THE MAN WHOSE BOOKS INTRODUCED MANY TO JESUS CHRIST

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C. S. Lewis is one of Christianity’s most respected voices: whether as a fantasy writer whose stories have reached hundreds of millions or as an apologist and lay theologian who may be the most quoted Christian today. But what made the C. S. Lewis we all know and love? A film from the Fellowship for Performing Arts (FPA) tastefully and compellingly presents Lewis’s journey from convinced atheist to the titan of the Christian faith that he is today.

There is little doubt that C. S. Lewis will go down as one of the most influential Christian writers and minds of all time — certainly of the past few hundred years. Lewis is especially well known for writing the legendary Chronicles of Narnia, the seven-book high fantasy series which is among the most impactful book series of the last hundred years. In terms of sheer numbers (and depending on who is counting), The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (1950) alone is in the top eight, top ten, or top fifteen best-selling books of all time. It trails only religious texts like The Bible, The Qur’an, The Book of Mormon and The Little Red Book, masterpieces like A Tale of Two Cities (1859) and Alice in Wonderland (1865), and modern sensations like Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s (Sorcerer’s) Stone (1997). The entire series has sold some 120 million copies.

Between 2005 and 2010, three of the Narnia books — The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian, and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader — were made into blockbuster films on the same scale as The Lord of the Rings (with The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe outperforming Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in the North American Box Office).

While Lewis may not have penned the most popular books of all time, he can lay claim to being a major influence on those who did. J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings was rated the United Kingdom’s “most beloved book” in 2003, but famously, it was Lewis who pressed Tolkien to write the magisterial work.

The Screwtape Letters (1942), an ingenious novel-style devotional book, arguably popularised a new genre — “demonic epistolary fiction” — and has sold millions of copies around the world. The Fellowship of Performing Arts also has plans to adapt the book to film, with production to begin in 2027. In 2000, Christianity Today named Screwtape among its top 100 books of the century.

Not to be outdone, Lewis’s Mere Christianity (1952), adapted from Second World War BBC broadcasts, took the title of the “Book of the Century”. The short, systematic, and brilliantly accessible work of apologetics has been translated into thirty-six languages and sold over three and a half million copies globally.

In this video Gavin Ortlund shares about why he loves C.S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength, and why it is a helpful and important book for Christians today.

HOW DO YOU VIEW THE WORLD?

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Peter Diamandis of Metatrends and Moonshots YouTube video fame chooses to view the world through the lens of evolution and abundance. I choose to look at it through God’s lens, the Bible. Why? Because it tells me what is really going on in this Cosmos and even more important it reveals the future.

Lets look at Peter’s latest report from the lens of abundance: This coming week, my next collaboration with the amazing Steven Kotler is being released (April 14th) called “We Are As Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance.” We Are As Gods tells the continuing story of Abundance, both the upside and the downside, but most importantly provides a survival guide on how to navigate the decade ahead. The book offers a sweeping exploration of our species’ next great transformation. Blending hard science with vivid storytelling, charting humanity’s ascent from scarcity to “superabundance”… and the psychological, ethical, and existential challenges that come with it.

Now Let’s Talk About Some New “Proof of Abundance”

I’ve started doing something new on my Moonshots podcast: searching for and discussing recent breakthroughs or announcements that indicate how we’re transforming scarcity into superabundance on an ever-increasing basis.

This week, five stories caught my attention. Not because they’re flashy. Because they’re undeniable.

1. Renewables Hit the Halfway Mark

Renewables just crossed 49.4% of global electricity capacity. Let me say that again: nearly half of all electricity generation capacity on Earth is now renewable. Solar drove 75% of new additions, bringing the total to 5.15 terawatts. We’re at the halfway mark and the curve is accelerating. This isn’t some future projection. This is today. The energy transition is already here.

2. Lithium Battery Prices: Down 99%

In 1991, a lithium battery cost $10,000. And today? Less than $100. That’s a 99% price drop. Remember all those conversations about whether we could afford enough batteries to electrify transportation? Those are ancient history. The market solved it. Scale solved it. Technology solved it. And we’re not done: new battery chemistries are coming that will drive costs even lower. Every electric vehicle on the road is proof that Abundance doesn’t require central planning. It requires innovation and competition.

3. Lab-Grown Diamonds Below $1,000

The average price of a two-carat lab-grown diamond has fallen below $1,000: down 80% since January 2020. Compare that to a natural diamond at $22,000 to $28,000 for the same size. So much for De Beers. And yes, De Beers’ 3-months-salary campaign was one of the most successful PR brain-washings in history. They convinced generations that scarcity equals value. But technology doesn’t care about marketing. Lab-grown diamonds are chemically identical, optically perfect, and produced without child labor. Abundance wins.

4. AI Created 640,000 New Jobs

AI created 640,000 new jobs in the United States between 2023 and 2025, mostly in categories that didn’t exist three years ago. Not replacing jobs. Creating jobs. This is the pattern we’ve seen with every major technology transition: short-term disruption, long-term expansion. The printing press, the steam engine, electricity, the internet – all of them were supposed to end work. All of them created more opportunity than they destroyed. AI is no different. The question isn’t whether jobs will exist. It’s whether you’re building skills for the new categories or clinging to the old ones.

5. Robots + AI = Energy Abundance / The Maximo Robot

Four Maximo robots are installing 100 megawatts of solar capacity in the California desert at one panel per minute. Think about that for a second. Robots deploying renewable energy autonomously, at scale, faster than humans ever could. Once you get robots, energy, and AI all reinforcing one another, Abundance stops being theoretical. It becomes mechanical. Inevitable.

And this isn’t just a Western phenomenon. Pakistan is now generating most of its energy via solar. Solar is exploding across Africa. This is global. This is real. This is happening whether you’re paying attention or not.

The Pattern

Abundance is a pattern across multiple domains: Materials. Manufacturing. Employment. Computation. Every one of them follows the same trajectory: exponential improvement, collapsing costs, expanding access. That’s not coincidence. That’s the signature of our exponential times, the signature of increasing Abundance.

But here’s perhaps the most important question:

How does society design institutions that distribute this Abundance in a reasonable way?

Technology creates Abundance. Institutions decide who captures it. Markets, governments, legal frameworks: those are the systems that determine whether Abundance pools at the top or spreads broadly. We have the technology.

Do we have the wisdom to build institutions that match it? I think the answer is No in a world that has jettisoned God and His laws.

This is where looking through a Biblical prophetic lens is best. It reveals that we are fast approaching the end of this era when Satan has ruled planet Earth. Satan’s last strategy is shortly to play out. He empowers a man (Antichrist/Beast) who will rule the world for 3 1/2 years (42 months) prior to Jesus return to rescue Israel and restore righteousness at the battle of Armageddon..

“The dragon (Satan) gave the beast (Antichrist) his power and his throne and great authority… People worshiped the dragon because he had given authority to the beast, and they also worshiped the beast… The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months.” Revelation 13:2,3,5

Economic control is imposed with the mark of the Beast on the forehead or hand: a universal, mandatory mark (or its equivalent: the name or number of the beast) linked to worship of the beast’s image. Without it, commerce is impossible.

The ultimate outcome is also clear: the Antichrist’s rule ends with Christ’s return.

“And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered to make war against him (Jesus Christ) who was sitting on the horse and against his army. And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image.” Revelation 19:19-20

There are many prophetic Scriptures about what is next on God’s agenda for planet Earth. It is Jesus Millennial Kingdom. Jesus will rule the nations of this world with the glorified Saints for 1000 years. The nation God established for His purposes will finally fulfil its destiny with their Messiah, Jesus ruling and reigning the nations with a rod of iron. It is a transition period before the second resurrection, followed by the White Throne judgement (Revelation 20:13-15) and then a new Heaven and a new Earth (Revelation 21) where only the righteous dwell. Want to know more about Jesus Millennial Kingdom go to http://www.millennialkingdom.net.

THE CHURCH HAS LOST ITS FEAR OF GOD

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The real issue before us today is not differences in style or methods, but whether the Church still fears God enough to proclaim his truth without compromise.

Church Has Lost Fear of God

In Orange, NSW, Australia, the Easter “Family” Festival organisers used banners promoting the event with the word “Easter” barely visible. On Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week, the festival that should have been a clear, unapologetic proclamation of the crucified and risen Christ, the redeemer of sinful humanity, was diluted, softened, reshaped – and made “safe.”

On Resurrection Sunday, the very foundation of our faith, the event without which there is no Christianity, the highlight at one local church was a helicopter dropping 7,000 Easter eggs on the church lawn for the excited crowd.

The concern isn’t about the eggs – it’s about what is central. What will the children remember? Christ crucified and risen? Or the excitement of getting lots of chocolate Easter eggs? 

Charles Spurgeon was right: “The Church exists for the glory of God, not for the entertainment of men.”

When did the Church forget that? Surely, we knew it once. Easter is not ambiguous. It is not cultural. It is not a generic “family-friendly” moment designed to entertain. It is the central declaration of the Christian faith: Christ died for sin and every person is commanded to repent.  

“He was pierced for our transgressions…” — Isaiah 53:5
“God commands all people everywhere to repent.” — Acts 17:30 

Losing the Fear of God to the Fear of Man

Somewhere along the way, the Church has lost the weight of what it has been entrusted with. The day that proclaims Christ crucified and risen – the day that declares victory over sin and death – has been reshaped to make it acceptable to a world that does not know him.

The gospel is offensive. Yes. But it is the gospel that Jesus himself preached.

It confronts sin. It calls for repentance. It declares that man is not good, and that salvation is found in Christ alone. Yet, instead of standing on that truth with holy conviction, many have chosen to present it in a way that avoids offence and maximises appeal.

But the call of God has never been to make the message acceptable – or to entertain the crowds. The Apostle Paul said, “I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God” (Acts 20:27). And again, “Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort” (2 Timothy 4:2). 

Consider Daniel. In captivity, and under pressure to conform, he “resolved that he would not defile himself” (Daniel 1:8).

He would not bow to the culture. He would not dilute his obedience. He would not trade faithfulness for acceptance.

Not even in something as seemingly small as food.

When commanded not to pray, he opened his windows and prayed to God as he always had – even at risk of his life (Daniel 6:10). Yet he rose to positions of authority in two empires: without once compromising his faith.

God honours those who honour him (1 Samuel 2:30).

But today, many in the Church bend where Daniel stood firm. 

They soften, they accommodate, they adjust. Not under threat of death. Not under persecution, but under the pressure of culture, attendance, and public acceptance.

“For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching…” (2 Timothy 4:3).

That time is here.

Church Compromise over Biblical Conviction

The decline of the Western world is not accidental; it is the fruit of a Church that has too often chosen silence and compromise where God’s word demands truth and boldness.

The Great Commission was not about drawing crowds and entertaining them. It was a command: “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations… teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you” (Matthew 28:19–20). That command has not changed. The Church must come back to holiness. Come back to the Word of God. Come back to the fear of the Lord. Come back to the bold, unashamed proclamation of Jesus Christ – crucified for our sin, and raised to life by the power of God. The tragedy is not that the world rejects the truth; it always has. The tragedy is that the Church, more often than not, no longer has the courage to proclaim it as written. It is a fearful thing to handle the Word of God lightly: he will not overlook the dilution of his truth.

Those entrusted to preach his word will give an account. Not for how well they were received, but for how faithfully they proclaimed. It is the truth – not the compromise – not the spectacle – that sets men free.

Lord, search us, correct us, and bring us back to holiness.

Taken from an article by Kris Dhillon in the Canberra Declaration, 9 April 2026

AI, PROSPERITY AND JOBS

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Prosperity in the USA is, remarkably, broadening. American Enterprise Institute (AEI) finds 31% of Americans are now upper middle class, up from 10% in 1979, and its share of income doubled. Also tech job openings have doubled since mid-2023 to a three-year high, quietly refuting the obituaries for software engineering. AEI finds that the “core” middle class has shrunk, but only because more families have become upper-middle class over time. AEI finds that the “core” middle class has shrunk—but so too has the share of Americans with income too low to reach the middle class. The shrinking core middle class is due to a booming upper-middle class. Only the relatively worse-off parts of the middle class have shrunk—and by less than the upper-middle class has grown.

The US jobs report on Friday was surprisingly strong. That’s not the only part of the job market that’s doing better than expected.

My recent post Generative AI is About to Cause Humanity to Fork is one of my most looked at posts. It is about an article by Peter Diamandis of YouTube Metatrends and Moonshots fame. Let me quote the opening paras of his article “Humanity is About to Fork”.

The choices you make in the next five years will determine which branch of the human story you inhabit. Here’s what’s coming, and how to position yourself on the right side of every fork. Peter addresses five major splits that will cleave humanity into groups with dramatically different futures, capabilities, and lifespans: Fork 1. Creators versus Consumers, 2. Fork 2. Longevity Escape Velocity, Fork 3. Brain Computer Interface, Fork 4. Earth versus The Stars, Fork 5. Digital Consciousness (i.e. uploads). Peter then explores the bigger picture and how he intends to face each of these forks. It is a fascinating article. If you have not seen it I suggest you take a look.

Satan has done a devastating job of changing the world’s understanding of the true history of the Cosmos. He has used people like Charles Darwin to convince the world that it did not need a Creator. A Big Bang and Natural Selection is all you need.

When you look at the complex laws that govern the universe and just the complexity of the human body it is difficult to comprehend how scientists cling to the theory of evolution. Fortunately, many scientists like Dr Dean Kenyon, former Professor of Biochemistry at Stanford University and in 1969 was co-author of the book Biochemical Predestination which was adopted in the USA as a graduate textbook and was regarded as the seminal work on the naturalistic formation of living cells from chemicals of the earth. By the 1980’s Kenyon came to the conclusion that intelligent design was needed for life’s beginning. He said the discovery of DNA and the electron microscope rang the death knell of evolution. Why? Because DNA is complex information which cannot be made from matter or energy. Its only source in intelligence of the highest order. Also, the electron microscope revealed that inside every cell there are complex machines to make the chemicals the body needs and transport devices to move them around and they are all controlled by the information on the DNA . There is no way this can evolve by random chance. It is nonsense. Go to http://www.creation.com and http://www.answersingenesis.org for more information on creation versus evolution.

Check out this short video by Dr Dean Kenyon on intelligentdesign.

GENERATIVE AI IS ABOUT TO CAUSE HUMANITY TO FORK

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The following article “Humanity is About to Fork” is by Peter Diamandis. Named by Fortune as one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders, Peter H. Diamandis, MD is a pioneer in innovation, longevity, and exponential technologies.

He is the Founder and Executive Chairman of XPRIZE Foundation, which has launched over $600 million in competitions driving more than $10 billion in research and development across space, health, robotics, climate, quantum and AI. Peter also co-founded Singularity University, Link-Exponential Ventures, BOLD Capital Partners, and multiple companies focused on extending human health span and accelerating technological progress.

His YouTube Moonshots and Metatrends have huge followings. Let us look at his recent Metatrends article, realising that up front he reveals he is an evolutionist who believes this world is billions of years old. Hence, he does not believe in the Christian God who created the Cosmos just 6,000 years ago, as I do. God has given Peter a brilliant mind and his article makes perfect sense based on his worldview. Tragedy is that he does not know the God who gave him his mind and talents. The God that made Peter in His image and who loves him.

Humanity is About to Fork

The choices you make in the next five years will determine which branch of the human story you inhabit. Here’s what’s coming, and how to position yourself on the right side of every fork. The last time humanity had a major “fork” (speciation) was roughly 500,000 to 800,000 years ago when the human lineage diverged between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. That was a slow process driven by geographic isolation, climate swings, dietary shifts, and sexual selection. This time, over the next few decades, speciation is going to be driven by exponential tech and human selection. Humanity has always had mini-forks. The printing press created a fork between the literate and the illiterate. The Industrial Revolution created a fork between those who owned machines and those who worked them. The internet created a fork between those who understood networked information and those who didn’t. But these are minor compared to what is coming. We’re about to face five major splits that will cleave humanity into groups with dramatically different futures, capabilities, and lifespans. Let’s dive in…

FORK 1: Creators vs. Consumers

The first and most immediate fork is already happening right now, today, as you read this.

AI has handed every human being on the planet an extraordinary set of tools: the ability to build software, design products, generate content, start companies, and pursue ambitions that previously required teams of specialists and millions in capital. Some people will pick those tools up and build. They’ll become creators, entrepreneurs, and innovators. They’ll use AI to amplify their vision and bring it into the world. They will be the architects of the next economy. Others will watch. They’ll consume: watch Netflix, play video games, scroll social media… be passively entertained. The tools will be available to them. They simply won’t pick them up. I’m not making a moral judgment here. I’m making an economic and existential one. In an AI-native world, the gap between a creator and a consumer is not the gap between rich and poor. It’s the gap between someone with exponential leverage over reality and someone without it.

The question is not whether AI will transform everything. It will. The question is whether you’re the one doing the transforming… or the one being transformed.

This is the most urgent fork because it’s already open. The divergence started the day large language models became publicly available, and it’s widening every month. The longer you wait to get on the creator side of this fork, the further behind you’ll fall.

FORK 2: Longevity Escape Velocity

Ray Kurzweil has been right about his predictions at a rate of roughly 84% (you can check out the analysis on Wikipedia). Perhaps his most audacious prediction states that humanity will reach Longevity Escape Velocity (LEV) by 2033. LEV is the point at which, for every year you’re alive, advances in medicine extend your life expectancy by more than a year. Once you cross that threshold, aging becomes a solvable engineering problem rather than an inevitable biological sentence. When this arrives, humanity will split into two groups.

One group will embrace the therapies: epigenetic cellular reprogramming, senolytics, gene editing, organ replacement. They’ll view it as a natural continuation of what humans have always done: use science to extend healthy life. After all, the fact that any of us live past 50 is already an extraordinary feat of modern medicine. Our great-great-grandparents had average lifespans in the 40s. The other group will reject it. They’ll argue that the human lifespan has natural limits that shouldn’t be violated – that there’s something sacred about mortality, about the cycle of generations.

I respect that view. But I want to be clear about what it means in practice. If you have access to life extension therapies and decline them, you’re making a deliberate choice to age and die on an old biological timeline. That’s a valid choice. But it is a choice, and it will determine whether you’re present for the most extraordinary chapters of human history, or whether you watch them from the sidelines of your lifespan.

I intend to be in the room for what comes next. After all, this IS the most exciting time EVER to be alive! (It is Peter, but not for the reasons you expound. God’s Word reveals that the time for Jesus return to Earth to restore righteousness and take control of the world from the angelic being, Satan, is soon. Satan has been ruling this world for almost 6000 years since he deceived Adam and Eve and they rebelled against God. What is next on God’s agenda for planet Earth is Jesus Millennial Kingdom. To prepare for it, go to http://www.millennialkingdom.net.

FORK 3: Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)

By the mid-2030s, Kurzweil expects we’ll have high-bandwidth brain-computer interfaces: direct connections between the human neocortex and the cloud.

Think about what that means practically. Perfect memory. Instant access to any information ever recorded. The ability to understand quantum physics not by years of study but by direct neural integration. Expanded cognitive bandwidth that makes our current intellectual ceiling look quaint. Some people will eagerly adopt this. They’ll argue, correctly, that we’ve always been cyborgs: glasses extend our vision, smartphones extend our memory, language itself is a technology that extends our ability to coordinate with other minds. A neural interface is just the next step on a continuum. Others will say this is where they draw the line. That there’s something about “unaugmented” biological cognition that defines what it means to be human, and that crossing this threshold means becoming something else.

We’ve always adopted technology at first with shock, then with use, then with dependence, then with complete forgetting that it was ever shocking. The neural interface will follow the same arc.

I think the people who opt out of brain-computer interfaces will, over time, find themselves in a similar position to someone who declined the printing press in 1500. Not wrong, exactly… but increasingly operating in a world that functions on entirely different terms than the one they’re equipped for.

FORK 4: Earth vs. The Stars

This next fork is one I’ve dreamed about since my childhood.

Starship is opening up not just the Moon and Mars, it’s opening up the entire solar system. Within our lifetimes, a significant portion of humanity will begin to move beyond Earth into the Earth-Moon-Mars-Asteroid system. In one sense this will represent the means by which humanity incrementally creates a backup, or a “budding”, of the Earth ecosystem. Some people will go. They’ll be driven by the same impulse that sent humans across oceans, over mountain ranges, into uncharted territories. The need to explore, to be present at the frontier, to build something from nothing in a new environment. Others will stay. And there’s nothing wrong with that: Earth will remain the most beautiful and resource-rich world we know for quite some time.

But the humans who go to space (especially those who go early) will develop in directions that those who stay on Earth will not. Different environments, different challenges, different social structures, different relationships with survival and community. Over generations, these branches of humanity will become increasingly distinct.

FORK 5: Digital Consciousness (i.e., Uploads)

The last fork is perhaps the one that sounds most like science fiction, and is therefore the one people are least prepared to think about seriously. Within the coming decades, it may be possible to upload the full contents of a human mind (100 billion neurons, 100 trillion synaptic connections) into a digital substrate. What many people are calling digital immortality.

I want to be careful here. This is not something I’m predicting will happen on a specific timeline. Though we have done this with the brain of a fruit fly, and efforts are underway to do with a mouse. The philosophy here is genuinely hard: is a digital copy of you actually you? These are real questions worth serious engagement. But here’s what I am confident about: some humans will choose this path. And the humans who do will exist in a radically different relationship with time, mortality, and experience than those who don’t.

A biological human with a 120-year lifespan and a digital human with no inherent lifespan limit are not just quantitatively different. They’re qualitatively different kinds of entities. This fork does more than change how long you live, it changes what kind of being you are.

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This Is What Civilizational Change Actually Looks Like

Here’s what I want you to understand about all five of these forks: they don’t require the world to end. They don’t require a catastrophe. They don’t require government permission or institutional approval. They are simply the inevitable consequence of exponential technologies arriving at their logical destinations. To be clear, choosing not to engage with these technologies is not the absence of a choice. It is a choice. And like every fork, it closes off other destinations.

The fork isn’t between the future and the past. It’s between which future you want to inhabit.

WHERE I STAND…

My Choices at the Forks

I’ll be transparent about where I’m placing my bets.

I’m choosing the creator side of Fork 1: using every AI tool available to build, write, teach, and contribute. I’ve never worked harder in my life than I am right now, and I’ve never had more fun doing it. I’m pursuing every longevity intervention I can access at Fork 2. Not because I’m afraid of death, but because I want to be present for what comes next. I want to “speed run Star Trek,” explore all the wonderous futures we will uncover.

I’m watching Fork 3 closely and intend to be an early adopter of brain-computer interfaces when they’re proven safe and effective. I have no interest in putting an arbitrary ceiling on my cognitive capacity.

Regarding Fork 4, I’ve been a space-cadet since I witnessed Apollo 11 at age 8. I’ve built space companies, helped launch the commercial space revolution, and dreamed of this future for 50+ years. As soon as I get a chance to put my boots on the Moon or help build an O’Neill Colony, I’m all-in!

Finally, on Fork 5, I’m staying genuinely open. I’m not sure yet how I’ll feel about leaving my physical existence behind. I still have a lot to learn about upload technology and the implications that follow. I’ve learned to reserve judgment on the things I can’t yet fully see.

But above all, I’m choosing to engage. To stay curious. To keep the mindset of someone for whom the future is not a threat to be defended against, but a territory to be explored.

Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid hit the Earth and the environment changed rapidly, dramatically. As a result, the slow, lumbering dinosaurs could not adapt and went extinct. It was the small, furry mammals (our ancestors) who survived, because of their agility and adaptability, that allowed them to take advantage of a transformed world. (Sorry, Peter but what you believe is pure speculation. To put a time of sixty-six million on the time an asteroid hit the earth and destroyed the dinosaurs is nonsense and hence deception. God created the Cosmos just 6,000 years ago and destroyed not only the dinosaurs but all of mankind except for eight individuals and the animals on Noah’s ark about 4,400 years ago. I would like to introduce you to PhD scientists, Dr Stephen Myer, Dr Robert Carter and Dr John Sanford, who are just three of hundreds, able to explain why the Biblical timeline for history fits the scientific facts. Go to http://www.creation.com and http://www.answersingenesis.org).

The asteroid we call Exponential Technologies has already hit. And now the question is which kind of creature you’re going to be. What choices will you make?

Welcome to the most exciting time ever to be alive!

Peter

WHEN WILL JESUS RETURN PART 2?

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Someone has been hiding the date of Jesus’s Return from you? This Nelson Walters video reveals a specific three-year window for the “second coming of christ”, claiming it’s been intentionally hidden in plain sight within the “bible prophecy” community. We explore how this crucial information, often overlooked in “hidden scriptures”, points to significant “end times” events. This analysis provides crucial insights into “eschatology” and what it could signify for the future as “Jesus is coming” according to biblical texts. If you have not discarded billions of years of Earth’s history and accepted Noah’s worldwide flood as laying down the fossil record including fossil fuels then you will not accept these Scriptures. You need to go to http://www.creation.com and http://www.answersingenesis.org for the evidence.

There is a date in your Bible. A three-year window for the second coming. Not buried, not cryptic, not waiting to be decoded by some obscure scholar. And not a day or an hour either. It’s right there in plain sight in a passage most Christians have read past a dozen times. And it has been systematically hidden by criminals because anyone that would hide such important data from the general public is a criminal. Peter saw all this coming 2,000 years ago. He named these suspects. He identified their exact motive. He left a warning so clear, but we’re ignoring it. And Peter’s word here is that they did it wilfully. This wasn’t an accident. Last week, we found that date. And today, we’re going to uncover why you were never supposed to know it. So, let’s look at what we uncovered last week and then we’re going to unmask those criminals because some of them may even preach in your pulpits.

The Apostle Peter left a conversion equation in 2 Peter 3:8 that one day with the Lord equals a thousand years. And if we apply that to the days of creation plus the Sabbath, you get a 7,000 year blueprint for human history. God has allowed Satan to rule for 6,000 years (6 days) and the seventh day is Jesus Millennial Kingdom. And we’re at the end of day six, 6,000 year clock. It’s almost up. But then we went deeper. Hosea 5:15, God himself is speaking and he says, “I will return to my place,” which he meant heaven until they acknowledge their offense and seek my face. Hence Jesus returning to heaven is the ascension. Jesus departing approximately 30 to 33 AD. Then Hosea 6:2 really gives us the timeline. Israel prays after two days he will revive us. On the third day he will raise us up. And if we apply Peter’s conversion formula that a day equals 1,000 years, well then two days equals 2,000 years. And since Jesus was crucified and then ascended either in 30 AD or 33 AD, somewhere in that window of time, we have a three-year window by adding 2,000 years to when he returned to his place. Right? So we have 30 AD plus 2000 will be 2030 and 33 AD plus 2,000 years is 2033. So Jesus return is somewhere between 2030 and 2033.

WHEN WILL JESUS RETURN?

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The Apostle Peter left a math equation pointing to the Return of Jesus? And it adds up to a 3-Year Window? And it’s SOON?
This Nelson Walters video explores a fascinating theory about a mathematical equation from the Apostle Peter, which, when applied to Old Testament prophecies, could pinpoint a narrow timeframe for the “second coming of christ.” We examine how this theory connects to broader “bible prophecy” and the “new testament” teachings. This discussion provides crucial insights into understanding “Jesus Christ” and the “end times prophecy” through a unique numerical lens, offering a fresh perspective on biblical “scripture.” Make sure you look at the next video When Will Jesus Return Part 2?

GOOD FRIDAY MASS BAPTISMS IN PERTH AND MELBOURNE MAKE HISTORY

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Over 1,500 Australians were baptised across Perth and Melbourne this Good Friday, marking a historic moment of spiritual renewal in two unrelated but record-breaking mass baptism events.

Over 1,500 Australians broke with their past in two mass baptisms on Good Friday. The two gatherings in Perth and Melbourne were unrelated and yet managed to make history. In Melbourne, Global Harvest registered 750 genuine baptisms.

Swan River Makes History: 1,000 Baptised at Kingdom City’s Easter Event

In Perth, Kingdom City Church (KC) recorded 1,000 redirecting their lives through participation in the life, death and resurrection of Christ. Quoting founding Pastor Mark Varughese, KC wrote in a Facebook post that, “the scale of the baptism reflects a growing openness to faith and spirituality.”

“Baptism, in the evangelical Christian tradition, is a public declaration of an inward decision,” he explained. “It symbolises leaving behind the past and stepping into a new life—something that resonates with the universal human desire for renewal, hope, and purpose.”

On X, KC described the Swan River Easter event as “Australia’s largest mass baptism”, quipping, “we just wrapped up history.”

The post, which included a thread featuring testimonies, called the afternoon “unforgettable,” and noted that thousands were there in support.

For instance, new Christian, Abby, explained that she and a friend had been in Australia for 6 months, “and didn’t know God at all.” Abby got saved and explained that God had freed her from past trauma. Because of this new encounter with God, she wanted to participate. A flight back to the United Kingdom clashed with the idea, almost stopping Abby from following through. God stepped in, cancelled the flight, and she got baptised.

750 Take the Plunge at Frankston Beach in Global Harvest’s Biggest Turnout Yet

Not that numbers ultimately matter; Melbourne’s Frankston Beach mass baptism drew lower numbers. Despite this, the non-denominational event still broke records. 750 of the more than 1,000 expressions of interest publicly laid down their lives to take up their cross and follow Christ. Discipleship Co-Ordinator for Global Harvest, Vanessa Jarvis, confirmed with The Daily Declaration that Frankston’s Good Friday turnout was the biggest in the ministry’s six-year history.

The grassroots national movement squarely focuses on making the transformative power of the cross known. They bring what the Barna Group has identified as the curious into contact with Jesus Christ. This, Jarvis said, was part of Harvest’s goal of furthering the advance, reach and receptivity of the Gospel as directed by the Great Commission. Harvest’s pathway programs include resources, discipleship camps and apologetics content. Such as Discovery Bible Studies, which “can be used with different study plans and incorporated into different group structures.” Uniquely positioned, Harvest services the entirety of the community of Christ, not a single denomination. As such, the ministry actively engages a vetted network of 400 Christian volunteers who help with events and relationship-building, Jarvis added.

More Than a Moment: How Global Harvest Connects Curiosity to Conversion

While follow-up remains one of Harvest’s responsibilities, volunteers drive the discipleship mechanism in collaboration with local churches. Volunteers are also checked by referral. Any willing candidate needs to be cleared by a Pastor, elder, or person in authority within their local church community. There is also a two-step contact process between Harvest and potential candidates, Jarvis explained. This sorts the serious from the surreptitious and works towards making sure the sanctity of Baptism – as a sacrament – is maintained. To further ensure mass baptisms do not cheapen baptism, Harvest utilises David Pawson’s instructional teaching on Normal Christian Birth. Here Harvest emphasises the relationship between repentance, regeneration and being baptised. While there isn’t a 12-week course, with loops, hoops and hurdles, preparing for baptism, the baptised are prepared in what it means to heed the call. As for accountability, follow-up is key, Jarvis told The Daily Declaration.

Harvest encourages the unity of the Body of Christ (Ephesians 4) and recommends that those being discipled find a local church. For Harvest, Jarvis declared, “Christ is all!” (Colossians 3:11) The discipleship ministry does not endorse any specific brand, only that the church hold to the Biblical profession of faith in Christ. For those who were baptised at the mass immersion events on Good Friday, this was about coming as you are and not staying that way.

Riley, an atheist who was at Frankston, said he “recently started reading the Bible, and decided to buy a cross to express faith in Jesus.” He then came across a Christian contact he’d made six months prior. He invited him to come down, and they both got baptised.

Harvest and Kingdom City’s platforms are not using mass baptisms as marketing gimmicks. The events, timed as they are this year with Easter, are about solidarity with the cross, repentance and being raised to new life. This is especially so for Global Harvest. While not conventional, they connect conviction with discipleship, curiosity with conversion and new Christians with the Body of Christ.

Article by Rod Lampard in Daily Declaration, 8th April 2006

GOD, AI AND THE END OF HISTORY

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I love John Lennox. He is a gem, a gift to the Christian world of teaching.

This video is Professor John Lennox on the subject of God, AI, and the end of history. Largely it is about understanding the book of Revelation in an age of intelligent machines. For those that do not have time to watch the video I have reproduced most of the content below.

“I’m your host, Dr. Peter Saunders. I’m the chief executive of ICMDA, which is the International Christian Medical and Dental Association. And this webinar is brought to you tonight in combination with the Forum of Christian Leaders as well. ICMDA brings together about 60,000 Christian doctors and dentists from over 100 affiliated movements.

So John, it’s a pleasure to have you here. John is professor of mathematics emeritus at Oxford University and fellow in mathematics and philosophy of science at Green Templeton College Oxford. As we know John has debated a number of prominent atheists including Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Peter Singer. But tonight we are exploring a question that sits at the intersection of theology, technology, and human identity. How should Christians think about artificial intelligence in the light of scripture? And particularly in the light of the book of Revelation, we live in a moment of extraordinary technological acceleration. AI is now diagnosing disease. Is it shaping economies, influencing behaviour, and increasingly mediating how power is exercised in all spheres? And for many Christians, this raises urgent questions. Are these developments morally neutral tools? Do they echo biblical warnings? Or are we in danger of reading tomorrow’s headlines too quickly into ancient prophecy? So, our guest, Professor John Lennox, has spent decades helping believers think clearly at the interface of science, philosophy, and faith. And in his recent book, God, AI, and the End of History, he brings that same clarity to one of the most understood, misunderstood, and often sensationalized areas of the Bible, the book of Revelation. So our goal tonight is is not speculation, fear, or date setting, but rather it’s discernment, understanding what scripture actually teaches, what AI truly is, and how Christian hope, ethics, and wisdom should shape our response in an age of intelligent machines.

Professor Lennox, thanks so much for for joining us tonight. It’s my pleasure to be with you. So you have debated leading atheists and you’ve written extensively on science and faith. Why did you feel compelled at this stage of your life, at this stage in history, to write about AI and revelation?

Well, some years ago, there was a great deal of discussion on the Genesis claim that human beings are created in the image of God versus the claims of technology to enhance humans by AI to such an extent that we might need to revisit what we meant by a human being. And a conference of Christian leaders was arranged in London to discuss this. And I was asked to give the opening talk on what Genesis taught about human beings. The invitation made me curious to delve into the technology and I saw very rapidly that AI was going to raise some very big questions not only for Christians but for everybody. And that’s how I got started on the book entitled 2084 which appeared in 2020. Now in that book since much of the talk about AI was concerned with the future I began to compare the promises of the transhumanists with biblical teaching about the future. And I pointed out that some of the futuristic AI scenarios envisaged by people like physicist Max Tegmark in his book Life 3.0, I pointed out that they were uncannily parallel to biblical teaching on the future, in particular in the book of Revelation. And this aspect of my book generated a lot of interest. And so I thought that I should try to write something to demystify the book of Revelation and make it accessible and to link it with a book that I had already written on the prophecy of Daniel, a book entitled Against the Flow.

The publishers of my book on Revelation were very enamoured with the bits on the technology and so they wanted it inserted in the title and hence we’ve got this title God AI and the end of history but that has confused many people to think that this is my latest book on artificial intelligence. So, let me clear that up. First of all, Peter, it isn’t. My latest book on AI was published last in 2024, and it’s the updated version of 2084. How AI shapes our future. It’s twice as large as the original book and shows just how much has been happening in those four years. That is my most recent book on AI. This book is an exposition of the book of Revelation, but with a careful eye on technology. And so it really is an exposition of the book of Revelation in an age of intelligent machines. So that’s where it comes from. We’re going to get into the book of Revelation uh fairly shortly, but but uh let’s just think about definitions first of all before we talk about revelation. What is artificial intelligence actually and and what is it not? Well, the first thing to realize that artificial intelligence is artificial. It’s not real. In other words, take the simplest kind of AI system. It is essentially computing and it’s a system designed to do one and only one thing that normally requires human intelligence. So the intelligence is simply the simulation. To use the words of Alan Turing who was the genius that really started computing off and raised these questions during the wartime when he built and solved the problem of the enigma machine. It plays a simulation game and one of the big problems with it is it uses words like intelligence, like machine learning and so on that anthropomorphize what is a mechanical and computing system and make people think that it is conscious. It is not conscious. The genius of God in creating human beings that he has linked intelligence to consciousness. These machines are only intelligent in the sense that they can mimic what normally takes human intelligence. Now there are two sorts. There’s narrow AI, which is the AI that we’re mostly familiar with. And then there’s a more speculative artificial general intelligence. And that is the attempt to create a system that can replicate everything that a human being can do, but do it much faster and do it much more expertly and so on. So that there’s a big push in that direction, but at the same time it’s the side of the whole topic that lends itself to science fiction and a great deal of hype. And one of my reasons for writing Peter was to try and demystify it and say what AI is and what it is not. Now let’s give concrete examples just briefly because medicine is one of the areas that has benefited hugely from narrow AI. Let’s take a system that works very well. We have a large database and in it are X-ray pictures of man lungs exhibiting different lung diseases and they’re labelled by the best experts in that field in the world. Those are put in a database. Let’s say there are a million X-ray pictures in the database. Then an X-ray is taken of your lungs because you’re worried about your breathing. And very quickly, the AI sifts through by using pattern recognition statistical techniques and compares your lung X-ray with the million in the database and very rapidly says you are most likely to be suffering from this particular disease. And as a diagnostic tool, very often this will be much better than you get at your local hospital. Now that is being rolled out over very wild fields of medicine with very great success. So that is one positive example. But just to go on the negative side immediately to show that there’s an ethical problem here. pattern recognition, facial recognition technology is very advanced at the moment. It can pick a terrorist out of a football crowd and is therefore very useful to a police force. But that kind of recognition can be used for intrusive surveillance of a population, perhaps a minority population such as is happening in Sing Jang in China with very horrifying results. So what enables criminals to be recognized which we would say this is positive can be used for controlling populations. So that even narrow AI which is so sophisticated snow that it can recognize a person not simply from the front by their face but from the rear by their gate scan be used to control populations. So immediately we’re straight into the ethical problem and the argument is you give up your privacy and we’ll give you security. So that’s a whole debate in its own right. So That’s an example of um narrow AI and there are many many examples but of course we’re pushing forward very rapidly in putting narrow AI systems together and there is advance on many many fronts and one of the big steps forward has been the introduction of so-called large language models like chat GPT And this year it has taken a quantum leap forward just within a month or so. So that it is quantitatively very different from what has happened before and we can discuss that as we can as we go on. So, artificial intelligence is capable of a huge range of different task and and that’s changing exponentially month by month as we go on. But what is what is AI not capable of doing? Well, of course, negatives are very difficult to quantify and there are several things that it was felt would never been so would never be solved. And one of them in science which is a fascinating question is how do protein structures fold? That was a 50-year-old problem. And the amazing thing is that an English mathematician, a genius, he won the Nobel Prize for it. Deus Hassabis solved the problem so effectively that she was able to work out the folding of over 200 million proteins which is staggering. So what people say one day is impossible turns out to be possible the next day and chat GPT has refined its capacities absolutely amazingly. For example, just recently I was asked to do a film illustrating what Jesus meant in John 11 when he said to the disciples who were scared of going back to Jerusalem because it was suicidal. And Jesus said to them, “Are there not 12 hours in the day? If a person walks in the day, they don’t stumble because they see the light of this world that is the sun. But if they walk at night, they stumble because the light is not in them. In other words, we are not bioluminescent. So I asked GPT, please construct a scenario that would get this across. And what it produced in about 30 seconds was absolutely brilliant and usable. So it then asked me, it said, “Since you want to film this, would you like directions for the cameras?” And it spouted a whole scenario, how many cameras, where they should be situated, and all the rest of it. And this is quite amazing. But what it can’t do, I think it’s important since this is not real intelligence. It’s not conscious. So it’s not aware. So the main thrust here is this. As human beings made in the image of God, we can experience what are called quailia. We can smell the wonderful scent of a rose. We can feel the sea breeze on our faces. We can perceive the beauty of the universe as we look through a telescope. Quailia are unknown to an artificial intelligence. It can have no idea of them. It has no ideas at all because it doesn’t think in the same way as human beings do. And so although AI has been used and is increasingly so to produce some level of robotic companionship, it can never replace, I believe, the fellowship that is possible between human beings. And of course, and we’ll probably talk about this later on, when it comes to relationship with God, of course, AI knows nothing of God. So, as you said, the book of Genesis tells us that human beings are made in the image of God. You’ve alluded to consciousness, sensation. What other uniquely human things will AI never be able to do? Well, the question of values, AI knows nothing about values or right or wrong. And human beings are moral beings made in the image of God. And if I may say so, this is one of the places where the transhumanist vision of using AI to perfect humans and to make them into God’s fails. No utopia can ever be built without facing the problem of human sin and rebellion against God. Those two concepts mean nothing for an artificial intelligence. And so one of the richest kinds of human experience from a Christian perspective is that relationship with God through Christ where we understand that Christ has died for our sins and has taken our guilt away and we can have a relationship with God. AI can never replace it or come near it or know anything about it. Which means, Peter, I think that we need to step up much more in emphasizing these absolutely uniquely positive things about the Christian faith that give human beings dignity because AI is very rapidly reducing human dignity. One of the main areas where this is happening is the area of work. Dario Amado Amade is the CEO of Anthropic, one of these multi-billion dollar companies. and he has written an essay just a week or two ago which is well worth reading warning that possibly within 2 years from now the advances in AI are such that 50% of all white collar jobs will be taken over by artificial intelligence in the medical world in the legal world for example there they set up a test and had a very complicated legal legal brief considered and examined by an AI system and by 16 lawyers, top lawyers. The lawyers got 60% of it right, whereas the AI got 96% of it right. And these things for which lawyers are paid a great deal, conveyancing, setting up contracts, all this kind of thing are now at the stage where they can be reproduced almost instantaneously. One of the most interesting things is an article that appeared in the Times last week by Matt Selman who was writing. He is a software developer and creates apps and he runs an AI company and he came to a realization as a result of the leap forward this year that is at the beginning of February, beginning of this month. He said, “I spoke in English and dictated what I wanted from this particular app.” He said, “I left it and came back a number of hours later and found the thing ready for use. The AI had written thousands of lines of code. It had then set up the app and tested it as a human would do, pressing all the buttons, refining the things that were inadequate and so on. And this is the key thing because up until now most of us have regarded AI as a tool rather than an agent. But AIS are now showing signs of agency in a very restricted but real sense. And he said this particular system was making decisions about how human beings might use this that I’d never thought about. And the thing was perfect. And he said, I suddenly realized I haven’t got a job anymore. And he says, it’s coming to all of you. And we need to really be very realistic about this, Peter. This is more scary than anything for people with all of these jobs. It used to be said a few years ago that if you wanted to keep up with the curve, you went into computer science. But now the coding can be done by the AI system. It can think of the codes and put them in. But this scary agency thing I’d like to say something about because it needs Christians to think very carefully about this that the AI that he was using. He said one of the problems and he gave an example is this. If you feed into the system a very big overarching goal, make money for example, and what the system is dealing with is feeding young people with material in their smartphone. It will investigate all sorts of ways of maximizing not only their attention to keep doom scrolling but also their attachment which is now a major feature. So that it will use all kinds of things that the designers of the AI system itself never thought of including going into the dark world to keep their attention and to make profit. It’s a version of the old story of the AI told to make paper clips and it turns the whole universe into a paperclip sourcing factory and regards humanity as irrelevant and destroys them all. But there’s a serious aspect to that and this is why you have even Nobel Prize winners in this field stepping up and saying that they are scared that they can’t control this stuff. They don’t really know what it’s doing or what’s happening. And that poses a huge problem because the control of it is being vastly outpaced by the developments. So those are some of the things that we need to factor into our thinking.

THE COMING JUDGEMENT OF GOD

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One only has to look at how God judged the nation He established for His purposes, Israel, to realise God judges nations. I was reading Amos this morning, he was prophesying during a period of national optimism in Israel (around 700 BC). Business is booming and boundaries are bulging. But below the surface greed and injustice are festering. Hypocritical religious motions have replaced true worship, creating a false sense of security and a growing callousness to God’s disciplining hand. As a result God brings famine, drought, plagues, death, destruction including a violent earthquake. Sadly, none of it brought the people to their knees.

It is no surprise therefore to see the world’s response to God pouring out His Bowl Judgements upon the Earth in the coming last days before Jesus returns to rescue Israel and restore righteousness. The time when He sets up His Millennial Kingdom in the newly restored Jerusalem with the glorified Saints. For more on Jesus coming Millennial Kingdom go to http://www.millennialkingdom.net.

“The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire. They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.“ Revelation 16:8-9

Read what happens when God pours out His final, seventh Bowl Judgement:

“The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple, from the throne, saying, “It is done!” And there were flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, and a great earthquake such as there had never been since man was on the earth, so great was that earthquake. The great city (Jerusalem)was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered Babylon the great, to make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath. And every island fled away, and no mountains were to be found. And great hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, fell from heaven on people; and they cursed God for the plague of the hail, because the plague was so severe.” Revelation 16:17-21