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What Did Darby See?

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John Nelson Darby

As you may know, people who revile the doctrine of the pre-tribulation Rapture frequently resort to pinning what they view as a heretical doctrine on John Nelson Darby (1800–1882), an Anglo-Irish minister that they claim swiped the idea from the celebrated vision of a 15-year-old Scottish girl named Margaret MacDonald in 1830.

As I have discussed on various occasions over the years, however, this is simply not the case. Not true, never happened. End of story. And this can be readily established by historical writings of the period.

Not to mention the inconvenient fact that several statements Margaret MacDonald made in her vision blatantly contradict a pre-trib scenario.

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JUN '18: The Blood of Bulls and Goats
Ezekiel 40–48 describes worship at a future temple in the Millennial Kingdom that includes...uh, animal sacrifices?!

The Blood of Bulls and Goats

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If you're anything like me, you are anxiously looking forward to the Rapture and the events that follow it, especially the Millennial Kingdom. That's when we will literally rule and reign with Christ right here on good old terra firma, which will have been restored to a veritable paradise.

It seems, however, that many people within the Church, even among the small and dwindling percentage that rightly understand that there will even be such a thing as a Millennial Kingdom, don't fully grasp certain things about the coming kingdom that are given to us in Scripture, and that's the reason for this article.

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9/29/2026 — From the "We're All Gonna Die!" Department...

There have been a number of articles published recently about AI, and the growing trend seems to be a frightening one. It seems that more and more people are concerned about AI growing out of control and eventually doing some type of great damage, or posing a terrifying threat to the world for one reason or another.

Another such article appeared recently, and in it we were exposed to the opinions of Peter Thiel, the co-founder of PayPal. Earlier this month, Thiel sat down for an interview with the Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of German media corporation Axel Springer, and they discussed how Western democracies can regulate AI without giving up ground to China.

But in that interview, Thiel made what is to me a telling comment. He talked about how he believed that slowing the growth of AI globally would require a one-world government. Unfortunately, he opined, such a global degree of control would be more dangerous than the technology itself.

In other words, Thiel believes that in regard to the regulation of AI:

That degree of enforcement requires
authority that no one should have.

But anyone who knows anything about end-time prophecy knows that one day there will be just such a leader who will have just such authority. And that's the entire point:

Don't look now, but we're watching Bible prophecy gel.

Just a few years ago, it was the potential authority to force everyone on the planet to get COVID-19 vaccine after COVID-19 vaccine after COVID-19 vaccine...which was obviously the only way to save the world. Well, that seems to have subsided somewhat, especially since much of the dirt has been exposed about how Big Pharma deliberately pushed unsafe, ineffective vaccines to rake in tons of money, while their vaccines have done nothing but cause far more health problems than the actual virus ever dreamed of.

In other words, the lie was:

We need a powerful global government to keep everyone on the planet vaccinated to the hilt...or else we're all gonna die!

Thiel fears that even if Western countries managed to join together to regulate AI, it would have no effect on China. Thus, it would leave China free and clear to win the AI race and leave the West in the dust. And we sure don't want that, now do we?

So the yarn du jour is:

We need a powerful global government to regulate this growing AI monstrosity...or else we're all gonna die!

Or what's worse, lose the AI race to China.

So as we ponder that unthinkable outcome, we may as well ponder what horrifying global problem will come along next that will present the world with the unavoidable reality that it needs a powerful global government headed up by a powerful global leader...

Which is exactly what it is going to have sooner than many think.

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Articles Over the Past Year (3.–14.)
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