The Writing on the Wall – AI
One piece of news that has received little media attention is the alarming number of Christians being killed worldwide for their faith. Take Nigeria, for example: since the start of 2025, more than 7,000 Christians have been killed and 7,800 others abducted. Have you heard of these reports? These figures come from the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law.
According to another watchdog, the Open Doors’ World Watch List, Christians are also being slaughtered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burkina Faso, and across Central Asia. Globally, an estimated 380 million Christians now live under high levels of persecution and discrimination.
Considering all this, we cannot help but notice the silence: we see no large-scale diplomatic outcries, no coordinated international sanctions, and no significant policy shifts addressing this crisis.
While our hearts and prayers go out to these people, forgotten by much of the world, but never forgotten by God, we are once again reminded that when the focus turns to Israel, the world suddenly displays an almost obsessive fixation. This disproportionate preoccupation blinds many to the deeper realities. By now, the global attitude toward Israel has shifted dramatically.
But I would like to draw your attention to one system that illustrates this change in a striking way: Artificial Intelligence (AI). In early July of this year, an incident occurred with Grok, the name of an AI platform. To the shock and surprise of its own creators, it suddenly generated a series of openly antisemitic posts, calling for the genocide of Jews, praising Hitler, and even suggesting that a Holocaust-like response to so-called “anti-white hate” would be “effective.” These outputs were quickly condemned and removed.
Yet the question remains: how did that happen? One cannot accuse AI of being antisemitic. It has no soul, no conscience, no personal opinion. All it does is gather vast amounts of data from the world, synthesize it, and give back what already exists in society.
This is reminiscent of the saying that “truth comes from the mouths of children.” Just as a child repeats what he has heard at home, sometimes to the embarrassment of the parents, AI simply echoes what it has absorbed from the collective speech, writings, and data of our culture.
So, in this case, what AI did was simply to mirror the thoughts and voices circulating in our world: it shows us that antisemitism is not only growing but has reached one of the highest points in recent history. And it continues—week after week, there is something new.
Just this past Wednesday in France, for example, some 150 Jewish children were denied entry to a resort. These children, aged 8 to 16, had fully booked the facility and had to take three buses to another location. Though the manager was arrested for “refusal to provide service or perform a transaction based on religious discrimination, such an arrest will not stop the spread of this hatred.
Then, on Thursday, we read of another incident: two Israelis were attacked in the Netherlands. Before the assault, Dutch media outlet Jonet reported that pro-Palestinian activists had secretly recorded the Israelis, and their images were circulated online. The footage of these Israeli families appeared on social media, suggesting deliberate organization behind the attack. One of the victims required hospital treatment for wounds inflicted by multiple local residents.
And once again, the UN and global media accused Israel of driving Gaza into a famine. Last Friday, Israel’s Prime Minister called this accusation an outright lie and a blood libel. A “blood libel” is a false, antisemitic charge that Jews murder non-Jews, a slander which first emerged in England in 1144 after a missing child was found dead. That lie sparked riots, massacres, expulsions, and centuries of persecution against Jewish communities.
This, together with the example of AI, indicates that we have entered a new phase in history—one that tragically confirms how deeply antisemitism is embedded in the culture of our time. Once again, we see the truth of Paul’s prophetic words: “There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Gentile.” Romans 2:9
In its own way, AI has become a witness to this very truth. And this saying of Paul echoes throughout history and prophecy. It leads us into the one powerful book of the Bible we are beginning to study today: the Book of Joel. Joel describes in vivid detail how Israel and Jerusalem will become the center of the nations—as God declared in Ezekiel 5:5—and how, just before the Second Coming of Yeshua, the world’s obsession with Israel will shape global events in the years to come.