Jesus Christ Himself gave the very first sign to look for in answer to His immediately present disciples’ question: “What shall be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”
The Lord answered: “And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you” (Matthew 24:4a).
Jesus continued by applying the deception that would mark His return and the end of the age to that involving the deceivers claiming to be Christ Himself. That has proven to be the case. There have been within every generation those who claimed to be the Christ. However, the matter of this end-times deception goes much, much deeper, and there is great evidence that the greatly increased deception Jesus warned of is full-blown in every facet of the world today.
As a matter of fact, there is deception within deception taking place, which I hope to show as we proceed. That strange, intramural conflict amongst end-times deceivers is, I’m convicted, perhaps God’s having the evilest among us in derision, as given in Psalm 2. Perhaps it is the restraining hand of God the Holy Spirit slowing the Ephesians 6:12 cabal of demonic and human minions in their drive to establish Antichrist’s regime before its appointed time.
I wrote of this rage by the global cabal to bring in their New World Order in the introduction to our book of compilation, DECEIVERS: Exposing Evil Seducers and Their Last-Days Deception.
Satan, the grand deceiver, continues to mesmerize much of the American populace… The reprobate mind of Romans chapter 1 is now the norm more than the aberration.
Satanic rage against anyone who opposes his global agenda to bring all into a new world order is front and center each and every hour in news headlines. His deceivers—his minions both human and demonic—are busy building upon his deadly blueprint to bring about destruction of America and the world.
The apostle Paul’s forewarning of the coming end-times deception and delusion that appear to be just ahead are ringing like alarm bells in spiritually attuned ears:
“For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved” (2 Thessalonians 2:7-11).
These wicked antagonist-rival forces that are spawned by the same source–Satan—are fighting over, of all things, deception!
Here is information to that effect.
[Because of AI deception] the World Economic Forum has now declared “Disinformation” to be the world’s greatest threat according to their 2024 “Global Risks Report,” which will obviously require more control over free speech. —WEF founder and chairman, Klaus Schwab
As Jonathan Turley writes in a Friday note:
The report shows just how engrained this anti-free speech movement has become among the world elite from media to business to politics.
The absurd finding is consistent with the warning of other international figures and groups. We previously discussed how WHO Director-General Tudors Adhanom Ghebreyesus has supported censorship to combat what he calls the “infodemic.”…
Yet, we’ve now gone beyond simple “disinformation.” The world is now under threat from “AI-Powered” Disinformation!
According to the Financial Times, disinformation created via artificial intelligence is on the horizon. The outlet points to an incident during the September elections in Slovakia – in which a mysterious recording of the liberal opposition candidate, Michal Šimečka, could be heard plotting with a journalist to buy votes and rig the result. Yet, the recording was fake. The Slovakian police warned voters to be cautious online of nefarious actors with “vested interests.”
Šimečka lost the election to a populist “pro-Russia rival,” which, of course, the FT uses to imply Russia was behind the recording and the threat to democracy is greater than ever before!
Online disinformation has been a factor in elections for many years. But recent, rapid advances in AI technology mean that it is cheaper and easier than ever to manipulate media, thanks to a brisk new market of powerful tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, AI art start-up Midjourney, or other text, audio, and video generators. At the same time, manipulated or synthetic media is becoming increasingly hard to spot. (“Disinformation ‘Doomsday Scenario’: AI-Powered Propaganda Is the Latest Threat to Humanity (That Must Be Censored),’ ZeroHedge, Tyler Durden, 1/12/24)
What this all means–and it is hard to follow—is that Klaus Schwab and the WEF and other would-be New World Order builders can’t control the manipulation of elections and other things that go against their drive to bring in complete control under their auspices. AI (artificial intelligence), which they no doubt have been greatly influential in creating, has gotten out of their control.
AI is being used by operatives not under the globalists’ control to use the technology to create phony conversations that sound exactly like candidates, etc.—i.e., deception is being created by AI to make the New World Order builders’ candidates look evil in the eyes of voters, etc.
This group of deceivers is using AI to do the same thing to the WEF types that the WEF types intended to do to them: put deceptive information into the eyes and ears of voters and other constituent entities.
AI is indeed deception on steroids.
When the Church of Jesus Christ is called from planet Earth and God’s restraining hand, the Holy Spirit, withdraws the same degree of constraint to the wicked minions, AI will no doubt be allowed to come under Antichrist’s satanic authority for a period of time.
You don’t want to be here during that time. Here’s how to instead be with the God who loves you and gave His only begotten Son as a sacrifice so that you can be saved and be with Him throughout eternity.
“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Romans 10:9-10).
Terry James Prophecy Line 
That AI can and will be used against freedom is pretty much a given. It can make “fake news” so real on radio and television, that it will soon be impossible to tell the difference.
Here is what I think will be the next step.
While we can see how AI can affect external things, such as the aforementioned radio and TV devices, what if it can be adapted to affect someone internally, via an implant of some kind? The VeriChip has been around for a while. It is about the size of a grain of rice and can be read by an RFID reader. Widest application of this kind of tech has been for pet identification, but some people have already had such an implant to access the locks of doors, charge accounts in stores, etc.
Now, suppose such an implant is made to be bi-directional? Further suppose it can be made to affect a person’s brain, projecting into it anything the person or organization of the transmitting end wants to send. Could it be that the future 666 tag will do exactly that? This would explain why someone so chipped is permanently damned, their free will being hijacked.
There will soon be a world out there worse than even Orwell imagined – and we can thank God that we believers won’t be here to live in it.
Whatever it is, we know it will come because the Bible tells us so. Ai is just one way, a powerful way, that deception is coming. It is already underway big time. I grieve for those who don’t know Jesus and refuse to turn to Him right now! Those who are saved in the Tribulation will look back and greatly mourn their refusal to repent before the Rapture.
When I feel I am of no use to The Kingdom and see the deception pervading even the Church, as it does so profoundly today, I remind myself that we are all here for the Lord’s purpose: to help hold back the total takeover of Satan and be Jesus’ living witnesses. (It seems crystal clear, to me anyway, that we are the restraining force because the Holy Spirit indwells us.)
When someone in the Church supports abortion, Iran and her proxies, the alphabet mafia, Russia or Ukraine, Republicans or Democrats, open borders, the “climate agenda”, NAR, IHOP, deceptive medical advice, the prosperity gospel, and all the rest, they are under great deception. Yet I know many people like this, including some of my own family members and dear friends, who profess Christ. We are reaching the tipping point where the deception is so pervasive, that even those I was certain were among the elect, are being deceived.
We all fall short (at least I know I do) because these are very difficult days. And they will become more difficult until we are called up. But we must strive to be especially mindful in these times. The unsaved world is watching us like never before.
Whenever I decide to have a good day, I remind myself that the Lord knows who are His own. Jesus told us that only the Lord’s true sheep follow and obey Him because they know and recognize His voice. Jesus said, “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me” (John 10:27). We are called to be OBEDIENT to Jesus above all worldly distractions and divisions.
What has this to do with great deception? Everything!!! We are getting ever closer to that tipping point, which is the day of the Rapture. If Jesus comes for us today, will I stand before Him, knowing I’ve done everything possible to glorify Him?! That is my heart, but not always my behavior.
Now, in these very final days, we must remember that we are the light of the world. Our Savior walked in the Spirit of Gladness and He wants us to do the same. That means we are to share the TRUTH in love with humility, and assurance that the war has already been won. Not in anger or through accusation. (We know who the accuser is, and he loves it when we lash out, and take sides, destroying our witness. Satan continues to accuse us before the Lord until he is cast out of Heaven.)
The book of James is a humbling reminder of how deadly our words (our tongues and, in our modern times, our keyboards) are. Proverbs 18:21 says the tongue “has the power of life and death.” How sad to think I could push someone away from the Lord because of my pride.
We are to share Jesus Christ, under the protection of the full armor of God outlined in Ephesians 6. Make no mistake, all believers are now under tremendous spiritual attack. I now commit to reading those precious verses daily, and to remind me of the power that indwells me through the Holy Spirit. Not to “call it down” and wield it to hurt others, or to “win” an argument, but to enable me to stand fast, and not to cower or hide to win the favor of man. Or beat others into turning to our Lord, which never, ever works. A good test of what I say and do is “Does this glorify the Lord and would I share these words if Jesus was standing next to me?!” Because indeed He is! If the answer is “no” then the best I can do in that moment is to restrain my tongue.
What is happening now will be forgotten in eternity: Isaiah 65:17 “For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.” What a merciful God to give us complete peace of mind when we are fully glorified and eternally dwelling with Him.
May today be the day, because one glorious day soon, it will.
Maranatha.
You are right about the increasing magnitude and frequency of deception these day, as the Bible revealed would be the case in the Last Days. The thing is, even at the start of Christianity, this was a problem. Many of the epistles were, in fact, written to combat error in the early church.
What comes to immediately comes to my mind today is the deception that the Bible is irrelevant and outmoded by the so-called “church,” that Israel is evil and its enemies are good, despite their brutality, that globalism is better than individual freedom and sovereignty. I’m sure you can add your own things to what is an extensive list.
Society is in the very state that Isaiah condemned over 2500 years ago:
Isaiah ]{5:20} Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! {5:21} Woe unto [them that are] wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! {5:22} Woe unto [them that are] mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: {5:23} Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!
There is one point I do want to make. Our works may actually be remembered for all eternity:
Revelation {14:13} And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed [are] the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
Though this was written concerning martyrs from the Tribulation, I think it may apply to every believer, so when the eternal age does come, I think it is only the evil of this creation that will, at long last, be forgotten while to good that people did on behalf of God will be remembered and honored forever.
What you’ve said substantiates that God knows the end from the beginning and there is nothing new under the sun. The Bible is for all people, all nations, and all times, forever. It will be incredible to see the vast treasures it holds for us, throughout eternity.
As for my good works, I know I am to do them and, to do them with the right motives. The challenge is always “to work as for the Lord” without looking toward the ‘rewards.’ Being a glorified scullery maid would be enough, just to know I’m in the Kingdom.
Any honor I might earn is all because of Him, and He alone deserves the credit and the glory. The crown I am almost sure to win is the one we get for eagerly watching and waiting for the day of His calling. That one I’m pretty sure I will receive ;), and I’ll cast it before Him with joy.
There is only one work that God recognizes as necessary for salvation:
John {6:28} Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? {6:29} Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
Many denominations add all kinds of other works as a part of salvation, which is a big mistake. They misinterpret totally what James said:
James {2:17} Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
They say that one must do the works to show one’s faith. This is putting the cart before the horse. Genuine faith produces the appropriate works, not the other way around.
We are already saved by our belief in Jesus and what we do afterward is more a thing of showing appreciation for what he has done for us and fulfilling his commission to spread the knowledge of him to the world (Matthew 28:19).
Wow, just WOW. You put the whole scenario into perspective. Thank you for your comment, and commitment.
God’s blessings
Amen! Thank you!
I totally agree, great post.
Ed, my understanding is that they already can affect our brains (decisions) with nanobots. It may be in the early stages but with the rapid technology advancements, we can be certain it won’t be long.
Remember when Yuval Noah Harari openly said 3-4 years ago that free will and making our own choices was “over”?! They were probably right on the edge of having that technology ready to go even then. Just imagine how much farther they have come!!!
When we are raptured, it is my opinion that all of the things we are talking about now, and seeing form, will ramp into warp speed. I suspect (according to God’s providence of course) this is why the mark of the beast will only come at the 3.5-year point: CBDC’s mandatory shots and IDs, wars, famine, diseases (X), totalitarian global control, and all the rest will quickly converge. It will all fall into place, with scant resistance, when we are gone.
We can’t fully comprehend the mass hysteria and paralyzing fear our disappearance will generate. Along with hyper-technology advancement that isn’t possible while we are still here (restraining), it will give almost free rein to the technocrats and globalists (ie Satan) to move full speed ahead.
Any day now, IMHO, we will be going home.
I think the scenario you envision is right on target, Robin. There is already a non-invasive procedure called TMS for transcranial magnetic stimulation which is now being used to help people with depression. It applies a magnetic field near a person’s head and it affects brain functions relating to emotions and judgment. At present, the emitter has to be in close proximity but imagine if something like this could be miniaturized, injected, and controlled over a long distance?
We’ve had global communication capabilities since the 1960’s with Telstar so this tech has already been in place for decades and it is much more complex today. Add present-day electronic info systems and the introduction of AI and what was once only science fiction is now within the realm of science fact.
As you say, once we are gone, the nightmare world of the Tribulation will soon follow.
We are on an extremely destructive path with AI. The Beast System has been created & is ready to go for the Anti-Christ. The financial systems are all corrupt as well. I’m looking at Damascus for the next Prophesy to be fulfilled.
I agree with you Lori, unless we are raptured first. That would be so wonderful.
Last year I thought we’d be taken out of here, but God’s timing is the only timing that matters. It has forced me into watching and waiting day by day, rather than racing ahead. Do I believe we will still be waiting for the Lord in 10 years? That doesn’t seem possible in my mind, especially with Ai. It is already so deceptive and is taking over so quickly the earth will certainly be in full “Beast mode” before then.
If we are still here after Damascus is destroyed, what an irrefutable, powerful sign for the world that what we have been telling them is true! I hesitate saying that because Jesus told the Pharisees that He wouldn’t give them any new signs when they demanded He perform one. They had seen plenty. We know that is even more true today, over 2000 prophecies have been fulfilled since Adam and Eve were created. That’s ample proof of the TRUTH of the Bible.
But still, I’d be thrilled if we were still here to share the gospel, even if only for a few days, with those we love after Isaiah 17 comes to pass.