Will Technology Save or Destroy Us?

That is a much discussed question in our day when knowledge is increasing at faster and faster velocity and technological innovation and invention is changing dramatically. I wrote on this recently in "Observations on "The New World Order"" (here). 

“But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” Dan. 12: 4)

Great advancement in knowledge, leading to improvements in technologies such as travel and dissemination of knowledge (science), is foreseen by the oracle given to Daniel the prophet. 

There is no question that many of the prophecies of the end time, to the time of judgment, could not have been fulfilled in any preceding time, but only in an age in which such advances in technology have taken place. For example, we read that the Antichrist will do as follows.

"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, 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." (Rev. 13: 16-17)

Such control over the buying and selling of every person on the planet was not possible in previous times. Only now is such technology able to regulate commerce to such a degree.

It seems to me that this was the same thing that occurred before the Noahic flood. The scientific knowledge of the antediluvian world may have been as great as now in some respects. Even today we find evidences of a previous world that was highly advanced. That world certainly was advanced in astronomy and mathematics and geometry. They were also advanced in stone cutting technology. 

Our Lord said that the world, at the time of his returning, would be like that world that was destroyed by the great flood. (Matt. 24: 37-39)

So, the answer to the question is "yes, technology will destroy us." To escape this destruction, you must get into Christ, the ark of safety and deliverance. If you live in the time of Antichrist, you must refuse his mark, even if it means you cannot buy or sell, and may mean your death. Let us be among those who are described in this way:

“And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death." (Rev. 12: 11)

They loved Christ even though it meant their martyrdom.