The Antichrist: False Security, False Hope, and False Peace on Earth

By Curtis Cochran

What is happening with the data we allow machines to have—and what dangerous precedents are being set that will influence the future?

Curtis Cochran, who became increasingly concerned about where technology was headed during his ten years in information technology, explores what has become an increasingly concerning chain of events.

He examines how technology giants have overstepped by butting themselves into almost every aspect of our lives. For instance, Meta (Facebook) wants our prayers, our work, and our educations monitored by artificial intelligence with all data collected. Elon Musk, co-founder of Neuralink, wants us to install technology into our brains.

As of now, we do not have the right to be forgotten by big tech—nor do we get a percentage of the revenue when our data is bought and sold. While it may be too late to stop what’s going on, we can learn what has occurred, who did it, when it happened—and what will likely come next.

Whether or not you believe in God, this book reveals how social engineering, incrementalism, and human complacency is paving the way for a dystopia that we must try to avoid.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Aug 29, 2022
• ISBN: 9781664274631

Curtis Cochran

Curtis Cochran was raised in a Christian household. After several years of rebelling against God, he returned to Christ and began to understand His promises and grace. After spending ten years in information technology, he became concerned about what is happening to our data and where the field is headed, and so he changed careers.

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CONTENTS

Introduction

A Brief Look at Eschatology

1   Artificial Intelligence and Its Personhood

2   Social Engineering and Incrementalism

3   Data collection

4   Biometric Data Collection

5   Social Media

6   What Are They Doing with the Data?

7   Dystopia

8   Christ’s Promises to Humanity

Bibliography

Notes

ECC 7:25. So I turned my mind to understand, to investigate, and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things.

INTRODUCTION

Ten characteristics of the Antichrist are as follows:

1. He will blaspheme God. Revelation 13:6 says, And he opened his mouth in blasphemies against God to blaspheme His name and His Tabernacle, that is, those who dwell in Heaven.

2. The Antichrist will come back to life. Revelation 13:12 says, Ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast that was wounded by the sword but yet lived. What a feat that will cause may to be motivated by the sight of this fatal wound that will be healed.

3. He will claim to be God and be worshipped. Second Thessalonians 2:3–4 says, Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way, for that day will not come until the rebellion occurs and the man of lawlessness will be revealed, the man doomed to destruction. He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshipped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.

4. The Antichrist will rule in full authority. Revelation 13:5–7 says, For three and a half years he was given full authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation.

5. The Antichrist will control the word’s economy. Revelation 13:16–17 says, Forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, so that they cannot buy and sell unless they have the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

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