From Pandemic to Prophecy: Is AI Preparing the World for Revelation 13?

Dave Robbins: What if the world we watched transformed during
COVID was just a preview of something far bigger?
Well, today we’re gonna connect the dots between artificial
intelligence, these global systems, and Revelation 13, and
why what once seemed impossible is now
technologically achievable.
Don’t miss this eye-opening broadcast because we’re gonna
separate biblical truth from speculation and show where we
really are on God’s prophetic timeline.
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Dave: Good afternoon, everybody.
I’m Dave Robbins with Endtime Ministries.
Thank you for joining me on this edition of “The Endtime Show.”
And yes, you know, we’re watching the Middle East and and
what all’s going on with Iran, the United States, Israel, and
all the other nations involved with the Straits of Hormuz,
and you know, there’s a lot of things going on in the world,
but I wanted to kind of go back here a little bit and kind of
tie a lot of–a few different prophecies together for you.
I want us all to go back to–think back to February of
2020, just before the COVID thing blew up.
And, you know, if you were watching closely–many of us
were trying to figure things out on the go, right?
But in–you know, they say hindsight’s 20/20.
Well, if we–if you were watching closely, you may have
seen some faint headlines about a virus spreading overseas.
And at that point, I remember in early February 2020, my
father-in-law, Irvin Baxter, and I and our team here–we were
watching, and I thought, you know, man, “We’ve got this
Israel trip coming up in the spring,” just like we did, you
know, right now, and–but we’ve had to cancel the one this year,
this spring.
But we were looking at the one we had set up for spring of
2020, which we were obviously not able to end up going on.
But my father-in-law–we said, “Man, there’s virus spreading
overseas and, you know, there–if we have to get
vaccinated–” at that point, we were considering getting
vaccinated, and I’m–now looking back, I’m glad we didn’t.
But there was this–we heard about this virus
spreading overseas.
Most people weren’t watching closely, though.
Schools were open.
Restaurants were just jam packed.
It was life as usual.
The markets were very strong, and life felt very just–it was
just predictable.
It was secure, and you know, many people just felt like, hey,
you know, life–this–life’s pretty good.
And if someone had warned you that, within just a few weeks,
the globe would be–would reorganize itself around a
single public health crisis complete with lockdowns, unheard
of in America in my lifetime, all of these travel bans,
emergency powers, digital passports, and the, you know,
shuttered–churches closed, never in my lifetime, and
economic shock waves just within weeks back in early 2020, you
likely would have just said, “Look, man, you’re an alarmist.
That’s never gonna happen.
It’s not possible for them to shut the entire planet
down almost.”
And we thought it was just virtually impossible.
Well, then, virtually overnight, the unthinkable became routine.
And I mean, you remember, it was just in a few–couple of months
or so, our world was just turned upside down.
A lot of people thought just, “It’s never gonna happen
like this.”
Whatever else COVID-19 taught us, it proved this, that modern
societies can pivot from normal to an absolutely new normal at
breathtaking speed.
But it also revealed something else a little bit more sobering
than that, especially for those who study Bible prophecy.
Once these systems of control are built and, of course,
justified in the minds of some, and normalized, the problem is
they rarely go back to what–they rarely vanish.
They rarely go back to where we were, and they–the problem is
they evolve, they expand, and it turns into more control, more
control, more control.
They get repurposed.
And now we stand at the edge of another acceleration and one
that really makes COVID look like a–like it was a crisis
that was used more like a–to be a dress rehearsal.
Artificial intelligence is advancing at such a pace that it
leaves even the architects of it scrambling to keep up.
Artificial intelligence, AI, is not the mark of the beast, but
it is undeniably constructing the kind of world that
Revelation chapter 13 talks about, a world where identity,
your–commerce, compliance, they can all be tracked, measured in
a world where participation can be conditioned.
Now, I remember back in early 2020, my father-in-law, Irvin
Baxter, passed away November 3 of 2020.
So go back to early 2020 before all this COVID stuff really
kicked in.
I went back to–I remember in–I think it was in March,
early March.
My wife, Jana, and I had went up with my father-in-law, Irvin
Baxter, to do a–a prophecy conference in Plymouth,
Michigan, and had the conference.
Everything was normal, wasn’t really thinking about
this virus.
We had heard about it, but I’d heard about viruses before,
hadn’t you?
And so I’m not really alarmed by anything, but when we come back,
I remember coming–flying back into Dallas-Fort Worth Airport.
We’d been hearing on the news that hysteria and the grocery
stores are going nuts, you know, the lockdown and all this
other stuff.
And so I told my wife–I said, you know, “Let’s just stop by
the grocery store on the way home just to kind of get a lay
of the land.”
I kid you not, we went into Kroger’s–
I lived out in Wylie, Texas here–
We went into Kroger’s on the way home, and that place looked like
Vietnam had just hit.
People were pulling stuff off the shelves, filling their
grocery carts up.
The guys were bringing stuff out on pallets with pallet jacks,
and people were ripping the plastic off of that and
grabbing stuff.
And I thought, “Man, what in the world just happened?”
That morning, everything completely normal in Michigan.
Get back to Dallas, and by that evening, when they had made some
of the announcements of what were coming of the COVID
situation and everything, it went crazy.
I’ll never forget it.
But the scenario I’m telling you about right now with AI and
everything, this global–what did
Catherine Austin Fitts call it?
She called it a–an electronic–a digital
concentration camp.
Well, folks, this is not hysteria.
It–this is trajectory.
Scripture is very, very clear.
The mark of the beast is gonna come on the scene very soon.
Now, if you look at the timeline of everything and how we’re
progressing so quickly through these things, the mark of the
beast, it’s gonna emerge very shortly before the return of
Jesus Christ.
And the fulfillment of that prophecy, it’s not in question.
It’s gonna happen.
All of the prophecies will come to pass just like the Bible says
they will because God knew the end from the beginning.
He went back and told the writers of the Bible, “Look, I’m
gonna tell you guys what’s coming, this, then this, a world
government, a world religion.
They’re gonna use a global economic sanctioning system to
sanction everybody into compliance.”
And God has already seen all this stuff play out.
That’s why the Bible prophecies are just clipping off one right
after another.
He actually prophesied in his Word, the Bible’s God’s Word,
that he would come to–that the Messiah would come to the earth
the first time to be put to death to purchase a plan of
salvation so we could go to be with him when he comes back a
second time.
The Bible’s crystal clear on that.
But, of course, many people missed it the first time ’cause
they didn’t understand the prophecies, and many people will
miss it the second time because they don’t understand the
prophecies of the Bible.
And that’s one of the things we help to remedy.
However–so the fulfillment of this prophecy is not
in question.
What is in question is how rapidly this infrastructure
required to enforce it is being assembled because we
know–we’re watching, you know, potential for World War III,
potentials for an Israeli-Palestinian peace
agreement, and we’re watching the establishment, the ongoing
establishment of a world government, Revelation 13, a
world religion, Revelation 13.
But this global economic sanctioning system–we’re
watching, you know, whether God’s people, they possess the
discernment to distinguish between prophetic fulfillment
and prophetic foreshadowing or just plain speculation.
Is this all just something we’ve made up in our, you know, mind?
Is it a dream?
Are we living in a fairy tale, or is this stuff really coming
to pass?
And I can tell you the answer is it absolutely is coming to pass
right before our very eyes.
The mark of the beast is not here yet, but the system that’s
going to be used to implement that is well on its way to being
ready to go.
What Revelation 13 actually says, you know, before we
walk–before we talk about this technology, we got to start back
at the Scripture, right?
Revelation 13, it’s not some kind of just symbolic fog.
It’s not a–God was not writing a big comic book and said, “You
know what, I just–I need some filler here.
Didn’t–don’t really have anything else I want to impart
to humanity, so I’m gonna put these crazy beasts and all this,
you know, weird stuff in here and–” that’s not what
Revelation 13 is.
Revelation 13 is one of the most specific prophetic passages in
the entire Bible
that’s concerning the endtime system of the Antichrist.
I mean, it lays out three pillars of that system, like I
said, a global political authority, a world government
referred to as the beast.
And when it talks about the beast there, you need to
understand in Revelation 13:1 through 8, when it makes a
transition from talking about the world government in verses 1
through 3 to the Antichrist, the leader of that and–because
throughout the Bible, many times it’ll refer to the Antichrist as
the beast and the world government as the beast, and you
need to understand how to discern which one is which.
And then, of course, Revelation 13 goes on to talk about the
global religious system with the leader of that being
the enforcer.
Actually, the religious system of a–of the whole–on the whole
is the enforcer, and of course, it’s got the false prophet
at–sitting at the helm of that, but they’re going to use the
global religious system to–believe it or not, even
though it’s called a “religion,” they’re gonna use it to
weaponize the churches and the religions of the world to get
them to advocate for the world governing body.
Again, that’s Revelation 13:11 through 15.
And then right there at the very end, there’s gonna be a global
economic structure designed to compel allegiance, compliance, a
feudal pledge of allegiance.
The Bible calls it they will actually be worshiping the
Antichrist, and it says that they will worship the dragon.
They’re gonna be worshiping Satan himself by complying with
the edicts of this world governing body.
This is why it’s such a danger.
It is of absolute eternal consequence.
You cannot partake in this stuff, can’t take the mark of
the beast.
You can’t pledge allegiance to anything other than
Jesus Christ.
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Dave: So the economic element, it’s unmistakable.
Revelation 13:16 through 17, the Bible says, “And he causeth
all, both small and great, rich and poor, free in bond, to
receive a mark in their right hand or in their forehead, and
that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark.”
Now, this is not some kind of an abstract language.
It describes a controlled economic gateway, a system where
access to commerce, your entire ability to function in society,
to get gas, to get groceries, to have some kind of a bank account
to pay your bills,
and, I mean, imagine if everything is set up on a–in
the future in a central bank digital currency where you have
to pay your bills through that central bank digital currency.
There’s no other method.
You can’t write a check, can’t–there’s no cash.
You–there’s no other method to pay your bills other than a
central bank digital currency or some kind of a digital means of
commerce, and yet they can cut your–cut
off your ability to do that.
Now, this is gonna be what the mark of the beast is gonna
look like.
So, your participation in that is not assumed.
They–it’s not your human right, but it’s gonna be granted by
the government.
Now that–you wondered why we went back to COVID in that
situation, how that was kind of a trial run
for the mark of the beast.
And a lot of people say, “Oh, you’re just kind of
sensationalizing stuff.”
Oh, no, I’m not.
I’m telling you, look at how times can change just in a
matter of weeks, and they can lock down the world.
The mark of the beast is not just a technology issue, and
here’s where many of the discussions kind of go
off course.
The mark of the beast is not merely a device.
It’s not necessarily, oh, you took a chip, so now you’re going
to hell or some kind of a code or a credential or a–some kind
of a card you can hold in your hand or your retinal scan or
something like that.
The mark of the beast is inseparably connected to
worship, again, allegiance.
This is why I say there’s two things you should never do ever,
ever in your life in the future.
Never take a mark of identification
on your person anywhere.
I don’t care what it is.
I did not say don’t ever get a
pacemaker or something like that.
That–I said a mark of identification.
Don’t ever take that on your person ever, and something that
would restrict–that somebody could use that to restrict your
ability to function in society.
And number two, never pledge allegiance, thereby worshiping
the Antichrist or his world governing system.
Those are two things that you should have a line in the sand
all the way to China and beyond and say, “I will not cross
this line.
Nothing’s gonna get me to do it, and I’m not–there’s–it’s not
gonna–I’m not gonna be coerced to do it because it’s of
eternal consequence.”
Everyone who does that is gonna go to hell.
It’s Revelation chapter 14.
You can beat around the bush.
We can talk about all kinds of stuff, but that’s what the Bible
says is gonna happen.
The Bible says, “Their torment ascendeth up forever
and forever.”
They’re tormented day and night.
Now, Revelation 13, it repeatedly links the mark
to worship.
All the way through there, the Bible talks about a feudal
pledge of allegiance or worship to the Antichrist
and his global governing system.
It does not say that you’re gonna pledge allegiance to and
worship the false prophet who’s over the world religious system.
Doesn’t say that.
The false prophet is gonna be trying to get people to worship
the Antichrist in his world governing system.
That’s what it’s all gonna boil down to because there will come
a time–and that’s why the world government is going to help
establish the world religious system.
But in Revelation 17, the Bible says there’s coming a time when
the world government and the AntiChrist, they will turn on
the woman–or the world religious system and destroy her
and burn her with fire.
She is–they’re gonna cast her aside like a used up–a
compromised female.
And because the whole goal is to get people to–the Bible says
that Satan, the dragon, gives the world government and the
Antichrist his seat, power, and great authority.
Now, the false prophet, it’s highly likely that he will be
possessed of the devil as well or of a demon and–but that–but
the feudal pledge of allegiance, to worship, that’s gonna to be
to the Antichrist.
So this Revelation 13:16 through 18, the mark of the
beast, it links this–the worship of the Antichrist and
the beast and the dragon, or Satan, empowering him.
And the Bible says, “And they worship–” this would be
Revelation 13:4.
“And they worshiped the dragon,” the dragon is Satan, “which gave
power unto the beast, and they worshiped the beast.”
So that’s gonna be the goal of all of this system in
the endtime.
Then, of course, Revelation 14, it makes the stakes even
clearer, right, that they receive the mark of the beast,
that there’s–its eternal consequences.
So the Bible says in Revelation 14, that if any man worshiped
the beast or his image or receive his mark, the same shall
drink of the wine of the wrath of God.
And so, oh, man–and that’s when you go to Revelation 16, where
it talks about the wrath of God: “The very first vial is a
grievesome and noisome sore that’s poured out upon them who
receive the mark of the beast.”
But the Bible also says it’s gonna be eternity in the lake of
fire, so because you’re worshiping–you’re denying the
real Christ and you’re worshiping the false Christ or
the Antichrist.
So that changes the conversation entirely, right?
So we’ve got to speak carefully and biblically about
these things.
And I know, you know, this is pretty ominous and–but it’s got
to be an ominous prophecy.
It’s got to shake some people and say, “I can’t do that.”
There are people who have never been in church.
There are people who are backsliders, people that are
away from God that still would say, “I’m not gonna take that
mark of the beast,” ’cause they know that there’s something
about that that I–that will send me to hell.
And there are people that have never been to church, but they
still have heard–maybe their grandma or somebody, and you
know, maybe they went to Sunday school as a little kid or
something–that I can’t take that mark of the beast
type situation.
And there are people who have backslidden away from God that
said, you know, “I’m not going to church right now.
I’m not living right, but I know I’ll never take the mark of
the beast.”
So, the mark, It’s going to involve a mechanism that governs
buying and selling.
Again, Revelation 13, very, very detailed here.
And so it’s gonna affect buying and selling, your ability to
function in society, but at its core, the mark represents
spiritual allegiance to the Antichrist system.
This is worse.
This is what would send you to hell.
We all have cards, right?
We all have–I have a debit card that allows me to rent vehicles
when we travel and get flights and a lot of different things
that I use a card for.
So using a card or–you know, I’ve had to give my fingerprints
for stuff before for identification to go in certain
buildings, or even on my computer I have it set up where
I can just put my fingerprint, boom, they take o–it fires the
computer up.
That’s not–I haven’t taken the mark of the beast.
And so there are people on the earth today that have taken
chips already.
Would I say that they’ve taken the mark of the beast?
No, not at this point.
Would I ever do that?
No, I wouldn’t do that.
You couldn’t pay me enough to do that.
But would I say that the people that have taken marks and using
retinal scans and doing all this other stuff–
have they taken a mark of the beast?
No, I would not.
The worst part about it is is this feudal pledge, this
spiritual pledge of allegiance to the Antichrist.
That’s something you absolutely can never do.
But to make sure you don’t take the mark of the beast at all, no
mark of identification on your person, no pledge of allegiance
to the Antichrist or its world governing system.
And that’s why Endtime has has consistently taught the mark of
the beast cannot be reduced to every new invention.
I mean, you know, every time something comes out, every
medical advancement or every technological
breakthrough–the–Elon Musk put the chip in people’s head, and,
you know, would you not consider it if you were completely,
totally blind and you could get a chip put in your head that
would allow you to see?
Man, I would–I’d consider that.
Or some kind of a device that could, you know, help you speak
or what–anything, to hear?
Same thing.
So there’s nothing–some people, every medical advancement or
technological breakthrough, people want to say, “Well, no,
that’s the mark of the beast,” and
sensationalize it and blow it out.
No, the Bible is very specific about these things, and the
Bible says God is not the author of confusion.
The prophecies in the Bible are very, very specific.
The things that are kind of a gray area, I can let God figure
that stuff out.
But when it talks about eternal consequence, it’s just absolute,
very clear, open.
God says, “Boom, boom, boom, this is the way it’s gonna be.”
So Scripture presents this as a defining line in the sand for
us, a moment of declared loyalty during the final three and
one-half years.
And, you know, technology, it may build the infrastructure,
but worship is what seals the deal.
It’s a choice that you’re gonna–everyone is gonna have
the choice in the near future.
Now, again, the country of Jordan, the country of Israel,
country of the United States of America, the Bible tells us that
they will not come under the full compliance of
the Antichrist.
Will there be–think about this, though?
Will there be people here in the United States that try to
implement the mark of the beast?
I promise you there will be.
I don’t know if it will become the law of the land here, but I
promise you, with the way America is divided now between
globalist people who want a world government and people who
do not, nationalists, people who are liberal, people who are
conservative–that’s really the tug of war we feel here
in America.
I promise you, there are people who want a world government so
bad, they’ll probably try to push this here in America.
But I think there are enough people that understand the
prophecies and understand that this would–you talk about
surveillance on steroids, where they could use a body chip or
some kind of a mark of identification on every single
person from birth to death, that where they can control your
ability to access society at all and to function.
Then I think there are a lot of people in America that’ll just
stand up and say, “No, we’re not gonna do that.
No way, no shape, no how.”
Before I leave this point here, I want to make sure everybody
knows, because I’ve had a lot of people talk to me about that
chip that–Neuralink is what it’s called with Elon Musk, the
chip in your brain, and pacemakers and all kinds of
different things in your body.
And you know, they’re–“Oh, no, I could never do that.”
And again, a mark of identification, you can’t take
that on your person.
I would never do that.
I would never do an invisible tattoo that looks like a barcode
that somebody could run under a scanner, but then I have the
ability to cut that off my ability to function in society.
I’m never gonna have that put on my person at all.
And certainly the spiritual aspect of it, I will never
pledge allegiance to the Antichrist’s world
governing body.
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