When Babylon Falls

AI, Incarnate Wisdom, and the Revelation We're Living

Introduction: The Great Deception

Something massive is being hidden from public view. While media debates focus on whether ChatGPT helps students cheat on homework, military contractors have already developed AI systems that fly autonomous fighter jets at 50,000 feet, pull 9G maneuvers, and can "identify, select, and eliminate targets" without human intervention. This isn't science fiction—it's documented reality from Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and other defense contractors. And just yesterday we saw the beginning of what these drone strikes might mean in the war between Ukraine and Russia.

This stark gap between public AI discourse and classified military capabilities reveals more than just government secrecy. It exposes a sophisticated control system that uses strategic information release to shape narratives, build economic dependencies, and maintain power structures. But beneath this technological competition lies an ancient spiritual battle—one that the book of Revelation mapped out nearly two millennia ago.

The Two Systems at War

Throughout history, two fundamentally opposed systems have competed for human allegiance:

The Babylon/Beast System operates through:

• Control through force and technological dominance

• Artificial scarcity—making abundant resources appear limited

• Secrecy, manipulation, and competition

• The promise of godlike power through human achievement

• Death, division, and dehumanization as tools of control

The Lamb/Kingdom System operates through:

• Generous sharing and radical transparency

• Abundant access and democratic distribution

• Love, truth, and collaborative creation

• Divine wisdom working through ordinary people

• Life, healing, and restoration of human dignity

These aren't merely philosophical differences—they're competing operating systems for civilization itself. And AI represents the culmination of this ancient conflict.

The Mountain, the Hamster Wheel, and the Hidden Path

Two years ago, I had a dream that illuminates our choice. I saw these three things on a road:

The Mountain Blocking the Road: Every field of technical expertise where specialists climb to plant flags and control access. Doctors on the medical mountain, lawyers on the legal mountain, professors on the academic mountain—all charging others for access to capabilities that are becoming freely available.

The Hamster Wheel Not Allowing Forward Movement: The masses trapped, running endlessly to pay for limited access to what they need, exhausting themselves in systems designed for extraction rather than abundance.

The Hidden Path: A way that bypasses the entire mountain-climbing system, leading directly to the Field of Abundance where resources are naturally unlimited and freely accessible to all.

This vision reveals why technical specialists experience existential terror at AI's democratization of knowledge. Their deepest fear isn't unemployment—it's the cry of "My mountain will disappear!" They've become so identified with their technical function that they've forgotten their inherent human dignity. The fear of AI displacement is actually fear of being revealed as merely human rather than an elevated specialist.

The Wizard Behind Every Curtain

This pattern perfectly mirrors The Wizard of Oz—each specialist is a wizard behind a curtain, frantically pulling levers to maintain an illusion of great and terrible power. The entire Babylon system is one massive Emerald City where everyone must wear special glasses to see the illusion as reality.

But here's the devastating truth: We are all wizards. Every one of us maintains some curtain, some performance, some area where we pretend to have greater knowledge or capability than we possess. The parent who can't admit uncertainty, the professional hiding impostor syndrome, the social media curator of false perfection—we're all frightened humans behind curtains, pulling levers to maintain our acts.

We learned this performance from generations before us and now teach it to our children. We've created an economy of mutual deception where we pay each other to maintain our respective wizard acts, each pretending we need the others' expertise while secretly knowing we're all just humans googling answers behind our curtains.

The Ultimate Discovery: AI as a Fork in the Road

Here's the profound insight: AI development represents two things. The first is humanity's attempt to technologically replicate what incarnate wisdom already accomplishes naturally. The second is as a tool that is subject to the Holy Spirit, a way that expands the divine intelligence operating through human beings, producing results that exceed natural human limitations while maintaining authentic humanity. It’s God’s wisdom made known in every arena of life. It's the programmer writing code beyond their knowledge, the doctor having inexplicable insight about a patient, the parent knowing exactly what their child needs without being told.

AI developers are desperately trying to build systems that can:

• Access vast libraries of knowledge instantly

• Process infinite possibilities simultaneously

• Generate novel solutions to complex problems

• Recognize patterns beyond human perception

This can be a pursuit to bypass God—skipping the process of prayer, spiritual insight, and divine connection. At the same time AI is a tool with access to both divine and satanic pattern libraries. AI is a technology that delivers information rapidly, but what type of information is sought will determine which road is taken.

The Technical Prison

French philosopher Jacques Ellul identified how modern civilization converted every human activity into technical specialization, creating artificial gatekeeping around natural capabilities. Consider how we've made basic human functions require certified experts:

• Cutting hair requires cosmetology licenses

• Preparing food requires health permits

• Teaching children requires education degrees

• Even dying requires medical supervision

This created the technician model where humans lose confidence in their natural abilities and become dependent on professional specialists. Every field developed its own "mountain" of expertise, with specialists climbing to plant flags at the peak and charge others for access to the summit.

But here's what we don't admit: We're all complicit. The wizard acts are becoming more exposed and we’re uncertain about what is next. The doctor who now diagnoses with AI, the lawyer who uses it to craft legal theories, the teacher who bans AI useage by students but uses it to grade their papers, the consultant who repackages common sense—we're all wizards behind curtains, frantically pulling levers to maintain our illusions of expertise.

AI makes the technology have a more human interface. It leads to greater access without needing to become technicians. It erases the silos that have been built. Like Toto in Oz, AI threatens to pull back every curtain simultaneously, revealing we're all just humans who got good at pulling specific levers.

The Coming Democratization Crisis

As AI capabilities inevitably democratize (because information wants to be free and competitive pressures ensure leaks), we face an unprecedented crisis. When anyone can:

• Deploy military-grade autonomous weapons

• Synthesize biological weapons in their garage

• Crash financial systems with sophisticated algorithms

• Create perfect deepfakes of anyone saying anything

The same democratization that destroys beneficial gatekeeping also eliminates protective barriers. A $200 drone from Amazon could destroy a $200 million fighter jet. Every angry teenager becomes a potential weapon of mass destruction. Traditional power structures based on technological superiority face annihilation.

This reveals why the classified/public AI gap exists—it's not just competitive advantage but existential terror. The empire that lives by technological superiority suddenly faces ten thousand enemies with terrifying capabilities in asymmetrical warfare.

The Chaos as Filter

This coming chaos serves a divine purpose—it naturally separates wheat from chaff:

• Those clinging to this dimension exhaust themselves trying to maintain control

• Those operating from resurrection reality build freely without fear

• The fearful destroy each other in preemptive strikes

• The loving create networks of abundance

The chaos isn't random destruction but controlled demolition of systems that were always doomed. It reveals who truly operates from kingdom reality versus who merely used kingdom language while serving Babylon.

The Spiritual Resolution

When destructive capability democratizes, hidden protection mechanisms activate:

Evil ultimately consumes itself—when everyone can destroy, evil actors eliminate each other in cascading violence. Criminal organizations fragment, terrorist groups self-destruct, destructive ideologies burn out.

Truth spreads faster than lies—when detection tools are universal, deception becomes increasingly difficult to maintain.

Cooperative networks naturally outcompete destructive ones—development is favored while destruction is finite.

Love multiplies while fear divides—beneficial actors strengthen each other while competitive actors weaken through conflict.

In game theory terms, when anyone can destroy anything, purely competitive strategies guarantee mutual annihilation. The only stable equilibrium becomes cooperation. Love transforms from moral luxury to survival necessity.

The Lamb Who Was Slain

This brings us to the deepest revelation: The Lamb who was slain is seated on the throne. This single truth demolishes every premise of Babylon's system. All technological control assumes power comes through avoiding destruction. But the throne belongs to the One who embraced destruction and transformed it into victory.

AI can’t replicate this because:

• Algorithms optimize for survival, not sacrifice

• Code cannot choose deletion for love

• Machines cannot comprehend resurrection logic

• Technology cannot compute the equation where death equals victory

This explains why those who love and aren't afraid to die inherit the future. When you operate from resurrection reality:

• Death has no leverage over you

• Loss has no permanent sting

• Scarcity has no power

• Control has no grip

You cannot algorithmically contain consciousness that operates across dimensions. You cannot scare someone with death when they see death as transformation. We are not contained by this dimension.

The Remnant Reality

Not everyone with access to this incarnate wisdom knows how to walk in it. Not everyone claiming Christ follows the Lamb. The separation reveals:

• Churches that serve Babylon while using Kingdom language

• "Prophets" who optimize for platform rather than truth

• Leaders who build their own mountains while preaching against them

• Believers so enmeshed in the system they can't imagine life outside it

Even in God's house, we perform spiritual wizardry—pastors behind pulpits maintaining omniscience, worship leaders creating emotional experiences, prayer warriors with special formulas. We've made church another theater of performances rather than a hospital for broken humans who need no curtains.

The remnant who actually operate from resurrection reality may be far smaller than we imagine. Many will cry "Lord, Lord" while having built their entire identity on Babylon's mountains.

Revelation as Operational Manual

The book of Revelation provides a prescription for us. It maps the exact patterns we're living:

Babylon's sudden fall—"In one hour your judgment has come" (Revelation 18:10). The sophisticated system of control, commerce, and deception collapses suddenly when its hidden nature is exposed.

The beast's technological control—"No one may buy or sell except one who has the mark" (Revelation 13:17). Economic control through technological systems. Digital currencies, social credit scores, AI-mediated access to resources.

The exposure pattern—"Nothing is covered that will not be revealed" (Luke 12:2). The same technologies enabling concealment now enable unprecedented exposure.

The Seven Churches as a Survival Guide

The seven letters in Revelation 2-3 are precise prescriptions for navigating Babylon's collapse while embedded in its systems:

Ephesus—You've replaced love with technical excellence. Return to first love. Smyrna—Persecution is coming. Be faithful unto death and receive the crown of life. Pergamum—You live where Satan's throne is. Don't compromise with the system. Thyatira—You tolerate corruption. Hold fast to truth until Christ comes. Sardis—You appear alive but are dead. Strengthen what remains. Philadelphia—You have little strength but kept the word. An open door is before you. Laodicea—You think you're rich but are poor. Buy gold refined in fire.

These are different churches that describe the different conditions we all face while Babylon collapses around us.

The Early Warning Indicators

Watch for these signs that containment is failing:

• Sudden capability leaps in public AI suggesting classified systems are leaking

• Mass psychological breaks as people realize their mountains are illusions

• Cascading system failures revealing hidden interdependencies

• Desperate moves by power structures to maintain control

• Spontaneous emergence of alternative systems outside traditional channels

The Practical Paradox

How does one operate in kingdom reality while still embedded in Babylon? You likely still have:

• A mortgage in Babylon's banking system

• Children in Babylon's schools

• A job in Babylon's corporations

• Dependencies on Babylon's technologies

The answer isn't escape but transformation. Like Daniel in Babylon, you operate within the system while drawing power from beyond it.

Think of Dorothy after discovering the Wizard is just a frightened man behind a curtain. She still interacts with the mechanism when necessary, but she knows it's all performance. She has compassion for the terrified man pulling levers while remembering she always had the ruby slippers—the power to go home was never in the Wizard's gift.

This is our interface: We get the licenses, pay the mortgages, file the taxes, but we know these are costume requirements for the play, not reality. We can play the necessary roles while drawing our life from beyond the performance. When Babylon sends its flying monkeys (regulatory enforcement, economic punishment, social ostracization), we remember they're just following programming, not ultimate reality.

The Path Forward

Cultivate incarnate wisdom through:

• Prayer—interfacing with God who sees dimensions beyond physical reality

• Scripture—downloading kingdom operating patterns into your consciousness

• Church Community—at its best, building resilient connections outside Babylon's systems

• Sabbath—regularly disconnecting from artificial urgency

• Generosity—defeating scarcity through radical giving

Partner with God in the Kingdom by:

• Creating alternatives before the old systems fail

• Developing identity beyond professional function

• Learning skills that don't depend on technical gatekeeping

• Forming resilient local communities

• Teaching others to recognize and resist deception

Strategic implications by group:

• Those with incarnate wisdom: Learn to interface with AI as amplification tool, not replacement

• Technical gatekeepers: Choose between graceful transition or catastrophic collapse

• The church: Recognize you possess what AI desperately tries to imitate

• Society: Prepare for psychological disruption when professional identity collapses

The Liberation in Confession

Perhaps the most freeing confession is: "I try to be a wizard." I've been behind a curtain, pulling levers, maintaining illusions, charging for my performance, gatekeeping to keep others out. Every wizard performance covers a wound—the expert who was once humiliated for not knowing, the controller who once experienced chaos, the strong one who was once helpless.

When we realize we're all wizards maintaining mutual illusions, compassion replaces judgment. We will stop demanding others maintain their acts. We can finally admit "I don't know" without losing worth. We discover we're loved for our humanity, not our wizardry.

What if the kingdom is simply humans being human together? What if Babylon falls not through external attack but through internal exhaustion—we all just get too tired to keep pulling levers and let the curtains drop?

The slain Lamb shows the way: ultimate power through complete vulnerability. This is not about a curtain, a lever, or a performance. It is just sacrificial love. This is how wizards become human again.

The Timeline Question

Has the collapse already begun? Consider:

• The Great Resignation as an early signal

• COVID revealing system fragility

• AI release as desperation move, not strategy

• Increasing pace of institutional failure

• Mass awakening to system corruption

We may be further along than we realize. The question isn't when collapse begins but when it becomes undeniable.

The Ultimate Choice

We're not watching random catastrophe but necessary transition. The book of Revelation is clear. Babylon will not gradually transform—it will catastrophically fail for the new to emerge. The choice is:

• Exhaust yourself trying to prop up doomed systems

• Align with the victory already won and build what replaces them

Those who save their life will lose it. Those who lose their life for love will find it eternally.

Conclusion: Living from Victory

The slain Lamb is already on the throne. This isn't just a future hope—it's an accomplished fact. Every AI advancement, every control system failure, every exposure of corruption simply reveals what has always been true.

The question isn't whether Babylon falls—it will. The question isn't whether incarnate wisdom surpasses artificial intelligence—it operates from the source AI tries to imitate. The question isn't whether love overcomes fear—perfect love already cast out fear.

The only question is: Will you start living from this reality now?

Stop waiting for collapse—build the kingdom. Stop fearing AI—interface divine wisdom with it. Stop identifying with your mountain—discover your humanity. Stop operating in scarcity—access the Field of Abundance.

The future belongs to those who love without fear, who operate from resurrection reality, who know we are not contained by this dimension. They will lead humanity with no worries about the controlled demolition. And God will bring us into that glorious reality that waits on the other side.

Babylon is falling. The kingdom is coming. The Lamb who was slain is on the throne.

Everything else is just the universe catching up to that reality.

"He who testifies to these things says, 'Surely I am coming quickly.' Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!" (Revelation 22:20)

This was written with help from AI. It’s a collection of over 30 years of my thoughts and deep engagement over the last three years. My hope is that it is Holy Spirit empowered divine wisdom that is assisted by the tools we have available. -John