Predictive Programming or Prophecy?

Here's where things get really interesting.

Hollywood has shown us events before they happened. Over and over. With an accuracy that defies random chance.

Later in this book, I will show you just how close to the truth The Matrix really was.

The Fact-Checkers Looked Too

They saw what you just saw. They spent hours cataloguing the evidence — compiling lists, comparing dates, analyzing images frame by frame.

Their conclusion? Coincidence.

They found the fingerprints and decided nobody left them.

That's not stupidity. That's exactly what Christ said would happen.

Seeing, they would not perceive.

They did the research. They found the pattern. They just had no framework for what they were actually looking at. They stopped at human hands when the trail led somewhere else entirely.

The conspiracy theorists looked too. They said the elite were revealing their plans through entertainment — predictive programming — conditioning the masses to accept what was coming.

They got closer. They understood something was being communicated.

But they stopped at shadowy rooms full of human hands when the answer pointed somewhere outside of time altogether.

There is a third explanation.

One that most people — even Christians — overlook entirely.

What If It's Christ?

What if the Creator of the universe — who exists outside of time, who knows the end from the beginning, who declares things before they happen — is speaking through the very people who don't even know they're being used?

Think about that.

Creativity is a gift from the Creator.

Where does imagination come from? Where does the ability to envision things that don't yet exist originate? Where does the capacity to create art, write stories, compose music, and design worlds that have never been seen — where does that come from?

It comes from Him.

Remember the wheels? The Spirit was in the wheels — and the wheels moved. The Spirit is in the mind — and the mind creates. Ezekiel's vision wasn't just a spectacle. It was a picture of how Christ moves through vessels — even vessels that don't know they're moving.

We create because we are made in the image of a Creator God.

Our creativity is a reflection of His creativity. Our imagination is derived from His infinite imagination. Every artist, writer, filmmaker, and designer operates with a capacity that ultimately comes from Him — whether they acknowledge it or not.

Whether they believe in Him or not.

Christ Working Through Those Who Don't Know Him

The story of Cyrus is proof.

Isaiah 45 speaks of a pagan Persian king who would free the Jewish people from Babylonian captivity. Christ called him by name — 150 years before Cyrus was even born.

Read that again.

One hundred and fifty years before this man drew his first breath, Christ spoke his name.

Then, when the moment came, Christ declared what that name would accomplish:

The scholars couldn't accept it. A prophecy that precise — a man named by name, a century and a half before his birth — violated everything they believed about what was possible. So they invented a solution. They theorized that the book of Isaiah was actually written by two different people. "First Isaiah" wrote chapters 1 through 39. A second anonymous prophet — someone they called Deutero-Isaiah, or Second Isaiah — wrote chapters 40 through 66 after Cyrus was already on the scene. If the prophecy was written after the fact, it wasn't really a prophecy at all.

There is one problem with that theory.

There is not a single manuscript in existence that supports it.

In 1947, Bedouin shepherds discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls in the caves of Qumran. Among them was the Great Isaiah Scroll — the oldest complete copy of the book of Isaiah ever found, dated to approximately 125 BC. All 66 chapters. One scroll. No break. No division. No second author. Chapter 40 — the chapter where "Second Isaiah" supposedly begins — follows directly after chapter 39 without interruption, without marking, without any indication that a different hand had taken over.

The scroll demolished the theory. Christianity Today wrote of it plainly: the Isaiah Scroll revealed no break or demarcation between the two major sections. The scribe was not aware of any change in authorship or division of the book.

Jesus quoted from both halves of Isaiah — and attributed it all to one man every time. So did Paul. So did John the Baptist. The New Testament writers quoted from the so-called "second Isaiah" section more than 38 times — and never once suggested a different author.

Cyrus didn't worship the God of Israel. He didn't know Christ. He wasn't praying, seeking, or listening. Yet Christ called him by name, raised him up for a specific purpose, and used him to accomplish divine plans — all without Cyrus understanding who was really directing his steps.

He was a vessel who never knew he was being carried.

If Christ could use a pagan king to fulfill prophecy, He can use a Hollywood director.

If Christ could put dreams in the mind of Pharaoh — a man who enslaved His people — He can put visions in the mind of anyone He chooses.

If Christ could speak through Nebuchadnezzar, He can speak through a screenwriter.

That's not a theory. That's a pattern established in Scripture thousands of years ago.

Do you see it?

He Gives Breath and Spirit to All

Now look again at Isaiah 42:5:

Read that carefully.

Christ gives breath to the people. Christ gives spirit to those who walk on the earth.

Not some of them. Not just the ones who pray. Not just the ones who go to church or carry a Bible or know His name.

All of them.

That breath. That spirit. That is where creativity comes from. That is where imagination comes from. That is where the ability to envision things that have not yet happened originates.

Every human being walking this earth has been given breath and spirit by Christ Himself — whether they acknowledge Him or not.

The atheist filmmaker? Christ gave him breath. Christ gave him spirit.

The secular novelist? Christ gave her breath. Christ gave her spirit.

The agnostic game designer? Christ gave him breath. Christ gave him spirit.

And because Christ is sovereign over all things — because He declares the end from the beginning — He can move through human hands and human minds to deliver messages, warnings, and revelations to those who have eyes to see.

The filmmaker doesn't have to know he's being used.

Cyrus didn't.

He Declared the End Before It Began

This verse is one of the most powerful statements in all of Scripture about who Christ is and what separates Him from everything else that claims to be a god.

Let's break it down.

"I am God, and there is no other" — This is not arrogance. This is fact. There is no other being in existence who can do what He does. No idol. No false god. No spiritual force. No human. No angel. No demon. None.

"Declaring the end from the beginning" — Christ announces how things will end before they even begin. He doesn't just know the future — He speaks it. He reveals it. He declares it openly so that when it comes to pass, you will know it was Him that told you.

This is how He proves He's real. Many of us need this — we need proof in order to believe in something we cannot see. And He gives it to us. Over and over again.

"From ancient times things that are not yet done" — Thousands of years before events occur, Christ has already spoken them. The prophecies of Scripture weren't written after the fact. They were written centuries — sometimes millennia — before fulfillment.

"My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure" — Christ speaks from outside of time. He sees the end and the beginning as one. What He declares always comes to pass — we've seen it too many times in Scripture to remain as blind to it as the world is today.

Why can't you see Him?

Why Does This Matter?

In Isaiah 46, Christ is contrasting Himself with the idols of Babylon — Bel and Nebo. These were the gods the Babylonians worshipped and carried around in religious processions.

Christ essentially says:

The false gods of this world — whether ancient idols or modern systems — cannot predict the future. They cannot declare the end from the beginning. They don't know what's coming.

Only the God who exists outside of time can do this.

He is not bound by time. He created time. He sees the end and the beginning simultaneously. And He reveals pieces of that knowledge to those He chooses — sometimes through prophets who love Him, sometimes through believers who serve Him without knowing it, and sometimes through atheists who deny He exists.

The Test of a True God

In Isaiah 41, just a few chapters earlier, Christ challenges the false gods directly:

This is the test: Can you tell us what's coming? Then we will believe in you.

The world spends billions on data analytics, forecasting models, AI predictions, and market research — entire industries built on the desperate attempt to guess what's coming next. And they still get it wrong.

Economists miss recessions. Intelligence agencies miss attacks. Meteorologists miss storms. The smartest systems humanity has ever built cannot reliably tell you what's happening next week — and Christ is standing here saying He declared it thousands of years ago.

That's the test. And no idol, no algorithm, no system, no false god has ever passed it.

But He does. Over and over again.

The idols fail. The false gods are silent. The psychics guess wrong.

But the God of the Bible? Christ? He names kings before they're born. He describes events centuries before they happen. He declares the end from the beginning.

And sometimes He drops those revelations into the minds of filmmakers, screenwriters, and game designers — because He knows their work will reach millions of eyes, ears, and minds. It doesn't matter what the movie is about — good or bad. It's the hidden truths embedded within that matter. Because those truths reveal both light and darkness.

But the creators themselves? They think it's imagination. They think it's creativity. They think they're just telling a good story. They don't know He's using them to speak to us.

The question isn't whether these predictions are real. They obviously are. The evidence is overwhelming.

The question is: Who's behind them?

The answer is the same God who spoke through a burning bush, through pagan kings, and through fishermen who became apostles. The same God who declares the end from the beginning.

Are We Going to Miss It Again?

But here's the question most people never stop to ask:

If He has been speaking through Hollywood — warning us, revealing what's coming, embedding truth in the work of people who didn't know they were being used — what is He saying right now?

We all missed it then. Are we going to miss it again?