CENTRAL EVENT OF ALL OF HISTORY

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“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”
– C. S. Lewis

These words capture, with piercing clarity, the significance of the central event of all history: the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Jesus of Nazareth claimed to be Israel’s longed-for Messiah, the one who would raise those who believed in him from the dead. They would live in resurrected bodies, in his glorious kingdom, forever.

That’s why Jesus said he was the “resurrection and the life” (John 11:25). Bold claims. Huge claims, in fact.

After Jesus was crucified, his disciples — distraught, disoriented, and devastated — lost all hope (Luke 24:21). Their question was brutal and urgent: How could a dead man be “the resurrection and the life”? Dead men don’t do anything, let alone raise others from the dead.

This is why the resurrection is the linchpin of the Christian faith. Without it, everything collapses: No Messiah. No resurrection of believers. No coming kingdom. Nothing.

As Paul powerfully puts it,

“If Christ has not been raised, then your faith is useless… all who have died believing in Christ are lost!” (1 Corinthians 15:17–18).

As astounding as it might sound, Jesus’ resurrection is as certain a fact as any other historical event. Be encouraged as apologist Wes Huff presents some of the evidence for Jesus’ resurrection in the video below.

The Resurrection Is Everything

Jesus’ resurrection changes everything. It means: Jesus is the Messiah. His kingdom and our resurrection is certain. God’s love for us is proven by the bloodied, beaten man gruesomely crucified on a Roman cross (Romans 5:8).

Easter presents a unique opportunity to share the risen Saviour with others. Consider this: 40% of Australians say they would attend a church gathering if invited by a trusted friend or family member. That’s hardly surprising, given that over 40% of Australians identify as Christian. The openness is there — we simply need to extend the invitation.

To rephrase evangelist Michael Harvey, let’s pray: “Lord, this Easter, is there someone you want me to connect with outside the church?” What a powerful question to carry into this season.

To equip you in sharing the risen Christ, Canberra Declaration curated a powerful resource by Kurt Mahlburg. The short brochure “10 Reasons to Believe Easter Really Happened” is perfect for handing to friends and family, or placing in letterboxes and on church noticeboards.

REAL MEANING OF EASTER – THE LAMB OF GOD

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This is one of the greatest Easter messages I have ever heard and it is all about Jesus, the Lamb of God. You will be blessed greatly by this vide

Jonathan Cahn opens up the most majestic and colossal of biblical mysteries – the mystery of the Lamb – from Genesis to Exodus to Isaiah to the Gospel of John to the Epistles and finally to the Book of Revelation – and then to each of us – amazing and divine!

FINAL NAIL IN COFFIN OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

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The final nail in the coffin of human evolution by Dr Robert Carter published 03 Jul, 2025

Humans and chimpanzees are NOT 99% identical, like we have been told for the last 40 years. The real differences are 15 times greater than the now-outdated evolutionary guesses.

The first estimates of human-chimpanzee genetic similarity were made in the 1970s. DNA from the two species was mixed and repeatedly heated and cooled in a test tube. By passing light through the tube, the amount of DNA alignment was estimated by how cloudy the solution became at different temperatures. This gave us the first claims of “98 to 99%” identity.1 John Ahlquist, whom we interviewed in Creation magazine, was one of the main researchers on that project. The problem with this method, he realized, is that it only measured the DNA that would align. Huge areas of dissimilar DNA could exist, and they would not have been able to see it.2

Most evolutionists simply accepted the “98 to 99%” figure without question and it has been broadcast across essentially all media platforms ever since. The only serious challenge came from the creationist community,3 with only an occasional admission from the evolutionary side. In one of those, the author acknowledged the “myth of 1%” and said that the real number is much less.4

Everything seemed to go in circles for a long time. Then evolutionary biologist Dr Richard Buggs wrote a blog post in 2018 where he concluded that less than 85% of the human and chimpanzee genome matched letter-for-letter.5 This was based on a paper he was about to publish with one of his newly minted PhDs, Josiah Seaman.6 That paper seemed to indicated a 96.6% similarity, but that occurs only after cutting out the centromeres, telomeres, all copy number variations, about 300,000 small insertions and deletions (accounting for about two million letters in each genome), and an additional percentage of DNA that resisted alignment.24 Yes, humans and chimpanzees do share a lot of DNA, but when you include what they don’t share, the percent identity drops significantly, into the low 80% range.

New study with complete data

All this prior work (by Drs. Ahlquist, Tomkins, Buggs, etc.) was based on incomplete sequencing. We did not have a fully-sequenced human genome until the summer of 2023,7 let alone a high-quality chimpanzee genome. Indeed, the early versions of the chimpanzee genome were even assembled on a scaffold of the human genome, automatically making them look more human-like. However, a major new study has completed each great ape genome to a very high standard.8 Like the newest human genome, they are (nearly) complete, from one end to the other. Older versions had major gaps, had faked centromere data, and were highly problematic around the numerous repetitive regions. These ‘telomere-to-telomere’ versions solved these problems.

The assembly of these genomes was no trivial matter. Even after all that work, they had to develop a filtering protocol that rejected certain DNA variants, and they had to hand-curate multiple sections that did not ‘behave’.

The alignment was even more difficult. They identified 175 inversions larger than 10,000 nucleotides, one chromosome fusion, and one large translocation.9 They also saw 632 inversions that were unique to one species only.

Analyzing the data

The ‘percent difference’ data are reported in Yoo et al.’s supplemental information (figure 1).

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Figure 1. The percent difference caused by alignment gaps between human and great apes. Each alignment was divided into 1-million-bp segments and the percent difference caused by gaps in that segment was calculated. The curves represent histogram-like (e.g., count) data, and each curve has been normalized to its maximum value (so that the peaks all have the same height). The mean (average) for each curve is denoted by the short vertical lines, and the values are reported in the column of numbers. The curves are often quite skewed, making an ‘average’ more difficult to see, so the authors also reported the median (middle value, circles). hg002 = human, PanTro3 = chimpanzee, PanPan1= bonobo, GorGor1 = gorilla, PonAbe1 = orangutan.

They did not provide any error bars, just the average for each genome pair. They also broke up the data among the autosomes and the X and Y chromosomes. The blue bulges on the right in figure 1 represent giant gaps in the Y chromosome alignment. The purple bulges on the bottom represent the differences found among the two genome copies within the same individual. I worked up their data to get a complete estimate of divergence between the species (figure 2).

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Figure 2. Genome similarity calculations. The data for gap and SNV divergence for the autosomes and X and Y chromosomes were tabulated. The differences were summed and then combined using the proportional lengths of the three chromosome types in the different species. The human-to-ape and the reverse calculations are not identical due to the presence or absence (depending on which way you are looking) of many alignment gaps.

From that, it was possible to generate a bar chart that showed the within- and among-species differences (figure 3).

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Figure 3. Final data summary. Orange: within-species difference. Dark blue: human to ape. Light blue: ape to human.

99%? Not even close!

This is a big deal. First, many commentators have claimed this proves that the human and chimpanzee genomes are only about 85% identical.10,11,12 They are spot on, but you would not know that from the major headlines. Nor can you easily find the information in the published paper. Instead, you must drill down into more than 100 pages of detailed supplementary information to find the relevant information.

Second, creationist researchers like Dr Jeffrey Tomkins have been vindicated. While the earlier studies were stymied by a lack of trustable sequence data, the newest genomes show how different we are from all apes.

However, third, there are vast stretches of sequence that are nearly identical between humans and chimpanzees. At random, I found one that stretched for several hundred thousand bases and was nearly 99% identical.13Our opponents will misdirect and obfuscate to their dying breath.

Fourth, our opponents will misdirect and obfuscate to their dying breath. Case in point, in a recent video a commentator named Gutsick Gibbon claimed that I agree with her about human-chimpanzee similarity.14 No, while I agree with her that Tomkins is human and made mistakes (I have also pointed out glaring mistakes in her work and several errors in my work as well15), I do not agree with her that humans and chimpanzees are highly similar.

Fifth, God could have created us 99.9999% identical to chimps, or he could have made us 50% identical, or even less. The biblical creation model makes no prior claim on this. We should expect a high similarity because of the obvious structural, behavioural, physiological, and nutritional similarities between us. But how much? Nobody can know! Note that the evolutionary community was also unable to come up with an estimate before the numbers were run. They have no prior commitment to which ape species would be more like us. The debate about which species was more genetically like us lasted until the 1980s. Many people wanted orangutans to win and resisted the notion that chimps were our evolutionary cousins. Some paleontologists were arguing for the primacy of orangutans as late as 2009, although by that point they were a very small minority.16

The four numbers

Finally, there are four things that we need to know:

  1. What is the percent similarity among the parts that align?
  2. What is the percent similarity when you include the parts that don’t?
  3. How many mutations must have occurred over evolutionary time to account for these differences?
  4. How long would it take to functionally integrate new mutations into the genome?

The answer to the first question is now known: about 98%. The answer to the second question is also now known: about 85%. That third question is now where the debate should be, and the fourth question might be the biggest Achilles’ heel of all for evolutionary theorists.

The evolutionary model here is unlike ours in that it is ‘one-tailed’. They will gladly accept high similarity levels, but there is a cliff on the other side of the argument. If we are too dissimilar, they cannot explain the differences in their 6.5 million years. They do have the ability to back up the time to the most recent common ancestor, but even that ability is limited. A few years ago, some scientists were arguing for 13 million years.17 Some wanted to push the time even further back, but the paleontologists would have none of that because that would necessitate putting early apes in with the dinosaurs. They are stuck. The difference must be low. Period.

How much ‘difference’ can they explain?

Given an evolutionary conveyor belt of new mutations entering in, old mutations being removed by selection and drift, and really old mutations going to ‘fixation’ (i.e., 100%), they expect the mutation rate to approximate the fixation rate.

Here’s how the calculations work out:

  • Given a haploid mutation rate μ, the number of new mutations per generation is simply 2Nμ, where N is the population size.18
  • For a new neutral mutation, the probability of fixation is proportional to its frequency in the population. Since there are 2N copies of the genome in the population, and since, by definition, a new mutation starts in one copy of one chromosome, the frequency of that mutation is 1/(2N).19 The rate of fixation (r) would be proportional to the number of mutations that appear (2Nμ).
  • Thus, r = 2Nμ / 2N = μ

If the mutation rate is 100 per individual per generation, that equates to 50 mutations per haploid genome per generation.20 They would thus expect the human genome to accumulate 50 fixed differences per generation.21 Over 6.5 million years (~300,000 generations), they would expect 15 million differences between each species and our common ancestor, or about 30 million differences between us and them today.

30 million differences / 3 billion letters = 1%

THIS is why they have been quoting that 1% figure all these years, and this is why they have been resisting anything else. If the number is much greater, things do not work out in their favor. When the difference grows past that level, their models break down. It is simply too hard to explain so many differences, even in their ‘millions of years’ mindset.

But even a 15% difference could still be explained if large insertions and deletions cause sudden changes. Consider that the chimp Y chromosome is only half as long as the human Y. Does that amount to 30 million differences, or one? For example, if a single deletion erased the heterochromatic arm of the chimp Y chromosome, a 0.5% difference between our two genomes would instantly appear. What other large changes could be effected by such things?

Yet, we are not talking about changes in ‘junk DNA’. Multiple functional genes are in the unaligned regions. Even though about 99% of human genes are found in the other species, Yoo et al. found 185 gene families unique to humans and from around 1,400 to 2,000 gene copy-number differences among the species.22 True, many of the duplicated areas deal with highly repetitive, non-coding DNA, but these areas have increasingly proved to be functional, as we and others have pointed out many times.23 There are also fully-functional genes in these areas, specifically ones that deal with brain function.24 About 55% of each genome, on average, is composed of repetitive elements (LINEs, SINEs, LTRs, etc.).25 These, too, are proving to have functions, so they cannot be ignored in any comparison.

Given many millions of point mutations and tens of thousands of insertions, deletions, inversions, and duplications, can they explain this in an evolutionary context? They can explain some in their models, but those models are often quite simplistic (like the equations above). Random mating is a critical assumption, but it is never true, and non-random mating only slows down how fast new variants spread. There are also questions about population growth and how it affects all calculations. Given that the human population has been expanding (since the Flood or since the invention of agriculture, take your pick), ZERO genetic variants have become fixed in the human genome for the last 10,000 years in the evolutionary timeline. How does ‘no evolution for 10,000 years’ affect the evolutionary forecast?The ‘fact’ that they have been trumpeting from the rooftops since the 1970s turns out to be no fact at all. The real difference is NOT 1%. No, it is 15x greater.

But the fourth question above is perhaps the most fundamentally important question in evolution. Why? Because evolution needs new genes to arise and activate. Humans and chimpanzees do not just differ at the nucleotide level. Our genes are not used in the same ways and our brains have very different wiring pathways. Those changes would not just have to arise. No, they would have to arise, spread out and replace whatever original gene was in that place, and then integrate themselves into the already complex regulatory processes that exist.

This is a massive problem, even for the “1%” crowd. Now that we know the human and chimpanzee genomes are more than 10 times more different than they thought, the problem of evolution only becomes that much more difficult. This is one of the greatest scientific discoveries that supports the biblical creation model. It does not mean, however, that evolutionists will never be able to explain what we see. It does mean, though, that they will be scrambling for cover. The ‘fact’ that they have been trumpeting from the rooftops since the 1970s turns out to be no fact at all. The real difference is NOT 1%. No, it is 15x greater.

  1. See the discussion in Carter, R.W., Reassessing human–chimpanzee genetic similarity, J. Creation 38(1):93–103, 2024. Return to text.
  2. This was one of the things that broke the Darwinian mindset and caused him to turn to the Bible. See Wieland, M., Convert to creation: Margaret Wieland interviews bird expert and former renowned evolutionist Dr Jon Ahlquist, Creation 40(3):36–39, 2018. Return to text.
  3. Tomkins, J. and Bergman, J., Genomic monkey business—estimates of nearly identical human–chimp DNA similarity re-evaluated using omitted data, J. Creation 26(1):94–100, 2012. See ref. 1 for a fuller list of citations. Return to text.
  4. Cohen, J., Relative differences: the myth of 1%, Science 316(5833):1836, 2007. Return to text.
  5. Buggs, R., How similar are human and chimpanzee genomes?, richardbuggs.com, 14 Jul 2018. Return to text.
  6. Seaman, J. and Buggs, R., FluentDNA: nucleotide visualization of whole genomes, annotations, and alignments, Frontiers in Genetics 11:292, 2020. Return to text.
  7. Rhie, A. et al., The complete sequence of a human Y chromosome, Nature 621(7978):344–354, 2023. Return to text.
  8. Yoo, D. et al., Complete sequencing of ape genomes, Nature 641(8062):401–418, 2025. Return to text.
  9. Yoo et al., ref. 7, supplementary information, p. 101. Return to text.
  10. Luskin, C, Letter to the Smithsonian: Correct your signage on human-chimp genetic similarity!, evolutionnews.org, 27 May 2025. Return to text.
  11. Buggs, R., How much of a human genome is identical to a chimpanzee genome?, richardbuggs.com, 6 May 2025. Return to text.
  12. Tomkins, J.P., Chimp genome markedly different from human, icr.org, 29 May 2025. Return to text.
  13. Carter, R.W., Reassessing human–chimpanzee genetic similarity, J. Creation 38(1):93–103, 2024. Return to text.
  14. Gutsick Gibbon, I killed this creationist argument, youtube.com, 28 May 2025. Return to text.
  15. Carter, R., James 3 vs. the anticreationists, biblicalgenetics.com, 16 Jan 2024; youtube.com/watch?v=FIY7FTTFZyg. Return to text.
  16. Grehan, J.R. and Schwartz, J.H., Evolution of the second orangutan: phylogeny and biogeography of hominid origins, J. Biogeogr. 36(10):1823–1844, 2009. Return to text.
  17. Venn, O. et al., Strong male bias drives germline mutation in chimpanzees, Science 344(6189):1272–1275, 2014. Return to text.
  18. The formula includes a “2” because the genome is diploid. The mutation rate is usually given as the haploid mutation rate, for historical reasons. Return to text.
  19. Again, a 2 is in the denominator because there are two copies of the genome per individual in diploid species. Return to text.
  20. The classic neutral theory formula r = μ applies when μ is the per-site mutation rate. When Kimura derived this result, he was showing that at any given nucleotide position, the rate of neutral substitution equals the mutation rate at that site. However, when one multiplies both sides of r = μ by the genome size, the exact same number is reached, especially since we started with the per-haploid genome mutation rate (i.e., the sum of the per-site mutation rates * number of sites). Thus, the relationship r = μ scales directly. I applied the principle at the genome level rather than the per-site level because the question was about the rate of fixation across a species. Return to text.
  21. Given random mating, which never happens, and a stationary population size, which is clearly not true for humans. Without these assumptions the evolutionary model cannot deliver even a 1% difference. Return to text.
  22. Yoo et al., ref. 7, supplementary information pp. 66–67. Return to text.
  23. See our ‘Vestigial’ Organs Questions and Answers. Return to text.
  24. Kuderna, L., Complete ape genomes offer a close-up view of human evolution, Nature 641(8062):313–314, 2025. Return to text.
  25. Yoo et al., ref. 7, supplementary information p. 78. Return to text.

JESUS NEVER CELEBRATED EASTER!

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 The Last Supper was a Passover meal. The 1st April, 2026 (Hebrew 15th of Nissan, 5786) is the start of the Passover feast. So, let’s explore the awesome parallels between Passover and the Last Supper.

The Passover feast described in Exodus 12 stands as one of the most pivotal events in the Bible, marking God’s dramatic deliverance of Israel from Egyptian slavery. Centuries later, during the same festival, Jesus Christ gathered His disciples for the Last Supper before His crucifixion, resurrection, and ascension.

Parallel and Linked Accounts

Recorded in Luke 22, Matthew 26, and Mark 14, this meal reinterprets ancient symbols in light of His impending death. Both occasions involve a sacrificial lamb, protective blood, unleavened bread, and a commanded remembrance. Jewish tradition views Passover as an enduring commemoration of physical liberation and national identity, while we know the Last Supper as the fulfilment of Passover in the new covenant through Christ. Examining these accounts reveals striking parallels that bridge Old Testament shadow and New Testament substance.

Exodus 12 details the original Passover with precise instructions. On the tenth day of the first month, each Israelite household was to select “a lamb for his family, one for each household” (Exodus 12:3). The animal had to be “year-old males without defect” (Exodus 12:5). At twilight on the fourteenth day, the community slaughtered the lambs. Blood was applied “on the sides and tops of the doorframes” (Exodus 12:7).

That night, families ate the roasted meat “along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast” (Exodus 12:8), dressed for travel and “in haste” (Exodus 12:11). The blood served as a sign: “When I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you” (Exodus 12:13). God struck Egypt’s firstborn, but spared Israel.

The chapter closes with a lasting command: “This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord—a lasting ordinance” (Exodus 12:14). Additional rules included eating inside the house and leaving “none of the bones” broken (Exodus 12:46). Thus, Passover became an annual reminder of redemption from bondage, God’s deliverance, and God’s covenants.

New Testament Understanding

The Gospels place Jesus’ final meal squarely within this same festival. Luke records: “Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed” (Luke 22:7). Jesus sent Peter and John to prepare “the Passover” in an upper room (Luke 22:8-13).

During the meal He declared, “I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer” (Luke 22:15). Matthew and Mark echo the timing: “On the first day of the Festival of Unleavened Bread… the disciples… asked, ‘Where do you want us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover?’” (Matthew 26:17; cf. Mark 14:12). The setting is unmistakably the traditional Jewish Passover seder (order of service).

At the table, Jesus transformed two central elements. In all three accounts He took bread, gave thanks, broke it, and said, “This is My body” (Matthew 26:26; Mark 14:22; Luke 22:19). Luke adds the command, “Do this in remembrance of Me” (Luke 22:19).

Then He took the cup: “This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins” (Matthew 26:28); “This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many” (Mark 14:24); and in Luke, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is poured out for you” (Luke 22:20). The language deliberately echoes the Exodus deliverance while pointing forward to Jesus’ crucifixion the next day.

Clear Parallels

Six clear parallels emerge when the texts are set side by side.

  • First, the sacrificial lamb. Exodus required an unblemished male lamb slain at twilight; Jesus is crucified at the hour Passover lambs were killed. Christian readers note the unbroken bones (Exodus 12:46; fulfilled in John 19:36) and the title “Lamb of God” applied to Jesus elsewhere.
  • Second, protective blood. Israelite doorposts marked with lamb’s blood spared families from death. Jesus explicitly links the cup to “forgiveness of sins” and the “new covenant”, portraying His blood as the ultimate sign that averts divine judgment on sin.
  • Third, unleavened bread. Matzah symbolised haste and affliction in Egypt. Jesus breaks the bread and declares it His body “given for you,” inviting ongoing participation as a memorial of His broken body.
  • Fourth, the shared meal of remembrance. Passover is usually eaten in family groups as a perpetual ordinance. Jesus commands, “Do this in remembrance of me,” shifting the focus from Egypt to Calvary while retaining the communal and ritual character. God wants us in His family.
  • Fifth, deliverance from bondage. Passover celebrated freedom from Pharaoh’s slavery. The Last Supper announces liberation from sin and death through the “new covenant”, echoing Jeremiah 31:31-34.
  • Sixth, future hope. Exodus 12 points to the Promised Land; Jesus speaks of fulfilment “in the kingdom of God” (Luke 22:16, 18), anticipating His messianic banquet.

Jewish Tradition

Jewish tradition continues to celebrate Passover as a living link to the Exodus. The holiday, called Pesach (“to pass over”), commemorates emancipation from Egyptian slavery. Families gather for the Seder—a fifteen-step ritual meal guided by the Haggadah. Central elements include four cups of wine (symbolising stages of redemption), matzah, bitter herbs (maror) recalling slavery, and the retelling of the Exodus story.

The youngest child asks the Four Questions, and the door is opened for the prophet Elijah, expressing hope for future redemption. Scripture commands parents to explain the ceremony to their children (Exodus 12:26-27). For Jews, Passover remains a festival of freedom (Hag ha-Herut), national identity, and divine mercy, observed annually without reference to any later messianic figure.

Christian Understanding

Christian theology, by contrast, sees the Last Supper as the deliberate fulfilment of Passover. Jesus, celebrating the ancient rite, reorients its symbols toward Himself. The apostle Paul later writes, “Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed” (1 Corinthians 5:7).

Theologians describe the event as a “new exodus”, where Jesus enacts the ultimate substitutionary sacrifice. The command to “do this in remembrance” birthed the Christian practice of Communion or the Eucharist, celebrated regularly (we take Communion almost daily) rather than once a year.

While Protestants typically view the bread and cup as symbolic or spiritually present, Catholics and Orthodox traditions speak of real presence. Yet across all denominations, the Last Supper is understood as instituting the new covenant promised in Jeremiah, where God’s people are freed not from earthly tyrants but from the power of sin.

Summary

The two communities, therefore, interpret the same biblical roots differently. Judaism treasures Passover as an unchanging memorial of the Exodus, reinforcing covenant faithfulness and hope for final redemption. Christianity regards the Last Supper as the moment when the old Passover reached its telos in Christ’s death and resurrection, transforming an annual shadow into a perpetual sacrament of grace. Believers in both faiths eat, drink, and remember deliverance, but Christians know Jesus Himself as the Lamb whose blood secures eternal passage from death to life.

Finally, Exodus 12 and the Gospel accounts of the Last Supper stand in profound continuity. The ancient ritual of lamb, blood, bread, and haste becomes, in Jesus’ hands, the announcement of a greater exodus. Jewish observance keeps alive the story of national birth; Christian observance proclaims the story of universal redemption. Together they testify to a God who delivers His people through sacrifice and calls every generation to remember.

Through Jesus’ sacrifice, we have God’s love, deliverance, healing, salvation, forgiveness, and eternal life. This is why we celebrate communion.

Here is Barry McGuire’s beautiful communion song. You can take communion whilst playing this and allow God to help you grasp the awesomeness of Jesus’ sacrifice.

WHAT IS THE MARK OF THE BEAST?

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Professor John Lennox is always a joy to listen to as I always learn something new and valuable. This video on the Mark of the Beast is one of the best lectures I have heard so I am keen to pass it on as I know my followers will be blessed by it.

Most Christians have spent decades worrying about a microchip. Prof. John Lennox argues they’ve been looking in the wrong direction entirely — and that the real danger is already inside your pocket, your home, and your daily routine.
In this powerful lecture, Oxford mathematician and Christian apologist Professor John C. Lennox delivers a rigorously argued, scripturally grounded case that the Mark of the Beast described in Revelation 13 is not a future technology — it is a present spiritual reality that is quietly reshaping human consciousness, eroding the capacity for worship, and replacing God with a system that most people have already surrendered to without realising it.
Drawing on the original Greek text of Revelation, the writings of C.S. Lewis, Blaise Pascal, and Albert Borgmann, and cutting-edge research from Microsoft, the University of Pennsylvania, and former Google design ethicist Tristan Harris — Lennox makes an argument that is equal parts scholarly, prophetic, and deeply personal.
This is not a conspiracy theory. This is one of the most respected Christian intellectuals alive today reading one of the most misread passages in the entire Bible — and arriving at a conclusion that will challenge how you think about faith, technology, attention, and what it means to worship in the 21st century.

GOD TENDS TO MAKE OUR TOTAL INABILITY HIS STARTING POINT

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Indeed, our utter incapacity is often the prop He delights to use for His next act. It is one of the principles of Yahweh’s modus operandi. When His people are without strength, without resources, without hope, without human gimmicks—then He loves to stretch forth His hand from heaven. Once we see where God often begins, we will understand how we may be encouraged.

Think about how Isaac was brought into existence. God waited until it was impossible for Abraham and Sarah to produce offspring. Abraham was 100, and whilst we don’t know Sarah’s age, we do know she was barren and now of great age. What about the prophet Samuel? His mother Hannah was barren. Look at her prayer:

“She was deeply distressed and prayed to the Lord and wept bitterly. And she vowed a vow and said, “O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.” (1 Samuel 1:10-11)

“They rose early in the morning and worshipped before the Lord; then they went back to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife, and the Lord remembered her. And in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Samuel, for she said, “I have asked for him from the Lord.” (1 Samuel 1:19-20)

Wow, that is amazing stuff, and I encourage you to read the chapter in full. So many things stand out here. One, we see it was God who had prevented Hannah from conceiving – at least at first. Two, she cried out to the Lord, asking Him to ‘remember’ her and not ‘forget’ her. Three, God did as she asked, and He did indeed ‘remember’ her – not by overcoming His own ‘forgetfulness,’ but by hearing her plea and taking action.

That should be of great encouragement to us all. Of course, this is not some name-it-and-claim-it passage if you happen to be infertile. What God did for Hannah was special, and served a special purpose in His overall plans. Yes, infertile couples can pray and ask God for help, but it is He who ultimately knows what is best and how we should proceed.

A few comments from others are helpful here. As to how God remembers and acts, John Woodhouse remarks:

Just as the Lord had “remembered” Noah in the days of the flood, Abraham when he destroyed Sodom, Rachel when she conceived Joseph, and His covenant with Abraham in the days of Moses (Genesis 8:1; 19:29; 30:22; Exodus 2:24; 6:5; cf. Numbers 10:9), so He “remembered” Hannah. Whenever God “remembered” His people, it led to His action on their behalf. We will not be mistaken if we expect that His remembering Hannah will involve His remembering His people Israel. He rebirthed the nation miraculously in 1948 and has been regathering Jews from all around the world. We can be certain that God will fulfill the covenants: 1, made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, 2. made with David and 3. the new covenant

Recall how 1 Samuel follows immediately after the book of Judges, with all its woeful misery and chaos. Israel was in desperate need of a real leader, and Samuel would become that man. And for this turning point in Israel’s history, God would use a barren woman! Says Woodhouse:

First Samuel 1 points us to a most unexpected starting point for the answer that God is going to provide for the leadership crisis. Who would have looked twice at miserable, sobbing Hannah for the answer to Israel’s crisis? We expect to find answers from the powerful. Hannah was not powerful. Her family were “nobodies.” The point of her story, however, is that God cares.

Does God care? Yes, He cared about the leadership of his people Israel and gave Hannah a son. Yes, He cares about the leadership of the world and of us. Hannah’s son will be surpassed by Mary’s son. God’s care for us all finds its fullest expression in Jesus Christ. If you belong to Him you can learn to “cast all your anxieties on Him, because He cares for you” (1 Peter 5:7).

God Begins Where We End

I quite like how Dale Ralph Davis picks up this theme:

Hannah, therefore, shares in a fellowship of barrenness. And it is frequently in this fellowship that new chapters in Yahweh’s history with His people begin—begin with nothing. God’s tendency is to make our total inability His starting point. Our hopelessness and our helplessness are no barrier to His work.

Indeed, our utter incapacity is often the prop He delights to use for His next act. This matter goes beyond the particular situations of biblical barren women. We are facing one of the principles of Yahweh’s modus operandi. When His people are without strength, without resources, without hope, without human gimmicks—then He loves to stretch forth His hand from heaven. Once we see where God often begins, we will understand how we may be encouraged.

He goes on to speak about Hannah’s prayer:

This is no piddly little affair – this is a manifestation of the way Yahweh rules and will bring His kingdom (vv. 5b,8). Hannah’s relief is a sample of the way Yahweh works (vv. 4-8) and of the way He will work when He brings His kingdom in its fullness (vv. 9-10). The saving help Yahweh gave Hannah is a foretaste, a scale-model demonstration of how Yahweh will do it when He does it in grand style.

Each one of Christ’s flock should ingest this point into his or her thinking. Every time God lifts you out of the miry bog and sets your feet upon a rock is a sample of the coming of the kingdom of God, a down payment of the full deliverance, the macro-salvation that will be yours at last.

True, such tiny salvations are only samples or signs of the final salvation…[Y]ou should not despise or demean these little salvations Yahweh works in your behalf, these little clues He gives, these clear but small evidences He leaves that He is king and that He has this strange way of raising up the poor from the dust and lifting the needy from the ash heap to make them sit in the heavenly realms with Jesus Christ. Ponder every episode of Yahweh’s saving help to you…

The Power of Prayer in God’s Sovereign Plan

Richard D. Phillips discusses the afflictions of Hannah, and what we can learn from them:

Rather than assuming some unholy, spiteful, or condemning purpose in God’s afflictions, believers need to remember that God is holy, so all His deeds are holy; God is good, so He intends our sorrows for good; and God is filled with mercy for the brokenhearted.

God does not seek to destroy us through our trials but to save us through our trials. As Hannah herself would later testify: “He raises up the poor from the dust; He lifts the needy from the ash heap” (1 Sam. 2:8) So if God is the One who closed the womb, we should take heart, since He can surely also open it.

In Hannah’s case, God was using her plight to orchestrate Israel’s deliverance from the dark era of the judges. This was a cause dear to Hannah’s heart, as we know from the song she later lifted up to God’s praise (1 Sam. 2:10).

We may never know how God has worked through our most bitter trials to bring others to salvation, to equip us with sensitivity in ministry to others, or even to launch a significant gospel advance. But we do know God, and we know from His Word that “for those who love God all things work together for good” (Rom. 8:28). So we can have confidence in God’s purposes in our lives.

He goes on to say this about the importance of prayer:

Not only does prayer change us, but prayer changes things. God is pleased to act in response to our prayers. Some people react to the knowledge of God’s sovereignty by thinking that prayer therefore does not matter, since God has decided everything in advance. Hannah did not reason this way, but understood that God’s sovereign will is achieved through the acts of men and women, especially our prayers.

John Woodhouse comments that her turning to the Lord “will turn out to change not only her life but the life of the nation, and indeed… the history of the world.” He adds, “Faith in God, therefore, leads us in our troubles to pray to the God who is sovereign over all things.”

All this is encouraging good news. The next time you find yourself on the ash heap, and you are questioning if God has forgotten you or has abandoned you, just bear in mind that He knows all about you and your situation, He hears your prayers, and He will act. He remembers us, and He acts accordingly.

Adapted from the article by Bill Muehlenberg, Good News: God Remembers Us – The Daily declaration, 19th March 2026

CAN AI EXTEND THE HUMAN LIFESPAN?

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We’re Entering the “Longevity Singularity”

At the recent Abundant Summit, Peter Diamandis on Day 3 introduced the concept: **Longevity Singularity** = the moment we KNOW we’re extending healthy human lifespan, not just guessing.

Leading researchers at Harvard and other institutions have made the case: “Our generation is going to witness aging become optional. Your body is more like a computer that can be programmed, reprogrammed, and rebooted to be young again.”

Translation: Aging isn’t wear and tear. It’s **information loss** at the cellular level. If you can restore the information (epigenetic reprogramming), you can restore youth.

Labs around the world have been proving this for 20 years. They’ve reversed aging in mice. Made old cells young again. Restored vision in blind mice by rewinding cellular age. It works.

Implication: The question isn’t IF we can reverse aging. It’s WHEN it becomes safe/scalable for humans. Leading researchers think we’re **2-5 years away** from first FDA-approved epigenetic reprogramming therapies.

From a Biblical perspective, we know that Adam and Eve were created by God to live forever. As a result of SIN, God took the Holy Spirit from them immediately. We know from Proverbs “The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord,” A lamp requires oil to function which is the Holy Spirit. When we accept Jesus as our Lord and Saviour, God sends the Holy Spirit to indwell our spirit so it can function once again as the lamp of the Lord. We also know that the Tree of Life was essential for longevity because Adam and Eve were banished from the garden so they could not continue to eat of the Tree of Life “and live forever“. We also know that the preflood humans lived for almost 1000 years. After the flood God reduced our lifespan to a maximum of 120. Can humans with AI reverse that change. Perhaps they can. I am reminded what God said about the pre-Babel people: “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.” Genesis 11:6. This is just another reason why Jesus needs to return to restore righteousness.

2. AI + Biology = The Fastest Drug Discovery Engine Ever Built

Day 3 showcased how AI is revolutionizing longevity therapeutics discovery. Major biotech firms and research institutions are using AI systems that “self-play the game of increasing longevity.”

What does that mean? Traditional drug discovery:

• Human scientists hypothesize → test → fail → repeat

• 10-15 years per drug

• 90% failure rate

• $2 billion per successful drug

AI-powered approach:

• AI generates millions of hypotheses simultaneously

• Tests them in silico (computer simulation) instantly

• Only moves winners to wet-lab testing

• Collapses 10 years → 18 months

Leading institutions explained: “We’re not just using AI to help scientists. We’re letting AI self-play across as many different formats as possible to discover what actually works.”

The result? These AI systems have already identified longevity therapeutic candidates that wouldn’t have been found by human researchers for decades.

Implication: The pace of longevity breakthroughs is about to go **exponential**. What took 20 years will take 2 years. What took 2 years will take months.

3. True Longevity Therapeutics Work Everywhere (Not Just One Cell Type)

Leading researchers made a critical distinction most people miss:

**Fake longevity therapeutic:** Works in one cell type (liver cells, skin cells, etc.). Makes good headlines. Doesn’t actually extend lifespan.

**Real longevity therapeutic:** Works throughout the ENTIRE body. Crosses blood-brain barrier. Reaches every tissue. Coordinates systemic rejuvenation.

Why this matters: Your body has ~37 trillion cells across 200+ cell types. If your “longevity drug” only works in hepatocytes (liver cells), you’re not reversing aging—you’re treating liver disease.

The therapies being developed (epigenetic reprogramming via gene therapy) are **systemic**. One treatment. Whole body. This is why they’re so hard to develop—but also why they’ll be civilization-changing once they work.

Implication: Stop chasing supplements that “improve mitochondrial function in muscle tissue.” Wait for (or invest in) therapies that reprogram your entire biological age.

4. Longevity Will Be Affordable (Not Just for Billionaires)

Peter asked the question everyone’s thinking: “Is this just for the ultra-wealthy?” Researchers’ answer: **”A couple hundred bucks a month.”** Here’s why longevity therapeutics will be cheap: • Gene therapy is one-time or infrequent dosing (not daily pills) • Manufacturing costs drop exponentially (same curve as genome sequencing) • Market size is EVERYONE (8 billion potential customers = economies of scale) • Governments/insurance will subsidize (because healthy people are cheaper than sick people) Compare to current costs: • Fountain Life whole-body scan: ~$20K/year • Rapamycin + NAD+ + supplements: ~$500/month • Future epigenetic therapy: ~$200/month Implication: Longevity escape velocity won’t be a billionaire’s club. It’ll be as accessible as smartphones within a decade.

5. The Convergence: AI + Robotics + Longevity = Warp Speed

Peter dropped this line:

“I am SO excited about the intersection of advanced superintelligence, robotics, and longevity. There’s a convergence in those three things that’s gonna put us into warp speed.”

Here’s the convergence:

**AI discovers longevity therapeutics** → Humans live 20-30 years longer → More time to build/innovate → Deploy armies of robots to execute → Robots handle physical labor → Humans focus on moonshots → Moonshots accelerate AI → AI discovers better longevity therapeutics → Positive feedback loop

This is why Peter structured the summit this way: Day 1 (AI) → Day 2 (Robots) → Day 3 (Longevity). These aren’t separate trends. They’re **one interlocking system**.

Leading researchers framed it: “Once you can fly, everything changes. Same with longevity. Once we prove we can reverse aging, the entire conversation shifts.”

Implication: The 2030s won’t just be the decade of AI or robots or longevity. It’ll be the decade when all three converge to create a world unrecognizable from 2026.

A SUPERSONIC AI TSUNAMI IS COMING

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Elon Musk describes what’s coming as a Supersonic Tsunami of converging exponentials. AI isn’t improving linearly anymore. We’re watching three exponential curves hit their inflection points simultaneously: compute scaling, model capabilities, and infrastructure deployment. When exponentials converge, you don’t get incremental progress. You get phase shifts.

Let me give you the raw numbers that demonstrate just how fast this is moving. What’s happening with AI revenue right now is unprecedented in the history of business. Anthropic hit $14 billion in annualized revenue in February 2026, growing from $1 billion just 14 months earlier. That figure has since surpassed $19 billion, more than doubling from $9 billion at the end of 2025. There is simply no precedent for this in B2B software.

And yet most people do not know who Anthropic is and what they do. Also, to understand what that means: Anthropic’s monthly revenue run rate is now roughly $1.6 billion per month, and it keeps accelerating. Anthropic projects as much as $70 billion in revenue by 2028.

OpenAI reached $25 billion in annualized revenue at the end of February 2026, up from $21.4 billion at year-end 2025, with full-year 2025 revenue coming in at $13.1 billion. Both companies are now valued in the hundreds of billions, Anthropic at $380 billion following its $30 billion Series G. OpenAI’s most recent private round in February 2026 valued it at approximately $730 billion, with an IPO potentially targeting a $1 trillion valuation.

Nvidia’s, Jensen Huang recently finalized a $30 billion investment in OpenAI and a $10 billion investment in Anthropic, and told investors these will likely be Nvidia’s last private investments in either company, because both are heading toward public markets. Think about that: the CEO of Nvidia, who has better visibility into AI infrastructure demand than anyone on Earth, made $40 billion in bets on these two companies as his final pre-IPO move.

What’s driving this revenue? It’s not IT budgets anymore. The models — Claude from Anthropic, GPT-5 from OpenAI — have crossed a threshold. They’re now competing with labour budgets.

Companies aren’t buying AI to replace servers. They’re buying AI to augment and ultimately displace human labour.

What’s the breakthrough use case? Coding. Claude Code (Anthropic’s agentic coding tool) now has run-rate revenue above $2.5 billion, having more than doubled since the beginning of 2026. Business subscriptions have quadrupled since the start of the year, and enterprise use has grown to represent over half of all Claude Code revenue.

Now you can buy intelligence on a metered basis. Pay per token. No recruiting, no vetting, no retention, no equity. Just intelligence as a utility. Consumers pay $20/month. Enterprise power users pay $200/month. And companies are spending millions per year because the ROI is there.

The Infrastructure Equation

Here’s the infrastructure reality that almost nobody is talking about loudly enough.

The five largest US hyperscalers — Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — have collectively committed to spending ~$690 billion on capital expenditure in 2026 alone, nearly doubling 2025 levels. The vast majority is directed at AI compute, data centers, and networking.

Total global AI spending is forecast to hit $2.5 trillion in 2026, a 44% increase over 2025, according to Gartner. Data centers, GPUs, power generation, chip fabrication. This is the largest infrastructure buildout in the history of technology, by a wide margin.

The rule of thumb in this industry: roughly $50 billion per gigawatt of infrastructure, and approximately $10 billion of annual revenue per gigawatt. Energy equals intelligence.

On a recent earnings call, Jensen Huang estimated that between $3 trillion and $4 trillion will be spent on AI infrastructure by the end of the decade. TechCrunch

This isn’t hype. This is capital deployment at a scale that rewrites the rules of what’s possible. When you’re spending $50 billion on a single data center and generating $10 billion a year in revenue from it, you’re not building a product… you’re building a new economic substrate. You’re building the electricity grid of the 21st century.

The tsunami is here. The question is whether you’re building on the wave or getting buried by it.

AI: The Capability Jump

Those revenue numbers I just showed you are driven by real capability breakthroughs happening right now.

Start here: neuromorphic chips just solved complex physics simulations at 1,000x better energy efficiency than supercomputers. That’s not 10% better. That’s three orders of magnitude. When compute gets that cheap, you don’t just do the same things faster. You do entirely new things that were economically impossible before.

Drug discovery moves from weeks on supercomputer clusters to hours on desktop chips. Climate modeling that required national labs runs on university hardware. Real-time protein folding for personalized cancer treatment becomes viable. This is Dematerialization, demonetization, and democratization followed by disruption (four of the Six D’s) in action.

Meanwhile, China’s DeepSeek launches V4 next-gen models through Huawei and Cambricon instead of U.S. chips. The AI race is officially multi-polar. OpenAI is preparing for the largest AI IPO in history.

And NVIDIA releases Alpamayo — the “ChatGPT moment for the physical world” — bringing reasoning to autonomous vehicles.

What it means: AI just moved from virtual to physical, from U.S.-dominated to globally distributed, and from expensive to radically cheap. All in the same week. And the revenue is proving it’s not experimental anymore: companies like Palantir, the U.S. military, and NVIDIA are running this in production for existential wartime operations.

Energy: Solving the Bottleneck

The elephant in the room: AI requires massive power. Those $50 billion data centers being built need gigawatts of electricity – and the grid was never designed for this.

Global electricity demand from data centers is set to more than double by 2030, reaching around 945 terawatt-hours: roughly equivalent to Japan’s entire annual electricity consumption. In the United States alone, data centers will account for nearly half of all electricity demand growth between now and 2030. AI will drive most of this increase, with electricity demand from AI-optimized data centers expected to more than quadruple by 2030.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory projects U.S. data center electricity demand will grow from 176 TWh in 2023 to between 325 and 580 TWh by 2028 — representing up to 12% of total U.S. electricity consumption.

The grid was simply not built for this. Interconnection queues are backed up two to three years, transmission permitting takes a decade, and the power plants needed don’t yet exist. In just northern Virginia, a 2024 voltage fluctuation triggered the simultaneous disconnection of 60 data centers, a preview of what grid strain at scale actually looks like.

But look at what’s happening to solve it.

Nuclear Fusion is converging – fast: China’s “Artificial Sun” EAST reactor recently breached a major fusion plasma density barrier that researchers had long considered impossible to cross. In 2025, France’s WEST tokamak sustained plasma for over twenty minutes, while EAST maintained high-confinement plasma for nearly eighteen minutes — demonstrating the levels of stability required for commercial operation.

On the private side, the race has never moved faster. Commonwealth Fusion Systems has raised nearly $3 billion, including investments from Nvidia and Google, with the ultimate goal of a 400-megawatt power plant — enough to power around 280,000 average U.S. homes. CFS’s SPARC demonstration machine is expected to produce its first plasma in 2026 and achieve net fusion energy shortly after — the first commercially relevant design to produce more power than it consumes. That paves the way for ARC, their grid-connected power plant, targeted for the early 2030s.

Helion Energy has also begun construction of its first commercial fusion plant, designed to supply power directly to Microsoft’s data centers starting from 2028.

Private fusion investment has mushroomed, growing to $10.6 billion between 2021 and 2025, with the number of private fusion companies more than doubling from 23 to 53 in the same period.

The timeline is compressing. “Fusion in 30 years away” is becoming “Fusion this decade.” Fusion timelines are collapsing in real time — and AI is actually helping accelerate the plasma physics research itself. The irony: the technology that creates the power problem may also be helping solve it.

The wild card: Tesla Terafab: On March 14, 2026, Elon Musk announced on X that the “Terafab Project launches in 7 days” (March 21st).

So, what is Terafab? Musk first outlined the concept at Tesla’s 2025 shareholder meeting, describing a chip fabrication facility comparable in scale to TSMC’s largest plants. During Tesla’s January 2026 earnings call, he confirmed the company would “have to build a Tesla TeraFab: a very big fab that includes logic, memory and packaging, domestically” to avoid hitting a hard ceiling on chip supply in three to four years.

The facility is designed to produce between 100 and 200 billion custom AI and memory chips per year, with an initial target of 100,000 wafer starts per month and an ambition to scale toward one million, roughly 70% of TSMC’s total output, concentrated in a single U.S. facility. The project carries an estimated cost of approximately $25 billion. Tesla’s fifth-generation AI chip, AI5, is expected to be among the first products fabricated at Terafab, with small-batch production in 2026 and volume production projected for 2027.

To be precise: March 21st almost certainly marks the formal kickoff: a groundbreaking or announcement event, not a fully operational fab. Semiconductor fabs of this scale take years to build and commission. But the signal matters enormously. Tesla is joining Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft in a new category of tech company: one that controls its own silicon. When the largest AI compute consumers own their own chip supply chains, the semiconductor industry is permanently restructured.

What It All Means: The energy bottleneck that threatened to constrain AI is being attacked from every direction simultaneously: fusion physics breakthroughs, private capital pouring into next-generation reactors, nuclear power plant revivals, and vertical integration of the chip supply chain. This is abundance thinking in action. When problems get big enough, fast enough, the solutions scale to match.

The constraint isn’t permanent. It never was.

The Supersonic Tsunami: How It All Connects

Here’s what Elon understood: these are not separate trends. They’re one interlocking system.

Neuromorphic chips make AI 1,000x more efficient → inference becomes cheap enough to deploy everywhere → agentic systems run locally in robots and cars. Fusion energy solves the power bottleneck → enables massive AI training clusters → next-gen frontier models get deployed in humanoids → robots work in any environment and can be launched to orbit on Starship for space manufacturing.

And the capital is already flowing. $1 trillion in infrastructure. $50 billion data centers generating $10 billion annually. Companies going from $1 billion to $14 billion in 14 months. This is not speculation…. it’s deployment at a scale that’s rewriting the rules.

The companies being built right now aren’t competing with 2024 business models.

Today’s companies are competing in an “Abundance Economy” where everything becomes possible, where intelligence is free, energy is abundant, labour is robotic, and orbital access is cheap.

As well, the professions are capitulating faster than the machines can replace them. An AMA survey found 81 percent of physicians now use AI, more than double the 2023 rate. New US Senate guidelines permit aides to use Gemini, ChatGPT, and Copilot for official work.

 Large language models, multimodal reasoning systems, and humanoid robots are not displacing one type of work — they are displacing all types of work, and the economic value of human time itself, across every sector, simultaneously.

There is no adjacent labor category to retrain into. The escalator that carried workers from disrupted industries to new ones for two centuries has no destination… it is crumbling.

That future isn’t ten years away. It’s arriving now and deploying over the next 12-24 months.

This will cause chaos particularly for Gen Z. How do they prepare for work in the AI era? Biblical prophecy reveals that in this world that no longer believes that God is in control. and that a spiritual war is intensifying as Satan the prince of this world does his utmost to retain rulership of the world, people worldwide will embrace Satan’s Antichrist ruler that has supernatural powers and promises peace and prosperity. Watch as Biblical end times prophecies unfold in our time.

REVIVALS TRANSFORM CHURCHES BUT DO THEY TRANSFORM NATIONS?

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Argentina’s great revival of the 1980s transformed churches but left the nation largely unchanged — a sobering lesson on why Christians must engage both the sanctuary and the ballot box.

Argentina

Revival 

In 1985, I returned to my native Argentina to witness a move of God that would change the nation’s spiritual landscape forever. Through the ministry of evangelists like Carlos Annacondia, thousands were swept into the Kingdom.

My father’s church in La Plata exploded from 300 members in one location to thousands of believers in 19 new preaching points. We saw miracles, healings, and a generation of new believers on fire for Christ.

It was glorious, but it left many with a haunting question: If the revival was so great, why was the nation not transformed?

Despite full and multiplying churches, Argentina’s economy remained broken, corruption stayed rampant, and in 2010, it became the first Latin American nation to legalise same-sex marriage.

We had focused so much on becoming “light” within our buildings that we forgot to be the “salt” that preserves a decaying culture. We dedicated ourselves to our churches, while the enemy dedicated himself to our cities.

The Myth of Political Detachment

A common argument against Christian political involvement is that Jesus never told us to vote. However, we must remember that democracy did not exist in His time; the Jews were subjects of Rome, not voters in a republic. Today, we live in a different reality where failing to vote is often a lack of gratitude for the freedoms we enjoy.

While the Gospel does not depend on who sits in the seat of government — and often spreads fastest under persecution — the laws of a land directly impact our quality of life and our ability to protect the vulnerable.

Proverbs 29:2 reminds us: “When the godly are in authority, the people rejoice. But when the wicked are in power, they groan.”

Duty Over Security

Too often, pastors remain silent about elections to “keep the peace” or protect their congregation’s size. But prioritising personal security over national well-being is an abandonment of duty. We are called to be known for declaring Christ, but that doesn’t mean we ignore the tools God has given us to promote righteousness.

As Daniel served in Babylon without being contaminated by its system, we can engage in politics without losing our personal holiness.

Like the builders in Nehemiah’s day, we must hold a tool for building the church in one hand and a weapon to defend our families and values in the other.

A New Chapter for Argentina

Today, 42 years after the revival began, we are finally seeing the fruit of “holy involvement.” In 2025, the Argentine government officially recognised evangelical churches as legal entities for the first time. That same year, six evangelical Christians won seats in the legislature. The church is finally finding its voice beyond the sanctuary walls.

Breaking the Silence

In 1 Kings 18, Elijah challenged the people of Israel to stop wavering between God and Baal. The Bible records a chilling detail: “But the people were completely silent.”

In a culture that often mirrors the sensuality and darkness of Baal worship, the church cannot afford to be silent. We must learn from the history of Argentina.

Revival is the engine, but reform is the vehicle. I urge you to be both salt and light — not just in your pews, but at the ballot box.

Article by Rev. Sergio Scataglini is an international speaker and author. He was born in Argentina and is president of Scataglini Ministries, Inc.

CHRITIAN FILMS WORTH WATCHING AND PROMOTING

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The Kendrick Brothers’ SHOW ME THE FATHER is the first documentary film from the creators of WAR ROOM, OVERCOMER, FIREPROOF, and COURAGEOUS. Featuring a variety of amazing true stories, this captivating movie takes audiences of all ages on an inspiring and emotional cinematic journey.

Providing a fresh perspective on the roles of fathers in today’s society, SHOW ME THE FATHER invites you to think differently about how you view your earthly father, and how you personally relate to Father God.

Altizer’s latest project, He Calls Me Daughter is also inspiring. Stephen and Jill Kendrick’s story of adopting their precious daughter from a Chinese orphanage is amazing. The incredible plot twist for American football coaches Deland McCullough and Sherman Smith needs to be seen to be believed. In fact, the film is worth watching just for the beautiful moment of truth between them 64 minutes into the documentary.

He Calls Me Daughter is a little clunky at times, but overall, it’s a moving reminder of the impact, for better or worse, that fathers have. Ultimately, it’s a hopeful film, as it illustrates the incredible love that God, our perfect Father in Heaven, has for us.