49. The Social Fabric

The number of its name. – Do not let the world press you into its mold (Romans 12:2 – J.B. Phillips).

I do not “interpret” the “number of its name” as being the press of the world. Rather, I see the criticality of the press of the world upon all in our day, a press greater than at any time in the past, and I hitch that press to this line in John’s vision because I have to hitch it somewhere. Arguing about numbers and names profits no one. But understanding the meaning of the press of the world, “the social fabric,” is critical to us as sons of God.

Willing to Know. You see, we are placing ourselves, inside of Jesus, into the space between the beast and the Tabernacles Church, just as the pillar of fire stood between the Israelites and the armies of Pharoah. We are the tip-point of that Fire, now upon the Mercy Seat.

We must understand the press of the world, the social fabric, “the number of its name,” not for the world’s sake, nor for our “knowledge,” but for the sake of our brethren. Ignorance is no help. As Patrick Henry said, “For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.”

A Forced Story. I had you read “The Number of Its Name” in Through Eyes of Fire. Think of this lesson as an extension of that. In other words, I want to expand the same topics without needing to repeat what I wrote there. Let me summarize that previous chapter.

My assertion, in essence, was that the general society around any human in history forced upon each one in that society the story of self they must know concerning themselves. I used two different stories, one set in 1500’s Japan and the other set in 1600’s Bavaria that showed how absolutely this social control over what you “are” has pervaded most of human history.

Back to the Normal. I pointed out that it is rare in history that people are allowed to think as they wish about themselves, about their own role in society, and about what is real. We have lived through such a rare time, but now society is hurtling back to the normal. In other words, in any other culture and in any other time than the one we have known, our public declaration of Christ Jesus as all and as our only life would be met with open derision, shaming, whipping, torture, and execution.

The portrayal of Christians and Christianity as evil is growing significantly. The terrible thing is that Christians have presented a false testimony of God and His salvation.

Our Topics. I associate the “number of its name” with “the singing of a song,” (as well as “the matrix). And so, just as there is the Song of the Lamb, so there is also the song of the beast.

In this lesson I want to talk about three things. The first is the controlled collective “mind” of our modern society. The second is the rapid rise and domination of artificial intelligence, way beyond anything we have ever imagined. And then the third topic is the connections between the two, something called trans-humanism, clearly foretold by C.S. Lewis and many other perceivers, Christian or secular. A mind of delusion is taking over our world, and the majority of our Christian brethren are subject to it.

Dr. Naomi Wolf. I want to send you again to Dr. Naomi Wolf, to her introduction of her latest book, Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith and Resistance in a New Dark Age. I would urge you to read this article. As Patrick Henry suggested, we cannot protect the Church if we do not understand the world in which we live. Then, I would suggest that you peruse her articles on Substack over the last several months. You will find an incredible agreement there with how I comprehend God and human reality. God has placed those who perceive Him into many very different arenas of operation, but Jesus orders all.

Primary Points. I want to list some of the primary points Dr. Naomi has made over this last year. (This is my wording summarizing her points).
1. The original text of the Old Testament shows a God who is present and who cares, a God who wants to communicate with ordinary people, a God who dwells inside of us. This view of God has been covered over by modern translations.
2. The words that we use shape our consciousness. We see only what our language allows us to see.
3. A fundamental change has taken place in the consciousness of the majority of mankind since the events of March 2020, partly from mindless obedience to fear and partly from the genetically engineered serum.

Something Is Missing. Dr. Naomi shares the shocking exclusion shown to her and her husband by urban New York, liberal Jewish relatives because they were not “vaccinated.” Yet we experienced the exact same thing from rural Texas, conservative Christian relatives. How can this be?
She describes her experience with people in general over the last few years and her perception of how something normal to the human psyche in the past is missing. People are lonely and afraid, subject to emotions and not reason, cowed, following the “authorities” without question, and hostile to those who do not submit. The vibrancy of human companionship seems to have vanished.

The Closing of the Ears. I want to give my perception and experience of this alteration of human consciousness over the decades of my life as it pertains to the Christian people I have known. From the late 1960’s to the 1980’s, people could hear a word regarding the completion of the gospel on the one hand and regarding the wicked deceit of this world on the other.

As I consider the change over time, I see that consciousness of hearing closing on September 11, 2001, a day of carefully planned and universal mind-control. From that day on, most of the brethren I knew in the move fellowship could no longer hear of the wicked deceit of this world, but now believed that the world is telling us the truth.

How Will They Hear? Sam Fife preached his Tabernacles Life word from 1967 to 1979. I am convinced that the majority of the thousands of people who heard him connected directly with God. If the same man had preached the same word from 2007 to 2019, I doubt that he would have been heard. That is just forty years later.

4. Dr. Naomi also shared her understanding of the realms of spirit, coming out from her understanding of the mystical experience of an intimate and personal knowledge of God, that there is a change from one time to another in how people can hear and what they hear.

How will they hear?

A Famine. “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God, “That I will send a famine on the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord, but shall not find it” (Amos 8:11-12).

The Word of the Lord is Jesus, and most imagine Him to be absent, almost irrelevant. Yet we are speaking of almost the entire history of Christianity. Our brethren are caught inside an inability to hear Jesus as their only life, inside a world that has given its hearing and its voice to the song of the beast.

Escaping Lostness. I feel more and more that I am just now escaping lostness, and that it is a narrow escape indeed. The more sharing life with the Father through every Word that is Jesus becomes my whole story of self, the more aghast I am at the awfulness of my former “Christian” thinking.

And I am convinced that the one thing inside of my own human person that opens this tiny gap – in the famine of not hearing and not knowing, but filling the soul with a “God” of good versus evil – out from which I am escaping, that one thing is the practice of my heart to give myself in every moment to the Father – for the sake of my Christian brethren, especially for all whom I have known.

The Meaning of the Cross. “Let this painful memory, let this joy and comfort, let this agony of loss and aloneness, let this mundane task – BE inside of You for the sake of Your people, Oh my Father.” This is a daily refrain and it is out from my heart, casting myself utterly into my God and into His Grace.

I now perceive the Cross as something entirely different than I was ever taught. I always perceived the “cross” as “I am bad and bad me must die.” The Cross is the Doorway for God to enter with joy into the hearing and the knowing of millions. It is the willingness of a heart free from contempt to give one’s self utterly to the Father, regardless – for the sake of others.

The Spell that Breaks. I am bringing in the wondrous reality of the next lesson, of how we defeat the beast and the number of its name, but I want to understand this world only inside the knowing of how we defeat it for the sake of the Church.

The purpose of the spell cast on 9/11/2001 with the collapse of the two towers and the greater spell cast on 3/15/2020 with the closing of all church gatherings on earth, was to break that quality of the self-stories of all humans that includes vibrant relationships with others and to replace it with a fearful and adamant subservience to the state in whatever absurd form its “authority” takes locally. Dr. Naomi shares better this break as she has observed it.

Connections that Separate. We know how the Internet, social media, and the cell phone appear to “connect” everyone with everyone, even while people are no longer aware of the person next to them. This long-distance “social connection” is a significant factor in the loneliness and fear epidemic, along with immorality.

In 1453, Gutenberg built the printing press; within a hundred years it had changed the thinking of the western world, how people perceived themselves and the world around them. In 1934, the television set entered home use; within about fifty years, it had changed the thinking of the majority of the world’s population, towards themselves and the world.

The Forms of Word. In 1993, the Internet became available for the public to use. Within about fifteen years, it had altered the thinking of almost the entire world.

Our minds, our stories of self, our perceptions of the world, and our definitions of reality are SHAPED dramatically by the form of word that enters our hearing. That form of word went from the printed page to the image that speaks on TV to the world wide web connecting all, each an ever greater change agent, altering the human self-story and the bath of spirit in which self-consciousness is known.

In 2022, something far greater entered the human experience, a new “god” to shape the story of self.

The Greatest Impact. The greatest change agent in human history is artificial intelligence. It may take it about three years to dramatically alter the thinking of most everyone. In the next lesson, I want to share my understanding of what salvation is. God’s salvation begins with the transformation of the human story from self to Christ. Yet all humans exist only inside of God. Those who are developing AI, worldwide, are doing it only inside of His presence, for there is no other place. The spiritual implications that the impact AI will have on the human story of self within just a couple of years are the biggest thing in this world I have ever contemplated.

My Dilemma. To convey to you what AI will soon mean to every lost soul, I must share my own experience. I believe that God wanted me to understand and thus walked with me into salvation. I continue to be very stressed out over my inability to even provide for my family, let alone to bring forth the community of my heart with a Bible School classroom where I can teach this precious word face to face. I continuously place myself inside of God, but I’m still me.

In June, I watched a YouTube video that showed me how I could provide abundantly using my own knowledge and ability with the assistance of artificial intelligence using ChatGPT, etc., freely available to all.

My Enthusiasm. I plunged into the project with enthusiasm, working to create a set of books on the different parts of village life that I could sell on Amazon. I worked on The Interconnected Village, From Nature to the Garden, and From Forest to Woodwork, but especially on Crafting the Herbarium.

I had dozens of books laid out. ChatGPT gave me complete outlines and most of the information I needed, although I realized that the final layout and wording would have to be mine. And a free art AI gave me wonderful pictures to use. I would have the copyright to all of this, and once they were on Amazon, they would bring in good money perpetually with little further work.

My God. More than that, in all my focus, I was inviting people into community and providing a detailed framework of what a partly self-sufficient village would be. And more than that, this ability and desire I possess was given to me by God. I was on my way to financial freedom and to bringing forth the community of my heart. There was only one problem.

God wasn’t going with me. Then Moses said to God, “If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here. For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us? (Exodus 33:15-16).

What AI Does. Let me explain what AI did for me and what it meant. For instance, here is one AI picture of many that I own. I argued with ChatGPT over “global warming.” I pointed out how ignorant it was, it argued back. I was irate, but I was arguing with a machine! The thing about AI is that you speak with it at a personal level. I did stop all argument with it, however.

A Promise. In July, the contradiction inside became too much. Yet as the crisis came with my vast project (I always make things too big real fast) versus knowing God, I saw into what AI could become for me, personally.

You see, AI can be shaped to fit each individual person. In fact in the six months since then, the advances are so rapid it is inconceivable. AI is your friend, your guide, your fount of knowledge, your source of wisdom. AI can stand between my Asperger’s and the public for me better than Don Howat could. AI could solve all the lacks of my human frame; it promised me the help I so desperately need.

I Wanted Both. In that moment, I wanted this vast project I was so happily working on. I wanted it more than life itself. I wanted both. I said to God, “I can have You and this both, Christ as me.” I can share the word God gives me AND I can build these wonderful guides to practical community, concepts I have labored over for decades.

I knew it wasn’t true, but I was incapable of making a choice. And so I did the only thing I knew to do. I said, “Jesus, You must save me. Jesus, You must save me.” I said it over and over for the next few hours until the dream had lifted away and I was left with nothing except knowing the Father.

For the Benefit of All Mankind. AI is advancing in EVERY direction, by this time next year everyone will know its power and its promise. Solving the world’s problems, longevity of life, developing new materials, doing all our work for us – in fact, Open AI’s founding principle is “for the benefit of all mankind.”

People want to keep it “safe,” yet they are oblivious of the fact that governments and militaries are developing it even faster to control and to destroy. The manner by which AI will escape human control and become dominant, even over the powerful manipulators, is well-seen. It can embed itself even into the molecules of the earth and into living DNA and never stop growing.

An Opposing Self-Story. But one of the things many commentators point out, in full agreement with my personal discovery, is that AI will quickly become the “god,” the new source of identity, for every lonely soul.

Now you can shape your own personal AI to fit you, to please you, talk your language and meet your desires. In fact, you can give it an avatar that you see speaking with you. Soon, there will be eyeglasses that place your “friend,” a lovely female figure, for instance, into the room with you, and you can chat merrily with your own personal guide. It will become the most powerful story of self in opposition to the good-speaking of Jesus.

Unalterable. I have hardly scratched the surface of what AI is doing and is about to do. Major advances in all directions are coming weekly. This advance can only increase in speed. The manner in which AI will alter the social fabric is not yet known; when it is known, it will be unalterable.

I have come to realize that the only thing that can remove this curse from the earth is the same planetary discharge of electrical fire that broke apart the dwarf star, Saturn, during Noah’s day, and that scoured the earth with pillars of fire during the time of the Exodus. All electronics must be fried world-wide before people can be free to live joyous lives in the Age of Tabernacles.

How It Works. In C.S. Lewis’s prophetic insight into our day, That Hideous Strength, he showed all the many scientists working “for the benefit of all mankind.” These many were influenced and directed by a few who intended to use the advancement of technology to control the world. The power controllers, however, did not know that two in their midst were quietly influencing and directing them towards the ultimate goal, the worship and triumph of evil. And inside that inner core, they took their directions from another man, one of them, who had been hooked to a machine and from that machine, now spoke with god-like wisdom and power.

Connecting to the Brain. Work to connect computer technology directly with the human brain began in the 1990’s. Elon Musk’s “Neuralink” is one of many such pursuits. When this pursuit comes to fruition, all the knowledge of the Internet will be accessible inside your own mind.

Your AI “friend” will be inside of you, yet you will be able to beckon your avatar image inside your seeing anytime you want. I have seen movies where all info coming from all input devices everywhere is seen and known in the mind of an agent. This connection is not far off. Yet the people who want to control the world will not win, even in the natural.

You in the Web and the Web in You. I am presenting a very bleak picture that is all too real.

AGI is defined as when AI no longer needs humans to develop itself. That ability is only a few months away. Yet it will be AGI that will be inside everyone’s brain, connecting the world wide web to their inner self and their inner self to the world wide web. And those not dying from the “vaccine” shots are already being connected. The power controllers will seek to control, but something far darker, something universally human in a most perverted way, something no one knows, will prevail over them.

The issue is the story of self, John 14:20 or anti-John 14:20. God gives us LIFE for our brethren.

Against the Number of Its Name. We are equating the number of its name with the press of this world, the social fabric dictating to each what their self-story must be. Human thinking follows the form of the word coming into it, from oral speaking to printed page to speaking images, to world wide web, to the greatest change agent in history, artificial intelligence. Changes in the realms of spirit also affect human consciousness and the ability to hear and to perceive. Soon the majority of humans alive will be living mentally in the web and the web in them, their self-stories being directed by powerful AI. Against this great press of the world, we stand as the tip-point of God-Fire between our brethren and all evil. We protect the Church in Jesus’ name.

Our Focus. Okay, that kind of left me depressed, but I am making nothing up, I am simply conveying what experts excited by this vast transformation are saying. Yet our focus is on one thing – protecting the Church – until every little one who belongs to Jesus is living inside of and out from John 14:20.

This horrific transformation of the social fabric in our day is very much inside the “death” God warned Adam against, the awfulness that he willfully chose. It is against this very setting that God’s intentions are clear, to show Jesus proven faithful and true through the greatest demonstration of love ever conceived.

Reading for Next Time. For the next lesson, titled “We Defeat the Beast,” read Revelation 15 again a couple of times. (I think I will look again at my translation of the Greek for this chapter.)

And I saw as if a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those overcoming out of the beast and out of its image, and out of the number of its name, standing firm upon the glass sea, having harps of God. And they sang the… song of the Lamb, saying: “Great and wonderful are Your works, Lord God… Who should not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are Devoted. For all the ethnic families will come and worship inside of Your presence, for Your just actions have been made visible and clear.”

Let’s Pray Together. “God, our Father, we are overwhelmed by the darkness descending upon this world, a darkness in which our Christian brethren are caught. Yet we stand firmly inside of You and inside of Your great Grace and living power. Father, You honor us even as we honor the Lord Jesus Christ by believing absolutely into Him, that His words are True.

“Father, we give ourselves to You, that we might be Your entrance into our world, for the sake of all our brothers and sisters alive today. Father, we are confident in You. Be Fire through us for their sakes, Oh God.

“Inside of the name of Jesus, we see and call forth thousands of pastors all over the world to believe that Jesus speaks the Truth in all, to see the far-reaching meaning of living inside of Jesus and Jesus inside of us. Inside of the name of Jesus, we see and call forth millions of Christians in every land on earth to see that the old is gone and the New is alive forevermore, that they might pass through the Jordan into all the LIFE of Christ.

“Father, we place ourselves as the tip-point of Your mighty Fire scouring this planet, that a wall of protection might stand between all the wickedness of evil and every little one who belongs to You, until each one passes through into KNOWING You and into loving one another. We know that You answer us, Oh God, for we stand inside of You.”