The Antichrist probably won't shut down the internet
as it will be the perfect tool for continual
surveillance of everyone. At set times each day,
all people could be required to worship a speaking
image of the Antichrist (Revelation 13:15) on their
internet-enabled cell phones, and the cameras on these
cell phones could send back visual confirmation of the
worshippers' compliance.
Also, the number of the name of the Antichrist, 666
(Revelation 13:17b-18) has already been placed on a
lot of the internet in the form of WWW, for W is the
transliteration of the 6th letter of the ancient
Hebrew alphabet, which stood for the number 6. So the
forces of the Antichrist have already "laid claim" as
it were to the internet, branding it as it were to
show that the Antichrist intends complete ownership of it.
As the Antichrist begins to come into power, he will
no doubt try to block access to any web sites which
contain information exposing who he is to the world.
He could claim to do so: "in the interests of world
security, for it is these insane Christian
fundamentalists with their cockamamie conspiracy
theories whom we need to fear the most; they have
proven themselves capable of committing the worst
terrorist acts imaginable, all in the name of their
vile God YHWH, and under the delusional inspiration
of his so-called 'prophecies' in the Bible, which are
nothing other than propaganda designed to keep mankind
from entering into the blessed illumination, the
divine Gnosis, of our Lord Lucifer".
What the Antichrist could do is set up all sorts of
"false flag" terrorist acts purportedly committed by
fundamentalist Christians. He could hire actors to
grow long white beards and hold Bibles on street
corners and shout out the most stupid things
imaginable "in the name of JEEE-SUSSSS!", and commit
the most horrible crimes imaginable while quoting
prophetic scriptures and shouting "Beware the
evil Antichrist!". This could so demean the whole
concept of the Antichrist and Biblical prophecy that
everyone will run the other way whenever anyone so
much as starts to even mention them (which is pretty
much what the world does already). And these terrorist
acts and other crimes could tarnish all fundamentalist
Christians to the point where "religious profiling"
will be instituted and all fundamentalist Christians
will become suspect as possible terrorists and locked
up in mental wards and pumped with psychoactive drugs
or given lobotomies to where they become nothing but
zombies. "Poor people", the world could say, "how sad
to see the ravages of mental illness. No doubt it was
their reading of the Bible which ended up unhinging
their weak minds".
And so the Antichrist could basically eviscerate
fundamentalism, the belief that the Bible is all good
and all true (2 Timothy 3:16-17), so that no one in
the world will want to look at or even think about
the Bible or its prophecies regarding the Antichrist.
So it could be true that what we learn now about them
is all we're ever going to learn about them. So we
better get cracking and learn all we can now before
the Antichrist takes over. Some Christians will be
able to escape the clutches of the Antichrist and
flee into mountainous, wilderness places during his
3.5-year world-reign (Revelation 12:6, Ezekiel 7:16,
Matthew 24:16).
These escaped Christians will only have been able to
recognize the Antichrist before he could get his hands
on them because, through the Holy Spirit, they had had
faith in the scriptures foretelling how to recognize
him (e.g. Revelation 13:17b-18, 2 Thessalonians 2:4,
Daniel 11:31,36, Matthew 24:15-16) and weren't
conformed to the world's fear of being called
"conspiracy-theory kooks", but, with the help of the
Holy Spirit, had actually applied their knowledge of
these scriptures to who and what they were seeing
before them in the world with their own eyes.
And because they had put these scriptures first, they
had tested everything anyone had said on the internet
regarding the Antichrist's possible identity against
these scriptures, and so had accepted only that vital
information (not obtainable from the newpapaper or TV
news) which had lined up with these scriptures. And
they had rejected those things said on the internet
which didn't line up with these scriptures, and so
they had avoided going down all sorts of wrong trails
which would have only served to have diverted them
from knowing who the real Antichrist was and being
wary of him and ultimately fleeing and hiding from
him (Proverbs 28:12b, 28:28, 2 Thessalonians 2:8a,
Matthew 24:15-16), knowing that while they could
dissect and so come to know all of Satan's devices
(2 Corinthians 2:11, Matthew 10:16), they could in no
way thwart the 3.5-year world-reign of the Antichrist
(Revelation 13:4-18), which must happen (Revelation 1:1).
And even if Christians are captured and tortured by the
Antichrist, and then led out to be beheaded (Revelation
20:4), they should not fear any of this (cf. Revelation
2:10), but should only fear God, who can cast them into
hell (Matthew 10:28, Luke 12:5), and will do so if they
give in to the Antichrist in order to save their lives
(Revelation 14:9-13, 12:11, Mark 8:35-38, John 12:25).
The Antichrist is not going to take over the world
all by himself, but will become strong through a
"small people" (Daniel 11:23), as in numerically small,
that is, through a conspiracy. It's through the
internet that we could obtain the information we need
in order to be able to possibly identify the people
in on this conspiracy, and so be very wary of them, and
not be snookered by them.
The people in the Antichrist conspiracy could all
secretly be Gnostic Luciferians, for the Antichrist's
teaching regarding Christ will be Gnostic (1 John 4:3;
2 John 1:7), and he will bring the whole world into
the worship of Lucifer (Revelation 13:4). There are
secret groups today which could ultimately teach
Gnosticism and Luciferianism to their (numerically
small) highest members, who could serve as valuable
(secret) allies to the Antichrist as he gradually and
methodically increases his dominion over the world
(Daniel 11:21-30), until he becomes strong enough to
make his final move (Daniel 11:31,36, 2 Thessalonians
2:4, Revelation 13:4-18).