When Voices Are Gunned Down: Charlie Kirk, Technocracy Rising, Israel Condemned

Understanding the Times

Pastor Josh Schwartz and Ken Mikle

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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A.I., the technocrats, and technocracy: Are we seeing the development of the Beast System of Revelation 13? Pastor Josh Schwartz and Ken Mikle open with Patrick Wood analyzing these issues. In the extended version, Jan Markell joins David Tal and Josh to talk about the Kirk assassination and the Israeli strike on Qatar. How should the believer respond? Extended version begins at 32:21. To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.oneplace.com/donate/407/29

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0:00.0	AI, the technocrats, and the development of a technocracy.
0:05.0	Are we seeing the development of the Beast System of Revelation 13?
0:09.0	We will talk about it.
0:11.0	Tech authoritarianism is about replacing existing democratic structures
0:16.0	with governments controlled by billionaires and their technology systems. A notion that technology and the ideology that informs it can govern human beings
0:27.6	and centralized power among a certain elite.
0:30.6	Any kind of power that has freedom to shape the way you think, you behave, and the way you relate to one another.
0:41.6	This is where authoritarianism is triangulating people's self-actualization and agency.
0:48.8	Welcome to Understanding the Times Radio with Pastor Josh Schwartz and Ken Michael, Radio for the Remnant,
0:55.7	brought to you by Olive Tree Ministries, the ministry founded by Jan Markell. In our program,
1:01.9	Pastor Josh and Ken talked to Patrick Wood, a leading expert on technocracy, transhumanism,
1:09.0	sustainable development, and geopolitical trends. Is technology's exponential
1:14.2	rise prophetic? How should a follower of Jesus respond? Discussing the vast spectrum of
1:23.2	artificial intelligence, the concept of artificial general intelligence or AGI is often held as the
1:29.0	Holy Grail. AGI can perform any software task that a human being can. This level of versatility
1:35.4	means that you can teach it almost anything, much like teaching an average adult human, except it can
1:40.9	learn thousands or millions of times faster. Taking the concept even further, when brain computer interfaces reach an adequate level of maturity,
1:49.0	humans could merge with these types of AIs and communicate with them in real time using their thoughts.
1:55.1	I asked it about what does it mean about the announcement from Microsoft yesterday that a quantum computer or a quantum computer chip that has millions of cubits on one chip, the size of your palm of your hand, if I were to say you were a teenager to me 12 hours ago, where is the deeper grok today?
2:21.1	How much shoulder are you? How much progress have you made since I went to sleep?
2:25.6	So in 12 hours instead of 5 to 10 years of growth, I might leap 50 to 100 years in human growth every 12 hours.
2:37.0	If we were to equip AGI with a physical robot body, the possibilities become boundless.
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