"Are You Being Manipulated?"

Written more than 70 years ago, "1984" was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...

So timely, in fact, it now tops Amazon's Best-Seller List (ironically, a platform becoming known for censorship).

To the publisher, "1984" is the gift that keeps on giving.

To the rest of us? An eerie blueprint of what may come if we choose to ignore Orwell's grim warning about "thought police", censoring/re-educating/or erasing those who dare to disagree with "the party's" rhetoric.

The rising tide of left-wing hostility to free speech, especially within every major Silicon Valley tech company doesn't just mean control over online information. It means control over:

• News
• Politics
• and even our worldview

According to Allum Bokhari, senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News, Big Tech manipulates our thoughts and behavior.

 C'mon maaan--how can they do that?

Bokhari explains,

"It begins with the fact that these tech companies strive to know everything about us--our likes and dislikes, the issues we're interested in, the websites we visit, the videos we watch, who we voted for, and our party affiliation. If you search for a Hanukkah recipe, they'll know you're likely Jewish. If you're running down the Yankees, they'll figure out you're a Red Sox fan."

And that ain't all folks.

"Even if your smart phone is turned off, they'll track your location. They know who you work for, who your friends are, when you're walking your dog, whether you go to church, when you're standing in line to vote, and on and on," Bokhari said.

And get this--Big Tech also monitors how our beliefs and behaviors change over time. That's right people, they've identified the types of content that can change our minds, and then they hand-feed it to us.

"They've done this openly for a long time," Bokhari said. "first to manipulate consumer behavior and now our political and social behavior. They run tests to see what information has an impact on us, what's likely to nudge our thinking in a certain direction. It happens silently, without our knowledge, influencing entire networks of people. And these systems are growing more sophisticated all the time."

Yikes. Looks like 2021 could shape up to look a lot like "1984".

A wise man once said: "The technology featured in spy novels and movies, whereby one's every move is monitored and known, has become a reality. These are the tools that will empower the Antichrist to rule the world." -- Jeffrey R. Camino, author

Jesus said: "So be on your guard; I have told you everything ahead of time" (MARK 13:23).

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"Is the Current News Cycle Prophetic?"

Imagine a world where everything is watched, recorded, and filed. Omnipresent government surveillance is the norm and our personal right to privacy is routinely violated--all justified in the name of the greater good.

Sounds like today's headlines, given the revelations over the weekend by Edward Snowden, who leaked details of a top-secret government surveillance program sponsored by the National Security Agency (NSA).

Actually, it's the premise of George Orwell's perennial classic, 1984, the story of totalitarian states using technological advancements to keep the masses under surveillance. The themes explored in this novel are so relevant President Obama even mentioned it in his news conference Friday in an attempt to defend the government surveillance programs:

"In the abstract, you can complain about Big Brother and how this is a potential program run amok, but when you actually look at the details, then I think we've struck the right balance."

(the "right balance" for who?)

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, an Independent from Vermont, also made a reference to Orwell's famous book:

"Kids will grow up knowing that every damn thing that they do is going to be recorded some place in a file. And I think that will have a very Orwellian and very inhibiting impact on the way we live our lives."

In Matthew 24. Jesus says the generation that sees the events He described beginning to happen will not pass away before everything happens; in other words, the end-time events will all take place within one generation.

Most prophecy scholars agree that 1948, the year the nation of Israel was reborn, started the prophetic clock ticking down the last generation.

In 1948:

• Israel became a nation again after over 2,000 years
• The transistor chip was invented
• The global economy was born
• The United Nations was created
• The Treaty of Rome was signed which evolved into the European Union
• The World Council of Churches was formed
• The Treaty of Brussels was signed (a predecessor of NATO)
• UFOs became a national obsession
• and George Orwell's 1984 was written about a futuristic government with overreaching, abusive powers

Prophetic? Maybe. Maybe not. But on the heels of the IRS and DOJ revelations, these new super-secret surveillance programs of the NSA put the United States (in the words of Timothy Carney from The Washington Examiner) "on the slippery slope of tyranny." And let's not forget: The Bible predicts a slide in that direction.

A wise man once said: "Big Brother is Watching You." -- George Orwell, 1984

"Obey the government, for God is the one who put it there. All governments have been placed in power by God...For the authorities do not frighten people who are doing right, but they frighten people who do wrong" (Romans 13: 1-3).

"Another reason for right living is that you know how late it is; time is running out. Wake up, for the coming of our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed" (Romans 13: 11).

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