They're going to need something better than that. People in general underestimate how much of the population would completely freak out over anything that directly matches the mark of beast description and criteria. But this is true of present day. They'd need to considerably alter circumstances from what they are now. Even most agnostics (the "unsure" category regarding God) would freak out at the idea, if anything it would give more merit to the bible, not less, making it even more alarming in practice than in theory, a major prophecy fulfilled. Promises of techy powers are nowhere near enough.