Artificial Intelligence was trained to think and act human, but in an incredible irony, it is the humans who are now acting like AI

For years, we were told that artificial intelligence was being trained on us. It consumed our books, our websites, our conversations, our photographs, our articles and our collective human experience, learning how we speak, how we think and how we respond. The machine was built to imitate the man. But now something far stranger is beginning to emerge: the man is beginning to imitate the machine. Researchers are finding measurable evidence that words, sentence structures and linguistic habits favored by AI systems are beginning to appear in human speech and writing. The creation is no longer merely reflecting its creator; the reflection is beginning to reshape the one standing in front of the mirror.

“And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” Revelation 13:15 (KJB)

Think about the feedback loop now being constructed in real time. Human beings produce the language that trains artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence processes that language, reorganizes it and develops recognizable patterns of its own. Millions of people then spend hours every day talking to those systems, writing with them, learning from them and increasingly allowing them to compose their emails, articles, schoolwork, business communications and even personal conversations. Those AI-shaped words are then poured back onto the Internet, where tomorrow’s artificial intelligence will consume them as training material. Human feeds machine, machine reshapes human. Human feeds machine again. Round and round it goes, until the question is no longer simply whether machines can successfully imitate humanity, but whether humanity will gradually surrender some measure of its own individuality to the machines it created.

The Turing Test once asked whether a machine could speak so convincingly that a human could no longer tell the difference. We are rapidly approaching something even more disturbing: a world where the distinction becomes harder to make because both sides are moving toward each other. Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly human in its presentation while human beings become increasingly conditioned by algorithmic language, algorithmic thinking, algorithmic recommendations and algorithmic decision-making. The great technological revolution of the twenty-first century may not ultimately be remembered as the moment when machines learned to think like people. It may be remembered as the moment when people, willingly and enthusiastically, began allowing machines to teach them how to think. The machine once studied mankind, now mankind is sitting at the feet of the machine. Welcome to The Matrix, 21st-century edition, and you’re going to hate how it all winds up.

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Iran Tightens Its Grip On Hormuz As IRGC Rocket Launchers, Sea Mines And Ballistic Missiles Turn The World’s Most Important Oil Chokepoint Into A War Zone

Iran is once again showing the world that it does not need to defeat the United States in a conventional war to inflict tremendous damage upon it. According to CENTCOM, IRGC forces on Larak Island were preparing rocket launchers capable of firing naval mines directly into the Strait of Hormuz, replenishing the very minefields American forces had only just finished clearing. That is not ordinary coastal defense, it is calculated economic warfare. Tehran is weaponizing one of the most important maritime chokepoints on Earth, transforming a narrow stretch of water into a pressure valve on global oil supplies, shipping insurance, commercial traffic and inflation. Iran understands perfectly that it can shake markets, frighten tanker operators and drive oil above $90 without sinking an American aircraft carrier or winning a single conventional battle.

“There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.” Isaiah 57:21 (KJB)

On this episode of the Prophecy News Podcast, when the United States destroyed those launchers, Iran did not limit its response to the Strait or strike only at the forces responsible. The IRGC fired ballistic missiles toward bases housing American forces in Jordan and launched drones into UAE airspace, immediately expanding the battlefield into neighboring countries. Jordan says it intercepted eight missiles, while the UAE says it intercepted Iranian drones over its territorial waters. Iran is demonstrating that every Gulf nation hosting American forces can be made to pay a price for Washington’s decisions. Tehran is turning the entire region into a field of retaliatory targets while presenting its aggression as “self-defense.”

The most disturbing part is that Iran appears determined to establish itself as the gatekeeper of Hormuz. Tehran says vessels must obey Iranian navigation restrictions, has reportedly threatened ships attempting to pass without its authorization, and claims a tanker struck two mines after trying to transit “illegally.” That amounts to an effort to impose Iranian control over an international waterway by force. America may destroy two launchers today and clear several mines tomorrow, but Iran can deploy more rockets, drones, missiles and mines from a long and heavily fortified coastline. The IRGC is betting that it can bleed America’s munitions, frighten its Gulf allies, strangle international commerce and force the world to negotiate on Tehran’s terms. This is not Iran backing down, it is Iran tightening its grip around the throat of the global economy. Today on the Podcast, nothing is at is seems in the Middle East as we rapidly approach the prophecy tipping point!

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• “Jesus. I am now 64 years old and never in all the years I’ve been a Christian was I able to grow in the Lord as much as I have in the last past year. All because of our blessed brother’s work Geoffrey Grider who as the bravery of standing fast forward without fear of claiming the truth of God by the power of his love in Jesus Christ. May God bless you abundantly to the end my dear brother… ROMANS: 8: 36,37,38” Mireille Anderson
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• “I really enjoy the emails and Bible studies! I haven’t found a church and enjoy your services very much! Be blessed brother!” Marcia Mann
• “You and your organization are on the front lines in the Battle For Truth…. current events, end times, and trying to awaken a sleeping Laodicean Church. Thank you brother for fighting for us and all your teaching and insight God bless…” Daniel Cartrette
• I just want to thank you for the teachings you give every Sunday night on radio.  You are such a blessing to me. I absolutely love your way of teaching the scriptures.  I don’t have a church where I can have fellowship and teaching, so you have been my teacher for many months now. Thanks God you are there for all of us who have no church to go to.  I pray that the Lord will bless you abundantly in your ministry, and your loved ones too.  You are such a blessing to me, and many others, in these last days before the rapture.  Thank you so much Geoffrey, from the bottom of my heart. May the Lord keep you, until He comes back for us. You are in my prayers.” Donald Godin
• “Thank you for the work  you are doing brother.  Your page and your testimony were a blessing to me this morning as I came across it for the first time.  Thank you for the reality of your testimony and what God has done for you in introducing you to Jesus our Lord.  God has brought me, in salvation, to Himself as well, through His love and mercy and grace in salvation.  How can we praise Him enough?  How can we not share this good news!?  I pray this day for God’s blessing on your ministry that He may save many souls through the work He has called you to.  Isaiah 40:31 (KJV)” Mark and Melissa
• “Love the Sunday night bible study. I want to support someone who has the passion for the lost like Geoffrey does and rightly divides the word of God. God bless you.” Teresa Carey
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• “It’s hard to find solid biblical teaching in America these days. It’s a blessing to be able to take part in a ministry financially without being concerned about false teaching. All glory to God! God bless!” Maximilian Swan
• “I donate because you are reporting the truth about the increasing wickedness of our time, as God’s word foretold. In so doing we are reminded to “Keep looking up” as we wait in joyful hope for the Lord’s coming, Maranatha! ” Anthony Sloane
• “Geoffrey has the best End Times News out there. I have been receiving his emails for years now and always enjoy his Sunday night messages although I don’t always think exactly as he thinks. We are all in this “boat of life” together and as I come to the end of my life’s journey here, I am more aware of Jesus’s call for us to be one as He and the Father are One.” Deborah Cleaveland

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We are surrounded by antichrists who are working overtime to prepare this coming world for the arrival of the kingdom of the biblical Antichrist

America in 2026 is not suffering from a shortage of religion, it is drowning beneath a flood of counterfeit Christianity. From the halls of political power to the stages of celebrity megachurches, another Jesus is being preached, another spirit is being received, and another gospel is being embraced. Donald Trump’s spiritual adviser Paula White traffics in prosperity theology and bizarre spiritual theatrics, Kathryn Krick fills auditoriums with people shaking, trembling and falling backward, modern “apostles” sell impartations and supernatural activation, deliverance ministers convince saved believers that they are inhabited by devils, and New Apostolic Reformation prophets dream of conquering America’s Seven Mountains through political power.

“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.” Ephesians 6:10-13 (KJB)

We see how New Age manifestation, Kundalini-style experiences, prophetic fortune-telling and the commercial sale of the “anointing” are all being baptized in Christian language and presented as movements of the Holy Spirit. But Paul warned us that our battle is not against flesh and blood; it is against principalities, powers, the rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness in high places. These are evil days, the deception is accelerating, and the command of Scripture has never been more urgent: redeem the time, put on the whole armour of God, preach the word, test every spirit and, having done all, to stand. On this Sunday Service, we equip you for battle.

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Spiritual Wickedness In High Places

“See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.” Ephesians 5:15–17 (KJB)

“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.” Ephesians 6:10-13 (KJB)

America in 2026 is not suffering from a shortage of religion; it is drowning beneath a flood of counterfeit Christianity. From the halls of political power to the stages of celebrity megachurches, another Jesus is being preached, another spirit is being received, and another gospel is being embraced. Donald Trump’s spiritual adviser Paula White traffics in prosperity theology and bizarre spiritual theatrics, Kathryn Krick fills auditoriums with people shaking, trembling and falling backward, modern “apostles” sell impartations and supernatural activation, deliverance ministers convince saved believers that they are inhabited by devils, and New Apostolic Reformation prophets dream of conquering America’s Seven Mountains through political power. New Age manifestation, Kundalini-style experiences, prophetic fortune-telling and the commercial sale of the “anointing” are all being baptized in Christian language and presented as movements of the Holy Spirit. But Paul warned us that our battle is not against flesh and blood; it is against principalities, powers, the rulers of the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness in high places. These are evil days, the deception is accelerating, and the command of Scripture has never been more urgent: redeem the time, put on the whole armour of God, preach the word, test every spirit and, having done all, to stand.

Central Truth

The greatest spiritual danger facing America in 2026 is not Christianity disappearing—it is biblical Christianity being replaced by a counterfeit supernatural religion that uses the name of Jesus while preaching another gospel, imparting another spirit and following another Jesus.

I. Recognize The Real Battlefield

Paul does not say that believers wrestle against politicians, preachers, institutions or other human beings. Behind the visible conflict is an invisible spiritual battle involving organized powers of darkness. The people caught up in deception are not the ultimate enemy. The enemy uses deception, pride, money, political power, religious spectacle and counterfeit manifestations to corrupt their minds.

“For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;” 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 (KJB)

Application

Our weapons are not political power, emotional excitement or supernatural demonstrations. They are the word of God, prayer, sound doctrine and the preaching of the gospel of the grace of God, and the Kingdom of God.

II. Understand The Threefold Counterfeit

Satan’s masterpiece is not always an open denial of Christianity. It is a counterfeit version containing:

1. Another Jesus
2. Another spirit
3. Another gospel

“But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.” 2 Corinthians 11:3,4 (KJB)

“For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.” 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 (KJB)

Application

The counterfeit will not necessarily look dark. It may look powerful, patriotic, prosperous, compassionate and intensely spiritual. The question is not, “Did something supernatural just happen?” The question is, “Does it agree with the rightly divided word of God?”

III. Expect Seducing Spirits Inside Religious Movements

Truth

Paul warned that the latter times would be characterized by people departing from sound doctrine and giving themselves to supernatural deception.

“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;” 1 Timothy 4:1 (KJB)

“Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.” 2 Timothy 3:5 (KJB)

“But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.” 2 Timothy 3:13 (KJB)

Application

A seducer may also be deceived. Not every false teacher consciously believes he is serving Satan. Some have mistaken emotional manipulation, psychological suggestion or another spirit for the Holy Spirit.

Sincerity does not convert error into truth.

IV. Test Every Spirit And Every Teacher

Truth

The Bible never commands believers to accept a supernatural manifestation simply because someone attaches the name of Jesus to it.

“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.” 1 John 4:1 (KJB)

“To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.” Isaiah 8:20 (KJB)

“These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.” Acts 17:11 (KJB)

Five Questions Of Discernment

1. Does it agree with the written word of God?
2. Does it agree with Paul’s doctrine for the Body of Christ?
3. Does it glorify Jesus Christ or the “anointed vessel”?
4. Does it produce understanding and self-control or confusion and bondage?
5. Does it direct people toward Scripture or make them dependent upon experiences?

V. Never Accept Manifestations As Proof Of God’s Approval

The supernatural is not automatically divine. Satan possesses the ability to produce counterfeit signs, wonders and manifestations.

“Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.” 2 Thessalonians 2:9,10 (KJB)

“For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.” Matthew 24:24 (KJB)

Rightly Divided Context

Matthew 24 and 2 Thessalonians 2 point doctrinally toward the coming time of Jacob’s trouble and the appearance of Antichrist. But they establish an essential principle: supernatural power does not authenticate the person exercising it. Antichrist will possess signs and wonders—and they will be satanic.

Application

Shaking, screaming, trembling, falling backward, strange bodily movements, supposed glory clouds and claims of miraculous healing prove nothing by themselves. The word of God judges the experience. The experience must never judge the word of God.

VI. Reject The Rise Of Modern “Apostles” And Spiritual Elites

The apostles and prophets were foundational offices. A foundation is laid once; it is not repeatedly reconstructed by every generation.

“And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.” Ephesians 2:20-22 (KJB)

The biblical apostles possessed unmistakable credentials:

“Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.” 2 Corinthians 12:12 (KJB)

Application

The New Apostolic Reformation has created an elite hierarchy of modern apostles, prophets, spiritual fathers and “anointed vessels.” These personalities claim special revelation, issue decrees, transmit impartations and demand submission to their spiritual authority.

The completed word of God is replaced by an endless stream of “God told me,” “I decree,” “I saw,” “I sensed” and “the Spirit revealed.” The 7 Mountains Mandate of the New Apostolic Reformation, something promoted by Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA, is actually the coming kingdom of Antichrist during the time of Jacob’s trouble and the Great Tribulation.

“And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.” Revelation 17:9 (KJB)

VII. Expose The Counterfeit Deliverance Industry

The saved believer is not waiting for an apostle to complete his deliverance. He is already complete in Jesus Christ.

“And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:” Colossians 2:10 (KJB)

Christ has already triumphed over the powers of darkness:

“And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.” Colossians 2:15 (KJB)

The believer’s body is inhabited by the Holy Ghost:

“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” 1 Corinthians 6:19,20 (KJB)

The believer has been sealed:

“In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.” Ephesians 1:13,14 (KJB)

Application

Deliverance ministries frequently teach saved people to interpret sin, temptation, trauma, sickness and emotional problems as indwelling demons. This creates fear and dependence upon the deliverance minister. Paul does not tell Christians to search for ancestral spirits, identify family curses or undergo repeated exorcisms. He tells them to reckon the old man dead, renew their minds, mortify the deeds of the body and walk in the Spirit.

VIII. Reject The Sale Of Anointing, Impartation And Prosperity

Simon attempted to obtain spiritual power through money:

“And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money, Saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost. But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.” Acts 8:18-20 (KJB)

Paul warned about ministers who connect money with godliness:

“Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. But godliness with contentment is great gain.” 1 Timothy 6:5,6 (KJB)

“For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” 1 Timothy 6:10 (KJB)

Peter warned that false teachers would turn believers into merchandise:

“And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.” 2 Peter 2:3 (KJB)

Application

When laying on of hands, prophecy, deliverance, healing or access to the “anointing” becomes connected to money, donations, expensive conferences or obedience to a personality, the ministry has entered the territory of Simon the sorcerer.

IX. Reject Christianized New Age Manifestation

New Age manifestation teaches people to use thoughts, declarations, visualization, vibrations or spiritual laws to create their desired reality. Biblical prayer does not command reality. Biblical prayer submits to the will of God.

“Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.” James 4:13-15 (KJB)

Application

“Speaking things into existence” is not biblical faith. Only God calls “those things which be not as though they were.” We ask, trust and submit. We do not “manipulate the universe” with words, energies, frequencies, declarations or vision boards.

X. Reject Seven Mountains Dominionism And Political Messianism

The Church is not commanded to conquer the world’s institutions and establish the kingdom before Jesus Christ returns. The Body of Christ possesses a heavenly citizenship and waits for its Saviour.

“For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.” Philippians 3:20,21 (KJB)

Jesus said:

“Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.” John 18:36 (KJB)

Paul instructed Christ’s soldiers:

“No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.” 2 Timothy 2:4 (KJB)

Application

Christians may vote, serve and speak against evil, but America is not the kingdom of God, Donald Trump is not a messiah, and political victory is not spiritual revival. Jesus Christ will establish His kingdom at the Second Advent. The Church’s present commission is to preach the gospel, teach sound doctrine and call sinners out of the world—not conquer the Seven Mountains and Christianize the world.

XI. Put On The Whole Armour Of God

Paul’s answer to spiritual wickedness is not deliverance theater, spiritual mapping, apostolic decrees or political domination. It is the whole armour of God.

“Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;” Ephesians 6:14-18 (KJB)

The Armour Applied

XII. Redeem The Time By Preaching The Word

Paul’s answer for the last days is not to chase signs. It is to preach the word.

“I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.” 2 Timothy 4:1-5 (KJB)

We redeem the time by:

• Studying the King James Bible rightly divided.
• Preaching the gospel of the grace of God.
• Exposing false doctrine with Scripture.
• Refusing to participate in counterfeit manifestations.
• Warning believers without becoming consumed by personalities.
• Standing in the truth when the majority follows experience.
• Making full proof of the ministry God has given us.

Closing Challenge: Mark Them, Avoid Them And Stand

“Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.” Romans 16:17,18 (KJB)

The command is not to admire them, experiment with their manifestations or remain silent for the sake of religious unity. We are commanded to identify doctrine contrary to Scripture, warn the brethren and avoid those teaching it. The war is real, the battle hot, and the time short, and Christian, are we ever in a fight. The answer to spiritual wickedness in high places is a Bible-believing, gospel preaching, rightly dividing Christian who has put on the whole armour of God—and, having done all, refuses to move, standing firm in the strength of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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