Two elders in my family passed down two premonitions based on the Holy Scriptures long before either seemed conceivable. I have come to believe that both are rooted in Revelation 11:9. One was a warning, almost a curse: a time would come when truth would become impossible to find because everything would be covered with wires: the earth, the sky, the space between people. Not wires as infrastructure alone, but wires as a kind of static, a covering that promises connection while making the true thing underneath unreachable. The other was closer to a vision: people would one day speak to one another from opposite sides of the globe as though standing face to face, with distance folded away entirely. I did not understand as a child that these were not two separate prophecies but one: the very wires that would make everyone reachable were the same wires that would make truth unfindable. Presence and distortion arriving together, inseparable, exactly as Revelation 11:9 seems to have…