Do recent advancements in DNA manipulation and Artificial Intelligence portend the return of Yahoshua Messiah? Are they elements of modern day spin-offs to the Days of Noah?

Each week it seems, we receive more and more disturbing news about the existential dangers posed by AI (i.e., Artificial Intelligence) and DNA manipulation.

According to Ian Sample, Science Editor for “The Guardian,” in his article entitled: “Thousands of Leading AI Researchers Sign Pledge Against Killer Robots,” reported that some 2,400 academics and industrialists pledged, by way of some signed document, that they or their organizations would “not participate in the development or manufacture of robots that can identify and attack people without human oversight.” This pledge, for lack of a better descriptor, is apparently intended to “deter military firms and nations from building lethal autonomous weapon systems, also known as Laws.”

The fact that such a document along with its 2,400 signed pledges seems to suggest that the threat that AI poses to mankind is real and that it must be taken seriously.

The developers of AI products and components have stated for years that their efforts are for the good of all peoples of the world; that AI would save mankind from its destructive-self; that it would improve and prolong the quality of life for all people. Nevertheless, as wonderful as this may seem to the most accepting and tolerant of us in the world, with the sole exception of the things and ways of YHVH, nothing seen as good ever comes without a price or bad side attached to it. In this case, the bad side, is of course, that AI would be employed by our governments to control us. And we all know that we can trust our governments to always do the right thing for its citizens. Right?

Then there’s the growing concern over supposed “advances” in DNA manipulation whereby we have the science knowhow to modify the genetics of mankind to fulfill whatever purpose meets the fancy of men. In another yet another article by The Guardian Science Editor, Ian Sample, this one entitled “Genetically Modified Babies Given Go Ahead by UK Ethics Body,” a UK ethics board is set to give a “green light” to the practice of “changing the DNA of a human embryo;” that is, if that modification is deemed to be in that child’s best interest. My question begs to this insanity is: who then determines what the child’s best interest actually are? The parents? The government? The enemy maybe?

What is actually being genetically altered in these children you ask? According to Sample, changes to the genes in the parents’ sperm and eggs. And why are geneticists doing this? Well, of course it is for the better interests of the children in that such manipulations will “save a significant number of babies from pain and suffering…the best chances in life.”

The problems associated with both genetic manipulation and AI killing machines are obvious. The broader concern for me, of course, has to do with these entities having prominent roles in the End Times. What threats, if any, does genetic modification and AI hold for Torah Observant Believers in Yahoshua Messiah in the days ahead?

I contend that far too many of us are fast asleep at the spiritual wheel, completely unaware of pending dangers that lie ahead of us. In Master’s Sermon on the Mount, Yahoshua prophesied the following: “For as were the Days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away” (Matthew 24:38, 39; Luke 17:28-30). When taken in context, the elements of Noah’s day that will be similar to those of the end times are, as John J. Parsons of www.hebrews4christians.com writes, “The days of Noah were marked by people who were asleep, blind, and unaware (i.e., agnostic). They went about their business willfully ignorant of the spiritual reality around them. For ten consecutive generations—from the creation of Adam until the generation of Noah—people progressively became more and more ignorant of spiritual reality and truth. Eating and drinking, romantic intrigue and marriage, buying and selling, and other worldly affairs were the preoccupations of the day…thus people lived their lives oblivious to the spiritual reality of all around them. They forgot who God was, who they were, why they existed, and where they were going…they were unaware.”

It goes without saying that sin has somewhat of an anesthetizing effect upon any and all societies. When sin is the norm of the day, Elohim-inspired morality rapidly breaks down which then leads to “spiritual blindness that leads to corruption and unthinking brutality and violence” (Parsons, 2018). If anything, this aptly described our present world to a “t,” wouldn’t you say? And if we take this description and compare and contrast it with what we know to have been transpiring in the days of Noah, it would not be too much of a stretch to believe that if we are not now living, we are at least heading for the End Times.

The sixth-chapter of Genesis gives us a glimpse into what the natural and spiritual conditions were like in the times of Noah. It is recorded: The Nephilim were on the earth in those days (and also after this) when the sons of God were having sexual relations with the daughters of humankind, who gave birth to their children. They were the mighty heroes of old, the famous men. (Gen 6:4 NET) But the LORD saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time. (Gen 6:5 NET)

There are varied understandings throughout Christendom as to the actual meaning of this brief, and not too detailed descriptions of these days of Noah. Conservatives vehemently deny that angels mated with woman who in turn produced the dreaded Nephilim (i.e., giants). These contend that angels cannot possibly mate with human beings. To the opposite end of the spectrum, however, some contend that indeed, spiritual entities did in fact mate with human women and Nephilim were the products of this prohibited union. But these folks go even further in their claims, basing their contention upon their reading and understanding of certain Apocryphal books such as the ancient books of “Enoch” “Jubilees,” and “Jasher.”

We find recorded in the 7th chapter of Enoch the following:

“Each of the 200 [the Watchers] chose a wife for himself and they began to go in unto them and to mate with them, and they taught them sorcery and enchantments, and the cutting of roots, and made them acquainted with plants. These women became pregnant and gave birth to great giants whose height reached up to 3,000 ells (most likely mistranslated as 30-cubits). These giants consumed all the food; and when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and dovoured mankind. They also began to sin against birds and beasts and reptiles and fish and to devour one another’s flesh, and drink the blood. Then the earth laid accusation against the lawless ones.”

Continuing on to the 8th chapter, we read:

“Azazel taught men to make swords, knives, shields, and armor from the metals of the earth. He taught the women how to see behind them (i.e., mirrors), how to make bracelets, ornaments and other kinds of jewelry using precious stones and the beautifying of the eyes with makeup of various color. This led them astray into fornication and ungodliness and they became corrupt in all their ways.”

The Book of Jubilees confirms the Enochian account with the following:

 

“And it came to pass when the children of men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born unto them, that the angels of God saw them on a certain year of this jubilee, that they were beautiful to look upon; and they took themselves wives of all whom they chose, and they bare unto them sons and they were giants [Nephilim]. And lawlessness increased on the earth and all flesh corrupted its way, alike men and cattle and beasts and birds and everything that walketh and on the earth—all of them corrupted their ways AND THEIR ORDERS and they began to devour each other, and lawlessness increased on the earth and every imagination of the thoughts of all men 9was) thus evil continually” (Jubilees 5:1, 2).

Now, the Ancient Book of Jasher goes somewhat deeper into this thing. It is recorded:

“And the wife of Lamech conceived and bare him a son at that time, at the revolution of the year. And Methuselah called his name Noah…And all the sons of men departed from the ways of the Lord in those days as they multiplied upon the face of the earth with sons and daughters, and they taught one another their evil practices and they continued sinning against the Lord. And every man made unto himself a god, and they robbed and plundered every man his neighbor as well as his relative, and they corrupted the earth and the earth was filled with violence. And their judges and rulers went to the daughters of men and took their wives by force from their husbands according to their choice, and the sons of men in those days took from the cattle of the earth, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and taught the mixture of animals of one species with the other, in order therewith to provoke the Lord…” (Jasher 4:13-18).

Now, I get it. Many who read this post will reject my references to these so-called and oft-perceived non-inspired texts. But I submit that before we unceremoniously reject these books and label them as spurious and in some cases, evil, we carefully keep in mind that these books were revered, read, and often referenced by our forefathers down through the years and that each of these are mentioned in various passages of the inspired books of our present canon. Could these texts be spurious? Of course they could, but I am not at all certain that they are. In fact, I would go so far as to give these books the benefit of the doubt. If these texts can shed further light on this present darkness that we are experiencing and warn us of the times ahead, why would we not take heed of their content?

For purposes of this post, however, I reference these texts simply to shed a light upon the times we are “a-living.” Master stated that the end times would be similar to the times and days of Noah. So what do you say that we briefly compare and contrast the days of Noah with our present day?

• People are marrying and being given in marriage. True in the days of Noah and certainly true today.

• There is heightened spiritual activity ongoing in the world. True in the days of Noah and certainly true today. We may not be seeing Nephilim being conceived and birthed as of this writing, but with current DNA manipulation and AI technology soon to be commonly implemented in everyday life in conjunction with noticeably heightened spiritual activity taking place in virtually every nation on the planet today, is it not too much of a stretch to envisage Nephilim-like beings walking the earth in the not too distant future?

• Agricultural genetic manipulation threatens to thoroughly corrupt Father’s natural order on this planet. True in the days of Noah and certainly we see it coming true today.

• Lawlessness abounds worldwide. True in the days of Noah and certainly true today.

The bottom line with all that I’ve written in this post is that such stories as the advent of machines and technologies that could could threaten the existence of mankind are, for the Torah Observant Believer in Yahoshua Messiah, clear markers that the return of our Master is not too far off. Thus it behooves us to be acutely cognizant that our time to work the fields is quickly coming to an end.

Our Master stated it poignantly and succinctly:

“We must work the works of Him who sent Me as long as it is day; night is coming when no one can work” (Joh 9:4 NAU)”

I end with the words of the Apostle Paul who wrote:

“Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary (Gal 6:9 NAU)”

Faithfully Submitted