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April 2024“But take heed; behold, I have told you everything in advance.” (Mark 13:23).
A new word has recently entered our vocabulary. That new word is “Controligarch.” Let’s define what that means. Many people are familiar with the word Oligarch. That word emerged in mainstream conversation from the ashes of the former Soviet Union. Russian Oligarchs were thought of as successful entrepreneurs that were able to navigate the difficult times the implosion of the Soviet Union resulted in. An oligarch is someone who has extreme wealth, usually billions of dollars. With this wealth comes influence. In addition to massive wealth and influence, comes power to change the minds of people who fashion regulations, codes, statutes, and laws. Many times, this influence and power is implemented clandestinely through lobbyists. Most Oligarchs do not like press coverage or fame. They are content to remain somewhat obscure to the public.
With that definition in mind, let’s discuss what “Controligarch” means. Individuals who fall under this definition are not dissimilar to Oligarchs with one exception. Controligarchs do not mind being in the public eye. They do not attempt to hide from public view and in fact, consider themselves as a type of champion of humanity and the earth’s environment we share. Many of the names are now familiar to most Americans – Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, George Soros, and Klaus Schwab to name just a few. Why would these men be considered Controligarchs? They are defined as such because they are using their extreme wealth to change our world. Gates, for example, is buying up thousands of acres of farmland. Why would Gates do that? Is there any relationship between his drive to become the largest farmland owner in America, and his nearly $12 billion investment into “alternative” food sources including lab grown meat? Would a significant decrease in crops such as corn, a staple food source for cattle and hogs, result in a parallel drop in available beef and pork? Would this be enough to motivate people to try Gates’ artificial “meat?”
It is an established fact that George Soros donated at least $40 million dollars to assist in the recent elections of multiple prosecutors across America who agreed to not pursue prosecution of certain offenses including hit-and-run, eluding police, reckless driving, trespassing, public drunkenness, and failure to appear. In Loudon County Virginia, Soros-enabled Prosecutor Buta Biberaj dismissed 491 cases brought to her office, bringing only 8% to trial. What is Soros’s stated goal in doing this? Is it to signal to a select demographic that they may create havoc with impunity? Consider these well-known examples:
So egregious are the actions of the Soros-backed progressives that for the first time in history, these prosecutors have become household names — whether it be St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, who made headlines for persecuting the McCloskeys for defending their home against rioters, Chicago’s Kim Foxx, known for her role in attempting a cover-up after actor Jussie Smollett’s “hate crime” against Jussie Smollett, and the now-recalled Chesa Boudin of San Francisco, the son of 1960s radicals who was raised by terrorist Bill Ayers and effectively legalized shoplifting in the city.
Why should Christians care about these things? Aren’t we pilgrims just passing through? Where do I begin to enumerate the reasons? In the least, we can agree that America is a nation founded on the rule of law. Our law was founded upon belief in the God of the Scriptures. Our political theory of governance was not fashioned from secularism, progressivism, or humanism, but from the pages of the Bible. God established governments as we read in Romans 13, for the benefit of the godly and to punish wickedness.
“For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same; for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil.”
This being the case, why are not more Christians speaking up to remind our elected officials of these truths? Some will respond that we are not meant to be involved in politics as a principle and furthermore, the IRS forbids it under several 501 codes. Both of those reasons are fraught with misunderstanding and have been used to silence the Church for far too long. If Romans 13 means anything at all, it means we must encourage and applaud our representatives in government when they are faithfully fulfilling their responsibilities according to God’s mandate, or, rebuke and correct them when they aren’t.
But I want to make what I believe to be a greater point within the context of the silence of the Church. If we really believe that the return of Jesus is near, shouldn’t we be speaking up and against the wickedness we see in our land?
I’m not talking about railing against the lost unbelievers in our communities. We are commissioned to go to the lost, the defenseless, the ones who absent our intervention in a meaningful way, will become more victim to this current system than they already are. I am speaking about the great need of our day to boldly speak the truth that Jesus is coming again soon and when He does, He is coming as a Judge.
Christians of all people should not be dismayed or fearful in speaking about these things that have become commonplace in this present age. It’s one thing to understand the times in which we live, it is entirely another to take responsibility for changing the circumstances where God has given us opportunity and favor.
We must also resist the devil’s temptation to think that Jesus has not, is not, and will never be the solution to the dark times man faces. The Controligarchs believe that wealth and power win every day over faith. Christians know the allurements of this world will fade away one day soon. Until that day arrives, we are to occupy this land for our King.
I direct your attention to Matthew 24 where nearly all Bible scholars agree that Jesus provided insight into the climate of the days immediately preceding His return. We read in verses 36-39 Jesus saying:
“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone. For the coming of the Son of Man will be just like the days of Noah. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away; so will the coming of the Son of Man be.”
The key verse in this passage is verse 37. Within that verse the key phrase is, in my opinion, “just like the days of Noah.” What does that mean? It cannot mean that Noah’s times were sinful. Every age since Noah has seen increasing evil. Many Biblical scholars and historians point to Genesis 6 to say that during Noah’s day, there were giants in the land. Genesis 6:4 names those giants as Nephilim. Now don’t panic and stop reading. It doesn’t matter what you believe about this subject. What matters for our purposes here is to see a connection by type. The Genesis 6 account is telling us that human DNA was corrupted and polluted in some way which resulted in Genesis 6:5, “The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that very intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
Do you see the connection? What are the Controligarchs attempting today in this same regard? If you said, “AI enhanced transhumanism,” you are correct. What will that entail? Today’s most wealthy people are fixated on transforming mankind into an image they imagine. The recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, hosted the world’s wealthiest individuals, and top government officials from across the world. One plenary session was held to discuss the subject of AI. Artificial Intelligence is embedded in everything the Controligarchs have stated is essential for the survival of the world. If the participants in the Davos meeting were constricted by a “truth” requirement, they would have said that AI is essential for their vision of a new world without many of the useless eaters presently consuming scarce resources. The top of their list of “useless eaters” are born-again, blood-bought, spirit-filled Christians. World Economic Forum philosopher Noah Yuval Harari has stated repeatedly that a new religion is rising upon the earth. It is a religion of technology. Harari believes that this new techno religion will replace Christianity primarily. He believes that technology will save humanity. This new religion is a modern manifestation of the old Gnostic heresy of salvation through secret, esoteric knowledge.
Several major points emerged from the conversation about AI at the recent Davos meeting. I’ll share a couple of them. First, the Davos crowd believes that too much of the world is still analogue and disconnected from the “information superhighway.” The solution, according to the Controligarchs, is to get everyone on the planet electronically connected as quickly as possible. Second, they believe that AI will enable them to perfect quantum computing which will, in turn, unlock innumerable things that remain unknown. This is the entire purpose for CERN, by the way. Scientists there state that they are attempting to receive information inaccessible to them presently. Third, AI is believed to be the key to assisting today’s world leaders in prioritizing humanity. Again, if they would speak truthfully, they would say that AI is going to determine for world leaders where to invest resources and where to withhold resources. This has chilling implications when you consider what we already have witnessed in the Twenty-first century concerning the devaluing of human life.
The most concerning thing that we must know about our modern Controligarchs is that they are determined to rewrite human DNA. Shadows of this intent emerged in the recent COVID-19 discoveries by independent researchers. Genome editing and CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) technology are the new frontiers and Controligarchs are heavily invested in research in these fields. Bill Gates trumpets gene editing technology as a solution to every health crisis the world faces. Elon Musk famously tweeted in 2020 that “Genetic engineering is too slow unless you use a synthetic virus.” Talk about a “letting the cat out of the bag” statement. Musk has also invested billions in his new company Neuralink, to research and create a viable link from human brains to computers through implants.
Here is why all of this information about the current state of technology, especially as it relates to gene editing, genome research, CRISPR, and Artificial Intelligence, is important. We find ourselves living in another day like Noah just before the flood. Technology has enabled us to expand our understanding of the human body. Indeed, the technologies mentioned above provide opportunities for scientists to create, change, and add to human DNA. We can already see that this technology can be used for evil purposes. I will also say that this technology is being used to create designer viruses. Is this technology being used for the common good of all mankind? Yes, in many cases, it is. However, we must ask the question, “Is modern technology being used to create dangerous things detrimental to mankind’s survival?” The clear answer is yes, it is. The dangerous use of current technology far exceeds any proposed benefit, given the stated goals of the people involved.
In my youth, the government of the US was focused on the nuclear threat to America from the Russians. At the height of the Cold War in the 1960s I recall participating in school drills meant to prepare us to act in the event of a nuclear attack. Something far worse has gripped the world today. Jesus warned us that His second coming would be during a time just like the days of Noah. The days of Noah were evil because human DNA had been corrupted. We are at that place again. We will begin to hear of amazing creations coming from the world’s scientists. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been working on what they term “super-soldiers” for decades. An article in The Atlantic describes how far technology has come and what we can expect to be revealed very soon.
“For decades after its inception in 1958, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — DARPA, the central research and development organization of the Department of Defense — focused on developing vast weapons systems. Starting in 1990…a new focus was put on soldiers, airmen, and sailors — on transforming humans for war. The progress of those efforts, to the extent it can be assessed through public information, hints at war’s future, and raises questions about whether military technology can be stopped, or should.
“Gorman sketched out an early version of the thinking in a paper he wrote for DARPA after his retirement from the Army in 1985, in which he described an ‘integrated-powered exoskeleton’ that could transform the weakling of the battlefield into a veritable super-soldier. The ‘SuperTroop’ exoskeleton he proposed offered protection against chemical, biological, electromagnetic, and ballistic threats, including direct fire from a .50-caliber bullet. It ‘incorporated audio, visual, and haptic [touch] sensors,’ Gorman explained, including thermal imaging for the eyes, sound suppression for the ears, and fiber optics from the head to the fingertips. Its interior would be climate-controlled, and each soldier would have his own physiological specifications embedded on a chip within his dog tags. ‘When a soldier donned his ST [SuperTroop] battledress,’ Gorman wrote, ‘he would insert one dog-tag into a slot under the chest armor, thereby loading his personal program into the battle suit’s computer,’ giving the 21st-century soldier an extraordinary ability to hear, see, move, shoot, and communicate.”
Astute readers will be reminded of the Tony Stark character in the Marvel Iron Man movie franchise. I noticed this same tacit acknowledgement in the recent Tom Cruise Top Gun Maverick movie when actor Ed Harris, playing Rear Admiral Chester Cain, arrived at the test site of an experimental next generation stealth fighter to shut the program down. His reasoning was that manned aircraft was a thing of the past. Admiral Cain believed future jet fighters would be flown by AI “pilots” who never tire, who don’t need to eat, or drink, and who obey orders. Sounds exactly like what the Controligarchs are attempting to implement.
Our world is on a collision course with biblical prophecy. While Controligarchs deceive people into believing that the future is theirs to create and rule, Jesus waits in the wings. While scientists tamper with DNA, the Bible reminds us that God has created the human body, and it is fearfully and wonderfully made. Will God allow some of His creation, who are in open rebellion, to destroy His imagers and create their own race of super soldiers to do the bidding of the Controligarchs? The Bible gives a resounding “NO” to this strong delusion.
The birth pangs of biblical prophecy are already upon the earth. Those who have ears to hear and eyes to see are not fooled. To those Christians who have been gifted with God’s perspective, His divine insight, and have learned to follow the direction of the Holy Spirit, the battlefield is clear. We are armored up and prepared to press the war wherever King Jesus leads us. Will Jesus tarry much longer?
Dr. Mike Spaulding
Pastor, Calvary Chapel of Lima
www.cclohio.org
www.drmikespaudling.com
