Giving Power to the Image of the Beast

By Donna Anderson
RNU Staff Reporter

And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he
was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell
on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the
sword and lived. He was granted power to give breath to the image of
the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as
many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed
(Revelation 13:14-15 New KJV).

RNU.com - (Raiders News Update) - New Science Magazine reported this
month that, "after being patiently nurtured for 22 years, an
artificial brain called Cyc (pronounced 'psych') will be put online
for the world to interact with.... Opening Cyc up to the masses is
expected to accelerate the rate at which it learns, giving it access
to the combined knowledge of millions of people around the globe as it
hoovers up new facts from web pages, webcams and data entered manually
by anyone who wants to contribute." (1)

While science in most any form can be used for good or evil, this 
news information above, combined with the ravenous growth of human-
monitoring legislation and advances in compatible technologies in 
the US and abroad, will undoubtedly fill the worst of the salivating 
Neo-Cons at the White House with voracious and slobbering expectancy.

On the other hand... conservatives of the Reagan era (true
conservatives who believed in smaller, non-intrusive government) might
see these technological possibilities through a different filter. Some
of them may even question if the biblical Antichrist, and the science
necessary to fulfill his mission, is unfolding before their eyes.

"The Image of The Beast is not the same as the Beast himself
(Antichrist)," says pastor Ron Graff at the #1-rated prophecy website,
Prophecy Central. "It is a statue that has 'come to life'.... Dramatic
advances in the fields of Computer Science, especially Artificial
Intelligence, Computer Animation, and Robotics, have made it possible
to picture the fulfillment of this prophecy."

But if an image of the Antichrist is someday "given life" and
everybody everywhere is expected to worship it at a particular time or
interval, how will global authorities know whether or not the masses
obey?

Some believe this will be accomplished through new wave interactive
televisions where the "image" is broadcast at regular intervals and 
an all-seeing "Cyc" like A.I. computer records people paying homage as
ordered. 

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Cheers, Steve..

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