It doesn’t get more worldly than what they call the “elites.” These are the billionaires and celebrities, what used to be called Hollywood idols, and assorted other “big shots.”

An interesting word, that: “idol.”

In our time, there are many venues for the elite, some of them secretive (witness a certain townhouse owned by a fellow named Epstein).

Few gatherings of the elites are more furtive than the annual and notorious “Bilderberg” meeting, where elites discuss politics, finance, business, academia, media, and cultural trends, as if to help steer them.

What the Bilderberg Group entails is a private, invitation-only annual conference that began in 1954. It was created to encourage informal discussion between influential people from Europe and North America. The name comes from the Hotel de Bilderberg in the Netherlands, where the first meeting was held.

In practical terms, it is a networking and discussion forum. The organizers say the purpose is dialogue, not decision-making, with participants speaking under rules that allow ideas to be discussed privately without public attribution.

Official descriptions say there are typically about 120–140 attendees each year, with roughly two-thirds from Europe and the rest from North America.

The group, similar to others such as Bohemian Grove, has long attracted claims that it secretly shapes world trends and events. Reuters and other mainstream coverage note that the secrecy has fueled conspiracy theories, while experts generally describe it as influential but not literally a hidden world government.

That makes it easy for many believers to connect it with biblical warnings about the “kings of the earth,” global commerce, deception, and end-times consolidation of power in passages such as Revelation 13, 17, and 18.

The official 2026 list included 128 participants from twenty-three countries or territories, and the secrecy is certainly not total. The most recent Bilderberg meeting was held April 9–12, 2026, in Washington, D.C., and included Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir, Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic, a representative from Microsoft, and Arthur Mensch, CEO of Mistral A.I.

Note the rising tide of technocrats and the capacity they have for the collection of global data and personal information.

Though a representative was there, absent this year was the founder of Palantir, Peter Thiel, a self-described gay Christian who has traipsed around the world giving highly private lectures, ironically, on the notion of “anti-christ.” His  software company helps governments and large global and national organizations combine data, analyze it, and use it to make operational decisions.

From a prophetic viewpoint, Palantir is pointed out as the kind of system that can lead the way to “Big Brother.”

Vast amounts of information are centralized, analyzed, and used to guide behavior, policing, war, finance, and public life. Palantir touts the power of its software to make “real-time, A.I.-driven decisions” in critical government and commercial settings.

That sounds a bit counter-intuitive here, if not suspicious, whether said in and outside of those Bilderberg meetings.