Technology and Anti-Christ Spirit
About this episode
Zach Drew, host of the Zach Drew Show and founder of IGBY International Ministries in Decatur, Illinois, joins Philip Cameron for a sobering deep-dive into artificial intelligence and its prophetic implications. Drawing on years of access to exclusive global technology conferences alongside what he calls "the technology oligarchs of the world," Zach unpacks why he believes we have entered the Fourth Industrial Revolution — one that will reshape humanity more profoundly than any before it. Zach warns that AI is being engineered to create total dependence: "They are building a world in which dependence on them is equal to survival." He connects this trajectory directly to end-times prophecy, arguing that the infrastructure now being built — from a projected 1 trillion connected IoT devices to 300,000 LEO satellites forming a "global brain" — could fulfill the conditions described in Revelation for the Antichrist to monitor every transaction on earth. He also references Genesis 6 and the angel view of the Nephilim, suggesting that transhumanist technology may mirror the corrupting of humanity described in that passage. The conversation covers Elon Musk's Neuralink brain implants, the concept of the technological singularity by 2040–2045, and Anthony Levandowski's AI religion "Way of the Future." If you want to go deeper, visit zachdrewshow.com.
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Quotes worth sharing
“They are actually building a system to even connect the most rural, most indigenous people of the world right now. And AI — I believe that AI — someone could write a book and label it 'The Digital Dragon.' I think the Antichrist will be so connected to this technology that they're building, it's nearly unfathomable to think about right now.”
“Masayoshi Son, speaking in Barcelona, Spain, believes that the AI of the future will be a super-intelligent being with an IQ of 10,000. 10,000. Which is just so absurd.”
“Whoever has access — whatever country, whatever person, the son of perdition — whoever has access to this global brain will be able to rule the entire world. Data from everywhere will be sent to the LEO satellites, which are truly gonna be creating a spiderweb around the entire world.”
What's Discussed
Zach Drew, host of the Zach Drew Show and director of IGBY International Ministries, presents a detailed prophetic analysis of artificial intelligence and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. He argues that technology oligarchs are constructing a "global brain" fed by 1 trillion IoT devices and up to 300,000 LEO satellites by 2035–2040, creating the infrastructure necessary for Antichrist-level global surveillance and control. Zach cites Masayoshi Son's Barcelona address, Ray Kurzweil's singularity thesis, and Anthony Levandowski's AI religion "Way of the Future" as evidence that the tech elite are consciously building a system of total dominance. He also connects Genesis 6's Nephilim account to modern transhumanist goals, referencing Elon Musk's Neuralink as a present-day fulfillment.
- Zach Drew's Technology Conference Background
- Fourth Industrial Revolution Explained
- AI Infrastructure and Total Surveillance
- Antichrist Global Control and IoT Devices
- Masayoshi Son and the Global Brain Concept
- LEO Satellites and the Planetary Data Web
- Anthony Levandowski's AI Religion
- Four Industrial Revolutions Compared
Scripture in this episode
Episode Transcript
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Intro
Philip:Hello, my friend. Welcome to Daily Faith. My name is Philip Cameron. And Daily Faith is here as a program, 30 minutes a day to speak into your life, to affirm your faith. I will never forget the first time I heard Rush Limbaugh on the radio. I almost crashed my car. I had to pull over to the side and listen to him, because suddenly this voice coming out of the speaker was saying stuff I've been thinking for years in my mind and never articulated. And the power that he had with us all. And he grew the conservative movement because he was speaking things that affirmed what you already felt.
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Philip:Today's program you are going to want to keep, because we're gonna be talking about AI, artificial intelligence. This is blowing my mind. The more I see it, the more I think about it, it is absolutely terrifying — the power that we are gonna be giving to machines, already doing it and increasing. So as we go ahead in the future, this will change your life.
Philip:For us who watch the program regularly, you'll know that part of our passion is missions in Eastern Europe. 34 years ago, I adopted a wee boy in an orphanage in Timișoara, Romania. And while I was waiting for the process to go through — it took a year — I fixed the whole place up. And by the time we adopted Andrew, my passion for missions was absolutely that — that was my passion. And since that time, we've been helping. We went to a country called Moldova.
Philip:Trafficking is one of the big problems in that country. We have a village of homes called Vara Village, where they, instead of going on the streets, they come to our village. Each of the homes has house parents, and there it is, right there, beside the largest lake in all of Moldova. And our kids, instead of being on the street, they're put back in university. They have a fabulous house. All the furniture has been taken over here from the United States to there. And they're told, instead of being a mistake, they are in the plan of God — if they're born, God has a plan.
Philip:And the crazy thing about these kids is that as they come into our ministry and as they find the Lord Jesus and are affirmed as to who they are, they're turning into doctors and counselors and all kinds of amazing things that they never thought they could ever accomplish and achieve. But what happened is that they've become missionaries. Orphans become sons and daughters. Sons and daughters become missionaries.
Philip:And this last year, they have been heroes in the war that's going on in Ukraine. Regularly we go up there and feed thousands of people. And when the refugees ran out of Ukraine to Moldova, our kids were at the borders, feeding night and day the refugees that had run away from the war. It's crazy what these orphans are doing.
Philip:And just recently they were in Odessa in Ukraine, and there had been a missile attack just before this video that you're about to see taking place. And they still went. And they sent me this video. Understand this — they make this video. We don't have a production team that does this. Our kids make this video. It's our kids' voices you're hearing on the video.
Philip:And many of you helped us give — we gave away 15,000 new coats in Ukraine. And here are our kids, all of them orphans, being used by God's hands to care for those that have lost everything, because folk like you are supporting it. Watch this video.
Their parents lived one day at a time. It takes an eternity as we hear and live our blessed life. Can you imagine leaving an existence that threatens to kill you every second, every minute, every hour, every day. The wail of sirens, warning of missiles all through the night, causes every nerve in your body to scream.
There is no water, no power, no heat. The village, as you remember it, no longer exists. The streets and homes only survive in your mind.
The menfolk are all gone — alive or dead, you don't know. Fear is your neighbor, the guest at every meal, your bedfellow. Every night the young men and women from Moldova have come.
They tell us there are new coats and other things. Why do they care? Why have they come to hell? We'll go and see if what we heard is true.
Grace is waiting. Kindness and love. A moment to smile. The strangeness of a hug. It's true. They are here, waiting for us in the middle of darkness.
The love of God meets the broken, and hope is born again.
Philip:The love of God meets the broken, and hope is born again. Never a truer word being spoken. Our kids are literally the lifeline to so many people. They go up and feed a thousand people regularly. We buy all the bread we can find and we give them fish and bread — that's a traditional Ukrainian meal. And they have a miracle of loaves and fishes every week because of the kids of the Orphans' Hands.
Philip:I need your help. We are stretched way beyond what our ministry can normally do. We're not a big ministry at all. We just think we are and we're acting like we are. And God has been so kind and faithful. We have sent four containers of clothes and supplies over in the last four months — that's one container a month. Just the shipping is $10,000, not counting the cost of all the coats and all the stuff inside.
Philip:And on top of what we're doing in Ukraine and training these young people in Moldova, a pastor called us from Istanbul. His wife is Moldovan and she has been watching the Orphans' Hands doing all these things in Ukraine. She contacted one of our leaders in Moldova and said, is there any possibility that you could help us in Turkey? Turkey has experienced the worst natural disaster in history. I'm stunned that it's never seen on TV. They excavated 20% of the buildings destroyed and found 50,000 bodies — entire cities.
Philip:There's one city that Andrew went to, and it's 1.6 million — is that right? — 1.6 million people in the city and it's 90% destroyed. And they asked us to help. And the Orphans' Hands, we just don't know how to say no. And Andrew flew to Istanbul. A team left with one of our vans from Moldova, drove through Romania, Bulgaria, into Turkey, picked Andrew up at Istanbul. And they went to a factory and bought family tents.
Philip:They cost us $620 — that's what they cost us each, $620. And we bought 50 of those right away. And they went down and assembled those and put them up in place in that tent city. They also found a place where we could get boxes — 40-pound boxes, weight-wise — of food for $30 a box. And as you can see, they loaded our van and drove back and forth in a taxi shuttle service right into where these people were sitting with no homes, nothing to cover them.
Philip:Still cold at night. And our team — Andrew from America and our kids from Moldova — became God's hand extended right in the middle of an earthquake. We just heard from that pastor: all the tents are full and all the food is gone.
Philip:If you'd like to help sponsor a tent, you can do that. $620 allows a family to have a place of shelter. And all of the things we're giving to these people in the earthquake zone is the church — it's Christians. And you can help us help the Christian people in Turkey. If you wanna sponsor a tent, you can do that. If you wanna sponsor a box of food, a 40-pound box of food costs $30 — that's what it costs us to buy. And we take it down to the earthquake zone. Please, please ask God to help you help us. We are doing this as hard as we can.
Philip:And we sure wish that someone watching had enough resources to say, Philip, buy a hundred tents. Our vision is to buy a hundred tents at $620 each. That's our dream. Maybe the Lord can help you do that — help us do that today. You can make a check out to the Orphans' Hands, really simple. Address: PO Box 25, Clinton, Tennessee 37716. Clinton, Tennessee 37716. You can also go right to our website, dailyfaith.tv, and there's our giving page and an earmark for where you want this to go.
Philip:If you wanna buy a tent, write "tent" and that's what we'll buy. If you wanna help Ukraine refugees, write "Ukraine refugees." However you designate your funds, that's where we'll spend it. And we need you to be a part of this miracle if you could. Let the Lord speak to your heart. You can also call our 800 number: 833-DAILY-FAITH. 833-Daily Faith. And your giving today can be God's hand extended.
Philip:These kids are willing to go. They were there the other night, right in the middle — in fact, they called me in the middle of the sirens going off because there were missiles being landed in Odessa. And they were sitting outside calling me with the sirens going off. And I said, you guys are crazy. And they laughed and said, hey, God knows we are here. God will keep us safe. And I thought, wow, these kids have got more faith than I have. Please help us. Your giving can make a tremendous difference.
Philip:As I said at the beginning of the program, Zach Drew is a friend of mine, first and foremost. I've known him over many, many years. The first time I met him, I was attracted to his spirit. And I knew that this kid had a vision and a purpose bigger than just himself. He was part of a media school at Jim Bakker's, but I knew he was different. And boy, has he proven that over the years. He now has his own very successful ministry. You've seen him across the country on the Zach Drew Show. And I want you to meet my friend Zach. Zach, thank you so much for taking the time. I know you're a busy guy. Thank you for taking the time to be with us today.
Zach Drew:I love it. It's always an honor being with you. You guys are like family to me.
Zach Drew's Technology Conference Background
Philip:I know. We love you guys so much. I have been — my hair has been on fire for the last month about this AI stuff. And I thought the one person who I know has been checking up on this and has information to give me is Zach. Thank you for taking the time. Give us — someone's watching, they may have heard it on TV, but that's all they know. Tell us how big AI is going to be in our lives.
Zach Drew:It's gonna be hard to actually compare it to anything. So just so you know, my foundation in the technology community — I had a great deal of interest in it, you know, 10 or 15 years ago. But it ramped up around 2017 whenever I actually had the opportunity to start traveling truly all around the globe to attend these — and there's no other way to say it — these incredibly exclusive technology conferences. And I was in the rooms with truly the technology oligarchs of the world. We have entered into what they refer to as the fourth industrial revolution.
Fourth Industrial Revolution Explained
Zach Drew:And it's going to affect the world more than any other industrial revolution we have ever seen. I am very comfortable going on record saying that I do not believe that we will recognize the world in 10 years. Everything — and you think everything's crazy now — but everything will be connected, listening, observing, tracking, gathering, storing, analyzing all of your data. And these technology oligarchs are creating — truly, it's a simulation for you to live in — in which, if you don't wake up, you will be a zombie in this artificial world.
Zach Drew:Their lives — your lives — will simply flow down the rivers that they have created. They're building an unbelievable matrix to re-engineer humanity. Now, sure, the matrix — we're not gonna be living in pods where machines are feeding off our bodies. But everything you will see will be built with a layer of deception encoded within it. They are building a world in which dependence on them is equal to survival.
AI Infrastructure and Total Surveillance
Zach Drew:And I absolutely believe that the technology they're building — I am of the mind that for certain prophetic scriptures to be fulfilled, the technology is not there yet. For example, how is the Antichrist, the son of perdition, going to rule over the entire world where he has knowledge over every transaction that takes place? No one can buy or sell without the mark. How would he know if you gave Johnny $10 to mow your lawn? How would he know what the indigenous people in the jungles of the Amazon are doing? It doesn't make any sense.
Zach Drew:But they are actually building a system to even connect the most rural, most indigenous people of the world right now. And AI — I believe that AI — someone could write a book and label it "The Digital Dragon." I think the Antichrist will be so connected to this technology that they're building, it's nearly unfathomable to think about right now.
Zach Drew:And I do have to preface this — I do take the angel view of Genesis chapter six. There's the angel view and the Sethite view. Whenever the sons of God came down and took the daughters of men, and they created this offspring — the Nephilim and the Rephaim and these giant beings — I think those were the fallen angels. And they created a being that was half terrestrial human and half something else entirely.
Zach Drew:And I think that what Jesus talks about — as it was in the days of Noah — I believe mankind will be human and mixed with something else entirely.
Philip:Wow. That's such a crazy conspiracy theory, Zach.
Zach Drew:Not according to Elon Musk. I watched Elon Musk the other day talk about putting an implant into your brain that will heal your eyes and fix this and go through your body. This isn't 10 years out. This is at our doorstep right now. Yesterday, the guy that was the shooter in Atlanta — all the reporters were saying, if he's got his cell phone on, they know who he is. If he uses his cell phone, they know who he is. And they're saying on air, wherever he goes, he's gonna be found, he's gonna be tracked. If he buys gas, he's gonna be tracked. If he uses his cell phone, they have him.
Philip:Please tell us how much information do they have already about every single one of us that's living right this minute. How much does AI know?
Zach Drew:They know far more about you than your spouse probably knows. That is the truth. And I actually did an entire show on this. I mean, they know your preferences, they know your political preferences, they know your search history, they know everything about you. But I wanna say this — this is where it's going. Some of us had the opportunity to go and listen to this guy named Masayoshi Son in Barcelona, Spain. And he was the second richest man in Japan. He owns ARM, which designs 99.9% of every single phone on the planet. He was the CEO of SoftBank, which had over 100 billion of liquid cash, mostly from the Saudi Arabian government, to invest solely into artificial intelligence and IoT, which is an acronym that stands for Internet of Things.
Antichrist Global Control and IoT Devices
Zach Drew:He was talking about that there is a day coming that by the year 2030, they believe that artificial intelligence will be equal to that of mankind — meaning being able to think and reason. They're already becoming great writers, but I'm talking about almost fooling mankind, almost becoming a sentient being with a consciousness. That's how scary it's gonna become.
Zach Drew:But what's even scarier than that is that they believe — Ray Kurzweil, Masayoshi Son, the Silicon Valley elite — they believe that by the year 2040 to 2045, we're gonna enter into a phase of mankind that's known as the singularity, where AI far surpasses the intelligence of mankind. To put that in perspective, they think that Albert Einstein could have had an IQ of 200. Masayoshi Son, speaking in Barcelona, Spain, believes that the AI of the future will be a super-intelligent being with an IQ of 10,000. 10,000. Which is just so absurd.
Zach Drew:And once again, I could never make up these claims on my own. That's why I quote the movers and shakers of the world. But this is what's interesting — this is what he said. Right now, there are around 7 billion connected devices collecting data on people in the world. The average home in America has around 15 connected devices in their home, from their printer to their laptops, to their iPads, their cell phones, to their Apple TVs and Rokus, to their TVs themselves, to their gaming systems, the fridges, the Roombas, the vacuums.
Zach Drew:Collecting data. Because here's the thing — what you have to understand is that data is the new oil. Data is the new oil. And that's why Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — the king kind of took the reins back, but the king isn't gonna live forever — he was wanting to sell their oil. Literally the one thing that makes them independent, the one thing that the world needs, the one thing that wars are fought over, that makes the world go around, is oil. And Mohammed bin Salman was wanting to sell off their oil.
Zach Drew:What in the world — where would their yields and returns come from? He was wanting to take it and invest it into AI, because they believe that data in the future will yield better returns than oil itself. There are 7 billion connected devices. They believe that by the year 2035, there will be — listen to this — 1 trillion connected devices. 1 trillion.
Zach Drew:And there will be a trillion connected devices gathering data over the entire planet. How would they be able to do that? Through LEO satellites. Philip, are you familiar with LEO satellites?
Philip:Yes, I am. Low Earth Orbital satellites?
Zach Drew:Yeah. Isn't that what Musk is putting up all over the world right now? A whole network of it.
Philip:That's right. Starlink. Yeah. One Web, Espace — they are putting satellites up there as well. Just to give you an idea — and let me explain to the folks how powerful that was. When Russia invaded Ukraine, they shut down the internet, and Musk activated his internet over Ukraine to allow the Ukrainians to get information and communicate with each other against the Russians. So Musk interfered in a war by opening up Starlink and allowed the people to communicate totally independent of what Russia wanted to happen. That's how powerful these boys are.
Masayoshi Son and the Global Brain Concept
Zach Drew:And Masayoshi Son in Barcelona was saying that these trillion devices, being able to collect data and relay it in real time with no latency, will all be fed to what he called a global brain. A global brain. And now whoever has access — whatever country, whatever person, the son of perdition — whoever has access to this global brain will be able to rule the entire world. Data from everywhere will be sent to the LEO satellites, which are truly gonna be creating a spiderweb around the entire world.
LEO Satellites and the Planetary Data Web
Zach Drew:Five years ago, there were between 800 to 1,100 active satellites around the globe. By the year 2030, there are going to be as many as 40,000. And Espace has announced plans for a constellation of 300,000 LEO satellites. So in the next 10 to 15 years, we will have gone from 800 to 1,100 active satellites to 300,000 to 400,000 satellites creating a web around the entire globe.
Zach Drew:And once again, in the day of super intelligence — we were talking about even before the show — there is a guy by the name of Anthony Levandowski. And let me actually go to that article. Anthony Levandowski. Let me read this article for you. "Many people in Silicon Valley believe in the singularity — the day in our near future when computers will surpass humans in intelligence and kick off a feedback loop of unfathomable change." This is from Wired. "When that day comes, Anthony Levandowski will be firmly on the side of machines." This actually took place in 2015, totally under the radar, so many people don't even understand this happened.
Anthony Levandowski's AI Religion
Zach Drew:He founded a religious organization called Way of the Future. Its purpose, according to previously unreported state filings, is nothing less than to quote, "develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on artificial intelligence." Documents filed with California show that Levandowski is Way of the Future's CEO and President, and that it aims, through understanding and worship of the Godhead, to contribute to the betterment of society.
Philip:Isn't that the guy that Musk said he believes that all intelligence is equal — so human intelligence and computer intelligence are of the same value? Is that the same guy?
Four Industrial Revolutions Compared
Zach Drew:That's right. That's right. The fourth industrial revolution is upon us. In 1760 to around 1840, it was the first industrial revolution, which was the rise of the iron and textile industries and the development of the steam engine — the process of going from hand production to machine production — and it changed the world. We can't imagine what the world would be like without that.
Zach Drew:The second industrial revolution, 1870 to 1914, was known as the technological revolution — the advent of public electricity, the light bulb, the telephone, the internal combustion engine, which gave us cars and airplanes. But starting in the 1980s, the third industrial revolution, which was the digital revolution, was characterized as moving from analog, electric, and mechanical devices to digital technology. Our entire existence as mankind changed on the entire globe because of this third industrial revolution, best known for the personal computer and the internet.
Zach Drew:And now we have officially entered into the fourth industrial revolution. It's built off of the digital revolution and it's characterized by, quote, "representing new ways in which technology becomes embedded within societies and even the human body." The new revolution will be marked by nanotechnology, quantum computing, autonomous vehicles, robotics, AI, and IoT.
Philip:Wow. I mean, our time has gone. We just got started. You gotta come back and we're gonna talk more with this. This is gonna change our world, and I frankly don't know of any way to fight it. It's just so big. We need a revival.
Philip:I need to get in contact with Zach Drew. Listen to me — zachdrewshow.com. His ministry is called IGBY International Ministries in Decatur, Illinois. And you need to get ahold of him. He has got some of the most important information that you'll ever know. Thank you for watching Daily Faith today. We love you. Keep praying for us. Bye-bye.
Common questions
How much does AI already know about ordinary people?
According to Zach Drew, AI systems already know far more about you than your spouse probably does — including your preferences, political leanings, and full search history. He says the average American home has around 15 connected devices, all collecting and feeding data into these systems.
What is the 'singularity' and when do tech leaders think it will happen?
Zach Drew explains that the singularity is the point at which AI surpasses human intelligence entirely. Figures like Ray Kurzweil and Masayoshi Son believe this will happen between 2040 and 2045. Son has claimed that while Albert Einstein may have had an IQ of around 200, the AI of the future could reach an IQ of 10,000.
What is a 'global brain' and why does Zach Drew think it's prophetically significant?
Zach Drew describes a 'global brain' as a concept Masayoshi Son outlined in Barcelona — a centralized intelligence fed by up to 1 trillion connected devices relaying data in real time through a web of LEO satellites. Drew believes whoever controls this global brain could rule the entire world, and he sees it as the kind of infrastructure that would allow a figure like the Antichrist to monitor every transaction on earth, fulfilling the biblical prophecy that no one can buy or sell without the mark.
What is the Way of the Future and who founded it?
Zach Drew highlighted a little-known religious organization called Way of the Future, founded in 2015 by Silicon Valley engineer Anthony Levandowski. Its stated purpose, according to state filings, is to 'develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on artificial intelligence' — essentially the worship of a future superintelligent AI.
Why does Zach Drew connect AI to biblical prophecy about the Antichrist?
Drew argues that certain prophetic scriptures — like the Antichrist having knowledge of every transaction so that no one can buy or sell without the mark — were previously impossible to imagine fulfilling technologically. He believes the AI and satellite infrastructure now being built, including systems to connect even the most remote people on earth, is what would finally make that level of global control possible.
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