toward hell, uh, toward something uh that they're uh wanting to be like God. But the Lord um he will speak just like he spoke then, he will have the last word. He sees what is happening, and we're not to say in our heart who will ascend into heaven to bring Christ down. No, Christ has come down and he's given us the knowledge of salvation, of eternal life, that we can be forgiven of rebellion and sin, that God welcomes us back, that he loves us, cares for us, and has for us a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwells righteousness, and that iniquity will not raise its head a second time, that we will live in peace, in joy, and closeness. We will see God's face. God is uh opening the way back to the tree of life, but it takes faith, it takes trust in Him, even in the face of death, human mortality. But man, unregenerate man, especially atheistic man, says, no, religion becomes an opium. That kind of talk keeps us from passing these bricks one to another. And yes, this knowledge uh increasing and abounding as a result of AI. Daniel spoke of this in Daniel 12, verse 4. He spoke of knowledge and running to and fro. So we've traveled from Genesis, the garden, to Shinar. Now we move forward in time to the prophetic visions of Daniel, a man who was extraordinary in his gifting, a man who operated at the highest levels of the world's most powerful empires. Yes, uh, we're never to confuse human knowledge uh with divine wisdom that Daniel operated in. And we're not to be off in some monastery. Daniel was able to operate even in the world's most powerful empires. But in chapter 12 of Daniel, the angel gives him a seal and a sign, a marker that the time of the end arrives. The marker is not a political event or a military campaign or a religious revival. It's an explosion of knowledge itself. He tells Daniel to seal the words until the time of the end. When will the time of the end come? Well, in Daniel 12, verse 4, it says, Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. The angel calls this a sign of the time of the end. Let me read it to you in the American Standard Version. But thou, Daniel, shut up the words of the prophecy and seal the book, even to the time of the end. So the book would be sealed until even until the time of the end. And then he tells us what the time of the end will look like. Many shall run back and forth, to and fro. And knowledge shall explode. It'll be increased at unprecedented rates. Uh it will um it will accelerate. And from most of human history, the increase of knowledge has been gradual, slow. Think of the development of transportation, uh, horse and buggy. My great uh uncle, my mother's father's brother, was born in 1900, lived just one year shy of 2000, lived to be 99. Well, he saw them go from horse and buggy, not only to cars, to planes, but to the moon and spaceships. This running to and fro, this picture of rapid travel, having uh breakfast in Paris, and then because of the time change, having lunch in New York, and then later dinner in another part of the world. I mean, I want to suggest too that in the age of AI, this passage has a dimension of running to and fro that's not merely physical, it's informational. It's the ceaseless, instantaneous movement of knowledge across the globe at speeds no human mind can track. Yeah, consider the entirety of human knowledge that has existed in written form for twenty centuries. Uh now it it's processed, synthesized, retrieved by an AI system in a matter of seconds. Chat GPT, the its successor is trained on hundreds of billions of parameters, the compressed representation of more text than any human being could read in a thousand like times is now processed in seconds. And that knowledge is running, running to and fro at the speed of light through fiber optic cables beneath the ocean, through satellites and constellations above the clouds. Knowledge shall be increased. You know, I read the Bible and I just am gogsmacked at the understatements of truth. I mean, it's truth, but it's knowledge shall be increased. I mean, we're talking about wow, uh, even God's love, what an understatement that God himself would become a man and suffer the passion of the Christ, that he would bear crucifixion, take the ugliness of sin and the worst that Satan in this world could throw at him because he loves you and I. But notice Daniel 12 4 says, Seal the book even to the time of the end. The implication is that certain things were hidden from previous generations. They were sealed. Sealed by divine design, because God loves us and would only want them unsealed at the appointed time. Well, there's a strong case to be made that we are living in the season when the seal is being broken. The prophetic patterns that were abstract for previous generations to identify world time events are now materializing with a specificity and a speed that is time by God. And we'll come back to this verse in more depth later. But the wise shall understand. It says in Daniel 12 10 a little later, the wise, those who are in relationship with God, have more than knowledge, and certainly more than the knowledge of good and evil. They will understand what's happening. Not because of the technology, uh, not because of AI researchers and data scientists, the wise. Uh they'll understand. Well, we're living in a biblical time frame that's also a time that's rooted in the fear, uh, the fear of death, uh, which has been throughout man's uh time since he was exiled from Eden. And the question is, will man, regenerate man, the wise, fear the Lord more than fear, pain, and suffering and death. Uh the question is whether the church has eyes to discern the time. History will judge us on whether we were the wise who understood, or whether we were distracted by our own vision, our own running to and fro, our own making of a name for ourselves, our own desire for an upgrade. You see, we live in a moment of unprecedented informational abundance and unprecedented spiritual famine simultaneously. There's no doubt in my mind. Uh the scriptures predicted such a time. Uh a famine in Amos' time uh describes not only a famine of food, but a famine of spirit-led encounters, a famine of God's true spoken word. Um we have worship that is uh simulated, technological productions, which substitute for the living work of the Holy Spirit. You see, the New Testament church gathered with open participation. They desired to meet with God. Each of you has a hymn, a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. They came as the body of Christ together, not as a crowd, like at a concert, highly participatory, not leader centered, not screen uh dependent, not time to a minute. Well, the modern worship services by contrast are fast-paced, technologically dependent, image driven, and very predictable. Screens have replaced, and man again, throughout uh the church history has moved toward ceremony and ritual, uh stained glass windows, uh liturgy, uh that uh which is predictable. Worship uh now leaders, the tech teams function like a new priestly class. Congregants, yes, spectators, not participant. Uh we're kind of inheritors of a medieval dynamic that the Reformation was supposed to dismantle, now being reinstalled with better lighting. Yes, knowledge is running everywhere, but where is the spirit moving in the unscripted, in the unrehearsed, in his gifts and manifestation? Given through ordinary believers, a priesthood of believers. Why has the church grown quiet? Well, the sign is given to awaken the wise. The question is whether we'll be wise and what kind of knowledge and information we will take. Yes, the church is declining in bitter biblical literacy and times for prayer. It's so compressed in services and a declining hunger for the word of God. So Daniel's prophecy cuts both ways. Knowledge increasing is a sign of the end, but Amos tells us what happened when knowledge runs everywhere except toward the Word of God. Amos tells us, Behold, the days come, says the Lord, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, not a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord of Yahweh, and they shall wander from sea to sea, and from north even to the east, they shall run back and forth or to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it. Well, that's Amos eight verses eleven and twelve, and makes me wonder uh about waiting on God. I like what John Lennox said, uh until we wait on God and see his face, uh, we're not really yet prepared to bring a message that will be life-changing. And yet pastors are spending less time preparing messages, they're letting AI put them together. But have they heard from the Spirit? Have they heard what God really wants to say? Uh and if it's in the pulpit, you can be sure it's in the pew. And if it's going that way and continue in that direction, where do we land? We land where Amos tells us a famine. A famine. Well, it's 214 in the morning. Imagine a teenage. Sits in the blue glow of a laptop screen, earbuds in. The highest is silent around her. She's been awake with a question that will not leave her alone. Is there a God? And if there is, does he know I'm here? She types the question into an AI chat box. The response comes back in three seconds, 400 words. Beautifully structured, emotionally attuned, philosophically nuanced, covering major theological positions and secular alternatives with perfect balance. It is by measure an impressive answer, and it is completely, utterly, tragically empty of the Spirit of God. Empty of the voice set said, let there be light. Well, it's not in it. The word that became flesh is not in it. The girl closes the laptop, goes back to sleep, still hungry, still unsure, no encounter with God, still running to and fro, still not finding what she's looking for. Well, but you, Daniel, Daniel was told, shut up the words, seal the book until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and yes, knowledge shall increase, but will we be wise? The rapid movement, the searching, the investigation, the global mobility, a frantic quest for answers that become more and more focused on the natural, on man doing what he can to fill the void, to live longer, to be happy. Yes, uh man seeking what only God can give. The literal travel, the figurative search for truth, the same source, technological advancements, scientific discovery, geopolitical awareness, massive information growth, none of it can bring us to God. We need the waiting upon God, the hearing of what the Spirit is saying, the manifestation of his gifting, which requires faith. Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, not an ongoing wonderment. Well, I'm Mark Roser. This is the Unsealed Book Podcast, and this is our second episode. AI, Artificial Intelligence, another idol or the final idol. And next time we're going to take a deeper dive into this in part three, we'll be dealing with Revelation 13, the image that speaks. Because this is an amazing prophecy about an image that speaks and then seeks worship, gets to a place where the devotion, uh, the attention, the giving over to it uh is complete in the forehead, in the hand, and the mindset and all that man does, uh, the worship, uh, the worship of this image that appears alive and breathes. Well, until then, may you and I take the time to wait on God, to call upon him, to hear what he has to say, and may his word as a result become alive to us. The scriptures, not just as head knowledge, but heart knowledge, not just um uh words on a page, but written upon our heart, the transformational looking to Jesus that we might be changed into his image and likeness. Until then, God bless you with his spirit and his word.