Ten Things Every Christian Should Know About the Internet, the Enemy, and the Last Days

Christians today are in a slumber. They have been put to sleep by the Enemy. It is truly a sad state of affairs, so hopefully the ten tips which I provide here will go a long way towards opening the eyes of the faithful to the things which are taking place around them concerning the Internet, the Enemy, and the last days.

1. The world wide web is full of anti-Christian websites. When you stumble upon these you should do a “Whois” search to find out who the owner of the website is. You can then utilize this information for research purposes to find out what the individual is involved in and who they are associated with. You just might be surprised to discover exactly what organizations and groups are working to destroy the message of the Gospel of Peace.
2. When visiting a website that purports to be Christian you should look at the content of the website and see if it reflects a Christian worldview. If the website is specifically targeted to preaching or ministering you should look for a statement of faith and then compare that to your Christian beliefs and what is being taught on the website. If a preaching or ministering website makes no definitive statement of faith, then you should avoid it altogether as the chances are that the operator of the website does not know their faith very well. Also, just because the website has a statement of faith does not mean they are following it or that they believe it! You would be surprised to know just how many websites claiming to be Christian are actually run by the Enemy.
3. In this day and age the Internet offers a degree of anonymity, so it ought not surprise you that the Enemy is everywhere pretending to be Christian. They are literally all over message boards and chat rooms claiming to be Christians and misspelling words, behaving ungodly, spewing hatred, and generally misrepresenting the body of Christ in order to create a false impression among non-Christians and a sense of disillusionment among the brethren. Although, they did not have the Internet, the early Church Fathers witnessed this sort of behavior during their time, so it ought not surprise Christians that we are seeing it today. If you are suspicious of such activity I would suggest using an ISP, email, or user name to research them on-line. More often than not you will discover that they are a member of another faith (such as Islam), an occult group, a political party (such as communist), they are a militant New Atheist, or even members of a military or government agency.
4. The anonymity of the Internet poses yet another problem for those wishing to share the Gospel of Peace, in that, the Enemy will often take the user name or real name of a brother or sister in Christ and create an account on some website somewhere in an attempt to misrepresent them. No, it doesn't just happen to celebrities! Often, they will take the user name of a true brother or sister in Christ (such as your own) and use it to post messages to homosexual message boards or to create social networking pages which report you as having unfavorable associations, beliefs, or tendencies. There is very little which can be done about this, so really you should just keep this in mind when researching someone you suspect might be posing as a Christian, as sometimes they are the real deal and the Enemy is trying to misrepresent them. You can often discern between posers and the true individual by the content of their message, wording, and other such nuances. Also, a solitary message post, or a handful of posts to a message board under the suspected user name is usually a dead giveaway! Most people do not hangout on a message board just to make one or two posts. Such posts are usually good indicators that the messages have been planted their under a specific name in order to reflect upon the integrity of that name via the contents of the message or website.
5. Many websites, radio shows, and other outlets exist simply to radicalize Christians. Their intent is to turn good, God-fearing Christians into offensive demons. Stay away from anyone trying to convince you that you must take an extreme view on anything which is not a core doctrine of the Christian faith. By core doctrine I mean, one of the core principles expressed in the Apostles' Creed which are universally accepted by Christians, and which are considered to be essential for salvation.
6. If you do not want your faith destroyed and you do not want to be the victim of an Enemy plot, then I suggest that you start to study history. I would highly suggest beginning by reading the Ante-Nicene Fathers! In them is contained a plethora of information concerning the old tricks of the devil, which are being reused today, such as how to deal with heretical doctrines like gnosticism and other New Age concepts, and ancient tricks and traps that were set for Christians. There is an abundance of information on spiritual warfare and where demonic activities are most prevalent, such as in places of authority, and even mentions of the association between demons and fasces.
7. Everything you say or do on-line is being tracked and traced regardless of what account you think you are hiding in, or how clever you may think you are. If you are not being a true Christian and you are doing things which you ought not be doing, your sin will find you out, and the Enemy will likely use your sin to expose you or as leverage to gain your cooperation, in an effort to destroy the spreading of the Gospel Message. If you are going to profess Christ, you are going to have to start living it. The time for sitting on the fence is over, we are in the last days!
8. Having a crisis of faith because of all the attacks on Christianity which you see on-line, and all of the doubts which are thrown at you? This is only going to increase, as we are in the last days. My suggestion to you would be to intensify your seriousness in your faith by studying harder and diving deeper. Dig into theology, specifically systematic theology, and build a sturdy foundation for yourself. Also, frequent Christian apologetic websites and learn how to defend your faith. Again, much of the attacks against Christianity and the defenses and arguments against such attacks are detailed in the documents of the early Church Fathers, and much about gnostic doctrines and other heresies can be learned about by studying Church history. I have not seen any new attacks or accusations made by the Enemy, all of the attacks, accusations, and arguments which are leveled against Christianity today, were dealt with nearly two thousand years ago. The Enemy only rehashes them because he knows that you do not know them, and he knows that they work to destroy faith and cause brothers and sisters in Christ to fall away.
9. When dealing with accusations against the validity of Christianity you need to remember that we live in a postmodernist world. That is, we live in a society where most people actually believe the claptrap that truth is relative to the individual and that all truth is subjective, so when they levy accusations you should keep that in mind. Not only are they being hypocritical (if there is no absolute truth there is nothing by which to argue), but most of the facts, history, and evidence thrown at you was created by individuals who have a postmodernist mindset, meaning that you probably cannot trust the data because it was created by individuals who do not even believe that there is concrete truth. If truth is subjective, then how can one claim they have evidence to prove anything, as the evidence would also be subjective? You are advised to remember this, and also to study philosophy and specifically how philosophy relates to the Christian worldview. An excellent book for you to read would be Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview.
10. When an accusation is made against a Christian or Christianity, no matter who made the accusation (an individual, government, media, or anyone else) don't automatically believe it! As Christians we know that the devil is the Accuser, which ought to make you think twice when you hear about or witness an accusation against a brother or sister in Christ or the church. I detailed just a few of the tricks which are played in this article. Will you still believe every news report, book, or individual accusation? Do you still believe an actual Christian church would protest homosexuality by making a mockery of solemn military funeral services and the grieving families? I'll tell you what, I'd wonder who really ran such a church and who was providing all of the money that must be necessary to travel the country like that. I don't know any Christians who would attend such a church, do you?

These are just some of the tips I have for my brothers and sisters in Christ. I've been around this world, and especially this world wide web, and I have experienced quite a bit. Take it from me, this stuff is going on, and you need to be aware of it! We are being set-up, and this is not the first time it has happened. If Christians only knew their history, they only understood a few basic things which used to be taught in a classical education (trivium and quadrivium) before public education began to dumb us all down, and they had a deeper understanding of their faith as Christians used to when it was standard for them to learn theology along with their academic studies, then they would see all of this going on as well, and they would recognize the struggle we are in.

Conspiracy Forums and Big Brother

I should note that although I list several conspiracy forums in my links sections, some of them may be known to be conducting operations. I'm not going to mention names, because if you are able to figure out what is going on, then you will realize that it really makes no difference. I know that those who have not figured out what I am about to say may be flabbergasted by the aforementioned statement, but in my opinion, it is true, and I'm going to hold to my position until proven otherwise. In any event, it is real easy to figure out some of the forums which are conducting anti-patriot and anti-Christian operations. Simply do a web search on any conspiracy forum and include the words: “is an intelligence front,” “is an operation,” “is run by” or any number of allegations you can think of. Although it should be understood that you will not learn that a large percentage of forums, if not all of the more popular forums, are in fact conducting such operations.

The reason I said it makes no difference is because back when I figured out that one of the more popular conspiracy forums—known for its news and wild west-like free speech—was in fact a psychological profiling, ideology-directing and gate-keeping site, I ran to every forum on the web to alert others (this was some years ago now) and was promptly banned from every single one of them. I even went so far as to be as cautious as I am in this blog article in making no direct accusations, so there really was no reason for the banning other than to suppress the message.

These forums are there as gatekeepers to catch those who are not so easily kept asleep. They collect data, formulate psychological profiles, promote the official alternative reality, clutter information with tons of dead-ends and wild goose-chasing, and propagandize the concept that no one can be trusted and you must be paranoid of all (they also take the other direction and insist there is nothing to worry about by insisting that you are living in “fear” - when there is no middle ground you know it's not reality). By the way, I am not saying you should be paranoid of these forums, which is why I list some of them in my links section, but I am saying you need to understand what their job is and also that you can use them for good.

Many of the conspiracy forums (certainly not all) serve the purpose of gatekeeper. In fact, many of them serve the exact same purpose as some popular leaders of the patriot movement –to move you exactly where you are wanted. How do I know this? They cause you to react to the reality of this world and not to take action. When you are caused to not act, but react, then you know you are being manipulated.

Now, before any popular patriots (or their fans) come down on me and accuse me of anything I need to first point out that I name no names and I do not state all popular leaders are like this, so deciding who these individuals are is left entirely up to the individual. Is there anything wrong with informing people so that they can make up their own minds? Is there anything wrong with me voicing what I have concluded concerning the matter? If I am attacked for merely pointing something out, for delivering a message, then you know exactly who the operatives are. If you believe in freedom, then you believe in free speech and thought.

Just keep in mind that these things are going on. You are never free from the influence of evil so long as you are in your fallen flesh, and you are residing in Satan's kingdom. This world is of the Adversary, and as such, it is full of lies and deceptions at every turn. Remember that every lie must contain a shred of truth in order to have any believable basis in reality, so there is some useful information (truth) contained in the lies. There is always some truth you can extract from a lie, otherwise you could never discover it is a lie! For example, you could be told that the sky is green. The truth on which that lie is based is the fact that there is a sky and the sky does appear as a certain color. You can then take that truth to discover that the sky is not green, but is in fact, blue.

Every lie is based on some degree of truth (some less so than others), and you are well-advised to remember that if you are to learn discernment. I realize that some will disagree with that point, but then again such people are probably not Christians, in that, if they do not believe that lies are built by recreating truths, then they are suggesting that man and Satan can actually create things rather than simply using the tools God created to build and form new things. God only creates truth, so lies must be twisted truths by necessity.

So anyway, I am laying it out for you. Many of the conspiracy forums are gatekeeper sites. They also serve the purpose of feeding you the official alternative reality and directing you toward the reaction the powers that be desire for you to have. “Nothing is as it seems” is an understatement. You need to realize that you are involved in a spiritual war in which you are occupying Enemy territory. You are living in a land of lies, a kingdom built upon deceit. I will get more into the intricate workings of this kingdom in later posts.