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On today's Headlines from the End Times, we get to hear how churches are becoming mosques in one American suburb. Plus, the push for global interfaith worship continues to gain ground. The UN wants to control the internet and be the gatekeeper for AI development. But what is driving their desire? Josh Davis connects these stories to the biblical end-time scenario on today's Watchman on the Wall.

Josh Davis: Greetings, fellow Watchman on the Wall, and welcome to another Headlines from the End Times, helping you connect what is happening in today's world with the timeless, eternal, unchanging Word of God. We begin today's story by highlighting a growing trend across the United States of America as churches close, the crosses come down, and crescents go up. That's right, it's happening across America, whether we're talking about the Northeast or the Midwest.

Let's take a short trip to a suburb of Detroit called Warren, Michigan. The neighbors in that suburb remember the sound of church bells ringing on Sundays. But now, the church bells are silent. Some years ago, the church began to decline. Slowly, over time, the church closed. The bells went silent. The property went up for sale, and the property was sold to Muslims who wanted to open a mosque in that former house of Christian worship.

It is a brick building with two sharply sloped roofs and a steeple—a former Lutheran church for more than 80 years. The building is still there—the bricks, the beautiful facade—but the cross that once stood atop the steeple is gone. About six years ago, the property was sold and turned into an Islamic center. Justin Ty, 57 years old, took Fox News on a guided tour of his hometown, Warren, Michigan, where the foreign-born Muslim population has grown significantly over the past decade.

Mr. Ty remembers that particular church as a centerpiece of his American suburban dream neighborhood. Local children would gather on the lawn to play pickup sports. But now, those kids are grown and gone. Warren, now the third-largest city in Michigan after Detroit and Grand Rapids, exploded almost overnight with the post-World War II auto manufacturing boom as war veterans moved into the area to work for Ford and for General Motors.

This blue-collar, white-picket-fence community incorporated as a town in 1957. And for you auto lovers, 1957—think about those '57 Chevys, think about what was coming off of Ford at that time. It was a special era for auto manufacturing, and Michigan, of course, and Warren, being key in that boom. Things have changed dramatically since that boom. Mr. Ty left Warren in his adulthood and returned some 13 years ago. He purchased his childhood home.

At that time, it hadn't changed quite so much. But a decade later, it's a different story—a radically different story. Shortly after his return, foreign-born Muslims began flocking to the area. What caused them to come to Warren specifically? We understand that wars during the '90s and the early 2000s led to a boom of Middle Eastern immigrants to come to America as they took part in a growing Muslim refugee and immigrant population.

There was a long-standing chain migration policy that allowed family members to follow their relatives to the US, and foreign immigrant visas exploded in recent years. This, said Mr. Ty, has been the story of Warren, Michigan. But his town's plight is overshadowed in the media by another Detroit suburb—the nearby Dearborn, which is now a Muslim-majority city and has garnered national and international attention.

Within a seven-mile radius of his neighborhood in Warren, Michigan, there are now five mosques. An old industrial machinery business is now a mosque. This former Lutheran church is now a mosque. A former Baptist church in Warren, Michigan, is now a mosque. Friends, we see that this is growing across the United States of America. And we see two sides of this story connecting to Bible prophecy.

One side is the rise of moderate Islam, the kind of Islam that says, "Let's just get along. Let's have peace with those living around us and live in peace and harmony." But the story we see happening in Dearborn, Michigan, also shows another side. When the Muslim becomes the majority and they have a Muslim mayor, there are Christians who are saying that things are going too far.

The city is spending money to celebrate Ramadan and to celebrate other Muslim holidays, but not spending similar money on Christian or Jewish holidays, showing a heavy hand towards these kinds of things. So, we also see the rise of extremist Islam across our world today. There's so much more that we can say. This is something we need to open our eyes to.

For Christians, I don't want this story to discourage you or to defeat you or to dissuade you. We still have the God who is in control, the God who is on the throne. And we know that God is working and moving even when things seem to be moving the wrong direction. We understand that sometimes churches close for a number of reasons.

It could be that they've left the truth of God's word. It could be that the population changed so dramatically that the church grew older and they didn't have younger people coming in to replace them. So many different things can happen to local churches. But we do see an underlying current for a global interfaith push. Let's jump from the United States over the pond, as they say, to the UK.

St. John's Church in Hyde Park—this is a woke church in central London. They hosted a fashion week recently on September the 12th. That date is significant for another piece of this story I want to share with you. This fashion week was featuring Muslim women's clothing, including the hijab. This was all a part of this interfaith celebration, a fashion show featuring Muslim women's clothing.

That happened on September 12th. Do you know what happened on September 11th? I'm sure you've heard of this by now because it garnered a whole lot of attention. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally—that's someone I've told you about before. September 11th, the 25th anniversary of the United States being attacked by Osama bin Laden and the terrorists that were working with him, working under him.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the first female Archbishop, I should add, Sarah Mullally, presented the Hubert Walter Award for Reconciliation and Interfaith Cooperation to a Pakistani Muslim cleric. This Pakistani Muslim cleric had praised Osama bin Laden. Controversial remarks regarding his opinion of Osama bin Laden surfaced, and days later, they withdrew this award. My goodness, how deaf, how spiritually blind is the Anglican Church and its leadership as well, all the way up to the top?

The Archbishop Sarah Mullally is very much pro-LGBTQ, pro-abortion—you name it. All the woke agenda, she is for it. What's interesting is something I pointed out months ago right here on Headlines from the End Times is that when she took this position, when she was brought in as the spiritual head of the Anglican Church—the Church of England—the Pope began to congratulate her and began to welcome her and began to dialogue with her.

He wanted there to be a closer relationship between the Anglican Church and the Roman Catholic Church. If you know any history, you know that that's big news because the Anglican Church came out of the Roman Catholic Church in a very historical split that took place about 500 years ago now. We understand the history that's there. So, for the Catholic Pope to reach an arm across to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and for both of them to bend over backwards to Muslim countries and to Muslim populations...

They are trying to extend some kind of an olive branch or trying to show, "Let's all just come together as one in our worship." Friends, we see the stage being set for the biblical end-time scenario. In Revelation 13, it describes a one-world religion that will come together. I believe this mindset will permeate. Some of you say, "Well, how is that going to happen with radical Islam and the kinds of things we're seeing happening?"

I believe that by the time the Antichrist comes to power, radical Islam will be gone from the planet. I believe the battle of Ezekiel 38 and 39 will happen shortly after the rapture of the church and shortly before the official beginning of the tribulation according to Daniel 9, where it says that the Antichrist will confirm a peace treaty with Israel—a seven-year peace treaty. I believe that's the official start of the tribulation seven-year countdown.

What we understand happening is that Ezekiel 38/39 war—when the Muslim majority, the extremist Islam, comes against Israel and God protects Israel and defeats her enemies—I think that that will put a real hurt on extremist Islam. This will allow this more moderate kind of religious coming-together as one under the Antichrist. He will say, "Look, let's all just get together. Let's come together. Let's have peace." He will have his plan and his people in place to promote this kind of thing.

We're seeing that mindset take hold in the world around us today. And it's not just happening in America, it's not just happening in the UK, it's not just happening with the Anglican Church and the Roman Catholic Church—it's happening in other pieces and places around the world. In fact, in Belgium, an Islamic passage from the Quran was chanted in Arabic at the opening of a Catholic Mass at a Catholic university there in Belgium.

It was part of what they called an interfaith service. There was a group of people who were there last year when this same thing happened, and they weren't ready and weren't prepared for it. They said, "If they're doing this again this year, we're going to have our cameras rolling." So, with cameras ready to go, they captured this on video. They posted the video online showing this Islamic chant as part of this Mass and part of this inter-religious service, as they call it.

The video was published in order to highlight what they said is a "problematic policy of trying to fabricate some kind of middle ground between religions that are incompatible at their core." At least some of the students at this Belgium Catholic university understand there are some basic differences between Christianity and Islam. Quite frankly, there's a lot of difference. They are not the same, and we are not worshipping the same God.

Christianity says that Jesus is God. Other religions say he is not. That's a major difference. And yet, the push for a one-world religion says, "Set aside what you believe. It's not what keeps us separate that we should focus on; it's what brings us together. It's the commonalities that we need to celebrate." That's part of this rise of the one-world worship mindset, friends. We need to open our eyes to what is happening.

We'll continue with more Headlines from the End Times, including who's going to set the rules for artificial intelligence. The United Nations is pushing so that it can be in first place. It can be the one who makes the decisions about AI and the future of this planet. More about that in just a moment. I want to take just a second to invite you to come October 22nd, 23rd, and 24th to Bristol, Virginia, right in the Tri-Cities of Tennessee and Virginia, not too far from the SWRC ministry headquarters in Northeast Tennessee.

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Let's get back to more Headlines from the End Times. Who should set the rules for artificial intelligence? As I said before the break, the UN is pushing for a safer digital future. This story comes from the UN's official channels, and they say that artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly, raising questions about how societies and governments can capture its benefits while managing risks that often extend beyond national borders.

There's some language in here that sounds really good, and I get where they're going with this. But we've got to remember that we see something here that I think is a power grab. They're wanting to be the ones who get to call the shots on artificial intelligence. The UN is trying to position itself as the global leader in deciding what happens with AI. It sees itself poised in the position to best regulate what becomes of artificial intelligence.

But there's something sneaky behind that in my opinion. It's whoever controls AI will get to decide what it can do and how it's used and all the various components of this very powerful tool. We have seen that the UN has really got a strong push to control the internet. And that's not hearsay; it's something that goes back years. It's something that I've noticed for a number of years now when it comes to the United Nations.

They even came out recently with a digital security pack and talked about how they can control the spread of misinformation and disinformation. In fact, they went so far as to say the greatest existential threat to humanity—they've moved off of climate change for a little bit—and they've put the focus on misinformation and disinformation online. They are trying to get control of the internet.

They're trying to be the gatekeepers, if you will, who have the right to say, "This is labeled misinformation. This is labeled hate speech. This is labeled disinformation." Anything that goes against their agenda—and especially Agenda 2030 and accomplishing those goals—guess what? That's going to be labeled misinformation or disinformation. They're looking to control free speech. In fact, in one way, they're looking to take free speech away from the internet.

I think about the implications for Christian ministries. I think about the implications for SWRC and the kinds of content that we're creating. If the UN had its way, would I still be able to say the kinds of things that I'm saying right now, or would they label some of what I've already said as misinformation, disinformation, or perhaps even labeling it as hate speech and saying, "Nope, you can't do that anymore"?

The UN Secretary-General recently said that national action is essential. "Yes, it's important for nations to take individual action on artificial intelligence." But he went on to say, "Global coordination is indispensable." And so, the UN is developing what it calls AI guardrails. This is a quote from their recent release.

The UN work comes as discussions move from whether AI should be regulated to questions about which safeguards should be implemented. Mr. Guterres—that's the UN Secretary-General—called for international cooperation to ensure that AI development remains safe, secure, and responsible. He added that voluntary efforts to slow AI development will not be sufficient if they are isolated, unverifiable, or unevenly applied.