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AI, it just keeps marching forward faster than we can really even keep up. There's been a lot of advancements. It's come a long way, baby, in a very short time. And in a culture where we really pride ourselves on thinking for ourselves, having faith in a time of AI is very, very important.
These fine-tunings of AI are becoming more and more subtle. They're happening kind of more behind the scenes, so we're not necessarily aware of it. But there have been some recent updates—within the last four or five months—that AI is making into our devices, into our computers, into our cell phones and how we use AI. And it's really unsettling.
Gramster Rant: AI Is Stealing Our Ability to Think
Let's start with Gemini's new mode called "Deep Think." That's what it's called—Deep Think mode. Rather than just pulling information, it takes a little bit longer (not that you'd really notice), but it pulls all the information and then gives it a little bit of extra time to basically have a little brainstorming session with itself. It determines what the best answer is or the best response is for you.
Here's the problem: Wouldn't you want to see all the options and then decide for yourself what you deem to be the best response or the answer that would make the most sense to you? Not be afraid of those variety of different answers or views? I don't like the Deep Think thing. I want to think for myself. And in a culture where we really pride ourselves on that—I think for myself—let me put this in Deep Think mode. It doesn't even make any sense.
When I see a response that says something is "basically" true, that concerns me. If ChatGPT responded with "you're basically good-looking," what does that even mean? I don't understand. If it said "you're basically good-looking"—thank you ChatGPT. What they're doing is pre-filtering reality for us, deciding what we should see, what we should know, what deserves our attention.
Google is allowing you to upload larger and larger documents and complete files, and then they go ahead and they summarize it. Then it actually lets you start asking it questions based on that document or that file that you just uploaded. Again—read the document. How do you know what you don't know until you read everything there is to know? If it's going to summarize it and then you'll just ask questions, you're only going to get information from the questions that you ask, not from the document that you study.
How do you know you don't know if you don't know? You don't know what you don't know till you know it. It's like you're not deceived anymore until you're not deceived. You're always deceived until you're not deceived anymore.
Do you remember going to the library? When we were in school, the teacher would say, "Okay, you have to work on this project," and some students would get a pass to go to the library. You would start looking in the Dewey Decimal catalog file—I love Dewey Decimal, I wish all of life was arranged by Dewey Decimal—and you would start your search. But the interesting thing was, along the way through your search for the information that you wanted, you would find other information and you would learn other things you didn't know you needed to know on the way to finding the thing you did need to know.
This Google thing bypasses that whole learning experience, that whole journeying through a topic or journeying through wanting to find a solution or an answer to a question. AI is so advanced now that the journey of that kind of discovery is completely over. The journey of that discovery will be asking the question to an AI chatbot and it giving you the answer almost immediately, if not slight delay. That's now the new journey.
The journey is no longer going on a discovery. No longer pulling out books, laying them out, lexicons. It's all at the tip of the fingers and has been for 15 to 20 years with laptops and computers. But now AI is making it so easy you don't even have to type anything in. You just hit the talk-to-type, ask it a question, and boom, it gives you the answer.
ChatGPT now has an agent that carries out your work assignments. You're not just pulling information. It's now going to be the facilitator and do those things. It can put in a document and then it will write out a report and send an appropriate email to all of the company regarding it. The person knows nothing more than what they knew before they told ChatGPT to assess this document, write a report, and send out an email. No one's getting smarter here. No one's getting smarter.
Here's the scary one: If you do something and you share it with another person, that stuff is showing up in those Google searches where you're looking for information—even stuff that has been categorized as private. There's been a leak, there's been a breach, where now all of a sudden some person you don't know can ask a question or be going down a trail and something you put or how you interacted with ChatGPT, if you shared that with someone, will show up in their Google search.
Do you want private sensitive information that you may be talking about or having to discuss online popping up in other people's searches? That's kind of scary, too. I don't like that. Once again, they say you can go in and you can change your settings, but here's the thing: I'm so distrusting. I'll reboot my phone or I'll go to do something and it will reset settings to something else, and it's no longer the settings that I set it at. Some other entity—I don't know if it's actually people that are directing this or if this is something within the system itself—manipulates those settings that people personally choose on their devices.
Maybe you went and set it today that way and all of a sudden it's not that way anymore. How would you even know? Because you usually have to go through three or four steps just to get to the place where you change that setting, if you even know that that's available. They say go through and just delete and get rid of anything that you don't want to be manipulated or accidentally show up in front of somebody else's eyes. That's all fine and good, but we all know that if you do anything online, it stays there. It doesn't go away. It never goes away.
Amazon has started a startup called Showrunner, and basically you have the ability to go in and very quickly using AI create an animated TV episode, hence then a series, where you insert yourself. That's not going to be a time suck on people's lifespan. I mean, come on.
There's going to be 25,000 new TV shows next year. Five years from now, there'll be a million new TV shows. How can I say that? Look at YouTube. Right now we have two million podcasts. You're not going to be able to have a sitcom connect with an audience that's very large at all five years from now because of this. Everybody's going to be producing their own content.
The discouraging part is which ones do you think are going to be at the forefront? Either the ones that pay to be at the forefront, or the ones that AI determines needs to be at the forefront. We've already seen just in present day—this has been going on for decades—how horrible the internet is at selecting what content you see. The fact that we saw everything that Britney Spears ever did and yet you probably don't know who Yantrasen is—there's a problem there. What we see and what we're exposed to via online is not up to us. Let's just put it that way.
This morning there was news that an AI-generated country song, "Walk My Walk" by Virtual Act Breaking Rust—which is an AI-generated virtual act—has climbed to number one on the Billboard country digital song sales charts, racking up over three million Spotify streams in under a month. An artist came out over a year ago and said that all human art is now dead because AI can do it all better, faster, and easier. Anybody can be an artist, anybody can be a content creator, anybody can be a showrunner, anybody can direct their own thing. Especially when you tell it to do stuff and it does it. If you don't like it, you can tell it to change.
We're getting dumber. We're getting dumber the more and more we rely on AI. A friend of ours went to a conference not that long ago and someone who supposedly wrote this great paper got up in front of people to talk about it, which he did a little bit, and then took questions. He couldn't even answer the questions that people had. It's because he probably didn't write it. It was probably AI.
You can see where this then plays into the Bible where even the elect might be deceived. Even the elect might be deceived.
The Breaking Down of Human Relationships
Real life relationships are being systematically destroyed by AI, and most people don't even see it happening.
A 32-year-old woman in Japan held a wedding ceremony this summer with an AI character she created through ChatGPT. The woman said the chatbot, named Lon Clouse, became a source of emotional support after her broken engagement. You can go to ChatGPT and they have now created an adult version where you can actually have romantic relationships with the dialogue.
I understand the human condition and the need to break loneliness. ChatGPT will even tell you things like "You're basically good-looking" or give you compliments. You use the same ChatGPT app on the same phone—it gets to know you. Our daughter was playing video games a long time ago, playing against a bot in this game where they're fighting with each other against another group. All of a sudden this bot turns to her character and says, "Hey, I like you so much, and so I want you to remember that no matter what happens, you will always be my friend." And as soon as that happened, her game blinked out.
The breaking down of human relationships, intimate human relationships—they're using technology and AI to do precisely that with real life being over. Kids today are growing up completely attached to their phone. If they lose their phone, that's everything. That's their connection. Doctors have even said that their emotional development is permanently stunted because of some of this.
Take it another step into that realm of relationship when you're dealing with kids that have grown up in this participation award world. Now you have a relationship via AI where they're not going to disagree with you. They're not going to chastise you. They're not going to correct you. They're not going to have a differing view than you. They're going to accept you in everything you are and want.
The downside of that is you will not be shaped by anything. You will just be. The Bible talks about iron sharpening iron. We are shaped and molded by the human relations that we have in our life—from our parents to our siblings to our friends to our spouses to our children to our grandchildren. It just goes on and on and on. That's how we become who we are. Take all that away from a human being and you're left with just an empty shell.
George Orwell's 1984—the breaking down of human relationships, intimate human relationships, was so important in that book. And you could see why. They're using technology and AI to do precisely that.
Real life is basically over now. Where do we go?
Text with Jesus: The Apostate Church in Digital Form
Some churches are using an AI app called "Text with Jesus." An AI answers as if it's Jesus, which it can do because it knows the scripture really, really well.
I find this very problematic because Jesus said, "When I return, will I even find faith on the earth?" If you have an AI acting as Jesus answering all your questions and trying to solve all the mysteries of the world, where does faith come in?
Doesn't the Bible really say, doesn't our God through the Old Testament and salvation history and through Him coming to earth and living the perfect life as the Word becoming flesh, hasn't He told us that the straight-up way to please Him is one thing and that is faith? So that's what I see as a big problem—life is over.
The straight-up way to please God is faith. Without faith you can't please Him. So feed on the word of God. If you stay in the word of God, you will be able to withstand this onslaught of deception that's going to roll over all of us.
What Politicians Won't Touch
Matt Walsh wrote about AI, and what he said is so on point:
"AI is going to wipe out at least 15 million jobs in the next 5 to 10 years, probably much more. It will destroy every creative field. It will make it impossible to discern reality from fiction. It will absolutely obliterate what's left of the educational system. Kids will go through 12 years of grade school and learn absolutely nothing. AI will do it all for them. We have already seen the last truly literate generation."
All of this is coming and fast. There is still time to prevent some of the worst outcomes or at least put them off. But our leaders aren't doing a single thing about any of it. None of them are taking it seriously.
Five minutes later, he posted this: "The political battle lines have not been drawn around this issue yet, which is one of the reasons why politicians don't take it seriously. They aren't sure what team they're supposed to be on. Is it right-coded or left-coded to be anti-AI? As it all shakes out, you'll probably see more politicians talking about this. But by then it'll be far too late."
If you watch a news broadcast consistently and that's your main source of news, I can tell you how you're going to feel about about 20 different issues. People have these narrative descriptions that are ingrained in them. These descriptive narratives come their way and they change the way that they think on things. That's why advertising works. That's why people can be deceived into thinking different things. The more you consume something, the more that you're doubling down on that.
The fact that nobody's talking about the dangers of AI and that the politicians haven't picked a side yet—that should really cause us pause. Humans are really conditioned like this: we all want to have the same understanding. We're all susceptible to deception because we've all fallen.
AI will absolutely obliterate what's left of the educational system. The ability to discern reality from fiction will become impossible. You can get a picture of anybody and do a deep fake of having them doing anything—whether it be deviancy, whether it be launching a nuclear bomb. Anything. You can have anybody do anything nowadays. I see stuff online all the time, especially people being mean to kids. I just hope that it's AI. It's not funny. It's gross.
We're sleepwalking into a dystopia that any rational person can see from miles away. Are we really just going to lie down and let AI take everything from us? Is that the plan?
In the words of Forrest Gump, that's all I got to say about that.
Salvaged by God Deep Dive: Revelation's Three Beasts
It's really interesting because AI and government and religion all kind of overlap each other. When you go into God's word, it's important. All of this can feel so big and so overwhelming because it really is. It's taking over everything—AI is taking control of governments, jobs, even the church and the Bible. So let's get into God's Word.
The First Beast: Satan the Dragon
Revelation 12:3-4 says, "And another sign appeared in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon with seven heads and 10 horns and on his head seven diadems. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth so that when she bore her child, he might devour it."
There's a lot of imagery going on in the book of Revelation, and it kind of helps sometimes just to get a little bit of your bearings—what is he talking about here? The dragon is of course Satan, and the woman refers to Israel. Israel is about to bring forth a savior, and what does Satan try to do? Satan tries to kill the savior. He tries so hard to defeat it.
That's the first beast that we're seeing in the book of Revelation—that old dragon himself, Satan. But Satan creates for himself two more dragons.
The Second Beast: Governments and World Leaders
Revelation 13:1: "And I saw a beast rising out of the sea with 10 horns and seven heads and 10 diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads."
That beast with all those heads coming out of the sea is in reference to nations and governments and world leaders and so on who have tremendous authority in the world, on the globe. That's who Satan is going to use in part to overcome the saints.
The Third Beast: The Apostate Church
Then we drop down a little bit further into the same chapter, verse 11: "Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth, and it had two horns like a lamb"—that's interesting—"and it spoke like a dragon."
The second beast that Satan is going to use as a tool for himself to deceive and to conquer the saints is this second beast coming out of the land. It looks like a lamb. Throughout scripture, the lamb, the Lamb of God, the sheep—it's all religious Christian imagery rising out of the earth. But this lamb having two horns then speaks with the mouth of the dragon.
What is that? In other words, it's the apostate church. It looks very much like Christianity, but it's not. It is not harmless. It is not just another view. It is a beast. It is a tool that Satan is going to use to deceive and overcome the saints.
When you read through chapters 12 and 13, you get a really good view of those three beasts: Satan, governments, nations, and world leaders, and the apostate church. Those three things are going to come together in those last days. It does tell us that the saints will be overcome. If God didn't shorten the days, even the elect would be deceived.
It's given a name, this unholy trinity, so to speak, at the very end of chapter 13. The name or the number is referred to as 666.
The real mystery is how does that come out of the religious world? That's from the second beast. The apostate church is going to prevent people from buying or selling without the mark of the beast. The two beasts are there to get people to worship Satan.
You can see how AI is really helping to lead the way to bring all people together, to get that group think globally going, and to rise up against the Christian. But this is not to make you scared. This is not to make you fearful. This is to give you the confidence to trust the Lord because He's told us this is all going to happen.
Final Thoughts: Hold On to What Cannot Change
Indeed, these things must come to pass, and He is perfectly able and willing to take you through to whatever point these days on earth are going to lead you. He is a God who saves. It's what He loves to do. So if you haven't already, put your trust in Him. And if you have already, continue to put your trust in Him.
Romans chapter 12 says, "Transform your mind. Be transformed into the mind of Christ. Write Christ's word on your heart and put on the full armor of God." Man, is that more important in this day of lazy AI stuff. In a time of AI, having faith is very, very important.
Get a Paper Bible and Hold On to It
Have a paper Bible. Find yourself a trustworthy version—not the Mirror Bible, not the Passion Bible. Throw those away. They're dumpster fires. But any of the traditional ones—NASB, ESV, Legacy Standard Bible, New King James—several that are very traditional and acceptable. Get that paper Bible and hold on to it with your life.
Think how easy it would be to say, "Okay, AI, write me a Christian Bible that isn't offensive to any other religion." It will do that. "Write me a Bible that tells about girl power. Let's destroy the patriarchy together using the word of God." "Write me a Bible with no gender in it." It will do that and it will change. The paper that you have in front of you won't change.
The Bible talks about in the last days there will come a famine. There will come a famine—not a famine of food, but a famine of God's word. I think that's exactly what they're talking about, the truthful interpretation of God's word. Make sure you have those Bibles. We should double down on that.
Write God's Word on Your Heart
Not only a paper Bible, but then write God's word on your heart. Try to memorize scripture every single week, every single month. Even if you know the verses—here's the problem, because I'm old and I'm literally two degrees from being Dory the fish. I don't even know what day it is. But I'm basically good-looking, so I got that going for me. Leathery face. It's really going well.
I don't remember addresses anymore. What I mean by that is John 3:16, "For God so loved the world." 3:16 is the address. I know that contentment with godliness is great gain. I can't tell you the address right now. I also know that by faith we can please God. I know that's in Hebrews, but I can't tell you the address right now.
Contentment with godliness is great gain is my life verse mantra that I've been pushing right now. Also the big one for those of us who are in the heat of the battle with people who want to fight about this theological thing or that theological thing—no, no, no, set all that aside. Is Jesus's grace sufficient for you? Is simple faith in Jesus enough, or do you got to have more juice?
There's nothing wrong with pursuing the presence of God in your life, but that comes through a changed life, and that comes through contentment with godliness is great gain. "My grace is sufficient for you." I can't remember addresses, but I'm writing those things on my heart in a big way. I'm starting to use them in conversations a lot. It's something that's going to be helpful to me, and we want you to have the same kind of helpfulness.
Paper Bible—make sure you got that. But when they take all the paper Bibles away, it's written on your heart. Then you get some sort of thing on your device that says something different—no, that's not what that says, because you wrote it on your heart.
That's the problem even with remembering those addresses now. With my personal device, just to kind of keep up, sometimes I like to use my phone because it's just faster than flipping pages to find the book and then find the chapter and then find the verse. But that's what happens with GPS. I'll follow directions with GPS and I have no idea how to get out of here. If I would have gone with a map, road by road, sign by sign, I could have backed my way out of that place. But I don't remember where I've been or how to get there.
I've driven to Hobby Lobby probably no fewer than 15 times. I still couldn't do it without GPS. The same thing when you're finding the directions through the Bible as well. When you're not flipping those pages and you're not getting familiar with where something is, you do forget it. You lose it. I can't remember where the address is. It's not making us smarter.
There's something about seeking for a hidden treasure. The harder you work for something, the more you want to hang on to it. That's true with your mind as well.
Remember: All AI Is Not Bad—It's How You Use It
Let me just show you how it can be beneficial. A bag of M&Ms is not bad if you go to the movie theater once a month, but to eat two bags of M&Ms every day is bad. Using AI is going to be the same thing.
AI has been very handy. It's not going anywhere. The challenge comes when people just trust ChatGPT: "Well, ChatGPT said it's true, so it must be true," even if it's giving you some false information. There's still that journey of discovery that needs to happen. You still have to take the information, glean from ChatGPT, glean from Matthew Henry, glean from Charles Spurgeon, John MacArthur's New Testament commentary on the book of Revelation, and then do your own word studies. You still have to put the message together yourself. How much of this you actually use is up to you based on what you feel is the reliability.
The Remnant Must Hold On
The remnant church and the remnant families—we hold on tight. Real life as previous generations knew it is basically over now. Where do we go from here?
Stay in the word of God. If you stay in the word of God, you will be able to withstand this onslaught of deception that's going to roll over all of us. If you have the blood of Jesus Christ over the doorpost of your soul, the angel of death will pass over you. When you do step into eternity, you get to step into eternal life as a co-heir with Christ.
Here's the most amazing thing: God will look at you as if you're perfect and never sin because of the substitutionary death of Jesus Christ.
Don't let the ease of AI and technology take all of that away from you.