The FIRST blow of major renovations,
That’ve been ordered on your place!
But for you, there’s no planned relocation!
And it’s one that will be …slow-paced!!
The advanced notice, you left un-opened.
In shock, there’s no one to blame.
With such matters, you would not be burdened!
Others also share your shame. 1
Ranks-thinning or thinning out the ranks is a formal or informal process in which large organizations reduce specific people or numbers of people or things engaging in an organized activity. It is typically a practice of any significantly large enterprise—an army, large corporation, governmental agency, etc. Reductions-in-Force (RIFs) are more formal, less personal ways such organizations reduce and restructure themselves by focusing more on positions than specific people or things. Other such terms include right-sizing or down-sizing, organizational trimming, trimming the fat, etc.
But what might ‘bifurcated ranks-thinning’ signify?? Moreover, what place might it have in a blog that accentuates and promotes patterned analysis of Biblical strategies?! It is my label for what I perceive The Lord may have done during the winding-down of the pre-flood age—the 1st Biblical age of human history, and possibly during the winding down of the pre-cross age—the 2nd Biblical age. Let’s try to define ‘bifurcated ranks-thinning’, then consider whether this scenario might be yet another repetitive pattern revealed and/or hinted across the pages of The Bible.
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In Salvation, an Internship (Poem), I posit that Christianity is effectively Heaven’s internship for The Lord’s would-be eternal saints. Revelation 3:14-22 give us the clearest evidence of this concept that is also evident across The Bible. While The Lord’s Grace is extended to all who will believe and receive Him as Lord, the persistent storyline, from Genesis-to-Revelation, is that His eternal Grace is only guaranteed to those of us who pass His tests until death in this earthly life. So the ‘touchstone’ notion of Christianity (i.e., confess Christ, get baptized, go to church, get on with life) is a false version of Christianity that satan and his crew would ABSOLUTELY LOVE for more of us to embrace, rather than a ‘good works, performance-based’ version of the Christian life. Apostle Paul iteratively attests we are created in Christ FOR GOOD WORKS that, in various ways, promote His kingdom on this version of Earth. Revelation 19:6-8 give us the clearest explanation of the eternal objective of our good works—to adorn The Lord’s Bride which is apparently NOT the 3rd age church, as most of us have likely been taught. (See: The Bride of Christ (Series))
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The Lord is THE most STRATEGIC being in existence! The breadth and depths of His various strategies are unknowable to us. BUT, The Bible gives us more than adequate repetitive patterns and insights into His thoughts, ways and preferences for us. He must intend us to study them diligently, and to perceive well beyond the written texts with the aid of His Holy Spirit. Apostle Paul’s writings collectively signal to all bona fide saints that the mysteries of God are hidden FROM sinners, but FOR us believers. But their availability does not mean they are automatically known by all of us. That requires diligent, Holy Spirit-guided study and meditation, followed by diligent Spirit-led efforts to share with interested others what we have perceived, just as Jesus, the prophets and the apostles did.
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Who Will Judge Whom?
While The Bible iteratively affirms Father God has delegated ALL judgments to Jesus, The Lord God, Paul indicates Jesus will delegate judgment of angels to His tested/proven saints. Are you ready for that?! Paul does not reveal which angels we will judge, or when that judgment will occur. This is what I intuit:
The Bible attests that human saints will stand before The Lord’s judgment seat for our performance/good works to be scrutinized. This might either occur sequentially when the various ‘first resurrection’ groups will enter into Heaven, or possibly when all of His saints will be together in Heaven. (See: Biblical Raptures – Types and Timings (Series)) Paul signals that we immortal saints ‘will judge angels’. It is unclear which group of angels we will judge. Here’s what I intuit:
Is for God’s saints who, in life, will have sacrificed,
By transforming our lifestyles, His heart to capture,
Since for us, He sacrificed, and paid our sin price. 1
Jesus, The Lord God, is The Quintessential lesson planner! He patiently prepared a wide range of lessons to capture our attention in order to warn and teach us about His ways and expectations of us in order to attract His boundless blessings. Reflecting on this pattern across The Bible, I pondered why has AI manifested on the scene, especially in such a speedy manner, during what may be the late stage of the 3rd Biblical age of our history? While pondering, I quickly perceived The Lord and AI have several things in common, but in uniquely different ways. So let’s explore whether AI might in some way be or become His latest lesson for us, and if so, what might that lesson be.
AI, Heaven’s Possible Lesson Plan?
Part 1 posits whether the development of agentic AI might possibly be or become an instrument The Lord has allowed to develop at this stage in the 3rd Biblical age, to teach us some pivotal lesson(s). If/IF this is possible, the natural question is:
What lesson(s) might The Lord intend for us to learn from agentic AI,
lessons we very likely will deny, ignore and refuse to learn,
then pay high costs because we didn’t,
like we did with all of His prior lessons?
Of course, no one knows, but here are a few good, Bible-based clues:
Over the last few years, The Lord inspired me to perceive and ponder persistent patterns in His multi-millennial, Genesis-to-Revelation strategy for humanity, including observing when some of those patterns appear to be disrupted. Reviewing what I learned and shared, I pondered what repetitive patterns I might have missed? Recent events in mid-2026 triggered me to search for a new one:
The repetitive pattern of a final lesson for humanity,
manifested in or as totally unusual events
prior to the global, age-ending judgment.
As noted in Part 1, I currently know of no clear, Biblical predictions of TOTALLY unusual developments and lessons people should learn several years prior to the ends of the 3rd, 5th and 6th Biblical ages. But I perceive of a few possibilities.
Ponder Some Possibilities
3rd age (Church/Grace): Thus far in this age, the invention, rapid scaling and globalized use of agentic AI has been the most TOTALLY unusual development. In The Lord and AI (Series), I noted 7 points The Lord and AI may have in common, though on significantly different scales. I also pose the question:
What lesson(s) might The Lord intend for us to learn from agentic AI—
lessons we will very likely deny, ignore and refuse to learn,
then pay high costs because we didn’t,
like most of us did with His prior lessons?