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If I took my smartphone and I showed it to the Apostle Peter, I said, Peter, come here, I want to show you something. I know you’re in Israel, Paul’s in Rome right now, would you like to talk to him? That would have blown him away, just the telephone. So you want to look at him while you talk to him.

Do you want to upload a recipe to him? Maybe you’d like to do a Zoom call with the whole church. Would you like to look at Google Maps and see how to get there the quickest. They would think you’re a witch, right?

You know, my grandfather was born in New York City. Matter of fact, he was born in Harlem. It was a lot of Jewish people. My mother’s side is all Jewish.

And he was born by candlelight. My grandfather, they were riding horses. I guess he still has some horses left, right? But they were riding horses around New York City.

Look at how the world has changed in 1 lifetime. He said, many will run to and fro, knowledge will increase, people are running to and fro now more than they ever had. You just consider the increase in knowledge. I mean, just look at what’s happened in the past century with everything from the automobile, the airplane, the radio, penicillin, a moon landing, space stations.

Technology is exploding exponentially now. They say that all of the knowledge of man, we’ve learned more in the last 10 years than all of the history of man combined. And now with AI, and it’s a double-edged sword like the internet, like all communications, it can be used for good or evil. But it’s pretty scary what it’ll do.

Batchelor, Doug, “Signs of Christ’s Return, Part 2” (AudioVerse teaching 43401).

The point

To illustrate the prophecy of increased knowledge, the speaker imagines showing a smartphone to Apostle Peter, highlighting how such technology would seem miraculous. He further emphasizes rapid change by contrasting his grandfather's birth by candlelight and horse-drawn travel in New York City with the exponential technological advancements of the past century, noting that more knowledge has been gained in the last decade than in all prior history.

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