>>The Bible says that in the end
times, right before the return
of Jesus, there will be an
exponential explosion of
technology. Are we living in
that time? For an insightful and
fascinating presentation, stay
tuned.
>>[music] >>Lamb and Lion
Ministries presents
Christ in Prophecy, a program
that focuses
on the fundamentals of Bible
prophecy, showing how current
events in the news relate to
Biblical predictions of end time
events and the soon return of
Jesus. Now, here's your host,
Dr. David Reagan.
>>Greetings in the name of
Jesus, our Blessed
Hope, and welcome to Christ in
Prophecy! I'm delighted to have
in the studio with me today my
designated successor, Colonel
Tim Moore. Glad to have you,
Tim. >>Thank you, Dave, glad to
be here. >>And of course, also I
have my colleague, Nathan Jones
here who is our Internet
Evangelist and he's the co-host
of this program. We are going to
focus on Nathan today about a
new video that he and his
assistant, Steven Stufflebean,
have produced. And I tell you,
folks, it is something else.
>>It sure is, as matter of fact,
Nathan, I would like to know
what signs of the times you have
focused on in the particular
video, and why? >>Okay, well
we'll really get into once you
roll the video, but let's go
back to Daniel 12:4, this is the
foundational verse. "But you,
Daniel," this is the angel
talking to Daniel,
In other words,
the angel was saying that when
we got to the end times Bible
prophecy would finally be
understood. And two great things
would happen when that happens,
one knowledge would just
instantly take off, people would
learn so much, and they would
travel so much, too. So, based
on those two you can continue to
build the other signs that you
read about in the Bible. For
instance, the technology behind
the Mark of the Beast, or the
image of the Antichrist. A great
population explosion. You've got
a great growth in evangelism, as
evangelism spread all over the
world. You have nuclear weapons.
You have space science. And
there's also limitations to
technology as well. So, I cover
nine of them throughout the
video. And hopefully it will get
people excited about the Lord's
return because I believe
technology is one of the number
one signs that Jesus is coming
back. >>I agree, there are so
many prophecies that cannot be
understood apart from historical
developments, like the
reestablishment of Israel, and
technology. >>Absolutely. >>You
have to know about modern
technology to understand. For
example, how can two bodies lie
in the streets of Jerusalem and
the whole world look upon them?
Nobody understood that until the
mid-1960's when we put up TV
satellites. >>Oh, satellites,
computers, you name it. >>Well,
folks, I would like to show you
a clip from this incredible new
video. And, as you will see,
Nathan and Steven have put
together a dazzling
presentation.
>>[music]
>>Let's at last take a look
at where the
technological exponential
curve is leading us.
Let's look at the
signs of technology revealed in
the Bible that point to the fact
that we are now living in the
end times and which indicate
that Jesus will soon return. The
following are, I believe, nine
of the most prominent signs of
technology. The first sign is
the sign of knowledge. Not only
does this sign stand out
particularly as the most
revealing out of all the
technological signs, but it also
provides the foundation that the
others in this list build upon.
We find the source text for this
prophecy in the book of Daniel.
>>Daniel had
been listening across many
chapters to an angel pronouncing
a mind-blowing message from God.
Through the angel, God revealed
the rise and the fall of great
empires, leading eventually to
a global empire led by a world
ruler whom the Apostle John
would later call the Antichrist.
Of course, all these great
empires were still future from
Daniel's perspective, so he was
quite perplexed over all he was
hearing. Rubbing his forehead in
confusion, he asked the angel
for an explanation. To his
dismay, no luck! The angel
basically told Daniel that he
could never understand these
prophecies because too much
needed to happen first. This
would include a great increase
in mankind's knowledge which
would mark the time of the end,
or end times. Only those living
in the end times and who were
wise would at last understand
these prophecies and recognize
that the exponential increase in
knowledge heralded the soon
return of the Messiah. Have you
ever considered that just a
hundred years ago all that most
people learned throughout their
entire lifetime equaled to one
Sunday edition of the New York
Times? Our ability today to
practically consume that same
amount of data on a daily basis
shows just how far mankind's
knowledge has increased in so
short an amount of time. What
technologies have helped us
facilitate the advent of this
massive explosion in the growth
of knowledge? You probably
answered "computers," and you'd
be absolutely correct. Not only
has the exponential curve in all
areas of computer technology
increased our knowledge to
stupendous levels, but computers
have aided in all the major
scientific discoveries of our
day. We don't need to cram all
of those facts into our brains
anymore either, for the ability
to easily store and access data
means we can continue to learn
like we've never learned before
in all of human history. Today's
exponential increase in
knowledge points to the fact
that Jesus Christ is
returning soon.
>>[music]
>>Notice in that same prophecy
the angel
told Daniel that, besides a
great increase
in knowledge, "many
shall run to and fro." This
tremendous increase in travel
would also occur in the same
context, that being the end
times. God was revealing that
once people began to run to and
fro, both farther and faster,
that those final years before
Christ returned to set up His
Millennial Kingdom were finally
upon us. Stop and think how
people traveled a single century
ago. Most roads weren't even
paved yet and were traveled
along by horse-drawn wagons.
Look at this video of San
Francisco taken way back in
1906. You see far more horses
than horseless carriages! People
rarely, if ever, left their
hometowns. Animal domestication
and the early beginnings of
decent roads, then bicycles,
balloons, boats, and simple
automobiles were developing
technologies, but not widely
received. Since the early part
of the twentieth century,
mankind went on to invent
airplanes and jets, and we've
even left the Earth's atmosphere
in rockets and space shuttles.
It used to take months for
people to travel by boat
overseas, but now we travel that
same distance abroad in mere
hours. In today's world, people
are always on the move, just as
the angel prophesied to Daniel.
Today's exponential increase in
travel points to the fact that
Jesus Christ is returning soon.
>>[music]
The third sign involves
those technologies
which will make the Mark of
the Beast
the terror of the
world. The book of Revelation
forewarns:
>>Let
me provide you with a little
context here concerning the
Mark of the Beast. A seven-year
Tribulation time period is
coming when God will be pouring
out His wrath upon the world,
just as He did during the days
of the Flood. Revelation reveals
that at the mid-point of the
Tribulation, the Antichrist and
his False Prophet will set up a
system of commerce whereby a
person cannot buy or sell unless
they have sworn allegiance to
the Antichrist. They do so by
writing his name or the number
666 on their right hand or
forehead. What kinds of
technologies would be required
to control the world's commerce?
The Apostle John could visibly
read the name and the number
etched on the people who had
sworn their allegiance to the
Antichrist, so some kind of
tattooing is certainly involved.
Magnetic inks can store a
person's personal, financial,
and health information; and then
digital readers would scan
the ink in order to authorize
whether that person is allowed
to buy or sell. Maybe a RFID
microchip is also involved,
embedded in a rice-sized glass
case underneath the readable
mark. Global commerce also needs
a way to collect all that
countless terabytes of
information, and so would
require the constructing of
giant data centers in order to
store a planetary population
full of data. That data would
need to move lightning-fast
using high speed Internet
connectivity, complex ecommerce
systems, wireless networks,
billion-dollar satellites, and
so on. The closest system we
have today to the Mark of the
Beast is China's social credit
score, which has already been
instituted in their more
populated cities. The Chinese
government has positioned
millions of cameras everywhere
in order to spy on their
citizens. Computer algorithms
then rate the citizen's
allegiance to the government,
granting benefits to those who
are more loyal and restrictions
on those the computer deems as
not being patriotic enough. Just
imagine that horribly
restrictive system instituted on
a global scale! All of these
ecommerce technologies, which
make today's buying and selling
so much easier, are actually all
coming together so that the
Antichrist can control all of
the world's commerce, and
thereby control all of the
people under his rule. A lot of
fear surrounds taking the Mark
of the Beast, and rightly so,
for those who take it God says
will have lost their hope of
becoming saved. But, we today
should have no fear of
accidently taking the Mark, for
it will not be instituted
until half-way through the
Tribulation, well after the
Church has been raptured up to
Heaven. Therefore, don't sweat
chips and barcodes and credit
cards. They have nothing
to do with the Mark of the
Beast...yet. Today's global
ecommerce network points to the
fact that Jesus Christ is
returning soon.
>>[music]
>>Sign number four is actually a
wonderful sign, for it's a
positive one. This sign
prophesies that the entire world
will be evangelized in the end
times.
>>God wants the
Church to preach the Good News
of His salvation to the entire
world, and so He's provided us
with powerful communication
tools for sharing the Gospel.
Today's exponential curve in
communications technology has
played a vital role in reaching
more of the world for Christ
than has ever been reached in
the previous nineteen centuries.
Technologies such as cameras and
microphones, televisions and
tablets, smart phones and cell
towers, communications networks
and satellites, the Internet and
the airwaves, big media, and
social media they all work
together to form the largest
pulpit the world has ever known.
And while all these breathtaking
technologies are leading people
to Christ by the thousands each
day, the entire world, as Jesus
referred to it, will not all
hear the Gospel before the
Rapture happens. That blessing
awaits the Second Coming at the
end of the Tribulation.
Communications technologies will
continue to spread the Gospel
to the post-Rapture world. In
addition, God will send forth
144,000 Jewish evangelists, the
Two Witnesses, and even
the Gospel Angel to preach
throughout the whole world.
Every person on the planet will
be evangelized by the end of the
Tribulation. God will leave no
person without a chance to
choose His Son and so be saved.
Today's communications
technologies point to the fact
that Jesus is returning soon.
>>[music]
>>The fifth sign involves the
living image
of the Antichrist.
>>Revelation reveals that during
the Tribulation the Antichrist
will order his False Prophet to
set up an image of himself in
the newly built Jewish Temple
and order the world to worship
him as if he were God. This is
the same scenario all over
again when the Babylonian King
Nebuchadnezzar set up a statue
of himself and ordered everybody
to worship it. Daniel tells
of how Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abednego refused and so were
thrown into a fiery furnace.
This is all going to happen
again during the Tribulation,
but instead of chucking people
into ovens, the False Prophet
will rain down fire and
incinerate those people who
refuse to worship the
Antichrist. How will the False
Prophet make fire fall down from
the sky and consume people?
Assuming there's nothing
supernatural going on, let's
look at the technologies
involved in producing
pyrotechnics. Maybe John was
referring to jets or drones
dropping bombs and other
incendiary weapons. And,
satellite-based weapon systems,
such as missile or laser
systems, could simply zap people
from high up in orbit. Remember
that the Antichrist must use
technology because he is a
counterfeit. His False Prophet
will not be a real miracle
maker, and so will use today's
military technology to destroy
people with just the touch of a
button. What's so peculiar about
the story of this image is that
John reveals that it was given
life. Nebuchadnezzar's statue
didn't get up and walk around
and sing and dance and all that;
it didn't even move. But, the
image of the Antichrist will
appear to be alive! Assuming
there's nothing supernatural
involved in making the illusion
of a living statue, such as the
demonic possession of an object,
statues after all still cannot
move. They lack the proper
joints and musculature. What
kinds of technology could the
False Prophet use then to make
an image move? John may have
been the very first person
to watch television. The
Antichrist's image may appear at
regular intervals on a person's
TV set or mobile device, and
once broadcast, everyone is
expected to fall down and
worship his image. Or, the image
may involve robotic and
artificial intelligence, AI
technologies. How about a fully
functional hologram? Japan
especially has been hard at work
developing both robotics and
holographic technologies. Why,
for years now, one of Japan's
biggest pop stars has been
Hatsune Miku who is a fully
interactive hologram that sings
in live concerts. With the
proper Alexa-like technology,
the Antichrist's living image,
be it robot or hologram, could
fully interact with his adoring
acolytes. Today's weapons and
robotic technologies point to
the fact that Jesus Christ is
returning soon.
>>[music]
>>The sixth sign of
technology that
points to the fact that we
are living in
the end times involves
a great population explosion.
Revelation reveals:
>>Prepare the way for what?
>>And, what happens to this
army?
>>In context, as the Tribulation
winds mercifully to a close, the
Antichrist's empire begins to
crumble due to a number of
rebellions led by various
sub-rulers. Just as the
Antichrist squashes a rebellion
in Africa, he must turn his
loyal forces north to deal with
a rebellion coming from the
East. Both armies meet in the
Valley of Armageddon located in
northern Israel. While these
armies are busy slaughtering
each other, they will see Jesus
and his armies returning out of
the heavens and unite against
Him. The King of Kings will
easily defeat the world's armies
just by speaking. The blood from
the vanquished armies will flow
as high as a horse's head for a
staggering 180 miles! By the end
of the Tribulation, most of the
world's population will have
been wiped out, and still these
prophesied Kings of the East can
amass a 200-million-man army.
This prophecy must have just
blown John's mind, for in his
first century day, there were
only 200-million people living
on the whole earth. How then
does the human population get so
large that, despite the massive
death toll of the Tribulation,
the East can assemble such a
staggeringly large army? How do
we have the billions that we now
have today? The answer:
medicine. As each successive
generation produces more and
more people, aided by medicines
that greatly reduce infant
mortality and keep people
healthier and allow us to live
longer, we've reached a massive
global population numbering
nearly eight billion people.
China and India have been able
to mount a 200 million soldier
army ever since the 1960s, and
so could easily do so during the
Tribulation. The exponential
curve strikes again! Today's
medical technologies point to
the fact that Jesus Christ is
returning soon.
>>[music]
>>The seventh sign of
technology
involves the inevitable release
of the world's nuclear arsenal.
Both the Old and New Testaments
describe the destruction of much
of the world by a series of
nuclear cataclysms.
>>In context, Isaiah
and Jeremiah prophesied the
destruction of the oldest city
on the planet, Damascus, by
Israel suddenly and in just one
night. How do you destroy an
entire city in just one night?
Israel will have to use a
nuclear bomb.
>>In this verse
Jesus prophesied that the
horrors unleashed during the
Tribulation will actually cause
heart attacks.
>>Revelation adds that
"the kings of the earth, the
great men, the rich men, the
commanders, the mighty men,
every slave and every free man,
hid themselves in the caves and
in the rocks of the mountains,
and said to the mountains and
rocks, 'Fall on us and hide us
from the face of Him who sits on
the throne and from the wrath of
the Lamb! For the great day of
His wrath has come, and who is
able to stand?'" The Sixth Seal
Judgment uncannily describes
what a nuclear blast looks like,
and how the people will hide in
caves to escape all the
destruction and radiation these
bombs will rain down upon them.
>>The First Trumpet Judgment
describes yet another cataclysm
that sounds very much nuclear in
nature.
>>During the Sixth Trumpet
Judgment, demonic creatures
will be let loose to incinerate
millions with their nuclear
fire-like breath.
>>Zechariah
describes what will happen to
the Antichrist's armies upon the
Messiah's return. No nukes may
be involved, but the weapon of
the Messiah's own words will
produce the same effect as the
setting off of a nuclear bomb.
Many of God's judgments during
the Tribulation sound like a
first century man's attempt to
explain a nuclear holocaust.
Many believe that the two atomic
bombs dropped on Hiroshima and
Nagasaki during World War II
have been the only atomic
weapons released, but no, in the
last 70-plus years over 2,500
nuclear warheads have been set
off in testing. Nine countries
have stockpiled an estimated
15,000 nuclear weapons, with
1,800 always standing at alert
and prepped for immediate
launch. The fact that the world
hasn't already annihilated
itself in a nuclear holocaust
proves that God's restraining
hand is holding mankind's worst
destructive proclivities at bay.
But, that time will end when
God's restraining influence will
be taken away, along with the
Church, at the Rapture. During
the first year or so after the
Tribulation begins, half of the
world's population will perish.
A nuclear holocaust is indeed
about to be unleashed upon this
world, and one day soon. The
technologies involved in the
making of nuclear weapons are
among the most complex
technologies ever developed.
Heavy metal mining and
refinement, nuclear containment,
nuclear plants, submarines and
silos for delivery, missiles for
deployment, all these
super-duper advanced
technologies have been in
development for decades. The
world sleeps blissfully unaware
of the constant threat of
nuclear self-annihilation.
Today's nuclear technologies
point to the fact that Jesus
Christ is returning soon.
>>[music]
>>The eighth sign
of technology involves our
cutting-edge space science
technologies, particularly the
International Space Station or
the ISS, that we utilize in our
attempt to explore outer space.
The source verse reads:
>>Other translations of this
Isaiah passage render Lucifer's
name as the Morning Star. During
the Tribulation, Satan, the
Morning Star, will possess
and be worshiped through the
Antichrist. Because the earth
will face utter annihilation due
to God's 21 judgments as
described in Revelation, I've
often wondered where Satan and
the Antichrist would feel safe
and able to rule unimpeded,
insulated from all the disasters
ravaging the planet. As the
International Space Station
orbits over the earth, it can
best be viewed from the ground
during the mornings and looks
like a bright star sailing
slowly across the heavens.
That's lead the ISS to be
nicknamed, the Morning Star. How
would one escape a world that is
being annihilated, to sit safely
from on high, in order to rule
over the world? Most likely from
high up in the orbit. The eighth
sign of technology I consider a
tentative sign, though. I have
no biblical proof that the
Antichrist will rule from up in
orbit. But, with the space
station costing somewhere
between 150 billion and half a
trillion dollars, the ISS must
have more of a long-term purpose
than just seeing how earthworms
float. Today's space science
technologies point to the fact
that Jesus Christ is returning
soon.
>>[music]
>>The ninth and final sign of
technology
in this list actually has
to do with
technology's limitations. Have
you ever considered that our
technology has limits? It does!
For one, supplies of rare earth
metals are running dangerously
low. Did you know that the
computer, tablet, and smart
phone, that are surely an arm's
length away from you, are made
out of rare earth metals? The
metals used to make these
advanced technologies, those
technologies that we've become
so dependent on, can only be
found in certain places, and the
supplies are quickly dwindling.
Nearly 95% of these metals
can only be found in hostile
countries such as China and
Afghanistan. Unless alternatives
can be synthesized, our ability
to build laptops, cell phones,
TV's, you name it, is quickly
going to disappear. Once the
limited amounts of these rare
earth metals run out, so will
much of today's technology.
Also, are there limits to how
far our technology will take us
into outer space? It appears,
according to the Bible, not
very far. The prophet Zechariah
prophesied that all the nations
of the earth will be gathered
against Jerusalem in the last
days. >>"All the nations of the
earth are gathered against her."
>>Once Jesus returns, He will
defeat the armies of the
Antichrist gathered around the
city of Jerusalem. And once
these armies are destroyed,
Jesus will then send His angels
to collect every single person
and gather them together for
what's called the Sheep-Goat
Judgment. Since all the remnants
of the nations will stand before
Jesus Christ and be judged, that
means there cannot be people
living in space stations, and
lunar colonies, and Martian
colonies, and extra-earth
settlements, or safely tucked
away on spaceships traveling
beyond our solar system. The
gathering of every human being
against Jesus at Armageddon, and
then again at the Sheep-Goat
Judgment, means that humanity
will still be confined to the
earth. Our optimistic hope of
settling outer space will not be
happening, at least in this age,
according to these limits set
in the Bible. Technology during
the Tribulation will have also
reached its limit. If four
prophesied catastrophic
earthquakes shake the world
apart, what will happen to all
the mountains? They will be
leveled. What happens to cell
towers during earthquakes? They
fall over. What happens when
solar flares burn the sky? The
radiation destroys the
satellites and interferes with
communications. What happens
when the oceans are filled with
blood and dead sea creatures
clog the waters? Ships can't
bring oil and goods to port, and
so distribution channels are
disrupted. I could go on and on
with disaster scenarios, but you
know that even in the tamest of
rain storms our power companies
struggle to keep the lights on.
Now, imagine the whole world
ravaged by endless natural,
manmade, and divine disasters.
That's why I believe that by the
end of the Tribulation most of
our technology, mankind's last
crutch and our own Tower of
Babel, will be rendered useless.
The prophets indicated that by
the end of the Tribulation, the
survivors will be out fighting
with bows and arrows and horses
again. Certainly, there must
still be tanks and other
technological weapons of war
that I'm sure the Antichrist
will protect. But still, God
appears to eliminate much of the
world's technology so that by
the end of the Tribulation
desperate people are left with
nothing to kill each other
with but primitive weaponry.
Knowledge, travel, the Mark of
the Beast, evangelism, the image
of the Antichrist, a great
population explosion, nuclear
weapons, space science, and
now the limitations of our
technology, they all today point
to the fact that Jesus Christ is
returning soon.
>>There you have it, folks, as
Dave said, it is a
dazzling presentation, and you
have seen only a part of it. In
a moment, our announcer will
tell you how you can get a copy
of the entire video. But, Nathan
I've got to tell you, you and
Steven did a wonderful job.
Congratulations on a fantastic
video. >>Praise the Lord! I hope
it blesses people. >>Yes, I do.
>>Well folks, that's our program
for this week. I hope it has
been a blessing to you. And I
hope, the Lord willing, you will
be back with us next week.
Until then, this is Dave Reagan
speaking for Lamb & Lion
Ministries, saying, "Look up, be
watchful, for our Redemption is
drawing near!"
>>[music]
>>How do we know the end
times are upon
us and that Jesus Christ
is returning soon?
One of the surest ways we
can know is
through the incredible end times
sign of technology. The long-ago
prophesied technologies that we
today now take for granted prove
that Jesus is returning soon.
Join Lamb & Lion Ministry's
Internet Evangelist, Nathan
Jones, as he takes you on a
dramatic climb up technology's
exponential curve, beginning
with the surprising origins of
knowledge revealed, to those
technologies utilized back in
the most ancient of Bible times,
to today's modern-day innovative
wonders. Nathan will then
explore nine of the prophesied
technologies that reveal we are
now living in the season of the
Lord's return to this earth and
to establish His kingdom:
Knowledge. Transportation. The
Mark of the Beast. Evangelism.
The Living Image of the
Antichrist. Population
Explosion. Nuclear Weapons.
Space Science Technologies.
And the Climatic End to
Technological Development.
By the conclusion of this
informative and entertaining
teaching, you will marvel at how
ancient prophecies are being
fulfilled in our day, and how to
apply these revelations to your
life in these fast-paced times
we are now living in.
This dynamic, one-hour,
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Thank you and God bless you.
>>[music]
>>Thank you for joining
us on today's Christ in
Prophecy, a presentation of Lamb
and Lion Ministries, a
non-denominational ministry
dedicated to teaching the
fundamentals of biblical
prophecy and proclaiming
the soon return of Jesus.
