Vance Discusses ‘End Times’ and ‘God’s Work’

“I wouldn’t be shocked if we are living in the end times; what I’m trying to focus on is doing as much of God’s work as possible right now, and if that leads to the end times, OK,” Vice President JD Vance told religious podcaster Bryce Crawford on Monday.

Spiritual confusion: “The end times may be coming. In fact, they are coming,” Vance, who recently published a memoir on his conversion to Catholicism, said. “It’s just a question of whether they’re coming thousands of years down the road or a few months down the road.”

Vance didn’t talk about the specific key signs that Jesus Christ and others in the New Testament and Old Testament prophesied. He added:

And one of the things that I think that that Catholics are very focused on that I think is very good for me is this idea that we don’t know when God is coming, but we are commanded to try to, as much as possible, try to make the world the kind of world that God wants it to be.

Dark energy AI: Vance talked about the use of artificial intelligence as a substitute for human interaction and sees this as a sign that the antichrist could be “walking among us.” He also said, regarding the practices of some AI companies, that “you feel like there is some really weird spiritual dark energy.”

• He recounted the story of one acquaintance using AI as a marriage counselor as “kind of satanic.”

Spiritual darkness: Vance said that in meetings with world leaders, he felt “some darkness about it” that sets off his “spiritual alarm bell.”

• He later added that if President Trump had been killed, “We would have had real civil strife in a way that I don’t know that the country could have ever come back from.”

Spiritual discernment: The evangelical podcaster said that he believed that Vance has “some sort of spiritual discernment.” Sadly, that’s not true at all.

A deceived world: For true biblical clarity, we need to understand that evil in this world is not confined to a few individuals, an antichrist or AI—but that our entire world is deceived (Revelation 12:9).

Reviving the Dark Ages: The Catholic Church is in no position to provide sane spiritual direction in these matters. It was because of the evils of the Catholic Church that America’s founding included religious freedom.

The fact that a vice president now advocates for the Catholic Church’s role in making this world a better place shows that America has lost its foundation. If leaders allow the Catholic Church to guide their politics, they allow the revival of the Dark Ages.