I have always interpreted Babylon in Revelation as being allegorical. But Daymond might be correct. You see, I'd always thought that Babylon would have to be rebuilt as a huge city that held all sorts of industrial and commercial and financial business generators; but this is no longer necessary. Babylon could be quite small, as Daymond points out. It just needs to control the industrial, commercial and financial aspects of the entire world.
Well how could it do that if it were small? Quite simply-- AI. What got me thinking along these lines was Daymond's statement that Babylon is where Nimrod reigned and tried to replace the need for God, causing God to step in to stop mankind by confounding our languages. From that point on man was separated not only by geography or culture but by the fundamental means of communication: language. And that has stood until today this day.
Yes, there are people who speak a number of languages and there are translators who are able to translate from one language to another; but that does not eliminate the fundamental problem of people living and thinking and speaking in different languages. Until AI. You see, AI speaks every language. And it can do so simultaneously. A pronouncement can be made in one language and instantly everybody in the world who is hooked to the internet can hear that statement made in their own language. Simultaneously. Man, through AI, has seemingly undone what God has done!
But not only that. AI is capable of not just managing but controlling every financial transaction in in the world. Again, simultaneously. Especially when hooked to the lightspeed velocity of a quantum computer ... which is now a reality.
Taking all of the above into account, the Antichrist could easily set himself up in Babylon as his headquarters and rule the world from there. He would not need very much by way of infrastructure or staff, but through AI he would be able to control every aspect of life on this planet. And, in the beginning at least, as described in Revelation, this dictatorship would be benign. People might love it because it will bring ostensible peace and produce great prosperity while permitting a comfortable lifestyle without stress or the need for heavy labor. AI will take care of all of that.
Anyway, those are my initial thoughts after reading Daymond's article ... which was posted here at the very same time as I am preparing a short message on the greatest potential evil in the history of mankind-- AI. I'll be posting that message From The Pastor's Study, hopefully within a day.
