“If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.” Matthew 24: 2
SOME IMPROMPTU IMPRESSIONS.
But first: a solemn statement: I will never use AI in my writing.
We – I – live in apocalyptic times, times that will suddenly convert to the glorious future, accelerated by the erratic actions of one man: Donald Trump. Today, partly thanks to him, the entire world is upside down, is in disarray, is no longer steadfast and predictable, has lost its focus, and teeters on collapse, as promises are perishing, treaties are teared up, earlier contracts are canceled, and stability surrendered.
But remember: All this is part of God’s plan to speed up Parousia.
Even the weather weighs in.
Is it also the unpredictable weather that will speed up the change? Are the global fires the last straw?
The word ‘apocalypse’ really means ‘revelation’; it indicates that the veneer, that flimsy film of civility, that binding bonding of common goals and mutual aims is torn away, and disarray dawns, with personal gain as the aim.
Economic growth.
‘Economic’ growth, has pushed away Climate concerns: producing more tar-sand oil, deeply polluting, suddenly in fashion. Canada is embracing an all-out pursuit of regional and national priorities, never mind tomorrow. Tomorrow never comes. Tomorrow has disappeared. Tomorrow brings sorrow. Tomorrows will not follow today anymore. Seize the Day, because tomorrow brings judgement.
Tomorrow? Ignore tomorrow. God is dead. Long live today. Apocalypse? A fable. Close off your minds. Blindfold reason. Make war instead. Peace is for sissies. Peace is so yesterday. War in heaven drowns out peace on earth. Judgement? Unconstitutional. Parousia? Christ coming again? Heaven beckons. The future? The future has vanished. We have used up the future. We now live the future. The only future we talk about are different dystopian scenarios involving climate, demography, artificial intelligence. The future is now. God help us.
The real Future…..
“The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off—for all whom the Lord our God will call.” Acts 2: 30.
This text is a quote by the volatile, the impetuous Peter, the deeply believing, butterfly Peter, the perfect personality for a gifted disciple, popular, political, personal. Think Bill Clinton. Think Obama. Think Justin Trudeau. Think many gospel preachers.
We can’t do anything without God; God won’t do anything without us.
Today, anno 2026-7, is the appointed age to broadcast the gospel through the available media, especially the World-Wide-Web.
Time is speeding up.
Events are going much faster than before: there is an accelerated process going on, unprecedented in human history in its 10,000 years of recorded events. There then was the Ice Ag, and when it receded, more or less liveable conditions replaced the age of extreme cold.
Now we are going the other way: too hot, too dry. The Age of Alteration, the Age of Transition, the Age of Extinction, the Age of Fire, the Age of Purification, the Age of Newness, the Age of Perfection, the Age of Divine Rule, the Age of Ages, the Age of all whom the Lord has called.
It took humanity 10,000 years to live divinely, to live ‘normally’, to live ‘inspired’, to abide by God’s commands, to see and live and breathe and be inspired to abide by the LOVE rule for eternity.
“Many are called, and few are chosen”, is the just verdict of the Creator, now being implemented, at the demise of the age of aberration, at the end of the educational stage of the offspring of Adam and Eve, the stage necessary to prepare the children of God for life in eternity, the life of Integer Vitae, the life Christ lived, a life to the full, as prescribed in John 10: 10, in that Book, the Book of Life.
We are playing Russian Roulette with all the chambers loaded.
Add AI.
Russian Roulette: Sam Bankman-Fried of AI fame, was asked in a podcast: “If you could flip a coin, and it was 51 percent odds you would double the total amount of human welfare and a 49 percent chance everyone dies, would you flip the coin?” He said ‘yes’’.
I think this is a hyperbolic example, but I also think it’s not actually that far off from what a lot of the people building superintelligence believe, too. That they are basically willing to flip the coin.
The odds for Climate Change are no odds anymore. It is becoming inevitable. The Poles are melting. An extreme El Nino is building up. The rice and cereal crops are wilting. Millions will be starving.
The Lord is a gracious Ruler. “If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.” Matthew 24: 22.
We now, Anno 2026-7, enter that period of ‘grace’, thanks to the elect.
YES: SOME IMPROMPTU IMPRESSIONS.