Revelation 13 Adumbration

To adumbrate is to give a foreshadowing, to faintly demonstrate a pattern. Here is a video reporting an event I believe adumbrates the events of Revelation 13 per Alexander. Apparently a number of Japanese AI scientists were working on getting robotic soldiers to self-repair through satellite hookups when the robots took off killing the scientists, or something like that. Twenty-nine humans were shot by four robots before other scientists could pull enough wires to deactivate them. One of the robots (an image given life as in Revelation 13?) connected to the satellite program and began to restore itself BETTER THAN BEFORE. Who will be able to fight such soldiers when Japan fields them? The world marvels at AI robots, BUT DOESN'T DO ANYTHING TO STOP MILITERIZED SOLDIER ROBOTS BEING BUILT.

There are substantial differences in Alexander's Revelation 13:

1. And [the dragon] stood on the sand of the sea, and I saw that demon* rising out of the sea, that has ten horns and seven heads, and on its heads the names of blasphemies.
2. And the demon that I saw resembled a tiger and his feet were like gold and its mouth like the mouth of lions, and the dragon gave it his power and his throne and great authority.
3. And one of its heads, as though cut and dying,* and from under its own death it pulled through;* and the whole world* was enthralled in the wake of that demon.*
4. And they worshipped the dragon, since it gave authority to that demon, and who could do battle with him?
5. And he was given a mouth to utter abominations* and blasphemies, and he was given authority to do so forty-two months.*
6. And he opened his mouth to blaspheme against God, to blaspheme against His name and His Abode, and [against] those who dwell in heaven.
7. And he was given authority over all generations and nations and tongues and peoples* and he was given [authority] to do battle with the saints and to defeat* them,
8. And they worshipped him, all of them who dwelled on earth, those whose name is not written in the book of Life, of the Lamb who was sacrificed* from the foundations of the universe.

9. If a human [being] has ears, [then] listen.
10. If a human [being] takes captives,
...by captivity he is taken,*
If a human [being] kills by the sword,
...he is destined to be killed
......by the sword.
This is the justification* for the hope
...and faithfulness of the saints.
11. And I saw another demon* that rose from the earth, and he had two horns resembling those of a ram, and he spoke as a dragon.
12. And all the powers* of that first demon he performed before them, and he made the world* and those who dwell in it so that they would worship that first demon, the one who became healed from under its own death.*
13. And he performed grandiose* signs, whereas even fire fell* from the sky over the earth, before humanity;
14. And he misleads* those who dwell on earth to be the slaves of the image of that demon, the one who had been struck by the sword and had lived.
15. And it was given to him to impart a spirit to the image* of that demon, and to command* that all those who* do not worship the image of that demon to be killed.
16. And he enslaved them all, the small and the famous* and the rich and the poor and the children of the free and the slaves, whereas to be given a mark* on their right hands or between their eyes*[,]
17. So that no one* could sell or buy, except he who has the mark of that demon or the number of his name.
18. Here there is wisdom, whoever has a mind* should count the number of that demon [,] for it is the number of a human being. And his number is six hundred and sixty-six.

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Footnotes:

13:1*Lit. Ar. id.: "Inhuman creature," or : anti-man.
13:3*Lit. Ar. idiomatic expression: "Cut to death."
*Lit. Ar. idiomatic expression: "Pushed out."
*Lit. Ar. id.: "Earth."
*Lit. Ar. idiomatic construction: "Was amazement after that inhuman creature."
13:5*Lit. Ar. id.: "Nonsense."
*During the ministry of Jesus.
13:7*Lit. Ar. id.: "Motherlands."
*Lit. Ar. id.: "Be victorious [over.]"
13:8*Lit. Ar. id.: "Cut up." Or: consecrated.
13:10*Lit. Ar. id.: "By highway takes."
*Lit. Ar. idiomatic expression: "For this occurs."
13:11*Lit. Ar. idiomatic figure of speech: "Carnivorous Creature."
13:12*Lit. Ar. id.: "Authority."
*Lit. Ar. id.: "Earth."
*Lit. Ar. idiomatic expression retained. "Who nearly died."
13:13*Lit. Ar. id.: "Boisterous."
*Lit. Ar. id.: "From below."
13:14*Lit. Ar. id.: "[Leads] to oblivion."
13:15*Lit. Ar. id.: Or: "idol."
*Lit. Ar. id.: "Enslave."
*Lit. Ar. id.: "If."
13:16*Lit. Ar. id.: "Grand."
*Lit. Ar. id.: "Authorization," "certification," "stamp," "seal," or "commission."
*Lit. Ar. id.: "Foreheads."
13:17*Lit. Ar. id.: "No human [being.]"
13:18*Lit. Ar. id.: "Brain."

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Very few Japanese are born-again Christians. Robotic abilities trusted in are blasphemes. What their creators do/believe is what they themselves get (verse 10)--a strong hint for what we should be doing.