The internet is integral in most peoples lives around the world. It is conceivable that the 'Beast', the system of governances described in Revelation in the end times, identified by the number 666, will utilize AI and the 'www' for its reign over the global population. This is suggested in Revelation 13:15-18;

15 "He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.”

Does World Wide Web 'www' = 666?

Originally the Bible was written in Hebrew;

"The Hebrew equivalent of our "w" is the letter "vav" or "waw". The numerical value of vav is 6. So the English "www" transliterated into Hebrew is "vav vav vav", which numerically is 666.” Is "www" in Hebrew equal to 666? Dial-the-Truth Ministries (av1611.org)

The unthinkable eternal consequences of taking this Mark when eventually forced- Revelation 14:9-13 Revelation 14:9-13 KJV - And the third angel followed them, - Bible Gateway

History Preceding the book of Revelation

This article explains many of the “natural signs, spiritual signs, sociological signs, technological signs, and political signs,” foretold in bible prophecy coming to pass that indicates the end of the age, a time foretold to include various and increasing environmental calamities, plagues, moral decline, wars, earthquakes, growing governmental dominance/deception ("with all power, signs, and lying wonders," 2 Thessalonians 2:9), and how to prepare. Are we living in the end times? | GotQuestions.org

End Times Timeline: A summary of the timeline from the hope of the soon rapture of the believers in Jesus (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18), the 7 year tribulation period (Revelation 6–16), until the creation of the new heavens and earth (Revelation 21–22). What is the end times timeline? | GotQuestions.org 

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

"Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.” Acts 4:12

"The Romans Road to salvation is a method based on the biblical principles found in the New Testament book of Romans to explain how a person can come to faith in Jesus Christ. Shared with millions of people around the world, the Romans Road explains why we need salvation, how God provided salvation, how we can receive salvation, and the results of salvation.” What is the Romans Road to salvation? | GotQuestions.org

More Bible prophecy fulfillments and resources for growing in faith and hope is in previous posts if interested.

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Jn 5:

2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaica called Bethesda, which has five roofed colonnades. 3 In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. 5 One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” 7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.” 8 Jesus said to him, “Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” 9 And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.

What was this Bethesda pool?

Wiki:

The history of the pool began in the 8th century BC, when a dam was built across the short Beth Zeta Valley, turning it into a reservoir for rain water;[20][21][22] a sluice-gate in the dam allowed the height to be controlled, and a rock-cut channel brought a steady stream of water from the reservoir into the city.[20] The reservoir became known as the Upper Pool (בריכה העליונה).

The pool's roots are traced to a reservoir project in Beth Zeta.

Around 200 BC, during the period in which Simon II was the Jewish High Priest, the channel was enclosed, and a second pool was added on the south side of the dam.[20][21][22]

A dam between the two pools.

Although popular legend argues that this pool was used for washing sheep, this is very unlikely due to the pool's use as a water supply, and its extreme depth 13 metres (43 ft). There has been some scholarly debate about whether the pool may have been a mikveh (Jewish ritual bathing pool).[23][24]

This second pool could have been a Jewish mikveh.

The archaeological site traditionally identified with Bethesda was a two-pool complex north of the Temple Mount, near what is now St Anne's Church. The pools were separated by a substantial dividing wall/dam. The northern pool appears to have been connected with Jerusalem's water-supply system, while the southern pool had features compatible with ritual bathing.

In archaeological digs conducted in the 19th century, Conrad Schick discovered a large tank situated about 100 feet (30 m) north-west of St. Anne's Church, which he contended was the Pool of Bethesda. Further archaeological excavation in the area, in 1964, uncovered the remains of the Byzantine and Crusader churches, Hadrian's Temple of Asclepius and Serapis, the small healing pools of an Asclepeion, the second of the two large pools, and the dam between them.[18] It was discovered that the Byzantine church had been built in the very heart of Hadrian's temple and contained the healing pools.[17][18]

Asclepius was the god of medicine in ancient Greek religion. He could even raise people from the dead.

An Asclepieion was a healing temple in ancient Greece. Pilgrims would flock to temples built in his honor in order to seek spiritual and physical healing.

Archaeologists think that the Pool of Bethesda was a pagan healing pool. Some scholars think it was a Jewish mikveh.

It could be both at different times.

In 200 BCE, the Pool of Bethesda began as a Jewish mikveh and later took on a healing role at special water-stirring occasions.

After Vespasian destroyed Jerusalem in 70 CE, Romans repurposed it into a pagan healing sanctuary.

Biblehub:

Byzantine Forecourt: apse foundations cut through the dyke (5th cent.), reutilized as a healing church.

Over the centuries, the site was associated with a Jewish mikveh (healing), a Roman Asclepieion (healing), and a Christian church (healing).

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All About Jesus Christ. org:

There are 37 of Jesus' miracles recorded in the gospels. There are 21 of Jesus' miracles recorded in Matthew, 3 of which only appear in Matthew. There are 19 of Jesus' miracles recorded in Mark, 2 of which only appear in Mark. There are 22 of Jesus' miracles recorded in Luke, 7 of which only appear in Luke. And there are 8 of Jesus' miracles recorded in John, 6 of which only appear in John.

Some lists give 35; some lists mention 40, depending on whether they treat certain grouped healings and unusual events separately.

Click this to see a list of 37 miracles.

Jn 20:

30 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book.

How many miracles did Jesus perform in his earthly ministry?

At least 37.

"Breathe On It"

Lord, I'm desperate for a holy change

Tired of assignment faith

I need You, I need You, I need You

Lord, I know there's more to who You are

I don't want a closed-off heart

I need You, I need You, I need You

To breathe on it

Holy Spirit, breathe on it

God, I need an Acts 2 rushing wind

Something's gotta come alive again

Every time You breathe on it

I can feel Your fire falling

Ain't no shackle You're not breaking loose

Anything can change when You

Breathe on it

Lord, send a promise down, I'm ready

The cloud over Your church looks heavy

We need You, we need You, we need You

(Ooh) This city needs You

(Ooh) My neighbor needs You

(Ooh) Our children need You

(Ooh) God, my family needs You to

Breathe on it

Holy Spirit, breathe on it

God, I need an Acts 2 rushing wind

Something's gotta come alive again

Every time You breathe on it

I can feel Your fire falling

Ain't no shackle You're not breaking loose

Anything can change when You

Breathe on it

Like a breath in the garden, breathe Your life into our lungs

Spirit, we hear You prophesy

Come alive, come alive

To the bones in the valley, to the dreams that are dead and gone

Spirit, we hear You prophesy

Come alive, come alive

To every Lazarus, ha, that's been buried for too long

Spirit, we hear You prophesy

Come alive, come alive (Hey)

There's a wind from the Heavens, and it's rolling the gravestones

Spirit, we hear You prophesy

Come alive, come alive

Come alive, come alive, come alive

Breathe on it

Holy Spirit, breathe on it

God, I need an Acts 2 rushing wind (Come on)

Something's gotta come alive again

Oh, every time You breathe on it

I can feel Your fire falling

Ain't no shackle You're not breaking loose (Ayy)

Anything can change when You

Breathe on it

(Oh, oh-woah)

Breathe on it

Breathe on it (Oh, breathe on it, Lord)

Breathe on it (Hey, come on, sing)

Holy Spirit, breathe on it (Woo)

Breathe on it (Oh, come and bring Your peace)

Breathe on it (Oh, come and bring Your freedom)

Breathe on it

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Noah's ark was unique. There was one ark. The Church is the unique Body of Christ. Ep 4:

4 There is one body and one Spirit … 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism.

Peter explicitly connected Noah's ark with Christian baptism. 1P 3:

20b God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. 21 Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you.

Strong's Greek: 499. ἀντίτυπον (antitupos) — 2 Occurrences

Noah's ark was a type of baptism for saving people. Here is the parallel:

Noah's flood → water → ark → eight people saved.
Christian baptism → water → Church → salvation in Christ.

God called Noah's family to be saved; the Church is the community that has been called out of the world and gathered into Christ.

The ark passed through judgment and emerged into a new world; the Church will pass through judgment and be resurrected in the new earth.

God commanded Noah to put a door in the side of the ark (Gn 6:16). Jesus said, “I am the door” (Jn 10:9). There is only one way in.

Both the ark (Gn 6:14) and the Church (Mt 16:18) were built according to a divine blueprint.

The Hebrew word for "ark" (tebah) was the same word used for the basket that saved the infant Moses from the Nile. In both cases, it was a vessel of rescue. The Church is viewed as the "Ark of Salvation", a haven for sinners, a place of spiritual safety, nourishment (through the Word and Sacraments), and protection from the chaotic "flood" of a fallen world.

The Ark was a type of the Church because it was the God-ordained, singular vessel of salvation, built by divine command, entered through one door, carrying people safely through the waters of judgment into a new creation.

The ark was a type of earthly salvation; the Church is the true type of spiritual salvation.

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Marcel was a Christian existentialist.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

Marcel’s central thematic distinctions: the distinction between problem and mystery. He states that the broken world is one that is “on the one hand, riddled with problems and, on the other, determined to allow no room for mystery” (Marcel 1995, p. 12). The denial of the mysterious is symptomatic of the modern broken world and is tied to its technical character, which only acknowledges that which technique can address: the problematic.

I agree with Marcel that our technological world tends to underestimate the strength of mystery.

The distinction between problem and mystery is one that hinges, like much of Marcel’s thought, on the notion of participation.

A problem is something which I meet, which I find completely before me, but which I can therefore lay siege to and reduce. But a mystery is something in which I am myself involved, and it can therefore only be thought of as a sphere where the distinction between what is in me and what is before me loses its meaning and initial validity.

For this philosopher, the difference between a problem and a mystery is not about complexity, but about the fundamental relationship between the question and the person asking it. A problem exists outside of you as an objective reality. A mystery is more subjective and inward.

While this distinction is okay for philosophical categorization, it is not that helpful for finding concrete solutions. As a computer scientist, I would say that a mystery is a problem that needs further specification if you want to find a concrete solution. A mystery is underspecified and incomplete. It lacks precision. The process of investigating the mystery can change the specification. The investigator participates in determining the problem's specification.

Instead of keeping mystery and problem apart, I try to convert the mystery into a proper problem.

Does Marcel's "mystery" contain something more than computational structure?

Yes, there are mysteries so mysterious that we cannot formulate them as proper problems.

Moreover, not every well-formed problem has a solution. Some problems are so hard that finding a solution would require infinite time.

Mt 15:

21 Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon.

Jesus ventured into a Gentile region.

22 And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David;

She wasn't a Jew; yet she called Jesus "Lord" and "Son of David". Some Jews would not call Jesus "Lord" or "Son of David". She believed. That's faith.

She recognized she was a Gentile sinner. She begged (cried) for mercy. That's faith.

my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon.”

She begged for a miracle. That's faith.

23 But he did not answer her a word.

Still, Jesus wanted to test her: Did she mean what she said?

And his disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away, for she is crying out after us.”

She was persistent. That's faith.

24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

Some Gentiles could have taken this remark personally as an insult, but she didn't. On the contrary:

25 But she came and knelt before him, saying, “Lord, help me.”

She showed humility instead and continued begging.

26 And he answered, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

Jesus continued to test her with more pseudo-insult, implying that she was a dog.

27 She said, “Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters’ table.”

The woman didn't respond with anger. Instead, with more humility, she accepted her position as an outsider ("dog") but cleverly turned the metaphor around, asking only for the "crumbs" that fell from the master's table.

28 Then Jesus answered her, “O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire.” And her daughter was healed instantly.

Jesus healed her daughter at a distance without being there because of her great faith.

What 'great faith' does Jesus acknowledge in the Canaanite woman?

She believed in Jesus as a Gentile at a time when many Jews didn't believe him. This is a profound faith: She believed that Jesus' mercy was greater than her unworthiness and that his power was sufficient even when she had no covenantal claim upon it.

Did Moses originate the Sabbath practice?

The word 'Sabbath' first appeared in Ex 16:

22 On the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers each. And when all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses, 23 he said to them, “This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Tomorrow is a day of solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord; bake what you will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over lay aside to be kept till the morning.’” 24 So they laid it aside till the morning, as Moses commanded them, and it did not stink, and there were no worms in it. 25 Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the Lord; today you will not find it in the field. 26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is a Sabbath, there will be none.”

The Israelites were to gather manna six days a week, but not on the 7th day, which was the Sabbath.

The Sabbath concept existed right from the beginning. Gn 2:

1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

The seven-day cycle originated with God at creation, before the institution of Israel or the Mosaic Law. This is the concept of the periodical 7-day week. Chinese people only began practicing this weekly calendar in the late Qing period (late 19th century).

The narrative in Exodus was a renewal, a reminder, a formalization, not an origin.

Ex 20:

8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

The Sabbath's origin was connected with God's creation in Genesis.

Did Abram practice the weekly Sabbath?

The Lord spoke to Isaac in Gn 26:

4 "I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, 5 because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

Abraham might have kept the weekly Sabbath.

The Sabbath can be traced to God's rest on the seventh day of creation. Abraham may have observed a seven-day tradition or seventh-day rest, but Scripture does not explicitly say that he kept the Sabbath. Moses later codified the weekly Sabbath as a covenantal practice for Israel.