A.I., Drone Swarms, and the End Times

Emerging Weapons Set to Dominate the Tribulation Battlefield…

Drones already dominate conventional weapons on the battlefield.

We see it in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. We see it in the Israeli war against Iran and its proxies in the Middle East.

But what’s coming will be far superior to what we see now. Drones are improving exponentially. Each passing day, they’re getting smaller and more powerful. They’re improving in terms of range and duration. They’re evolving from swarms of drones controlled by a “mother drone” to decentralized swarms communicating as a neural network.

They’re moving from swarms of a dozen to swarms of several dozen, and soon, we’ll see swarms in the hundreds, then thousands, then millions. They’re transforming from drones controlled by people to fully autonomous drones, where A.I.-controlled drones operate independently to achieve a task. More importantly, drones are now learning and adapting in real-time on the battlefield, and that learning curve will only accelerate.

Needless to say, all of this will destabilize the current global geopolitical balance of power. Yet many people remain unaware of what’s coming.

In 2018, I wrote the following in a Prophecy News Watch article titled, "The Future Of Warfare - Rise Of The Drones":

Synchronized drones let us see the future of warfare. Why do I say that? Let me ask you another question. Have you ever seen a large flock of birds flying in unison? They look like a cloud. And the whole flock can shift left, right, up, or down - all in a split second.

Despite their quick shifts, these birds act as one. They aren't disorganized or disjointed. They fly in perfect harmony as if they have a single mind. We observe similar behavior in schools of fish, bees, locusts, gnats, and all sorts of animals.

Now, imagine one of these groups is coming to get you. That's right. Imagine a swarm of bees is coming after you. Would a shotgun do you much good? Not really. You can fire into a swarm of bees, and you might take out one or more.

But you know what? The swarm will keep coming. This is because the power of a swarm is decentralized. A single strike won't stop it.

Sound scary? It should. Because this is the future of warfare. It's called swarm technology. As technology advances, synchronized drones will get smaller and smaller, faster and faster, and ever more powerful. In the near future, one nation will use them to attack a nation only armed with conventional weapons.

What do you think will happen when combat drones traveling like a swarm of bees attack a conventional army? How effective will tank fire or heat seeking missiles be when directed at a swarm? That's right. They'll be just as effective as firing a shotgun at a swarm of bees.

Have no doubt, this is where our world is headed. Those nations who are first to develop swarm technology will rule over those nations who are slow to adapt. History has proved this lesson time and again. Think about it. Charging columns of soldiers were effective once - until machine guns arrived.

Racing soldiers on horseback were once effective too - until armored tanks arrived. We can all cite countless examples of new military technologies making tried-and-true weapons and tactics obsolete. The same will prove true with swarm technology. And it will completely transform the world's current balance of power.

In my opinion, this remains the future of warfare. Much has changed in our world since I first wrote that article, but one thing hasn't changed – the world is inexorably marching toward an era where decentralized, A.I.-controlled drone swarms will dominate all military engagements.

We’re not there yet, but we see this future vision taking shape right before our eyes…

Designing Next-Generation Drone Swarms

When most people think of drones, they think of something like this 👇

And when most people think of drone swarms, they think of something like this 👇

But the drones and drone swarms of the near future won’t look anything like these drones. In all likelihood, they’ll resemble nature – at least in their design.

As mentioned back in my 2018 article, we’re seeing the development of “biomimetic drones.” Biomimetic drones mimic nature. They draw inspiration from our biological world to solve human problems and create new technologies by copying structures and systems readily found in nature.

From a developer standpoint, biomimetic drones make sense. God’s design is perfect. If you’re an engineer, why reinvent the wheel? If you’re tasked to create devices with the same capabilities of entities already found around you, then naturally, you’re going to look to nature for inspiration and copy what already exists.

Also, we know this – Satan loves to counterfeit God’s works. So this is just the latest iteration.

Here are some examples:

Mosquitoes

As you read this, governments around the world are developing mosquito-sized drones – many of them actually resembling mosquitoes in their appearance. These drones will likely be used for short-range reconnaissance missions as well as assassinations.

As The U.S. Sun reports:

China has unveiled a horrifying mosquito-sized drone to be used for covert missions and spying.

The spindly device looks scarily akin to the blood-sucking insect - making it a valuable tool for secret information gathering.

In a video published by state media over the weekend, scientists are seen holding up the moquito-like robot which they say will perform a range of military and civilian activities.

But experts warn the drone's miniature size will mean it can easily and covertly access private indoor areas and listen in on people's conversations.

The eerie device has two yellow, leaf-like wings, a black thin body and three wiry legs.

Experts have warned the size of the drone means it will be much quieter than traditional models.

This could mean greater access to restricted areas such as "secure government facilities".

Sam Bresnick, a research fellow at Georgetown’s Centre for Security and Emerging Technology told The Telegraph: “If China is able to produce mosquito-sized drones,

"It would likely be interested in using them for various intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance tasks, especially in places that larger drones struggle to access, such as indoor areas."

“These drones could be used to track individuals or listen in on conversations."

Ants

We also see ant-sized drones in development. One of the stated purposes for these drones is drug delivery inside the human body. Other applications for these drones could include reconnaissance, logistics, warehouse transport, and even the placement of tight-fit items on a construction project. The possibilities are almost endless.

As reported in NewScientist:

Swarms of tiny robots guided by magnetic fields can coordinate to act like ants, from packing together to form a floating raft to lifting objects hundreds of times their weight. About the size of a grain of sand, the microrobots could someday do jobs larger bots cannot, such as unblocking blood vessels and delivering drugs to specific locations inside the human body.

Jeong Jae Wie at Hanyang University in South Korea and his colleagues made the tiny, cube-shaped robots using a mould and epoxy resin embedded with magnetic alloy. These small magnetic particles enable the microrobots to be “programmed” to form various configurations after being exposed to strong magnetic fields from certain angles. The bots can then be controlled by external magnetic fields to perform spins or other motions. This approach allowed the team to “efficiently and quickly produce hundreds to thousands of microrobots”, each with a magnetic profile designed for specific missions, says Wie.

The researchers directed the microrobot swarms to cooperatively climb over obstacles five times higher than any single microrobot and form a floating raft on water. The bots also pushed through a clogged tube and transported a pill 2000 times their individual weight through liquid, demonstrating potential medical applications.

Bees

We also see biomimetic bee drones under development.

As reported in MIT News:

With a more efficient method for artificial pollination, farmers in the future could grow fruits and vegetables inside multilevel warehouses, boosting yields while mitigating some of agriculture’s harmful impacts on the environment.

To help make this idea a reality, MIT researchers are developing robotic insects that could someday swarm out of mechanical hives to rapidly perform precise pollination. However, even the best bug-sized robots are no match for natural pollinators like bees when it comes to endurance, speed, and maneuverability.

Now, inspired by the anatomy of these natural pollinators, the researchers have overhauled their design to produce tiny, aerial robots that are far more agile and durable than prior versions.

The new bots can hover for about 1,000 seconds, which is more than 100 times longer than previously demonstrated. The robotic insect, which weighs less than a paperclip, can fly significantly faster than similar bots while completing acrobatic maneuvers like double aerial flips.

The revamped robot is designed to boost flight precision and agility while minimizing the mechanical stress on its artificial wing flexures, which enables faster maneuvers, increased endurance, and a longer lifespan.

Every public report on the development of biomimetic bee drones makes the claim they’re only being developed for agricultural purposes. “The robotic bees can help with pollination,” developers say. But since the dawn of creation, bees have handled that task quite well without human intervention.

So why robotic bees? Again, the claim is that – in the event we lose a mass number of bees – the drones can step in and handle the pollination. But this doesn’t make sense from an efficiency standpoint. Research funds would be much better spent trying to find ways to keep current bee colonies alive and foster bee population growth. Have no doubt, biomimetic bee drones are ultimately being developed for military purposes.

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Birds

We also see the development of biomimetic birds.

As Birds Advice reports:

A flock of birds soars quietly over a city skyline. They seem ordinary—perhaps magpies or gulls—but a closer look reveals something uncanny. Their wings flap with precision, their formation is too exact, and their silence is unsettling. These are not birds. They are machines—unmanned aerial vehicles designed to mimic nature with such fidelity that the line between the organic and the artificial vanishes.

In an era where surveillance cameras are expected and drones buzz audibly overhead, China’s latest military innovation is rewriting the rules of invisibility. At the cutting edge of this shift is a new generation of ornithopters: bird-like drones that not only look and move like real birds but can spy, infiltrate, and even strike without ever alerting their targets. From 90-gram magpie replicas to eagle-sized drones armed with micro-munitions, these machines mark a leap in stealth warfare so profound it feels like science fiction turned strategic reality.

But what happens when warfare no longer looks like warfare—when the sky above could hide not just predators, but programmable ones?

Modern military surveillance has long relied on technological superiority, but China’s ornithopter drones introduce a subtler, more insidious strategy: disappearance in plain sight. By replicating the flapping flight patterns of birds through advanced biomimetic engineering, these drones don’t just resemble nature—they behave like it. This isn’t a case of stylized camouflage or aerodynamic tweaking. It’s full-blown biological imitation, where every motion, silhouette, and wingbeat is calibrated to pass for a living creature.

Ornithopters—named from the Greek ornis (bird) and pteron (wing)—are not new in concept. Leonardo da Vinci once sketched their possibility. But it wasn’t until recently, thanks to breakthroughs in materials science and flight dynamics, that such machines became truly viable. At the 2025 China Military Intelligent Technology Expo (CMITE), engineers revealed ornithopters so convincing that even trained observers struggle to distinguish them from actual birds in the sky.

As these robotic birds become more sophisticated, flocks of these drones will conduct aerial assaults on the battlefield. In tandem with swarms of biomimetic bee and locust drones, they’ll dominate the skies in any military conflict.

Fish

In addition to land and air, we see biomimetic drone development in the sea as well.

In 2021, Intelligent Living reported the following:

Earlier this month, China’s navy announced its new “Robo-Shark,” a military marine drone capable of operating at high speeds with a low sound for exploration and anti-submarine warfare.

Now, China unveils a new underwater drone named “Robo-fish.” The drone is an exact imitation of the Arowana fish. At first glance, one would think it’s a real one. The drone was presented at the Beijing Military Expo on June 5.

The fish, created by the Boya Gongdao company, was placed in a giant transparent tank. Onlookers thought it was a real Arowana fish because it swam in the water and would hold its head up when there were barriers, then continued to swim again. The creators carefully studied the movement of the actual fish so that they could apply it to the robot.

The ocean is a vast battlefield. We’re likely to see swarming schools of biomimetic fish drones working in tandem with convoys of traditional naval assets at first. Then, as the cost of manufacturing plummets, we’ll see them fill the world’s oceans and waterways.

Humans

We even see biomimetic drones when it comes to humans. They’re called humanoid robots, and one Silicon Valley insider claims they're about to have "an iPhone moment" – a breakthrough moment in time when an innovative product suddenly transforms an industry.

Artificial Intelligence and Drone Swarm Technology

But it’s not enough to simply design and manufacture biomimetic drones. In order to deploy them in a decentralized swarm, they need to be A.I. enabled. To give you a rough idea of what a decentralized drone swarm will be capable of, just take a look at this video of drones navigating a forest:

Keep in mind, the above video is several years old now, so the latest advancements are far beyond what we see here.

As researchers move forward (and with A.I. helping them), they’re gaining greater insight into the inner workings of biological swarms. What they learn will inevitably be used to advance the development of decentralized swarming technologies.

For instance, scientists are studying the habits of locusts to dissect God’s design so they can drive innovation in robotics, biomechanics, physics, material sciences, and other fields of study. By studying the collective behavior of locusts, they can apply new insights to the development of drone swarming software.

In Washington University's article, "Engineers to Build Cyborg Locusts, Study Odor-Guided Navigation," we read:

Barani Raman, a professor of biomedical engineering at the McKelvey School of Engineering, is leading a multidisciplinary team to study how the locust brain transforms sensory input into behavior with a four-year $4.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems program. The grant converges years of research in Raman’s lab with that of his longtime WashU collaborators...

“Insects are an engineering marvel,” Raman said. “They possess diverse sensing modalities and locomotory responses yet contained in such a small package. We want to engineer tools to study the amazing capabilities of these relatively simpler organisms.”

The research brings together Washington University’s strengths in neural engineering, integrated circuits, biomaterials, synthetic biology and genetic engineering to understand how the insects use olfactory cues to navigate toward an odor source, which could potentially be used for various applications, such as detecting gas left on in the kitchen or as the proverbial canary in the coal mine to test spaces for hazardous chemicals...

“Nature already has endowed this organism with various capabilities, so why not understand and augment those capabilities using synthetic mechanisms?” asked Chakrabartty, whose expertise is in sensors and integrated circuits. “Ultimately, our goal is to design a completely synthetic system that has similar remarkable capabilities.”

As with artificial intelligence and quantum computing, advancements in the development of drone swarming technologies are also taking place at an exponential rate. This will lead to larger drones swarms, completely decentralized, and autonomous.

These drone swarms will be capable of adapting, learning, and innovating on the battlefield in real-time. Only similar A.I.-powered weapons will be able to compete. Conventional weapons (even the “new” ones designed to defend against drone swarms) won’t stand a chance.

Global Government is Coming…

A.I.-controlled drone swarms will be able to completely overwhelm conventional military weapons and personnel. But mutual assured destruction (MAD) remains in place as long as the major nuclear powers can maintain secrecy regarding the location of their nuclear-armed submarines.

Once enough drones can be cost effectively manufactured to track everything in the world’s oceans and waterways, MAD will come to an end. However, it’s difficult to imagine that moment can be reached prior to the development of molecular manufacturing.

In "The World is About to Change Forever," I noted:

Within a few short years, the sophistication of A.I.-controlled drone swarms will far exceed anything we see today. Most conventional weapons will be powerless against them. But Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) will not be overturned until drone swarms can be quickly deployed at scale and at relatively low cost.

Once humanity achieves the breakthrough enabling this, it will radically alter the current world order. Such a breakthrough will result in several unavoidable consequences. One of those is the ability to conquer the globe.

In a post-MAD world, the nation with a first-mover technological advantage will face two options:

1) An unstable arms race ending in global annihilation, or

2) Global empire

Simple logic says they'll choose global empire.

What the Bible Says

That should catch your attention, because the Bible tells us a global empire will devour the entire world during the Tribulation:

"Then he said to me, ‘This fourth beast is the fourth world power that will rule the earth. It will be different from all the others. It will devour the whole world, trampling and crushing everything in its path.’” Daniel 7:23 (NLT)

We also know the Antichrist will rule over the entire earth:

"And the beast was allowed to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And he was given authority to rule over every tribe and people and language and nation." Revelation 13:7 (NLT)

And no one will be able to make war against him:

“They worshiped the dragon for giving the beast such power, and they also worshiped the beast. ‘Who is as great as the beast?’ they exclaimed. ‘Who is able to fight against him?’” Revelation 13:4 (NLT)

We’re on the cusp of developing weapons that make conquering the world and establishing a global empire not only possible, but necessary. Yet, most people remain unaware of this possibility.

Given how close we are to seeing a global empire and other Tribulation events, we’re very close to the world witnessing the Second Coming of Jesus at the end of the seven-year Tribulation. And that means the rapture of the church (which I believe occurs before the Tribulation) is even closer.

Jesus is Coming!

When the disciples asked Jesus to describe the signs of His coming and the end of the age, He pointed to many signs. But one of the most overlooked is the idea that when He returns, the world will be "like it was in the days of Noah." Jesus said:

"In those days before the flood, the people were enjoying banquets and parties and weddings right up to the time Noah entered his boat. People didn't realize what was going to happen until the flood came and swept them all away. That is the way it will be when the Son of Man comes." Matthew 24:38-39 (NLT)

Look around. Despite all the chaos and turmoil in the world, people are living their lives as if everything is normal. The signs Jesus and the prophets said to look for are all around us. Now we’re seeing the development of advanced technologies which will inevitably lead to a global empire. Yet, most people have no idea any of this is about to happen.

As in the days of Noah, they don’t realize what’s coming. Noah’s generation didn’t think the flood would come, but it came. Our generation doesn’t think Jesus will come, but He will. And all the signs say He’s coming in our generation.

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