Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Elon Musk confirmed just the Bible prophecy about biblical millenarianism.

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The title of the blog may seem a bit strange at first glance, as neither Netanyahu nor Musk are, to our knowledge, Christians who take biblical prophecies literally. But let me elaborate a bit. I just listened to a two-part conversation on YouTube between technology pioneer and billionaire Elon Musk and Israeli right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Although Musk may raise mixed opinions among some Christians, those who follow my blog know that I view Musk quite sympathetically, and I have also published a couple of videos about Musk on my YouTube channel that I recommend watching (here and here).

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I have for long time admired Musk even before he started to defend Christian conservatives, but lately he has been openly critical of the anti-Christian woke left, the LGBTG agenda, and the globalists who seek to suppress freedom of speech under Orwellian hate speech laws. He has criticized the World Economic Forum, founded and led by Klaus Schwab, as an “unelected world government that people never asked for or wanted.” He has also referred to ESG scoring, known as “woke capitalism,” as a tool of the Devil. This same ESG scoring, that seeks to reward or penalize companies based on how faithfully they promote the LGBTQ agenda and other left-wing causes, is something King Charles has quietly promoted in America and globally in preparation for the coming mark of the beast society.

Christian Nationalism versus Defaistic Escapism

Alex Jones, who had his YouTube channel censored in the summer of 2018, was the first domino in the larger wave of censorship against conservatives by major technology companies. He is a man I’ve known through his documentaries and radio shows for over twenty years. Jones has been ahead of the curve in many ways because he has read extensively about the dystopian future plans of globalists. I mention him here because I just watched his teaching session with Gerald Morgan on biblical end-time prophecies. Jones has talked about his belief in Jesus’ second coming and the coming mark of the beast society before, but he has been primarily seen as a Christian nationalist whose mission focuses more on the political information war against globalists than on a defeatist pre-tribulationist anticipation of the end times. The latter has often been criticized as a passive escapism that gives Christians an excuse to shirk our responsibilities toward this present age.

Jones’s expertise is clearly focused more on geopolitics and the plans of globalists than on Biblical eschatology, but his conversation with Gerald Morgan was very interesting. Gerald, a believer in the pre-tribulation rapture, teaches Jones, who leans more towards post-tribulationism, many core truths about Daniel’s seventy weeks prophecy and understanding the symbolism in the Book of Revelation in light of Old Testament prophecies. Gerald’s clear and systematic teaching style provides a good balance to Jones’s typical meandering rants (which may be closer to my own writing style).

Often these topics intertwine with each other, as I myself too became interested in the New World Order, the Illuminati, and the globalists (loosely referring to various semi-secret groups advocating for world government, from the Club of Rome to the Bilderberg Group and others) in light of how their plans aligned with the depiction of the future Antichrist’s kingdom in Revelation chapter 13. Alex Jones acknowledges that his grandfather had a deeper understanding of end-time prophecy and credits him for sparking his interest in studying history and the globalists’ clandestine efforts to destroy nation-states. Jones’ life’s work has been characterized and motivated much more by political patriotism than evangelism or apologetics. But I believe that God has also guided Jones to serve in his place within the end-time church (Jones played a pivotal role in the 2016 elections that led to the election of President Donald Trump). In terms of my own calling, Jones’ lifework has played its part in affecting that too.

In the video, Jones and Gerald briefly touch on the role of political Islam in the end times and the Islamic Mahdi as the Antichrist in the Bible. In the midst and at the end of the discussion, Alex Jones makes an important observation that, unlike Islamists who believe they should promote and accelerate the apocalyptic destruction of the world to hasten the appearance of the Mahdi, conservative Christians or Christian nationalists, on the other hand, strive to keep the world standing for as long as possible while globalists and Islamists do everything in their power to drive the world into complete chaos and disorder. Christians were already persecuted during the time of Emperor Nero in Rome because they were believed to be behind the Great Fire of Rome, in an effort to hasten the apocalyptic destruction preceding Jesus’ second coming and the fall of Rome (Revelation 17-18).

But the only way for Christians to hasten the second coming of Jesus is through peaceful evangelism among the nations (Matt. 24:14, Acts 1:6-8). Our task as Christians is to be the light and salt of the earth; to build up the world, not to destroy it. We often forget also the words of our Lord, that “The kingdom of God is not coming with signs that can be observed” for “the kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:20-21). Christians have been participating in building the kingdom of God on earth since the foundation of the church. This does not mean that Jesus will not literally return to the earth and establish His peaceable kingdom in Jerusalem at the end of Armageddon, where Satan will be bound for a thousand years (Revelation 19-20). But within us as Christians, the kingdom of God is already present on earth because Christ has made us “kings and priests to our God, and we shall reign on the earth” (Rev. 5:10). Jesus said in the Gospel of Luke:

“What is the kingdom of God like, and to what shall I compare it? It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and threw into his own garden; and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches.” And again He said, “To what shall I compare the kingdom of God? It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three sata of flour until it was all leavened.”
Luke 13:18-21

The Scientific Revolution and Paradise Lost

This tree will not be planted in the world after the second coming of Jesus. It was planted already at the time of Jesus’ first coming, through which Christianity began to spread around the world. Christianity has had a significant impact on the development of modern civilization. Its influence extends not only in spiritual or moral realms but also in cultural, political, and scientific realms. For instance, the entire scientific revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries, as well as the subsequent industrial and technological revolutions, were influenced to a great extent by Christian thinkers and the Holy Bible. This understanding has emerged more recently among historians of science. While the relationship between the scientific revolution and the opening book of the Bible has been extensively discussed in academic literature, less attention has been given to its eschatological content. Mikael Leidenhag writes in his academic article:

Similar proto-transhumanist thinking can be found in the writings of the English philosopher and statesman, Francis Bacon. Bacon, who played a decisive part in the formation of the scientific method, argued in The Advancement of Human Learning (1605) and Novum Organum (1620) for the need of moving away from the metaphysical reasoning of the Scholastics and Platonists and towards methodological empiricism (More, 2013, p. 9). Bacon acknowledged the epistemic costs of human sin. That is, our fall from grace limits, significantly, human knowledge about the world. The aim of his Novum Organum, in light of the cognitive limitations of human beings, was to offer a ‘qualitative and organized approach to the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the natural world, one that relied upon induction rather than tradition’ (Burdett, 2011, p. 21).

For Bacon, the new information about the world should be used in the construction of new technologies, which would help to re-establish humanity’s rightful place as having dominion over nature. Bacon’s utopic vision was further elaborated in his work The New Atlantis (1626/1915), which offers us a glimpse of a flourishing humanity that has been redeemed through practical reasoning. For Bacon, technology is not merely a useful tool, it constitutes a significant emancipatory force as it helps human beings to ‘access the book of Creation’ (Burdett, 2011, p. 24). Enlightenment thought displays strong tendencies towards the belief in science and technology as forces of emancipation, particularly in regards to the notion of ‘progress’.

Here is one reason why I now see the discussion about transhumanism in a more nuanced light than I did ten years ago. In my first 700-page book, I wrote about transhumanism that emerged in the 1900s and showed it to be fundamentally anti-Christian philophy, with direct connections to the eugenics movement of the early 1900s. However, when we examine history from a longer timespan, we find that Christian pioneers of the scientific revolution, such as Francis Bacon, who piously honored God, believed too that science and technology would play a crucial role in freeing humanity and the creation “from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.” (Romans 8:21).

So this technoutopian idea did not originate from someone like Julian Huxley, an atheist and anti-humanist, and the father of the 21st-century transhumanist movement. If we consider all the positive advancements achieved by the scientific, industrial, and technological revolutions over the past 500 years, and dismiss the romanticized notion of a “idyllic” agrarian society propagated by the pagan green movement, each of us can agree with Bacon’s belief that science and technology have had more positive than negative impact on the course of history. Without the wonders of modern medicine, I myself would now be physically disabled due to a slip-and-fall accident I experienced in February.

Wikipedia tells us the following about Francis Bacon’s (1561 – 1626), the father of empiricism and the scientific method, worldview that was deeple rooted to Christianity, Genesis, and biblical end-time prophecies.

For Bacon, this reformation [in scientific method] would lead to a great advancement in science and a progeny of new inventions that would relieve mankind’s miseries and needs. In Novum Organum, the second part of the Instauration, he stated his view that the restoration of science was part of the “partial returning of mankind to the state it lived before the fall”, restoring its dominion over creation, while religion and faith would partially restore mankind’s original state of innocence and purity.

In the book The Great Instauration, he also gave some admonitions regarding the ends and purposes of science… that mankind should seek knowledge not for pleasure, contention, superiority over others, profit, fame, or power, but for the benefit and use of life, and that they perfect and govern it in charity. Regarding faith, in “De Augmentis”, he wrote that “the more discordant, therefore, and incredible, the divine mystery is, the more honor is shown to God in believing it, and the nobler is the victory of faith.” He wrote in The Essays: Of Atheism, “a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.”

He considered science (natural philosophy) as a remedy against superstition, and therefore a “most faithful attendant” of religion, considering religion as the revelation of God’s Will and science as the contemplation of God’s Power. Nevertheless, Bacon contrasted the new approach of the development of science with that of the Middle Ages:

Men have sought to make a world from their own conception and to draw from their own minds all the material which they employed, but if instead of doing so, they had consulted experience and observation, they would have the facts and not opinions to reason about, and might have ultimately arrived at the knowledge of the laws which govern the material world.

Bacon also quotes from the Book of Daniel (12:4) in the inscription on the frontispiece of the 1620 publication: “Many shall go to and fro and knowledge shall be increased.” Through this inscription, Bacon draws a parallel between the Age of Exploration and the Scientific Revolution. The frontispiece also depicts European ships sailing past the Pillars of Hercules, which represented the geographical boundary of the classical world. In Aphorism 92, Book I of Novum Organum, Bacon writes: “…just as Columbus did, before his wonderful voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, when he gave the reasons for his confidence that he could find new lands and continents beyond those known already; reasons which, although rejected at first, were later proved by experiment, and became the causes and starting points of great things.”

As a side note, it should be mentioned that many pioneers of the scientific revolution had a close relationship with the English monarchy. Francis Bacon was a personal advisor to Queen Elizabeth I and the Lord Chancellor to James I (the same monarch who authorized the most influential English translation of the Bible known as the King James Version). Sir Isaac Newton, who was even more deeply interested in end-time prophecies of the Bible than Francis Bacon, was knighted by Queen Anne and served as the President of the Royal Society. The current King Charles III criticizes the life’s work of the pioneers of the scientific revolution in his 2010 esoteric book and political manifesto Harmony, advocating for a “revolution of sustainability.”

Charles believes that the scientific and industrial revolutions were harmful because they separated man from nature and destroyed the pantheistic concept of God and nature as identical entities that prevailed in the Middle Ages and pre-Christian times. Bacon and Newton would completely agree with me that if Charles is not the Antichrist of the Bible, he is at least a very dangerous neo-pagan heretic. The reader may now wonder how my brain works when I start with the topic of Elon Musk and then end up with Alex Jones, Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, and finally King Charles. Well, the connection comes next.

Working in Paradise

Elon Musk, whom the Israeli Prime Minister referred to as the “modern-day Edison” or “modern-day Tesla,” mentioned a few interesting things in his conversation with Netanyahu that harken back to what men like Francis Bacon believed in the 17th century about the role of science and technology in the end times. Bacon did not believe that science and technology alone would redeem humanity and restore the prelapsarian state of Paradise for humanity and the entire creation. He believed that through science and technology, humans would regain the “dominion over creation” lost through the fall, while religion and faith would partially restore humanity to its original innocence and purity. In other words, science and technology cannot have impact on how morally people behave towards each other and the rest of creation, but they can restore humanity’s lost knowledge and dominion, so that humans do not have to live under the curses that God imposed on creation (upon the nature) as a consequence of Adam’s fall. Regarding man, this curse was the following:

Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’; Cursed is the ground because of you; With hard labor you shall eat from it All the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; Yet you shall eat the plants of the field; By the sweat of your face You shall eat bread, Until you return to the ground, Because from it you were taken; For you are dust, And to dust you shall return.”
Genesis 3:17-19

This does not necessarily mean that the man was just lazing around all day doing nothing in the pre-Fall Paradise. If Adam had only eaten apples in the Garden of Eden and bathed in the Euphrates River, frustration and boredom would have eventually struck him. Genesis chapter 2 tells us that God immediately put Adam to work: “Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and tend it… And out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all the livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him.” The last sentence does not mean that Adam was dissatisfied with the work assignment given to him by God, but rather that Adam needed an equal life companion with whom he could share the joys of Paradise. So God created Eve for him from his rib.

The work in the pre-Fall Paradise was very interesting and enjoyable, and humans did not have to drudge there from necessity like a large part of humanity has had to do in the last 6,000 years. Humans also lived in constant abundance and peace there. Hunger, scarcity, disease, wars, natural disasters, and violence became part of human existence only as a consequence of the Fall. We are now entering an era where it is possible to reverse these curses that came upon humanity as a result of the Fall through science and technology, as Francis Bacon believed would ultimately happen 400 years ago. And this is a topic that is being discussed right now by the world’s leading technologists, world leaders, billionaires, businessmen, authors, and scientists, although many of them do not even believe in the literal fulfillment of biblical prophecies. Similarly, many secular individuals use biblical language like “Armageddon,” “apocalyptic,” or “the four horsemen of the Apocalypse” to describe today’s global crises or looming existential threats.

Musk, Netanyahu, Artificial Intelligence, and Paradise

In the first part of the panel discussion, the mutual respect between Elon Musk and Benjamin Netanyahu is evident, and Musk gives Netanyahu the opportunity to correct the lies about the reform of Israel’s juridical system that are prevalent in the liberal anti-Israeli media of the West. Musk’s friendly relationship with Jews and the Jewish state is very positive, as the Bible says, “I will bless those who bless you [Israel], and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you” (Genesis 12:3). The second part is filled with technical jargon that may be difficult to understand for non-techies, but here are a few more easily comprehensible topics related to what I mentioned earlier:

– Netanyahu: Elon, when I asked this question in one of our late-night chats, about what we will do when people are out of jobs [due to AI and automation taking away jobs] and we give them money [referencing the idea of universal basic income often referred to as an “inevitable solution” to the economic disruption brought by AI], you replied, “What’s wrong with living in Paradise?”

– Musk: This question is sort of like a reference to one’s perception of heaven. I think you don’t need to work in heaven… The positive scenario with AI is, in some ways, a depiction of heaven, in the sense that nobody needs to work anymore. I wouldn’t necessarily call it a universal basic income, but rather a universal high income. I’m describing the best possible scenario now. I’m not saying that this is going to happen. There’s a series of different possibilities ranging from very negative to very positive developments [Musk usually emphasizes the negative possibilities much more than the positive ones]. And the latter sounds essentially like heaven. You can get whatever you want, you don’t have to do any work for it, you don’t have any obligations, any illness can be cured…

– Netanyahu: “When will we die?”

– Musk: That’s a good question. Maybe it becomes more a matter of choice.

– Netanyahu: Do you even want all of that?

– Musk: I don’t know. There’s a philosophical question about whether the concept of heaven, as it’s usually understood, is something you really want in a future world where AI does everything better than humans. Because that leads to questions about the purpose of human existence. Whether it leads to a hedonistic lifestyle, for example… those are difficult things to ponder. But where things would lead in a positive scenario is basically that there will be no shortage of products and services. Robots and computers will be able to do as much of anything you want to as large population as possible without any restrictions… For many people that sounds like a good future.

– Netanyahu: We define ourselves… we have this myth in the Bible of heaven and Paradise where you can just pick a fruit from a tree and don’t have to do anything, and then the snake comes and messes things up, and we are condemned to constant toil. Life is a struggle, it is defined as a battle where you compete against forces of nature, other people, or animals in our efforts to evolve. This is how the human race has defined itself, and it is the basis for the definition of ourselves as individuals, nations, and as the entire human race. Now it is possible to challenge this, and it has already been challenged, as well as the very existence of our species being called into question.

You rarely hear such profound philosophical contemplation from world leaders or business magnates. I find it extremely fascinating that globally respected influential thought leaders like Netanyahu and Musk refer to Biblical stories about the origin of humanity and its foreseen future. While they may not believe in a supernaturally inspired Word of God, the literal truth of biblical history, or a 6,000-year-old Earth, they nevertheless engage in serious discussions about Paradise, the fall of man, and a messianic era of peace and abundance where the conditions of that lost Paradise are restored on earth – concepts of future that have been part of the Christian church’s eschatological visions for two thousand years.

Now it is no longer part of a religious mythology but a realistic vision of the future made possible by our technological progress. Perhaps it’s time for Netanyahu and Musk to realize that if the Bible was right about the future, then it is right about the past too. If it was right about the coming era of abundance, then the creation story, the fall of man, Jesus’ death and resurrection, and His second coming are not mere myths but literal facts. Or that heaven and hell are not just some mythical concepts but concrete realities we should all take very seriously before it’s too late.

From Erick Stakelbeck’s excellent YouTube channel, here is a comprehensive and balanced overview of artificial intelligence from a biblical perspective. As Elon Musk and Benjamin Netanyahu have pointed out, AI can either be a blessing or a curse for humanity depending on how we develop it and the purposes we intend to use it for. Undoubtedly, AI has its role in bringing about the dystopian and Orwellian future described in Revelation 13, but it can also play an equally important role in shaping a positive future for humanity, enabling the Messianic era of peace, prosperity, and abundance as prophesied by the prophet Isaiah.