pomegranatesandchains

We are living in an age when knowledge is increasing, systems are accelerating, artificial intelligence is expanding, digital infrastructures are being built, and The Nations are racing to construct something that looks very much like Babel rising again.

But this Babel is not only being built with bricks and mortar!

It is being built with data, algorithms, artificial intelligence, surveillance systems, digital identities, economic control, language models, behavioral prediction, and technological dependence.

In Genesis 11, the people said, “Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven…”  (Genesis 11:4)

They were not simply building a Tower.  They were building a System of human unity apart from God.

They were attempting to centralize power, language, identity, ambition, and destiny under a man-made order — and I believe we are seeing the same spirit rising again.

The world is building a system that wants to know everything, predict everything, monitor everything, process everything, and control everything. It is a system that promises convenience, speed, intelligence, safety, and progress but underneath it are deeper questions:

Continue reading @ Source: The Rise of Babel, the Beast From the Clay, and the Call to Return to The Word ~by Syreeta Thomas