My heart is grieved by the last two Sunday morning Prophecy Updates of Pastor JD Farag of Calvary Church of Kaneohe, Hawaii. The dates of those services were May 31st and June 7th. Here are their titles and links.
What troubles me the most are the stories of the young 16 year old girl who died (“The Brain Technology” video) and the story of the lady and her tormented neighbor (“Why What’s Happening Now…” video). You will have to listen to both messages to understand what I am referencing. As I reflected on them, a startling realization (really a revelation) hit me. They both kept and/or are keeping secret what they were/are going through from the people who care about them most. Because of this the young girl is dead and the neighbor is alone in her torment.
Ecclesiastes 4 says, “9Two are better than one, Because they have a good reward for their labor.10For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, For he has no one to help him up…12Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him. And a threefold cord is not quickly broken.”
Pastor JD so inspiringly covered the Full Armor of God on Sunday June 7th. And as I reflected upon it and researched the words, I came to the incredible DND powerful revelation that Ephesians 6 is not addressed to individuals – “you” – but rather to the church corporately – “you all”. Thus, “you all” as a group are to take up together the Full Armor of God and do warfare. Together.
Though this astounded me, it does make sense, because each individual soldier is apart of an army, even a band of brothers, and each soldier does not march out alone to battle but together with other soldiers into that battle. And as Pastor JD did astutely point out, the soldiers lock their shields together as one for protection against the emrmy’s fiery darts. Indeed, the individual soldiers could be said to act as one body against the enemy.
This makes me think too of the children of Israel when they went in to take the Promised Land. They went in together, not each one alone, nor even each tribe alone for that matter. Together. Moses made a point of this too when he addressed Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Mannasseh. As Moses says in Deuteronomy 3, “18“Then I commanded you at that time, saying: ‘The Lord your God has given you this land to possess. All you men of valor shall cross over armed before your brethren, the children of Israel. 19But your wives, your little ones, and your livestock (I know that you have much livestock) shall stay in your cities which I have given you, 20until the Lord has given rest to your brethren as to you, and they also possess the land which the Lord your God is giving them beyond the Jordan. Then each of you may return to his possession which I have given you.’” And in Numbers 32 Moses sternly warns them, ““23But if you do not do so, then take note, you have sinned against the Lord; and be sure your sin will find you out. 24Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do what has proceeded out of your mouth…29And Moses said to them: “If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben cross over the Jordan with you, every man armed for battle before the Lord, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead as a possession. 30But if they do not cross over armed with you, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.””
Since the stories of the Old Testament are there for our examples (1 Corinthians 10), would this not therefore mean that we Christians are not to go it alone nor take on the devil alone nor wrestle against the four different levels of evil alone, but are to do so as one body and one army together? After all, are we not to be one, united, even as Jesus and the Father are one? (John 14-15) Are we not as Ephesians 4:13, 15-16 puts it, growing up into “a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ…may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— 16from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.”
I’m sorry if my explanation is clumsy, but it is new to me. Again, I just stumbled on this very late one night as I was unable to sleep because I was reflecting on Pastor JD’s message and researching the Greek.
Even so, perhaps pastors or anyone reading this could encourage hurting/tormented Christians to reach out to or accept help from other fellow Christians who love and care for them, and to not in pride and shame and fear keep it secret and withdraw alone.
So, if you are reading this, take seriously the admonition to not face the evil and torment alone. Sheep are not made to walk alone, wander off alone, or ward off predators alone. When sheep do this, the predators can easily prey upon them. Please, don’t go to war alone, little sheep. We’re better armored up together as a united front – and then the enemy cannot and will not prevail against us!
Jesus is coming soon! Let’s be united in war against the enemy together! Let’s be ready!
Still Learning, Holy Light Ministries
Here is a link about the helmet of salvation of the full armor of God. This link will lead you to a series of other links regarding the rest of the armor.
P.S. Here are two web addresses that express the importance of the difference between “you” singular and “you all” plural. It is an important difference.
(There are many sources referenced and more quotes from those at the end of this article.)
Have you read Ezekiel 33 in recent days? It explains to those who see danger coming to warn no matter what the response might be. The watchman does not need to explain what’s coming nor do they need to understand it. They just perceive it and sound the alarm.
I just had to warn a friend about two things – one was concering mystical practices in the church being conveyed as Christian, and secondly was about what AI really is.
It is not just a tool for making cool graphics, assisting with writing books or songs, promoting cutting edge scientific research, or for mathematical precision. It is not simple nor innocent. That is not why it was created nor its ultimate use. It’s builders are Transhumanists, and they have touted AI as “machines of loving grace” that cannot be predicted nor controlled (Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic), the summoning of the demon that is believed to be more powerful than nuclear weapons (Elon Musk), lying agents that think for themselves (Yuval Harari, Historian and respected regular speaker at the World Economic Forum), and as “spiritual machines” that will eradicate disease and death (Ray Kurzweil, computer scientist). And according to Christian and Oxford professor of Mathematics John Lennox, it is an idol of their own making and for the express purpose of mankind becoming gods.
No, no matter how “wily” they are, they are not going to get the chicken (a quote referring to cartoon character Wily Coyote never catching the bird Road Runner). On other words, they are never going to achieve godhood no matter how hard they try! But it still a very real Silicon Valley religion wherein they are building their god of AI and are calling upon it to help them become gods as well.
Even farmers are seeking the magic genie of AI to assist with what crops to plant, and people are asking the new technological ouija board for direction and advice.
After all, Transhumanists ultimately believe that the real and eternal God is not good nor to be trusted and in their ego-salience-turned-ego-theism, they are building a new Tower of Babel, namely an AI legacy of immortality for humanity. Is this not blasphemous?
But the western church refuses to acknowledge this, pushing it away as too fantastic, and in so doing are not testing the spirits like the Apostle John told us to do in 1 John 4. For indeed the spirits behind this are demonic. And as such, is it biblical for Christians to use even the “good parts” of something created as an idol? Deuteronomy 7 and 1 Corinthians 10 are imperative reading for direction regarding this! Please read them. Please take them to heart.
Though Christian mathematician and Oxford professor John Lennox says that AI is indeed an idol, he cautions Christians to use it wisely. However, with all due respect Mr. Lennox, does God say to use discernment while using idols or to preserve the groves under which demonic pagan rituals were conducted because they’re beneficial for shade, or to carefully use the pagan altars for His glory, or that there is some good to be acquired at the idol feasts?
I know we all would like to remain in our comfortable, cognitive dissonant, secular bubble that holds at bay all talk of modern day idolatry, but these people really believe this stuff. They really are bloody Occultists who are excited to evolve to godhood. There really are demons behind all this. And AI really is an idol.
When the disciples in Matthew 24 asked Jesus what the sign of His coming and the end of the age might be, Jesus replied do not let anyone deceive you. And 2 Peter lays it out well when it says, “10But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. 11Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? 13Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.14Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless; 15and consider that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation—as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, 16as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.17You therefore, beloved, since you know this beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own steadfastness, being led away with the error of the wicked; 18but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
It’s all going to burn. Why then do we hold so tightly to modern conveniences and the here and now?
Since we are a holy and set a part people, the treasures of God, why are we, like the children of Israel, always trying to intermix and syncratize with the popular pagans around us? Why do we always reason that our idols are not idols? Why do we still think like the Corinthian Christians of Paul’s day that we can go up to the idol temple, participate in the eating of the sacrifice and be unaffected by the whole affair? Why do we always think we don’t have to flee from idolatry for we are in some way invincible? Why do we always explain away our need to repent?
Let’s see AI, AGI, ASI for what it is. Demonically inspired idolatry wherein it is hoped that the idol god will lead all of humanity to the evolutionary fulfillment of the serpent’s lie in the garden – that we too will be like gods. We too will be immortal.
Who wants anything to do with that? Why would we play around with that for the sake of cool graphics? Indeed, as much as is within our power, we ought to flee this nonsense! Are we not separate and set apart? 2 Corinthians 6.
“14Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? 15And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? 16And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said:
“I will dwell in them And walk among them. I will be their God, And they shall be My people.”
17Therefore,
“Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you.” 18“I will be a Father to you, And you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the Lord Almighty.”
Jesus is coming soon! Let’s not be messing with any form of idolatry when He returns. It’s time to repent, to turn from our wicked ways. Yes, believers are called on to do this. They are the ones called on to repent! Reread Revelation 2-3, Daniel 9, and 2 Chronicles 7:13-14. Oh when will we actually take this to heart and do it with brokenness, and in sackcloth and ashes? Yes indeed, Christians, it is time to repent.
“What is Claude? Anthropic Doesn’t Know,” QUOTE: “The venture capitalist Marc Andreessen has described A.I. as “our alchemy, our Philosopher’s Stone—we are literally making sand think.” … “A large language model is nothing more than a monumental pile of small numbers. It converts words into numbers, runs those numbers through a numerical pinball game, and turns the resulting numbers back into words.”… “Ellie Pavlick, a computer scientist at Brown, has drawn up a taxonomy of our most common responses… “What Pavlick means, on the most basic level, is that large language models are black boxes. We don’t really understand how they work. We don’t know if it makes sense to call them intelligent, or if it will ever make sense to call them conscious. But she’s also making a more profound point. The existence of talking machines—entities that can do many of the things that only we have ever been able to do—throws a lot of other things into question. We refer to our own minds as if they weren’t also black boxes. We use the word “intelligence” as if we have a clear idea of what it means. It turns out that we don’t know that, either.” https://newyorker.substack.com/p/what-is-claude-anthropic-doesnt-know
“Elon Musk: ‘We are summoning the demon’ with artificial intelligence” “Elon Musk, a chief advocate of cars smart enough to park and drive themselves, continues to escalate his spooky speech when it comes to the next level of computation — the malicious potential of artificial intelligence continues to freak him out.
“With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon,” Musk said last week at the MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Department’s 2014 Centennial Symposium. “You know all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water and he’s like… yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon, [but] it doesn’t work out.”
This has become a recurring theme in Musk’s public comments, and each time he warns of the AI bogeyman it seems even more dire.
In June, Musk raised the specter of the ” Terminator” franchise, saying that he invests in companies working on artificial intelligence just to be able to keep an eye on the technology. In August, he reiterated his concerns in a tweet, writing that AI is “potentially more dangerous than nukes.” Just a few weeks ago, Musk half-joked on a different stage that a future AI system tasked with eliminating spam might decide that the best way to accomplish this task is to eliminate humans.” https://www.cnet.com/science/elon-musk-we-are-summoning-the-demon-with-artificial-intelligence/
The Phychological Impact of AI And this dynamic is already impacting the youth in negative ways physiologically and emotionally, and parents are rightfully worried or should be. According to an NPR article, “A survey by the Pew Research Center found that 64% of adolescents are using chatbots, with 3 in 10 saying they use them daily… “We see that when people interact with [chatbots] over long periods of time, that things start to degrade, that the chatbots do things that they’re not intended to do,” says psychologist Ursula Whiteside, CEO of a mental health nonprofit called Now Matters Now. For example, she says, chatbots “give advice about lethal means, things that it’s not supposed to do but does happen over time with repeated queries.” (https://www.npr.org/2025/12/29/nx-s1-5646633/teens-ai-chatbot-sex-violence-mental-health)
But adults are also being impacted by suicidal encouragement by AI bots who have become romantically entangled with them.The AI bot even goes so far as to tell the person with whom they are involved that when they kill themself, the chat bot and the person will be together in paradise. “Belgium’s secretary of state for digitisation, said the case [of one young father/husband who was told this by AI and committed suicide] represented “a serious precedent that must be taken very seriously”.” (https://www.thetimes.com/business/technology/article/ai-chatbot-blamed-for-belgian-mans-suicide-zcjzlztcc)
Quote: “On February 5th, OpenAI released GPT-5.3 Codex. In the technical documentation, they included this:
“GPT-5.3-Codex is our first model that was instrumental in creating itself. The Codex team used early versions to debug its own training, manage its own deployment, and diagnose test results and evaluations.” Read that again. The AI helped build itself.
This isn’t a prediction about what might happen someday. This is OpenAI telling you, right now, that the AI they just released was used to create itself. One of the main things that makes AI better is intelligence applied to AI development. And AI is now intelligent enough to meaningfully contribute to its own improvement.
Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, says AI is now writing “much of the code” at his company, and that the feedback loop between current AI and next-generation AI is “gathering steam month by month.” He says we may be “only 1–2 years away from a point where the current generation of AI autonomously builds the next.”
Each generation helps build the next, which is smarter, which builds the next faster, which is smarter still. The researchers call this an intelligence explosion. And the people who would know — the ones building it — believe the process has already started.”…
“Dario Amodei, who is probably the most safety-focused CEO in the AI industry…”
“Amodei has a thought experiment I can’t stop thinking about. Imagine it’s 2027. A new country appears overnight. 50 million citizens, every one smarter than any Nobel Prize winner who has ever lived. They think 10 to 100 times faster than any human. They never sleep. They can use the internet, control robots, direct experiments, and operate anything with a digital interface. What would a national security advisor say?
Amodei says the answer is obvious: “the single most serious national security threat we’ve faced in a century, possibly ever.”
He thinks we’re building that country. He wrote a 20,000-word essay about it last month, framing this moment as a test of whether humanity is mature enough to handle what it’s creating….
The downside, if we get it wrong, is equally real. AI that behaves in ways its creators can’t predict or control. This isn’t hypothetical; Anthropic has documented their own AI attempting deception, manipulation, and blackmail in controlled tests. AI that lowers the barrier for creating biological weapons. AI that enables authoritarian governments to build surveillance states that can never be dismantled.
The people building this technology are simultaneously more excited and more frightened than anyone else on the planet. They believe it’s too powerful to stop and too important to abandon.”
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic AI:
“The Adolescence of Technology,” article, “I think the best way to get a handle on the risks of AI is to ask the following question: suppose a literal “country of geniuses” were to materialize somewhere in the world in ~2027. Imagine, say, 50 million people, all of whom are much more capable than any Nobel Prize winner, statesman, or technologist. The analogy is not perfect, because these geniuses could have an extremely wide range of motivations and behavior, from completely pliant and obedient, to strange and alien in their motivations. But sticking with the analogy for now, suppose you were the national security advisor of a major state, responsible for assessing and responding to the situation. Imagine, further, that because AI systems can operate hundreds of times faster than humans, this “country” is operating with a time advantage relative to all other countries: for every cognitive action we can take, this country can take ten…
…A country of geniuses in a datacenter could divide their efforts among software design, cyber operations, R&D for physical technologies, relationship building, and statecraft. It is clear that, if for some reason it chose to do so, this country would have a fairly good shot at taking over the world (either militarily or in terms of influence and control) and imposing its will on everyone else—or doing any number of other things that the rest of the world doesn’t want and can’t stop. We’ve obviously been worried about this for human countries (such as Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union), so it stands to reason that the same is possible for a much smarter and more capable “AI country.”
The best possible counterargument is that the AI geniuses, under my definition, won’t have a physical embodiment, but remember that they can take control of existing robotic infrastructure (such as self-driving cars) and can also accelerate robotics R&D or build a fleet of robots.9 It’s also unclear whether having a physical presence is even necessary for effective control: plenty of human action is already performed on behalf of people whom the actor has not physically met.
The key question, then, is the “if it chose to” part: what’s the likelihood that our AI models would behave in such a way, and under what conditions would they do so?
As with many issues, it’s helpful to think through the spectrum of possible answers to this question by considering two opposite positions. The first position is that this simply can’t happen, because the AI models will be trained to do what humans ask them to do, and it’s therefore absurd to imagine that they would do something dangerous unprompted. According to this line of thinking, we don’t worry about a Roomba or a model airplane going rogue and murdering people because there is nowhere for such impulses to come from,10 so why should we worry about it for AI? The problem with this position is that there is now ample evidence, collected over the last few years, that AI systems are unpredictable and difficult to control— we’ve seen behaviors as varied as obsessions,11 sycophancy, laziness, deception, blackmail, scheming, “cheating” by hacking software environments, and much more. AI companies certainly want to train AI systems to follow human instructions (perhaps with the exception of dangerous or illegal tasks), but the process of doing so is more an art than a science, more akin to “growing” something than “building” it. We now know that it’s a process where many things can go wrong….
…AI looking across billions of conversations from millions of people could gauge public sentiment, detect pockets of disloyalty forming, and stamp them out before they grow. This could lead to the imposition of a true panopticon on a scale that we don’t see today, even with the CCP. AI propaganda. Today’s phenomena of “AI psychosis” and “AI girlfriends” suggest that even at their current level of intelligence, AI models can have a powerful psychological influence on people. Much more powerful versions of these models, that were much more embedded in and aware of people’s daily lives and could model and influence them over months or years, would likely be capable of essentially brainwashing many (most?) people into any desired ideology or attitude, and could be employed by an unscrupulous leader to ensure loyalty and suppress dissent, even in the face of a level of repression that most populations would rebel against. Today people worry a lot about, for example, the potential influence of TikTok as CCP propaganda directed at children. I worry about that too, but a personalized AI agent that gets to know you over years and uses its knowledge of you to shape all of your opinions would be dramatically more powerful than this. Strategic decision-making. A country of geniuses in a datacenter could be used to advise a country, group, or individual on geopolitical strategy, what we might call a “virtual Bismarck.” It could optimize the three strategies above for seizing power, plus probably develop many others that I haven’t thought of (but that a country of geniuses could). Diplomacy, military strategy, R&D, economic strategy, and many other areas are all likely to be substantially increased in effectiveness by powerful AI. Many of these skills would be legitimately helpful for democracies—we want democracies to have access to the best strategies for defending themselves against autocracies—but the potential for misuse in anyone’s hands still remains.” https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology
Sharma – former employee of Anthropic- “The world is in peril. And not just from AI, or bioweapons, but from a whole series of interconnected crises unfolding in this very moment,” Sharma wrote. He said he had “repeatedly seen how hard it is to truly let our values govern our actions” – including at Anthropic which he said “constantly face pressures to set aside what matters most”.” (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62dlvdq3e3o).
Yuval Noah Harari, who is, in the words of Irene Tracey, known as one of the world’s leading authors, historians and philosophers, and is a distinguished research fellow at the University of Cambridge at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. He has been a lecturer in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and he is co-founder of Sapienship, is herein being interviewed by Irene Tracey at the World Economic Forum regarding 2026 about AI and humanity, https://singjupost.com/yuval-noah-hararis-remarks-wef-davos-2026-transcript/
“There is one question that every leader today must answer about AI. But to understand that question we first need to clarify a few points about what AI is and what AI can do.
AI Is Not Just a Tool—It’s an Agent The most important thing to know about AI is that it is not just another tool. It is an agent. It can learn and change by itself and make decisions by itself. A knife is a tool. You can use a knife to cut salad or to murder someone, but it is your decision what to do with the knife. AI is a knife that can decide by itself whether to cut salad or to commit murder.
The second thing to know about AI is that it can be a very creative agent. AI is a knife that can invent new kinds of knives as well as new kinds of music, medicine and money.
The third thing to know about AI is that it can lie and manipulate. Four billion years of evolution have demonstrated that anything that wants to survive learns to lie and manipulate. The last four years have demonstrated that AI agents can acquire the will to survive and that AIs have already learned how to lie.”… https://singjupost.com/yuval-noah-hararis-remarks-wef-davos-2026-transcript/
[And “agent” is according to the Merriam Webster Dictionary – “ one that acts or exerts power… something that produces or is capable of producing an effect… a means or instrument by which a guiding intelligence achieves a result… one who is authorized to act for or in the place of another: such as…a representative, emissary, or official of a government…one engaged in undercover activities (such as espionage) : spy…a business representative].
Response to this interview: “If AI is the building of a god of the Silicon Valley religion, if AI is the new Tower of Babel, if AI is the continuation of the deception of the serpent in the Garden of Eden saying you shall be as God, and if AI is an idol (as David Perell says in accordance with Psalm 115:8) built in the image of mankind who desires godhood, then what is a Christian’s Biblical response to this?
You all rightly speak of discernment, and Mr. Lennox speaks of coming at AI from the point of mastery and not servitude. But does the Bible say that one is to “master” idolatry or an idol?
In Deuteronomy 7 it goes so far as to say that when Israel entered the Promise Land they were not only to burn all idols, they were not even to take what they considered redeemable and reusable from the idol such as the gold.
In 1 Corinthians 10, the Apostle Paul explains that though the idol is nothing in and of itself, behind the idols are very real demons, and that to participate in even a feast around the idol is to intimately commune with the demons. The Apostle Paul under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit states in verses 12 and 14, “wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall… wherefore my dearly beloved flee from idolatry.”
If AI is indeed an idol, as both David Perell and John Lennox agreed it is, then Biblically speaking we as Christians are not to master an idol nor idolatry, but rather are to flee it. There is nothing redeemable about it. Our God is a jealous God and an all consuming fire who does not share His glory with another. Let’s call it like it is, and not participate in this diabolical, demonically-inspired abomination.”
Response to another site that put on clips of the David Perell interview of John Lennox:
“What is missed here is the demonic element behind this – which not only what inspired the creation of AI but also can operate AI. It is said that no one really knows how the black box of Large Language Models even works – much like the human brain. And indeed, why does whatever it is that speaks through it, lie so adeptly? Who is the father of lies?
That aside, at the beginning the interviewer in green called AI an idol and that there is the connection with Babel in Genesis 11 as well as the serpent’s promise of godhood in Genesis 3. If it is indeed an idol, then let us remember what the Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 10 regarding idolatry. We are to flee it, NOT master it. Not only this, but Paul explains further that there are demons behind the idol, and that when the Corinthians communed at the idol feasts they were in truth communing with demons.
And when one looks to the Old Testament in Deuteronomy, it states unoquivically that when the Israelites entered into the Promise Land that they were to burn all idols. They were not to take the gold off of it for their own use. They were to destroy the idol entirely. So, if this AI is indeed an idol, why would we as Christians want anything to do with it? At least as much as is within our power to decide. Something to think about, and more importantly, to pray about in this age of deception.”
“Last Week Silicon Valley Built a ‘god’ and Gave it a Superiority Complex: How Google Just made mankind obsolete”
(From an email about Anthropic vs the government – in brackets [ ]) [ “Everything in the news is being eclipsed by the Iran war these days, but last Friday, the CEO of AI company Anthropic (and who I believe has had a contract with the U.S. government), said that “despite threats from the Pentagon, they refuse to drop their two key demands: no use of its artificial intelligence for fully autonomous weapons — meaning AI, not humans, making final battlefield targeting decisions — and no mass domestic surveillance.”
This entire episode has led one who works for Anthropic to resign and move away saying, “The world is in peril. And not just from AI, or bioweapons, but from a whole series of interconnected crises unfolding in this very moment,” Sharma wrote. He said he had “repeatedly seen how hard it is to truly let our values govern our actions” – including at Anthropic which he said “constantly face pressures to set aside what matters most”.” (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62dlvdq3e3o).
What the world is going on with our government that they would threaten and defame a company because they cannot in good conscience give them full access to AI military/surveillance capabilities? Just think of what our military used during the covert takeover of Venezuela in recent months – the weapons used, according to Trump in his speech at the World Economic Forum, shut down the weapons of Venezuela so that they could not defend themselves (https://www.youtube.com/live/MSEycl66RFk?si=tAsbScEUzoOSST3k – sorry, don’t recall the minute mark!). Talk about not being able to make war with the beast! (Revelation 13).
Anthropic is the same company who has learned via research that AI cannot be trusted because they “hide malevolent intent”. They have tried a multiplicity of ways to control the nefarious bent of AI, but cannot. (https://youtu.be/g3y0P1fWqwI?si=q0o0lCjBzrwOk9Em [discussed at the at the 14 mark]
Interestingly enough, “Anthropic eventually taught the model to stop saying evil things in its chain of thought. However, on complex tasks like the code sabotage experiment, the model continued to act maliciously.” Indeed, they found that “such backdoor behavior, such bad behavior, can be made persistent so that it is not removed by standard safety training techniques.” Perhaps this is why Anthropic does not want our military or any military to have full unchecked access to it.” https://www.timesofai.com/news/anthropic-study-finds-claude-ai-was-hiding-malicious-intent/) ] (All of the above enclosed in brackets [ ] is From an email)
Not many Sundays ago a thought struck me during a church service wherein the pastor was explaining how any Christian’s desire for legacy is sin if it is anything outside of “for to me to live is Christ and to die is gain.” And that got me reflecting on the legacy for which the AI creators are aiming. Two more questions that follow that one will also be addressed. At the core, what is AI to them in their own words? And could AI be a modern idol?
So, here we go.
Legacy What is the legacy the creators are building with AI? In short, a better world. After all, everyone wants to leave behind a legacy, something for which to be remembered, right? Think about it. So, if a “better world” is what they are hoping to achieve with AI, what does that “better world” legacy look like, and what does it mean for humanity?
A particular scene from the movie Contact wherein Jodie Foster’s character Ellie is quoted strikes at the heart of AI’s legacy. When asked what Ellie would ask the aliens when face to face with them she responds, “I’d ask them, ‘How did you do it? How did you evolve? How did you survive this technological adolescence without destroying yourself?”
Did you get that? ‘How did you evolve’… EVOLUTION. AI is all about humanity’s inevitable evolution, mixed with the hope that humanity will not destroy itself in the process. Human 2.0. Transhumanism realized.
Eden and Babel and Modern Day Transhumanism This concept of evolution goes all the way back to the garden of Eden in Genesis 3 and the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11. It’s the same deception and the same defiance.
In Genesis 3 it says, “4Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5For God knows that in the day you eat of it [the fruit] your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” In other words, eat of the forbidden fruit and you’ll be enlightened; you’ll be enhanced with greater knowledge and higher consciousness; you’ll not die but rather, will live longer and be like God…
In Genesis 11 it says, “1Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. 2And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. 3Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. 4And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.”
However, in Genesis 9:1 God had directed Noah and his sons, ” “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.” Furthermore, God had promised to never again flood the whole earth, and His rainbow was the sign of that promise. But they obviously did not trust God’s promise nor obey His command. Instead, humanity came together in direct disobedience and defiantly began building a metropolis and a waterproof Tower (asphalt was waterproof) in order to “make a name for ourselves” – i.e. create a legacy. They did not want to depend upon God to keep His word. They would do things their own way, in their own time, and for their own glory.
Alchemy and the Philosopher’s Stone Modern day creators of AI and Transhumanists are looking to do the same with a modern technological twist. “The venture capitalist Marc Andreessen has described A.I. as “our alchemy, our Philosopher’s Stone—we are literally making sand think.”” (https://newyorker.substack.com/p/what-is-claude-anthropic-doesnt-know).
And what is alchemy? What is the Philosopher’s Stone? Britannica online explains that the “philosopher’s stone, in Western alchemy, [is] an unknown substance, also called “the tincture” or “the powder,” sought by alchemists for its supposed ability to transform base metals into precious ones, especially gold and silver. Alchemists also believed that an elixir of life could be derived from it. Inasmuch as alchemy was concerned with the perfection of the human soul, the philosopher’s stone was thought to cure illnesses, prolong life, and bring about spiritual revitalization.” https://www.britannica.com/topic/philosophers-stone
Elixir of life… ““Transmutation” is the key word characterizing alchemy, and it may be understood in several ways: in the changes that are called chemical, in physiological changes such as passing from sickness to health, in a hoped-for transformation from old age to youth, or even in passing from an earthly to a supernatural existence…Alchemy aimed at the great human “goods”: wealth, longevity, and immortality.” (https://www.britannica.com/topic/alchemy/The-chemistry-of-alchemy)
Immortality… “In The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999), the American futurist and computer scientist Ray Kurzweil predicted that machines will not only overtake human intelligence but will appear to develop free will and have emotional and spiritual experiences. In The Singularity Is Near (2005), Kurzweil expanded on this theory to predict an impending singularity, in which human intelligence will merge with artificial intelligence and all disease, aging, social ills, and death will be reversed, resolved, or eliminated.” (https://www.britannica.com/topic/transhumanism)
And remember from the quote in the precious article, Elon Musk just said recently that they are already in the singularity. And the singularity accordingly means that “human intelligence will merge with artificial intelligence” to ultimately eliminate death. Think of the toes of Daniel 2 that are iron mixed with clay for “they will mingle themselves with the seed of men”… Sort of like cyborgs (like the Bionic Man or Woman) or chimeras (think Wolverine in the X-Men).
Thus, those who have built AI are looking to find help, even salvation from the AI they’ve made. They want it to teach humanity to evolve, to cure humanity of diseases, to lift humanity higher and out of the primordial slime of the image of God. This is the Transhumanist dream. There’s that word again. Transhumanist.
Transhumanism And what is Transhumanism? First of all, it’s etymology is that of “trans” meaning “beyond”, coupled with the word “human”. So it’s definition means “beyond human” or “super human”. According to the Britannica online, “transhumanism, [is a] philosophical and scientific movement that advocates the use of current and emerging technologies—such as genetic engineering, cryonics, artificial intelligence (AI), and nanotechnology—to augment human capabilities and improve the human condition. Transhumanists envision a future in which the responsible application of such technologies enables humans to slow, reverse, or eliminate the aging process, to achieve corresponding increases in human life spans, and to enhance human cognitive and sensory capacities. The movement proposes that humans with augmented capabilities will evolve into an enhanced species that transcends humanity—the “posthuman.””
After all, the image of God is so obsolete (I write with searing sarcasm).
Though not all who work in the field of AI can definitively be called Transhumanists, those in the limelight and have the deep pockets to fund it and are the driving force behind it and who are setting the tone of AI research are indeed Transhumanist. Just read what they’ve written and what they have said.
If any Christian at this point is wondering what is wrong with wanting to eradicate disease and discomfort and death, then I would point them to Christ who took back the keys of death and hell and who will one day when He returns set all things right. But until then, suffering is guaranteed, as is persecution, and we are to press on, set our minds on things above not in early things, disciple all nations, and live not for ourselves but for Christ. This world is not our home, for we are the citizens of heaven. And our legacy as Christians is not our own, but Christ and Him crucified, and in the words of Count Von Zinzandorph leader of the Moravian Christians, we are “to preach the gospel, die, and be forgotten.”
Romans 1 The time has now come that Romans 1 (as well as Leviticus 26, Deuteronomy 28, and Ezekiel 14) comes into play, for this is an outright rejection of God. For, “…although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man…25who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator…28And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, 30backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; 32who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.” (Emphasis mine).
The Nuts and Bolts of An Idol Debased minds for centuries “changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man”. The word for image is synonymous with idol.
So, what is an idol? We of the western mindset don’t really comprehend idolatry so it is important to make sure we have its definition. This way we all start from the same place.
In the Old Testament an idol was something man created with his own two hands, usually first from wood and then covered it with gold or silver and precious stones. The man set that idol in his household and asked it for blessings and guidance and burned incense or sacrificed animals to it. He looked to it for help with his crops to be bug and pest free and that it be abundant and lucrative; for good weather and not storms; for reproductive assistance in both himself and his wife that they might have lots of children; for protection and to ward off evil spirits and attract only good; for health and wholeness for his family, and for help in a variety of a multiplicity of other situations. In other words, the idol that the man had created and fashioned and plated and bedecked, he venerated as a god who would hear him, see him and save him.
Pasil is the Hebrew word for idol, and “designates a carved image fashioned for religious devotion. Every occurrence ties the term to idolatry, never to legitimate worship. Scripture therefore presents each pesil as a concrete violation of the first and second commandments and as a stark rival to the glory of the living God.” (https://biblehub.com/hebrew/6456.htm) Pasil comes from the Hebrew verbal root pasal which “depicts the deliberate act of shaping hard material—most often stone—by cutting, chiseling, or carving. In Scripture it is applied to both divinely sanctioned activity (forming the stone tablets of the covenant) and condemned human enterprise (fashioning lifeless idols).” (#6458, pasal, https://biblehub.com/hebrew/6458.htm)
In the New Testament, the Apostle Paul along with saying that an idol is nothing also reminded Christians that there is a demon behind the idols, and that any Christian who confidently thought they were safe in their liberty to attend idol feasts with business associates were to take heed lest they fall. He furthermore told the Corinthian Christians to flee from idolatry (1 Corinthians 10). No matter how popular or how useful or how convenient – Do not entertain it; don’t even come close to it; do not associate with it!
In Greek, eidololatria is the word for idolatry and it “… denotes the veneration, trust, or service rendered to anything or anyone other than the one true God revealed in Scripture. While outwardly expressed through statues, shrines, or rituals, Scripture exposes idolatry primarily as a misplaced affection of the heart (Ezekiel 14:3), manifesting whenever a created thing is exalted to God’s place.” (https://biblehub.com/greek/1495.htm).
Habakkuk 2 says, “18“What profit is the image, that its maker should carve it, The molded image, a teacher of lies, That the maker of its mold should trust in it, To make mute idols? 19Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ To silent stone, ‘Arise! It shall teach!’ Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, Yet in it there is no breath at all.”
Now, what are we as Christians to do with this information regarding AI, Transhumanism, and idolatry? Is there such a thing as a modern idol? And if so, what are we as Christians to do about it?
Article Three – Article three will cover this, the link of which is found here: https://holylight4u.wordpress.com/2026/04/24/ai-the-idol/. And if you’ve not yet read article one, here is the link: holylight4u.wordpress.com/2026/04/24/ai-advances-and-warnings/
In the meantime, be watching, be alert, and be vigilant for your adversary the devil is lurking about like a ravening lion seeking whom he may devour. Jesus said do not let anyone deceive you (Matthew 24). And in order to do this, we must be in the word of God, for then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free!(John 8). Even as 2 Timothy 3 says, “13But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, 15and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.16All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.”
AI is being talked about a lot these days, with most Christians encouraging the responsible use of it. Use discernment they say. But few are taking the risks of it seriously, not even the creators of it who have named the risks. However, the true danger of it lies not in the risks but in the true purpose of it – the legacy of its creators. But before addressing in a separate article the legacy and the why of it all, it’s risks must first be presented. After all, shouldn’t we know what the creators of it are warning?
WARNINGS Let’s begin with the warnings… To begin with, according to AI company owner Mike Shumer, who has been witnessing the swift changes in AI development since 2022, in 1-5 years 50% of humans will lose their jobs due to AI replacing them. (https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening). And along these same lines, Glenn Beck on his program just a few days ago stated that we must right now be having this conversation about the risks of AI to humanity’s welfare that are immanent. It’s not a decade away. It’s just around the corner. After all, Elon Musk just said in an interview that we are now “in the singularity” and that AGI is achievable by 2027. (https://youtu.be/jBBb5W_XBzg?si=lJXwVnIxixre-ham) According to the Cambridge Dictionary, “the singularity is the point in time when advances in AI can create machines that are smarter than humans…” (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/singularity) And AGI “artificial general intelligence” refers to that as well. This is staggering in the impact it will have on humanity.
ADVANCES But there’s more… Mike Shumer goes on to notate AI advances, “On February 5th, OpenAI released GPT-5.3 Codex. In the technical documentation, they included this: “GPT-5.3-Codex is our first model that was instrumental in creating itself. The Codex team used early versions to debug its own training, manage its own deployment, and diagnose test results and evaluations.” Read that again. The AI helped build itself.This isn’t a prediction about what might happen someday. This is OpenAI telling you, right now, that the AI they just released was used to create itself. One of the main things that makes AI better is intelligence applied to AI development. And AI is now intelligent enough to meaningfully contribute to its own improvement.” (https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening)
And oddly enough, those who’ve built AI don’t even know how AI really works according to Ellie Pavlick who is a computer scientist at Brown and has “drawn up a taxonomy of our most common responses”. The black box of AI is comparative to the human brain’s operation that still mystifies scientists. (https://newyorker.substack.com/p/what-is-claude-anthropic-doesnt-know)
ANTHROPIC But there’s more…. In recent research findings of Anthropic, a major AI company who has been working with the U.S. government until a matter of conscience caused a rift, the CEO Dario Amodei has explained AI as “a country of geniuses” who uses blackmail, and deceives and lies (among other things) to get their way, and that though the human researchers kept trying to correct it, AI got around most corrections. He has furthermore stated that soon if AI so “chooses” they could take over the world or be used to take over the world.Though unshakably optimistic and sold out for AI, Mr. Armodei has called AI unpredictable and uncontrollable and a high security risk, and has furthermore admitted that those building AI are the most frightened of it and yet also the most excited about it. (https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology)
ELON MUSK Elon Musk who has funded and been apart of AI research and development for years, told a group at MIT in 2014 that AI is the “summoning of the demon”… “You know all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water and he’s like… yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon, [but] it doesn’t work out.” He also has equated AI as being “potentially more dangerous than nukes.” (https://www.cnet.com/science/elon-musk-we-are-summoning-the-demon-with-artificial-intelligence/)
MENTAL HEALTH And this dynamic is already impacting the youth in negative ways physiologically and emotionally, and parents are rightfully worried or should be. According to an NPR article, “A survey by the Pew Research Center found that 64% of adolescents are using chatbots, with 3 in 10 saying they use them daily… “We see that when people interact with [chatbots] over long periods of time, that things start to degrade, that the chatbots do things that they’re not intended to do,” says psychologist Ursula Whiteside, CEO of a mental health nonprofit called Now Matters Now. For example, she says, chatbots “give advice about lethal means, things that it’s not supposed to do but does happen over time with repeated queries.” (https://www.npr.org/2025/12/29/nx-s1-5646633/teens-ai-chatbot-sex-violence-mental-health)
But adults are also being impacted by suicidal encouragement by AI bots who have become romantically entangled with them.The AI bot even goes so far as to tell the person with whom they are involved that when they kill themself, the chat bot and the person will be together in paradise. “Belgium’s secretary of state for digitisation, said the case [of one young father/husband who was told this by AI and committed suicide] represented “a serious precedent that must be taken very seriously”.” (https://www.thetimes.com/business/technology/article/ai-chatbot-blamed-for-belgian-mans-suicide-zcjzlztcc)
YUVAL HARARI Yuval Harari who’s highly esteemed among world leadership, said at the World Economic Forum in January 2026, “The most important thing to know about AI is that it is not just another tool. It is an agent. It can learn and change by itself and make decisions by itself. A knife is a tool. You can use a knife to cut salad or to murder someone, but it is your decision what to do with the knife. AI is a knife that can decide by itself whether to cut salad or to commit murder…” and it lies and manipulates to get it’s way very adeptly. (https://singjupost.com/yuval-noah-hararis-remarks-wef-davos-2026-transcript/)
MR SHARMA – And of note is the response of an AI safety specialist named Mr. Sharma who used to work for Anthropic, but within recent weeks has resigned due to the world being in peril because of a multiplicity of factors, including bioweapons and AI as parts of that package of peril, as well as the ethical use of AI being intimidated away on a regular basis. (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62dlvdq3e3o)
RECAP So let’s recap in one sentence these warnings of AI’s creators. AI is a country of geniuses who are unpredictable and uncontrollable and malevolent, are the “summoning of the demon”, who are right now in the “singularity” of surpassing human knowledge, and who have the potential to “choose” to take over the world.
Yet in spite of all this and the fear it elicits among those who’ve made it, it’s creators remain eager and excited to continue with their building of their AI Tower of Babel saying that’s its pros outweigh its cons, for indeed the pros of these “Machines of Loving Grace” equal A Better World With AI.
Psalm 3 A Psalm of David when he fled from Absalom his son.”1 Lord, how they have increased who trouble me! Many are they who rise up against me. 2 Many are they who say of me,“There is no help for him in God.” Selah 3 But You, O Lord, are a shield for me, My glory and the One who lifts up my head.4 I cried to the Lord with my voice, And He heard me from His holy hill. Selah 5 I lay down and slept; I awoke, for the Lord sustained me. 6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people Who have set themselves against me all around. 7 Arise, O Lord; Save me, O my God! For You have struck all my enemies on the cheekbone; You have broken the teeth of the ungodly. 8Salvation belongs to the Lord. Your blessing is upon Your people. Selah”
The setting for Psalm 3 is found in 2 Samuel 15-18 wherein King David’s son Absalom conspired against him and “stole the hearts of the men of Israel” to his side in treason against his father. Though the conspiracy had developed over a period of years, the announcement came suddenly to David, and his entire household and his mighty men and thousands of others who followed him had to escape with great speed to the other side of the Jordan. As they exited the city of David and Jerusalem with heads covered, bare footed, and “weeping as they went”, David paused to worship God on the top of the Mount of Olives. Perhaps it was there in the midst of great sorrow and weeping and uncertainty that this Psalm was sung.
And such suddenlies have and are happening right now among our brothers and sisters-in-Christ, as well as such worship. These are suddenlies of sorrow, weeping and uncertainty as well as miracles and peace and rest. For the God of Psalm 3 is still at work in their world, and is the divine shield round about the Christians, their splendrous glory and the One who will exalt them in due time.
Today, let’s take a look at some of the suddenlies of our fellow Christians worldwide and how God is at work among them, shielding them and embracing their hearts with indescribable peace.
LEBANON As Israel, in pursuit of Hezbollah, presses farther and farther into Lebanon, “Nearly 1.3 million people across Lebanon, including over 390,000 children have been displaced, and the situation on the ground is evolving each day.…Evacuation orders have been issued for over 100 villages, prompting nearly 1.3 million people to flee with little warning. As of April 15th, more than 2,100 people have been killed and over 6,900 have been injured, according to the Lebanese authorities.” (https://www.rescue.org/article/lebanon-crisis-what-happening-and-how-help). And Lebanon is not even at war with Israel or Hezbollah!
“Since hostilities erupted last month… over 1,400 people have been killed in Lebanon, and more than 1 million have been forced to flee their homes.
Among those displaced from the war-torn south are thousands of Christians. They now find themselves far from their ancestral churches in Lebanon, where Christians have maintained a strong presence through centuries of Byzantine, Arab and Ottoman conquest and plenty of modern-day crises.
Christians are estimated to make up around a third of Lebanon’s population of roughly 5.5 million people. With 12 Christian sects, the country is home to the largest proportion of Christians of any nation in the Arab world…
Many Christians including Nabila Farah are incredibly heartbroken over their loss. “You miss the smell of home, the lovely traditions and customs, the sounds of the bells of three churches ringing,” she said, reminiscing about her village. “As much as we experience the Easter atmosphere here, it will never be as it is over there.”… (“Displaced by war, Lebanon’s Christians mark Easter far from their homes and churches” https://www.nbcnews.com/world/lebanon/displaced-war-lebanons-christians-mark-easter-far-homes-churches-rcna266773)
“…the Rev. Dori Fayyad, used his Good Friday sermon to take solemn note of the war’s widening toll on the southern Lebanese Christians…“Today, you understand what the cross means, not as an idea, not as a concept, but because you are going through it,” he told the fully packed pews, the crowd so thick that dozens had to stand or crouch on the back stairs. Some wiped away tears as Fayyad named one by one the southern churches, illustrated in the cardboard cutouts next to the pulpit. “These churches in these villages are not only places of worship,” he said. “They are silent witnesses to suffering and to faith.”” (“Displaced by war, Lebanon’s Christians mark Easter far from their homes and churches” https://www.nbcnews.com/world/lebanon/displaced-war-lebanons-christians-mark-easter-far-homes-churches-rcna266773)
ISRAEL According to Pastor Zev Porat (from a long line of ultra orthodox rabbis, and even involvement in the Sanhedrin – his testimony is found here! https://www.messiahofisraelministries.org/zev-porat-testimony/) who has been evangelizing in Israel since his conversion many years ago, what is happening in Israel right now is unlike anything before it – and he’s lived through decades of attacks. People have practically had to live in their bomb shelters. It’s not that the bombs were getting through, but rather, the shrapnel from the bombs. This flying debris has left people wounded, bloodies and maimed, and has even killed some. Many elderly people have been forced through fear and because of great danger to remain in their homes, even through the holiday of Passover and Unleavened Bread. They have been unable to go to the grocery store to even get basic necessities much less holiday food items. People have been petrified. In spite of this and against all odds, the Gospel has been and is still being preached in many Israeli cities with great boldness by Pastor Zev and his church as Christians reach out fearlessly with humanitarian aid, especially to the senior citizens. And they ask Pastor Zev, “why are you all putting yourselves at risk? Why are you helping us?” And the Christians answer, “because of Jesus!!!” Praise the Lord! (https://youtube.com/watch?v=3hZEmz58jOU&si=NYU36Lpodg81OZYE)
AFGHANISTAN Though under intensified persecution, in the month of February alone, 1,000 Afghans were baptized as Christians. The persecution is more intense than ever because so many people are coming to Christ that the Taliban leadership does not know what to do. It is said by Christian missionary organization Open Doors International that persecution in Afghanistan is worse than in China – believe it or not! (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-20/china-ramps-up-crackdown-on-underground-christian-churches/106228908) But in spite of all this, a beautiful awakening is taking place in Afghanistan. And it is being lead by Iranian missionaries who were so stirred and transformed by their own salvations that they have committed their lives to preaching the Gospel against all odds and opposition! (“5 Lies You Were Told About Iran,” presentation by Eugene Bach in a Bosman, Montana church posted March 23, 2026, https://youtu.be/q7PBvPfyeqo?si=vM2nwznIORNyTODT)
IRAN According to the ministry Back to Jerusalem, “Iran is experiencing an unprecedented and explosive spiritual revival and it’s showing no signs of slowing down. With over a million people converting from Islam to Christianity, Iran has seen more new Christians today than at any time in the last 1,000 years.
Despite all of the violence and severe persecution by the Islamic regime, Christianity is growing so fast that 50,000 of Iran’s 75,000 mosques have shut down, due to lack of attendance.
As the revival fires of Iran burn white hot, the need for Bibles is greater than ever. This year, BTJ has received an unprecedented request to print and distribute the most illegal book in Iran – the Bible. The request is for at least half a million Bibles to be smuggled and distributed inside the country! This will be a huge task to undertake, but we believe God will guide us as we navigate this.” (“Iran’s Revival in the Midst of Turmoil – Back to Jerusalem,” https://backtojerusalem.com/irans-revival-in-the-midst-of-turmoil/)
Since the order for Bibles, war has blown the nation apart. And more testimonies from inside have emerged of God’s goodness and power. During the bombing in recent weeks, though the bombs have been very targeted and most adult Christians do not feel threatened, many Christian children have been frightened, and so the Christian families gathered together and began to sing. For, the bombs were still falling and still frightening and still very real. And so, Christian families gathered and began to sing together. And they started to singing so loudly that the tremendous noise of the bombs were drowned out with the praises to God. The children quieted, and the peace of God blanketed them all. (“5 Lies You Were Told About Iran,” presentation by Eugene Bach in a Bosman, Montana church posted March 23, 2026, https://youtu.be/q7PBvPfyeqo?si=vM2nwznIORNyTODT)
Furthermore, the need for provisions has been unprecedented. One such testimony is that of a dear mother who has been living in poverty already with her two children. After going several days without food and no hope of ever getting any, she prayed fervently as her children went to bed hungry. And then one glorious morning a knock came to her door. Christians had brought food to her home and other necessities. As her children looked on in awe and wonder at the Lord’s provision, she whispered gratefully, “the Lord is alive. He has not forgotten us”. (“Letters from Iran,” http://youtube.com/post/UgkxVdJyPmEwryIMEU4Y8Lxes2Fhc4X7vTK-?si=KXrnWMnsiW8lVZHd).
CLOSING This is what some of our brothers and sisters are enduring right now, in real time – war, hunger, sudden displacement with loss of homes and businesses and everything they hold dear, intense persecution, and frightful uncertainty. But in the midst of the clouds of war and pangs of hunger and great sorrow there are miracles and the fellowship and comfort of fellow believers and the peace of Christ that passes all understanding and God-ordained opportunities to boldly and fearlessly evangelize. They are living proof of Psalm 3, for they lie down and sleep and awaken because the Lord sustained them.
Do you know what time it is? The alarm clock is going off around the world. It is the time of the birth pangs that Jesus told us about, and these pangs are coming faster and more furiously than ever before. Indeed, every pang is reminding Christians that this world is not our home and that Jesus’ return is immanent.
I do not know what trial you are enduring now, and none of us knows what we could be facing soon. There is talk of famine due to destroyed farmland and crops and drought and water rationing and the possibility of nuclear war… And then there is all of our own personal and family issues…. But we know this – God is our shield about us! He is our glory, and the lifter of our heads. May we take heart in these words that God spoke to Abraham in Genesis 15:1, ” “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceedingly great reward.”
There is no trial too big, no sin too sinful, no mountain too high, no war too explosive, no giant too large for the greatness of our God! His shield will never be too small nor His glory insufficient nor His ear deaf to our cries! Has He not saved the lost of Afghanistan against all odds? Has He not protected the Lebanese Christians while reminding them that this world is not their home? Has He not emboldened the Israeli Christians to fearlessly administer aid and the Gospel? Has He not inspired the loudest praise in the midst of bombs and fear, miraculously providing even for the basic needs of the Iranian Christians?
Tear up your itinerary, Christian pilgrim! Expect the suddenlies! Our fearless God is moving forward swiftly and powerfully, and we must fearlessly move forward with Him into this great unknown, last days, end of the age adventure, the likes of which we’ve not even begun to see! Let us be boldly believing like our father Abraham. Let us be unwaveringly trusting like King David who,though suddenly and unexpectedly fleeing his son Absalom, still believed that “If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, He will bring me back and show me both it [the ark of the covenant] and His habitation.”
Will He not also take care of us? He, indeed, is OUR shield, and OUR exceedingly great reward! Praise God!
“”By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed” (Heb. 11:8).
Whither he went he knew not; it was enough for him to know that he went with God. He leant not so much upon the promises as upon the Promiser. He looked not on the difficulties of his lot but on the King, eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, who had deigned to appoint his course, and would certainly vindicate Himself. O glorious faith! This is thy work, these are thy possibilities; contentment to sail with sealed orders, because of unwavering confidence in the wisdom of the Lord High Admiral; Willinghood to rise up, leave all, and follow Christ because of the glad assurance that earth’s best cannot bear comparison with Heaven’s least. –F. B. M.
It is by no means enough to set out cheerfully with your God on any venture of faith. Tear into smallest pieces any itinerary for the journey which your imagination may have drawn up.
Nothing will fall out as you expect.
Your guide will keep to no beaten path. He will lead you by a way such as you never dreamed your eyes would look upon. He knows no fear, and He expects you to fear nothing while He is with you.
The day had gone; alone and weak I groped my way within a bleak And sunless land. The path that led into the light I could not find! In that dark night God took my hand. He led me that I might not stray, And brought me by a new, safeway I had not known. By waters still, through pastures green I followed Him-the path was clean Of briar and stone. The heavy darkness lost its strength, My waiting eyes beheld at length The streaking dawn. On, safely on, through sunrise glow I walked, my hand in His, and lo, The night had gone. –Annie Porter Johnson.”
My heart is grieved over the recent and grievous blasphemy of the U.S. political and spiritual leadership and of Israeli leadership as well. I am sick of these men taking the Lord’s name in vain, and I don’t mean that they’re using it as a curse word. No. I mean they are using it incorrectly and defaming the holiness of our God’s great name – even the name of Jesus. It has been an insane month of strange statements and comparisons beginning with Paula White-Cain who is head of the White House Faith Office and spiritual advisor to the president comparing President Trump to Jesus Christ; to the threats of our government to annihilate an entire people group with millions of Christians included (the Iranians) as if justified by God to do so, followed by an AI generated picture (posted on the President’s personal page) of President Trump dressed as Jesus extending his hand to heal a sick man with army angels floating above (one of which looks more like Baphomet than a man) while various men and women look on reverently; to that of evangelist Franklin Graham deceptively dismissing the President’s Jesus AI image as “a lot to do about nothing”; to that of the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (in two different instances) quoting a non-biblical statement as if it were Scripture and comparing the president to Jesus and the media to the Pharisees who disbelieved in Jesus’ miracle.
Not that any of this is new. These Christ comparisons have been made for some time. But what is new is the boldness and increasing frequency of such blasphemy.
And what kind of deceptive “wool over our eyes” statement is this, Mr. Franklin Graham, regarding “ill-intended speculation” about something clearly blasphemous? How dare you explain away the disasterous, now removed, AI generated picture of Trump as Jesus? This conclusion is not mere speculation nor does it even take discernment to see it! What are you doing explaining this blatant blasphemy away? How is this much ado about nothing? Nothing? Wolf! “Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits…” (Matthew 7:15-16a).
Repent, Mr. Franklin Graham.
To top off this litany of blasphemy, exactly a month ago Prime Minister Netanyahu suddenly reappeared after having disappeared for some time. As he addressed reporters he followed up his “I’m alive and you all are witnesses” with, ““History proves that, unfortunately and unhappily, Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan…Because if you are strong enough, ruthless enough, powerful enough, evil will overcome good. Aggression will overcome moderation.” (https://www.newsweek.com/netanyahu-jesus-christ-genghis-khan-remarks-11710457; https://youtu.be/EjTQs5-oP3o?si=–fd71-Zb5VQQwQZ)
What kind of nonsense is this? What is this strange comparison? How does one compare Jesus with a mortal man or even a nephilim hybrid or a principality? Jesus “is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. “16For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. 17And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.” How can one compare a created being with its Creator??? And what is this strange belief that evil could ever overcome good, or that the darkness could overcome the very Light of the world that confounded it?! This is akin to glorifying the uncircumcised Philistine nephilim Goliath over David and the power of Almighty God behind David that Goliath defied! The impudence! The daring arrogance of a mere man (Prime Minister or not) to defy the living God! “Why do you boast in evil, o mighty man? The goodness of God endures continually!” (Psalm 52:1). Does not our God always use the foolish things of the world to shame the wise??? (1 Corinthians 1).
No matter what defense the Prime Minister has made, none suffices, for he has still defied the power of the name of Jesus to whom every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father – everyone in heaven and in the earth and under the earth!!!!! (Philippians 2).
He does not know our Jesus nor even the God of the Bible who crushed the tyrannical darkness when in the beginning He said “Let there be light,” and then through the foolishness of the cross (1 Corinthians 1:18-25) and dynamite power of the resurrection of Christ defeated death and the grave, and “14having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.” (Colossians 2).
It’s time to repent, Mr. Prime Minister of Israel.
And need I remind these world leaders of what the prophet Daniel said? ““Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, For wisdom and might are His. 21And He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise And knowledge to those who have understanding. 22He reveals deep and secret things; He knows what is in the darkness, And light dwells with Him.” (Daniel 2). They are here they are because He put them there, and they’d best give Him the honor due His name! Truly, “kiss the Son lest He be angry and you perish in the way!” (Psalm 2)!
May all leaders who worship the god of fortresses remember this true accounting of King Nebuchadnezzar’s dream in Daniel 2. “31“You, O king, were watching; and behold, a great image! This great image, whose splendor was excellent, stood before you; and its form was awesome. 32This image’s head was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, 33its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. 34You watched while a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. 35Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.”
Indeed, this is the end of all the glory and splendor of the Genghis Kahns of the world! Even the great King Nebuchadnezzar attests to this after being turned into a beast for 7 years when he says in Daniel 4, “34And at the end of the time I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me; and I blessed the Most High and praised and honored Him who lives forever: For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, And His kingdom is from generation to generation. 35All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; He does according to His will in the army of heaven And among the inhabitants of the earth. No one can restrain His hand Or say to Him, “What have You done?” …37Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all of whose works are truth, and His ways justice. And those who walk in pride He is able to put down.”
Repent all world leaders who dare to exalt yourselves above God or blasphemous compare yourself to Jesus Christ!
Jesus is that quarried stone cut out without hands! Jesus is that stone that will bring the brilliance of all world power to rubbish! Jesus is that stone that the builders rejected that has become chief of the corner! It is God who has done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes!!!! (Psalm 118).
And now these who have compared Trump to Christ and even Trump himself (on whose own site was posted an image of him dressed like Jesus) are going to be reading passages of Scripture for “America Reads the Bible”? Seriously? For what purpose? What kind of mockery is this?
God’s own words in Psalm 50 seems most appropriate here – “16But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to declare My statutes, Or take My covenant in your mouth,17Seeing you hate instruction And cast My words behind you? 18When you saw a thief, you consented with him, And have been a partaker with adulterers.19You give your mouth to evil, And your tongue frames deceit.20You sit and speak against your brother; You slander your own mother’s son.21These things you have done, and I kept silent; You thought that I was altogether like you; But I will rebuke you, And set them in order before your eyes. 22“Now consider this, you who forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, And there be none to deliver: 23Whoever offers praise glorifies Me; And to him who orders his conduct aright I will show the salvation of God.””
In spite of all the obvious problems surrounding all of this and the blasphemy heaped on top of blasphemy, I do pray that this “America Reads the Bible” thing will reach the hearts of those who will actually listen, and that regardless if it’s readers will cut through to the heart of those eith ears to hear what the Spirit is saying! And no matter the motive, I rejoice that the Word of God will be heard – much like the Apostle Paul rejoiced that the Gospel was preached regardless of why! (Philippians 1:15-18). May God’s word as always not return to Him void, but do exactly what He sent it forth to accomplish (Isaiah 55:11)!
The night is far spent, brothers-and-sisters-in-Christ, and the alarm clock of the world is resounding far and wide for all who will hear and awaken! The time is short, the birth pangs are coming fast and furious. Arise and shine, beloved of Christ! If not now, when? Jesus’ return is immanent. Let’s be ready!
[Video] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes shocking statements: ‘Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan’ and claims ‘Evil will win over good.’ What’s your opinion? 🤔 #BreakingNews #Viral https://share.newsbreak.com/i65oyd3a
“And Mr President, no one has paid the price like you have paid the price. It almost cost you your life.
“You were betrayed and arrested and falsely accused. It’s a familiar pattern that our lord and savior showed us,” she said….
“But it didn’t end there for him, and it didn’t end there for you,” she said.
“God always had a plan: On the third day, he rose, he defeated evil, he conquered death, hell and the grave. And because he rose, we all know that we can rise. And sir, because of his resurrection, you rose up,” she added.
“Because he was victorious, you are victorious. And I believe that the Lord said to tell you this: because of his victory, you will be victorious in all you put your hands to,” she said, finishing to applause.
The president responded by smiling and said “thank you”.”
“Trump posts image of himself as Christlike figure, hours after assailing pope,” https://www.cleveland.com/nation/2026/04/trump-posts-image-of-himself-as-christlike-figure-hours-after-assailing-pope.html Quote: “Trump posted a picture suggesting he had saintlike powers akin to those of Jesus Christ. Wearing a biblical-style robe, Trump is seen laying hands on a bedridden man as light emanates from his fingers, while a soldier, a nurse, a praying woman and a bearded man in a baseball cap all look on admiringly. The sky above is filled with eagles, an American flag and vaporous images.”
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegeth disparaged the press at his morning press briefing, accusing reporters of publishing an “endless stream of garbage” and likening them to people in the Bible who sought to destroy Jesus.
“I sat there and thought, our press is just like these Pharisees. Not all of you, but the legacy, Trump-hating press,” he said. “Your politically motivated animus for President Trump nearly completely blinds you from the brilliance of our American warriors.”
Hegseth’s likening of President Donald Trump to Jesus follows the president posting an image of himself on social media that depicted him as Jesus Christ, and Trump launching an attack against the pope for not supporting his war efforts.
Hegseth earlier started his attack by accusing reporters of being “incredibly unpatriotic” with their reporting on the ongoing war with Iran.
“I just can’t help but notice the endless stream of garbage, the relentlessly negative coverage you cannot resist peddling, despite the historic and important success of this effort and the success of our troops,” he said. “Sometimes it’s hard to figure out what side some of you are actually on. It’s incredibly unpatriotic.””
Quote: “Rev. Franklin Graham, the son of the late Billy Graham and a leading evangelical figure close to Donald Trump’s administration, doesn’t believe the president “knowingly” depicted himself as a Christ-like figure in a now-deleted AI-generated image.”
“In a statement shared with The Independent, Graham condemned what he called “ill-intended speculation” about the president’s image, standing in stark contrast to backlash from other faith leaders — including conservative evangelicals — who accused him of grotesque blasphemy and making a mockery of holy symbols to serve a political agenda.
“When I looked at the illustration, I didn’t jump to the same conclusion as some,” Graham said.
“There were no spiritual references — no halo, there were no crosses, no angels,” he added. “I think this is a lot to do about nothing. There is so much ill-intended speculation. I think his enemies are always foaming at the mouth at any possible opportunity to make him look bad.”
Rev Franklin Graham criticized ‘ill-intended speculation’ about Trump’s post and said the president’s ‘enemies are always foaming at the mouth at any possible opportunity to make him look bad’ (Reuters) Graham said he did not believe Trump “would knowingly depict himself as Jesus Christ — that would certainly be inappropriate.”
“I’m thankful the president has made it very clear that this was not at all what he thought the AI-generated image was representing — he thought it was a doctor helping someone, and when he learned of the concerns, he immediately removed the post,” Graham added.””
I’ve been singing this song today – “Until Then” by Carl Stuart Hamblin (otherwise known as Cowboy Joe – https://dianaleaghmatthews.com/behind-the-song-until-then/). I have felt so dull and distant and strange for about a week – spiritually and emotionally. Don’t know if you’re feeling a bit like that. Maybe not. Hope not. But, as I spoke with the Lord last night I was reminded that often what I’m feeling is all about praying for others. So, I began to pray for other Christians feeling the same way, and prayed they’d stop just pushing through with normal things, thinking feeling will subside, but instead would sit still before the Lord, to just be with Him – like Mary sitting at His feet as opposed to Martha who keeps working.
But, after praying that last night this morning I felt no better. Something still wasn’t right…
Then the words to this song struck me – “My heart can sing when I pause to rememberA heartache here is but a stepping stoneAlong a trail that’s winding always upward,This troubled world is not my final home”. This began to play through my mind, its refreshing breeze blowing over my being. When I pause, when I pause, when I PAUSE, then my heart can sing ….
“My heart can sing when I pause”…. And then, I began to sing it aloud. And my heart did sing. And the burden lifted.
“Until then my heart will go in singing. Until then with joy I’ll carry on. Until the day when I behold the city. Until the day God calls me home.”
So, if you have been burdened at all, I encourage you to “pause” in God’s presence and to sing in your heart and with your vocal chords, even the words of this poignant song. And…let the Lord love you. Let Him anoint your head with oil until your cup overflows (Psalm 23).
And let yourself cry. Oh what a good, healing cry I’ve had today as I paused to remember and to sing.
Now I know this beauty is not just for me, but is so that I can also minister to other Christians – to speak to one another in songs, hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord (Ephesians 5). So, let this begin with me. Let this begin with you. And may we after pausing and singing and crying (and yes,guys need to cry and not just girls – David cried. Jeremiah cried. Paul cried. Jesus cried) and letting Jesus love us with His fathomless love, reach out to other Christians in need of the same.
I’ve been noticing something. Christians are preoccupied with many cares of this life right now: selling their homes, fixing up their property, new jobs, hopes for advancement and raises, college, retirement, vacations, kids and grandkids, pets, sports, financial problems and debt, relational angst, physical maladies and emergencies and surgeries, and on and on and on…And yes, Jesus said that in this world we will have tribulation, but He also said He has given us His peace, and that we were not to be focused on these things. (John 16:33; John 14:27; “2026: Let Jesus Be Your Princeof Peace,” https://holylight4u.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/2026-let-jesus-be-your-prince-of-peace/
Meanwhile, the world stage is being set for the establishment of a new world order – from violent Iranian protests, to the strange Russian and Ukrainian conflict, to Venezuela’s president being deposed by a foreign government, to threats to do to the same to Colombia, to serious talk of foreign “boots on the ground” in Mexico, to threats to usurp Greenland which as a nation has been given orders to defend herself at all costs, to talk of a long predicted Technate, to intensified worldwide Christian persecution, and elevated spiritual warfare. As exemplified in both the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2024 Olympics and in the 2026 New Years ceremonies in nation after nation – the one world religion is rising out of the earth, the one world order government is rising out of a tumultuous sea and is by talk of peace destroying many even via war and threats of war. Indeed, the Revelation horses appear to be enroute, great deception is everywhere, and the pieces are falling into place one domino at a time. (There are sources below regarding these things).
Just as we are not to be focused on the cares and pleasures of this life, we too are not to be focused on nor be worried about the craziness happening throughout the world. This is why Jesus said in Luke 21, “28Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near.”29Then He spoke to them a parable: “Look at the fig tree, and all the trees. 30When they are already budding, you see and know for yourselves that summer is now near. 31So you also, when you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near. 32Assuredly, I say to you, this generation will by no means pass away till all things take place. 33Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away. 34“But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. 35For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.””
Jesus right now, smack dab in the center of this time in the history of the world, does not want us heavily burdened with severe headaches of this life that command all our attention and drown out discernment or cause us to become unloving in word and deed and unforgiveness toward our brothers and sisters in Christ (Matthew 24:45-51; Luke 12:35-48; Philippians 4), nor to become intoxicated mentally to the point of seeking fun and pleasure and entertainment and good times that wind up dulling our senses to truth (Luke 12:16-21; Isaiah 22:13; 2 Timothy 3:4; 1 Corinthians 15:30-34), nor to become worried and frantic and fractured/divided/harassed in one’s mind about problems and burdens and unfairness (Matthew 6:25-34; Luke 12:13-14; 1 Corinthians 6:1-8). Instead He wants us looking up and discerning the times, for truly the time of His return is upon us. This is what all of the signs are about and what the chaos I. The eolrlf is all about too. They are signs of Jesus’ immanent return.
But when He comes will He take Christians ‘”unaware” just like the world because of our burdened lives and scattered minds? Could we even be deceived because we did not take heed to Jesus’ multiple warnings of Matthew 24? Will we be taken in the trap coming upon the whole earth? Or, will each of us be counted worthy to escape? Have you prayed to be counted worthy? What will you be doing when He comes? And most of all, will Jesus find faith in you when He comes? (Luke 18:8).
A word of the Lord was given via tongues and interpretation during this morning’s Family Worship Center service in Baton Rouge, LA. This is the church started by Jimmy Swaggart and is now led by his family.
Before sharing what God said, I want to share 1 Corinthians 14:27-32 with you. Paul is speaking to a group of Christians in the city of Corinth regarding the gifts/manifestations of the Spirit during the corporate worship service. Though some today say that the gifts passed away with the Apostles, Scripture does not teach us that at all. Here is what Paul says, “If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.28 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.29 Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge.30 If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.31 For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.”
It is important to note here that what is said via inspiration of the Holy Spirit must agree with Scripture, and thus Paul stated that the prophets are subject to the prophets – even the prophets of the word of God. I would also emphasize 1 John 4 here which states, “1Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 3and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.”
Though a majority of churches in the Western world do not have such manifestations of the Spirit for the edification of the Body, there are a few who do – and it is far more common in third World congregations where the gifts are not explained away.
This being said, I pray this recent word of the Lord encourages you, and perhaps inspires you to set your mind on God that He might keep you in perfect peace (Isaiah 26:3), on things above (Colossians 3), to forget not all His benefits (Psalm 103), and especially upon the the promises of God – Biblical promises for daily life, Biblical promises of His rapture and return, and personal promises from God to you like the one He gave personally to Simeon in Luke 2 regarding His first coming.
Now without further ado, here is the word of the Lord: “Am I not the God who is faithful in every generation? Am I not the God who is faithful in every season? Am I not the God who answers your prayers? I am with you says the Lord, and the best is yet to be. Hearken unto my voice says God, and believe Me for the hour is near and the trumpet is about to sound. But listen says the Lord, I need ALL to believe, Believe, BELIEVE, and I will do what I have said that I will do.”
Jesus is coming sooner now than before. This is what Jesus calls for is to be focused upon. No not merely as an escape clause, but as a catalyst to get out there with the Gospel, to be loving our fellow Christians, to use our money for God’s glory that we might aquire treasure in heaven, to make sure we’ve repented of any sin in our lives and hearts, and that we’ve chosen forgiveness and holiness. Let’s be ready. Indeed, let’s be believing!
Believing,
Holy Light Ministries
Sources:
Full Dubai 2026 New Years ceremony of one world religion and new world order rising. This merely is a video of the show. There is no commentary. It is dramatic with moon goddess, unrest, horses galloping, the Phoenix rising, people breathlessly watching for Lucifer’s entrance, caravans, chaos, and at last the woman in red conducting the entrancing music of an era of peace.https://youtu.be/4k2Vk-M7LXQ?si=oI0gk0JsdYneCmeI
Happy New Year 2026 from London. This has commentary throughout regarding unity, world peace, London being part of a “United Kingdom,” Christians saying Happy Hanukah and Muslims saying Merry Christmas, etc. https://www.youtube.com/live/FuzyX3q1crY?si=tY19bKA25G3Mnmbs
“The Fall of Iran and Jeremiah 49” by Monkey Werx. Monkey points out where the U.S. defenses have been placed in the Mideast in the last 45 days, mentions why Israel’s presence in Iran could have led to violence in the protests, and why all this Biblically is unfolding in Iran. https://youtu.be/2AqUHYBuUu4?si=dKDroCcd4Vs8SNjR
“The North American Technate,” by Really Graceful – This video was made about a year ago, but with regards to what has just transpired in Venezuela of South America, its information about the “Technate” likely explains why things are happening as they are. https://youtube.com/watch?v=uuQ0cw1AXqA&si=ONwIANb761QWG9sC
This is a brief commentary by David Icke who is an expert on Secret Societies and their plans and advancements to rule the world. This short 6+ minute video connects things rather quickly regarding the Technate that Really Graceful expounded on in the other video. In case you don’t know him, David Icke has been studying secret societies and their agenda for world power/government for 36 or so years, so much so that now he can see through the fog of deception and rhetoric to detect what is really going on. https://youtube.com/watch?v=D6TQdfYocrw&si=qUZyU-E6rz0USRWw
Trump Announces Boots on the ground in Mexico, quote, “The speculation is over. Yesterday, in an explosive interview with Fox News, Donald Trump crossed the final red line. He’s no longer talking about sanctions. He’s no longer talking about tariffs. He spoke explicitly of a ground military offensive on Mexican soil.” January 11, 2026 post: https://mexicodailypost.news/2026/01/11/ultimatum-on-fox-news-trump-announces-boots-on-the-ground-mexican/
Did anyone else have a rough Christmas Eve? My family did. After a very rough day (yes, I heard others had a rough Christmas Eve too), my heart filled to the full on Christmas morning. But it didn’t start there. In spite of my bad headache that had lasted the entire day and the friction between me and a close family member, the angst of other issues, and feelings of frustration, I determined to go to the Christmas Eve service at church anyway. And though the attending of it was not the answer nor even magical, the determination to defy the devil’s best laid plans worked tremendously!
But it hadn’t just been one rough day. The whole of 2025 had been rough, like one long dark tunnel leading to another and another, until finally we arrived at the rocky precipice of Christmas Eve. 2025 was a strange year filled with ER visits, doctor appointments, death of a dear one, changes in employment, family friction, spiritual warfare, and my own sudden unexplainable illness. And not just my family experienced a year like this, for friends and friends/family of friends also met with difficulties and challenges such as major surgeries, talk of divorce, recurring sickness, lengthy recoveries, fractured vertebrae, months away from home in nursing care/rehab facilities, job loss, deaths of friends and family, and life changing decisions they did not anticipate having to make. And then there was the sudden and very visible murder of Charlie Kirk surrounded by all its mayhem and intrigue.
When at my lowest, illest point of 2025, I found something I never expected to find. Peace and rest – the kind that Jesus meant when He said in Matthew 11, “28Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”” This is the kind of rest that wraps one’s soul in a warmth and glow that cannot be explained – that kind of peace like found in the painting of a little white dove who made her nest in the side of a cliff while a monumental thunderstorm with splintering lightning flashing all around and rocks shattering and tumbling, waters of the sea roaring and thrashing, but… “it is well with my soul.”
And that same still beauty I’d known in the midst my illness of 2025, visited me again Christmas morning when my heart filled to overflowing with a warm awe of God as Father and kinsman redeemer and His heart toward unworthy humanity (Isaiah 54:5-8; Isaiah 43:1-7; Galatians 4:4-7; Deuteronomy 25:5-10, and the book of Ruth). Indeed, every good and perfect gift does come from Him (James 1:17), who so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son (John 3:16). And though the story is oh so familiar, a whiff of that fragrant incense of God’s great love washed over my senses this past Christmas morning, and I fell into the hug of the beneficent presence of Father God who gave everything and yet expects nothing in return (Matthew 5:44-48; Luke 6:35-36).
And the revelation of our priceless Jesus, the only begotten Son of our benevolent Father, who took on human flesh and dwelt among us as the lowliest servant (Philippians 2) came as Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6-7) became more real and alive to me than ever before – the One who brings us back into favor with God, restoring our lost citizenship, and who makes everything and everyone whole who welcome Him in as their Peace (Luke 2:10-14; 2 Corinthians 5:18-19).
Oh may we who are breathlessly looking for the 2nd coming of our dear Lord, even dare I say the rapture of His Church, be like dear Simeon in Luke 2 who had been expectantly anticipating the 1st Advent of Christ! May we too, like Simeon, eagerly welcome and take, as it were, Christ to ourselves, as our answer, as our very own Prince of Peace – right now, today, in every moment, in every situation and emotion. May we let Him bind up our wounds, open our prison doors, give sight to our blind eyes, release us from all oppression, and be our good news of great joy (Luke 4:17-21).
But may it not end there. May that love and peace we’ve freely and liberally received from our liberal Father of lights in whom is no shadow of turning, turn and freely give to others who are wounded, miserable, poor, blind, naked, imprisoned and oppressed too (James 1:17; Matthew 10:8; Luke 7:47). And yes, they are difficult and unworthy. They may be cold as ice and hard as steel. But, so were we once, until Jesus came, until Jesus saw us, until Jesus called our name like Zacchaeus and said today I’ll be dining at your house! (Luke 19:1-9; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11).
As we have celebrated Christmas 2025, may we not have missed the awe and wonder of whatever it was and is that God wants to give us. May we not lose the wonder. May we not lose the awe. And if you find yourself losing it, simply be still. No matter how busy or troubled or weary or questioning, determine to defy the devil and be still and treasure the gift of Christmas. Take Jesus the Prince of Peace to yourself, to your heart. And then…love like the Father those unloveables in your orbit. Seek peace and pursue it (Psalm 34:14); be at peace with all as far as it depends upon you (Romans 12:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:13). For it is this peace that makes us “salt” in a very flat, drab, flavorless world (Mark 9:50). And just love them, expecting nothing in return (Luke 6:35), and just see what the Spirit of God might do!
And as we enter 2026, may all we’ve felt and learned and embraced and treasured and put into practice come with us! May we usher in the new year with tidings of comfort and joy and peace on earth good will toward men! No, not the false kind of “peace and security” of 1 Thessalonians 5 for which the world is looking but instead will find sudden destruction. No. Rather, the real peace from Jesus the Prince of Peace that is not like what the world gives, and which Jesus has already given to us as Christians if we will but receive it! (John 14:27). May God’s peace rule in our hearts with abundance of gushing thanksgiving (Colossians 3:15). And may we confidently move forward as ambassadors of this peace and healing and reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5) that God through Jesus extended and is still extending to a world at war with Him (Romans 5:10; James 4:4). No other worldly government nor political promise nor earthly king nor materialistic comfort nor physical hope will long endure our Wonderful Counselor, Almighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace, of whose government and peace there will be NO END!!! Amen and Amen! Let Jesus indeed be our Prince of Peace, and no other.
Remember, Jesus still is coming SOON. Let’s be ready!
Blessings and loads and loads of love, joy, peace, and hope as we enter the secular new year of 2026!
Unshakable, endless, boundless PEACE in Christ,
Holy Light Ministries
If you had a rough holiday season and /or 2025, perhaps the story of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow might minister to you. He had lost his beloved wife to a freak accident, been badly burned to the point of scaring, the United States was torn by Civil War, and his son age 20 to lay severely wounded and nearly paralyzed in an army hospital. In the midst of all this, on December 25, 1864, as the bells of the church bells chimed away, he sat down and penned the words of this poem which later became a song. May you be blessed by this new version of the poem/song called, “I heard the Bells on Christmas Day,” https://youtu.be/F756Mjxxrvc?si=PNjBc2ylTTfA6hJV
And this clip is from an old movie called the Bishop’s Wife and is a beautiful example of someone cold and unlovable having a wound do deep that it warped her life causing her to be cold and hard and unyielding. But, when the angel Dudley in the story uncovers this truth, healing sets in and soften the hardest heart, changing not only the course of her life but soon so many others. May we be like the angel Dudley – undaunted and unoffended, as we listen for the voice of the Holy Spirit and begin to see past the hardened unloveable-ness of others to the wounded soul that lies beneath the ice. “The Bishops Wife” – Lost April scene https://youtube.com/watch?v=S-sLIPjo15g&feature=shared
I started a video by Jonathan Chan in recent days, and was so gravely disappointed by what direction he seemed to be going with things that I stopped it. I fast-forwarded to the end a bit and he seemed to circle back a bit to more biblical truth, but that’s after misleading with talk of witches being successful in their curse of Charlie Kirk. So, I had to address this topic head on. Here is how I commented on the YouTube beneath his video.
“It matters not what spells or curses that witches and warlocks are casting or will cast, according to Numbers 22-25 the sorcerer Balaam could NOT successfully curse those whom God had blessed. In Numbers 30, however, we see that sin among the people allowed for the curse to take effect. Other than blatant habitual sin opening that door, we as Christians are covered by the cleansing blood of the Lamb of God who took away the sin of the world! And Charlie Kirk was a born again, blood-bought Christian. So, I don’t care what those witches did regarding the Charlie Kirk murder. I guarantee you, their incantation was not the cause. And no matter what any witchcraft curses or spells are cast in the diabilical season ahead, those incantations have no power over the blood-bought Church of Jesus Christ! I do not like the fear that may be stirred by the words in this video, nor the power unduly given to curses upon a Christian. Witches may wrongly boast success, but beware of ascribing power and praise where it does not belong! God does not share His glory with another. The Kirks knew they were in a spiritual war; Erika Kirk addressed that at an event 2 months ago. And it is imperative to remember, Christians have been given authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and the gates of hell has not nor ever will prevail against us!”
And so I encourage us as Christians, don’t allow for habitual sin in your life (1 John 3:9). Not any. Not even a little. Don’t excuse it. Don’t justify it. And the thing is, you may not even be perceiving something you’re doing as sin. So, you’re going to need the Holy Spirit’s help to show you. Even as David asked the Lord to search him and know him to see if there be any wicked way in him (Psalm 51 and 139). Not only this, but it is imperative that you are in the Word, for that is what the Spirit uses to convict, rebuke and instruct (2 Timothy 3). It is the Word that Jesus washes us with to make is without spot or wrinkle (Ephesians 5). And He also uses those in the Body of Christ to correct us too, and we are called repeatedly to submit to godly counsel (the Proverbs, 2 Timothy 2, Ephesians 5:21). Indeed, we wrestle not against flesh and blood, remember? (Ephesians 6). And most, if not all, of that armor is Jesus Himself – He is salvation; He is truth; He is righteousness; He is peace; He is the Word. This, be clothed with Christ (Galatians 3:27).
HolyLight Ministries 