By Rolaant McKenzie
March 16, 2025
RoboCop 3 (1993) is the final of a series of science fiction action films set in a near-future dystopian metropolitan Detroit, Michigan, featuring a murdered police officer named Alex Murphy, who is revived as a cyborg called RoboCop through the technology of the megacorporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP).
Detroit is financially bankrupt and going through societal collapse due to high crime that is overwhelming the city’s diminishing resources. Unbeknownst to the city government and residents, OCP is facilitating the increase in crime to generate public support for its security products and services. This opens the door for the corporation to take over the city and pursue the development of RoboCop, a law enforcement droid designed to eventually replace the police.
But this is part of OCP’s larger goal of removing the current residents of Detroit, demolishing the city, and building in its place Delta City. This was envisioned to be a clean, efficient, digital city managed by OCP and its subsidiaries, its residents under constant surveillance and control, and policed by an army of RoboCops.
The first stage of mass evictions of Detroit residents starting in the poor section of Cadillac Heights runs into some delays due to the passive resistance of the Detroit Police Department (DPD), who do not have the stomach to forcibly relocate their neighbors. As a result, OCP sends into the area a heavily armed private security force called Urban Rehabilitators. In scenes reminiscent of Jews being forcibly removed from the Warsaw Ghetto by German authorities in occupied Poland (1940-1943), the Urban Rehabilitators brutally go door to door, evicting residents from their homes. Some are murdered, some escape, and the others are forced onto buses and taken to rehabilitation centers, where they are not seen again.
Some of those who escaped forced relocation formed a small resistance group to defend themselves and their homes. Joined by RoboCop (set free from the constraints of OCP programming) and the DPD, they finally defeated the mercenary army, causing OCP’s stock to plummet and the company to fall into total ruin.
Efforts by powerful people or entities to facilitate or take advantage of crises to move people away from an area they wish to exploit are things that have occurred many times in history. One example is the Roman emperor Nero, whom historians such as Cassius Dio, Suetonius, and Tacitus say started the Great Fire of Rome in AD 64, destroying more than 70% of the city so that he could rebuild it in his image. Nero directed blame to the already unpopular Christians to deflect responsibility for the fire from himself, leading to their cruel persecution and martyrdom.
Globalist organizations such as the United Nations (UN) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) have for some time been promoting a form of urban reconstruction called “digital cities,” “smart cities,” and “15-minute cities” that they claim make use of advanced technology and data gathering to improve the quality of life for residents and businesses while reducing environmental impact. One example is a report published through the City of Los Angeles, California, in December 2020 called “SmartLA 2028: Technology for a Better Los Angeles.”
Many around the world have expressed suspicions about these efforts and resisted them because they were seen as an outgrowth of the UN’s Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which assumes the “man-made climate change” narrative. Proponents of SDG are seen as seeking to implement the kind of comprehensive surveillance and control that would become an integral part of life in a digital city. Such control would increasingly be used over time to enforce austerity policies such as limits on freedom of expression, travel, food access, and even health care.
Devastating wildfires have occurred in places such as Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui (August 8–16, 2023) and in Los Angeles (January 7–31, 2025), causing scores of fatalities and the destruction of thousands of homes. Global elites and organizations such as the UN and WEF have sought to draw attention away from deliberate infrastructure, forest, and water mismanagement as the likely cause, blaming instead climate change.
This false narrative is key in the promotion of digital cities and the ubiquitous surveillance and control it affords the elites over their residents, but it is also its fatal flaw. The decades-long history of failed predictions from climate alarmists and manipulated data demonstrates that there is no legitimate justification for this effort, and it should be opposed by all who treasure life and freedom, particularly at the local level.
About four thousand years ago, Abraham trusted God’s call on his life and traveled in a foreign land promised to his descendants, but he looked far beyond this with gladness to an Architect who would build a very different kind of city in a new country (John 8:56-58; Hebrews 11:8-16; 2 Peter 3:13). This Architect is Jesus, who two thousand years later comforted John and His other disciples with the promise that He would prepare a place for them in His Father’s house of many dwellings and return to bring them home. About 60 years after that, Jesus the risen Savior appeared to John and gave him a glimpse of New Jerusalem in its brilliant glory, a city made by Him as a gift to all who trust in Him (Revelation 21:10-27, 22:1-5).
The inhabitants of New Jerusalem are granted eternal life of joy under the perpetual light of the Son, wealth so great that the streets are made of gold, freedom of travel through gates that are always open, healing food in abundance, and life-giving water flowing from the throne of God. This is in contrast to the digital cities being created by global elitists on false premises that will make their residents prisoners and squeeze away life like a boa constrictor.
The UN, WEF, and their global elitist partners do not have the final word as they build their Tower of Babel in a futile attempt to make themselves gods over the world (Genesis 11:1-9). The Word of God, Jesus Christ, will return as the conquering King of kings and Lord of lords to knock down their tower with an unbreakable rod of iron (Revelation 19:11-21) and establish His eternal kingdom of joy, freedom, and abundant life.
The Lord Jesus has made a new city for you. It does not have the foundation of a digital city or “smart city,” the false and shifting sand of “man-made climate change,” which leads to destruction. Its foundation is the Rock, Jesus Christ (Matthew 7:24-27). Have a place in it. Trust in Him today!
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