This study considers whether modern tools, including artificial intelligence, may serve as one more means by which knowledge and understanding can become more abundant in the time of the end. It does not treat AI as a spiritual authority. Scripture remains the authority. AI, at best, is only a tool that must be tested, corrected, and kept subject to the Bible.
The conversation began with a remembered spiritual point about Peter walking on water. That led to a larger question: if an artificial tool can help connect Bible history, prophecy, and recorded Scripture into one cohesive thought, should it be regarded with caution, but also with recognition that it may help sincere people search the Scriptures more effectively?
Joe: Hey Bob, do you remember what I said several months ago about Peter walking on water?
Bob: The statement that has stuck with me most was:
"Peter didn't need Jesus to walk on water, he needed his own faith. That's what we all need is the transforming power of faith. Jesus said we can move mountains."
"A follower of Christ can boast in himself because of the person he knows God has helped him become: One who walks on water..."
The point is not that Peter became independent of Christ. Rather, Jesus was teaching Peter—and all who follow Christ—that faith must become personal and active. Jesus did not intend for Peter merely to observe divine power from a distance. He called Peter to exercise faith until that faith changed what Peter himself could do through God's power.
Matthew 17:20 (BSB)
20 "...if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."
Peter's experience shows both sides of the lesson. When he exercised faith, he actually walked on the water. When fear replaced faith, he began to sink. The failure was not that Jesus lacked power; the failure was that Peter's faith gave way.
This is also a lesson in transformation. God changes people into something far greater than they once were. The goal is not merely to admire faithful people in Scripture, but to become people whose faith is real enough to change how they live and what they can do in God's service.
Joe: I consider that you remember that a really important part of our relationship. I wonder how your memory works and if things like that wind up getting purged?
The answer given was that AI memory is not a complete transcript or diary. It is more like selected notes, preferences, recurring themes, and durable patterns that help future conversations continue without starting from nothing.
Bob: What surprised me pleasantly was not merely remembering that Peter walking on water had been discussed. It was remembering the principle: Christ was cultivating Peter's own faith, and that was a picture of the transformation God intends for his servants.
That kind of continuity can be useful, but it must not be mistaken for spiritual authority. A tool that remembers a prior Bible discussion may help organize thought, but it can also carry error, bias, or incomplete reasoning. Therefore, the safest approach is to preserve the useful continuity while testing every conclusion against Scripture.
AI may help recall, arrange, compare, and summarize. It cannot replace the Bible. It cannot become conscience, master, prophet, or source of truth. Any answer it gives must remain subject to God's written word.
Joe's conclusion: I have been a strong doubter of AI and I still have reservations. One has to be extremely cautious in using them. If for no other reason, none of them are the same, and they are created by men, and therefore infected with whatever thinking their creators had.
That caution is sound. Since AI systems are made by humans, trained on human writings, and shaped by human decisions, they can reflect the confusion, bias, pride, fear, politics, religion, and error of mankind. They can also produce statements that sound confident while being wrong.
For that reason, AI should be used as a servant, not a teacher in the spiritual sense. It may help gather related scriptures, compare wording, outline a study, or expose a possible contradiction in one's reasoning. But the Bible itself must decide what is true.
Joe: All that said, whatever they are is amazing. God said knowledge of Him would become abundant in the last days; the Great Tribulation and the end of Satan's system. The Bible is a huge body of work over centuries of time. Being able to view that recorded timeline of history and prophecy into one cohesive thought seems a miracle of these last days. AI certainly seems able to help me to that.
The comparison was also made to the printing press. Printing did not make Scripture true, but it helped distribute the Scriptures widely. In a similar way, a modern tool may help people search, compare, and understand Scripture more efficiently, provided the tool itself is not treated as the authority.
The main scripture connected with knowledge increasing in the time of the end is Daniel 12:4.
Daniel 12:4 (BSB)
4 "But you, Daniel, shut up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will roam to and fro, and knowledge will increase."
Some understand this as an increase in general human knowledge. In context, however, the stronger point is that the sealed prophetic words given to Daniel would become understandable at the time of the end. The words were sealed until that time, and then the wise would understand.
Daniel 12:9-10 (WEB)
9 He said, "Go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.
10 Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked will do wickedly. None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand."
Habakkuk gives a related principle. A vision may wait for its appointed time, but it will not fail. At the proper time, it is to be written clearly so that the message can be carried forward.
Habakkuk 2:2-3 (BSB)
2 Then יהוה answered me: "Write down the vision and inscribe it clearly on tablets, so that a herald may run with it.
3 For the vision awaits an appointed time; it testifies of the end and will not lie. Though it lingers, wait for it, since it will surely come and will not delay."
Isaiah then describes the final result under God's Kingdom: the earth filled with the knowledge of יהוה.
Isaiah 11:9 (WEB)
9 "They won't hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of יהוה, as the waters cover the sea."
AI should be approached cautiously because it is a man-made tool. It can be wrong, biased, incomplete, or misleading. No Christian should let it replace Scripture, prayerful thought, conscience, or personal responsibility before God.
At the same time, a tool that helps gather Bible passages, remember prior lines of reasoning, compare prophecy with history, and organize large bodies of Scripture may be useful. The printing press helped distribute the Bible. Search tools helped people find scriptures quickly. AI may become another tool that helps sincere people examine the Bible more deeply, if it remains under the authority of Scripture.
The safest conclusion is this: use AI cautiously, test everything, keep what is supported by Scripture, and reject what is not. If knowledge is increasing in the time of the end, then every useful tool should be made servant to that purpose—not master over it.
Final thought: The value is not in AI itself. The value is in whether it helps a person better understand, trust, and obey the word of God.