Retired Maj. Gen. Kurt Fuller isn’t one to mince words. In a recent interview with Tyler Feller, Fuller raised alarm bells that many Christians have been ringing for years: Could we actually be watching the groundwork for the mark of the beast being laid before our very eyes?
“What is this mark of the beast thing,” Fuller said, “and how could it ever come about where every person, if you don’t have it, you can’t work, you can’t hold a job, you can’t, you know, buy or sell?”
His question echoes the warning in Revelation 13, but Fuller didn’t just toss out apocalyptic rhetoric. He backed it up with real-world examples, starting with the global response to COVID-19.
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“COVID’s a good example — how every country on the planet responded exactly the same way and the wrong way simultaneously,” he said. “It had to be organized. It’s not just happenstance that everybody chooses, ‘this is the way we’re going to deal with this crisis,’ and they pick the wrong answer in every case.”
According to Fuller, this kind of coordinated mismanagement doesn’t just happen. It’s deception on a scale that Jesus warned about. “Knowledge will increase but deception is going to increase right alongside of it,” Fuller said. “This level of deception is just incredible.”
And with the rise of artificial intelligence, he said, that deception is becoming nearly impossible to detect.
“Now with AI, AI connected to a quantum computer, we can’t even imagine how much deception can get generated that looks absolutely authentic and true,” he warned. “I think it’s going to be almost indistinguishable.”
Fuller emphasized the urgent need for verification tools in digital media. “I have some solutions in my mind that I think should be done at least on video content and photo content to verify that it is a real photo,” he said. “It has to be marked as verified real … as opposed to generated.”
The general described a side-by-side comparison of a real $500,000 movie trailer and its AI-generated clone. “It looked not identical, but 95% of the same,” he said. “You could use it in a movie trailer.”
His takeaway? “They’re just going to counterfeit the truth, dress it up and make it look true, make it really believable, and they’re getting good at it.”
These are not fringe concerns. Fuller spent decades at the highest levels of military leadership, including service within NATO. His insight into how global systems can be manipulated isn’t based on theory, it’s from firsthand experience.
As believers, we must stay alert. We were told the deception would be strong in the last days. But hearing it from a general, not a pulpit, is a reminder that the signs of the times are not just theological, they’re geopolitical and technological, too.
And they’re already here.
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James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.
