The End From the Beginning—Part 4—Modern Interpretations—Agriculture, Mining, and Health Care

 

The Old Testament, by contrast, is dominated by a different form of typological thinking: eschatological correspondence between beginning and end.
— Urzeit and Endzeit

Introduction and Review

Parts 2 and 5 of this series examined some foundational early stories of the Bible and how they apply to future events. 

This fourth installment will view some examples of modern technological advances and how they can be interpreted through the lens of Biblical narrative. 

Farmers cultivate a field using modern technology

Data Farming

Modern-day farming practices related to "the field" offer a metaphorical glimpse into the inner workings of the emerging human gathering system already underway. Wikipedia describes this process.

... farmers cultivate the land to maximize their yield. They manipulate the environment to their advantage using irrigation, pest control, crop rotation, fertilizer, and more. Small-scale designed experiments let them determine whether these treatments are effective. Similarly, data farmers manipulate simulation models to their advantage, using large-scale designed experimentation to grow data from their models in a manner that easily lets them extract useful information ... the results can reveal root cause-and-effect relationships between the model input factors and the model responses, in addition to rich graphical and statistical views of these relationships. 
 
Pioneer Hi-Bred International in Mankato, Minnesota, provides agricultural services for Blue Earth County. They use biotechnology (the exploitation of biological processes for industrial and other purposes, especially the genetic manipulation of microorganisms to produce antibiotics, hormones, etc.) to produce higher crop yields. Their motto is "The Miracle of Science."

This developing world system uses the same manipulative techniques in the field of all humanity. This process is called "data farming." 

Data gathering is for a one-world, godless system that will manipulate everyone and everything for profit and advantage. It will carefully collect every piece of information on every individual. Decisions about human life will be made based on data gathering and artificial intelligence solutions, where "good" and "right" decisions will be defined subjectively.

"The Harvest is Here"

"Harvest is Here," says the introduction to "Pioneer's" Corn Revolution Podcast. This phrase eerily recalls Jesus' references to the times of the "end." He uses a similar phrase to describe the harvest of humankind in the book of John.

Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and the harvest comes’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already. 

— John 4:35

Jesus uses an agricultural metaphor to describe the world and its people. (Matthew 13:24-30) Similarly, present-day seed, crop, and field terminology and practice are parallel to their application in the field of humanity. Pioneer boasts of its gene selection capabilities. 

"Impeccable Pedigree records allow breeders to quickly select genetic lines with the most potential to solve challenges and increase yield"

These same questionable practices are occurring in "the field" of humanity through genetic engineering and editing. Much like corn, we are being studied and measured by how we respond.

"We take it to the field ... New tools give precise measurements on how plants respond ... running millions of simulations using propriety algorithms for the most accurate predictions ... so only the best make it to a farmers field."

Their claims bear a striking resemblance to the first chapter of Genesis.

"We have the world's most comprehensive corn germplasm library. And every year, we create more unique genetic lines, each one traceable back to our beginning in 1926."

Data Mining

According to an online article about blood bank data gathering and analysis, "data mining" is described in a way that captures where this is going, as it refers to exposure.

"Data mining is a process of the knowledge discovery in databases and the goal is to find out the hidden and interesting information"
 
"We think we are searching Google, but Google is searching us," claims Mark Biltz from El Shaddai Ministries.

The name "Google" apparently originated as an accidental misspelling of a mathematical term. However, I find it interesting that the word can be divided into "Go" and "ogle," which fittingly describes the invitational aspect of internet searching on both ends. The term "ogle" means to stare at in a lecherous, covetous manner. While we covetously look through things to ogle, larger entities also ogle us for profit and potentially to advance other social agendas.

Much like a great lover, we are becoming so well known by this artificial intelligence system that it can even finish our sentences for us.

With Google's Smart Assist, Google's artificial intelligence figures out what you're trying to say and autocompletes the sentence for you. 

— USA Today 

On that note, it's not the system we should fear. The true lover of our souls is the one we have rejected, and that should be our concern.  

I have delivered her
Into the hand of her lovers,
Into the hand of the Assyrians,
For whom she lusted.
They uncovered her nakedness

— Ezekiel 23:9-10

This ogling will expose our most intimate and private parts through responsive patterns of internet activity and reactions.


Chaos: Beginning and End

Splunk's advertisement caught my eye while I was reading a newspaper. It reminded me of the Genesis beginning chaos and its connection to today. 

Splunk is a software company that searches, monitors, and analyzes big data by identifying patterns. Here are the company's claims, couched in the language of Genesis 1. 

Splunk harnesses the chaos. But what if you didn’t have to bring order to the chaos to make sense of it? Splunk lets you embrace the chaotic, messy nature of your data and process it in its raw form, no matter its variety or velocity ... Every department is embracing new technologies that are creating troves of meaningful data. We want to empower everyone to go from chaos to meaningful business outcomes ... There’s a whole universe of hidden gems in your company’s data. Dark Data Bright Future

Splunk also announces its cloud platform and AI capabilities, reconnecting us with the "tower to heaven" in the Babel account. 

In 2016, Google announced its cloud platform will integrate with Splunk to expand in areas like IT ops, security, and compliance. The company also announced additional machine learning capabilities for several of its major product offerings, which are installed on top of the platform.

Machine learning, according to SAS, a software analytics company, is: 

"A branch of artificial intelligence based on the idea that systems can learn from data, identify patterns and make decisions with minimal human intervention." 

Machines are programmed to draw their conclusions based on data and the patterns it creates.

Preparatory global conditioning

Head and Hand Technology Depicted Through an Ancient Lens

Ezekiel uses the same "hunting souls" terminology to refer to the false prophets who lead people astray.

Thus said the Lord Jehovah:
Woe to those sowing magic charm bands for all joints of the hand,
And to those making attachments
For the head of every stature—to hunt souls,
The souls do ye hunt of My people?
And the souls ye have do ye keep alive?

— Ezekiel 13:18

These ancient cult adornments, mentioned in connection with the hand and head, sound eerily similar to a prophetic verse in the Book of Revelation. Chapter 13 discusses a beast (an idolatrous false prophet). The portrayed beast traps men's souls through a global economic system, marked on the hand or forehead.

He (the beast) causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 

— Revelation 13:16-17

A present-day application involves the development of a "one-world order" driven by a global economic system. This Babel-like system icon is the "One World Trade Center," also known as "The Freedom Tower." I can't help but wonder if the Psalmist saw how humankind would interpret freedom in this day and age when He wrote the second Psalm. 

Why do the nations rage,
And the people plot a vain thing?
The kings of the earth set themselves,
And the rulers take counsel together,
Against the Lord and against His Anointed saying,
"Let us break their bonds in pieces
And cast away Their cords from us." (man's version of freedom)

— Psalm 2:1-2

The Psalmist, therefore, offers us a caution.

Now, therefore, be wise, O kings;
Be instructed, you judges of the earth.
Serve the Lord with fear,
And rejoice with trembling.
Kiss the Son, lest He be angry,
And you perish in the way,
When His wrath is kindled but a little.
Blessed are all those who put their trust in Him.

— Psalm 2:11-12

The rapidly developing one-world system is doing precisely this. Humanity is attempting to create a global commune by enticing and gathering all the earth's inhabitants under the lordship of its distorted interpretation of good and evil.

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes,
And prudent in their own sight!

— Isaiah 5:20-21

The bait used in the system's trap is the illusion of freedom and ease from restraints of any kind.

Gathering populations and uniting to exclude God hijacks God's plan and directly opposes it, as expressed in Paul's letter to the Ephesians. God desires that the blood of His Son blot out our transgressions to liberate us unto Himself. In contrast, the world's governing entities seek to expose and control their members.

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times that He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him. In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory. 

— Ephesians 1:7-12

"In Him" is the key phrase. He is the ark we need to enter.

Micro-chipping: It's a Seed

The discussion of micro-chipping in relation to end-time events is not new, and until recently, it had a science fiction ring to it. We can now see that micro-chipping is not just coming, but is here! According to USA Today, the chip is not too far off. 

"You will get chipped. It’s just a matter of time. 
 
50 of the 80 employees at "Three Square Market" in Wisconsin willingly took an offered microchip implant inserted into their hands. The company designs full-meal break room kiosks that let you pay with a credit card or by swiping a chip-inserted hand. 

The chip is about the size of a seed. Much like a seed that contains genetic information unique to a species or individual, the chip will carry biometric information associated with a person, including identification, payment details, and medical data. 

Regarding "end from the beginning" connections, the idea of an implanted seed reminds me of Genesis chapter three, which speaks of the "seed" of the serpent.

So the Lord God said to the serpent: ... I will put enmity 
Between you and the woman, 
And between your seed and her Seed. 

— Genesis 3:14-15 
 

Amazon One

Another example of chipping's technological advancement is the development of hand-swiping mechanisms for identification and payment in stores. Amazon's introductory website says you can unlock the world with the swipe of your hand.

"One way to unlock the world, powered by your palm ... Amazon One simplifies everyday interactions. It's a free, contactless service that lets you use your palm to pay, enter, or identify yourself."

Amazon One was not successful because of low customer interest and the high cost of the technology needed to run it. Nevertheless, it laid the foundation for future shopping possibilities.

God told Adam that every tree in the garden was "free" to eat except one.

Then the Lord God commanded the man, “You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die.” 

— Genesis 2:16-17 

Eating from the tree of knowing (experiencing and determining for oneself) good and evil came at a cost. Adam and Eve's partaking in it required them to forfeit their eternal life. They traded their very own souls in the deal.

... the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

— Romans 6:23

John's revelation fascinatingly connects the transactional aspect of this end-time mark (information-bearing seed insertion). 

He also caused everyone (small and great, rich and poor, free and slave) to obtain a mark on their right hand or on their forehead. Thus no one was allowed to buy or sell things unless he bore the mark of the beast—that is, his name or his number. 

— Revelation 13:16-17 

We are inching closer and closer to a cashless society, where using these mechanisms will be required to buy or sell anything. 

When traced back to its root word and related meanings, the Greek word used for "mark" in the above verse describes a type of written documentation of information on any medium. It is considered an imprint associated with branding. Branding identifies ownership. The question is always who owns you. 

This particular word is used predominantly in the book of Revelation in association with this end-time "mark." However, it has one exception in Acts.

Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. 

— Acts 17:29 

The verse above connects us to the beastly system, fashioned by man's devising rather than by God's. Rebellion is at the core of this godless system. The hand "mark" has been discussed, but what about a mark on the forehead? The next section covers this topic and draws a similar connection to the hand. 

Amazon HQ2

Tech giant Amazon is joining the ranks of the Babylonian tower club with its plan to build a Helix-style tower in the Arlington Crystal City neighborhood of Virginia, home to several government offices connected to the Pentagon. This neighborhood is known for its underground, city-like network of corridors and shops. The projected completion date is 2025.

The structure will occupy space in the Pentagon neighborhood of Arlington. Both communities are collectively known as "National Landing."

Amazon also has a headquarters in Seattle, Washington. Its architectural design consists of three sphere-shaped garden spaces, human-made Edens. Symbolically, the whole "global" theme cannot be denied. The spheres are made from pentagonal hexecontahedron structures that create 60 faces. Trees appear to be a prevailing subject in all of these structures. 


Medicine Meets Artificial Intelligence

The world-renowned Mayo Clinic is now collaborating with Google to develop an AI system designed to collect patient data and research, and then utilize that data to diagnose and create personalized treatment plans. As Health Care Dive reports, an artificial intelligence system will make healthcare decisions for you.

Mayo hopes to leverage Google's artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities to advance its digital diagnostics, augment its ability to conduct medical research, and improve treatment precision and clinical outcomes.

According to Chamber Business News, this will be a cloud-based system.

Google will open its Cloud platform for Mayo to use advanced cloud computing, data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. (AI). 

Although "cloud" is simply a descriptive term, it still metaphorically illustrates the modern interpretation of Babel.

And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens. 

— Genesis 11:4 

In an article by KAAL ABC 6 News, Alice Keefe quotes Mayo's Chief Information Officer, Christopher Ross, regarding the collection of patient information and the inability to opt out of this type of permanent storage. He also mentions the goal of creating a united healthcare experience.

"Ross, said, 'information stored in Google cloud will be safer than current data centers, but patients won't be able to opt-out of their information being sent there' ... Through the power of technology, and expertise in two fields, the partnership's goal is to create a one healthcare experience." 

The invitation to enter something without the ability to leave sounds a bit similar to "The Hotel California." This again references Nimrod's gathering trap. Mayo is driving most of its services to its Rochester site by closing its rural and small-town satellites. 

The documentary "AI Race" explores data harvesting, ownership, and control, examining how these concepts apply in the field of economics. 

" ... really at the core of it is the economic system is really the problem in play here. It's about the ownership of AI and the robotics and the algorithms. Data is the new oil" because as we move to a digital economy we can't have automation without data ... physical assets to data assets ... jobs of the future will leverage data." "whoever has the data has the power." 

Global markets and medicine are the big machines in this story.

Mayo Clinic was recognized as a "health giant" in a KIMT article. Giants in the biblical world were the result of humans merging with the "Sons of God" in Genesis six, which resulted in mutant offspring. Today, the term "giants" describes large tech companies, including seven prominent entities: Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla. 

Mayo Clinic and St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota.

Mayo Clinic's Newest Team Member

The top photo was taken in Mayo Clinic's radiology department, where kiosks equipped with surveillance cameras and facial recognition technology have replaced human staff for patient check-in. The bottom photo shows a robot roaming the halls of Mayo Clinic's St. Mary's Hospital, announcing itself as a new team member. When we reached the elevators, this one told me it was lost. 

Credit Cards and Vaccines

Credit Cards and vaccines, at first glance, seem unrelated. Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, explains the connection on its website. 

Under the banner of “efficiently delivering vaccines to millions of children, tracking identity and immunisation records in a digitised manner and incentivising the delivery of vaccines,” Gavi the Vaccine Alliance - leading partner and catalyst, and Mastercard acting in the capacity of technology partner have embarked on a Public Private Partnership ... Mastercard is a technology company in the global payments industry committed to leading the way toward a World Beyond Cash ... Mastercard brings its expertise in digital infrastructure, data analytics, innovation practices, and sustainable business models, specialising in extending the reach of existing infrastructure through innovative solutions, linking disparate partners and systems. To succeed solutions must be tailored to the context; they should utilise existing elements of the payments infrastructure and build new services that involve players like development organisations, humanitarian organisations and governments.

Its website says Mastercard's motto reads like something out of the Tower of Babel playbook. 

"Mastercard helps governments drive growth, create efficiencies, and improve transparency while advancing social progress" 

GAVI stands for the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations. According to Wikipedia, GAVI unites several global agencies and donors in a "save the world" campaign.

GAVI brings together developing country and donor governments, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry in both industrialized and developing countries, research and technical agencies, civil society, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other private philanthropists. GAVI has observer status at the World Health Assembly ... In August 2014, GAVI changed its name from "GAVI Alliance" and rebranded itself with a new logo deliberately reminiscent of UN organization logos, but using green as a mark of difference .... Pharmaceutical industry representatives were supportive of HSS (Health System Strengthening), possibly because they saw it as key to sustainable markets for their products.

The vision for this unification should be evident in the use of chip implantation to unite data related to human tracking, identification, and financial governance.

The Smart Toilet

The Genesis narrative of humankind's fall from God's good graces came with a consequential predicament. 

Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked. 

— Genesis 3:7

Before the fall, such was not the case.

 ... they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. 

— Genesis 2:25

The developing forms of modern human-created technological salvations follow this pattern of consequential exposure. 

According to Naked Security by Sophos, you can have your excrement and urine monitored and examined by a smart toilet containing a camera and microphone. 

"It uses an array of sensors to measure your excreta, which means that, yes, it can tell when your waterworks are on and will happily extend a dipstick into your babbling brook in order to conduct uranalysis. It will also use AI to scan and analyze images of your stools. In fact, it will capture both your pee and your stools on video and process them with algorithms ...

This system uses a somewhat invasive form of identification unique to you, and that is your anus.

The toilet uses both analprints and fingerprints to identify users, which scientists say is done purely as a recognition system to match users to their specific data.

All of this data is reported to be safely secured in the cloud. Wink wink!

EctoLife

Artificial wombs are the wave of the future. The developing techno-centered, humanistically governed world is working on creating designer babies that will require nothing from their mothers during their first nine months of development. 

No human trials have been conducted yet. They are presently using lambs. 

Pregnancy Robots

Also, already in development is a pregnancy robot designed to address infertility in China. The price is approximately $14,000. It is interesting that China once had a one-child policy. 

Neuralink

Elon Musk recently revealed a brain chip implant called "Neuralink." This coin-sized implant is in its experimental phase and was implanted in a pig's brain for two months to track its neural activity. As it relates to this section's topic, a quote from BBC News says it all.

The interface could allow people with neurological conditions to control phones or computers with their minds ... But the long-term ambition is to usher in an age of what Mr. Musk calls "superhuman cognition," in part to counter artificial intelligence so powerful he says it could destroy the human race.

According to "Barron's" article titled "Musk Shows Off Progress Merging Brains and Machines,"

Musk has long contended that a neural lace merging minds with machines is vital if people are going to avoid being so outpaced by artificial intelligence that, under the best of circumstances, humans would be akin to 'house cats' 

The team leaders' wishlist of project goals reads a bit like an attempt to be Christ themselves. Their list included the following, as quoted from the above article.

  • technology returning mobility to the paralyzed and sight to the blind,
  • to enabling telepathy and the uploading of memories for later reference -- 
  • or perhaps to be downloaded into replacement bodies.
The insertion of this seed-like technology into the hand and head centers around business transactions, access systems, mind monitoring, and controls, which sound eerily similar.

According to a "Times of Israel" article, a Neuralink device currently in testing was implanted in a monkey's brain, enabling it to play a simple computer game telepathically. The end quote suggests that this type of technology, which appears beneficial, could potentially harbor great evil. 

Experts and academics remain cautious about his (Elon Musk's) vision of symbiotically merging minds with super-powered computing.

Monkeys, the animals humans seem to confuse with themselves in their evolutionary theories, and the pig, a biblically unclean animal, appear to be at the center of these experiments.

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