Technology is the enabling means that makes end-time prophecy believable and possible, Les teaches—though Revelation itself never uses the word.
Les tells his class that 'the whole Book of Revelation is based on our tremendous technology.' Without computers and global communications, he says the Antichrist could not monitor every person on earth or enforce the mark of the beast. He also connects the speaking image to existing voice technology and to research toward a living-cell computer. For Les, modern technology is the stage being set for Revelation's end-time events.
Revelation 13:15 — This is the key verse Les directly connects to technology—the image is given life, speaks, and demands worship.
Revelation 13:16-17 — Describes the global economic mark that Les says modern computer and satellite systems can now enforce.
Revelation 13:14 — Shows the false prophet commanding the world to make an image to the beast.
Revelation 13:14–15 shows the false prophet telling earth-dwellers to make an image to the beast—the one wounded by a sword yet living. The image is given life so it can speak, and it causes all who refuse to worship it to be killed. Then Revelation 13:16–17 describes a mark placed on the right hand or forehead; no one may buy or sell without that mark, the name of the beast, or the number of his name. The text does not mention computers, the internet, or satellites, but it does present a speaking image and worldwide economic control as literal end-time events.
Les repeatedly teaches that modern technology is the reason Revelation is now believable. He tells of a young banker who said every new technology is bringing prophecies closer, and he adds that 'the whole Book of Revelation is based on our tremendous technology.' Without the computer, Les argues, the Antichrist could never put his thumb on every human being on earth; with today's internet and data systems he could access a file on any individual anywhere. Satellite television and worldwide newscasts also make the events of Revelation plain as day.
Les says the Book of Revelation is based on our tremendous technology. Without the computer, he argues, the Antichrist could not put his thumb on every human being on earth. With modern data systems he could bring up a complete record on an individual in Timbuktu at the push of a button. Satellite television and worldwide newscasts, Les says, make the book of Revelation very believable and plain as day.
Les connects Revelation 13:15 to technology that already exists—computers that can talk with voice capability. He also mentions a report he read about Japanese researchers working on a living-cell computer, a machine that would combine electronics with biological cells. He says the prophecy of an image that is given life and speaks is not stretching one bit beyond our present technology.
Revelation 13:16–17 says no one may buy or sell without the mark of the beast. Les says satellite, telstar, and today's communications make that prophecy right out in front of us. He clarifies that it is not being fulfilled yet, but technology is setting the stage so that a world leader could enforce a global economic system.
The KJV text of Revelation describes a speaking image and a mark required for buying and selling, but it never uses the word technology. Les's teaching is that modern technology is the contemporary means by which those biblical events can actually happen. The Bible provides the prophecy; technology provides the mechanism.
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Computer Technology Makes Global Control Possible
Les teaches that the Book of Revelation is based on our tremendous technology, and that without computers the Antichrist could not put his thumb on every individual.
The Speaking Image of the Beast
Les connects the prophecy of the image speaking to technology already here—computers that can talk—and notes refusal to worship leads to death.
Duplicate of Clip 2: The Speaking Image
This clip repeats the same teaching that talking computers already exist, making the image's speech a believable prophecy.
The Image and the Living-Cell Computer
Les ties the false prophet's image of the beast to a report that the Japanese are developing a living-cell computer, showing present technology is not stretched.
Duplicate of Clip 4: Living-Cell Computer
This clip repeats the same teaching about a living-cell computer and the image receiving life.
Satellite Communications Make Revelation Believable
Les says satellite television and instant worldwide communication make the Book of Revelation believable and plain.
Modern Communications Set the Stage
Les points to satellite, telstar, and newscasts as making prophecy believable, and says the stage is being set for the mark of the beast's buy-and-sell system.
Revelation 13:14: And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
This verse shows the false prophet commanding the earth to make an image to the beast—the starting point for the technology-connected image prophecy.
Revelation 13:15: 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.
This is the central verse Les connects to modern speech technology and the living-cell computer.
Revelation 13:16: And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
The mark is global and applies to every class of person, which Les says requires modern data systems to enforce.
Revelation 13:17: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
This verse describes the economic control that Les says satellite and computer technology now make believable.
The KJV text of Revelation does not use the word technology. It describes an image that speaks and a mark required for buying and selling. Les says modern technology is what makes those prophecies believable and possible.
He points to existing talking computers and voice technology, and cites a Japanese project toward a living-cell computer. He sees that as evidence the image can be given life and speak.
He connects computers, the internet, satellite communications, and worldwide data systems. He says the Antichrist could use these to monitor individuals and enforce the buy-and-sell mark.
Les says prophecy is not being fulfilled per se yet, but the stage is being set. Satellite, telstar, and newscasts make the end-time events believable.
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