Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
Odd Year of Grace: Buddy Meloy on AI, Idolatry, and Hope
About this episode
Prophetic pastor Buddy Meloy joins Philip Cameron to unpack one of the most striking prophetic words he has delivered in recent years — that 2025 would be an "odd year," full of strangeness, yet saturated with grace. Meloy, who pastors New Life Christian Fellowship in Lake City, Florida, explains that the word "odd" traces back to the Old Norse "ord," meaning the point of a spear — something shaped differently so it can pierce. "God takes the strange, the odd, and uses it to pierce into the spirit realm," Meloy says, drawing a direct line from the baptism of the Holy Spirit to the unconventional moves of God throughout Scripture. The conversation turns to artificial intelligence and its prophetic implications. Meloy reveals he has been preaching on AI and the image of the beast since 2014, connecting the explosive growth of AI — driven by oligarchs like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg — to the warnings of idolatry and covetousness in Colossians 3:5 and the closing verse of 1 John 5. He shares a striking illustration: a single AI query consumes a full 16-ounce bottle of fresh water, while training one AI model requires 700 billion gallons. The episode closes with a sobering look at end-times idolatry, the abomination of desolation, and why the Ten Commandments are, in Meloy's words, "sandwiched" between warnings against idols. A must-watch for believers navigating a rapidly shifting world.
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Quotes worth sharing
“The word odd comes from a word, ord, which means angle — it was the angle on a point of land, the point of a spear. A spear is able to pierce because it is a different shape than what it's facing. So what God was saying, also in the odd year, is I had to take something odd to pierce through what is there right now.”
“The Lord woke me up and gave me the word — he said, idolatry, greed, the image, and the end times. The 10 Commandments are sandwiched all between having no idols. And what does the enemy come and do at the end of time? He puts an idol on the most holy site in the world.”
“The weirdness is a war on your faith. Don't allow the strangeness and the oddities that are taking place right now blow you away. Don't let it discourage you. Don't let it depress you. Don't let it get you sidetracked in some way, because it's happening in every area of life.”
What's Discussed
Prophetic pastor Buddy Meloy of New Life Christian Fellowship in Lake City, Florida delivers a detailed prophetic word for 2025: an "odd year" full of strangeness but rich with grace. He traces the etymology of "odd" to the Old Norse "ord" — the point of a spear — arguing God uses oddness to pierce through spiritual resistance. Meloy connects the explosive rise of AI to end-times idolatry, noting he has preached on AI and the image of the beast since 2014. He cites Colossians 3:5, 1 John 5:21, and the structure of the Ten Commandments to show idolatry as the defining sin of the age. He also reveals that a single AI query consumes a 16-ounce bottle of fresh water, and training one AI model requires 700 billion gallons.
- The "Odd Year" Prophecy Explained
- Etymology of Odd — Point of a Spear
- Oddness as a War on Your Faith
- AI, Oligarchs, and the Image of the Beast
- Idolatry and Covetousness in Colossians 3:5
- AI Water Consumption and Resource Depletion
- Ten Commandments Sandwiched in Idolatry Warnings
- Abomination of Desolation and End-Times Idolatry
Scripture in this episode
Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.
Episode Transcript
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Intro
Philip:Hey, my friend. Welcome to Daily Faith. My name is Philip Cameron, and I am absolutely thrilled you are with us. We have got a tremendous show today. I've got a man that has — he's on the show. He's a regular. I value his ministry so much.
Philip:I call him a prophetic pastor. He pastors a church in Lake City, Florida. But the uniqueness of Buddy Meloy is that he speaks prophetically. He has a tremendous prophetic ministry, and he keeps meticulous notes.
Philip:So what happens is, in a year's time when all the prophecies start coming true, he'll reintroduce the message and say, I preached this on March 25th, and here we are now, and it's fulfilled. And he has got some incredible things to share with us today about the uniqueness, the oddity of this, the day we're living in.
Philip:And we may touch some things with AI, because you are living — I don't know if you know this — you are living in some of the most crazy days in all of history. This is momentous stuff that's taking place. And in the realm of technology, in the realm of diplomacy, our president is going over to Alaska to meet the Russian president. I mean, nations — we are watching peace breaking out because of his efforts.
Philip:It's just insane. Things are happening at breakneck speed. And that tells me something. That's an indication of what's taking place in the realm of the spirit.
Philip:And I want you to stay tuned today. There's something that God wants to tell you about. And if you love your pastor, I want you to call him or text him and say, hey, there's a prophetic pastor coming on right now on Daily Faith, and he's got some tremendous stuff that he wants to share. I believe the Lord will enrich you. The greatest way you can bless your pastor — pray for him, of course. But information, revelation, stuff coming into his mind and spirit that will spark something inside him.
Philip:And I know in my ministry — I've been traveling in this country and speaking as a guest in churches for 56 years now. And the times that a pastor has come up to me and said, what you spoke about today has set me on fire — this whole new avenue opens up. And I believe that's gonna be done today. Help us if you could share the program with your friends. Hit that reminder button on your screen so you'll know when Daily Faith comes on the air. You can also get us on YouTube — really simple, youtube.com/dailyfaith.
Philip:And we would love you to subscribe there. It costs nothing to subscribe, but what it does — the more people that subscribe there, the more space we get on this massive platform. And we've learned that because of our Christian nature, every program, no matter what it is, no matter what you see, every podcast has a rating, has a code, and the code determines how many people get to see it. So they can open up a code and the whole system can see it. They can also close it down until you're just watching it yourself.
Philip:And so when you have controversial subjects like we do — with life and marriage and stuff that's important to the Christian faith — that catches the attention of the computer algorithms that control all of this. So by sharing it with your friends, you're letting us go around that wall and get this message out. Listen, we've got a great program. I'm telling you, stay tuned. You are gonna be blessed by my dear friend Buddy Meloy. I'm delighted you're with us. I'm just thrilled you're here. Welcome to Daily Faith.
Philip:Welcome to Daily Faith. I am so glad you're here today. We have got a great show for you. I believe that God has arranged you to be where you are right now for a purpose. He will move you around the world to get a word into your spirit. How many times have you lived your life and it seems that you're being kind of distracted, pulled in a direction? You're thinking, why am I doing this? Why am I thinking this? Why am I going here? And all the time, God's moving you to where he wants you to hear something or see something or do something.
Philip:We are elements in this massive body of Christ. And if you could allow him to use you to your potential — I was watching the other day and they were telling that the human brain is only used just a tiny percentage. The rest just sits in a dormant state. And we are only now learning about this. And as this monster called AI begins to develop further.
Philip:I mean, I've been studying about it. It's just blowing my mind, to be quite honest with you. Mammograms, for example — the process of getting a mammogram for a woman and then getting it looked at by a consultant — that's all done. AI can do it instantly. This thing is gonna change your whole world. Lawyers, paralegals, doctors — all of the important jobs that you thought will never be replaced are gonna be replaced by an app on your phone.
Philip:You'll have your own doctor that will know your personal medical history and will know exactly what you need, and your makeup of your body. It is crazy. We've never lived in days like this. And I was watching the other day and they said, you know, what's the biggest problem gonna be faced? Because unemployment — they don't even know how many jobs will be left because all of these machines will run it. And this is what they said: the one thing that mankind will have to battle with is fulfillment.
Philip:And I jumped and I said, yes. That's what the church is all about. We are in the fulfillment business. All the thrills — my soul is Jesus. He is more than life to me. Oh my. Listen, I've gotta get on with the program.
Philip:We do mission work in Ukraine and in Moldova. We rescue kids from being trafficked. We have an incredible village — a place called Vra Village, right on the largest lake in Moldova. And these kids, instead of being put on the street and sold in trafficking — they can be sold 30 to 50 times a day — they come to us, get back in school, they find Jesus, and they turn from orphans to missionaries. And every girl you're looking at in this video, if the trafficker gets them, is worth $300,000 a year per child, per girl.
Philip:And so all through the summertime our kids do camps, youth camps, and they go all over Moldova and preach the gospel. It's the most amazing thing — that these orphans have become missionaries. And my granddaughters, my oldest two grandkids, Ali and Kara — Ali's 16, Kara's 13 — went and spent the summer there and it changed their lives. They slept in the same rooms with the orphans. They stayed together, they did outreach together.
Philip:And my 13-year-old granddaughter made a video for her granddad and for you while she was in Moldova. Listen to Kara testifying as to what God's done in her life. Watch this.
Kara:Hi, I am Kara. I have been in Moldova for five weeks and I've been to two camps so far. At these camps, we taught kids about the word of God and the love of Jesus. Now, yes, there was a language barrier between me and them, but it still touched me to be able to hang out with the kids and entertain them, since this is something that they wait for through the entire year.
Kara:It was definitely a different experience compared to other camps I've been to. Showers were outside, cold. We ate meals with everybody outside. It was a really fun experience though, because it was something completely different to what I experience in America.
Kara:I feel absolutely honored to be able to have had the opportunity to go to these kinds of camps, to help kids and get such an experience that it'll leave an impact on me for the rest of my life. I saw how a lot of these kids lived and it really just broke me to see that such poor conditions is what those kids have to stay in for most of their lives.
Kara:And compared to the camps, I feel like it seemed like some kind of luxury paradise for them. Some of the kids came in the same clothes every day because they didn't have anything else really to wear. So the fact that they can come and learn about God and how they're loved by God really just makes me feel — I'm just happy those kids get a chance.
Kara:Thank you for giving me the opportunity to be here in Moldova. It has been such an experience that has made such an impact on my life. I will remember these days for the rest of my life.
Philip:Oh, I love it. First thing Kara said to her granddad when she got back — she said, granddad, I want to go back next year, but I want to be there longer this time. And she has come back with a fresh passion for the Lord and for outreach. And these kids, these amazing young kids, depend on someone like you to make the world possible. All that you see — all of the houses, all of the vans and the transportation and the staff — it's a huge operation. All of it depends on one person giving a dollar a day. And that could be you.
Philip:If we can have more folk give a dollar a day, it won't change your world. A dollar a day won't make you any poorer. But I promise you it'll add riches in your life, because the Bible says when you give to the poor, you lend to the Lord. Think of that — when you give to the poor, you lend to the Lord. And we have two new houses we're about to open.
Philip:A terrible tragedy happened this last year. A young girl was sent to us by a village — horrible situation, terrible family problems. And she came to us, but she was only 14. And we can't take 14-year-olds regularly. But we took the chance, and they said, no, she's gotta go back. And we had to put her back into hell. And she was gang raped and ended up losing her mind. A little girl, 14 years old. Her name's Maria. And it so broke us that we decided to try and start finding a place for younger kids and building a place for younger kids.
Philip:And we found this amazing place with two homes and a barn and a whole farm area. The barn would be turned into a youth camp. And those two houses will house 50 kids — 50 little children between the age of four and 16. This is called Promised House. And we're looking for people to help us finish that one house. That one's almost finished. But we are looking for 300 people to give a dollar a day to allow us to open this.
Philip:Please let the Lord speak to your heart. It's really simple. You can contact us by giving to the Orphan's Hands. Make a check out to Orphan's Hands, P.O. Box 25, Clinton, Tennessee 37716. You can put the light of hope into a little boy's or little girl's mind and heart when they're five years old and seven years old. And let us get them and share the gospel and put them in with Christian house parents. And then when they're 16, they can go to university.
Philip:But we can short-circuit years of pain and suffering for a dollar a day. Will you pray about that? Will you please ask God, what would you have me to do? You can also contact us at dailyfaithtv, the orphanshands.org. You can call us at 833-Daily-Faith — just dial 833 Daily Faith. And by doing so, you can make a miracle happen in someone's life today. Allow the Lord to do that for you.
Philip:We have a whole new bunch of kids coming in next month — 20 more kids, more than 20. We need your help to make that happen. I'm delighted and honored to have a lifelong friend. He is a great man of God. He's one of those — traveling across this country, you meet pastors that are in the zone. And Buddy Meloy is one of those. He pastors New Life Christian Fellowship in Lake City. And if ever you're driving to Disney World, you go right past his church. You've gotta figure out a Sunday morning to drop in and say, hey Buddy, I saw you on Daily Faith.
Philip:He is a friend, and their church is one of the great partner churches with Orphan's Hands in our mission outreach. They are so kind and generous to us, and I'm delighted to have my dear brother Buddy. God bless you, Buddy. Thank you for joining us today on Daily Faith. We love you and we love what the Holy Ghost shows you all the time.
Buddy Meloy:Thank you, Philip. Thank you for having me on today. I consider it a privilege and an honor to be with you.
The "Odd Year" Prophecy Explained
Philip:Oh, we love when you're here, to be able to share this morning and be able to talk with you. We've been having a great conversation already before we ever got on the air. People don't understand — we start, we get so excited, we start talking to each other and I said, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. We're gonna start into a TV program. You have a prophetic gift. God's given you a prophetic gift. Over the years on Daily Faith, you've come and you've told us something and come back and said, remember I said this? And this is what's happened. You see us living in a really strange, odd season right now with all this AI stuff coming out. What's your read as to what's taking place right now?
Buddy Meloy:Well, last year I usually share a year in advance, and I've already started sharing some messages before 2026, which I shared a little bit of when I was on with you last month.
Buddy Meloy:A few weeks ago when I was on. And one of the things the Lord spoke to me — he said, get ready. It's gonna be an odd, odd year. And I said, okay. He said, but right in the middle of it, it's gonna be full of grace. Let me give you a physical illustration, Philip. Take the number one, number three, number five, number seven, number nine — odd. Those are five numbers under 10. They're all odd. They add up to 25. So 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 all add up to 25.
Buddy Meloy:And it was like the Lord said, this is a physical representation I'm giving to you. I want you to understand — everything that comes along in the next year is gonna be odd. It's gonna be one odd thing after another. It started with the election — day one, let's buy Greenland, let's take back the Panama Canal. And you know, we went through all these things and you saw these weird, odd partnerships that took place.
Buddy Meloy:Elon Musk coming along, and now we see the investment in the AI, which you and I talked about. And one of the things — right before we came on, the Lord was speaking to me. He reminded me, and I came back and had to share this twice to our church: do not be blown away by the oddness of the year. He said, I warned you.
Buddy Meloy:And I was like, you know, the Holy Spirit's crazy. He showed me it was gonna be an odd year full of oddities. And I found myself being blown away and knocked off track by the oddities and how odd it is going all the way through. I mean, it'd be so crazy — I've forgotten about the Gulf of America, I've forgotten about the Panama Canal, because it's almost like a blizzard of crazy stuff. Trump's meeting — I said, it's gonna be one after another. It's crazy.
Buddy Meloy:I said it last year, I think I said it on one of your programs — it's gonna be one odd thing after another. And it's gonna be so much of it. And then in your own personal life, you're gonna be kind of overwhelmed by these things. And even knowing this and having preached on it and taught on it, I found myself being kind of knocked around by the oddities that are going on.
Buddy Meloy:And the Lord brought me back and he said, don't allow the strangeness and the oddities that are taking place right now blow you away. Don't let it discourage you. Don't let it depress you. Don't let it get you sidetracked in some way, because it's happening in every area of life.
Buddy Meloy:The word odd, Philip, comes from a word — we know it as strange, unfamiliar, foreign — but it actually comes from a word, ord, which means angle. It was the angle on a point of land. So you had land that was going along, and an ord was the point. It also was the point of a spear. The old word comes from the point of the spear.
Etymology of Odd — Point of a Spear
Buddy Meloy:And what it is — a spear is able to pierce because it is a different shape than what it's facing. So what God was saying, also in the odd year, is I had to take something odd to pierce through what is there right now.
Buddy Meloy:So even in the realm of the presidency, he took this odd president and is using it to pierce through all these things. But he had to be odd. He couldn't be like everybody else, because he would not pierce.
Buddy Meloy:And so God gives us the baptism of the Holy Spirit and we speak strange languages that can pierce into the heavenlies like no other prayer can. God takes the strange, the odd, and uses it to pierce into the spirit realm, like a point. It becomes this point. And so we can be thrown off by the oddness.
Buddy Meloy:And again, for me — who already had this in my iPad, had this in my notes, had it all written down — he said, don't allow the oddness of what you're going through right now. Philip, there are people who are going through, what in the world is going on? Weird stuff. The world is happening. Just one odd thing after another, just the weirdness.
Buddy Meloy:I did a message called the weirdness. And the Lord said, the weirdness is a war on your faith. And I just kept feeling there's a whole lot of weirdness going on. So that goes along with the oddities. And we're in this odd time, and God is using the oddness because he had to do something different. Doesn't he say, behold, I do a new thing? Wouldn't a new thing be something odd?
Buddy Meloy:A new thing always is odd. There's always an adjustment season. Whenever God does something new, there's an adjustment that has to take place. It's the old new wine and old wineskins — that whole thought process. When God does a new thing, it's different. And sometimes it's so different, it's so odd, it throws people off. And sometimes it seems negative. Sometimes it can feel like these negative things happen in the oddness, but it really is something that God is actually utilizing to change the realm.
Buddy Meloy:So at the same time, while it has a positive side, there are sides where we know prophetically that God is doing some things. You and I were talking about AI earlier. So if we wanted to kind of circle back around to that.
Oddness as a War on Your Faith
Philip:Well, what comes to my mind talking odd this morning — all of the economic indicators are coming out as far as inflation, and all the experts have been beating this drum: inflation, inflation, inflation. The end of the world. The tariffs are gonna bring inflation, inflation, inflation. And this morning it didn't happen. It's flat. And I was watching the guys and they said, this is odd. This is not normal. What we know to be the way it should be. But this is an odd situation that we're living in. So it's happening now. Did they use the word odd?
Buddy Meloy:Odd. This is an odd situation. It's happening. They said odd. Yes. It's happening across the board. God's doing a new thing.
Philip:And I've been watching with AI — I am blown away. I'm excited out of my brain and I'm terrified both at the same time. Because this thing is going to interrupt and change everything. Everything you do will be done with an influence of AI in it.
Buddy Meloy:Well, it can be a great instrument to utilize for a lot of positive things. But the problem is, one of the things you and I were talking about earlier — and I told our church, because the Lord woke me up and gave me the word — he said, idolatry, greed, the image, and the end times. And you know, everybody pretty much, if a believer has read anything in Revelation, there's a lot of information out there. I started talking about AI and the image of the beast in 2014.
AI, Oligarchs, and the Image of the Beast
Buddy Meloy:So there are records of me speaking on it back then. And I had a guy come visit me recently. He said, I visited your church in 2018 and you talked about AI and the image of the beast. And he said, you changed my life. He said, I totally went home and bought a Strong's Concordance, bought books, started studying. He said, man, I'm all in on it now. He said, I even had to find a church that would actually teach end-times stuff — the full revelation of the word of God.
Buddy Meloy:But one of the things he tied in was, who's building AI right now? It's not really nations. It's wealthy oligarchs, individuals. Elon Musk, all the big boys, all the big girls — Zuckerberg. They all have different names. You've got Gemini. And yesterday Zuckerberg poached some of the top guys away from OpenAI. And they've moved from OpenAI over to where Zuckerberg is. I mean, this is the battle of the Titans right now.
Buddy Meloy:And so you have the wealthiest men, and one of the things the Lord just woke me up and pointed at — he said, we're moving toward idolatry. We like to think that idolatry is not something we have a problem with in America. I went back and did a little research. We have over a thousand Buddhist temples in America. We have 450 Hindu temples in America. That's probably about nine per state. We have some of those things already operating in America.
Buddy Meloy:But for us, we don't always see the connection. The Bible coincides greed or covetousness with idolatry. He calls it idolatry in Colossians 3:5. And so I went, okay, now the economic system, the wealthiest men in the world, an idol being built in the end times — all this is coming together for a reason. And I don't know that everybody's actually recognizing it.
Buddy Meloy:But you and I were talking about the water consumption just for AI. I had our people take out their phones in church three weeks ago. I said, look up 1 John 5. And I was just using it as an illustration — the last verse. Let me talk about what you're talking about. AI is going to be the hungriest animal and beast of all time, electronically, in water cooling and power.
Idolatry and Covetousness in Colossians 3:5
Buddy Meloy:Yesterday Zuckerberg announced that they are building a data building the size of Manhattan. One building for AI. So these companies are going to have to have their own electrical generation plants and their own cooling systems.
Buddy Meloy:And this is what you're referring to. Well, the reason I said — I said to them, 1 John 5, the last verse in 1 John 5 is amazing. The writer of the book of Revelation, John, says this: keep yourselves, little children, keep yourselves from idols. That's his last word, end of passage. Now I just used that as an illustration. I said, now you just used one tablespoon of water looking up that verse, every one of you with your phone.
AI Water Consumption and Resource Depletion
Buddy Meloy:One string of data when it comes up is 16 ounces of water. I've got a water bottle right here with me. So when you look up a scripture, one string of data, it drinks this much water.
Philip:Whoa. What's that you're telling us? Are you saying — I've got my bottle of water right here — to look up a scripture costs, if you use AI, a bottle of water? This much water?
Buddy Meloy:Fresh water. Not salt water, not dirty water. It drinks one 16-ounce bottle of fresh water. Just imagine all the billions of phones worldwide, all the different data centers. That's just one data center. It takes 700 billion gallons of water to train an AI. So when they set it up, the training for it takes 700 billion gallons of fresh water. They've talked about, what do we do? We put them up north because it keeps them cooler, because of the cooling of the towers.
Buddy Meloy:And you know, the cooling of the chips and all that stuff. Some are saying they put them in the water to try and use the water to cool them. Well, if you put them in the ocean to cool them, what happens if you heat up the oceans? You get more hurricanes, you get more storms. That's why they come — the season the water begins to heat up.
Buddy Meloy:So they're trying to figure out all these ways. Along with that, if you use hydroelectric plants, you're using water for hydroelectricity. You're using up the coal resources, you're using up nuclear power, you're using up the resources. And the enormity — as I heard Elon Musk speaking about, I can't remember the exact measurements he used, but he talked about how much of the energy we're using right now on planet Earth. It was like 0.1, whatever his measurement was.
Buddy Meloy:The desire was to get to where we're using all the energy of the earth and then start pulling upon the energy of the sun, and then to pull on the energy of the planet so we can move from planet to planet. And AI becomes this giant consumer of the energy resources of the earth and of the universe.
Buddy Meloy:I was watching a guy yesterday — they are now talking about being able to transfer energy to run the army, actually. And they said, you imagine if we could transmit energy from space down to the battlefield, how we would completely resolve all of the supply line problems that you have during a war. So that is in their minds as they speak.
Buddy Meloy:They're also talking about being able to reflect holograms off of the particles of space so that we can literally have a 5,000-foot-tall Jesus appear. And you could fake a second coming. That's what it says — Jesus is gonna appear in the clouds. You could fake a second coming and have mass deception, worldwide delusion, literally a delusion so that everyone will believe. It doesn't say a lie — the literal translation is the lie. There's gonna be a lie spread around in the end times that the world is gonna believe. And that's how they're able to move into the idolatry.
Ten Commandments Sandwiched in Idolatry Warnings
Buddy Meloy:Do you know that idolatry is the reason why the Canaanites were removed? Idolatry was the reason why Israel was removed from the land. We can go through a lot of things, but those were the primary. The first commandment of the 10 Commandments — the first four or five all deal with idolatry. And the Lord showed me, he said the last one is also the bun on the end. It's like a sandwich of idolatry. You shall not covet. Covetousness is idolatry.
Buddy Meloy:So the 10 Commandments are sandwiched all between having no idols. And what does the enemy come and do at the end of time? He puts an idol on the most holy site in the world. And idols are about territory. Where you put an idol, you are declaring that god is the dominating god of that territory. That's why the land of Israel is so important. So we're in a time where we're watching these things come together. It's odd, it's odd, Philip. Really odd time.
Philip:I've taken the back bumper off the show, so we've got another minute extra. So keep on going. Folks, you need to get in tune with this because this is gonna affect every atom of your life, what we're talking about.
Buddy Meloy:And it's economic. And that's what really struck me. I never put it in the realm of the economic, but the fact is those 10 Commandments — even the ones in the middle — the meat of it is about a covenant relationship with God. Idolatry was a rejection of God and his covenant.
Buddy Meloy:And so what we're saying right now is God saying, I am your God. I'm the God who brought you out of Egypt. For you as believers, we were bound in spiritual Egypt. And he says, I'm the God who brought you out of Egypt. You are to have no other gods before me. You're not to create any other images. You're not to use any other names. The name of God is holy. He said, I am the Lord, I am Yahweh, God, who brought you out of Egypt.
Abomination of Desolation and End-Times Idolatry
Buddy Meloy:So he was specifying specifically — I'm the God who brought you out. And he's jealous. He says that in those first five verses. So when you get into this realm, now you're talking about the abomination of abominations. Jesus called it what? The abomination of desolation. Idolatry, more than any other sin, is the abomination of abominations. And it is never spoken about.
Buddy Meloy:So we never — he's gonna set it up in the temple in the middle of the tribulation. But what we're doing is we're gradually moving towards it with things like AI, with things like being totally economically driven. Economy is great, but we should be Christ-driven. And that's the center of our lives.
Philip:We have 30 seconds left. You need to get in contact with this man. You need to get onto his website. It's absolutely dynamic stuff that we need to hear in these days. Buddy, our time is gone. I've used up all the bumper time and everything else. I love you. Come back soon. Let's keep on this thing.
Buddy Meloy:Thank you.
Philip:We love you for watching us. Thank you for being part of Daily Faith. Help us build these homes in Ukraine. Help us reach the world for Jesus together. We love you. We'll see you again. Bye-bye.
Common questions
What did Buddy Meloy mean when he said 2025 would be an 'odd year of grace'?
Buddy explained that God told him to expect a year where one strange, unfamiliar thing would follow another — from the election to Greenland to AI investments — but that the oddness was intentional. He traced the word 'odd' back to the old word 'ord,' meaning the point of a spear, and said God uses what is odd to pierce through what already exists. The grace part is that believers shouldn't be discouraged by the strangeness, because God warned it was coming and is actively working through it.
How does Buddy Meloy connect AI to end-times idolatry?
Buddy said he has been linking AI to the 'image of the beast' from Revelation since 2014. His concern is that AI is being built and controlled not by nations but by a small group of the world's wealthiest individuals, and that the Bible equates covetousness with idolatry (Colossians 3:5). He sees the massive economic power and the physical scale of AI infrastructure as part of a gradual drift toward the kind of idol-worship that, historically, caused both the Canaanites and Israel to be removed from their land.
How much water does AI actually use — and why does Buddy think that matters?
Buddy told his congregation that a single string of data — like looking up one Bible verse on a phone — consumes roughly 16 ounces of fresh water for cooling the data centers. Training a single AI model takes an estimated 700 billion gallons of fresh water. He raised this to show the sheer physical appetite of AI and to underscore how it is straining the planet's energy and water resources in ways most people haven't connected to the broader spiritual picture.
What is the 'hologram second coming' scenario Buddy warned about?
Buddy said researchers are already discussing technology that could project a 5,000-foot-tall holographic image off particles in the atmosphere — potentially faking the return of Christ in the clouds. He tied this to what he called 'the lie' in end-times Scripture, a worldwide delusion so convincing that people will believe it, and said it represents the ultimate form of idolatry: a manufactured image placed at the center of global belief.
Why does Buddy say the 'weirdness' people feel right now is actually a spiritual attack?
Buddy preached a message he called 'The Weirdness,' in which he said the Lord told him the constant stream of strange events is 'a war on your faith.' His point was that even he — having prophesied the odd year in advance and written it all down — found himself knocked off track by the sheer volume of oddities. He urged believers not to let the strangeness discourage, depress, or sidetrack them, because God forewarned it and is using it purposefully.
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