The world is not drifting toward biblical prophecy. It is marching straight into it. The global surveillance architecture, artificial intelligence dominance and transhumanist agenda are not theoretical warnings. They are observable, measurable and admitted by the very people building them. Pastor Billy Crone states the case plainly. The infrastructure for the Antichrist is being erected now.
“Evil likes to brag,” Crone said in a recent Charisma Media interview. “They tell you what they’re going to do. You just got to be able to see it.” The elite are not hiding their ambitions. They are broadcasting them. We are witnessing the creation of a world where humanity invites its own monitoring under the banner of innovation.
Crone does not frame this as opinion. He presents it as fact. “AI can and already is tapping into all these systems to monitor us like rats in the cage,” he said. Modern people willingly live under constant observation. The devices sit in their pockets, hang on their walls and operate in their homes, cars, workplaces and streets.
“Anytime you see the word smart, you need to supplant that with the word big brother,” Crone said. Smartphones, televisions, thermostats, security systems, microphones and cameras are no longer conveniences to him. They are nodes in an emerging control web. The biblical command not to return home during the tribulation suddenly reads like practical instruction. “It’s the biggest big brother paradise ever,” Crone warned. “That’s the last place you would want to go.”
A key driver of this system, Crone asserts, is Oracle founder Larry Ellison, who leads the government’s Stargate project. Crone notes Ellison is one of the wealthiest and most influential architects of technological destiny, and the public has no idea.
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Ellison’s stated goal is total imaging and monitoring of human behavior. Crone quotes him directly. “Everyone will see everything going on,” Ellison declared. AI driven body cams, drones and automated enforcement systems will remove human discretion and replace it with machine oversight. “AI will report the problem,” Ellison said.
Crone does not exaggerate the implications. He identifies them. Global omnipresence, social control and compliance enforcement mirror Revelation 13. “They are going to know where everybody’s at at any time,” Crone said. “That big brother system is being built before our very eyes.”
For Crone, this technological movement is inseparable from spiritual rebellion. Silicon Valley leaders openly advocate transhumanism, the redesign of humanity into a hybrid post biological species. He cites figures like Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Ellison as men pursuing “super intelligence, super health and super longevity.” Their stated intent is to create what they call Human 2.0.
Crone connects this directly to Jesus’ warning. “As it was in the days of Noah,” he quoted, pointing to Genesis 6 hybridization as a prophetic pattern. Tech elites are not predicting this future. They are financing it, celebrating it and accelerating it.
But Crone draws a line they cannot cross. “There’s one thing you will never be able to download, let alone re upload,” he said. “It’s called a soul.” AI can replicate memories and behavior patterns, but it cannot capture identity. God determines the length of man’s life, not technology.
The transhumanist promise of eternal life, Crone argues, is a counterfeit of the Gospel. “Everything they promote is a counterfeit to what God offers in mercy for free through Jesus Christ,” he said. The real immortality is already available without implants, machines or uploaded minds.
Crone’s message is not hypothetical. He is sounding a reality check. The surveillance state is no longer coming. It exists. The merging of humanity and machine is not conceptual. It is underway. The prophetic framework is not distant. It is active.
He challenges believers and skeptics alike to stop sleeping, stop dismissing what is unfolding, and stop treating biblical warnings as metaphor. The world is not waiting for end times conditions. It is living in them.
James Lasher, a seasoned writer and editor at Charisma Media, combines faith and storytelling with a background in journalism from Otterbein University and ministry experience in Guatemala and the LA Dream Center. A Marine Corps and Air Force veteran, he is the author of The Revelation of Jesus: A Common Man’s Commentary and a contributor to Charisma magazine.
