Hi all,
You may recall that last year, the Lord shared with me, and I with you, that AI (Artificial Intelligence) would, in 2025, come to the forefront. I shared part of that visitation, but here is one of the links: https://churchwithoutwallsinternational.org/2024/08/20/august-2024-newsletter/
I had shared He showed me during that visitation of 2 black lines in the clouds, running from left to right in my field of view. One line was bold, running in front of clouds, though as I looked left to right along the line I could see some of it was in the cloud here and there. There was a second line behind the first line, running almost entirely within the cloud, but would appear briefly to merge with the larger black line in front, then dip out of sight into the clouds.
He explained the front line was the US government, and the line mostly in the clouds was AI and the cloud was the Internet. At the time it seemed far off, and I kept much of what He said to myself.
Since then several friends have sent me news about AI and the advances.
At the time He told and showed me these things it was in the context of the body of Christ. He spoke of people using AI as a replacement for knowing and walking with Him and the Father. He spoke with such sadness about it.
Since then I’ve seen reports of Christians using AI to interpret their prayer language, which is SO sad, removing the Holy Spirit and knowing the Lord and replacing knowing with technology. At that time He mentioned how I too (as He is) been grieved at the Christians who surround themselves with ‘friends’ on social media rather than seeking out and investing in genuine relationships in Him. I’m not talking about remaining balanced with ‘friends’ on social media, which balance is maintained when one has real ‘in the flesh’ friends they fellowship and interact with.
He shared at the time how that spirit, which numbs a person spiritually, (it is a spirit involved in many cases), will lead (in the future) to some going to the next deeper level of replacing Him with technology. He spoke of people looking to AI for prophetic words, pastors using AI to generate sermons, even some seeking robotic and AI generated ‘friends’. It is related to such things as a person who pays a ministry for a prophetic word, or thinking prophetic words are on demand – it is the same spirit involved, same fleshly sin involved. It substitutes paying the price to seek Him and wait before Him and knowing Him with lazy and presumptuous spirituality, which turns the Almighty God into a fortune cookie to be opened at will.
It’s the same way churches replace the manifest presence of God…
…with emotion. Emotion is easier than the manifest presence of God (anointing), thinking ‘the anointing’ is an emotion that gets people stirred up. That is the flesh. I’ve shared before how I asked the Lord in a visitation how He would define ‘the anointing’ and He simply replied: “The manifest presence of God.”
The Father’s presence feels heavy, weighty, for He is the Source of all good things. Therefore, His presence is about the core issues of who we are, what our purpose is, and the hurts or wrong thinking about Him and those things. Many feel a ‘holy hush’, the silence in the Father’s presence, during which a person feels they would violate something holy if they even moved. The feet often feel heavy as if in concrete shoes, the Holy Presence is so thick the air seems saturated – that is the Father for He deals with our purpose and plan for our lives, and our deepest motives.
The presence of Jesus is lighter, for He is also a Man, so He deals more with emotions and physical needs.
But many of our churches have replaced knowing the manifest presence of God for either emotion or intellectualism, turning Him into a set of principles by which they say you can manipulate God to provide answers and blessings. Wrong. The same type of spirit that causes such dullness of spirit is seen and will be seen more, in people substituting God with AI.
Several have sent me either reports or predictions of these sorts of things are either taking place, or the technological foundation is being laid for such things.
One last thing He mentioned at the time was cyber security and the world changing over to a digital currency. This is actually happening now, with the US Congress passing a law providing for a legal framework, and more recently President Trump forming a US digital currency. What makes the USDC1 digital coin unique is that it is a stablecoin. That means every digital dollar is directly linked to a real US dollar, 1 to 1.
Potentially it means people from all over the world can buy US dollars digitally, bringing money into the US, so a digital currency is politically and economically attractive to the government. In the next 2-3 years this will transition will be huge.
Types and shadows
From a spiritual standpoint we see this, the way governments handled Covid shut downs and such, as a shadow of something to come. Jesus said John the Baptist was ‘Elijah who was to come’, as a type of the real Elijah who will be 1 of the 2 witnesses in The Revelation 13 – finally given a chance to die a natural death. John the Baptist was a type of Elijah, who called and will call, Israel to repentance to the true God and their Messiah.
So we see things like AI and digital currency laying a foundation for things to come. It isn’t time to be afraid, it is a time to be amazed at the days in which we live. As He said to me last year about the next 2-3 years, they are a time to prepare, invest in relationships, and know times will be changing in the relatively near future.
The audio series this month might on the surface seem boring subjects – the ‘minor prophets’. In reality there are many New Testament truths we study, including disappointment with God, why the devil speaks of his own and the power of agreement, and more. I encourage you to give a listen.
Fenn family:
After the wonderful Orlando conference, we hit the ground running. Chris did well in our absence, for which we are thankful. He had a bone density scan when we got back, which was scary for him, crying out in fear of the table and the moving machine over him – I was able to sit on the table and hold his head in my lap, which calmed him.
We just got back from our every other year New England conference (this was our 8th such gathering), which we did not advertise as it was focused on those currently doing church in the home and long time friends of the ministry. The intimacy of about 50 people together for a long weekend of fellowship, teaching, worship, prayer and food was amazing – right out of Acts 2: 42. And the Lord did so much in our midst in worship and as we prayed for one another.
Next year our general conferences include the Netherlands April 30 – May 3. It will be at Emmaus House, our ‘usual’ place near Helvoirt, Netherlands. Contact Wil and Ank for information: cwowisolcon.nl. Here is a link (Dutch) to Emmaus House https://emmausbezinningscentrum.nl/
We are also planning a larger Thursday through Sunday Tulsa conference in mid-October next year, tentatively set for the 15-18th. Registration will be open in the first quarter of next year.
Thank you for being part of our lives! Thank you for your prayer and giving, we want to be a blessing to you!
John & Barb, Brian & Amy
