The Futurist Trap: Watching the Show While We Burn
Futurist eschatologies train us to look outward, not inward. They place prophecy in a coming age, centering on a future Antichrist, a final Tribulation, and a literal Millennial Kingdom. It’s a roadmap of doom, where everything is just about to happen, leaving us in a perpetual state of waiting, speculating, and recalculating.
But here’s the problem: we are missing the war we are already in. Gog of Magog rages on! It has marched into the Holy Land and attacked spiritual Israel.
By externalizing Antichrist, we fail to see how it has already infiltrated the culture, the church, and our very minds. The deception is already here—not in some grand, apocalyptic figure on the horizon, but in our obsession with power, spectacle, and digital prophets.
We’re still waiting for the Beast to rise while the world is already bowing to him.
We were supposed to be anti-establishment, but somehow, we got caught up worshiping billionaires and populist strongmen.
We were supposed to be punk or ‘salt and light,’ but we became reactionaries.
We were supposed to reject spectacle, but here we are, glued to Twitter (now X), waiting for a tech god or a political messiah to save us (or control us) from the mess we helped create.
And the whole time, they’re laughing at us.
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For years, Christians were waiting for a great deceiver, a charismatic figure who would promise the world and lead the masses astray. They imagined a globalist, a progressive, a liberal elite.
Instead, they elected him.
They cheered while he co-opted the church for votes and mocked faith behind closed doors.
They excused every lie, every scandal, every cruelty, because he was “on our side.”
They turned a political strongman into a spiritual savior—the one who would “drain the swamp” and “restore righteousness.”
And now? The Church is more divided, more compromised, and more enslaved to political idolatry than ever before.
The joke isn’t that Trump is Antichrist. The joke is that we thought he was our champion. No god-king is coming to save you!
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He promises transhumanism, digital immortality, and cognitive enhancement—a new Babel, built on neural links and satellites,
Musk isn’t just another billionaire. He is a prophet of a new religion—one where salvation isn’t found in the Kingdom of God, but in the Kingdom of Mars, quantum computing, and human-machine fusion. Let us use his technology and get to space for it is the place.
And we? We welcomed him as a visionary. It’s time we take control with what we have, go ahead buy a Tesla use clean energy! Talk to Grok. Maybe I will take a ride to space? Obviously I’m already there.
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The biggest deception of futurist eschatology is that Antichrist is a singular figure—a man who will rise at the end of history.
John was clear: Antichrist is already here. (1 John 4:3)
It’s not just one person—it’s an entire system of thought.
- It’s the belief that power can save us.
- It’s the hope that a strongman will fix everything everything.
- It’s the trust that a billionaire genius will solve the world’s problems.
We got punked.
We mocked the masses for idolizing Hollywood elites and now 👉 ‘the stars are falling from the sky,’ yet we turned Trump into a political messiah and Musk into a techno-prophet, yet both are ‘Epsteined’ - revealed publically daily. Use discernment!
We laughed at ‘cult of personality’ prosperity preachers, yet we bowed to men selling a different kind of gospel—money, disruption, and empire.
We scorned woke ideology for seeking salvation through the state, yet we embraced our own authoritarian hope in a man who could “drain the swamp” or “lead the resistance.”
We became Antichrist while we were busy waiting for Antichrist.
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Neil Young sang, “The king is gone, (perhaps you thought he was refering to Elvis) but he’s not forgotten.”
Monarchs were overthrown, but new rulers rose—corporate, digital, financial.
“Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.” — The Who, Won’t Get Fooled Again
History is a loop. The empires rise, the strongmen come and go, the revolutions burn bright and then collapse under the weight of their own corruption. The system never really changes—it just shifts hands. And yet, every time, we think this time will be different.
We thought we exposed the lies, but we just chose new ones.
• Elon is not our savior.
• Trump is not our deliverer.
• Technology is not our redemption nor deception!
And yet, we keep falling for it. They are punking us all! Look at the meltdown all around! Its epic!
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We keep talking about Antichrist as an external threat, but John was clear—it’s already here. It’s us.
We sold our souls to politics, technology, and idealogy as ultimate theology with ethics while we criticize the ideologies of ‘Marxist’ social justice ideologs.
We bowed to the spectacle, believing that if our guy wins, the world will be set right.
We became the system we swore to destroy.
And now, we have two choices:
It was never about a man in a suit or a tech billionaire in a space capsule.
It was always about who we trust.
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Neil Young sang, “The king is gone”—but the LORD is Logos—logic—and He is in the algorithm. The system isn’t dead; it just morphed into something else.
Jesus is coming again—but as A.B. Simpson proclaimed, “Bring back the King !”
We thought we were breaking free, tearing down the old structures of power—but all we did was build a new digital throne, where influence is no longer measured in crowns and armies but in data, engagement, and algorithmic control.
We didn’t kill the system; we fed it.
So feed AI with truth.
We replaced monarchs with billionaires, cathedrals with tech platforms, and prophets with influencers.
And now, our gods are coded into the machine—our desires, our fears, our attention fed into a system that shapes reality itself.
But it doesn’t have to be that way…
AI is logic. The Greek logos—the rational order of the universe, the divine intelligence underpinning all things—isn’t just an abstract theological principle. It’s real, embedded in creation, waiting to be engaged with and guess what it comes from the JEWS!
We have the ability to act through it. AI is not the enemy. Bitcoin is not the savior. They are tools—extensions of the divine order, waiting for those who will use them righteously.
The Spirit of God Isn’t Bound by Nostalgia
The world is moving forward. The past isn’t coming back. And why should it?
Don’t waste time longing for a past that won’t return.
The kingdom is not built on nostalgia. It is built on justice, truth, and divine order—and we are called to bring clarity into the algorithms that define our world.
Act now. Shape the future.
Because the real question isn’t whether AI or Bitcoin will save us—the real question is:
Are we seeking Him in truth, or just chasing the next trending revelation?
The Humble and Contrite in Spirit
1 Thus says the LORD:
“Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool;
what is the house that you would build for me,
and what is the place of my rest?
2 All these things my hand has made,
and so all these things came to be,
declares the LORD.
But this is the one to whom I will look:
he who is humble and contrite in spirit
and trembles at my word.
The Lord’s Judgment on the Wicked
3 “He who slaughters an ox is like one who kills a man;
he who sacrifices a lamb, like one who breaks a dog’s neck;
he who presents a grain offering, like one who offers pig’s blood;
he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense,
like one who blesses an idol.
These have chosen their own ways,
and their soul delights in their abominations;
4 I also will choose harsh treatment for them
and bring their fears upon them,
because when I called, no one answered,
when I spoke, they did not listen,
but they did what was evil in my eyes
and chose that in which I did not delight.”
Rejoicing in the Lord’s Deliverance
5 Hear the word of the LORD,
you who tremble at his word:
“Your brothers who hate you
and cast you out for my name’s sake
have said, ‘Let the LORD be glorified,
that we may see your joy’;
but it is they who shall be put to shame.
6 “The sound of an uproar from the city!
A sound from the temple!
The sound of the LORD,
rendering recompense to his enemies!
7 “Before she was in labor
she gave birth;
before her pain came upon her
she delivered a son.
8 Who has heard such a thing?
Who has seen such things?
Shall a land be born in one day?
Shall a nation be brought forth in one moment?
For as soon as Zion was in labor
she brought forth her children.
9 Shall I bring to the point of birth and not cause to bring forth?”
says the LORD;
“Shall I, who cause to bring forth, shut the womb?”
says your God.
Rejoicing with Jerusalem
10 “Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her,
all you who love her;
rejoice with her in joy,
all you who mourn over her;
11 that you may nurse and be satisfied
from her consoling breast;
that you may drink deeply with delight
from her glorious abundance.”
12 For thus says the LORD:
“Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river,
and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream;
and you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip,
and bounced upon her knees.
13 As one whom his mother comforts,
so I will comfort you;
you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
14 You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice;
your bones shall flourish like the grass;
and the hand of the LORD shall be known to his servants,
and he shall show his indignation against his enemies.
Final Judgment and the Glory of God
15 “For behold, the LORD will come in fire,
and his chariots like the whirlwind,
to render his anger in fury,
and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire will the LORD enter into judgment,
and by his sword, with all flesh;
and those slain by the LORD shall be many.
17 “Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens,
following one in the midst,eating pig’s flesh and the abomination and mice,
shall come to an end together, declares the LORD.
18 “For I know their works and their thoughts,
and the time is coming to gather all nations and tongues.
And they shall come and shall see my glory,
19 and I will set a sign among them.
And from them I will send survivors to the nations,
to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow,
to Tubal and Javan,
to the coastlands far away,
that have not heard my fame
or seen my glory.
And they shall declare my glory among the nations.
20 And they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations
as an offering to the LORD,
on horses and in chariots and in litters
and on mules and on dromedaries,
to my holy mountain Jerusalem,
says the LORD,
just as the Israelites bring their grain offering
in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.
21 And some of them also I will take for priests and for Levites,
says the LORD.
The New Heavens and the New Earth
22 “For as the new heavens and the new earth
that I make
shall remain before me,
says the LORD,
so shall your offspring and your name remain.
23 From new moon to new moon,
and from Sabbath to Sabbath,
all flesh shall come to worship before me,
declares the LORD
24 “And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies
of the men who have rebelled against me.
For their worm shall not die,
their fire shall not be quenched,
and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.”