Woke to a thought this week, that two witnesses could be AI bots.
I'm posting it here for everyone's reflection.
I'd always wondered why in Rev 11 they didn't seem godly, wreaked havoc without mercy, then all the people wanted them dead in the streets. Imagine how people are already complaining they have lost jobs, had terrible help desk runarounds, got auto-blocked/demonetized, and even had bank accts closed. Then imagine this getting worse, and impossible to stop. We would rejoice if halted.
Gk Witness =spectator, keeping record (AI retains and shares information without participating).
Gk Clothed- also means surrounding a city, like pallisades. Or throwing on/around, like cloak
Gk Sackcloth- austere, simple garb (This one's a stretch, but AI is housed in small devices and unadorned servers. Compared to its ability to retain and sort information, its garb is not glamorous)
INTERLINEAR Rev 11:3
And give these two witnesses, indeed/but [revelation/uttering forth] 1,260 days, surrounded w sackcloth.”
They are the two olive trees and the two lampstands, and they stand before the Lord of the earth.
(Previous talks on lampstands and olive trees being people-groups...fits better than AI)
If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes from their mouths and devours their enemies. This is how anyone who wants to harm them must die. (Sophia asked for robot army)
They have power to shut up the heavens so that it will not rain during the time they are prophesying; and they have power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they want.
Now when they have finished their testimony (Gk testifying/report/...delivering information),
the beast that comes up from the Abyss will attack them, and overpower and kill them.
(This year society talking more openly about what may live below and above. Beast knew how to stop them... maybe beast told ppl how to create them.)
Their bodies will lie in the public square of the great city—figuratively called Sodom and Egypt—where also their Lord was crucified.
For three and a half days some from every people, tribe, language and nation will gaze on their bodies and refuse them burial. (Not trusting what might happen, who might rob the burial site.)
The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts,
(Nations exchange gifts, resources, defense support, trade agreements.)
because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.
(Relief, reparations from damage done.)
But after the three and a half days the breath of life from [Gk theos, any deity] (which completely changes the scenario. People didn't expect them to be sentient or living) entered them, and they stood on their feet, and terror struck those who saw them. (Thinking destruction over, but then destroyers come to life.)
Then they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” And they went up to heaven in a cloud, while their enemies looked on. (Whew.)
Rev 11:3
Update: Thanks for not debating right/wrong, I'm just putting it out there.
Something to think about.
I think it's good to question everything we were taught and being influenced to believe...We are finding out the Governments, the media, the medical establishments have been lying to US for a VERY long time...
Doesn't Revelations means: the unveiling, uncovering..."the act of making something known that was previously secret or obscure, especially something true." (many believe we have entered this time)
I contend the church has been lying to us as well. The seminaries have been supported by the Deep State in part...They have manipulated what was taught and what was translated. I am all for looking at things in a different way when more facts come forth...
When AI surpasses human abilities...could it not merge with a living human body? I had a dream of this...maybe I will post in the future.
There is a lot that makes sense here...that a computer network can influence the water supply and can affect the weather...we can see what just happened at Dubai, the incredible rain they just had...weather modification?
The Antichrist is evil. If the Antichrist and the "world" wants the 2 witnesses dead, the 2 witnesses are the enemy of evil.
God requires 2 witnesses before implementing a death penalty. The 2 witnesses arrive at the begining of the Great Tribulation and will be God's eye witnesses to the atrocities that the Antichrist and Beast system conduct. At the end of the Great Tribulation, God will pour out His wrath onto the wicked of the world.
The 2 witnesses are human - because at the end of their 1260 day of testimony, they will be killed.
One of the 2 witnesses will represent the Gentiles. The other will represent the Jewish people. According to the Holy Bible, there are 2 men who went to be with the Lord but never died: Enoch (a Gentile) and Elijah (a Jew). Both were considered to be blameless in God's eyes.
Regarding AI: the mark of the beast is likely to be something that changes a human into something that is no longer fully human (transhumanism). They would no longer be made in God's image. Anyone who takes the mark of the beast will be killed and cast into the lake of fire - they are unredeemable. Perhaps because they have traded the glory of being made in God's image for something else.
Regarding devils: Satan is "the Devil." Fallen angels are devils. Angels have enternal bodies and do not need to possess a human body. They can also change shapes. We can unknowingly enternatin angels.
Regarding demons: they are the disembodied spirits of the Nephillim (angel/human hybrid described in Genesis 6). Since they no longer have a body, they want to possess a human body.
For more info, please see my website: FAQEndTimes.com
The locusts will be aircrafts. The two witnesses are human, the beast from the sea is a robot, and Babylon is the internet. The beast from the earth is the antichrist and he will make people worship robots and recieve the mark in order to participate in the smart cities which are completelyrun by AI. He's already been born but not of age yet. Give it a few decades and we'll be there.
I ran across old notes, maybe from a previous post here at 333. I think "sack" definitions were from commentary, in addition to interlinear translation.
Witnesses (legal/historical/ethical)
PUT ON -- variants with TETELESTAI "already completed" tense:
to throw around, to put around
surround a city with a bank (palisade)
of garments, to clothe one
put a thing on one
clothe one with a thing
put on or clothe one's self
a sack
a receptacle for holding or carrying various things, as money, food, etc.
a course cloth, a dark course stuff made especially from the hair of animals
a garment of the like material, and clinging to the person like a sack, which was wont to be worn (or drawn over the tunic instead of the cloak or mantle) by mourners, penitents, suppliants and also by those who like the Hebrew prophets, led an austere life
What if God allowed a visitor/scribe/spokesman/seer/wordsmith/ to exercise authority over populations.
Cloaked, surrounding cities with force field or embankments, or some sort of material that holds them in. Or hides with cloaking device.
Maybe I'm getting too deep into details. The witnesses passage does not put responsibility on the believer, as many other prophetic passages do, so knowing more is less important. At least we'd be less shocked if one came to life.