Although God intended the judgment of the 200,000,000 strong army of demons to break people from their sins and self sufficiency and compel them to turn to God and Jesus, unfortunately many of these sinful people in the tribulation will fail to respond positively to God from this discipline and will harden their hards to God. In verse 20 it says they repented not of the work of their hands that they should not worship devils (demons or evil spirits). While the work of their hands probably refers partly to verse 21 to the idols people won't repent from worshipping with which demons are associated through people using the idols to be images of the spirits or gods that they pray to which are actually demons this is not the whole likely meaning of verse 20. Although the technology hasn't yet been fully realized, it is getting very close to being developed both for human (reproductive) cloning and human appearance resembling robots with artificial intelligence with other types of human cloning in non reproductive ways and reproductive cloning of some animals having achieved including Dolly the Sheep in 1997 and about a year or two the first cloned cat "Copy Cat" and in August 2005 the first cloned dog Snuppy among others. Also there are continuing developments in artificial intelligence with computers and increasingly human resembling and similiarly functioning robots with more talk of combining these technologies into a truly humanlike robot. However both human clones that could have already been achieved by some extreme groups like the cult the Raelians on their website www.clonaid.com although this is somewhat doubtful and intelligent robots are not God's will, and are counterfeits and distortions of God's greatest creation of humans that are made in His image as in Genesis 1. Possibly to show God's disapproval of human clones that are made instead of a male sperm fertilizing an egg from a female are made by an egg from a human female with the nucleus removed joined with a cell from the individual desired to be cloned and then fused together and given impetus to grow and multiply by a zap of electric energy God might not allow a Godlike spirit to be associated with these cloned humans and this could make it easier for demons to indwell and possess these cloned humans. The same could likely be true of intelligent robots that of course are not even biological. Both these human clones and intelligent robots by some people now are and probably in the tribulation when they are more fully achieved by many more people then will be worshipped as a great achievement of technology or the work of man's hands but that God will be trying to get man to repent of by the judgments of the tribulation especially the 200,000,000 demon army. God will also be urging people of aboriginal religions, Buddhists, Hindus, New Agers and others who worship idols of gold, silver, brass, stone and wood to repent of and destroy these idols and realize that by themselves these are powerless as compared to the Almighty true and living God of the Bible of which the Lord Jesus Christ had the fullness of fully indwelling in Him when he appeared on Earth to man 2000 years ago. The recent devastation caused by hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and other places in Lousiana and Mississippi and neighbouring areas and the thefts, rapes and shooting and murders caused by some trying to take advantage of the chaos left by the flooding and in some chaos related to drug addiction although more but still not fully acceptable for people desparate for food, water or other neccessities are a limited preview of what will likely be the situation and behaviour of people to an even fuller extent worldwide on earth in the tribulation. God will also try to get people to repent of these murders, sorceries, fornication (premarital sex, homosexuality and lesbianism or, adultery) or thefts but sadly many will harden their hearts to God's discipline through the 200,000,000 demon army and other plagues. Reader are you still a follower of Buddhism, Hinduism, aboriginal religions, the New Age or paganism, witchcraft (wicca) or Satanism and still worship idols or have committed or still commit murder, sorceries (drug addiction or witchcraft or Satanism or other occult actions in the New Age, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism or aboriginal religions, or fornication (pre-marital sex (and adultery) or homosexuality or lesbianism) or thefts. This sorcery, fornication, idolatry and other sins are probably a main part of what Satan or Lucifer in the serpent tempted Adam and Eve with in the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden and that Eve among other things found desirable to make one wise when Satan said this forbidden fruit could make her as gods knowing good and evil. If you haven't trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ and asked his forgiveness by his blood of God in the flesh who died on the cross for you (and me) and all other people and all our sins I urge you to do this as soon as possible and then by God's strength through Jesus and His Holy Spirit turn from these sins and the live a new fulfilling life in the power of His resurrection life in the Lord Jesus Christ who rose from the dead to give us this new life. I urge you to do all this as soon as possible and certainly before the rapture and following tribulation so you don't have to face these drastic measures of God in Revelation 9 to get people to repent of these sins. The scripture reference in Revelation 9 of God trying to get people to repent of these sins or worshipping the work of their hands or these other sins with most people then not responding but hardening their hearts is as follows:
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils (demons), and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: Neither repented they or their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. Revelation 9:20-21
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